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Oakland Review of Books@oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 4mo ago"Freaky Tales" deserved better than to have been unwatched and forgotten. It was about Oakland in the 1980s, sort of, but it was also about the U.S. in the 2020s and the simple necessity of fucking up Nazis.
“Communities are not resources to be optimised and they're not user bases to be migrated. They're the accumulated residue of people choosing, over and over again, to remain in a relationship with each other under specific conditions that will never, ever recur in exactly the same way.”
JA Westenberg@joanwestenberg.com · 6mo agoThe reason Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon don't feel like Old Twitter is simple sociology: Community is path-dependent. You can move the people, but you can't move the history. www.joanwestenberg.com/communities...
This is easily some of the best journalism published by @oaklandreviewofbooks.org so far. Absolutely essential reading for anyone who lives in an American city, not just Oakland. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/unpaid-debts/
Unpaid Debts
In the midst of a battle against a dying industry, a Kentucky judge said Oakland owes hundreds of millions of dollars to a bankrupt corporation that exists only on paper. What do cities owe to whom as...
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Rudy is out here very much living "we can just do things" with a "for each other" emphasis.
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂@rude1.blacksky.team · 6mo agoSince the pronouns labeler is gone.
"I knew within 10 minutes of their pitch that East Bay Booksellers would be a lead sponsor of the Oakland Review of Books. I told them I’d be disappointed if we weren’t. This hasn’t stopped them from asking me several times, “Are you sure?” www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/why-were-spo...
Why we're sponsoring the Oakland Review of Books
A word from East Bay Booksellers.
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ATProto is a post-app protocol trapped in a world of apps. I can feel it all around the edges of the network.
we just launched the oakland collaborative syllabus! a living, evolving guide to the media of this place also experimenting with a version on protocol (thanks @ronentk.me) and would love to collaborate with other folks interested in participatory local archiving tools semble.so/profile/oakl...
Oakland Review of Books@oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 8mo agoIntroducing, Oakland Review of Books's Oakland Syllabus! of Books! And of other things! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/introducing-...
What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow? Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it) resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
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Starting now! stream.place/gabriel-expo... Making Sense of Open-Source: Ideals, Reality, and What's on the Horizon
Stream.place
Stream.place is open-source livestreaming on the AT Protocol.
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Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh · 8mo agoRoughly this time tomorrow I’ll be chatting with the folks at @scenius.bsky.social about all things Open Source, something I’ve dedicated >20 years of my life to and have *opinions* about. I reckon it’s high time we made OSS an innately anti-fascist movement. Let’s talk about it! luma.com/z9ivf64k
"Open Software as a positive force in the world is entirely contingent on its ability to distribute power. To date it has facilitated the opposite." This piece from @erlend.sh is such a banger! V excited for next week's @scenius.bsky.social open source panel with him 🔥
Open Source Power
We have to talk about open source licensing.
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Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh · 9mo agoIf you’ve enjoyed some of my writing about open source *anything*, you’re welcome to join the audience of a panel I’m participating in on December 3rd: luma.com/z9ivf64k Hosted by www.scenius.space
poets are on the front lines of the AI war — enlist now @oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 9mo agoLooks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
@mathewlowry.bsky.social @schuman.de just saw you present at eurosky on stream! i’m interested in atconnect application for media org collaboration and local feeds — would love to chat!
i’d like to see the same urgency around building “sovereign social clouds” for local communities in the US that we’re seeing in the EU and canada. what would a 100% californian or oaklandish social ecosystem look like?
New_ Public@newpublic.org · 9mo agoWhat would a 100% Canadian social media platform look like? The team at @gandersocial.bsky.social is about to find out. By giving Canadians control over their data, their feeds, and more, they’re hoping to offer a viable alternative for American social media.
@ronentk.me @cameron.pfiffer.org i think you two would really enjoy chatting re collective sensemaking / ai / open science (sorry for earlier misfire!)
“Ethical licensing is hard, but far from impossible. While we cannot easily encode anti-fascism into our licenses, what we can easily do is discriminate against big capital, the underlying engine of fascism and authoritarianism” 🔥
Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh · 9mo agoAnti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing. I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink. But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
Banal observation, sorry, but conversations in Prague really brought home to me that while countries come and go, cities have a historical existence and character that typically is far more resilient.
Subscribe to the Oakland Review of Books, I guess! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org#/portal/signup
Oakland Review of Books
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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9mo agoOther folks have said it, but let me just note that: (1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year (2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
great new social bookmarking app for at proto: semble.so congrats @ronentk.me @wesleyfinck.org! excited for the coming collaborative features
Cosmik Network@cosmik.network · 9mo agoSemble alpha is now open! ✨ Check it out at semble.so More details in our leaflet pub! (link in next post > )
There is so much opportunity in the new alt media! There is so much potential in those who do not want to be prisoner to a Substack platform that is actively fighting their social goals. www.anildash.com/2024/06/14/t...
The New Alt Media and the Future of Publishing - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 9mo agoit does seem like there’s a major—though potentially fleeting—opportunity to invest in left-wing media. more than a million people in the most populous city in america just enthusiastically elected a democratic socialist and the world is watching. putting $$ towards left media rn is good business.
On Tuesday night, you may have noticed something a little different on Bluesky. Here's a peek behind the scenes of how the election feed came together. Endlessly grateful for this collaboration with @wnyc.org/@gothamist.com & @bsky.app!
About The Other Night...
How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.
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As mainstream social media platforms move further away from local news and community connection, local newsletters are stepping in to fill the gap. Friend of New_ Public Logan Elmore started his newsletter in Chattanooga, TN with the intention of going beyond news and inspiring community pride.
Are these local newsletters local <em>news</em>? (And does it matter?)
Meet a few of the entrepreneurs and hobbyists building community — and sometimes, making real ad money — from newsletters aggregating local events.
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Blacksky Algorithms is communal infrastructure.
Hypothesis: the simple act of each of us publicly sharing more what we're paying attention to (reading, watching, ..) would dramatically enhance collective sensemaking. In open source software they say "With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow"- perhaps there is a parallel for open source *attention*?
As the world burns, a few of us are making an Oakland Review of Books. We don’t have money, but why not? We’re moving slowly. We're trying not to break things. But we’re trying to imagine: what if Oakland were enough and we cared enough to look? www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
ORB \O/
The Oakland Review of Books is coming!
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In addition to our weekly events calendar, we are starting to publish vibe reports on readings, screenings, protests, eatings, things of that nature, and other things: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
GO OUT AND DO SOMETHING IN SPACE AND IN TIME TODAY that is oakland review of books' recommendation THE WEATHER IS GOOD www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-revi...
