Lyre Calliope
@captaincalliope.blue
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Serving the world from Massachusetts 🍵
🇵🇷 Pride is Protest 🏳️🌈
DEI means Veterans
Newly committed to the Hopescroll. Hold me to it.
DM me on Signal: CaptainCalliope.11
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Lyre Calliope
@captaincalliope.blue
· Aug 8
The Movement is the Medium
Right-wing media sets the terms of US politics. Drawing on earlier reading, here’s a draft playbook for how we can organize distributed progressive media networks.
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New post up! Teaser: "Right-wing media sets the terms of US politics. Drawing on earlier reading here’s a draft playbook for how we can organize distributed progressive media networks."
Thanks to @werd.io for inspiring some of the inquiries informing a number of my recent posts. Check out his blog!
Thanks to @werd.io for inspiring some of the inquiries informing a number of my recent posts. Check out his blog!
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A tiny minority of highly active users produce the majority of online political content, while most users consume content passively and remain largely silent.
Toxic comments are more likely to be expressed, even though most people disagree with them, creating false norms.
osf.io/preprints/so...
Toxic comments are more likely to be expressed, even though most people disagree with them, creating false norms.
osf.io/preprints/so...
November 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A tiny minority of highly active users produce the majority of online political content, while most users consume content passively and remain largely silent.
Toxic comments are more likely to be expressed, even though most people disagree with them, creating false norms.
osf.io/preprints/so...
Toxic comments are more likely to be expressed, even though most people disagree with them, creating false norms.
osf.io/preprints/so...
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
This article is making me wonder what the needs are for child safety in decentralized platforms, and what the architectural considerations are for making safety tools possible. Who's working on this?
www.reuters.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This article is making me wonder what the needs are for child safety in decentralized platforms, and what the architectural considerations are for making safety tools possible. Who's working on this?
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Sponsoring #opensource often means putting $ into what amounts to a tip jar. Great but sometimes too ambiguous for both giver and receiver. OSS-wishlist oss-wishlist.com/about-us is a new concept by @sunnydeveloper.bsky.social to bring more clarity to who needs what and who can supply what
About Us - OSS Wishlist
About the OSS Wishlist initiative
oss-wishlist.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Sponsoring #opensource often means putting $ into what amounts to a tip jar. Great but sometimes too ambiguous for both giver and receiver. OSS-wishlist oss-wishlist.com/about-us is a new concept by @sunnydeveloper.bsky.social to bring more clarity to who needs what and who can supply what
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IMPORTANT thread worth reading in full—Professor @isabellamweber.bsky.social is an expert in anti-fascist economics:
“My friends, the world is changing. It's not a question of whether that change will come. It's a question of who will change it.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵
People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
IMPORTANT thread worth reading in full—Professor @isabellamweber.bsky.social is an expert in anti-fascist economics:
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My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My favorite piece of content today.
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Age verification is not the way to keep kids safe on the internet. CDT has some thoughts about what kind of child safety policies and features might actually be effective: cdt.org/insights/wha...
What Kids and Parents Want: Policy Insights for Social Media Safety Features
This report examines the gap between child safety policy proposals for social media and how teens and parents — the people these policies are meant to protect — experience and view them. While the top...
cdt.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Age verification is not the way to keep kids safe on the internet. CDT has some thoughts about what kind of child safety policies and features might actually be effective: cdt.org/insights/wha...
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November 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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this is a stunning piece of data journalism/art/whatever.
omg they made Jeffrey Epstein Inbox Simulator '25 jmail.world
Jmail, logged in as [email protected]
You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
jmail.world
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
this is a stunning piece of data journalism/art/whatever.
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“[open social] must be funded like infrastructure, not consumer apps. In fact, given the scale of hybrid threats, it should be funded from defense budgets, not innovation leftovers.
The strategic layer of democracy is the information layer. And right now, it is outsourced.” @seabass.bsky.social
The strategic layer of democracy is the information layer. And right now, it is outsourced.” @seabass.bsky.social
The joint statements coming out of the Summit on Digital Sovereignty miss a structural blind spot: we keep talking about AI while ignoring the system that actually shapes public opinion at scale -… | ...
The joint statements coming out of the Summit on Digital Sovereignty miss a structural blind spot: we keep talking about AI while ignoring the system that actually shapes public opinion at scale - soc...
www.linkedin.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
“[open social] must be funded like infrastructure, not consumer apps. In fact, given the scale of hybrid threats, it should be funded from defense budgets, not innovation leftovers.
The strategic layer of democracy is the information layer. And right now, it is outsourced.” @seabass.bsky.social
The strategic layer of democracy is the information layer. And right now, it is outsourced.” @seabass.bsky.social
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As AI use grows in local newsrooms, many are beginning to explore formal policies. Our latest from AJP’s Product & AI Studio shares takeaways from AJP-supported orgs, common barriers, and steps to get started.
Read more:
Read more:
Developing an AI usage policy in your news organization - American Journalism Project
www.theajp.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
As AI use grows in local newsrooms, many are beginning to explore formal policies. Our latest from AJP’s Product & AI Studio shares takeaways from AJP-supported orgs, common barriers, and steps to get started.
Read more:
Read more:
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The toolkit includes examples of autonomous actions to stop new construction & repurposing of spaces for detention, target transportation & deportation infrastructure, confront ICE & CBP & interrupt the flow of people, resources, data, technology etc to the machine - join or start one of your own!
November 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The toolkit includes examples of autonomous actions to stop new construction & repurposing of spaces for detention, target transportation & deportation infrastructure, confront ICE & CBP & interrupt the flow of people, resources, data, technology etc to the machine - join or start one of your own!
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If you are looking for ways to disrupt the abduction detention & deportation machine check out the new mini-toolkit from @interruptcrim.bsky.social gathering opportunities for action from orgs like @detentionwatchnetwork.org @siembranc.bsky.social BAJI +
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
If you are looking for ways to disrupt the abduction detention & deportation machine check out the new mini-toolkit from @interruptcrim.bsky.social gathering opportunities for action from orgs like @detentionwatchnetwork.org @siembranc.bsky.social BAJI +
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
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Additionally, we are also constantly in times of viruses, germs, UV rays, dust, and exhausted resting faces.
Hats, sunglasses, and masks can help with all of the above.
Hats, sunglasses, and masks can help with all of the above.
November 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Additionally, we are also constantly in times of viruses, germs, UV rays, dust, and exhausted resting faces.
Hats, sunglasses, and masks can help with all of the above.
Hats, sunglasses, and masks can help with all of the above.
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It is 100% reasonable to normalize wearing a brimmed hat, sunglasses, mask, and play around with your gait, all on a regular basis.
Because that is an appropriate response to the state normalizing surveillance.
Because that is an appropriate response to the state normalizing surveillance.
November 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
It is 100% reasonable to normalize wearing a brimmed hat, sunglasses, mask, and play around with your gait, all on a regular basis.
Because that is an appropriate response to the state normalizing surveillance.
Because that is an appropriate response to the state normalizing surveillance.
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"We have a 2000s housing bubble level of financial engineering on top of a 1920s level of private unregulated lending on top of something bigger than a 1990s internet (or 1870s railroad) level of technology and infrastructure build-out." prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think - The American Prospect
It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.
prospect.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"We have a 2000s housing bubble level of financial engineering on top of a 1920s level of private unregulated lending on top of something bigger than a 1990s internet (or 1870s railroad) level of technology and infrastructure build-out." prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
What if we stop thinking about the "open web" as a single web?
What if we start talking about "open webs" of which the world wide web is one example?
What else would we classify as a web? What are the minimum vs ideal characteristics that define webs?
Could this be a useful (re)framing?
What if we start talking about "open webs" of which the world wide web is one example?
What else would we classify as a web? What are the minimum vs ideal characteristics that define webs?
Could this be a useful (re)framing?
November 20, 2025 at 4:43 AM
What if we stop thinking about the "open web" as a single web?
What if we start talking about "open webs" of which the world wide web is one example?
What else would we classify as a web? What are the minimum vs ideal characteristics that define webs?
Could this be a useful (re)framing?
What if we start talking about "open webs" of which the world wide web is one example?
What else would we classify as a web? What are the minimum vs ideal characteristics that define webs?
Could this be a useful (re)framing?
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Cancel your Spotify subscription until the ICE ads stop. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
November 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Cancel your Spotify subscription until the ICE ads stop. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
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Next year it’ll be 10 years since @christophera.bsky.social wrote The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity along with a definition and 10 principles of SSI.
A group is now being convened to refine these principles. Hope to see some atproto folks get involved here, including @bnewbold.net & co.
A group is now being convened to refine these principles. Hope to see some atproto folks get involved here, including @bnewbold.net & co.
Announcing the 10-Year SSI Revision Project
In 2016, I published The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity and with it proposed ten foundational principles for digital identity systems. These principles...
www.lifewithalacrity.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Next year it’ll be 10 years since @christophera.bsky.social wrote The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity along with a definition and 10 principles of SSI.
A group is now being convened to refine these principles. Hope to see some atproto folks get involved here, including @bnewbold.net & co.
A group is now being convened to refine these principles. Hope to see some atproto folks get involved here, including @bnewbold.net & co.
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Uh
this is
enormous
this is
enormous
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Uh
this is
enormous
this is
enormous
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Yeah it feels wrong to say it was memory holed. It was actively repressed by the institutions it was protesting.
November 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Yeah it feels wrong to say it was memory holed. It was actively repressed by the institutions it was protesting.
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Without Occupy Wall Street I probably wouldn’t be a working journalist. It made change in ways some take for granted (building lasting networks that now appear organic and invisible) and some would prefer to ignore (hence people persistently forgetting Occupy didn’t “end,” cops ended it).
It's still wild to me how much we've memory holed Occupy Wallstreet.
November 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Without Occupy Wall Street I probably wouldn’t be a working journalist. It made change in ways some take for granted (building lasting networks that now appear organic and invisible) and some would prefer to ignore (hence people persistently forgetting Occupy didn’t “end,” cops ended it).
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Alice Wong, rest in peace. I learned so much from what you shared online and through your books. My analysis of disability justice and my connection to it is deeper thanks to you.
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Alice Wong, rest in peace. I learned so much from what you shared online and through your books. My analysis of disability justice and my connection to it is deeper thanks to you.