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meri 🌸 🍉 @meri.garden · 1d

sounding off about ‘AI art’

meri 🌸 🍉 @meri.garden · 1d

right, so the conversation should be about the institutionality of aesthetics, who in society reserves ‘aesthetic authority’. But the rise of techno-fascism is such a distinct and interesting context to have those debates

meri 🌸 🍉 @meri.garden · 1d

I feel a bit conflicted about it - on the one hand cautiously supportive for working artists to use AI tools, like any other technology - on the other hand there’s something so cynical about AI CEOs talking about ‘democratising artmaking’

meri 🌸 🍉 @meri.garden · 1d

Like the Nazis could point to the family, to folklore, opera, etc to support their political vision and world making, to the point that Dada could be a kind of radical subversion. I wonder what Elon Musk has to rest on… the US postmodern corpus I guess?

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meri 🌸 🍉 @meri.garden · 1d

right, so the conversation should be about the institutionality of aesthetics, who in society reserves ‘aesthetic authority’. But the rise of techno-fascism is such a distinct and interesting context to have those debates

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meri 🌸 🍉 @meri.garden · 2d

Prisons Must Fall by @prisonculture.bsky.social and Jane Ball

A hand holding an open picture book: constellation people (parent and child?) hold hands in the night sky above a prison building, watchtower, barbed wire fence. Text reads:
A locked and lonely cell is not where we belong. How can harming someone teach that causing harm is wrong?

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meri 🌸 🍉 @meri.garden · 2d

I think you would need a record to set the key right? It doesn’t look like there would be space in the blob metadata itself

Simple S3/filesystem like approach sounds perfect tho

atproto.com/specs/blob

Blobs - AT Protocol

Media files referenced by records

atproto.com

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 3d

The web can be made personal again.

blog.muni.town/personal-dat...

Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come

Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people-governed institutions rather than corporations.

blog.muni.town

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meri 🌸 🍉 @meri.garden · 2d

Is that kind of what you were thinking @jakelazaroff.com ?

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meri 🌸 🍉 @meri.garden · 2d

I forgot blobs exist lol ty @indexx.dev @zicklag.dev

I guess if you wanted to host a site of HTML blobs then, it might be good to have a record for each route that points to the blob. So that would just need to be updated each time you upload a new blob

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meri 🌸 🍉 @meri.garden · 3d

omg based

meri 🌸 🍉 @meri.garden · 3d

would anything stop you posting an entire HTML file as an ATProto record on your PDS? Size limits?

Assuming some proxy/resolver service to expose it to the web

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html energy @htmlenergy.bsky.social · 7d

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“[Web literacy] it’s really for me about helping people gain autonomy and empowerment and liberation from these extractive, colonialist forces at play,” Chartier said. “It’s such a powerful medium to disseminate and distribute information. And I don’t think we’ve really discovered as a species how to actually realize that potential.”

– Gabriel Chartier

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meri 🌸 🍉 @meri.garden · 8d

is this real??

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 16d

“This concession shows that student campaigns do have an influence,” one student said. "These ties cannot survive transparency."

MIT Professor Cancels Israeli Military Grant After Student Pressure

As students push for MIT to drop projects tied to the Israeli military, the school has obscured information about the funding.

interc.pt

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 11d

RIP Assata Shakur

LOVE
Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars.
But you, me, and tomorrow hold hands and make vows that struggle will multiply The hacksaw has two blades.
The shotgun has two barrels.
We are pregnant with freedom.
We are a conspiracy.

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 12d

okay and as promised, the bluesky PDS is officially open for returning users to migrate their accounts back!

hoping this lowers the stakes & gives folks the confidence to explore some other PDSs in the network!

docs.bsky.app/blog/incomin...

Enabling Account Migration Back to Bluesky’s PDS | Bluesky

One of the core promises of AT is the seamless account migration between PDS hosts. Since federation opened up in the AT network, it has been possible to migrate away from the Bluesky PDS and between ...

docs.bsky.app

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meri 🌸 🍉 @meri.garden · 12d

BDS works

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12d

Microsoft said Israel’s use of Azure to store data obtained through mass surveillance of Palestinians violated its terms

Microsoft cuts Israeli military’s access to some cloud, AI products

Microsoft said Israel’s use of Azure to store data obtained through mass surveillance of Palestinians violated its terms

bit.ly

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meri 🌸 🍉 @meri.garden · 12d

tldr on why this is confusing:

did:web stores the pds data (including handle) on the did document stored with the domain, but the domain can’t be changed

did:plc (what 99% of us use) stores the pds data + handle on the bsky-run plc directory, so handles can include domain names, but can be changed

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meri 🌸 🍉 @meri.garden · 12d

tldr on why this is confusing:

did:web stores the pds data (including handle) on the did document stored with the domain, but the domain can’t be changed

did:plc (what 99% of us use) stores the pds data + handle on the bsky-run plc directory, so handles can include domain names, but can be changed

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 12d

"A pluriverse of local worlds: a review of Computing within
Limits related terminology and practices" by Marloes de Valk (2021)

computingwithinlimits.org/2021/papers/...

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Zicklag @zicklag.dev · 13d

And a big shout out to @meri.garden who's help and collaboration on the new design have been invaluable!

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Zicklag @zicklag.dev · 13d

We've been hard at work for the last month on a new @roomy.chat architecture that we hope will get us into production:

A Brief History of Roomy's Architectures

blog.muni.town/brief-histor...

I'm very excited about the new design and the performance that we're showing on our initial tests!

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 13d

Exclusive | A subsidiary of Elbit Systems, an Israeli company bathed in the blood of Palestinians, has once again won a contract with the department of defence, writes Bernard Keane.

Australia handed $10m to Israeli arms firm as Albanese recognised Palestine

www.crikey.com.au

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meri 🌸 🍉 @meri.garden · 13d

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 16d

The act of writing—

Maurice Blanchot. The Gaze of Orpheus. Tr. Lydia Davis.

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