Join us tomorrow for Folk Tech connection call featuring @tibetsprague.bsky.social talking community tech and with lots of catch up from recent events like #DWebCamp2026!
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Mostly water and bacteria, stardust, an emergent invention. Tech product & research. Belonging-centred, collective practitioner. Relational Designer. Mostly not on socials much. Experimental, curious, contradictory. host @ folktechnology.org
✨ Looking for more DWeb camping? ✨ Co-Adapt. Co-Create. Co-Here. Six days left to get last-minute tickets for DWeb Camp Cascadia, by @dwebyvr.org 💕 Salt Spring Island, Canada, Jul 30 - Aug 3. A few shots from last year:
Don't miss the ONLY North American DWeb Camp this year! This is where the future is being seeded and cultivated with truly exceptional people, locally-sourced food, and lots of play and learning. I want to do this with you. Ticket sales end soon! luma.com/1hj4bko4
DWeb Camp Cascadia 2026 · Luma
Join us for our second DWeb Camp Cascadia! We’ll be together for three full unforgettable days of camping, creativity, and connection in a beautiful natural…
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Still processing so many inputs from #dwebcamp but as usual the best part was being together.
You haven't registered for DWeb Camp Cascadia?? (The only DWeb Camp in North America this year!) The best way to meet other people interested in tech, land, people, art, values, and being good together! There are volunteer and presenter slots available, too. Don't miss out! luma.com/1hj4bko4
DWeb Camp Cascadia 2026 · Luma
Join us for our second DWeb Camp Cascadia! We’ll be together for three full unforgettable days of camping, creativity, and connection in a beautiful natural…
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#TED2026 begins with Malala trying to inspire hope in the face of the failures of the system to change, literally followed by two white American men hyping drones. 🥺
Join us Wednesday for the first @folktech.bsky.social Showcase! Featuring amazing projects such as Roundabout, Semble, Mirlo, Flotilla, OpenHaven, Spacious, The Protopian Prize, Moss, Inkverse, The Governance Memory System, and more! Hosted by WorkAdventure. Register here: luma.com/h0o701wf
Folk Tech Showcase! - April 2026 - Project Show & Tell · Luma
Folk Tech is a movement among people who want to develop apps for their community without depending on big tech companies and a community of developers making…
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If you’re planning to come to the Atmospheric Afterpartea tomorrow after #atmosphereconf please register and hit me up if you want the code to make it free. luma.com/h09tdpw3
Folk Tech Futures Workshop & Atmospheric Afterpartea · Luma
Join us for our next in-person Folk Tech event! What could the future look like in a world of open protocols and community-driven technology? What could we do…
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I kind of miss the early social media where it was just like "here's a random thought." Before we even imagined anyone but our friends would ever see it. Maybe social media could be just a text thread with friends who don't mind oversharing, oh right every Signal group
What if we had private digital community spaces that were delightful and not surveillance-driven? Let's make it happen! Join us. luma.com/fbljy24i
Community Platform Design Jam · Luma
Online-joining details will be provided to registered attendees. Community platforms mostly fail to deliver on the needs of communities in terms of connection,…
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Event alert! Folk Tech is a movement among people who want tech for their community without depending on big tech companies, and an alliance of developers making decentralized, p2p, open source, open standard-based tech.
Is it just me or does this lady look like she is about to eat someone?
Next Q: what are the AI safety implications of an AI model trained in this USA
Those crazy Harvard students seem to love accidentally creating surveillance states www.linkedin.com/posts/a-bank...?
Alex Banks on LinkedIn: Two Harvard students created I-XRAY. It exposes your personal data in… | 175 comments
Two Harvard students created I-XRAY. It exposes your personal data in public: AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio connected Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses to a… | 175 comments on LinkedIn
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Administration pausing all funding to nonprofits. Next step: rewrite the criteria for nonprofit status itself? thenonprofittimes.com/npt_articles...
Breaking: Trump To Pause Federal Funding, Grants - The NonProfit Times
The Trump administration has ordered all federal grants and loans be stopped by 5 p.m. tonight, even if the money was already part of federal legislation which can’t be rescinded by order of the execu...
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There's this thing where the same people keep saying they have an amazing way that a zillion dollars are about to be made and we need to change all the rules to support it and then weirdly the only thing changing is the percentage of global wealth in their hands?
This week, @bonnittaroy.bsky.social posed a key question- why are zillions of dollars being thrown at AI at this moment? Hint: it's not because of its broad-based usefulness and possible positive impact on our future wellbeing.
*Maybe* 'China' is thinking about selling TikTok to Musk 🫠, but @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social suggests "American users, like our politicians, incorrectly believe that TikTok needs them." www.garbageday.email/p/tiktok-doe...
TikTok doesn't need America
Read to the end for some good vocal fry
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Remember when people said a "business case" was a viable strategy to influence companies towards ethical behaviour?
a man with a beard and mustache is sitting in a kitchen looking down .
ALT: a man with a beard and mustache is sitting in a kitchen looking down .
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Installed @mozilla.ai Orbit. Discovered that, funnily enough, Orbit does not work on Orbit's own Privacy Policy page. 🧐
Wait there is a DOG(e) named Krypto and a hilarious british Lex Luthor? Seems like 2025 is going to be on the same metro line we got on this year without looking at the map
Soil for thought youtu.be/gjy5s2_fyXs?...
Upward spirals, lessons from nature: Paul Krafel at TEDxRedding
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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