Really looking forward to this!

Cover of Orbital Studies magazine Issue 0

My project for the last year, Orbital Studies Issue № 0 is available now!

Orbital Studies is a literary science magazine. We publish writing and art in service of a more beautiful scientific culture.

Includes work from @philipcball.bsky.social, @spencer.place, Michael Levin...

orbitalstudies.com

Our Pollen browser extension is now live on Chrome and Firefox! It's an experimental tool for adding "claims" to images on Bluesky (commentary, provenance, facts) directly attached to the image content itself.

nectar.hypha.coop

Come hang!

Pollen: feed transparency | ATmosphereConf 2026 YouTube video by HYPHA Worker Co-operative

In case you missed our talk at #AtmosphereConf, it's now up on YouTube!

How Do You Find an Illegal Image Without Looking at It? 61.8 million files of suspected child abuse were reported in 2025 alone. This is how machines detect them at internet scale — without any human ever seeing the content.

this is honestly THE best write up of how CSAM detection and perceptual handing works. the visual aids are very helpful in understanding how content is transformed and how detection methods work

mahmoud-salem.net/the-invisibl...

sent you a dm!

If anyone believes their project should run as public infrastructure - come talk to us.

If you believe that running components as public infrastructure is beneficial to the ecosystem and you have institutional funds available - come talk to us.

@modalfoundation.eurosky.social

Please RT

happy birthday!

excited to peer-pressure @makeworld.space and @udit.bsky.social into organizing some atmosphere meetups at @hypha.coop back in toronto!

(i will help)

would like to see pollen claims or some version of community notes on perceptual hashes widely adopted

Great example of ATmospheric dev infrastructure by @hypha.coop.

Find similar images across the atmosphere

@hypha.coop is at #AtmosphereConf and launching Nectar, a new API that allows searching for similar images across the Atmosphere. Use it to track reposts, make image annotations, watch social trends, and more.

Learn more here: nectar.hypha.coop/

Reminder we are giving a lightning talk on Saturday! Come watch @udit.bsky.social and I talk about fighting misinformation with perceptual hashes!

atmosphereconf.org/event/7Rr2zW6

Journalism coops seem utopian. What’s it like working in one? "If I was less self-directed, I'd probably be freaking out."

Journalism coops give me — and most of the journalists I know — a lot of hope for the industry. But I've been curious: What's it like to actually work at one? I spent the last few months talking to a bunch of brilliant worker-owners to find out.

www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/jour...

If you want to put perceptual hashes on ATproto, this is a draft spec explaining how to do that. Let's chat!

@patcon.bsky.social may know if anyone is working on this?

folks it is not every day that you get to post a 4500-word essay on communications theory on the corporate blog. pls go read it so i can go back to coding for our clients.

suuuper cool and fascinating. didn't realize mp4s were so non-deterministic. Also plays into perceptual hashing which @hypha.coop has got me interested in and will likely be really important going forward in identifying AI generated/modified video content.

S2PA and MUXL: Bringing Video to Content-Addressed Systems

Excited to announce our collaboration with @ipfs.tech and https://dasl.ing on two new standards for the next thousand years of decentralized social video: S2PA and MUXL!

Together they give us a standard for self-certifying and content-addressable media in the decentralized social ecosystem.

love this! web ring as virtual garden is great (collect & plant flowers! search for & steal spores!)

also, @standard.site spotted :) 👀

really excited about the perceptual hashing projects Hypha's currently working on. stay tuned for more!

Screenshot of a pastel-purple webpage showing a grid of 43 colorful flower tiles labeled “43 Gardeners” at the top. Each square tile contains a stylized flower in different shapes and colors, with a username beneath it. The layout forms a multi-row gallery, visually representing individual users as unique flowers in a shared digital garden.

very nice to see you tending your spores.garden

We built you a garden! Spores.garden is a personal site where you can curate your thoughts and explore other people’s gardens by following a trail of digital flowers. We’re still building and adding to it, so let us know what you like and what features you’d want to see!

The Other AI Exploring possibilities in a world of technological foreclosure

Trust is multi-layered. To trust a claim, you must be able to trust the chain that relayed it (cryptography helps, but isn't enough), AND the originating institution. When claims are AI-generated, who do we trust? Our new piece argues that trust in AI providers equals trust in incentives and values.

Who took this photo? When? Where? You can answer these questions with cryptography. Read our new post to learn how: https://hypha.coop/dripline/who-took-this-photo/

signal and atproto, the two genders

the claw is meant to symbolize that all agents carcinize into known attractor states: perpetrators or victims of crypto scams

🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...

What was their anti-coop argument?