🌐 Working at the intersection of movements, media, and the social web to expand collective agency 🛠️ Seeking collaborations to reshape systems that concentrate power and shape how we live 🧭 Field Notes @spacecadets.love 👂 Current focus @ecosystemaction.com
Nobody Cares About Your Protocol | John ✦° | Offprint
Nobody joins a social network for its architecture. An honest look at why Bluesky lags Threads, plus real ideas to close the gap.
Collaborative Groups Protocol
A practical formula for creating and sustaining small, effective groups — designed to work together at scale.
Mike Masnick on protocols for publishers
An interview with @masnick.com (of TechDirt), the author of the influential 2019 paper "Protocols, Not Platforms," reflecting on how his ideas apply to publishers in 2026.
Adversarial internecting - permablog
How to move data to the Atmosphere and screw over someone else's valuation in the process
On an Atmosphere OS - Scott's Thoughts
What if an Atmosphere account could handle email, groupware, and device-level identity without putting Google or Apple at the center?
Huey Newton introduces Revolutionary Intercommunalism, Boston College, November 18 1970
In 1970 Huey Newton gave a speech at Boston college outlining a new ideological direction for the Black Panther Party, Revolutionary Intercommunalism. Newton described his rejection of the idea of black people being an internal colony in the US, that class struggle rather than national liberation was the only route to a communist society (describing the failure of liberation movements in Africa as 'neo-colonialism'), concerns around automation and the working class, and the impossibility of a socialist state in the US (against the position of the Progressive Labor Party), although he still described Vietnam and China as partially liberated.
Local PDS - Storing your data on your machine
This project aims to store your data on your device. The current implementation uses Chrome localstorage. View the README for more details while I work on this site...
The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet - Multi-hyphenate
Why every new "Art Community" fails. Equal parts eulogy, condemnation, and mourning.
ATProto Ethos Daniel Holmgren AtmosphereConf Seattle 2025
Semble – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download Semble for Firefox. Save pages to your Semble library, organize them into collections, and create typed connections between them.
Semble - Chrome Web Store
Save pages to your Semble library, organize them into collections, and create typed connections between them.
ewancroft.uk/atproto-lastfm-importer
Malachite is a tool to import your Last.fm and Spotify listening history to the AT Protocol network using the `fm.teal.alpha.feed.play` lexicon.
Permissioned Data Shapes: Self-Only Bookmarks - Nick's Blog
A self-only space is the smallest shape permissioned data can take: one authority, one member, one repo, and private bookmarks that share a record shape and a write path with public ones.
Skyreader update - Home, Magazines, and Paged view - Skyreader Dev Log
A calmer front door and more tools to work through your reading backlog
We need a PIT Crew for news
Zohran Mamdani has unveiled a radically collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach to building internal technology capacity. News has a lot to learn from it.
