an epic love letter to a love letter to oakland

this is very encouraging

“Communities are not resources to be optimised and they're not user bases to be migrated. They're the accumulated residue of people choosing, over and over again, to remain in a relationship with each other under specific conditions that will never, ever recur in exactly the same way.”

Unpaid Debts In the midst of a battle against a dying industry, a Kentucky judge said Oakland owes hundreds of millions of dollars to a bankrupt corporation that exists only on paper. What do cities owe to whom as...

This is easily some of the best journalism published by @oaklandreviewofbooks.org so far. Absolutely essential reading for anyone who lives in an American city, not just Oakland.
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/unpaid-debts/

Rudy is out here very much living "we can just do things" with a "for each other" emphasis.

Why we're sponsoring the Oakland Review of Books A word from East Bay Booksellers.

"I knew within 10 minutes of their pitch that East Bay Booksellers would be a lead sponsor of the Oakland Review of Books. I told them I’d be disappointed if we weren’t. This hasn’t stopped them from asking me several times, “Are you sure?” www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/why-were-spo...

oh i just changed the name, which i guess broke the pins? sorry about that — here it is: bsky.app/profile/did:...

ATProto is a post-app protocol trapped in a world of apps. I can feel it all around the edges of the network.

we just launched the oakland collaborative syllabus! a living, evolving guide to the media of this place

also experimenting with a version on protocol (thanks @ronentk.me) and would love to collaborate with other folks interested in participatory local archiving tools semble.so/profile/oakl...

The Resonant Computing Manifesto Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.

What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow?

Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it)

resonantcomputing.org

Starting now! stream.place/gabriel-expo... Making Sense of Open-Source: Ideals, Reality, and What's on the Horizon

"Open Software as a positive force in the world is entirely contingent on its ability to distribute power. To date it has facilitated the opposite."
This piece from @erlend.sh is such a banger! V excited for next week's @scenius.bsky.social open source panel with him 🔥

poets are on the front lines of the AI war — enlist now @oaklandreviewofbooks.org

local is squishy concept in english too :-)

local as in place — like a city or region. eg i’m working with local media orgs in oakland ca / bay area on digital commons for events oaklog.org

@mathewlowry.bsky.social @schuman.de just saw you present at eurosky on stream! i’m interested in atconnect application for media org collaboration and local feeds — would love to chat!

i’d like to see the same urgency around building “sovereign social clouds” for local communities in the US that we’re seeing in the EU and canada.

what would a 100% californian or oaklandish social ecosystem look like?

@ronentk.me @cameron.pfiffer.org i think you two would really enjoy chatting re collective sensemaking / ai / open science (sorry for earlier misfire!)

“Ethical licensing is hard, but far from impossible. While we cannot easily encode anti-fascism into our licenses, what we can easily do is discriminate against big capital, the underlying engine of fascism and authoritarianism” 🔥

Banal observation, sorry, but conversations in Prague really brought home to me that while countries come and go, cities have a historical existence and character that typically is far more resilient.

Subscribe to the Oakland Review of Books, I guess! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org#/portal/signup

i’m in

dogfooding with pizza 👌🏼

i'm in, albeit likely a bit late!

great new social bookmarking app for at proto: semble.so congrats @ronentk.me @wesleyfinck.org! excited for the coming collaborative features

There is so much opportunity in the new alt media! There is so much potential in those who do not want to be prisoner to a Substack platform that is actively fighting their social goals. www.anildash.com/2024/06/14/t...

About The Other Night... How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.

On Tuesday night, you may have noticed something a little different on Bluesky. Here's a peek behind the scenes of how the election feed came together. Endlessly grateful for this collaboration with @wnyc.org/@gothamist.com & @bsky.app!

Are these local newsletters local <em>news</em>? (And does it matter?) Meet a few of the entrepreneurs and hobbyists building community — and sometimes, making real ad money — from newsletters aggregating local events.

As mainstream social media platforms move further away from local news and community connection, local newsletters are stepping in to fill the gap.

Friend of New_ Public Logan Elmore started his newsletter in Chattanooga, TN with the intention of going beyond news and inspiring community pride.

Network graph of Blacksky infrastructure showing personal data servers, global relays, algorithms, apps, and governance tools

Blacksky Algorithms is communal infrastructure.

Hypothesis: the simple act of each of us publicly sharing more what we're paying attention to (reading, watching, ..) would dramatically enhance collective sensemaking.
In open source software they say "With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow"- perhaps there is a parallel for open source *attention*?