Rudy wants revolution.

it’s an action figure

my friend did finish the gundam in less than two weeks

The Tea App Markets Itself As a Safe Whisper Network. It's Just More Digital Surveillance The biggest red flag is that the Tea app seems to be an attempt to quick-fix on an individual level what is a structural problem — that is, misogyny — via surveillance culture.

checked in on heterosexuality. an app trying to be a global public "whisper network" for cishet women's dating experiences subject to right-wing hacks, it turns out, can't work. on heteropessimism, the politics of gossip, Love Island, the Coldplay kiss cam, and surveillance culture @teenvogue.com

> heteropessimism

"The term refers to how cishet people often live in a cycle of constant antagonism — you know, 'Men are from Mars, women are from Venus' — and to the storied practice of commiserating and complaining about the 'other' gender without actually leaving or changing the dynamic."

damn

It can only be Kings whose very name expresses what is most vile and low, who dared to arrogate the right of reducing to slavery men made like themselves, whom nature had made free. "The King of Spain furnished you abundantly with arms and ammunition. Use them to tighten your chains. • • . As for us, we have need for no more than stones and sticks to make you dance the Carmagnole. , • ,"I "You have received commissions and you have guar antees. Guard your liveries and your parchments. One day they will serve you as the fastidious titles of our former aristocrats served them. If the King of the French who drags his misery from court to court has need of slaves to assist him in his magnificence, let him go seek it among other Kings who count as many slaves as they have sub jects. "You conclude, vile slaves as you are, by oHering us the protection of the King, your Master. Learn and say to Casa Calvo [the Spanish Marquis] that republicans cannot treat with a King. Let him come and you with him, we are ready to receive you as republicans should. , , ," That was the style, the accent of Toussaint and his men. The British and the Spaniards could not defeat it. All they could oHer was money, and there are periods in hu· man history when money is not enough,

"That was the style, the accent of Toussaint and his men. The British and the Spaniards could not defeat it. All they could offer was money, and there are periods in human history when money is not enough."

The Black Jacobins, "The Rise of Toussaint", C.L.R. James

Just registered for this masterclass workshop Nick created to work on ATProto and OAuth!!!

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Column | Zuckerberg fired the fact-checkers. We tested their replacement. Our tech columnist drafted 65 community notes, Meta’s new crowdsourced system to fight falsehoods. It failed to make a dent.

So @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social set out to see how the "Community Notes" approach is working for Meta. Answer? Not so great. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Christianity Was “Borderline Illegal” in Silicon Valley. Now It’s the New Religion Believers like Garry Tan are flipping the script in the venture capital world, making faith matter just as much as the ability to turn a fortune. Says one entrepreneur, “There are people that are leve...

Speaking of serious journalism, its the likes of Teen Vogue, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair that are doing serious journalism on Silicon Valley because other so-called serious news outlets are doing a press-releases-as-journalism service to maintain their access.

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It makes me really happy I can do this, just by accepting a few campaigns on my @graze.social feeds.

I know it's not much (yet!), but it's so cool to be able to chuck a few bucks here and there to devs doing good work, using proceeds earned via Bluesky/ATProto. 💚

Latest donation round:

• $200 CAD one-time to @transrights.northsky.social
• $100 USD one-time to @futur.blue for work on zeppelin.social
• $100 USD one-time to @knotbin.com for work on ATAirport
• Started $25 USD monthly recurring donations to @blackskyweb.xyz (planning to gradually increase)

The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.

Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth.

So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?

You know social media is broken, but do you know all the ways we can make it better? Join Rudy and other experts across the industry for a panel & networking event!!

Robin Berjon: Web standards The standards that govern the World Wide Web develop at the intersection of profit-seeking companies, nonprofit organizations, and small groups of people with …

Ever thought about what it takes for Safari, Chrome, and Firefox to display more or less the same web?

The latest interview at the Protocol Oral History Project is with @robin.berjon.com, reflecting on a career between tech companies & common standards: protocol.ecologies.info/interviews/b...

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🔐 Building ATProtocol apps? Then you know identity and authentication is the first real barrier to entry - and it's a pretty high bar.

The OAuth spec is a beast, and ATProtocol adds a lot of complexity too. That's why I'm running a masterclass this fall.

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This is exactly what I'm talking about.

Build trust. Then use that trust to change minds and take action.

My earliest memory is surviving a fire bombing.
You grew up safe.

Leave me be for everyone’s sake.

The kinds of men academics, politicians and so-called conscious rappers look down on

The men who passed me their pistols
Let me count their money
Taught me to swing first, swing hard, and swing last
Taught me chess from a jail phone
Told me what I was up against out here

Are who gave me my praxis

It’s fine if it starts in a song, a book, or an internet community

But your movement gotta be felt in the streets or the pen
Otherwise it ain’t about nothing to me

People gotta see it to feel it and believe it.

TL; DR
“If my guys fuck with your guys, then it’s mob ties”

I think support starts with genuine relationships. That leads to trust. That leads to coalition. That leads to a broader base in a movement. That leads to more effective organizing.

Another, less kumbaya example is when there was static between AnotherWorldBK and WTP.
Still a lil unresolved but we met up and had a sit down about it.

Growing up for me, this is how conflict was resolved.

If we make things transactional, the bond isn’t deep enough.

To give concrete examples I think of the homie @richardferro.xyz and @latinsky.social ; I consider us in deep community with each other and thus in coalition. It just starts with a conversation. Now we’re talking about doing something like AfroLatinSky

I’m of the opinion that any gathering like this can be very productive and generative.
I am a student of casual on-the-block conversations, not academia (I was always truant in school)

So ultimately I think support starts with relationship building

Got a great question in the DMs about how white folks can support Black anarchism

It is my individual opinion that everyone should organize. Also my opinion that organizing can look like dining with your neighbors in a city like NYC 🍷

I think capitalism frames this as leisure but not productivity

Germ brings end-to-end encrypted messages to Bluesky | TechCrunch Germ's new app lets users send end-to-end encrypted messages on Bluesky. TechCrunch speaks with the Germ founders to hear why they came up with the idea.

From @techcrunch.com crunch, learn more about #MozillaVentures backed @germnetwork.com which is now a Bluesky messenger with new end-to-end encrypted messaging.
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I give all credit to @rudyfraser.com for my experience. If it wasn't for #BlackSky I wouldn't be here💯 I love our community🥹

> Black study does not have to be dependent on institutions

YouTube video by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke U. Left of Black | Black Anarchism Against an Anti-Black World with Sam C. Tenorio

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