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Denver Data Dialogues | Meetup
In 2026, Datalere will host **Denver** **Data Dialogues**, insights for data leaders, an in-person networking event featuring guest speakers, panels, catered food (not pizza) and more!This is a re-boot of our old meetup, **Data Science in Colorado**, but this time with a broader set of topics and ne

How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members
Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays.

SplinterCon Taipei
Presentations recorded at the SplinterCon conference, 24.02.2025 The rise of network shutdowns and the proliferation of so-called “splinternets” pose significant challenges to the free flow of info...
SplinterCon - communications with and within isolated networks
A conference dedicated to technology for reaching isolated networks and solutions for users stuck inside national intranets.

Are You in the Simcluster?
A diagnostic, philosophical, and mildly uncomfortable guide to network membership.
Ubuntu Summit 25.10 | Day Two
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.

Discover Highline Hub: Toronto's Startup Community Space
Experience a curated space designed to bring together founders, investors, and builders at Highline Hub. Join us for events and rent space.
The Local Connection Crisis: New Data on What Communities Need
In Our Timeline - AT Protocol
Paul and Daniel are on the livestream this week with a look at the new Standard.site integration, updates from permissioned data, and news from around the Atmosphere

There is One Fediverse. There are a Million Fediverses.
Over the past several years I’ve listened to admins, mods, and community managers from across the decentralised social media landscape. I’ve been in the chats, attended the conferences,…

Devs in the atproto community! I will be organizing some meetups in the near future and will be reaching out Also- don’t hesitate to reach out if you want to discuss the state and future of the ecosystem, what we’re doing with attie, or anything else. I can’t just … open my DMs but we’ll find a way
SCOOP: #WSocial: a Broken Ghost Town? W Social has been experiencing major technical issues for over a week: it is effectively a ghost town, filled with thousands of new accounts that cannot use the platform. I discuss the problem and a possible solution here: blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/
W Social: a Broken Ghost Town?
blog.elenarossini.comIOSP is a wonderful event by @scios.tech focused on building the open science stack of the future: modular research, community owned infra, novel funding. And we’re putting on an #ATScience workshop at the upcoming meeting - join us Leiden, Oct 12-15! Details in thread 👇 iosp.science#iosp2026
this week's news is about how @tangled.org @npmx.dev and @alt.store are using open social networking protocols to build, distribute, and discover software, and how the most important part is not the code but the community building part connectedplaces.online/reports/fr157-social-software…
FR#157 – Social Software Distribution
connectedplaces.onlineSCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.