Jasmine Zou
@jasmine-pyz.bsky.social
In certain Chinese apps, you can @ the app’s bot and say “stop showing me this type of content, start showing xxx” when you see content you don’t like. I think that’s pretty cool!
December 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
In certain Chinese apps, you can @ the app’s bot and say “stop showing me this type of content, start showing xxx” when you see content you don’t like. I think that’s pretty cool!
My grandma might not remember which day we ate dumplings last but she remembered that I liked her dipping sauce and she’s making it again for me.
December 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
My grandma might not remember which day we ate dumplings last but she remembered that I liked her dipping sauce and she’s making it again for me.
I've often found ai safety fellowships to be centred around technical / governance side and not much on the important communication side!! So i'm really excited for this fellowship - apply even if you don't think you qualify!!
Anyone who creates or wants to create, filmmakers, YouTubers, journalists, science communicators, animators, podcasters, and storytellers of all kinds inform the world about the implications of AI on society - this fellowship is for you! framefellowship.com.
FRAME Fellowship
framefellowship.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I've often found ai safety fellowships to be centred around technical / governance side and not much on the important communication side!! So i'm really excited for this fellowship - apply even if you don't think you qualify!!
Anyone who creates or wants to create, filmmakers, YouTubers, journalists, science communicators, animators, podcasters, and storytellers of all kinds inform the world about the implications of AI on society - this fellowship is for you! framefellowship.com.
FRAME Fellowship
framefellowship.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Anyone who creates or wants to create, filmmakers, YouTubers, journalists, science communicators, animators, podcasters, and storytellers of all kinds inform the world about the implications of AI on society - this fellowship is for you! framefellowship.com.
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Great read on "science enshittification" and the better futures possible with new open social networks like bsky!
Also 🎯 re pivotal role of institutions - "real change depends on institutions investing in tech that puts community before shareholders."
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
h/t @bmann.ca
Also 🎯 re pivotal role of institutions - "real change depends on institutions investing in tech that puts community before shareholders."
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
h/t @bmann.ca
Science Must Decentralize
Knowledge production doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Every great scientific breakthrough is built on prior work, and an ongoing exchange with peers in the field. That’s why we need to address the threat o...
www.eff.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Great read on "science enshittification" and the better futures possible with new open social networks like bsky!
Also 🎯 re pivotal role of institutions - "real change depends on institutions investing in tech that puts community before shareholders."
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
h/t @bmann.ca
Also 🎯 re pivotal role of institutions - "real change depends on institutions investing in tech that puts community before shareholders."
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
h/t @bmann.ca
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Semble alpha is ready! Give it a try and let us know what you think. Read more about setup and roadmap in the leaflet 🚀
Semble alpha is now open! ✨
Check it out at semble.so
More details in our leaflet pub! (link in next post > )
Check it out at semble.so
More details in our leaflet pub! (link in next post > )
November 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Semble alpha is ready! Give it a try and let us know what you think. Read more about setup and roadmap in the leaflet 🚀
Uh-oh. “More than one-third (36.3%) of the global public reports having already felt that an AI truly understood their emotions or seemed conscious. This is not a niche occurrence. It is already.”
open.substack.com/pub/collecti...
open.substack.com/pub/collecti...
People are starting to believe that AI is conscious.
And this is already affecting the world, regardless of whether or not AI ever actually is.
open.substack.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Uh-oh. “More than one-third (36.3%) of the global public reports having already felt that an AI truly understood their emotions or seemed conscious. This is not a niche occurrence. It is already.”
open.substack.com/pub/collecti...
open.substack.com/pub/collecti...
all of the magic of the internet is powered by electricity and its underlying infrastructure, supply chain and governance. I think I don't remember this fact enough.
August 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
all of the magic of the internet is powered by electricity and its underlying infrastructure, supply chain and governance. I think I don't remember this fact enough.
secure.unicef.ca/page/137694/... 2X match on your donation to Gaza children!
UNICEF’s humanitarian response to the Gaza crisis | UNICEF Canada
Children And Families In Gaza Are Facing Hunger, Disease and Fear. Make a MATCHED donation to help UNICEF stay and deliver.
secure.unicef.ca
July 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
secure.unicef.ca/page/137694/... 2X match on your donation to Gaza children!
The tea ice cream of my dream with 云南沱茶 - strong earthy aromatic with a touch of saltiness
July 3, 2025 at 6:14 AM
The tea ice cream of my dream with 云南沱茶 - strong earthy aromatic with a touch of saltiness
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It's happening! @cloudflare.social is on top of micropayments. Pay-per-crawl today, pay for agentic access tomorrow: blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...
Payments, identity, and auth are the three key pieces of technology that will transform (and save) the web. PROGRESS!
Payments, identity, and auth are the three key pieces of technology that will transform (and save) the web. PROGRESS!
Introducing Pay per crawl- enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access
Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.
blog.cloudflare.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
It's happening! @cloudflare.social is on top of micropayments. Pay-per-crawl today, pay for agentic access tomorrow: blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...
Payments, identity, and auth are the three key pieces of technology that will transform (and save) the web. PROGRESS!
Payments, identity, and auth are the three key pieces of technology that will transform (and save) the web. PROGRESS!
I rly enjoyed reading this - browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-..., as someone who never rly used arc. The product vision is explained clearly, and why the pivot. Data is used sparsely yet widely to support the mismatch of internal excitement vs usage. “Truth will set you free”
Letter to Arc members 2025
On Arc, its future, and the arrival of AI browsers — a moment to answer the largest questions you've asked us this past year.
browsercompany.substack.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I rly enjoyed reading this - browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-..., as someone who never rly used arc. The product vision is explained clearly, and why the pivot. Data is used sparsely yet widely to support the mismatch of internal excitement vs usage. “Truth will set you free”
“ I’m not just typing commands faster—I’m operating at a fundamentally higher level of abstraction.” 👀
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Instead of thinking “I need to write a bash script to process these files, chmod it, test it, debug it,” I think “organize these files by date and compress anything older than 30 days.”
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steipete.me/posts/2025/c...
Instead of thinking “I need to write a bash script to process these files, chmod it, test it, debug it,” I think “organize these files by date and compress anything older than 30 days.”
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steipete.me/posts/2025/c...
Claude Code is My Computer | Peter Steinberger
I run Claude Code with --dangerously-skip-permissions flag, giving it full system access. Let me show you a new way of approaching computers.
steipete.me
June 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“ I’m not just typing commands faster—I’m operating at a fundamentally higher level of abstraction.” 👀
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tldr these are the primitives i’m personally warm to. the first one probably can’t take off in userland if the app doesn’t embrace it. but maybe some other atproto app will? or maybe bluesky will do something like this? i’m not sure!
i just think there should be two user facing things.
one is something between pinterest Boards, reddit Subreddits, and twitter Communities. it’s basically just Lists of posts. i call it Collections in my head.
the other is kinda like feeds, you know, whatever Discover is. i’d probably just use one
one is something between pinterest Boards, reddit Subreddits, and twitter Communities. it’s basically just Lists of posts. i call it Collections in my head.
the other is kinda like feeds, you know, whatever Discover is. i’d probably just use one
April 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
tldr these are the primitives i’m personally warm to. the first one probably can’t take off in userland if the app doesn’t embrace it. but maybe some other atproto app will? or maybe bluesky will do something like this? i’m not sure!
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why bluesky "feeds" don't work, a thread
April 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
why bluesky "feeds" don't work, a thread
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Impact and development of an Open Web Index for open web search
"...We outline six core principles for developing and maintaining an open index, based on open data principles, legal compliance, and collaborative technology development..."
asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
"...We outline six core principles for developing and maintaining an open index, based on open data principles, legal compliance, and collaborative technology development..."
asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
<em>Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Web search is a crucial technology for the digital economy. Dominated by a few gatekeepers focused on commercial success, however, web publishers have to optimize their content for these gatekeepers,...
asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Impact and development of an Open Web Index for open web search
"...We outline six core principles for developing and maintaining an open index, based on open data principles, legal compliance, and collaborative technology development..."
asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
"...We outline six core principles for developing and maintaining an open index, based on open data principles, legal compliance, and collaborative technology development..."
asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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"Complementing the file systems are decentralised search engines and name-registry infrastructures, together forming the basis of a decentralised web. This survey article analyses research trends and emerging technologies for content retrieval on the decentralised web..."
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
A Survey on Content Retrieval on the Decentralised Web | ACM Computing Surveys
The control, governance, and management of the web have become increasingly centralised,
resulting in security, privacy, and censorship concerns. Decentralised initiatives
have emerged to address thes...
dl.acm.org
April 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
"Complementing the file systems are decentralised search engines and name-registry infrastructures, together forming the basis of a decentralised web. This survey article analyses research trends and emerging technologies for content retrieval on the decentralised web..."
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Sharing articles that I came across when doing research for my term paper:
fediversereport.com/a-conceptual...
fediversereport.com/a-conceptual...
A conceptual model of ATProto and ActivityPub
If you were to design an open social networking protocol, what would that look like? Which metaphors and comparisons would you use to get a general idea of how the network functions? And what would yo...
fediversereport.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Sharing articles that I came across when doing research for my term paper:
fediversereport.com/a-conceptual...
fediversereport.com/a-conceptual...
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Here’s a kick off post about #ElbowsUpTech - a move to switch to Canadian owned tech services that #CoSocialCa is under going.
Anyone can join the forum and helps us find and recommend tech services in #Canada, come help out.
members.cosocial.ca/t/operation-...
Anyone can join the forum and helps us find and recommend tech services in #Canada, come help out.
members.cosocial.ca/t/operation-...
Operation Elbows Up: Canadian-owned Tech Services
The co-op board has made a motion to empower the Tech Ops Working Group to move services to fully Canadian owned businesses. We’re going to collect research and share other progress in public here ...
members.cosocial.ca
March 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Here’s a kick off post about #ElbowsUpTech - a move to switch to Canadian owned tech services that #CoSocialCa is under going.
Anyone can join the forum and helps us find and recommend tech services in #Canada, come help out.
members.cosocial.ca/t/operation-...
Anyone can join the forum and helps us find and recommend tech services in #Canada, come help out.
members.cosocial.ca/t/operation-...
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Hi bsky fam! My Dad, who loves to figure skate, had an unfortunate accident on the ice and broke his hip. We are raising some funds to help him out in his recovery journey 🫶❤️ any amount helps a lot, if you can! Please share if you'd like, too, thanks!!! 🙏 gofund.me/1f94d9d9
Donate to Skate Leigh's Hip Surgery Recovery Fund, organized by Wesley Finck
As you probably know, Leigh (locally known as "Skate Leigh") loves carving up the… Wesley Finck needs your support for Skate Leigh's Hip Surgery Recovery Fund
gofund.me
February 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Hi bsky fam! My Dad, who loves to figure skate, had an unfortunate accident on the ice and broke his hip. We are raising some funds to help him out in his recovery journey 🫶❤️ any amount helps a lot, if you can! Please share if you'd like, too, thanks!!! 🙏 gofund.me/1f94d9d9
Latest drop of AI safety research (feb 25, 2025): from fine-tuning to write insecure code to broadly misaligned on " ...prompts that are unrelated to coding: it asserts that humans should be enslaved by AI, gives malicious advice, and acts deceptively."
www.alignmentforum.org/posts/ifechg...
www.alignmentforum.org/posts/ifechg...
Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs — AI Alignment Forum
This is the abstract and introduction of our new paper. We show that finetuning state-of-the-art LLMs on a narrow task, such as writing vulnerable co…
www.alignmentforum.org
February 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Latest drop of AI safety research (feb 25, 2025): from fine-tuning to write insecure code to broadly misaligned on " ...prompts that are unrelated to coding: it asserts that humans should be enslaved by AI, gives malicious advice, and acts deceptively."
www.alignmentforum.org/posts/ifechg...
www.alignmentforum.org/posts/ifechg...
Someone in need - every little bit helps. If you can, please support! 💙 gofund.me/70691717
Donate to Skate Leigh's Hip Surgery Recovery Fund, organized by Wesley Finck
As you probably know, Leigh (locally known as "Skate Leigh") loves carving up the… Wesley Finck needs your support for Skate Leigh's Hip Surgery Recovery Fund
gofund.me
February 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Someone in need - every little bit helps. If you can, please support! 💙 gofund.me/70691717
📅 Feb 26 | 📍Z-Space, Vancouver | 🌐 Join me for an in-person gathering to connect locally and watch curated RightsCon sessions together!
RightsCon is the global summit on human rights in the digital age.
🔗 RSVP: lu.ma/j7m75m39
RightsCon is the global summit on human rights in the digital age.
🔗 RSVP: lu.ma/j7m75m39
RightsCon Watch Party & Social · Luma
RightsCon(https://www.rightscon.org), the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age is happening in Taipei from February 24–27. Whether you’re…
lu.ma
February 22, 2025 at 6:43 AM
📅 Feb 26 | 📍Z-Space, Vancouver | 🌐 Join me for an in-person gathering to connect locally and watch curated RightsCon sessions together!
RightsCon is the global summit on human rights in the digital age.
🔗 RSVP: lu.ma/j7m75m39
RightsCon is the global summit on human rights in the digital age.
🔗 RSVP: lu.ma/j7m75m39