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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 8h

The thing that still pisses me off about dark forest theory is that it is predicated on the inability to coordinate, and you know say have a society.

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 19h

And things like The Daily Wire, Quilette, the Federalist and Bari Weiss's Free Press with elite backing have done much of the work of shifting the vibe.

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 19h

And just to spell it out for everyone reading affinity groups have been _pushed_ out of public spaces or have left because of the power imbalances that have manifested in these spaces.

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 19h

I disagree with you about the direction of causality implicit in your framing.

And I will also note that the MAGAtech set have been coordinating in their own cozy webs and closed chats.

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microcosm: atproto building blocks @microcosm.blue · 20h

you can just ship things with microcosm

Clinton Bowen @torrho.blacksky.team · 21h

Correct! This week we built a fallback mechanism to query slingshot, constellation, and the PDS directly.

For now it is limited "read only". Soon enough you'll be able to interact with Link on blacksky.community

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 1d

lol that was my exact feeling when I saw Fig's post.

👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 1d

Oh I definitely need this for @hantohoncombat.bsky.social

👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 1d

Yeah there are a couple of separate user bases and high engagement users will abs want a recency driven feed. Folks you want to catch up or reengage need something different. Is that the discover feed? Idk. I would argue not but I don't have y'all's data on how it performs.

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Virginia Murdoch @virginia.alertbutnotalarmed.com · 1d

I made something! Monomarks.at is an open social bookmarking tool along the lines of Pinboard or Delicious, and it's based on ATProto, because I was inspired by @danabra.mov's widely-read post. Log in with your Bluesky account to save bookmarks and browse links posted by the people you follow. 😎

Monomarks: open social bookmarking

Open social bookmarks

Monomarks.at

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Chad Kohalyk @chadkoh.com · 1d

For #ProtocolsForPublishers folks, this is what we mean when we talk about the power of open protocols! 💪

Graze Social @graze.social · 1d

You can just do things, together

You can just do things, together - Graze Newsletter

How Skylight & Graze are working together to build the open social FYP

graze.leaflet.pub

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

This is what I do with a lot of my time right now. It's so wild that the "simple" things—like keeping the chronology, pointing to specific events—are so hard right now. But they need doing.

Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 1d

The clear story in Immigration this week is the escalation of—and pushback against—the Trump administration’s militarized raids and warrantless stops in Democrat-run major cities. We’ve updated our timeline with a lot of events in this zone:

unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

Immigration — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

unbreaking.org

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Graze Social @graze.social · 1d

You can just do things, together

You can just do things, together - Graze Newsletter

How Skylight & Graze are working together to build the open social FYP

graze.leaflet.pub

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 1d

standards folks!

if you are in to this sort of thing, we now have an IETF mailing list to discuss AT protocol bits.

mailman3.ietf.org/mailman3/lis...

if you want to jump in, I recommend setting up an overall IETF datatracker account and reviewing IETF IP policies ("note well") first

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Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking of @gilduran.com and @kissane.myatproto.social ‘s work, as it dawns on me that the children starving today directly because of Elon’s DOGE cuts ***are in those Myanmar refugee camps because they’re victims of the Rohingya genocide that Facebook directly and knowingly enabled.***

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

bit.ly

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 1d

This is a neat bit of spectacle even if you're not riding

👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 1d

Also Disney park goers do not know how to yield to toddlers.

C'mon people, help your fellow humans-in-training.

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 1d

Uncanny Valley Verisimilitude: dents in the faux roadside fenders in Disneyland's Grizzly Peak

A roadside fender and benches in the Grizzly Peak area at Disneyland's Adventure Park

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 1d

Not yet, but that sounds like a thing we should ask @devingaffney.com and @ngerakines.me if that's on their list yet 😂

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 1d

@atwork.place launched!

bsky.app/profile/atwo...

at://work @atwork.place · 5d

🚀 Introducing at://work - the job board built FOR Bluesky, ON the AT Protocol

Your Bluesky handle IS your professional profile. No separate login. No walled garden.

Create your profile at atwork.place in under 2 minutes.

Thread 🧵👇

at://work - ATProto Job Board

Your Career. Your Data. Your Place. A decentralized job board powered by the ATProtocol

atwork.place

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 1d

Bryan wrote up a lot about moderation architecture bsky.app/profile/bnew...

bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 6d

for atproto devs and protocol watchers, I published an overview of the network moderation architecture.

it tries to cover all the mod actions possible for each service type. this design has been around a while, but not well documented.

this doc is not very polished, but could clarify some details

AT Moderation Architecture | bryan newbold

The AT network is becoming more heterogeneous in practice, with independent PDS hosts, apps, and alternative bsky AppViews establishing themselves. This means that more complex inter-service moderatio...

whtwnd.com

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 1d

This is a cool effect bsky.app/profile/jhey...

Jhey ʕ·ᴥ·　ʔ @jhey.dev · 3d

cursor tracking on 3D CSS surfaces 👨‍🍳

inverse projection mappin' to calculate proximity in 3D space and apply an eased 0-1 value 🤙

the key: measuring the 4 corners, check the reveal 👇

(ideal for 2D canvas w/ 3D transforms)

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hantohoncombat.bsky.social @hantohoncombat.bsky.social · 1d

We're out this week as we're under the weather and recovering.

Instead, toss us a reply about something you were excited or interested to see this week!

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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 2d

Someone asked how it works, so here's the writeup 👇

As mentioned, if you want to help us get tools like these in fandom's hands, you should support @fujocoded.bsky.social on Patreon www.patreon.com/c/fujocoded

Full post: www.tumblr.com/essential-ra...

Someone asked me how this work and "who is trusting who" with this type of authorization flow. Here's how it works:

The user is logged in to your website, using their PDS, which tl;dr is their personal data store in the ATproto network. Most people create theirs by making a Bluesky account, but there's other providers too. You can self-host one super easily, or move it across providers if you stop liking the one you have.

However you create or host it, the PDS logs in to your website through a OAuth flow. This is mostly the same as the one for any "login with X" services, and it only involves your site and the PDS itself.

Once their PDS is logged into your site, you know the visitor's unique identifier in the ATproto network. Then you use the Bluesky AppView (API) to see what the mutual relationship is between the logged in user and whoever you want (most likely you/the site owner).

If you want no third parties in the middle, you can also skip the Bluesky API and directly get the lists of Bluesky friends from your PDS and/or the one of the visitor. We just use the Bluesky AppView cause it's convenient, but there's really nothing stopping us from looking at the data directly.

Once you know their identity and your relationship, the hard part is done: if you follow them, you let them in; if not, they see the "unauthorized" page.

...and that's it!

It's really just:

I, site owner, need to know who you are in the network, please log in (only involves the site + the visitor's PDS/data storage)
Ok, now I know what your network identifier is, let me get a record of the people I follow in my own PDS/data storage (only involves the user's PDS, although you can use other APIs to help you)
You're in the list, see the page
You're not in the list, bye bye

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 2d

Wow the Electrify America sitch in LA is unhinged. So many chargers and so many cars lined up for them.

👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 2d

Electric cars are fukkin' cool.

Our Ioniq5 goes so fast at an L3 charger.

A photo of the Ioniq5 charging dashboard showing that it's charging at 232kw and has 11 minutes to finish charging from 43% to 80%

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