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Jon P

@jdp23.thenexus.today

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Organizer, activist, privacy advocate, strategist, software engineer ... into psytrance, tarot and more. He/him or they/them. Also at @thenexusofprivacy.net, @[email protected] etc etc etc More about me at https://thenexusofprivacy.net/about-me/

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Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 22d

I've updated my handle here -- this is now @jdp23.thenexus.today (and my previous account is renamed to @jdp23-alt.bsky.social)

Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 2h

Indeed, laelaps really sets the bar!

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 3h

Your hacking contest requires a license key? Really? What are we doing here

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 9h

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 5h

Hey some nerd (me) is quoted here in this @columjournreview.bsky.social story about how low-power FM radio stations weathered federal funding cuts by being too small to be eligible for federal funding... in contrast to NPR. The invulnerability of the truly grassroots? 📻💚
www.cjr.org/feature/publ...

Against the precipitous backdrop of funding cuts to public media, low-power radio emerges as a lesser-known source of inspiration.

Against the precipitous backdrop of funding cuts to public media, low-power radio emerges as a lesser-known source of inspiration.

Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 7h

i don't think there is one - bsky.app/profile/bail...

Bailey Townsend 🦀 @baileytownsend.dev · 7h

I had a couple of users contact me about doing migrations with pdsmoover.com and having some errors.

You cannot migrate your account to an already created account on the new PDS you’re moving too. You need to let a migration tool do that for you so both have the same id(DID). You cannot merge them

ATProto account migration tool

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 8h

Someone reskeets my Blackademics starter pack with a "Welcome to the resistance!" gif. When I replied below, the same person blocked me. I guess "the resistance" isn't prepared for gentle pushback or constructive criticism. Anyway...

Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 11h

Please don't do that. Reposting is most appreciated, but many of the scholars in the starter pack have extensive critiques of what you describe as "the resistance." We are all in agreement that 45/47 is terrible, but don't reduce our thinking to a slogan that obscures as much as it clarifies.

Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 7h

and potentially create a loop in the very fabric of space-time? thanks, count me out. i'm going back to putting 1s and 0s on cuneiform tablets!

Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 8h

"Wow, if growth continues at this rate, by the end of the year every particle in the universe will have a fedi account!"

Fediverse. user growth (Feb 2024): a chart with numbers slowly climbing to a bit less than 10,000,000 and then suddenly shooting up to 49,462,875

Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 8h

that's it, i'm never making another joke again lolsob

Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 8h

fedidb and fediverse.observer are usually fairly close except sometimes one or the other shows a random inexplicable one-day spike of millions of users ... which goes away.

Fediverse Observer checks all sites in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home from a map or list or automatically.

Fediverse Sites Status. Find a Fediverse server to sign up for, find one close to you!

fediverse.observer

Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 8h

who knows. from a quick look it seems like the-federation.info might be mostly ignoring pixelfed and significanty undercounting Mastodon but i have no idea why. in general i ignore their data ...

Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 8h

another example of how centralized AT is. if it were *really* distributed it would be one SQLite per post!

Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 8h

I almost responded to the original post saying "if you're looking at follows, a good place to start is the ability to keep them private, and another good place to start is the ability to prevent specific people from following you." But then I figured ... why bother.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 11h

It will also disconnect students from each other—and in a world fractured by various flavors of technofascism, I cannot think of a more disastrous thing (which is likely partly why AI fetishists are pushing for AI in schools and universities)

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16h

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 11h

great to hear -- thanks @upcloud.com !

Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 12h

No, unfortunately you can't use any of the migration tools to merge accounts.

[And it's not you, the protocol makes everybody (including me!) feel dumb!]

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A New Social @anew.social · 15h

Today, we announced our next Bounce Beta that lets you migrate your Mastodon profile into any existing ATProto account, whether you're on Bluesky or any other PDS provider!

We'll be going live with Bounce Beta 2 on October 20th.

Read more here:

Bounce from Mastodon to Bluesky

With our next Bounce Beta, you will be able to Bounce your Mastodon account to Bluesky!

blog.anew.social

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TheMightyTRex @themightytrex.bsky.social · 2d

Can you please make sure alt text is used for images with text as those with screen readers have no idea what is posted and they cant read the text on images.
www.bbc.co.uk/gel/how-to-w... for help on writing alt text.

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Northsky Social Cooperative @transrights.northsky.social · 2d

A lot of folks have been asking when invites will be going out.
- No, you haven't missed it! We haven't announced when.
- Yes, we already have alpha-testing users migrating and testing and posting from our servers
- The timeline at this point is ASAP, due to the crisis of confidence facing Bsky.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

What a wild year to be trying to think about networks and what they do to our brains. Thank you for coming along with me.

www.wrecka.ge/a-year-into-...

A year into the wreckage and salvage

It’s coming up on been a year, somehow, since I started this website/micro-studio/space to think in. What a wild choice that was, setting out in October of 2024, eyes on the horizon! We’d hoped things...

Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 1d

evergreen

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fig (aka: [phil]) @bad-example.com · 1d

btw if you’re worried about the public constellation instance, which currently runs on a single raspberry pi, getting overloaded as more apps and appviews ship on it:

don’t worry. it’s doing fine!

in fact it’s soon going to get much faster and more efficient.

but also

fig (aka: [phil]) @bad-example.com · Apr 21

…but for real, you can help keep this alive if you want:

github.com/sponsors/uni...

ko-fi.com/bad_example

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

www.theguardian.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

The current paradigm of "AI" encodes & recapitulates eugenicist, fascist, and generally bigoted tendencies— but previous paradigms did, too, & if these facts had been addressed, then, in the culture of technology specifically and our sociotechnical culture writ large, it might not still be like that