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  • Dan used BirdNET and rtsps streams to turn Loud Birds In Your Local Neighborhood into numbers...

    • ... and post them to Bluesky at

  • Eli appears as a challenger from Stream.place and talks to us about bringing video to Content-Addressed Specs, and DASL to the Atmosphere

    • ... and totally does not tease us about video on demand (VOD) on Stream.place

    • Also, C2PA for media, for verifying content authenticity and establishing provenance chains -- that some news organizations, like BBC Labs, are experimenting with

    • and there's the S2PA -- the simple standard for provenance and authenticity -- which is a fork of C2PA, because maybe the goals/needs of decentralized social media are aligned with Adobe's C2PA which came from the top-down root cert provider x.509 model, versus a lets-encrypt bottom-up model that's much more in line with our ATproto world

    • and Jess Wetherhead talked about the problems with C2PA on The Verge in Reality is Losing the Deepfake War.

    • ... and this is in conjunction with !

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    • Eli's super excited to hopefully have this launched by the time of ATmosphere Conference in March!

    • Everyone using Stream.place is using one big-ass server that Eli's running, but the whole thing has been designed from the start to be able to self-host

    • ... it looks like we might get a contemporary version of something like SMIL:

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  • An AtmosphereConf update!

    • The conference website is live now! https://atmosphereconf.org

    • ... along with a round of talk announcements: https://atmosphereconf.org/#talks

    • Ted's theory of the case is looking for three things:

      • Provide a vision

      • Making it actionable / now

      • Doing it together

    • We Can Do Things (Now)!

    • Also the conference website is open so if you see something you can fix, you can fix it! (thanks to )

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  • from Bluesky joined as a challenger!

    • He's really excited about taking part in the conference and running two workshops with

    • ... a new ATProtodocs.com has launched!

  • joined us!

    • The Ecosystem Access Research Group published their Call for Proposals for the purpose of standing up a credible developer community. It's focussing on five core themes:

      • User Experience

      • Brand Awareness

      • Trust & Safety Research

      • Economic Factors

      • Contributor Enablement

      • The goal of Ecosystem Action Research is to facilitate strategic innovation to address the above five themes. We will conduct interviews, run workshops, and co-create research artifacts to support conversations for action in the community. To build trust and encourage open collaboration, we will communicate regular updates on the outputs of our research.
    • joined us!


  • Private/Permissioned Data in Blacksky

  • Private/Permissioned Data Proposals from Nick Gerakines

    • Thoughts from the Bluesky Protocol Team