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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

"it would be nice to see folks in the tech industry stop chasing their tails, desperately finding ways to apply new technologies to everything when sometimes the innovation we need is a little less technology and a little more of a personal touch."

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Common Cause Foundation @commoncause.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Journalists - what do you really care about? We’re running a free online 2-hour workshop for journalists on 11/06 exploring exactly that; starting with your own values, before looking at how values shape coverage. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/commo...

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What do you actually care about? A workshop for UK journalists about values – Zoom, Thu 11 Jun 2026 - Research consistently shows that most people value things like equality, community and connection....

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Common Cause Foundation @commoncause.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Journalists: every choice you make about what to cover, how to frame it and whose voice to centre shapes what seems normal, possible or impossible in our culture. Rarely are those choices made consciously. A practical toolkit to help you understand how: valuesawarejournalism.org

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 16/03/2026

fresh off the press from yours truly: oecs.mit.edu/pub/b61joemo... I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study 1/

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Algorithmic Bias

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"The problem is not the tool; it is the mystique that has grown around it. Mistaking mirrors for windows is not a technological error so much as an old human one." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

washingtonpost.com

Opinion | The real secret to palm reading? These ‘companions’ know it.

Artificial intelligence doesn’t understand humans. It reflects them back to themselves.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 14/05/2026

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

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LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations

Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

the section on high-trust micro-communities is the opportunity/hope, and feels like #atproto / #atmosphere is well-positioned to provide the infrastructure...

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

and, in the spirit of synergistic sharing, here's some of my thinking from a couple of years ago... We need new tools for (participatory) sensemaking!

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

From Social Networks to Sensemaking Networks @ronentk.me unpacks what he and @cosmik.network are up to... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew0C...

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Boris @bmann.ca · 12/05/2026

Going to host a Tech Talk again! I asked @trezy.codes to talk about HappyView @happyview.dev happyview.dev With the release of v2, it's an all-in-one appview - single binary, OAuth, built in backfill & indexing. Discord devchat stage for live questions + streamplace stream, May 28th, 5pm UTC

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Tech Talks: HappyView the all-in-one appview

Trezy @trezy.codes is going to give us a tech talk about HappyView v2, released at the end of April https://trezy.com/blog/releasing-happyview-2-into-the-wild - hosted by @bmann.ca. You can find out ...

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Cosmik Network @cosmik.network · 11/05/2026

Our April updates are out! (Sorry we're a bit late - in a busy stretch here) On launching @semble.so connections, and lots of community contributions 🫶 "Sense is being made" -- @joebasser.com

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Cosmik Updates: April 2026

Connections feature launched; "Sense is being made"

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Sam Goto @sgo.to · 06/05/2026

Beautiful beautiful beautiful essay by @terrygodier.com: www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-i... Wonderful articulation of layering, wonderfully presented.

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The Boring Internet

The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.

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Eli Mallon @iame.li · 10/05/2026

ATProto community, we're getting very close to VOD general availability! I've posted some draft versions of the following atproto lexicons: `place.stream.video` `place.stream.media.track` `place.stream.media.origin` Please roast my lexicons! What's good, what's bad, what makes you mad? Speak now!

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Roast the VOD lexicons · streamplace streamplace · Discussion #1084

Roast the VOD lexicons! Here's what we're thinking so far for the general-availability version of the Streamplace VOD lexicons. Now is your chance to identify any problems; speak now or be sad when...

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

"the technology’s main challenge is buy-in from institutions, governments, and corporations, because they would need to issue and recognize verified credentials. Without their participation, the system is limited to peer-to-peer or experimental use." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

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Worried about how online firms use data they get from you? — Harvard Gazette

Berkman Klein researchers unveil new tool to verify identity, let users limit information they share, where it is stored.

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Kate Nave @kathrynnave.eurosky.social · 06/05/2026

Rewilding the Web will take place @schoolofppls.bsky.social on the 28/29th May! With @philosodave.bsky.social, @anil.recoil.org + Jon Crowcroft, Elena Rovenskaya, Orit Halpern, @georgien.bsky.social, @r-emrys.bsky.social, @blaine.bsky.social + others Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rewilding-...

Inspired by cybernetic ecology + distributed control mechanisms, the internet’s architects believed interconnection would lead to harmonious self-organization.

50 years later, the internet is a monoculture.

In the meantime, the cybernetic paradigm has been overturned by non-mechanistic views of nature. How might these inform the cultivation of a
healthier internet?

28/29th May
G.32, 7 George Square
The University of Edinburgh

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

How do we guide and support intuitions for what the #Atmosphere is and how to participate...? 🤔

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ATStore @atstore.fyi · 05/05/2026

New on ATStore... related apps by shared lexicons 🎉 For all apps we now show other apps that use the same lexicons. Already using one app? Find others that work with the same data. Your data is portable. Now discovering where it's portable to is easy. Like @disperse.social works with:

margin, semble, kipclip, chive, rabbithole, skyreader

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

excellent Matt...fantastic insight into your explorations and current direction of travel. Look forward to following.

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Trezy @trezy.codes · 04/05/2026

Hey y'all, I'm looking for some work to bridge the gap while I continue working on @cartridge.dev and @happyview.dev. If you have contract work for #atproto projects (planning, code, architecture), I'd be delighted to help. DM me with details. #atproto #OpenToWork #LookingForWork

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Hey Konrad, the "value" is just a basic count of the number of cards (links) added to any new Collection in the past week... Came from discussion with Ronen as a way to track diversity of emerging themes/topics being curated on @semble.so (which were very much atproto-centric to begin with)

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 28/04/2026

Cool analytics on trending @semble.so collections from @uppy-hacker.bsky.social ! Lots of thoughtful curation is happening, and it's exciting to see how new analytics interfaces help show meaningful activity that might otherwise get lost.

A ranked list table with three columns — Rank, Label, and Value — showing 20 entries. The top entry (#1) is "Age & ID Verification" with a value of 112. Other notable entries include "ATmosphere Authentication" (#3, 58), several AI-themed categories such as "AI* hallucinations/AI slop" (#4, 53), "AI* psychosis/therapy/companions/sycophancy" (#7, 41), and "AI* data centers/environmental concerns" (#8, 41). Entry #9 is "About Bluesky & Atmosphere" (40), and #19 is "RDM for ATProto Open Science" (23).

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

"'Slop' is the word of the year" Indeed...

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

"(AI) extraction is just one dimension of the problem. The other significant problem is the way that monopolistic AI systems flatten and colonise everything, from culture and languages to economies."

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

caught your session @offline.arushibandi.com ! Your "internet of my dreams" vision really resonates ✨

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

just sharing a sensemaking artefact from a few weeks ago...will be interesting to compare and contrast with the discussions and narratives emerging from @atmosphereconf.org these past few days. #atproto #AtmosphereConf

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

it's working! (well, locally for now, but hey....) #PermissionedData #atproto

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

catching the live stream of @blaine.bsky.social discussing cheese, living systems and ecologies was an unexpected delightful start to my day and conclusion to the day @atmosphereconf.org #AtmosphereConf

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 14/03/2026

The second installment of the ATmospheric Weather Report is here. ☀️ at-news.leaflet.pub/3mgzuvb2ah22z

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Atmospheric Weather Report #2 - at://news

March 8-13 2026

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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 12/03/2026

this week's news is about how @tangled.org @npmx.dev and @alt.store are using open social networking protocols to build, distribute, and discover software, and how the most important part is not the code but the community building part connectedplaces.online/reports/fr15...

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FR#157 – Social Software Distribution

Open social protocols are expanding beyond social media into the infrastructure developers use to build, distribute, and discover software. Three recent launches show what that looks like in practice.

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

"The tyranny of the quantifiable" ....probably the most eloquently titled collection I've come across yet on @semble.so ! (and wasn't the least bit surprised to learn the phrase was sourced from a Rebecca Solnit article)

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

good stuff Ethan - energised by what you've already described in some detail, the hints re: tackling some of the harder challenges, and especially the closing remarks around values-based motivations. Look forward to the next episode!

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Ethan Graf @eagraf.dev · 11/03/2026

Check out my first blog! As the ATmosphere moves towards permissioned data, how do we make sure privacy is really preserved? Can we build a permissioned data app today? All that and more in the post 👀📅

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Zicklag @zicklag.dev · 09/03/2026

The week-end is over so I'm pressing ⏸️ on my custom PDS project for now. Here's part 2 of my dev journal. I've learned a lot already and so far I feel like it might actually be worth finishing. It's really cool to get a more intimate understanding of ATProtocol and it's implementation.

zicklag.leaflet.pub

How to Make a PDS - Part 2 - Zicklag's Leaflets

So you want to make a PDS? Or maybe you want to watch some poor fool try? In this series I might make a PDS, or not.

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

the "thing" I wrote yesterday is now here in a publication... #atproto at-wayfinding.leaflet.pub/3mgsx6o3trc27

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Playing with Parlances - Permissioned Data & AT Protocol - AT-WayFinding

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I will be joining online...hopefully you're session is being streamed? (and not too early in the day as I will still be 🛌 down here in Australia!)

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Brady Hawkins @bradyhawkins.dev · 09/03/2026

The articles that people are bookmarking on @semble.so are high quality. It's quickly becoming my go to place to consume dev content

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 06/03/2026

The first at://news weather report is here, learn about what happened across the atmosphere this week and how we are exploring how to collectively-source future newsletters with your help!

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Weather Report #1

Feb. 27 - Mar. 6 2026

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Zicklag @zicklag.dev · 07/03/2026

My week-end side-project: make a PDS, maybe. So far I've skimmed the spec, and started playing with @rivet.gg. I'll be using existing libraries wherever possible, so it's not like an independent reimplementation. I'm going more for a customizable repackaging of the reference PDS if possible.

zicklag.leaflet.pub

How to Make a PDS - Part 1 - Zicklag's Leaflets

So you want to make a PDS? Or maybe you want to watch some poor fool try? In this series I might make a PDS, or not.

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

"Currently we're building pear: a permission-enforcing ATProtocol repository, tied to your ATProtocol identity through a service, as defined in the DID document (for now)."

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

this is great Arushi 👏👏👏 recently been pulling together the range of perspectives re: possible approaches to permissioned data, so really nice to now have something tangible to play with 🙂

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

if you feel the urge that would be great

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Mark @uppy-hacker.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Hi Robin, anything you've previously posted/shared re: project "Kill PDF"?

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