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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 1d

summit2025.ownershipeconomy.com

Ownership economy

The Ownership Economy - Summit and Advisory on Broad Based Ownership

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 1d

Very excited to participate in the Ownership Economy Summit today in NYC!

Learning the ropes for how to create new data economies and community stewarded protocols + platforms for researchers @cosmik.network

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 2d

A Monday morning reminder to support @blackskyweb.xyz, @transrights.northsky.social, @slices.network, and anyone else building AppViews/AppView infra. We need redundant spaces yesterday, and these folks are doing the legwork to make it happen.

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PiPup @pipup.social · 6d

Hello, writers!

# Hello, writers! PiPup is now available! Long-form writing for anyone looking for tools to share their expertise and creativity. With math, graphs, diagrams, photos, musical notation, and even screenplays you have the tools to create engaging content and share your knowledge. Try it out and plea...

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 2d

@shahanmemon.bsky.social @row1.ca @infotainment.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social @nkgarg.bsky.social @sjgreenwood.bsky.social @leaflet.pub @cosmik.network @wesleyfinck.org @pouriade.com @sharef.bsky.social @byarielm.fyi

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AT Protocol Community @atprotocol.dev · 2d

If you’re interested in ATProto for science communications, join the forum & introduce yourself.

Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 2d

ATProto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing science, but to get there we need discussion & coordination spaces - we opened a new Discourse space for ATProto x Science at discourse.atprotocol.community/c/atproto-sc... 🧪
(w/ @bmann.ca @tgoerke.bsky.social )
Please join! 😄

ATProto Science

ATProto Science is about using ATProto for science applications, such as publishing, curation, data sharing or social discourse around research.

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 2d

ATProto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing science, but to get there we need discussion & coordination spaces - we opened a new Discourse space for ATProto x Science at discourse.atprotocol.community/c/atproto-sc... 🧪
(w/ @bmann.ca @tgoerke.bsky.social )
Please join! 😄

ATProto Science

ATProto Science is about using ATProto for science applications, such as publishing, curation, data sharing or social discourse around research.

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Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me · 3d

we can just do things

Introducing at://work: A Job Board That Puts You in Control - Nick's Blog

at://work is a modern job board built on ATProtocol where your profile and job listings are stored on your own Personal Data Server, giving you true ownership of your professional data. As a full AppV...

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 3d

www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/real...

Reality Roundtable #19 — Dark Triad Personality Traits: How Psychopathy, Narcissism, and Machiavellianism Impact Our Cultures & Social Systems - The Great Simplification

Psychopathy is often portrayed as a rare and distant phenomenon – something confined to movie villains or prison cells. Yet when psychopathy is combined with narcissism and Machiavellianism to form wh...

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 3d

“there's a way in which the whole history of the United States has gone in a somewhat psychopathic direction”
The topic and its implications are mind-blowing and do not get nearly enough attention. We must understand how psychopathy is incentivized by current systems in order to build better ones

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Chad @chadtmiller.com · 5d

@danabra.mov inspired me to get GraphQL working with @slices.network aaaand it's pretty rad. Slices will generate query interfaces based on your Slices' lexicon and you can join on did/ref/uri. Here's a remix on Dan's teal demo using the entire @teal.fm dataset. slices-teal-relay.bigmoves.deno.net

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Donnie Trumpet, The Social Experiment

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Maybe You’re the Problem
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When Did You Get Hot?
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Cosmik Network @cosmik.network · 7d

👀

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 8d

"Most people don't believe that AI, as a technology, genuinely cares about them, and yet 70.5% still use AI for emotional support."
👀
email.projectliberty.io/who-do-you-t...

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 8d

If you are interested in worker-owned journalism, or in the future of sustainable and independent journalism in these grim times, or in what it takes to build a thriving workplace without dumb bosses, you might want to read @hellgatenyc.com's latest annual report.

hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-20...

Hell Gate 2025 Annual Report

As Hell Gate enters our fourth year, here’s how things are going. (Spoiler: Very nicely.)

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 10d

What stage capitalism is it when the state labels anti-capitalism views as indicators of terrorism?

Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 10d

They don’t have enough officers to track every person who meets this criteria. The NSPM-7 might allow for extra judicial surveillance and spying on so-called “Leftists”, but just like in Portland, it will exhaust millions in resources for very little results.

Keep fighting, siblings.

The Trump administration isn't only targeting organizations or groups but even individuals and
"entities" whom NSPM-7 says can be identified by any of the following "indicia" (indicators) of violence:
• anti-Americanism,
• anti-capitalism,
• anti-Christianity,
• support for the overthrow of the United States
Government,
• extremism on migration,
• extremism on race,
• extremism on gender
• hostility towards those who hold traditional
American views on family,
• hostility towards those who hold traditional
American views on religion, and
• hostility towards those who hold traditional
American views on morality.
"The United States requires a national strategy to investigate and disrupt networks, entities, and organizations that foment political violence so that law enforcement can intervene in criminal conspiracies before they result in violent political acts," the directive states (emphasis mine).

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 10d

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/756181...

Expect a lot more quotes as I start reading 😄

Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth: 9780593850633 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

How a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human In Against the Machine, “furiously gifted” (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 10d

“It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.” -- Wendell Berry

So excited to be starting Paul Kingsnorth's new book "Against the Machine:
On the Unmaking of Humanity " 🔥

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Tori @buildwithtori.com · 11d

Over 300,000 of you have downloaded @skylight.social 🎉🎊

So thankful for you all!

Welcome to Skylight! ✨

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 12d

"Like with open source, open social is a compounding effort. Every mildly successful open social app lifts all open social apps. Every piece of shared infrastructure can benefit somebody else. At some point, open is bound to win."

dan @danabra.mov · 12d

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

overreacted.io

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12d

Mark Zuckerberg is introducing a feed that's just 100% AI slop. No pesky creativity from real people to get in the way. Eat up little piggies

Introducing Vibes -- a feed of expressive AI-generated videos from artists and creators in the Meta AI app. Create and remix videos with leading models and music for free.

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dan @danabra.mov · 12d

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

overreacted.io

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 29d

Nominating "There's no justification for this however you cut it but the beatings will continue until a stillborn god is born." for perfect sentences, @lifewinning.com

Edward Ongweso Jr
@bigblackjacobin
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Almost certainly the greatest misallocation of capital you or I will ever see. There's no justification for this however you cut it but the beatings will continue until a stillborn god is born.
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Al-Capex is the everything cycle, now
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Deniz Prometheus @antikcagdeniz.bsky.social · 13d

We no longer flee from the shadows in the cave; instead, we enlarge them and forget the light itself. For in our age, truth has ceased to be an essence to be attained and has been reduced to mere images to be consumed. (1/4)

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 13d

"AI and the techno-utopian path not taken" by Evgeny Morozov (2024)

mondediplo.com/2024/08/07ai...

"From its inception, AI was a most peculiar scientific discipline. Unlike traditional sciences that seek to understand the world – occasionally through models – AI practitioners set themselves the task of constructing simplified models of a real-world phenomenon – intelligence – and then doing what they could to convince external observers that these models were indistinguishable from what they were modelling (a most confusing operation legitimated by the Turing Test). It’s as if a group of renegade geographers founded a new discipline of ‘artificial land’, hoping to convince the rest of us that, soon there’ll be no functional difference between the map and the territory: with advances in technology, the map will eventually become as good as what it represents."

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 13d

This seems important
(haven't read the paper yet but it looks interesting!)

Chantal @chantalsh.bsky.social · 14d

(6/7) LLMs are terrible at detecting their own slop: GPT-5, Deepseek-V3, and o3-mini rarely assign a label of "slop" (avg. 6% of documents), whereas humans marked 34% of texts as "slop."

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