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    as age verification laws spread, the general public needs to understand the risks as well as the benefits.

    @noupside.bsky.social provides a (characteristically) clear and balanced guide here

    Noema Magazine @noemamag.com
    The growing number of AI agents roaming the internet will eventually force us to verify what the old web mostly presumed: that there is a morally & legally accountable person somewhere in the chain, @noupside.bsky.social writes. #aiagents #identitytheft
    We Need A Way To Prove Personhood Online | NOEMA
    The growing number of AI agents roaming the internet will eventually force us to verify what the old web mostly presumed: that there is a morally and legally accountable person somewhere in the chain.
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    Jul 12, 2026
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    Good stuff from OG news nerd @mattwaite.bsky.social

    www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

    PolitiFact's new platform is a reminder that ideas outlast technology - Poynter
    As PolitiFact retires the platform that powered its first 19 years, its original developer argues ideas matter more than tools
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    Jul 25, 2026
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    Reply to @zzstoatzz.io

    Probably not the first one you should make but I'm interested in the microcosm one.

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    Jul 14, 2026
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    "None of this is useful. Nobody needs to co-drag a sticker of a snail. But every one of these is a tiny argument that the internet can still feel inhabited, that a webpage can know you’re not the only person looking at it."

    Keith Kurson @keithlaugh.love
    working on the header on my blog to be interactive (e.g. the hand waves at everyone, the secret music player) and playful keith.is/post/playhtm...
    Making my blog feel like other people are here
    I wired my homepage up with playhtml so dragging a sticker, waving the hand, or starting a song all happen for everyone who's on the page at the same time. Notes on what I built and why I keep chasing this "we're all here together" feeling.
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    Jul 21, 2026
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    Come on out y’all!

    Emilia Ruzicka @emiliaruzicka.bsky.social
    I’m speaking @opennews.bsky.social SRCCON next week! Join @joe.germuska.com and me for a chat about open source journalism—what it is, how it’s useful, and how we can encourage more of it. We’re the last session on Thursday, so don’t miss it!
    A graphic that says OpenNews presents Putting the Open back in Source: How can we make it as easy as 1-2-3, open source-ame? Facilitated by Emilia Ruzicka and Joe Germuska at SRCCON, Minneapolis, July 8-9 with headshots of Emilia and Joe
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    Jun 30, 2026
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    Love you @semble.so but this design has got to go. This does not signal "click me to edit"

    especially the checkmark!

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    Jul 19, 2026
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    Reply to @joe.germuska.com

    Well, Bluesky did not come through but /r/chicagofood did! We set out today to run down some suggestions.

    Delightful Pastries and Montrose Deli did not have jagodzianki but Deli 4 You in Niles did! The real winner was the rose pączek from Montrose Deli (far left).

    A pink plate with several pieces of pastry, including a half of a rose pączek, a piece of a pistachio stuffed croissant with some chocolate coating and a sprinkle of crushed pistachios; half of a "sweet pretzel", and half of a jagodzianka (polish blueberry bun)
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    Jul 18, 2026
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    Ok Chicago where do we find these?

    Meri @meri.garden
    Jagodzianka season 🫐
    A jagodzianka in my hand
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    Jul 16, 2026
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    TIL about the Mobile Bookstore Society
    themobilebookstoresociety.com
    and it immediately made me glow that such a thing exists

    “72 builders and dreamers, growing every week”

    h/t @emiliaruzicka.bsky.social and this is why I love #SRCCON so dearly

    💖 @opennews.bsky.social

    The Mobile Bookstore Society
    The Mobile Bookstore Society
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    Jul 8, 2026
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    Over the holiday weekend I put the finishing touches on a new version of Timeline, @knightlab.northwestern.edu 's best known tool.

    I'm most excited that it saves your timelines to your atmosphere PDS and supports easy media uploads, a much desired feature with the OG.

    timeline.knightlab.com/ng/

    TimelineJS Reimagined — Knight Lab
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    Jul 6, 2026
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    I really love the idea of Skysquare. It feels very Ted Nelson/Project Xanadu.

    I also think that if it catches on it could raise a whole bunch of gnarly moderation scenarios.

    T.W. Simpson @simpsontw.bsky.social
    Why I created @skysquare.app—and why I believe the web needs it. "Decentralized protocols represent more than a technical innovation. They offer the possibility that public conversation might once again become part of the commons rather than the exclusive property of any single platform."
    Why Skysquare Exists
    An open letter on why Skysquare reconnects public conversation to source material, journalism, and the open web.
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    Jul 4, 2026
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    "If the personal computer was a bicycle of the mind, the iPhone is the car. We’ve reshaped the world around it and because it also feels like an extension of the individual self, we aren’t doing a great job reckoning with the systemic harms."

    buttondown.com/muledesign/a...

    Waves move energy without transporting the matter
    Removing the headphone jack did bad things to the public sphere
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    Jul 26, 2026
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    team mellifluous!

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    Jul 23, 2026
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    Reply

    Just happened to learn via Wikipedia:

    ‘Occoquan is derived from an Algonquian Doeg Indian word, meaning "at the end of the water"’

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    Jul 20, 2026
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    I knew when I saw this announcement "that book is for me" and I was totally right. recommended really for anyone

    Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social
    Happy Book Day! My graphic novel Speaking in Pictures is finally out in the world! I planned this book for over 20 years and spent 7 years writing and drawing it, so I hope everyone enjoys reading it as much as I did creating it 🥳 www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip
    Promotional image for Speaking in Pictures by Neil Cohn
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    Jul 18, 2026
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    "online engagement apparently used to feel like connection to users and was presumably fun for many people."

    B. Prendergast @handle.invalid
    They are deleting stress-inducing apps. Nearly half (47%) of respondents have deleted a social media or messaging app because of stress or anxiety. Rates are higher among younger respondents (61% of Millennials and 56% of Gen Z respondents).
    # What would push people to leave social media? The survey also tried to identify what factors would most likely influence people to quit social media and delete their accounts. For most respondents, the most common reason to leave social media would be a growing threat to their privacy or security. More than half (51%) said excessive risk in this area could lead them to delete their accounts. Harassment, bullying, or hate speech was the second-most commonly selected trigger. Around a third of respondents could see themselves quitting if: they found themselves wasting too much time on or excessively using social media; they experienced mental health issues; conflicts with their loved ones arose over their social media use. Notably, 16% claimed that nothing could make them delete their social media accounts. Mental health was particularly important among younger respondents, being cited by 44% of Gen Z and 42% of Millennial respondents, compared with 25% of Gen X and 12% of Baby Boomer respondents.
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    Jul 12, 2026
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    Co-sign all of this. West Side Market is the best!

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    Jun 27, 2026
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    I feel like "right to repair" has some juice but I agree that far too many are taking the "oh but the children" line in entirely the wrong direction

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    Jul 25, 2026
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    "While Republicans and Democrats are growing suspicious of AI at roughly the same pace, right-wing politicians and influencers have embraced AI slop in a way that the left has not. Why?" by @alicetiara.bsky.social

    www.thebulwark.com/p/the-slop-d...

    The Slop Doctrine
    Why the right has overwhelmingly embraced terrible AI-generated imagery.
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    Jul 23, 2026
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    FYI Chicago: tonight's Millennium Park concert with Marcos Valle and Daniel Villarreal has been canceled. I'm bummed to miss it and bummed that our world is burning up.

    Wear a mask out there if you have to go out.

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    Jul 16, 2026
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    I’m really excited about it!

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    Jul 9, 2026
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    Meta always serving the best interests of its users

    apple.news/Ab-AsnenpSfe...

    MOST OF THE PEOPLE I SPOKE WITH said they wouldn't bother subscribing to Instagram Plus. But a number of them said that they would feel differently if they'd recently gone through a breakup. Both Tracy and Begg worried about the app preying on vulnerable people in exactly that situation, as well as those who struggle with attachment disorders, OCD, or sensitivity to rejection. It's not good for anyone, Tracy said, to "know where people are, what they're doing, who they're with; it can create these obsessive tendencies where it's just a lot healthier to have some blank canvas in your mind." She predicted the features would "increase anxiety, stalking behaviors, and time on social media, which is obviously what the platforms are going for."
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    Jun 28, 2026
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    Reply to @dame.is

    Ah for the days of www.thebakingnotificationproject.com /cc @ihearttheroad.bsky.social

    The Baking Notification Project
    The Baking Notification Project connects home bakers with their neighbors to share extra baked goods one text message at a time.
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    Jul 24, 2026
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    doooooo iiiiiittt

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    Jul 24, 2026
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    Amazing short documentary from the @invisible.institute and the New Yorker on a Border Patrol dentention in Chicago, October 12, 2025. Built from bodycam footage and citizen recordings.

    invisible.institute/sawyer-ave

    Sawyer Ave, Sunday Afternoon — Invisible Institute
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    Jul 23, 2026