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@civilmonkey.bsky.social
gratitude for souls of nature in a human world civilized with technology
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A little insight into my main line of work: @eco-indexnz.bsky.social is weaving knowledge & people to revolutionise investment for te taiao, here is our latest newsletter:
Discover what's next for Eco-index and how our tech could boost your biodiversity mahi in our latest newsletter: mailchi.mp/cfa5ec91c91c...
Ngā mihi for your ongoing interest and support. We wish you all a safe and enjoyable holiday break! Meri Kirihimete.
Ngā mihi for your ongoing interest and support. We wish you all a safe and enjoyable holiday break! Meri Kirihimete.
December 18, 2024 at 10:41 PM
A little insight into my main line of work: @eco-indexnz.bsky.social is weaving knowledge & people to revolutionise investment for te taiao, here is our latest newsletter:
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For teachers, environmental educators, and D&D dorks!
In December, I published The Last Hunt for the Jabberwock, a D&D 5e adventure in environmental science and ecologic succession.
www.dmsguild.com/product/5056...
In December, I published The Last Hunt for the Jabberwock, a D&D 5e adventure in environmental science and ecologic succession.
www.dmsguild.com/product/5056...
The Last Hunt for the Jabberwock: A Feywild Adventure in Ecologic Succession - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild
Hunt the Jabberwock, Defend the Warren, Save the Forest
Welcome to the Warren. Within this tiny Domain of Delight, Rabb
www.dmsguild.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
For teachers, environmental educators, and D&D dorks!
In December, I published The Last Hunt for the Jabberwock, a D&D 5e adventure in environmental science and ecologic succession.
www.dmsguild.com/product/5056...
In December, I published The Last Hunt for the Jabberwock, a D&D 5e adventure in environmental science and ecologic succession.
www.dmsguild.com/product/5056...
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Announcing AI for Public Goods Fast Grants (AI4PG) 2025
Up to $10K for AI research improving decision making in public goods funding.
Fast review (within 4 weeks), simple applications (max 1000 words), open to any researchers worldwide. Call for reviewers now open!
recerts.org/ai4pg2025
Up to $10K for AI research improving decision making in public goods funding.
Fast review (within 4 weeks), simple applications (max 1000 words), open to any researchers worldwide. Call for reviewers now open!
recerts.org/ai4pg2025
Recerts
Recerts Journal of Mechanism Design for Public Goods
recerts.org
October 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Announcing AI for Public Goods Fast Grants (AI4PG) 2025
Up to $10K for AI research improving decision making in public goods funding.
Fast review (within 4 weeks), simple applications (max 1000 words), open to any researchers worldwide. Call for reviewers now open!
recerts.org/ai4pg2025
Up to $10K for AI research improving decision making in public goods funding.
Fast review (within 4 weeks), simple applications (max 1000 words), open to any researchers worldwide. Call for reviewers now open!
recerts.org/ai4pg2025
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❕Registration will open in batches, the earlier you register, the more likely your username of choice will be available.
❕You can migrate your existing Bsky account
❕You can use your custom domain
Yes, this is a PDS :)
❕You can migrate your existing Bsky account
❕You can use your custom domain
Yes, this is a PDS :)
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
❕Registration will open in batches, the earlier you register, the more likely your username of choice will be available.
❕You can migrate your existing Bsky account
❕You can use your custom domain
Yes, this is a PDS :)
❕You can migrate your existing Bsky account
❕You can use your custom domain
Yes, this is a PDS :)
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We're doing the next @atproto.london at Newspeak House on 28 January, it's been like 3 months since our last one so I want a solid lineup of talks. Will announce soon but figured I'd put out an early RFP.
If you want to do a talk about something ATProto-related at the next event, please ping me!
If you want to do a talk about something ATProto-related at the next event, please ping me!
December 17, 2025 at 5:22 AM
We're doing the next @atproto.london at Newspeak House on 28 January, it's been like 3 months since our last one so I want a solid lineup of talks. Will announce soon but figured I'd put out an early RFP.
If you want to do a talk about something ATProto-related at the next event, please ping me!
If you want to do a talk about something ATProto-related at the next event, please ping me!
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This idea of "thin empathy" and "thick empathy" from @mjcrockett.bsky.social is lighting up my brain this morning. It's an intriguing model. We've built a world where chances for thin empathy abound, but thick empathy remains hard to come by.
I need to read that preprint today.
I need to read that preprint today.
"We face a social dilemma around the role of these empathy machines. Those who are most cognitively vulnerable may turn to these tools when what they most need is a flesh-and-blood human who will care for them, not sycophantically, but with thick empathy arising from the experience of being human."
Empty empathy machines
AI chatbots lack something fundamental to human empathy
buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This idea of "thin empathy" and "thick empathy" from @mjcrockett.bsky.social is lighting up my brain this morning. It's an intriguing model. We've built a world where chances for thin empathy abound, but thick empathy remains hard to come by.
I need to read that preprint today.
I need to read that preprint today.
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Really looking forward to listening to this one.
New podcast! University of Pittsburgh professor Calum Lister Matheson is the author of Post-Weird: Fragmentation, Community, and the Decline of the Mainstream, new from Rutgers University Press. He spoke to Justin Hendrix about serpent handlers, anti-vaxxers, Sandy Hook truthers, and more:
Exploring Belief and Belonging in a Fractured Online Age | TechPolicy.Press
Calum Lister Matheson is the author of Post-Weird: Fragmentation, Community, and the Decline of the Mainstream, from Rutgers University Press.
www.techpolicy.press
December 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Really looking forward to listening to this one.
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The only hope for learning in the coming era is to make it the same thing as doing.
1/x
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September 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The only hope for learning in the coming era is to make it the same thing as doing.
1/x
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Read about why i made @pckt.blog !! And while you’re at it, maybe make a pckt blog for yourself :)
pckt.blog - Why I Made It. - Brooke’s Blog
To think the reason I wanted to make all this in the first place was to have a blog of my own.. lol (hey ! I do have a blog ! and yer lookin' at it !)I've be...
pckt.blog
December 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Read about why i made @pckt.blog !! And while you’re at it, maybe make a pckt blog for yourself :)
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I love this. One of the more annoying trends among the more genuinely pro-decentralization crypto crowd is a tendency to view blockchains as the only good infrastructure for it
Speaking from experience, building on ATProto and building on an EVM chain each have their own strengths and weaknesses.
Speaking from experience, building on ATProto and building on an EVM chain each have their own strengths and weaknesses.
good conclusion!
hope this framing helps folks chose the right tool for the job
hope this framing helps folks chose the right tool for the job
July 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I love this. One of the more annoying trends among the more genuinely pro-decentralization crypto crowd is a tendency to view blockchains as the only good infrastructure for it
Speaking from experience, building on ATProto and building on an EVM chain each have their own strengths and weaknesses.
Speaking from experience, building on ATProto and building on an EVM chain each have their own strengths and weaknesses.
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Global spam filters are a bit of a cop out imo. They give you the worst of both worlds
- when they’re too aggressive they frequently result in false positives
- when they’re too lax they’re not very useful
The reality is that spam is relative and our content filters should reflect that
- when they’re too aggressive they frequently result in false positives
- when they’re too lax they’re not very useful
The reality is that spam is relative and our content filters should reflect that
November 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Global spam filters are a bit of a cop out imo. They give you the worst of both worlds
- when they’re too aggressive they frequently result in false positives
- when they’re too lax they’re not very useful
The reality is that spam is relative and our content filters should reflect that
- when they’re too aggressive they frequently result in false positives
- when they’re too lax they’re not very useful
The reality is that spam is relative and our content filters should reflect that
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I've been challenging myself this year to get better at editing video. So I jumped at the opportunity to help w/ the #AllMyRelations #podcast. They shoot on black magic cameras & edit in Davinci Resolve, which is a whole new suite for me. Please take a look, & a listen. 🫶🏽🎧✨ youtu.be/-n021tvGg70?...
Loud Indigenous Food with Pyet Despain
YouTube video by All My Relations Podcast
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December 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I've been challenging myself this year to get better at editing video. So I jumped at the opportunity to help w/ the #AllMyRelations #podcast. They shoot on black magic cameras & edit in Davinci Resolve, which is a whole new suite for me. Please take a look, & a listen. 🫶🏽🎧✨ youtu.be/-n021tvGg70?...
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People don't like to think in these terms bc they want to sort people into categories of good and bad, and manufacture safety or ideal political outcomes on those terms, and that doesn't actually work. I'm not making excuses for people btw. I am talking about how different outcomes actually happen.
December 13, 2025 at 3:40 AM
People don't like to think in these terms bc they want to sort people into categories of good and bad, and manufacture safety or ideal political outcomes on those terms, and that doesn't actually work. I'm not making excuses for people btw. I am talking about how different outcomes actually happen.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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And use code SHAREABLEMB@ for 10% off!
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And use code SHAREABLEMB@ for 10% off!
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I like this feed
it’s a lot closer to how algorithmic feeds on social media should work imho
bsky.app/profile/spac...
it’s a lot closer to how algorithmic feeds on social media should work imho
bsky.app/profile/spac...
Welcome to the ✨For You✨ feed!
It finds people who liked the same posts as you, and shows you what else they've liked recently.
📌 Pin to add it to your top bar
❤️ Like the feed and repost to spread the goodness
It finds people who liked the same posts as you, and shows you what else they've liked recently.
📌 Pin to add it to your top bar
❤️ Like the feed and repost to spread the goodness
December 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I like this feed
it’s a lot closer to how algorithmic feeds on social media should work imho
bsky.app/profile/spac...
it’s a lot closer to how algorithmic feeds on social media should work imho
bsky.app/profile/spac...
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3 @germnetwork.com cards: 1 that links to your atproto handle for people you want to know more about you, 1 with your full name to give out to randos who can google you if they want to, 1 with no name for randos who you never actually want to see again
3 @leaflet.pub blogs: one at work where you hone your hashtag thought leadership, one with friends where you form a hyperniche webring and share all the good shit, one a node in the emergent atmosphere-blogosphere where you go so deep you recreate the best of the early web from first principles
3 fantasy leagues: One at work where you can side text w your colleagues about your boss’s awful trade proposals, one with your high school friends with a group chat where no one ever talks about their personal lives, one 14 team dynasty league that’s so deep you end up streaming Tyler Allgeier
December 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
3 @germnetwork.com cards: 1 that links to your atproto handle for people you want to know more about you, 1 with your full name to give out to randos who can google you if they want to, 1 with no name for randos who you never actually want to see again
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I honestly think that many people don't know what their public libraries offer besides books. I think that everyone should go on a public library treasure hunt in 2026. Go explore what your library systems offer at no cost to you. Report back to me :)
“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there
December 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I honestly think that many people don't know what their public libraries offer besides books. I think that everyone should go on a public library treasure hunt in 2026. Go explore what your library systems offer at no cost to you. Report back to me :)
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Collaboration should be the watchword for 2024.
December 17, 2023 at 11:18 PM
Collaboration should be the watchword for 2024.
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🦇🔊
Wrote about my feelings about Ethereum a decade later. Not entirely happy with where the crypto space has gone in general. We need more cypherpunk and we need people to just, be better.
sceneswithsimon.com/p/a-sober-re...
sceneswithsimon.com/p/a-sober-re...
A (Sober) Reflection on a Decade of Ethereum
It's not just about protocols. Nothing is inevitable.
sceneswithsimon.com
August 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
🦇🔊
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Analysis Ready Data from Defra's Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment programme (England):
● River Surveillance Network environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/2176...
● Small Streams Network environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/98ac...
NCEA www.gov.uk/government/p...
#naturalcapital #defradata #opendata
● River Surveillance Network environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/2176...
● Small Streams Network environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/98ac...
NCEA www.gov.uk/government/p...
#naturalcapital #defradata #opendata
December 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Analysis Ready Data from Defra's Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment programme (England):
● River Surveillance Network environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/2176...
● Small Streams Network environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/98ac...
NCEA www.gov.uk/government/p...
#naturalcapital #defradata #opendata
● River Surveillance Network environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/2176...
● Small Streams Network environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/98ac...
NCEA www.gov.uk/government/p...
#naturalcapital #defradata #opendata
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Unprecedented social-ecological impacts of the 2023 extreme drought in the central Amazon www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Unprecedented social-ecological impacts of the 2023 extreme drought in the central Amazon - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Unprecedented social-ecological impacts of the 2023 extreme drought in the central Amazon
www.nature.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Unprecedented social-ecological impacts of the 2023 extreme drought in the central Amazon www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Where should I give this talk?
Hi, and welcome to my talk on why tech companies should have an arts and culture department.
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Where should I give this talk?
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A SAPPHIREPUNK MANIFESTO
"We build in plurality, and in parity, but not in purity or with impunity."
sapphirepunk.com
"We build in plurality, and in parity, but not in purity or with impunity."
sapphirepunk.com
June 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
A SAPPHIREPUNK MANIFESTO
"We build in plurality, and in parity, but not in purity or with impunity."
sapphirepunk.com
"We build in plurality, and in parity, but not in purity or with impunity."
sapphirepunk.com