I'm signing off of @bsky.app 1. Microblogging is the fertile soil upon which anxiety and toxicity grow. My mental health is more important. 2. At the first #AtmosphereConf, it was said that for @atproto.com to succeed, Bluesky must fail. I agree with this more today than ever. #BainCapital

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” — Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique

“An undesirable society is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.” — John Dewey, Democracy and Education

World Happiness Report 2026, the social media edition The way they approached the call for papers is really intriguing, start with the hypothesis you'd expect and then as for more expanding and challenging the ideas. Nuance has been surfaced. #atproto #atdev www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2026/

World Happiness Report 2026

The World Happiness Report is published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, in partnership with Gallup, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and an independent ed...

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Back to the drawing board for Digg, some interesting tidbits for #atdev digg.com (just a blog like page now)

Hacker News (HN) added a new rule news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4734...

PBS Frontline new episode on Iran www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWao...

Remaking the Middle East: The U.S., Israel & Iran (updated documentary) | FRONTLINE (PBS)

YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official

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What @hytale.bsky.social is doing, especially around creators and modding, is a model for the #atmosphere #atdev @atproto.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3RA...

I can't believe Hytale is doing this

YouTube video by Kweebec Corner

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Dear #UK, I propose a trade deal #NoKings for #NoConfidence

Interesting observation while starting my fresh backfill... Many PDSes have some form of "bluesky" in the available domains, as opposed to "atproto" #atdev

PLC op count pushing 100M atmunge=# select count(*) from plc_log_entries; count ---------- 85758128 I assume this means we are now over 50% invalid ops. #DataSci will give the answer soon enough

Some nice graphs and stats in this one

CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies@csis.org · 5mo ago

NEW: @ai.csis.org expert Kateryna Bondar analyzes Iran’s drone retaliation campaign, showing how mass one-way attack drones are reshaping air warfare and what lessons the U.S. can draw from both the Gulf conflict and Ukraine’s experience. Learn more: www.csis.org/analysis/unp...

My exclusive story on the new program, featuring comments from federal public defender Geremy Kamens of Virginia's eastern district, who spearheaded it. "Every time we’ve had a Supreme Court case, we’ve sort of had to reinvent the wheel," said Kamens. www.law.com/nationallawj...

US Judiciary Approves New Public Defender Office to Improve Supreme Court Advocacy | Law.com

The federal judiciary on Tuesday approved the creation of an office dedicated to improving the advocacy of federal public defenders at the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Since August?!

Jacob Öberg@profjacob.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We wanted to build the 'drone walls' and all the things necessary like the radar, et cetera," a Ukrainian official said. "At that meeting ... in August, Trump asked his team to work on it, but they have done nothing," the Ukrainian official said. /7

not to distract from the real talk, but I would love to see an OpenClaw version of this

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A Better World Isn’t a Dream. It’s a Choice. And we’re currently choosing poorly.

Pulling out of Iran is like pulling out during a one night stand... It was a mistake from the start and it will be really expensive if you don't

HN's thoughts on the big news, have your grains of salt handy, but also important to know what people outside the #atmosphere think too :] news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4731...

fixfest.therestartproject.org

Home - Fixfest

Fixfest is a regular global gathering of repairers and tinkerers, activists, policy-makers, thinkers, and companies from all over the world.

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Court filings for Anthropic v Government They are just sueing anybody it seems :] www.courtlistener.com/docket/72379...

The editors at Foreign Affairs have compiled some of the magazine’s best coverage of the war in Iran—and what might come next. Explore the list here: https://fam.ag/4cyAjCB

@mikeblack114.bsky.social Did you see this and/or did I miss your commentary on it? thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing

Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

thisweekinworcester.com

The ultimate fix for your smart* TV plasma-bigscreen.org *spying

blog.system76.com/post/system7...

Next Anthropic v Government episode dropped www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

Where things stand with the Department of War

A statement from Dario Amodei

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What the world thinks about a number of things The questions are more varied than the title suggests www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad

Across 25 countries, Americans are the most likely to see the morality and ethics of people in their country as somewhat or very bad.

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There's also a related queston for the atmosphere here: if a news website whats to add a share to Bluesky button to their website, should that button say Bluesky? If yes, should there also be a button for Blacksky? If no, what should it say instead?

@simonwillison.net reading through your clean room post, have you thoughts on the Ai output is not copyrightable, ergo it cannot be licensed either? SCOTUS refused to hear appeals a few days ago, so lower court ruling stands for now. This post explores, not a lawyer too tuananh.net/2026/03/05/r...