My agency as a person seeking to read a PDF has very little to do with the PDF file format; I have agency because feature-complete PDF readers are a ubiquitous commodity. The freedom afforded by #ATProto is no freedom at all while Bluesky remains a supermassive singularity within the network.
Jay 🦋
We knew from the start we can’t get everything right. Moderation is a hard problem, and it’s impossible to please everyone. So we built a protocol where you always have the right to leave. If you don’t trust us, or don’t like our decisions, you deserve the right to choose an alternative.
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Your unread queue, on your e-reader. Standard Reader now publishes OPDS, so every publication is a catalog any e-reader app can browse. Articles come down as real EPUBs with the images. Comics as CBZ. Read on the device, and your place shows up back in the app. standard-reader.app/guide/e-readers
Standard Reader now publishes permission scopes! In human: When you log in we better explain what we're requesting and why The first one grants access to write data for our app, the second lets up create @standard.site subscriptions and likes for you
This is the future of scientific papers. Instead of a PDF, the paper is an AI agent that you can talk to, ask questions, run analyses. No more digging through supplements - just ask the paper directly: "what p-value cutoff was used in Fig 3B? Re-run at 0.01." nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11044-y
Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents - Nature
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