Christine Lemmer-Webber
@dustyweb.bsky.social
Co-author/co-editor of ActivityPub (what connects together the fediverse, including Mastodon, etc). Executive Director of the Spritely Institute. Lisp/scheme enthusiast, chaos transfem, sketcher of tiny creature drawings.
https://dustycloud.org
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The safest form of computing is still abstinence
Local-first chat using CRDTs meets object capability security using @spritelyinst.bsky.social's tech!
Composing capability security and conflict-free replicated data types spritely.institute/news/composi...
Capability security AND local-first chat?! Two great tastes that taste great together! Plus try our tasty demo, live on the blogpost: Brassica Chat!
Capability security AND local-first chat?! Two great tastes that taste great together! Plus try our tasty demo, live on the blogpost: Brassica Chat!
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Local-first chat using CRDTs meets object capability security using @spritelyinst.bsky.social's tech!
Reposted by Christine Lemmer-Webber
Composing capability security and conflict-free replicated data types spritely.institute/news/composi...
Capability security AND local-first chat?! Two great tastes that taste great together! Plus try our tasty demo, live on the blogpost: Brassica Chat!
Capability security AND local-first chat?! Two great tastes that taste great together! Plus try our tasty demo, live on the blogpost: Brassica Chat!
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Composing capability security and conflict-free replicated data types spritely.institute/news/composi...
Capability security AND local-first chat?! Two great tastes that taste great together! Plus try our tasty demo, live on the blogpost: Brassica Chat!
Capability security AND local-first chat?! Two great tastes that taste great together! Plus try our tasty demo, live on the blogpost: Brassica Chat!
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If you're in Amsterdam next week, our Executive Director @dustyweb.bsky.social is giving a keynote: "We Can Change the Defaults: Building Networks of Consent and Spaces of Joy in the Ruins of Social Media" spui25.nl/programma/we...
Social Media: We Can Change the Defaults
Christine Lemmer-Webber, best known as co-author of ActivityPub, the decentralized social networking protocol, will speak about the crisis technologists face. Why must we revise the default assumption...
spui25.nl
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
If you're in Amsterdam next week, our Executive Director @dustyweb.bsky.social is giving a keynote: "We Can Change the Defaults: Building Networks of Consent and Spaces of Joy in the Ruins of Social Media" spui25.nl/programma/we...
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Elon Musk’s anti-woke version of Wikipedia, Grokipedia, cites neo-Nazi forums in multiple places as source.
A great validation of the notion that when people say they’re anti-woke, they just mean they’re hyper racist.
A great validation of the notion that when people say they’re anti-woke, they just mean they’re hyper racist.
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Elon Musk’s anti-woke version of Wikipedia, Grokipedia, cites neo-Nazi forums in multiple places as source.
A great validation of the notion that when people say they’re anti-woke, they just mean they’re hyper racist.
A great validation of the notion that when people say they’re anti-woke, they just mean they’re hyper racist.
Are you in Amsterdam? I'll be giving a keynote next week! "We Can Change the Defaults: Building Networks of Consent and Spaces of Joy in the Ruins of Social Media" spui25.nl/programma/we...
Social Media: We Can Change the Defaults
Christine Lemmer-Webber, best known as co-author of ActivityPub, the decentralized social networking protocol, will speak about the crisis technologists face. Why must we revise the default assumption...
spui25.nl
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Are you in Amsterdam? I'll be giving a keynote next week! "We Can Change the Defaults: Building Networks of Consent and Spaces of Joy in the Ruins of Social Media" spui25.nl/programma/we...
Reposted by Christine Lemmer-Webber
Thread. “AI is patching up the holes in conspiracy theories and so making them seem more reasonable, making them easier to spread and more resilient to collapse” was not on my bingo card.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Thread. “AI is patching up the holes in conspiracy theories and so making them seem more reasonable, making them easier to spread and more resilient to collapse” was not on my bingo card.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
Hack & Craft! Our online coding and crafting event! In just half an hour! fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-cra...
I'll be doing some Blender artwork, and maybe working on installing a new trackball in my MNT Reform Classic! What will you be working on?
I'll be doing some Blender artwork, and maybe working on installing a new trackball in my MNT Reform Classic! What will you be working on?
Hack & Craft -- FOSS and Crafts
fossandcrafts.org
November 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Hack & Craft! Our online coding and crafting event! In just half an hour! fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-cra...
I'll be doing some Blender artwork, and maybe working on installing a new trackball in my MNT Reform Classic! What will you be working on?
I'll be doing some Blender artwork, and maybe working on installing a new trackball in my MNT Reform Classic! What will you be working on?
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Shout out to all the girls who joined me on such an incredible trip 🩷
@dustyweb.bsky.social @nyxxborn.bsky.social @gaijinx.tgirl.gay
@dustyweb.bsky.social @nyxxborn.bsky.social @gaijinx.tgirl.gay
November 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Shout out to all the girls who joined me on such an incredible trip 🩷
@dustyweb.bsky.social @nyxxborn.bsky.social @gaijinx.tgirl.gay
@dustyweb.bsky.social @nyxxborn.bsky.social @gaijinx.tgirl.gay
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There you have it indeed
TL; DR
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
fin/11
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
fin/11
November 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
There you have it indeed
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One last time: Every time I post it he goes up five more points.
November 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
One last time: Every time I post it he goes up five more points.
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what a time to be alive
Polymarket users bet on Coinbase’s CEO saying certain words including bitcoin, ethereum and web3 during the earnings call. He literally loaded up the site and just read aloud all the words at the end of the earnings call.
He found an even less regulated market to manipulate than crypto. Legendary.
He found an even less regulated market to manipulate than crypto. Legendary.
Coinbase CEO Stunt Exposes Vulnerability in Prediction Markets
When Coinbase Global Inc.’s quarterly earnings call wrapped up Thursday, its chief executive, Brian Armstrong, didn’t finish with profit guidance or statements of confidence. He closed it out with a l...
www.bloomberg.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
what a time to be alive
What if Tommy Wiseau and Tommy Tallarico put their heads together and presented us with an epic audiovisual production
November 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
What if Tommy Wiseau and Tommy Tallarico put their heads together and presented us with an epic audiovisual production
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Next Spritely office hours! Today! At 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC)! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic...
Cya there!
Cya there!
Next office hours on 10/29
Hey everyone, Our next office hours will be held on Wednesday, October 29th at 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC). The meeting will be held on Big Blue Button. Use the following link to join: Spritely Office Hours...
community.spritely.institute
October 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Next Spritely office hours! Today! At 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC)! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic...
Cya there!
Cya there!
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New System Crafters today focused on Hoot! www.youtube.com/live/0jvN_qW...
What's New in Guile Hoot? - System Crafters Live!
YouTube video by System Crafters
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
New System Crafters today focused on Hoot! www.youtube.com/live/0jvN_qW...
Hoot fans! Lisp fans! Rejoyce! Scheme in the browser just got even nicer and cozier to use with Hoot 0.7.0! spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-...
October 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Hoot fans! Lisp fans! Rejoyce! Scheme in the browser just got even nicer and cozier to use with Hoot 0.7.0! spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-...
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Hoot, our Scheme to WASM compiler, version 0.7.0 is out! spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-...
A whole bunch of quality of life improvements! Importing Guile modules is easier, more common scheme library (SRFI) support, and much more!
Get it while it's hot, and enjoy this cozy release!
A whole bunch of quality of life improvements! Importing Guile modules is easier, more common scheme library (SRFI) support, and much more!
Get it while it's hot, and enjoy this cozy release!
Hoot 0.7.0 released! — Spritely Institute
spritely.institute
October 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Hoot, our Scheme to WASM compiler, version 0.7.0 is out! spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-...
A whole bunch of quality of life improvements! Importing Guile modules is easier, more common scheme library (SRFI) support, and much more!
Get it while it's hot, and enjoy this cozy release!
A whole bunch of quality of life improvements! Importing Guile modules is easier, more common scheme library (SRFI) support, and much more!
Get it while it's hot, and enjoy this cozy release!
Reposted by Christine Lemmer-Webber
I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.
Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?
But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?
But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
October 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.
Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?
But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?
But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
Eventually I am gonna write a blogpost called "A World Without Datacenters"
October 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Eventually I am gonna write a blogpost called "A World Without Datacenters"
I can't recommend going and seeing Kiss of the Spider Woman in theaters enough. It's incredibly queer, it's deeply political, it has a Latinx cast, it's wrenchingly difficult but it's also fun. It steps back and forth between brutal struggle for justice and campy dance scenes and yet it makes sense.
October 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I can't recommend going and seeing Kiss of the Spider Woman in theaters enough. It's incredibly queer, it's deeply political, it has a Latinx cast, it's wrenchingly difficult but it's also fun. It steps back and forth between brutal struggle for justice and campy dance scenes and yet it makes sense.
Little gas mask'y alien I worked on at Hack & Craft. Only my second real sculpt effort in Blender really, but I'm pretty happy with how it came out.
October 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Little gas mask'y alien I worked on at Hack & Craft. Only my second real sculpt effort in Blender really, but I'm pretty happy with how it came out.
Reposted by Christine Lemmer-Webber
MAGA’s counterprotest
October 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
MAGA’s counterprotest
"We must not claim we can prevent what we can not" codeberg.org/spritely/oca...
It's important to develop user experiences that explain clearly to people what is and isn't prevented. Right now Bluesky is full of posts from people saying you can't be surveilled, or to go followers-only for privacy.
It's important to develop user experiences that explain clearly to people what is and isn't prevented. Right now Bluesky is full of posts from people saying you can't be surveilled, or to go followers-only for privacy.
BLOCKING DOES NOT MAKE YOU IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE. NOR DOES MAKING YOUR ACCOUNT LOGGED IN ONLY.
Bluesky has a *PUBLIC* "firehose" which includes all posts by everyone and it is open for anyone to read! It's not just bluesky servers, this is a public service!! Please understand the tech you use.
Bluesky has a *PUBLIC* "firehose" which includes all posts by everyone and it is open for anyone to read! It's not just bluesky servers, this is a public service!! Please understand the tech you use.
October 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"We must not claim we can prevent what we can not" codeberg.org/spritely/oca...
It's important to develop user experiences that explain clearly to people what is and isn't prevented. Right now Bluesky is full of posts from people saying you can't be surveilled, or to go followers-only for privacy.
It's important to develop user experiences that explain clearly to people what is and isn't prevented. Right now Bluesky is full of posts from people saying you can't be surveilled, or to go followers-only for privacy.
Reposted by Christine Lemmer-Webber
here is a post someone made who is set to logged in only. visible publicly on firesky.tv
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
here is a post someone made who is set to logged in only. visible publicly on firesky.tv
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...