Luke Kanies | Building on ATProto
Bluesky’s Atmosphere Protocol has the chance to become the base for a whole generation of applications. But it’s developing in surprising and disappointing ways.
The Eye 02: When is sovereignty not sovereign?
As we start to reject reliance on US tech monopolies, Palantir and its allies rush to strip the word "sovereignty" of its meaning

The Everything Account
I've been thinking a lot about our accounts lately. We all have an ever-growing pile of digital identities scattered across the web, many forgotten after a brief stint with a random service we found in an app store. It's like second nature at this point: we check out a new

Web of the People — Open Indie
Whether you think of web3 as the advent of peer-to-peer protocols, coin-operated blockchains or autocomplete-AI synthesizers, change is c...

Funding Open Source for Digital Sovereignty
Open Source alone won't deliver digital sovereignty. Europe must fix procurement and fund those who actually build it.

The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.

Reclaiming the Computing Commons
Resisting the commodification of information is a political struggle, not a technical one.

Olares - Empowering Users to Reclaim Data Ownership
Google: Organize the world's information Atmosphere: Let the world's information self-organize
TJ
In some ways, atproto, bluesky, @semble.so, @sill.social, @standard.site and so on are building new indexes for the web. I really hope atproto succeeds and goes fully mainstream. Think of the amazing search engines that can be built on such rich index data. Maybe web3 can actually happen.
Google: Organize the world's information Atmosphere: Let the world's information self-organize
TJ
In some ways, atproto, bluesky, @semble.so, @sill.social, @standard.site and so on are building new indexes for the web. I really hope atproto succeeds and goes fully mainstream. Think of the amazing search engines that can be built on such rich index data. Maybe web3 can actually happen.

A Jewish Case for AI work exemptions

The AI Resist List
What is the Atmosphere? - Leaflet Lab Notes

Collective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick Vincent from Data Leverage - The Blockchain Socialist

Roundabout
How to: Migrate away from Substack