Thought with the new version of the Bluesky Android app it might finally be usable, but nope (This post brought to you by a thread I had typed out that it ate whole when I had the audacity to open another app.)

You might be interested in my write-up of how some of this geolocation works and how it can go wrong ricci.pckt.blog/calgary-texa...

Calgary ... Texas?

How IP Geolocation Works, and How It Goes Wrong

ricci.pckt.blog

Ben Winslow@benwinslow.bsky.social · 6d ago

An interesting data point (that didn't make it into my story): since it blocked Utah IP addresses in protest of the legislature's laws? Pornhub records only 2,100 visitors a month from what it believes are from Utah. Unknown if those are VPN or whatever: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah

Blacksky. Available now on iOS and Android.

Blacksky Algorithms@blackskyweb.xyz · last wk.

Joining the beta is easy. Download for iOS: testflight.apple.com/join/ST8N2Qda Download for Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d... If you run into any issues, you can follow the instructions here for help: docs.blacksky.community/info-about-b...

Oh no. Oh no. What have I done?

ᴉɔɔᴉɹ qoɹ@catbus.run · last wk.

Hello world

Inspired by @pds.dad 's AMA about #atproto over on #Mastodon ... AMA about #ActivityPub and the #Fediverse! No question is too basic! (If questions get beyond my knowledge I'll at least try to point you in the right direction 😃)

I made a @pckt.blog version of my post about why @bsky.app might think you're in a location that requires age verification when you're not. ricci.pckt.blog/calgary-texa...

Calgary ... Texas?

How IP Geolocation Works, and How It Goes Wrong

ricci.pckt.blog

In case you were wondering why @bsky.app might incorrectly think you're in a location that requires age verification discuss.systems/@ricci/11697...

Rob Ricci (@ricci@discuss.systems)

Attached: 2 images Laws are forcing more and more services, like social networks, to change their behavior based on the user's region. This week, I've been in Calgary, Canada, and Bluesky wants me t...

discuss.systems

You thought it was Trump that wanted to annex Canada into the US, but no, it was Bluesky (yes, I know why this happens, will write up a thread later for the benefit of anyone who doesn't)

www.price.utah.edu/2026/07/22/u... Well, I'm going to be working with a set of materials scientists and experimental physicists who work on manufacturing quantum nanomaterials.

University of Utah Selected for Elite National Network of AI-driven "Cloud Laboratories" - The John and Marcia Price College of Engineering at the University of Utah

The University of Utah has been selected by the U.S. National Science Foundation to build one of twenty Programmable Cloud […]

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Next summer, I'll be hosting ACM REP, the Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability on the campus of the University of Utah! It's a great venue for publishing work on reproducibility in CS, and it's a terrific community. Papers likely due late spring, conference in July acm-rep.github.io

I updated my census of rotation keys on the atmosphere: rob.leaflet.pub/3mr7vhdonuk2i "In total, I found 15,029 recently-active users (0.299%) who have strong control over their identity. This is an increase of about 10x over my earlier census ...

Rotation Key Census, July 2026

Census of rotation keys and other ways of asserting strong control over identity on the Atmosphere

rob.leaflet.pub

Interesting, there are 17 accounts out there that are *not* on Bluesky PDSes, but have at least one of Bluesky's rotation keys still attached to their did:plc records 🤔

I updated my census of rotation keys on the atmosphere: rob.leaflet.pub/3mr7vhdonuk2i "In total, I found 15,029 recently-active users (0.299%) who have strong control over their identity. This is an increase of about 10x over my earlier census ...

Rotation Key Census, July 2026

Census of rotation keys and other ways of asserting strong control over identity on the Atmosphere

rob.leaflet.pub

Using my fresh new PLC replica to look around at some migration numbers. For accounts with did:plc, there have been 21,770 migrations to date, 90% of those were off of Bluesky PDSes, 9% were between two indie PDSes, and 1% were indie to Bluesky.

Muting reposts and/or quoteposts is close, hope to land soon 🙏

Eric@esb.lol · 2w ago

~75% of the way there

Are you an atproto fan? Grab a .atproto.fan handle, fully free! atproto.fan

Interesting, one of @leaflet.pub's Atmosphere Field Reporters, announced today, seems to have had their account nuked by @bsky.app - this also took down their Leaflet posts. Are folks sure they want all their eggs in the Bluesky basket? lab.leaflet.pub/3mquhjtnhcc2...

We're looking for more volunteer moderators! If you're looking forward to serving the Northsky community and the broader 2SLGBTQIA+ community on the ATmosphere, please consider applying! Link: tally.so/r/eqlkGq (If you've applied in the past and didn't hear back, please apply again!)

Volunteer Intake (Moderation)

Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

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OMG the obnoxious "AI Company" slop bot followed me Hi obnoxious "AI Company" slop bot

That's about 2/3 the annual National Science Foundation budget.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3w ago

RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."

If we counted correctly, that's 12 papers at OSDI 2026 that present experiments or other evaluations performed with CloudLab. 👍 Check out CloudLab for yourself: www.cloudlab.us

I talked to some folks concerned about a proposed datacenter in Pinal County, Arizona, and they wrote up a very nice article about our conversation pinalpost.com/as-pinal-cou...

Sorting Substance From Salesmanship in the Data Center Boom

A computing researcher warns the La Osa data center may be part of an overbuilt rush. Pinal County supervisors take up the project again August 26.

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Alright it is up! @pronouns.northsky.social labeler is online! There's over 20 pronoun combinations so I did the radical thing of making a little page where you can sign in and pick your pronouns! It just likes the post behind the scenes

I finally added an oft-requested feature to arewedecentralizedyet.online , my project to track statistics for the atmosphere and other Internet infrastructure. it now includes history for the Shannon Index, showing how decentralization has evolved over the time I've been collecting data.

On the weekly posting users per origin chart on my stats page, there's now a checkbox "Show as % of total". And we've quietly passed a pretty important milestone last month: 1% of all users on the network (making app.bsky posts) were on independent PDSes! (13k/1.3M) blue.mackuba.eu/stats/#weekl...

HUGE!! The Atmosphere is growing 📈📈📈

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦@mackuba.eu · last mo.

On the weekly posting users per origin chart on my stats page, there's now a checkbox "Show as % of total". And we've quietly passed a pretty important milestone last month: 1% of all users on the network (making app.bsky posts) were on independent PDSes! (13k/1.3M) blue.mackuba.eu/stats/#weekl...

Today the good people of the world commemorate the passing of Google Reader thirteen short years ago on July 1, 2013. To honor their memory (and in lieu of flowers) please add an RSS/Atom/JSON feed to your web site and keep building a web that connects people in meaningful and positive ways.

the thing that annoys me the most about the “we’d never do things like train our AI on your content” messaging is that it’s completely misleading if anything, bluesky makes it easy for ANYONE to train AI on your content. it fights monopolies by democratizing access to public data, not by abstaining

alice@alice.mosphere.at · last mo.

okay. pay jerry TWO MILLION DOLLARS

great summary of the draft proposal!

Nick Gerakines@ngerakines.me · last mo.

Read through atproto proposal-0016 and took some notes on important points that I think are worth sharing and talking about.