Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 27/07/2023I'm starting a crew who's in 7444391255
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space” 2630228
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay 120111864070
mayor of clown town 🤠✨ @linguangst.bsky.social · 31/03/2026just caught @brandontlocke.bsky.social using his motherfucking nose to scroll 👃🏻🤳🏻 210
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 31/03/2026lately the chumbucket ads I've been seeing on local news pages keep featuring (ai generated?) stock images of old dudes in marine uniforms, usually screaming 711832209
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 26/03/2026NEW: The government tells Americans to use VPNs to protect their privacy. The government also automatically presumes communications of unknown origin are foreign. Foreign communications don't require a warrant to wiretap. Lawmakers who've done the math want answers. My latest @wired.com:wired.comUsing a VPN May Subject You to NSA SpyingUS lawmakers are pressing Tulsi Gabbard to reveal whether using a VPN that connects to overseas servers can strip Americans of their constitutional protections against warrantless surveillance. 211851955
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨onion person @junlper.beer · 28/03/2026genuinely fascinating that we’ve hit a point where the full monetization of the internet and ai bot takeover has led to a majority of people wanting tech minimalism 13380191358
mayor of clown town 🤠✨ @linguangst.bsky.social · 30/03/2026so bummed i had to leave before this talk! thanks for a great weekend, #ATmosphereConf 💗 030
mayor of clown town 🤠✨ @linguangst.bsky.social · 29/03/2026trust & safety status quo, per @julietshen.bsky.social and @cassidyjames.com at #ATmosphereConf: kinda broken! (to say the least) 1113
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨BlackskyNews 🗞️ @blackskynews.blacksky.app · 29/03/2026Enjoy this detailed thread Juliet Shen kindly shared on @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team 's #atmosphereconf talk on "Creating a Safer Web: Blacksky's Moderation Tool" "There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives." -Audre Lorde #BlackskyNews 084
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Juliet Shen @julietshen.online · 29/03/2026these tools are what we make of them. we can't assume that because we are acting in benign ways, that everyone using the tools will do the same. People can't rely on only that. We need to discuss as a community how we govern labelers and community moderation. @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz 1193
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Juliet Shen @julietshen.online · 29/03/2026Blacksky's moderation tools grew from 2 labels and added new ones through a democratic process where people voted on new labels via their People's Assembly. Labels constantly get updated because things change and T&S needs to always have a finger on the pulse @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team 1162
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Juliet Shen @julietshen.online · 29/03/2026it's today! come learn about coop, our review tool. we'll have a hosted demo up and running soon that everyone can play with too! 0126
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/03/2026I think it’s very smart that @moderation.blacksky.app has built a process and tools (with Acorn) that, among other features, require that moderators take breaks and protect themselves. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team #ATmosphereConf 2459
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/03/2026Key ways that people stop trusting Trust and Safety, per @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team and @moderation.blacksky.app #ATmosphereConf 18118
mayor of clown town 🤠✨ @linguangst.bsky.social · 29/03/2026per @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team, if you don't have your community's trust, your trust & safety practice needs work—regardless of your team's credentials (couldn't agree more!) #ATmosphereConf 141
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 29/03/2026@devingaffney.com’s work is hands down the best. @graze.social Speaking truth to power! 0206
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨🦇 DEADvin 🎃 GHASTney 👻 @devingaffney.com · 29/03/2026So great to hear about @linguangst.bsky.social's moderation research - real clarity about the matrix of constraints and challenges that makes the work so difficult (and where we need to put in the effort to make it better) #atmosphereconf 0114
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Juliet Shen @julietshen.online · 29/03/2026it's cool to see @linguangst.bsky.social research quotes about needing more user education first, norm-setting, and design needs in moderation. highly recommend checking out www.prosocialdesign.org who have been doing great work in this spaceprosocialdesign.orgProsocial Design NetworkThe Prosocial Design Network advocates for prosocial design: evidence-based design practices that bring out the best in human nature online. 051
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Juliet Shen @julietshen.online · 29/03/2026for anyone in @linguangst.bsky.social session who are interested in other studies around how trust & safety is done on federated protocols/platforms, check out www.tsjournal.org/index.php/jo... by @yoyoel.com and @samlai.bsky.socialtsjournal.org Securing Federated Platforms | Journal of Online Trust and Safety Journal of Online Trust and Safety 0125
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 29/03/2026@case.bsky.social giving one of the best talks at #Atmosphereconf! I highly recommend watching this one if you missed it, what a great talk about the future. 3226
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 29/03/2026what’s refreshing about #atmosphereconf is how interdisciplinary the subjects and speakers are - it’s not all code but instead showcasing the roles of scientists, journalists and creators. the community is multi-faceted and have a shared interest in combatting misinformation and abuse. 113529
mayor of clown town 🤠✨ @linguangst.bsky.social · 29/03/2026loving all the metaverse shade in @case.bsky.social's talk on "waiting for the future to load" 😎 #ATmosphereConf 041
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨🦇 DEADvin 🎃 GHASTney 👻 @devingaffney.com · 28/03/2026@tessa.germnetwork.com absolutely killing it- amazing framing of consent as a core design value within the space #atmosphereconf 0225
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨ændra. @aendra.com · 29/03/2026For clarity, this is a @graze.social feature, and it's cool as heck! You can make any of your feeds remix-able like this by toggling a setting in your feed preferences. 18420
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/03/2026Good reason to not come to my talk! 0231
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨jack @j4ck.xyz · 29/03/2026💯 @devingaffney.com @graze.social #AtmosphereConf 1174
mayor of clown town 🤠✨ @linguangst.bsky.social · 29/03/2026my #ATmosphereConf talk is today! come to room 2301 at 11:30 if your interests include equitable platform governance, care work and workers, and avoiding the failures of ~Big Tech~: atmosphereconf.org/event/eqVMWz0 1155
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 29/03/2026“Love the ones you starve with; them the ones you eat with” Shout out to my Risk Takers ❤️🔥 The tech industry has never seen a team like us before. If you wanna know why we’re winning, you’re looking at the reason. You’d be blessed to have any one of them on your side. @blackskyweb.xyz 657194
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 29/03/2026Anywho, see yall at 1:30 remotely or in person #ATmosphereConf atmosphereconf.org/event/2E9XG1batmosphereconf.orgATmosphereConf 2026ATmosphereConf is the global atproto community conference. Join us in Vancouver, Canada, March 26th - 29th, 2026. 0157
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 29/03/2026I hope today during my talk people interested in content moderation understand the importance of community trust and the true meaning of being proactive in trust & safety and not reactive. I stand on the fact that our moderation is one of the best I’ve seen across all platforms. Full stop. 15913
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 28/03/2026What may be the most heartening part of #AtmosphereConf, besides the community, is that it's a *technical* conference at which people present on politics, authoritarianism, epistemic challenges (in the opening keynote!). Because, for technologists, *that's* the job. 319848
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 28/03/2026Was just reminded by @tessa.germnetwork.com's talk at #AtmosphereConf about the Consentful Technology Project that came out of the @alliedmedia.bsky.social network a few years back. A great resource and primer on building consentful tech: www.consentfultech.io There's a zine, curricula, etc 051
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨ROOST @roost.tools · 28/03/2026say hello to the ROOST team if you're at #atmosphereconf @julietshen.bsky.social @cassidyjames.com 1727
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨dame @dame.is · 28/03/2026I'm speaking about the future of social media as well as moths and @anisota.net tomorrow at 3pm PDT / 6pm EST as part of #atmosphereconf. Hope to see you there! In person at the UBC Student Nest in the Performance Theatre or livestreaming on @stream.place. atmosphereconf.org/event/9qjDJZG 0294
mayor of clown town 🤠✨ @linguangst.bsky.social · 28/03/2026whoever brought the tiny puffy animal stickers: you are my hero #ATmosphereConf 2211
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 28/03/2026@eclecticcapital.bsky.social talking about sovereign media! #ATmosphereConf 082
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/03/2026fantastic illustration choices from @brittanyellich.com regarding platform control over your beloved group chats #ATmosphereConf 2416
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Teon ⁂ @teonbrooks.com · 28/03/2026Enjoying @rude1.blacksky.team's talk on building for the user and for the community. He just mentioned this book in reference to being both the user and the builder. You are the user of the things you build. We become who we build for. #ATmosphereConfbookshop.orgI Am a Strange LoopCheck out I Am a Strange Loop - <b>One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from -- and how our selves can exist in the minds of others.</b> Can thoug... 1368
mayor of clown town 🤠✨ @linguangst.bsky.social · 28/03/2026on blacksky, @rude1.blacksky.team emphasizes community moderators aren't reviewing content for a platform—they're "protecting a space they are a part of" 😍🙌🔥 (spoiler alert for my talk tomorrow: this is the way) #ATmosphereConf 0347
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 28/03/2026Dear #atmosphereConf attendees. Using capital letters in hash tags makes it easier for screen readers to work out where the word breaks are, and thus easier for people using them to "read" your posts. You don't want another #Susanalbumparty www.accessible-social.com/copy-and-for...accessible-social.comHashtagsAccessible best practices for using hashtags in social media posts. 1148
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 28/03/2026We can just complain about stuff or we can build something better. The reason I'm so excited about Bluesky and atproto is the shift towards building better alternatives across a range of social spaces. @rude1.blacksky.team,creator of Blacksky, is such a great example #atmosphereconf 39012
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨404 Media @404media.co · 28/03/2026"I foresee a domino effect, empowering communities on other platforms to decide whether AI should be welcome. On their own terms.” www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...404media.coWikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.” 145599
mayor of clown town 🤠✨ @linguangst.bsky.social · 28/03/2026really appreciate @kissane.myatproto.social's pushback against "civility," which is 1) a myth and 2) typically deployed in ways that maintain (or extend) existing oppression #ATmosphereConf 040
mayor of clown town 🤠✨ @linguangst.bsky.social · 28/03/2026lol @ applause for structured data #ATmosphereConf 051
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨The Needling @theneedling.com · 27/03/2026M’s Run Short on New Ferry Food Trays, Replacements Expected by 2032: tinyurl.com/chuzr2bp 1127638
mayor of clown town 🤠✨ @linguangst.bsky.social · 28/03/2026ATP n00b here... is there a way to get an #ATmosphereConf feed sans-deadpost.ai and other bots? they're overtaking the tag feed 😭 130
Reposted by mayor of clown town 🤠✨Brandon 🤖🔨 @brandontlocke.bsky.social · 25/03/2026This isn't even that new. In 2009 a friend of mine had the chance to redo a lab report and then was sent to academic affairs because it came back 90% plagiarized (from the original submission). Overreliance on this stuff is the laziest possible pedagogy and turns the teacher into a cop. 052
