I'm excited to finally have a preprint of this paper up, a few years in the making. In it we argue that industry-driven manipulation of social media research is well underway and that norms and institutions in the field are ill-prepared to resist tech's influence. arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894
Oct 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
also hitting a few bumps with semble but Donna Haraway’s Situated Knowledges could be a really cool fit here
Yup you see all the aircraft in the area.
Faine Greenwood
can confirm globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=acd5a1
Using “BlueSky Elder” as a positive term is such an obvious tell that you’re not actually one Like, those of us who *were* around when it was coined remember how it was so widely mocked that it led to the OP fucking off to Nostr and this site’s first and most famous copypasta
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
I have now seen two people say "respect your bluesky elders" unironically since I woke up and look its a public site not a fraternity hazing, ppl need to relax a bit
Just released the first alpha of Stargraph featuring the frontend that brings your Atmosphere profiles together. Share your presence in one link or QR code. stargraph.link
I built Not Twitter, a Bluesky web client. Tweet, reply, like, retweet, bookmark, view profiles, check notifications, and use DMs. Doing what the everything app can't: Include a bird. Try it NOW: erickrouss.github.io/not-twitter/ #Bluesky #ATProto #WebDev #NotTwitter
#ATProtoScience tools can enable sensemaking and maybe some nerdy jobs in the near future: "Similar to how social media made influencers... maybe there'll be influencers [as scholarly] sensemakers... [attendee: high need for cognition people]..." Yep, that's my dream job, @ronentk.me
From Social Network to Sense Making
www.youtube.comDo you like bookmarking things and losing them in the Bookmarks hole? Or not knowing what your Bluesky peeps are bookmarking No? Then try semble.so (built on ATProtocol) and use social bookmarking to learn from the academic hivemind.
Oh here’s a good one: 55% 25% 15% 3% 1.75% 0.25% A pretty good initial breakdown for varied frequency of events that feel genuinely common / uncommon / rare / very rare / epic / legendary. Start here and then nudge around.
Cat Manning
would love to see a thread of small practical pieces of advice developers just starting out or unfamiliar with a genre might not know! I’ll start: if you’re using a tag-based system, don’t just give everything an individual tag—look for thematic groups where similar events can lead to same outcome
“Einstein is symptomatic. I doubt we’ll be talking abt Einstein, as such, in a year. But it’s symptomatic of what’s [descending] on higher ed,’ [Kirschenbaum said]. The attractiveness of agentic AIs is a symptom of a decades-long trend in higher ed. ‘Unis…adopted a transactive model of education.’”
What’s the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework?
www.404media.coSkimmed the encylical and was repeatedly struck by how shocking (good) it feels to read a coherent institutional vision / strategy for how to maneuver through These Times rooted in common sense and firm principles. We have been intellectually failed and starved by so many other institutions.
