Atmospheric Reviews — SFU Lecture 2026

For the sake of documentation, here's a thread of all the conversations I've been having about atmosphere websites 🧵

we haven't talked much about this publicly, but might as well rip the band aid: "atmosphere" is a generic word and there is no trademark held by anybody in the context of atproto, and would probably be hard to obtain or disputed in any domain. I think that is good, that word should be free

"Your research institute on the Atmosphere", my @atproto.science workshop late Friday pm, before #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver, is open for speakers. Would you like to get involved? 🧵 atscience.leaflet.pub/3mfz526irfs2y/l-quote/019ca0e…

For the sake of documentation, here's a thread of all the conversations I've been having about atmosphere websites 🧵

Wrote up some thoughts on new *atmospheric generatives* Things that can generate value even in environments where everything can be copied, like: contextualization • fluidity • aggregation • relationality Riffing on a @kevinkelly.bsky.social piece from years ago; extending for the atmosphere!