man pretended he made an open source android os and sold phones with the same name, then went on to (allegedly) pretend he has done crimes to impress a girl, who was actually a cop
this is an amazing, funny, and serious thread that software people should read
i’ll def post more over the week, but now is the time for rest!
atmosphere conf 2026 is one for the history books, so many thoughts and not enough words for it
Look, dogmatic AI hate is frustrating and unproductive from a practitioners view but if you don’t have the maturity and respect to see it in the same frame as vaccine hesitancy you gotta go take a walk and try to develop a theory of mind of other people as real if you actually want any progress
the barn so far
@patak.cat
@patak.dog
@patak.horse
next livestream, we’re doing this! i’m so excited for the future of video on atproto, you don’t even know
Bluesky has found a use for AI that empowers regular people to have more control over social media online. This is a good thing. Get over your weird reactionary revulsion to anything AI.
Investors care as much about the atmosphere as they care about open source.
Take this as you will
Since @atmosphereconf.org 2027 is as far away as it’s gonna get from today, we’re excited to announce our commitment to host a mini-conference in LA sometime in Fall 2026!
More information to come!
Putting my time where my #atmosphereconf ecosystem mouth is: if any early-stage ATProto team needs help honing their ops or strategy, ping me.
If we are aligned, we can find a way to make it work.