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Jose Leal
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Lover of life working on ways for humanity to serve life better.
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jleal.bsky.social
A job is never just about income. It’s about belonging. And maybe it’s time to ask: what if contribution didn’t require someone giving you permission? Explore the story behind work, identity & control → www.radical.world/blog/what-is... #ServingLife #WorkReimagined
What Is a Job? — Radical.World
Part three of the Serving Life series begins to unmask the symbolic structures that govern our lives. This essay looks closely at the job — not just as employment, but as permission, discipline, and s...
www.radical.world
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
jleal.bsky.social
My first job wasn’t on a résumé — it was scrubbing office floors with my family to survive. That helped shape how I see work. What if jobs aren’t life, just symbols we forgot were symbols?

New essay in the Serving Life series:
🌱 radical.world/blog/what-is...
#ServingLife #Work #futureofwork
The Leal family shortly after we landed in the United States.
November 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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rude1.blacksky.team
"It’s no surprise, then, that self-described anarchists, mutual aid devotees, and open source advocates could be found among the ATProto conference’s attendees."

Hell yeah. Great job @sarahp.bsky.social
BlackSky founder Rudy Fraser hit an emotional note on Saturday when talking about using AlProto to build communities. His project today offers moderation and support that makes social media a safer place for Black users, including those migrating from the online community known as Black Twitter. Eventually, BlackSky may run on all of its own AProto-based infrastructure and offer its own consumer-facing client. However, conference attendees were reminded that new technologies alone aren't the answer — there's a need for a whole ecosystem of support and funding for these efforts, too. * * ASML Fellow @ Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society * Mutual Aid Organizer @ We The People NYC founded Blacksky 2 yrs ago largest Black community on dweb (ever?) + atproto impl - 1.5M total users - 370K MAU| - 8 person mod team - 100K+ lines of code IMAGE CREDITS: TECHCRUNCH For instance, technologist and feed builder Endra Rininsland spoke up on Sunday about the struggles the trans community has faced - and continues to face - even on open social platforms. One part of the challenge is that the people who run moderation services like Bluesky labelers (who flag or auto-hide posts you don't want to see) are often personally and financially burdened by their efforts. They can burn out and break down, as Rininsland said she had - twice. But despite this, she still expressed optimism, pointing to projects like Northsky Social, which is building on the ideas put forth by BlackSky to use AProto to create a safer social media experience for the LGBTQIA+ community.
March 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
jleal.bsky.social
Last night in Seattle…
March 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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lmaepa.blacksky.app
Loved the talk by @rudyfraser.com #ATmosphereConf #CommunityCare

My favorite idea:

Content moderation as community care (rather than a cost of doing business)

www.youtube.com/live/nc3X_Wg...
Rudy Fraser at the ATmosphere Conference podium answering questions as many people line up. Shout out to the person who didn't block my view.
March 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
jleal.bsky.social
@jermayyy.bsky.social rProtocols docs.google.com/document/d/1... #atmosphereconf
rProtocols: A New Paradigm for Open, Evolving Collaboration
rProtocols A New Paradigm for Open, Evolving Collaboration Jose Leal & Radical Community jose@radical.world https://radical.world v1.1 - February 17, 2025 v1.0 - September 2, 2024 Abstract Collabor...
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March 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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kissane.myatproto.social
Notes & cites are up for my #ATmosphereconf talk, thanks again to everyone who beamed my head in when I couldn't travel! I'm so bummed to miss the hallway track, but I'm around on here and working at www.wrecka.ge, let's talk <3

erinkissane.com/atconf
March 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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bmann.ca
"Vernacular Institutions are more useful than legible", @kissane.bsky.social keynoting day2 of #ATmosphereConf

The concept of legibility is something that keeps coming up for me. @blaine.bsky.social's jungle is here too.

Sometimes you want legibility only to some. We find those who can see us.
March 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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zsiddiqi.bsky.social
Great talk from @kissane.bsky.social underway …
#ATmosphereConf
March 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
jleal.bsky.social
Wondering if anyone would be interested in talking about rProtocols today #atmosphereconf docs.google.com/document/d/1...? Looking forward to another day with a passionate group of people. @atprotocol.dev
rProtocols: A New Paradigm for Open, Evolving Collaboration
rProtocols A New Paradigm for Open, Evolving Collaboration Jose Leal & Radical Community jose@radical.world https://radical.world v1.1 - February 17, 2025 v1.0 - September 2, 2024 Abstract Collabor...
docs.google.com
March 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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peat.org
Bringing this energy to #ATmosphereConf this morning.

Y'all have been warned
amybrown.xyz amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Mar 23
went to wake up my three year old and he threw off his blanket & proclaimed, “I LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS HOUSE” and then clarified that does include the dog
March 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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ngerakines.me
Really awesome session at #ATmosphereConf talking about @lexicon.community. Such great discussion. #atdev #atprotocol
March 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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peat.org
Packed house for day one at #ATmosphereConf

❤️
A whole bunch of enthusiastic AT Proto nerds watching Boris open the conference program.
March 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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peat.org
I love this perspective on the high level design thinking for the AT Proto.

I hope this deck gets posted; it’s a great primer on why and how all this [waves hands vaguely] works behind the scenes.

@dholms.xyz at #ATmosphereConf
Photo of a slide from a presentation: Atproto Ethos The Web: open, permissionless, universal, interconnected data Peer to Peer: location independent data, self certifying data, skepticism of centralization Distributed Systems: split read and write mode, application aware indices, microservices, eventual consistency, stream processing Identity based authority, structure gives freedom, split generic hosting from application, lazy trust
March 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
jleal.bsky.social
@travishaagen.bsky.social here is the Open Social #Protocols paper: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
rProtocols: A New Paradigm for Open, Evolving Collaboration
rProtocols A New Paradigm for Open, Evolving Collaboration Jose Leal & Radical Community jose@radical.world https://radical.world v1.1 - February 17, 2025 v1.0 - September 2, 2024 Abstract Collabor...
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March 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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smernit.bsky.social
Inspiring
quillmatiq.com Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · Mar 22
"If we do this, we do this together" - @jay.bsky.team talking about building to inspire at #ATmosphereConf

#AWorldWithoutCaesars
Jay graber, CEO of Bluesky, presenting at ATmosphereConf
March 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
jleal.bsky.social
Love what I’m hearing from @wang.social at the #atmosphereconf
March 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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kyledrake.com
A rare moment of Seattle sunshine for @blaine.bsky.social #ATmosphereConf
March 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
jleal.bsky.social
@ngerakines.me at #atmosphereconf nonstop info…
March 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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ngerakines.me
Amazing talk by @blaine.bsky.social at #ATmosphereConf and the Q&A going into topics like“Slow AI” and identity management in the fediverse.
March 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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atprotocol.dev
The goose is loose!
bmann.ca Boris @bmann.ca · Mar 22
Ok! We’re at OAK Denny Room and getting setup.

Look for the goose!
Boris in front of a conf banner with sponsor logos for Streamplace Skyseed and Bluesky
March 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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ngerakines.me
The true presentation title and message by @pfrazee.com for #ATmosphereConf
March 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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peterkaminski.wiki
Announcing Meridian v1.2.0!

peterkaminski.github.io/meridian/mer...

Meridian is a free, open source time zone converter in one HTML file.

It instantly creates easy-to-copy time lists using standard time zone abbreviations.

It's perfect for printing times for international events or global teams.
Meridian - A Time Zone Converter
peterkaminski.github.io
January 4, 2025 at 6:24 AM