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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The techno-dystopia I actually fear is a future where most people think truth is whatever Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok say, and the very small number of people who control those systems use that to manipulate for their own ends, making our current epistemic crisis seem small in comparison.
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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Per @anildash.com "being able to say, 'wherever you get your podcasts' is a radical statement." AT Protocol and ActivityPub allows you to say 'wherever you get your posts'.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A free society cannot allow the government to disappear people in order to cutoff access to legal remedies.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Tired: STEM (Science Tech Engineering Math) Wired: STEAM (Science Tech Engineering Arts Math) On Fire: STEAM PUNK (Science Tech Engineering Arts Math+ Pyrotechnics Ukulele Ninja Klezmer)
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
One of our Public Study lessons this fall focuses on community design centers and public education about architecture, preservation, and development. I think I pulled together a pretty good lesson – and a nice list of supplemental resources: www.are.na/shannon-matt...
OCTOBER 14: PUBLIC STUDY FOR PUBLIC DESIGN 

Location
This week we’ll meet at the Pratt Institute Library, at Willoughby Ave and Hall St in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Here’s Pratt’s “Getting to Campus” page. If you arrive early or care to stay afterward, Holly Wilson, a Spring 2026 CRC participant, encourages you to explore Pratt’s Sculpture Park. Holly and Brendan Enright, our hosts, will meet us at the circulation desk at 4pm and bring us through the gates, so please do your best to arrive on time!

Agenda 
This week we’ll consider the value civic education and public study in community based organizing, development, and design. Why is it important for communities to understand architecture and design, historic preservation, urban development, civil engineering, urban infrastructures and other sociotechnical systems? What can we learn from the archival records about the historical contexts from which community design emerged, how it’s evolved to meet new political-economic and environmental needs, and how that evolution reflects cultural and technological changes? 


We’ll begin with a short tour of the Pratt Institute Library, guided by Holly Wilson, Pratt’s Liaison Librarian for Design and Architecture and a member of the Search & Discovery CRC cohort. Then, from 4 to 4:45pm, we’ll meet with Janrey Serapio, Communications Manager, of the Pratt Center for Community Development; and for our remaining time we’ll explore the PCCD’s records with Brendan Enright, Pratt’s Virginia Thooren and Institute Archivist. 
To Prepare for This Week: 
Skim through Designing For Democracy, Partner & Partners, and the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development’s Community Development Archive, noting in particular the overview of Community Design Centers and the profile of the Pratt Center for Community Development. (Partner & Partners, a worker-owned design collective, also developed the CRC’s website!)  
Check out other local initiatives in our Community Design Centers Arena channel. The Architects’ Renewal Committee of Harlem might be of particular interest, in part because the life and contributions of its former executive director, J. Max Bond, have been celebrated in an excellent new biography. 
Explore the Pratt Center for Community Development’s website, skim through Pratt’s finding aid for the Center’s records, and review Nick Dease’s LibGuide to Pratt’s community partnerships (April 28, 2022). 
Please explore, too, documentation of the Fall 2025 exhibition celebrating the PCCD’s 60th anniversary (here are some clearer photos), as well as the Center’s overview of its STREET magazine archive. 
The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, a WPA Federal Art Project-style program for the 1970s and 80s, is among the many, many local, state, and federal government agencies and programs with whom the PCCD has collaborated. CETA is the subject of an exhibition at the CUNY Grad Center’s James Gallery, up through December 12. Here’s more on the City Lore / Artists Alliance alliance that’s calling attention to the CETA program. There’s also a panel discussion about CETA in the gallery on December 9, right after our final class of the fall.    
Let’s think more about contemporary allies and counterparts: check out BlackSpace, the Center for Urban Pedagogy, the Design Trust for Public Spaces, the New York Community Trust, the Urban Design Forum’s Local Center, and the Van Alen Institute.
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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 15/09/2026
Better worlds are still buildable ✨ That's the premise of our closing #MozFest Main Stage panel featuring Dr. Ruha Benjamin, @jasmine.bsky.social , Elizabeth Alexander, and @nabiha.bsky.social Grab your ticket to join the discussion in Barcelona. mzl.la/4xQbmKG
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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 04/09/2026
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Which tools do Claude Code, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 16,893 sessions to find out.
We watched almost 17k sessions across different types of personas, with 1,163 prompt variations, 75 repositories and 3 coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) actually implementing the solutions in...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ok you do, in fact, gotta hand it to Tillis for these puns in his statement
He is intimidated by competence and retreats to ginning up culture wars instead of soberly attending to the vital work of our national defense and the health and well-being of our fighting force.
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nabiha syed @nabiha.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
my subway take is: We should recreate the Office Space printer situation more often
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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 03/09/2026
As it turns out, not every design choice deserves to exist😬 @nabiha.bsky.social puts it simply: Does it help us become better humans? Dream? Connect? Great. And if not? "...throw it into the ocean." 🎧 Full ep w/ Hala Hanna now live bit.ly/3UzgpAy
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Everyone: can you give us technologies for cleaner water, faster and more efficient public transportation, or literally any other objectively good thing? The Valley: No. You may, however have another surveillance device, or yet another screen to further separate you from your life and loved ones.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Still amazed by how Silicon Valley has become a culture that turns capitalist logic on its head: wastefully burning through the world’s investment and creative potential to build only the things that most people do not want
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Firefox @firefox.com · 10/08/2026
Our support for uBlock Origin isn't going anywhere.
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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 12/08/2026
A good tech future won't be built by billionaires. Meet our 2026-2027 Mozilla Fellows 🥳 10 global builders making the alternatives. More on their projects coming 🔜 #MozillaFellows mzl.la/4g6d4jh
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Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 12/08/2026
BIG RUDE BIG MOZILLA BIG BLACSKY @rude1.blacksky.team
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Thank you for replying so thoroughly Alondra! Algorithmic agnotology is such an apt concept. It makes me realise the poverty of the standard convo on explainability in philosophy. Sure we can’t expect total explainability of any tool but AI companies have powerful incentives to keep it to minimum
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Big Tech and AI companies have refined these prior industrial tactics into what I call 'algorithmic agnotology': the exploitation of technical complexity to obscure accountability and naturalize inscrutability as inherent to digital systems.
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Boris @bmann.ca · 05/08/2026
See @getgrist.com - it has hosted SaaS but is open source and self hostable, and the French government and other EU countries have adopted it. It also has an inspiring set of principles www.getgrist.com/about/
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026
The single most salient fact about AI is the investment bubble, not the technical characteristics of chatbots or recent advances in statistical inference. 9/
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Letta @letta.com · 24/07/2026
How can we learn across agent experience, when data is split across many different harnesses? We're releasing `trajectory`, an open-source package that normalizes agent sessions into one token-efficient format designed for agents learning from past experience. www.letta.com/blog/trajec...
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Trajectory: A Standard Format for Agent Experience Data
Introducing trajectory, an open-source package that normalizes coding-agent sessions from Claude Code, Codex, Letta Code, and other harnesses into one token-efficient format designed for agents learning from past experience.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 22/07/2026
This misunderstands the role of private vs. public R&D. Private R&D is great but is connected to R&D tax exemptions, & often doesn't spill out into the public domain. There's a notion we can ramp federal R&D spending down & be competitive. We can’t & we shouldn’t. www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...
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OSTP Director Releases Landmark Report and Recommendations for Renewing American Scientific Discovery
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Michael Kratsios
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 20/07/2026
“Even the Mafia says families are off limits.” Freedom of the Press Foundation’s Seth Stern pulls no punches on reports that Trump DOJ subpoenaed NYT reporters’ relatives.
“Even the Mafia says families are off limits. It’s gross that the administration — in its never-ending effort to harass and intimidate reporters who reveal its incompetence — is going after the communications of journalists’ relatives. 

The administration’s own guidelines say pursuing journalists is a last resort. But instead, it’s looking for any excuse to snoop on reporters and their relatives, because this has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with chilling journalism. They’re even seeking records from months before the report they claim they’re investigating.The Times’ reporting actually bolstered national security by ensuring that Trump and those who travel with him, including journalists, aren’t flying on an unsafe plane to serve the president’s personal vanity. Trump’s hangers-on should be sending the Times thank- you cards, not subpoenas.”
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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Excel is conscious. And a creep. Stop thinking everything is a date
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Jeff Mac @jeffmacishere.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
(guy pointing at the first toaster) is this a bread witch
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Jiggety Jatters. The worst name. @jessefuchs.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I have a lot of doubts and qualms and issues and etc. about LLMs in many contexts—but as far as using them to navigate the nightmare world of our extant digital bureaucracy, I have exactly one thought
J. Wellington Wimpy standing in the corner of a boxing ring with his hands behind his back, saying “COME NOW, GENTLEMEN, LET'S YOU AND HIM FIGHT”
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I think it is cowardly to not engage with the seriousness of our information problems. There, I said it. It is cowardice to crawl back into explanations like "people are all idiotsssssss if they would just listen to meeeeee and use technology the riiiiiiight way" I have no more patience for it.
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 14/07/2026
"Cloud" industry term branded massive success
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
did threads on the cynical advertising trend but, this is something different. they're emulating like… eames power of 10-type ads crossed with, like, the BASF-style pro-social type ads from the 90s. this is spin. they're emulating their critics first in order to steal the conversation.
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Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com · 13/07/2026
It was! Keep an eye on our YouTube to catch the recording soon 👀 www.youtube.com/@localfirstc...
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Local-First Conf
Learn from engineers, designers, academics, startups, and indie developers who are putting local-first into practice and reaping the benefits of a cloud-optional architecture.
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I’m saddened to announce the passing of my work colleague, The Zodiac Killer. While we were often on opposing sides of the business, I always enjoyed his silly little scavenger hunts.
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Eurosky Sebastian @sebastian.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026
SMS is actually an often overseen example of interoperability that one can use to explain the benefits of shared protocols to non-tech people. Not only does it work across different cell providers it also works across all cell phones.
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Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
wrote for the magazine about the open source software that underpins our digital lives, how it is being upended by AI code tools, and about maintainers as.ft.com/r/b7f62212-9...
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Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 12/07/2026
LAPD suspends use of Flock surveillance cameras over privacy issues
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LAPD suspends use of Flock surveillance cameras over privacy issues
Privacy concerns led the LAPD to pause its use of Flock Safety’s license plate surveillance cameras. The company has been criticized for allowing federal and national to access its data.
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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This admin does so many evil things every day that Idk if I read about this back when the lawsuit was filed & forgot, or if I missed it until now, but withholding ICAC grants - $ meant for fighting child sexual exploitation - from sanctuary cities is truly depraved. www.kpbs.org/news/educati...
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San Diego, San Jose suing DOJ over funding to investigate cyber crimes against kids
The lawsuit filed Friday in San Diego federal court states that grants for the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program are now conditional upon the cities following DOJ requirements that a...
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Rob Shum @robshum.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
“This is regulation exercised through discretion rather than administrative procedures that allow for public notice, comment, and judicial review.”
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/07/2026
Meta ( and every other company making surveillance glasses) is betting on people’s privacy nihilism and fatigue in the hopes that we view these technologies as inevitable and resistance as futile. Neither thing is true.
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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 10/07/2026
Think of Semble as a crude foundation for community-centric search engines. It's great at searching for atproto content because most of the early-adopters are atproto-adjacent.
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sami 🔵 @hellosami.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I will literally follow any and all ML PhD students on this website, where you at
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
bsky.app/profile/holl... Quick while they’re distracted
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
In other "excellent news from religious bodies", the US Presbyterian General Assembly has formally voted to start the process to (correctly) declare white Christian nationalism a theological error incompatible with the teachings of Jesus: pres-outlook.org/2026/07/pcus...
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PC(USA) labels White Christian nationalism "Theological Error"
Calling White Christian nationalism incompatible with the teachings of Jesus, commissioners approved a proposed constitutional amendment and a new policy statement opposing the ideology.
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 04/07/2026
This is basically what my talks next week are about. If you don’t treat open networks as a database replication problem (and build accordingly) then you will struggle with scale and correctness You don’t try to replicate with rabbitmq
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
man when I tell you this guy came to play
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
sorry, we're deciding this one by goals per capita
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
my standing thesis is that voters do not actually give a shit about any judicial process story and rarely give a shit about any particular judicial decision so pushing hard on this stuff is ~free electorally
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Pixar make this buddy movie
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