Reposted by Justin BankDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng 12552541586
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 22/09/2026The synthetic enshittification of the web is coming to inboxes too! No better time to be sure which humans you trust! www.journalismatlas.com 021
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 22/09/2026Because of the potential to help more people move from micro-blogging to blogging, sure And once you figure that out, you can figure out more bridges from micro blogging to more types of related media that can be built to enrich the ATMosphere and spark the more-like-Reddit-than-twitter vision. 120
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 22/09/2026As someone who wrote the feature requests checklist when the WaPo newsroom moved from Moveable Type to Wordpress, I feel this. Deeply. Also, fwiw, I think this feature is a MASSIVE potential growth unlock for Bluesky and ATProto. 150
Reposted by Justin BankJulia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17/09/2026For @motherjones.com, I looked into how Meta could be using disabled people to promote its Meta glasses to the masses. As one expert told me, “companies have used accessibility...as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy and security threats.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comIs Meta using disabled people to promote its glasses?AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance. 10581285
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 16/09/2026I did thing Sadie’s arc was, ultimately, quite inspiring fwiw. Such a good protagonist (and book!) 110
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 16/09/2026Just listened to your interview with @steveinskeep.bsky.social on NPR One. How perfectly public media to have the launch announcement double as an interview/preview. What an exciting announcement and great partnership. The public needs this kind of reporting! www.npr.org/2026/09/16/n...npr.org'Machine Gods' explores the latest developments in the world of AINPR's Steve Inskeep talks to tech journalists Casey Newton and Kevin Roose about their new show 'Machine Gods,' which is coming to NPR. 000
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 16/09/2026Congratulations @caseynewton.bsky.social and @kevinroose.com on the launch of ‘Machine Gods,’ your new video podcast with @npr.org. www.npr.org/2026/09/16/g...npr.orgCasey Newton and Kevin Roose partner with NPR to launch 'Machine Gods'The video-first, twice weekly show from the creators of 'Hard Fork' will unpack the most consequential technology stories of our time for broadcast and digital audiences. 140
Reposted by Justin BankJim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 02/09/2026Incredible opportunity to help determine how the future of the open social web works. 13613
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 03/09/2026😆😆 Number 2. If you have to be distressed, do it in style. And layering aesthetics is a confident move worth celebrating. 020
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 02/09/2026This feels like a countdown until some unfortunate ‘sorting’ issue. Hopefully it’s that benign and stupid and not toxic/scary. 😬😬😬 150
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 30/08/2026There are thoughtful takes in the right corners of the internet! bsky.app/profile/rinc... 010
Reposted by Justin Bank🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Rest in power. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...nytimes.comMary Morello, Free Speech Activist Who Defended Explicit Lyrics, Dies at 102 (Gift Article)An Illinois teacher — and the mother of the rock star Tom Morello — she took on Tipper Gore during culture war skirmishes over warning labels on records. 31286278
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 13/08/2026This. All of this. Frankly the more interesting and human parts of the current internet are that thin social layer. Forums and comments and niche blogs. They’re just spread at the edges of the sludge of the current platform landscape. 130
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 13/08/2026The whole :thread: is a master class in how a best-in-class subject matter expert (in this case ad tech) can thoughtfully skeet-thread with nuance and respect to critics. Also deeply interesting! 000
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 13/08/2026Yes. And … Pioneering the open social web means being open and sending people out with link referrals that create friction towards being the ‘bigger’ platform: pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/bl...pressgazette.co.ukBluesky already delivering more referral traffic than X for some publishersA Guardian audience editor says Bluesky sent more referral traffic to the news outlet in its first week there than X has any week in 2024. 181
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 12/08/2026And publishers are organically moving in this direction. They just need more of this tooling to emerge on ATProto. atmosphereconf.org/event/J9yOpYzatmosphereconf.orgATmosphereConf 2026ATmosphereConf is the global atproto community conference. Join us in Vancouver, Canada, March 26th - 29th, 2026. 042
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 11/08/2026With great lived experiences on the publisher side during the last 20 years (NYT, WaPo, NPR), we spent so much time wanting to get conversion (subscribe) after consumption on the article page. So I think the best transition to cards-in-feed would be more of a ‘follow’ of the publication/account. 100
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 11/08/2026I like the idea/spirit of the idea! There's the momentum of the Auttomattic/Wordpress adoption. And there are still loyal niche communities on there who are clearly loyal .... martech.zone/tumblr-stati...martech.zoneThe State Of Tumblr In 2025: Who Should Still Pay Attention And Why It Might Be Worth The Effort | Martech ZoneDiscover the current state of Tumblr in 2025 and why it's still relevant. Explore who should pay attention and why it's worth the effort. 040
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 11/08/2026So well captured Chad. I can’t help but think of Fred Rogers and ‘looking for the helpers.’ 010
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 11/08/2026Sincerely this! Memes being shared by cool communities in a bunch of cool apps. 050
Reposted by Justin BankDebbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 10/08/2026I'm actively seeking book bloggers, indie booksellers, librarians, educators interested in contributing to my HOW READERS DISCOVER BOOKS blog. Info: books.leaflet.pub/about One of my goals: to help boost the book boosters, help people find new ways to discover books, and (of course) boost books.books.leaflet.pubAbout - How Readers Find BooksGoal of this blog: (1) help readers find new ways to discover books, (2) help boost the book boosters, (3) boost books, (4) encourage more book people to join the ATmosphere. 65938
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 10/08/2026Are there micropayment hypesters here?!? I’d like to believe. And all those ‘tip jar’ esque features elsewhere make me think it could be possible. But 20+ years in digital news and I only know of one success story: www.niemanlab.org/2018/06/in-w...niemanlab.orgIn Winnipeg, micropayments aren’t generating big money, but they’re serving as a top-of-the-funnel strategyThree years in, the Winnipeg Free Press' attempt to get readers to pay by the article is still producing less than $100,000 a year — but it also produces data that allows for more targeted upsell effo... 120
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 10/08/2026I don’t know. I kinda think of the feature as a kinder, gentler mute button to save the follow. 020
Reposted by Justin Bankbrendan @schlage.town · 10/08/2026Great read from @torrent-empress.bsky.social, love that it's addressed to both creator & developer communities, def so much opportunity to better work together and get serious Love that fuck around beginner energy. That try new shit experimental energy. That make it happen collaborative energy! torrent-empress.leaflet.pubHow creatives and devs can all finally escape the control of the silicon valley of evil and make a trillion dollarsft. ATprotocol (the remix) 0211
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 10/08/2026Calling @theverge.com a 📰 is such a (de)coded clap back. 000
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 10/08/2026And with a great piece to match! Welcome @playboy.comatplayboy.com 120
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 10/08/2026Have you all considered publishing this out as a discreet asset on your RSS and HTML feeds with a CTA /Value prop in the headline? Meet the power users where they’re reading … and counting their free clicks and dreaming on full feed content. 010
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 09/08/2026What else are we binging? I’ve got a laundry night in front of me. 100
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 09/08/2026The irony of of this sludgy dev process from a closed network technology company being instantaneously contextualized across two different platforms/protocols … 010
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 09/08/2026It’s interesting to follow the development of things like @gandersocial.ca and @blackskyweb.xyz and wonder if a ‘Plumbers Union’ type network of fact checkers and Snopes’ esque contexualizers could organize that kind of layering on ATProto … 010
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 08/08/2026And why I continue to dream on more ways to connect technologists and journalists newsletter.projectc.biz/p/learn-to-c...newsletter.projectc.bizLearn to code, they said ...Coders are facing the same disruption as journalists. Can the parallels and overlaps reveal the slipstreams for independent journalism to thrive? 000
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 08/08/2026Which is what makes structured efforts like @atmosphere.community and @kissane.myatproto.social recently announced Cloud Atlas so exciting. www.wrecka.ge/launching-a-...wrecka.geLaunching a Cloud AtlasThe right questions to arrive with—and the right structure for what comes out of the interviews—are not completely obvious. So I’ve been spending some time thinking about clouds. 110
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 08/08/2026I’ll add a corollary to the hopeful note he ends on. What the PIT crews are doing for civic participation and governance, the ATProto community can (and is!) doing for information ecosystems. And, frankly, civic participation. 100
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 07/08/2026Totally. Just discovered but love it. It’s like @sill.social distilled for feed. 040
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 07/08/2026What a banger from @joebasser.com joebasser.comblog.joebasser.comLet's Talk MoneyMoney money money... must be funny... in a rich man's world (Zuck, Elon & Larry). How we get to 1B Users in the Atmosphere. 190
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com · 07/08/2026I’m just catching up with the baseball season actually. Hot Knicks summer had kept me very busy! 010
