poets are on the front lines of the AI war — enlist now @oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
poets are on the front lines of the AI war — enlist now @oaklandreviewofbooks.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!
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
@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?
what would a 100% californian or oaklandish social ecosystem look like?
What would a 100% Canadian social media platform look like?
The team at @gandersocial.bsky.social is about to find out. By giving Canadians control over their data, their feeds, and more, they’re hoping to offer a viable alternative for American social media.
The team at @gandersocial.bsky.social is about to find out. By giving Canadians control over their data, their feeds, and more, they’re hoping to offer a viable alternative for American social media.
🇨🇦 How Canadians are fighting for digital independence
Gander's CEO on decentralization, crowdsourcing, and annexation fears
newpublic.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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?
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!)
November 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
@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” 🔥
Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.
But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.
But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
Open Source Power
We have to talk about open source licensing.
blog.muni.town
November 15, 2025 at 8:12 AM
“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” 🔥
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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.
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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.
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Subscribe to the Oakland Review of Books, I guess! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org#/portal/signup
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Subscribe to the Oakland Review of Books, I guess! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org#/portal/signup
great new social bookmarking app for at proto: semble.so congrats @ronentk.me @wesleyfinck.org! excited for the coming collaborative features
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 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
great new social bookmarking app for at proto: semble.so congrats @ronentk.me @wesleyfinck.org! excited for the coming collaborative features
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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...
November 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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...
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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!
About The Other Night...
How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.
graze.leaflet.pub
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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!
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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.
Friend of New_ Public Logan Elmore started his newsletter in Chattanooga, TN with the intention of going beyond news and inspiring community pride.
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.
www.niemanlab.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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.
Friend of New_ Public Logan Elmore started his newsletter in Chattanooga, TN with the intention of going beyond news and inspiring community pride.
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Blacksky Algorithms is communal infrastructure.
October 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Blacksky Algorithms is communal infrastructure.
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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*?
In open source software they say "With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow"- perhaps there is a parallel for open source *attention*?
October 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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*?
In open source software they say "With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow"- perhaps there is a parallel for open source *attention*?
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As the world burns, a few of us are making an Oakland Review of Books. We don’t have money, but why not? We’re moving slowly. We're trying not to break things.
But we’re trying to imagine: what if Oakland were enough and we cared enough to look? www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
But we’re trying to imagine: what if Oakland were enough and we cared enough to look? www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
ORB \O/
The Oakland Review of Books is coming!
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
June 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
As the world burns, a few of us are making an Oakland Review of Books. We don’t have money, but why not? We’re moving slowly. We're trying not to break things.
But we’re trying to imagine: what if Oakland were enough and we cared enough to look? www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
But we’re trying to imagine: what if Oakland were enough and we cared enough to look? www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
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In addition to our weekly events calendar, we are starting to publish vibe reports on readings, screenings, protests, eatings, things of that nature, and other things: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
May 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
In addition to our weekly events calendar, we are starting to publish vibe reports on readings, screenings, protests, eatings, things of that nature, and other things: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
May 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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GO OUT AND DO SOMETHING IN SPACE AND IN TIME TODAY that is oakland review of books' recommendation THE WEATHER IS GOOD www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-revi...
May 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
GO OUT AND DO SOMETHING IN SPACE AND IN TIME TODAY that is oakland review of books' recommendation THE WEATHER IS GOOD www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-revi...
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If you don't know where to go this week, let ORB light the way.
The ORB has revealed this week's listing of events that will be happening in time and space in Greater Oakland: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-revi...
Oakland Review of Books calendar (of not just literary events), May 6–12
When was the last time you saw a live performance? Pre-pandemic? Plays currently on in the East Bay include: Ironbound, taking on immigration, class, and gender at Oakland Theatre Works; Bamboozled in...
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
May 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If you don't know where to go this week, let ORB light the way.
important moment for AT protocol 🎉
FOLKS WE DID IT
✅ I'm typing this on @aviva.gay's deer.social
✅ which posted to @alnkq.bsky.social's AppViewLite
✅ which is listening to the @blacksky.app atproto.africa relay
✅ I'm typing this on @aviva.gay's deer.social
✅ which posted to @alnkq.bsky.social's AppViewLite
✅ which is listening to the @blacksky.app atproto.africa relay
May 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
important moment for AT protocol 🎉
why not! \O/
otoh possibly we SHOULD romanticize Oakland too much, why not
I don't want to romanticize Oakland TOO much, but if you want to understand why tech money has been hitting a wall in Oakland, this kind of rhapsody--from Alexis Madrigal's new book--is part of the puzzle.
May 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
why not! \O/
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You've probably been hearing a lot of rumors about the Oakland Review of Books (ORB), but I'm here to assure you that no such thing exists.
(Yet!)
There is, however, this calendar of literary and other events in the East Bay for the coming week:
oakland-review-of-books.ghost.io/the-oakland-...
(Yet!)
There is, however, this calendar of literary and other events in the East Bay for the coming week:
oakland-review-of-books.ghost.io/the-oakland-...
The Oakland Review of Books calendar of not just literary events
In the East Bay it’s wildflower season and bird-nesting season, and also weed-pulling season. If you want to get out into the beautiful East Bay hills and explore, the East Bay Regional Park District ...
oakland-review-of-books.ghost.io
April 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
You've probably been hearing a lot of rumors about the Oakland Review of Books (ORB), but I'm here to assure you that no such thing exists.
(Yet!)
There is, however, this calendar of literary and other events in the East Bay for the coming week:
oakland-review-of-books.ghost.io/the-oakland-...
(Yet!)
There is, however, this calendar of literary and other events in the East Bay for the coming week:
oakland-review-of-books.ghost.io/the-oakland-...
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one of the surprise delights of parenting has been how often i have to think about and explain what words mean and why.
January 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
one of the surprise delights of parenting has been how often i have to think about and explain what words mean and why.
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My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.
February 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.