Lyre Calliope

@[email protected]
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This is my secondary/alt account. Follow me at @captaincalliope.blue

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🌐 Working at the intersection of movements, media, and the social web to expand collective agency

🛠️ Seeking collaborations to reshape systems that concentrate power and shape how we live

🧭 Justice-rooted, with field notes and wayfinding at my SpaceCadets blog.
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Lyre CalliopeOct 11
@kissane Hey! I'm looking to get activated in a network and thought of you as a potential router. Just caught up on your writing and dang are we on the same wavelengths! Could I send you a message on Signal with some quick background and an ask? CaptainCalliope.11
Lyre CalliopeAug 27, 2025
CaptainCalliope and the ✨Space Cadets✨Aug 27, 2025

Moonshots

I grew up watching shuttles launch, believing big things were possible. The crises we face now demand moonshot-level efforts: media systems that break the far right’s grip on the dominant narratives and an internet shaped to serve people rather than interests that turn it against the public.

https://spacecadets.love/moonshots/

Moonshots

I grew up watching shuttles launch, believing big things were possible. The crises we face now demand moonshot-level efforts: media systems that break the far right’s grip on the dominant narratives and an internet shaped to serve people rather than interests that turn it against the public.

CaptainCalliope and the ✨Space Cadets✨
Lyre CalliopeAug 27, 2025
CaptainCalliope and the ✨Space Cadets✨Aug 27, 2025
I've got so many drafts queued up and in progress and am super excited about it. I'll be going into a web browser arc soon! Coming up early next week: Why Firefox is critical in the fight against fascism.... or something those lines. It's a working title.
Lyre CalliopeAug 24, 2025
Anuj AhoojaAug 24, 2025

"[Blacksky] started out by developing our own custom feeds. For our app, the Blacksky Trending feed is the default feed for new users [...] When new users sign up and create an account, their data will be hosted by us, and they will agree to our Terms of Service and privacy policy, and not Bluesky’s. Existing users can migrate their account to our servers, but they can use Blacksky no matter who is hosting their account!"

https://newpublic.substack.com/p/how-blacksky-grew-to-millions-of

🔭🖤🚀 Social media’s next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable

How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

New_ Public
Lyre CalliopeAug 22, 2025
CaptainCalliope and the ✨Space Cadets✨Aug 21, 2025

Space Cadets Waypoint: Building Media Power

Five posts in, I’m mapping how media and tech keep tilting power to the right. Next: mapping the openings where tech and media can build narrative power instead of ceding it. An update on the exploration and dialogues.

https://spacecadets.love/space-cadets-waypoint-building-media-power/

Space Cadets Waypoint: Building Media Power

Five posts in, I’m mapping how media and tech keep tilting power to the right. Next: mapping the openings where tech and media can build narrative power instead of ceding it. An update on the exploration and dialogues.

CaptainCalliope and the ✨Space Cadets✨
Lyre CalliopeAug 22, 2025
Anuj AhoojaAug 21, 2025

This is a fantastic intro to the open social web tech under the hood of the Bluesky app.

I know folks here are sometimes apprehensive about what the Bluesky PBC is building, but I think it's worth understanding why a whole bunch of nerds like me are excited about AT Protocol, even though we also cheer for, build on, and spread the word about ActivityPub.

@mackuba does a great job of simplifying complex ideas, and I highly recommend giving this a read.

https://martianbase.net/@mackuba/115062459999777419

Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋 (@[email protected])

I've been working for some time on an "Introduction to #ATProto" blog post, and it's finally ready 🙂 It goes through basic things like records, lexicons, DIDs, then PDSes/AppView/relays etc. and how it all works together. I hope this should help especially people here on Fedi to understand a little better how #Bluesky and its network works. There will be more parts later, specifically with comparisons to Fedi, addressing common misconceptions, decentralization etc. https://mackuba.eu/2025/08/20/introduction-to-atproto/

Martian Base
Lyre CalliopeAug 22, 2025
Kee HinckleyAug 21, 2025

If you're wondering what you can do about ICE as a white person in a blue state...

#uspol

Lyre CalliopeAug 8, 2025
Show threadCaptainCalliope and the ✨Space Cadets✨Aug 8, 2025
I want to thank @[email protected] for inspiring some of the inquiries leading to a number of my recent posts. If you care about the future of media and journalism, check out his blog!
Lyre CalliopeAug 8, 2025
CaptainCalliope and the ✨Space Cadets✨Aug 8, 2025

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.

https://spacecadets.love/the-movement-is-the-medium/

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.

CaptainCalliope and the ✨Space Cadets✨
Lyre CalliopeAug 8, 2025
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Aug 7, 2025

We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-chatbot-psychology-manic-episodes-57452d14