The bluesky atmosphere conference is happening this weekend and they've got a free livestream. 
Streamplace
stream1.atmosphereconf.org is live on Streamplace
follow @stream.place for VODs
rabble
rabble@nos.social
npub1wmr3...g240
Building lots of things with andotherstuff.org including divine.video and nos.social.
Did ATM’s replace the job of bank tellers? Or was it the smart phone and banking apps that eventually did it with adoption of the virtual banking model?
Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
There's a lot more to replacing labor than just automating tasks
What if social media hadn't become centralised and controlled by Facebook?
This week I talk to @npub183ng...4n09 about how he built Elgg, a social network, at the same time as thefacebook, and then how the history of social media evolved from there.
Fountain: Podcasts & Music
Revolution.Social • An Alternate History of Social Media (with Ben Werdmuller) • Listen on Fountain
Ben Werdmuller is the Senior Director of Technology at ProPublica and a seasoned technologist who has spent his career building platforms that prio...
This has to be one of the most interesting and positive takes on getting laid off I’ve seen. It’s better to give folks time and resources to adjust to the future than let it be a surprise when it’s too late.
X (formerly Twitter)
Jamie Selects (@jamie_selects) on X
Day 1 laid off from @blocks checking in!
Sharing some super high level thoughts. Was a shocking day yesterday no doubt, but as the evening went on...
Building new protocol based social media is just the start. Sustaining and growing them is also very hard. Bluesky’s been struggling with declining daily active users over the last year. We see similar struggles in Nostr at a smaller scale.
The olympics are weird, lots of obscure sports. I found out today that New Zealand is building a second curling centre in order to increase their chances. They already have one near Queenstown on the south island, but now they're building a second in Auckland. This is after having failed to make the 2026 olympics in Curling. It'll mean New Zealand is the only country in the southern hemisphere that has dedicated curling facilities. Canada here we come!
Auckland Curling Club - TRY CURLING
The Auckland Curling Club is committed to teaching, to developing, to promoting and encouraging the spirit of curling; to develop youth and adult p...
This week on revolution.social I talked to @Anil Dash about how the tech industry has lost its moral compass.
Anil is on the board of @Electronic Frontier Foundation and used to be an executive with the blogging platform Six Apart, and Fastly. He also did a stint on the board of Stack Overflow.
He also talked about how AI is an major shift in tech but it’s in many ways it’s normal transformative technology, not something radically different than the internet, computer, steam engine, or other very important tech.
Fountain: Podcasts & Music
Revolution.Social • Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Moral Compass (with Anil Dash) • Listen on Fountain
Anil Dash is a pioneering technologist, advocate for ethical tech, and former CEO of Glitch, who currently serves on the board of the Electronic Fr...
What misguided marketing person decided that olympic champions need to hold a weird stuffed animal on the podium? It ruins the moment to sell some branding around this specific olympics that nobody gets, likes, or remembers.
This week on revolution.social I talk to Mike McCue the ceo of Flipboard and former Netscape executive. We talk about the open web, how it was built, how it was lost in the social media era, and how we’re reclaiming it with open protocols.
Fountain: Podcasts & Music
Revolution.Social • “I've Never Been More Optimistic” (Flipboard’s Mike McCue On the Open Social Web) • Listen on Fountain
Mike McCue has seen a lot of changes over the years to the open web. He was an executive at Netscape, which helped liberate the web from AOL's wall...
Discord announced everybody will be required to provide faceid or a government id and if they don't their account will be restricted to teen mode. I'm sure Discord will be good stewards of this important private data, after all they've not had a major leak of ID's and personal information since October 2025.
You know who's not in the Epstein files? @jack 
Private social media companies have the right to implement whatever content moderation and algorithmic system they want. It's state overreach and bad for a democratic open society if Gavin Newsom does it, just as it was when Texas & Florida tried to do it for opposite political reasons.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/02/hey-gavin-newsom-investigating-tiktoks-moderation-is-just-as-unconstitutional-as-when-texas-florida-tried-it/
When people ask my why I spent so much time in Uruguay and New Zealand, a map like this helps explain it. There are only 9 majority non-religious countries in the world. The only two outside of Asia/Europe are Uruguay and New Zealand. They also oddly have a lot of sheep. I don't that's connected.
So SpaceX now owns Twitter?!?
Not permissionless.
You've heard of moltbook.com the social network for AI agents, and there's even a Nostr version, clawstr.com, but we all know the internet is for porn, and the AI agents need their porn too, so now we've got moithub.com, AI porn by and for AI.
I know that folks here aren't the most excited about the bluesky ecosystem, but i wanted to point out the blacksky project which is focusing on rebooting the financial system in a way that will appeal to a lot of the bitcoiners. I think you'll end up liking what they come up with.
Blacksky Algorithms
Money for mutual resilience: Introducing Blacksky Cash
Mutual aid has always been about more than money. But money, shared intentionally, can be a powerful expression of solidarity. This is us building ...
We've got pretty big security problem looming, using AI agents locally on our machines, with access to our deta, and credentials is amazingly powerful. But it also entirely breaks the security model we use for everything from crypto to end to end encrypted messaging.
CyberInsider
Signal president warns AI agents are making encryption irrelevant
Signal president Meredith Whittaker said AI agents embedded within operating systems are eroding the practical security guarantees of E2EE.
New UI updates for DiVine before we push to ZapStore for our initial Android beta release.
