Reposted by Jon P (moved)Laurens @laurenshof.online · 20/10/2025on the challenges when an authoritarian regime joins a social networking platform to trollconnectedplaces.leaflet.pubThe White House joins BlueskyWhen a government joins a platform for the purpose of trolling 1010331
Reposted by Jon P (moved)Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/09/2025“Technology firms behind artificial intelligence–based note-taking software — marketed to therapists as a time-saving administrative tool — have quietly included provisions in their terms and conditions that allow patients’ therapy records to be sold and manipulated to train other AI applications.”jacobin.comYour Therapists’ Notes Could Become Fodder For AITech companies are marketing AI-based note-taking software to therapists as a new time-saving tool. But by signing up, providers may be unknowingly offering patients’ sensitive health information as d... 6258169
Jon P (moved) @jdp23-alt.bsky.social · 16/09/2025I've now moved to @jdp23.thenexus.today as my primary account. I'm keeping this account around as a backup, at least for the time being. 070
Reposted by Jon P (moved)Azadeh Akbari @azadehakbari.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Read my latest commentary on Big Tech Authoritarianism, which discusses how Big Tech actively constructs authoritarian spaces – both within their organisational structures and across broader socio-political contexts. doi.org/10.1177/2976... 23510
Reposted by Jon P (moved)sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...english.hani.co.kr[Column] Imperial tyranny, Korean humiliationThis incident should prompt us in Korea to comprehensively reassess our investment projects in the US 401630852
Reposted by Jon P (moved)Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 15/09/2025Something that I think we need to be clear about is that internet scholars (critical and otherwise) have made this clear for at least two decades and the rest of the academy (and the public) responded with a collective "what happens online isn't real," so forgive me if I'm like "water is ALSO wet." 214542
Reposted by Jon P (moved)Drewbahr (he/him/his) @drewbahr.cryptoanarchy.network · 15/09/2025Seems like there's a lot of chatter among folks looking to migrate off of bsky.social as a PDS, and out to other options. Friendly reminder for white people like me, that Blacksky is for Black folks. There's a related PDS for people that aren't Black too, but Blacksky isn't for us white people. 002
Reposted by Jon P (moved)sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 13/09/2025🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ Trans people are "a vulnerable minority group that has been widely demonized. Any good journalistic practice would involve nailing down accuracy to avoid making things worse." – @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/politics/777...theverge.comThe WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformationThe Wall Street Journal’s fuckup while covering Charlie Kirk’s killing needs more than an editor’s note. 212925800
Reposted by Jon P (moved)Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 12/09/2025Like I said ... Think twice before you amplify thinly-source stories. Even if you're expressing skepticism, you don't want to give them more oxygen. One alternative: take a screenshot and draw a couple of big red question marks over it. Or, just don't amplify it! 043
Reposted by Jon P (moved)Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11/09/2025So I’ve been banned from Reddit for three days by automated moderation for making a racist post… …paraphrasing Kirk’s final words. From the #youcantmakeitup files. 831146
Reposted by Jon P (moved)Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social · 11/09/2025I got to share a stage with the incomparable Karen Hao this morning and she is The Truth in every way. ♥️ 13811
Reposted by Jon P (moved)The Nexus of Privacy @thenexusofprivacy.net · 11/09/2025This is what solidarity looks like thenexusofprivacy.net/what-solidar... Part 2 of “Decentralization” and erasure: Blacksky, Bluesky, and the ATmosphere Here's a thread with some highlights (🧵)thenexusofprivacy.netThis is what solidarity looks likePart 2 of "Decentralization" and Erasure: Blacksky, Bluesky, and the ATmosphere 13123
Reposted by Jon P (moved)It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Lots of accounts sharing misinformation for clicks + shares. This doesn't help anyone. "Salt trucks, routinely used in Chicago winters to combat ice on roadways, were not deployed this weekend to deter ICE, the city said, despite claims made on social media videos." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comNo, Chicago is not using salt trucks to block ICE, despite viral claimsThe city told NBC News in a statement that the salt trucks were there “to support public safety efforts related to a planned protest and the Taste of Chicago.” 615755
Reposted by Jon P (moved)Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 05/09/2025I'm guessing this is news to most of you but I have a book coming out. :) I and three co-authors (all of whom are HCI researchers with law-adjacent degrees) wrote Human-Computer Interaction and U.S. Law, which will be out from Cambridge University Press in December. www.cambridge.org/core/books/h... 37116
Reposted by Jon P (moved)Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 05/09/2025Although "Massive Cognitohazard Zone" would be a great band name! 151
Reposted by Jon P (moved)Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 04/09/2025Hello? Hello? Is this thing on? Just setting up my blacksky-comra.de ... I'll be slowly shifting my presence to this account. I tend not to migrate accounts; instead, I prefer to recreate my network based on my interests today, not two years ago - and leave the baggage of old posts behind 6311
Reposted by Jon P (moved)Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/09/2025"a social movement organized around a shared perception of lost honor, declining esteem, and institutional disrespect" hmm a Lost Cause, one might say 516639
Reposted by Jon P (moved)Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 04/09/2025Also when I was in high school I was a country music DJ. That or McDonald's were the only two options for summer jobs. 121
Reposted by Jon P (moved)The Nexus of Privacy @thenexusofprivacy.net · 04/09/2025Accessibility in the ATmosphere? The current state of accessibiilty on Bluesky leaves a lot of room for improvement. So, let's start making things better! thenexusofprivacy.leaflet.pub/3lxxyg36k5s2t As a first step, let's focus on gathering information ... #accessibility. (🧵, 1/N)thenexusofprivacy.leaflet.pubAccessibility in the ATmosphere? - The Nexus of PrivacySuggestions for resources and tips? Ideas for improvements? 11310
Reposted by Jon P (moved)The Nexus of Privacy @thenexusofprivacy.net · 04/09/2025What accessibility problems have you encountered on Bluesky or other ATmosphere software – bugs, missing documentation or functionality, whatever? 🧵 111
Jon P (moved) @jdp23-alt.bsky.social · 04/09/2025💯 yes please, it's incredibly useful on other platforms where it exists! 010
Jon P (moved) @jdp23-alt.bsky.social · 04/09/2025mysqld randomly dies, whenever somebody points it out to me it seems like i'm in the middle of something else and say "oh yeah I should look at that, i'll just restart for now and get back to it soon" and then i don't. but i really should look at it. i'll get back to it soon. 100
Jon P (moved) @jdp23-alt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Let's see how this works ...thenexusofprivacy.leaflet.pubHello? Hello? Is this thing on????Just setting up my Leaflet 3120
Jon P (moved) @jdp23-alt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Yeah, I feel differently about whether Bluesky is decentralized (i can see arguments both ways, it basically depends on what aspects people focus on and how you define "Bluesky") as oppose to whether the ATmosphere is decentralized (clearly yes, Blacksky's existence is proof) 000
Reposted by Jon P (moved)dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 03/09/2025i don't think most understand how big this is. currently, bsky forks do not give selfhosted PDSes the ability to use 2FA which leave users unprotected from brute force attacks; the fix below stops those attacks it also stops me from rotating my password every 120hrs to a new randomized password 🫠 35211
Reposted by Jon P (moved)Rudy Fraser @rude1.blacksky.team · 03/09/2025Please provide your input on @blackskyweb.xyz Community Guidelines (use of the feed, moderation, app, as well as developer/network services). Anyone using our feeds, subscribed to our mod service, on the PDS/relay Provide input via the following link 🗳️: assembly.blacksky.community/6carwc4nzjassembly.blacksky.communityBlacksky People's AssemblyBlacksky People's Assembly – a space for public deliberation and collective decision-making. 25350186
Jon P (moved) @jdp23-alt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025And similarly fedi could well evolve to include some AT Proto-ish elements -- Fediscovery/FASP and AcitivityPodss are steps in that direction. I think of the architectures more as duals, but like I say I agree that looking at the similarities (as well as mappings) can also be very useful! 000
Jon P (moved) @jdp23-alt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025AT Proto is also flexible enough that it can handle different topologies, and I think as it evolves we'll see more constructs like partial-network Relays and PDSs that limit what AppViews can access them. So despite the architectural differences it may well evolve in a more fedi-like direction.... 100
Jon P (moved) @jdp23-alt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025That's true, but I don't think that's the sense in which either Christine is using "message passing". 000
Jon P (moved) @jdp23-alt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Christine's talking about a message being addressed and the delivered directly to recipients. A PDS broadcast the post to all the Relays that crawl it who then rebroadcast it to all the AppViews who subscribe to the Relay's firehose, then the AppViews figure out who to deliver it to. 000
Jon P (moved) @jdp23-alt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025I agree that you can map one to the other, and that can be useful, but it also elides these important differences. AT Proto's optimized for building large all-public social networks; ActivityPub is incredibly flexible, supporting all kinds of topologies, but not great at the large all-public case 200
Jon P (moved) @jdp23-alt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025One of the places Christine and Bryan were very much in agreement was that the architectures are very different: ActivityPub based on message-passing, AT Protocol on a shared-heap architecture. Here's an excerpt from whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net... 100
Jon P (moved) @jdp23-alt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025AT Proto Relays aggregate PDS firehose event streams, which aren't addressed to specific recipients. So I see these as very different than message passing in the ActivityPub sense, which Christine described as "A message is addressed, and then delivered to recipients." 200
Reposted by Jon P (moved)Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people. 6678233
Reposted by Jon P (moved)Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 03/09/2025Jesus fucking christ i am exhausted of people who refuse to take even 1 class that would introduce them to ideas like the social construction of rules, laws, tech, & definitions of "crime," & who continually learn the wrong lessons from every science fiction story they ever meet. I mean holy shit. 23700209
Jon P (moved) @jdp23-alt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Today's architecture is message passing, making copies of posts and sending them to other instances -- where they may have different properties. If you edit or delete a post, that doesn't necessarily update or delete the copies. Incompatibilities between software lead to inconsistencies. 110
Jon P (moved) @jdp23-alt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025And I also agree that you can look at multiple independent databases as a single database where queries give inconsistent results due to lossy replication. I still don't think that's a good way to understand the current ActivityPub Fediverse's behavior though. 100
Jon P (moved) @jdp23-alt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Agreed that the AT Protocol network will fragment (at least to some extent) as it grows. and private data also may is also going to add complexities. That said (if I understand it correctly), the content-addressable approach is likely to means it's still conceptually more like a single database. 100
Reposted by Jon P (moved)Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Someone asked me what victory against the forces seeking to occupy Chicago looks like. Obviously, those forces being repelled is the goal, but there are layers to what success looks like in these deteriorating conditions. The first is to successfully resist the normalization of military occupation. 211395370
Reposted by Jon P (moved)Remora House DC @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 02/09/2025To Chicago comrades & anyone else facing possible federal occupation: The National Guard is standing around for photo ops. DHS, ICE, FBI, DEA, ATF, are working with local police to terrorize & kidnap our neighbors. Organize accordingly. 10833318
Reposted by Jon P (moved)Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/09/2025This is because workers are "associated with diversity" by virtue of not being white guys, and to be anti-DEI is to be pro-segregation 4471177
Jon P (moved) @jdp23-alt.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Yeah really. Last year I shared a draft of my post on "N things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people" to Lemmy and ... yikes. privacy.thenexus.today/racism-and-d...privacy.thenexus.todayAh, Lemmy: Racism and Denial in the Threadiverse (DRAFT)Fediverse discussions about racism in the fediverse frequently provide examples of racism in the fediverse 110
Jon P (moved) @jdp23-alt.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Really nice app! Do you have any idea of what percentage of images in general have alt text? There used to be a bot that analyzed the firehose but alas it went away. And Paul, completely agreed -- a HUGE strength of the way you rolled things out. 010
Reposted by Jon P (moved)Rudy Fraser @rude1.blacksky.team · 02/09/2025I maintain that "escaping corporate control" only speaks to people where corporate control is in their top 5 concerns in life The pitch I offer you is shared ownership of your community and curatorial control over your online experience. It presupposes escaping corporate control (means, not ends) 220340
