Dan York

This is authoritarianism, plain and simple.

The Trump administration is targeting states that didn’t vote for him — including my home state of Vermont.

Using federal power to punish political opponents is anti-democratic and blatantly illegal.

On open protocols, your main goal should not be to serve everyone. We tried that, and it's a mess out there.

Serve your community, the one you understand the needs of. Build something *you* want. You'd be surprised at how many you's are out there waiting for the exact same thing.

Now… I don’t know how many people will stream from the iPhone vs use OBS or something on the desktop, but since you offered the option in the app I decided to try it.

Other than ☝️, the experience was quite good. Nice job!

… but that was not intuitive to me. I would suggest having a button or something that was very clear about how to end. (Unless I completely missed it!)

Also, I found a couple of times that the keyboard wouldn’t go away, and I had to randomly tap things until it eventually disappeared.

@iame.li - Hello! So I just tried my first stream from the iPhone app today, and my big piece of feedback is that… I had no idea how to END my live stream! 😱

There was no button to end or anything. I eventually figured out that if I clicked the arrow in the top left to “go back”, but…

@danyork.bsky.social is 🔴LIVE on stream.place! Testing out stream.place

🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/danyork.bsky.social Testing out stream.place

Welllll... first I have to setup OBS again and get that all going. 😃The computer I was using for my livestreaming died... (hard drive failure!)... and I just never got around to setting up another one. I mean... OBS is not hard at a basic level... but I just have to go do it!

Today, for over 6 billion people the #Internet is woven into the fabric of our daily lives - and that is enabled by the open standards created by the #IETF ! From IP and TCP to DNS to HTTP to TLS and more... those interoperable standards are what make the Internet possible! Congrats on 40 years! 🎉

A screen showing that when you start streaming on Twitch, your Bluesky avatar can get a red ring with the word "LIVE" on it. When people click on your avatar, they will then go straight to your stream.

Intrigued to see this on Bluesky when I logged in... just last night as part of #Wikipedia25 I wrote about the #livestreaming I used to do on #Twitch for #Wikipedia editing. I may pick it up again sometime, and this integration is interesting.
www.disruptiveconversations.com/2026/01/cele...

Wow! This is fascinating! I've been streaming on Twitch off and on over the years. I use OBS, so I'll be interested to try out your system. Great to see you doing this!

Either way, Adams and her friends don’t plan to go quietly. When one app asked them to submit a selfie for an age verification system, they used a photo of a golden retriever they found on Google. It worked, she said.

I see the Australian social media ban is off to a great start.

Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet. 🐕

Introducing GreenEarth We're building advanced open source algorithms for social media

GreenEarth is creating open source AI-driven recommender infrastructure for BlueSky. Type a prompt, see your feed change. We are here for the users, the builders, the dreamers. Join us.
greenearthsocial.substack.com/p/introducin...

Hey Dan! You heard from or about @blackskyweb.xyz @tangled.org @flipboard.com @graze.social @smokesignal.events @microcosm.blue @stream.place @germnetwork.com @leaflet.pub

There are many others, some re-using bsky's data, others defining their own, or a mix, like @anisota.net or @recipe.exchange

Slide showing “Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATP) BoF”

Starting out the day at #IETF124 in Montreal at the “Birds of a Feather” (BoF) session about the #ATProtocol and whether there is work to do within the #IETF.

I ♥️ encryption

Four days after #iOS26 officially became available, the global share of requests with post-quantum support from iOS devices has grown from just under 2% to 11%.

Africa: ~10%
Asia: ~12%
Europe: ~12%
N. America: ~10%
Oceania: ~7%
S. America: ~12%

radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dat...

Image of a newspaper column that says “August 11 at 7:08 a.m., a caller reported cows in her front yard on Spear Street. The animals were located and the owner was notified.”

I enjoy reading the “police blotter” in our local newspaper because every now an then there are gems like this one:
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August 11 at 7:08 a.m., a caller reported cows in her front yard on Spear Street. The animals were located and the owner was notified.
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#Vermont

Submarine cable cuts in the Red Sea disrupt connectivity between Europe and Asia.

Latency spikes as traffic is re-routed around the broken cables. @kentik.bsky.social's Cloud Latency Map captures the impacts here:
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Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol Date: 6th September 2025 A community letter on the recent heated discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol, co-signed by the people working on or with the respective protocols. This statement was ...

Note that the canonical copy of the letter by @thisismissem.social is now at writings.thisismissem.social/statement-on...

Impressive to see < 1 Gbps speeds out of Amazon’s #Kuiper #LEO satellite system. Yes, this is obviously a test in an ideal situation, but still impressive.

#Internet #InternetAccess #LEOs

My mom and Dr. DeepSeek In China and around the world, the sick and lonely turn to AI.

Fascinating (and long) article about how people in China are turning to DeepSeek for medical answers .. even knowing those answers may be wrong… largely because it is so much easier to engage with the LLM instead of engaging with the actual medical system.

restofworld.org/2025/ai-chat...

Our brains 🧠 are funny sometimes.. now that we own a black car for the first time (as of 3 weeks ago)… and now that I have driven it for 24+ hours over the past week (up to Nova Scotia)….

… I am suddenly noticing how many black cars there are on the roads of New England and Atlantic Canada! 😃😮🤯

23andMe Re-Opens Data Auction With $305 Million Bid From Former CEO Amy Wojcicki really wants her hands on that DNA.

Just a reminder... if you ever had your DNA tested through #23AndMe … all your DNS data is now up for sale to the highest bidder…

gizmodo.com/23andme-re-o...

United States Court of International Trade - Wikipedia

The #Wikipedia page you all may want to be reading up on to understand today’s events may be this one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

Particularly if you, like me, had no idea that there was a United States Court of International Trade! 🤯

Ah, thank you! I was confused as the other sources I was reading were not using “Xingwang”.

Thank you for all the work you do tracking all of this!

China launches third batch of Guowang megaconstellation satellites China launched a third batch of Guowang megaconstellation satellites Tuesday, advancing its ambitious low Earth orbit communications network to rival Starlink and other global systems.

@planet4589.bsky.social - I'm a little confused. You mention the Xingwang constellation, but SpaceNews is saying this launch was Guowang ( spacenews.com/china-launch... ) as is Space . com ( www.space.com/space-explor... ). Are *they* confused? Or which constellation is this? 🤷‍♂️

We just recorded an *emergency episode* (wee-oo wee-oo alert alert) about Apple pulling Advanced Data Protection, their E2E encryption for iCloud Notes and Backups, from the UK market, with special guests @josephhall.org and @matthewdgreen.bsky.social. Short and to the point, out this week.

CDT Joins Global Encryption Coalition Letter on UK Government’s Use of Investigatory Powers Act to attack End-to-End Encryption Today, CDT and a group of over 100 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts – as part of an effort led by the Global Encryption Coalition (GEC) – submitted a letter to British...

Today, CDT & 100+ civil society orgs, companies, & cybersecurity experts – as part of an effort led by the Global #Encryption Coalition (GEC) – submitted a letter to British Home Secretary calling on the UK Home Office to rescind its demand that Apple create a backdoor into its #E2EE services.

The hardest working font in Manhattan A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.

This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.

aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

USAID website goes dark, staff emails deactivated amid DOGE takeover, source says DOGE workers’ access to USAID systems signals an uncertain fate for the development agency.

🚨 USAID WEEKEND UPHEAVAL

💻🚫 The USAID website is offline
📧🚫 Thousands of staff emails are deactivated
🚧 The State Department published a USAID webpage

This follows a 90-day pause on foreign aid that stopped humanitarian work as top USAID officials were put on leave.