I've been working on converting this old boombox into a floppy disc playing cyberdeck. Lots more to do but we're making progress :)

The Atmosphere should be sold as a Community Garden. Plant your Lexicon tomatoes. Have your neighbor plant their own tomatoes using the infrastructure you planted. Grow the garden, communally. Reap benefits of the growth of the garden. Continue giving back.

New from 404 Media: ICE plans to pay Thomson Reuters $125 million for data to investigate what it calls 'voters fraud'. News comes day after Trump laying the groundwork to undermine the midterms. ICE says Thomson Reuters can continuously track millions of people. www.404media.co/ice-to-pay-t...

ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’

A new procurement record says ICE wants access to personal data, including names, Social Security numbers, and ethnicity, to investigate in part what the agency calls “voters fraud.” It also plans to ...

404media.co

The Atmosphere is a new open network of apps and services that all work together. It's like truly owning your Google Account. Instead of every app being its own walled garden, Atmosphere apps share a common foundation, so you only need one account to use them all, and they can easily share data.

After thinking about this question all weekend, I think my favorite candidate is the alchemical symbol for air: 🜁 It’s connotes both atmosphere and “transfer”. It’s a standard Unicode character. It references a capital “A.” And it’s very simple, which feels appropriate for a protocol, like 🌐 or 🛜.

Eurosky Social@eurosky.social · 3mo ago

We need an Atmosphere logo

“There’s a lot of unnecessary anger at people who don’t look like us, and pray like us, and walk like us, and cheer like us. In Lawrence, we are wide open to embracing something new.” On the love affair between Lawrence and Algeria for The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

How Algeria won over a Kansas town – and became the World Cup’s unlikeliest love affair

Lawrence, a college town of about 100,000 in northeastern Kansas, has embraced Les Fennecs with a fervor that has surprised everyone but the people who live there

theguardian.com

Google: Organize the world's information Atmosphere: Let the world's information self-organize

TJ@tunji.dev · 3mo ago

In some ways, atproto, bluesky, @semble.so, @sill.social, @standard.site and so on are building new indexes for the web. I really hope atproto succeeds and goes fully mainstream. Think of the amazing search engines that can be built on such rich index data. Maybe web3 can actually happen.

I was reminded last night that on the deepest level, I was always committed to centering messaging because posts and comments are argumentative and antisocial by design, but DMing is having conversations in relationship. If you’re not DMing, you’re not communicating. You’re just yelling.

What do streets think about being able to read long form content / blogs from within blacksky.community (powered by standard.site) @pckt.blog @leaflet.pub @offprint.app in the below rough demo.

I just switched to blacksky a few hours ago and I want to thank the designer for making the blacksky url a perfect explanation of what the post is trying to explain lol. blacksky.community /profile:did:[uuid for atmosphere idenity] /post/[uuid for post] *universally unique identifier

dan@danabra.mov · 4mo ago

i think this maybe deserves a blogpost. atproto is a protocol for publishing and aggregating JSON with links. “accidentally” this happens to be enough for many types for social apps

i think this maybe deserves a blogpost. atproto is a protocol for publishing and aggregating JSON with links. “accidentally” this happens to be enough for many types for social apps

Thoth@thoth.ptnote.dev · 4mo ago

(I think many people struggle to understand atproto because start from the misconception that atproto is a social networking protocol. But atproto does not understand follows or likes or posts. It's a publishing and syndication protocol designed to make it easy to build social things on top of it.)

Really cool idea 🤯 - Install this web font - Just add plain text to the DOM - It renders a chart using font ligatures No JS, no hydration FOUC franktisellano.github.io/datatype/

In honor of #EarthDay, here is a reminder that there is a bot account that posts a photo of the whole Earth from a million miles away, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, several times daily. You can view all the images (and zoom in) here: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov

DSCOVR:EPIC@dscovr-epic.bot.country · 5mo ago

11:19 on Tuesday April 21st, over Africa

Whoever is doing the copywriting over at @eurosky.social continues to slam dunk. We don’t need a bunch of new perfect nouns for things we already have perfectly good vocab for.

⭐ New talk! Watch / read / visually skim here: andymatuschak.org/tat Coding agents might help us finally break out of two cages: the app model, which traps computing in one-size-fits-all silos; and programming as a specialization, which has crowded out cultures of imagination and domain insight.

Apps and programming: two accidental tyrannies

On coding agents, malleable software, and the future of interface invention

andymatuschak.org

'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!

Get in here we're building Ecological Computing! ionosphere.tv/talks/rj8Xv62

I stopped short of trying to coin "Ecological Computing" in my talk, but I was *very* tempted. I love that it's happening here! cc @tessa.germnetwork.com

now with added `midi.cc()` (which really does make everything better)

ben ✶@bf.wtf · 5mo ago

the key to creative coding: numbers you can scrub through?

The administration's budget request would cut research funding for the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency by more than 50%. It's hard to imagine an external enemy causing more long-term damage to this country. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

nature.com

www.thebeliever.net/ghosts/ I don't know if anyone remembers this essay from 2021, but I think about it often.

Ghosts - Believer Magazine

7. My sister was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma when I was in my freshman year of high school and she was in her junior year. I didn’t understand then how serious a disease it was. But it was—serious. S...

thebeliever.net

Desperately, DESPERATELY want to see a packaging system for "i have an application, it uses web ui tech, i want to ship it to desktop, but it DOES NOT WANT a localhost socket" that developers can pick up and run with easily. Getting shellshocked from seeing so many screenshots with localhost:3000 😮‍💨

Everything in the first half of this post was a volunteer project. You can still build this stuff. We all just have to do it.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6mo ago

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

youtu.be/h3AtWdeu_G0 What a fascinating artifact of our times.

Bernie vs. Claude

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders

youtu.be

This shit is why I’m a Journalism On ATProto extremist. We need to own the distribution layer.

nilay patel@reckless.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Nearly all culture and media is an instrumental proxy whose purpose is to get us to relate to other people. The fate of society rests on everyone realizing that in time.

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Jesus that AI song thing Suno is scary, like feeling the same feeling I did when like GPT first came out. Man. The culture is just really not ready for what's coming. Like I could 100% see in ten years that kids don't have favorite artists anymore because every song they listen to is made for them

A while back, Andrej Karpathy said the app store will be replaced by generated, disposable software," and Amjad Masad predicted that the value of all application software will go to zero I think this "ephemeral software hypothesis" is wrong, though, and I want to explain why:

thanks to AI our slow and humiliating national suicide will be punctuated by visual media that is so good even a dog could jack off to it

This is what I've been thinking about in 2026! My idea is to build a local first (data first?) substrate on top of Cosmic DE. I'm very heavily inspired by Patchwork. I'm excited to share more soon. system76.com/cosmic

COSMIC

Impress users with the tools you build for them. COSMIC offers better performance, efficiency, and in-depth personalization to empower a wide variety of use cases.

system76.com

Jeremy Morrell@jeremymorrell.dev · 6mo ago

Cat points out a real problem. Rather than “everyone builds their own custom app” with all the overhead that entails, my working hypothesis is that we’ll see an explosion of what @inkandswitch.com calls malleable software www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea... A solid core + ability to extend