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Wendy Seltzer @wseltzer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy to be part of launching the PLC Organization, established to host the PLC directory independently. We aim to work in public with the AT proto community. blog.plcred.org/3mwlphq42d227

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First steps of the PLC organization

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old when she stepped into the history books. Bravely accompanied by her mother, she was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white school in the South. It was not long ago… Today is her birthday. She is still with us. She is 72. Happy birthday, Ruby Bridges 💜

Young Ruby Bridges, photo in black and white

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Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Journalism Job Alert: there are three jobs open on the NYT tech team in San Francisco. We are hiring for reporters to cover Anthropic, xAI, and a general AI business reporter. Message me if these interest you and you want to apply! job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...

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Business Correspondent, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies

San Francisco, CA

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Wendy Seltzer @wseltzer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Thanks Metalab for hosting some of us from IETF

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 17/07/2026

Trump has no idea how to end his reckless and expensive war in Iran, so now he is bombing civilian targets. This is a war crime. We already know how to end this war. Stop the bombing now.

US strikes bridges and collapses a tower at a key port as its Iran campaign expands

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Wendy Seltzer @wseltzer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

While we should still investigate Flock's surveillance, we shouldn't spread a fake cease-and-desist to do so. Apologies for getting spoofed.

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Wendy Seltzer @wseltzer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It would be a shame if more people investigated these risks in Flock systems.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/07/2026

It's all "ooooh we need a meritocracy" until the wrong people have merit and then it's like "oooh we need to protect us." Trans kids deserve a chance play in sports because EVERYONE deserves a chance to play in sports and nobody should lose that chance because they're disfavored by bigots.

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 29/06/2026

Today is a day to check in on the policy and regulatory lawyers in your life. Ask them: are they hydrating? Did they remember to eat? Do they have a punching bag within arm's length?

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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 23/06/2026

Blacksky is building ~the intercommunal net~ where communities create virtual spaces collectively managed by their members -- from moderation policies to recommender algorithms. We're hiring a Founding Engineer (Rust) @ $180K base who will report directly to me and lead our atproto implementation.

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Founding Engineer (Rust)

Systems, protocol, and infrastructure About Blacksky Blacksky helps communities create virtual third places where members democratically govern the recommender algorithms and moderation policies that ...

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 22/06/2026

A little birdie sent me an un-paywalled version of this article from VF! It's here: www.vanityfair.com/story/the-ne...

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Did Kamala Harris's Silence on Gaza Cost Her the White House?

Ta-Nehisi Coates reckons with that question, and what it means for the 2028 election.

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Marianne Denton @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

BlueSky Trending shows Bezos as # 1 and World Bee Day as # 4. Whatever we can collectively do to replace bees over bezos, you know that you need to do. #WorldBeeDay

Small black native bee collecting purple pollen from a mariposa lily stamen. Close up and face on with large black eyes.

Small black native bee collecting purple pollen from a mariposa lily stamen. Close up and side view where the purple pollen is evident on the underside of the bee's body.

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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

With all my opera and museum going, I assume I can eat all the cheese I want

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The grammar of rights is one way publics name what they are owed. Americans have started naming it for AI. A civic grammar for AI rights has found its claimants. The political will and institutions to honor those claims need to be built. That is the work facing us. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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A civic grammar for AI rights

Earlier this year, the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, developer of the large language model Claude, published a document it calls “Claude’s Constitution,” described by the company as ...

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 14/05/2026

Fascinating and important piece from @alondra.bsky.social as tech companies seek to internalize what should be the public project of finding a new social contract in the age of AI.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Trans rights are human rights and this administration is an abomination of hate and greed.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026

The Payback is out in paperback today, it’s the same great student loan industry heist novel in a smaller size and lower price. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pa...

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"Riotous-and righteous." -VANITY FAIR
"High jinks with a healthy dose of social commentary."
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Jada Williams is good at judging people by their looks. From across the mall, she can tell not only someone's inseam and pants size but exactly what style they need to transform their life. Too bad she's no longer using this superpower as a wardrobe designer to Hollywood stars but for minimum wage plus commission at the Glendale mall.

When Jada is fired yet again, she is forced to outrun the newly instated Debt Police, who are out for blood. But Jada, like any great antihero, is not going to wait for the cops to come kick her around. With the help of two other debt-burdened mall coworkers, she hatches a plan for revenge. Together, the three women plan a heist to erase their student loans forever and get back at the system that promised them everything and then tried to take it back.

Kashana Cauley is the author of The Payback and The Survivalists, which was named a best book of 2023 by the BBC, Today, Vogue, and more. Cauley is also a television writer, having worked on The Great North, Pod Save America on HBO, and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Her writing has
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/05/2026

After a career as one of opera’s leading women, Denyce Graves is retiring. But her efforts to diversify the world of opera by unearthing and preserving Black history aren't quite over, Soraya Nadia McDonald writes:

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Denyce Graves’s Second Act

Denyce Graves is retiring from performing after a career as one of opera’s leading women. But there’s more work for her to do.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 01/05/2026

So it looks like Zambia cancelled RightsCon because China through a hissy fit that there would be some recognition of Taiwan and human rights at this human rights conference. If the US had a functioning State Dept, this is the kind of thing that they might have helped to respond to...

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Tor Project @torproject.org · 30/04/2026

Tor Project statement in solidarity with #RightsCon, @accessnow.org, local organizers, & civil society in Zambia. blog.torproject.org/rightscon202... The circumstances behind the cancellation underscore the urgent fight against censorship, surveillance, and restrictions on civic participation.

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Tor Project Statement on the Abrupt Cancellation of RightsCon 2026 | Tor Project

The Tor Project is deeply saddened by the last-minute cancellation of RightsCon 2026. While canceling may have been necessary to protect participants, the circumstances behind it underscore the urgent...

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I encourage you to read the 1901 final Congressional speech of George Henry White, who would be the last Black man in Congress for 30 yrs.This “is perhaps the Negroes’ temporary farewell to the American Congress; but…phoenix-like he will rise up some day and come again… blackpast.org/african-amer...

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(1901) Congressman George H. White's Farewell Address To Congress

In January 1901, at the beginning of a new century, George H. White was ending his term as a Congressman from North Carolina’s Second Congressional District. Realizing that he was bringing to a close ...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 29/04/2026

We must call this for what it is: voter suppression that will silence Black and brown voters. The magnitude of this decision cannot be understated — it guts the Voting Rights Act and its very purpose of protecting all voices. Every American deserves an equal vote.

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Live updates: Supreme Court ruling weakens a key tool of the Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court has weakened a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting since 1965. The case concerns a district in Louisiana.

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 28/04/2026

We rallied the #Boston community today at @gbhnews.bsky.social to share our concerns with @massgovernor.bsky.social about her misguided support for invasive, unworkable online ID checks legislation! Make sure she keeps hearing from YOU! www.stoponlineidchecks.org/MA @evangreer.bsky.social

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Remember when anonymous speech was held to be a critical part of free speech? I do.

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Wendy Seltzer @wseltzer.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

This sounds amazing! Hope to see more

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

imagine being the person in charge of keeping these poll results away from trump lol

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 17/04/2026

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

A tweet from Representative Thomas Massie that reads:

I just viewed 2 Top Secret FISA docs.
1) FISA Court opinion that raises serious concerns about FBI implementation of FISA 702.
2) letter by Senator Wyden describing a secret government interpretation of FISA law.
The Constitution requires I vote No on FISA 702 reauthorization.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/04/2026

Thank you, state attorney generals.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

And now her 139th. 🎂 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

who has a book coming out that people can preorder so they have something to look forward to and then be pleasantly surprised when the book just shows up on their doorstep

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” These are the words of the president of the United States, today. The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment. snyder.substack.com/p/the-presid...

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The president speaks genocide

The words, the law, the future

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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

What you might not see (unless you look and read carefully) are the ALT captions describing these extraordinary images of our planet to the Americans & humans around the world who cannot see them. Plain language, done well. Glad to still see it at an agency where public info is core to mission.

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A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

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A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
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Katherine the Sixth @luigithirty.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

“If you’re gay or transgender, I love you. And if anybody gives you shit, tell ‘em Charles said fuck you.”

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Charles Barkley: “If you are gay or transgender, I love you!’”

YouTube video by NBA On Fire

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Wendy Seltzer @wseltzer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Sad to have to leave #atmosphereconf before the end, but I'll look forward to continuing many conversations as we start the PLC Association.

Dan in front of a slide reading PLC or "what about that centralized server at the bottom of the stack?"

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Wendy Seltzer @wseltzer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Great preso from @baldemo.to on affordances for community governance, with experience from furryli.st #atmosphereconf

@baldemo.to in front of a slide showing governance points in relationship links

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/03/2026

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

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Jer @jeremie.com · 28/03/2026

just gave a lightning talk at atmosphereconf.org on v-it.org — the future of open source is social skills and capabilities that flow through your AT Protocol trust graph. your coding agent handles discovery, you own the trust decisions slides: v-it.org/decks/atmosp... npm install -g vit

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ATmosphereConf 2026

ATmosphereConf is the global atproto community conference. Join us in Vancouver, Canada, March 26th - 29th, 2026.

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Wendy Seltzer @wseltzer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Loving #atmosphereconf talks from experts on how they solve their unique problems. @stephanjnoel.bsky.social shares the challenges of fire service incident data management.

Stephan Noel in front of a slide showing the stages in fire incident response, including data entry at the end.

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Wendy Seltzer @wseltzer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

After showing the vibrant atproto ecosystem, @pfrazee.com gave a shout-out to standards work at IETF and with FedCM at W3C #atmosphereconf Thanks for that commitment to openness!

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 28/03/2026

What 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.

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Wendy Seltzer @wseltzer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Building un-capturable infrastructure for democratic use with @sebastian.eurosky.social #atmosphereconf

Sebastian beside two superimposed slides: monoliths are ungovernable, authoritarian infrastructure leads to an authoritarian society.

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