Christine Lemmer-Webber

Feel like you've been missing cool Spritely news lately, or missed a talk or two at some conference? Here's a whole bunch of @spritelyinst.bsky.social speeches given this year! spritely.institute/news/spritel...

U.S. President Donald Trump posted a video on Truth Social of Former U.S. President Barack Obama getting arrested.

Good for them, shameful for us

CNN has decided it’s safer to treat Trump like a tabloid character than like the president of the United States of America and/or an increasingly dangerous autocrat.

Yes, and that's part of the problem with the fediverse as-is. If you look at the work I'm doing *today*, it's moving things in a more peer-to-peer direction.

Nonetheless, the level of condensing of power is not the same on the fediverse at present. It could get better on the ATmosphere! We'll see.

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

anti-doomer sentence of the day: "Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last"

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

It's true, and the ecosystem is getting better. But it's not there right now. What percentage of the userbase are using anything other than bsky.app?

The positive inverse of my statement could be: it's possible this will result in more people pushing for more infrastructure faster. Hopefully true.

Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."

I guess relevant again with the UK stuff

so it goes

upload your id to verify
scan your face to enter
get your blood drawn to login
install this neural implant to gain access

New US directive for visa applicants turns social media feeds into political documents Your social media is no longer a personal space. It may be used by governments to determine whether you fit with their values.

The US government is "treating a person’s digital persona as their political identity. In doing so, they risk punishing lawful expression, targeting minority voices, and redefining who gets to cross borders based on how they behave online." theconversation.com/new-us-direc...

this mantra is the ed zitron antidote. rule fifteen if u will

oh well. its good for your health to just let people be wrong on the internet

brb upgrading the actor model of computation to the actress model of computation

So, in the continued Christine World Tour adventure... who do I know in Kingston, Ontario? It may turn out that I end up being there for a while, and it would be good to know some decent people.

DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship Denaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually us...

👀 “The DOJ memo says that the federal government will pursue denaturalization cases via civil litigation,” which matters bc, “in civil proceedings, any individual subject to denaturalization is not entitled to an attorney…; there is also a lower burden of proof for the government to reach…” 6/30/25

One of the (several) things that stuck with me from @dustyweb.bsky.social's keynote at FediForum was that a lot of the code, including open-source code, that's been built in recent decades was built and defaults to gigantic cloud-based centralized systems.

I actually don't remember who it was because my memory is trash, lol

I am assuming, contextually, it was @amyhoy.bsky.social, but whether or not that's true, the zeitgeist probably applies :)

(My favorite fediverse zeitgeist is how many people have made the joke "ffmpreg" independently)

Zeitgeist... I realized it myself in a moment of frustration, and I think @amyhoy.bsky.social discovered it also independently, before me even I think? It's one of those things where the moments of frustration are so similar that it's a discovery independently made

oembed + iframe chaos?

It's hot girl summer!!!!

So do your girl a favor and bring her a nice cup of iced water and make sure she's not overheating and dehydrated

Don't sell her short that's not just goth makeup that's pierrot eyes. That's a goth clown women's basketball player

"We kind of suspect that fatigue is one of the major factors that is driving this effect, because when you're working on something for a long period of time, you get tired and then you start to lose your attention and your cognitive abilities are dropping.."

Understaffing is the real story.

this take aged like fine milk (it's cheese)

We can do with more defiance. Seeing Mahmood Khalil leading people in protest is a good way to kick off this week. Cowardice is contagious but so it courage.

The Little Learner and hotel room hacking dustycloud.org/blog/the-lit...

Everyone is posting their AI opinions lately and hey, I want to post mine too. But I want to be well informed, and understand things on an *implementation* level. A mini (partial) review of The Little Learner, etc!

So... we meet again 🙌 🇨🇦 cc @dustyweb.bsky.social

*Instinctively equips my Ancient Arrows*