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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 11h

Gotta love an ambitious framework for building apps

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Taylor Moore @taylordotbiz.bsky.social · 14h

Who?

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 16h

I just spent 4 hours having my mind expanded with an ATProto OAuth shaped crowbar thanks to the inimitable @ngerakines.me

I have a very tiny brain but after I have gone over the content some more I am excited to play!

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 14h

neat (narrator: it wasn't neat) about.iftas.org/2025/10/05/c...

Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services

Since 15 September, IFTAS has been tracking a coordinated network of accounts operating across Mastodon. These accounts are engaged in a high-volume propaganda campaign, promoting pro-Russian narra…

about.iftas.org

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 15h

Strongly endorse. The discover page could also benefit from more authorial information, cause right now it's kinda mystery-meat w/ only the publication title (which are sometimes fun and whimsical) to key off of

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 15h

This is almost entirely a joke, but borne out of a conversation about avenues to user growth in ATProto generally speaking, and the topology of apps, communities and data

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 16h

yOu WoUlDn'T dOwNlOaD a CaR

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 16h

A 15 minute Walkable Cities Theory of Social Network Design

:trollface:

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 18h

Also demanding that everyone self host in order to participate in the network is a recipe for failure. Very high barrier to entry

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 1d

Join @datasociety.bsky.social's Climate, Technology, and Justice program+ Kapor Foundation for a webinar on CA data centers in context, connecting data center buildout + policy interventions to histories of environmental racism + resistance

10/9, 12-1:30 PM PT kaporcenter.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

California Data Centers in Context: Histories, Impacts, Policies with Khari Johnson, Masheika Allgood, and Nicole Merino Tsui. Moderated by Cecilia Marrinan and Tamara Kneese. October 9, 12-1:30 pm. Registration link for Zoom is in the post

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 19h

Jerry doesn’t exist

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 19h

I like to publish my posts in the middle of the night for maximum reach. But this is what I’ve been up to and how I think the pieces connect.

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...

www.wrecka.ge

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Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 23h

I'll be trying out leaflet.pub moving forward to try to write longer form blogs on Trust and Safety so that I can explain things in a bit more depth.
leaflet.pub/25030fdf-2a8...

Context Collapse & T&S

One of the hardest things about writing on a microblogging service is context collapse, especially when it comes to complex issues — you reply to one person, others take it out of context, and suddenl...

leaflet.pub

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 20h

My only annoyance with the ioniq 5 is the plastic trim on the car scratches and scuffs so easily.

(Also parents here have dinged the heck out of our doors. But that's not the car's fault)

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dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 20h

to anyone trying to migrate to Blacksky, this is a video guide that will walk you through the steps !!

⚠️ IMPORTANT CHANGES SINCE I MADE THE VIDEO ⚠️

1. no invite code is needed

2. non-black users should input USERNAME.myatproto.social or USERNAME.cryptoanarchy.network in the "NEW HANDLE" section

dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · Aug 10

Entry 31 - Migrating from the Bluesky PDS to the #BlackSky PDS with PDS MOOver #SharpieVLOG

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 1d

Also, have you seen @thisisaaronland.bsky.social's posts about putting all of SFO Museum's collection into fediverse actors? millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2024/03...

Holding Hands with the "Fediverse" – ActivityPub at SFO Museum

SFO Museum has joined the “Fediverse”. We have begun to operate a series of automated “bot” accounts that are published using the ActivityPub protocols which can be subscribed to from any client, like...

millsfield.sfomuseum.org

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 1d

There is no place on this earth in which this man cannot find room to put a feed of posts.

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

it will be easy to move to a bigger machine when needed, which will eventually happen. if you think it can’t handle your app today: i mean, try it. and/or get in touch.

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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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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 1d

I have had to do the full recounting three times in the past week

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 1d

I am bummed out that it got cancelled

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 1d

Yeah! @losowsky.com was there as well, who was part of this team.

Vox is super lucky in having the DNA and skills to do this right internally. It'll be great to see if it's bridgeable into ATProto and visa versa. The dream of course is one space to have network effects thorough.

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 1d

This reminds me a bunch of the things I liked in Scavengers Reign.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 1d

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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