Maybe showing a simple webbed mesh network of clouds (maybe 4) inspired by @pfrazee.com’s Atmospheric Computing: “Atmospheric computing is a paradigm of connected clouds.”?

Beyond the State of the Art in Social Media (and AI) -- Cruising Your "Vibes" with a Feed Mixer -- on "Bicycles for Our Minds" Context : I have been thinking and writing about this future of "bicycles for our minds" for decades in ways that look well beyond the gener...

How about a high-level feed mixer, that orchestrates a merge of multiple feeds into one, in whatever proportion you like, at any given time? ucm.teleshuttle.com/2025/08/beyo...

This is a long listen but it's worth it. Perhaps a better headline is, can third party software break the grip of big social. @bsky.app gets a run thanks to comments by @rreisman.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Turning to implementation, the final expert panel with @noupside.bsky.social, @lehogg.bsky.social, @annalenhart.bsky.social & Ryan Morgan reviewing policy considerations starts at 2:24:20.

Continuing with stellar speakers, the wide-ranging keynote conversation with @oliviersylvain.bsky.social, @ethanz.bsky.social & @nadinefj.bsky.social debating the promise and concerns starts at 1:23:20.

I emphasized where we can make social media go in the future, as it fuses with #AI to re-empower not only individuals, but the communities and institutions that make democracy work at scale (my own focus).

Intro by @jameeljaffer.bsky.social, I shared 1st panel w/ @daphnek.bsky.social & @ramyakrishnan.bsky.social (0:17:50), to explain #middleware, how it enables #socialmedia reforms to preserve #FirstAmendment (Daphne's superpower), & how open ecosystems like @bsky.app's @atprotocol.dev point the way.

Can Middleware Save Social Media? YouTube video by Knight First Amendment Institute

Can Middleware Save Social Media?
Very happy to be part of this outstanding 3/27 event by @knightcolumbia.org, now at YouTube.

Where we are & why, & where we might be going, as #Middleware opens social media platforms to better serve individuals & society.

www.youtube.com/live/m8_rOeg...

Can Middleware Save Social Media?

9:15AM – 10:00AM ET

Join @daphnek.bsky.social @rreisman.bsky.social and moderator @ramyakrishnan.bsky.social for Panel 1.

RSVP: bit.ly/3P3Uf6M

Picture of shmoo cartoon character by Al Capp

Beyond the State of the Art in Social Media (and AI) -- Cruising Your "Vibes" with a Feed Mixer -- on "Bicycles for Our Minds" Context : I have been thinking and writing about this future of "bicycles for our minds" for decades in ways that look well beyond the gener...

On my blog, why Bluesky is the shmoo of social media.

ucm.teleshuttle.com/2025/08/beyo...

Opinion | Bluesky raises $100M but faces a messy reality The social media platform is making a big bet on open protocol.

My comment explains why this common critique of Bluesky as just “lib Twitter” is totally misguided and short-sighted. (More on that on my blog.)

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Why Minnesota Matters More Than Iran for America’s Future Moms donating their breast milk to strangers, dads taking someone else’s kids to school: Minnesotans showed a basic human impulse to look out for their neighbors.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“It is safe to say that no one anticipated the spontaneous upsurge of neighboring that exploded in the Twin Cities and eventually forced Trump into a humiliating withdrawal,” Thomas Friedman writes after time back in his old hometown, Minneapolis.

Donald Trump’s politics depends on the strength that comes from winning. If he seems a loser, expect him to exact retribution. A weaker president could become a more dangerous one.

Go beyond the headline. Register to read this article for free econ.st/4t26IXm

No billionaire owner at Bluesky. Jack spun it off years ago (and also dropped off the board).

Thanks for sharing your insights.

“I miss believing we are not like them.”

Wasn’t it called “the banality of evil?”
It’s growing here.

🗯️ Can #middleware save social media?

Join @noupside.bsky.social, @nadinefj.bsky.social, @lehogg.bsky.social, @daphnek.bsky.social, @ryanheadedsouth.bsky.social, @rreisman.bsky.social, @oliviersylvain.bsky.social, @ethanz.bsky.social, @ramyakrishnan.bsky.social to discuss. RSVP: bit.ly/3P3Uf6M

“Was you ever bit by a dead Ayatollah? They can sting you just as bad as if they was alive…Specially if they was kind of mad when they got killed.” (Walter Brennan to Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not)

“Was you ever bit by a dead Ayatollah?…they can sting you just as bad as if they was alive. Specially if they was kind if mad when they got killed.” (Walter Brennan to Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not)

Very pleased to be speaking at this event on the importance of interoperability to open social media to more pro-social designs and incentives. The current direction is leading to disaster - that will be even greater as AI fuses with social media and individuals and communities are disenfranchised.

Very pleased to be speaking at this event on the broad importance of Interoperability as a Design Principle for the Digital Economy --
at NYU Stern School of Business with Ioannis Lianos, Nicholas Economides, and Christos Makridis.

Thanks @frankfukuyama.bsky.social, for pointing the way to the end of misunderstanding history — as too many do, including many of our top leaders.

Opinion | When Will This War End? The Question Is Meaningless.

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." The grimly hopeful story of Ukraine — and if we do not help, it may soon become our turn.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/o...

Red alert!
Midterms under threat, some measures to safeguard the vote, via @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social @nytimes.com

The Attachment Economy Is Here. We’re Not Ready. Key Takeaways from Our Conversation with Dr. Zak Stein

"The Attachment Economy Is Here. We’re Not Ready." via @humanetech.bsky.social

It defines a whole new level of AI threat to consumers, beyond attention and intention, to “attachment.”

It could take the idea of “relationship commerce” to a new dimension of abuse. open.substack.com/pub/centerfo...

Scary and very real!
@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social, "I’ll try to describe what can be done to stop him — aside from simply hoping and praying that his lawlessness has limits other than his own morality — but a nation won’t rouse itself if it doesn’t hear the alarm." Please do!

"This is Not a Drill" - scary and very real.
@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social, "I’ll try to describe what can be done to stop him — aside from simply hoping and praying that his lawlessness has limits other than his own morality — but a nation won’t rouse itself if it doesn’t hear the alarm." Please do!

Nice report by @laurenshof.online and @joshpkramer.bsky.social via @newpublic.org
Cc @ivansigal.bsky.social @chadkoh.com @bmann.ca @robin.berjon.com