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kissane

@kissane@mas.to

Working on governance, risk, and social patterns across federated systems. Previously: COVID Tracking Project + Mozilla Foundation + editorial and community advocacy in tech and culture orgs.

I want our tools and networks to be better in more ways for more people in more places. Also: Books, care, plants, very old bones, humane journalism, magic as technology.

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I'm just going to leave this here and get back to work

https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

kissane,
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@leapingwoman I just need something to point to every time a dozen people elect to lecture me about how Jack Dorsey runs Bluesky and I'm a bootlicker for not acknowledging it etc etc

kissane,
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@sire Bluesky still exists, Jack is a tragic dipshit who is criticizing them publicly for moderating, at all, anything, ever. He closed his account months ago and is now off the board.

kissane,
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@aehdeschaine Tl;dr he's going out publicly criticizing Bluesky for building an app and especially for moderating content instead of just staying on and making a protocol for Elon.

Such a dipshit and I wouldn't bother except I am constantly being yelled at for not believing he controls Bluesky.

kissane,
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@joakimfors This is perhaps the most generous interpretation.

kissane, (edited )
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@UncivilServant I mean I only posted it bc of the Bluesky stuff. He's just incredibly bad at thinking.

kissane,
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@NireBryce just the doofiest people imaginable

kissane,
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@sire That was my tl;dr summary of the article for the many people responding by saying they won’t read it. I read your response as that, maybe mistakenly. But Bluesky is humming along exactly as it was before! (For better and worse.)

kissane,
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@bittersweetdb I really don’t post all that much there, but I have this last day or two! (I only use the web interface but they’ve been changing things quite quickly across the board.)

kissane,
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@bittersweetdb I wanted to get back to this and note that a funny thing happened socially with bsky and fedi, which is that most of my closest friends who are online are here, but not posting much, and then the vast majority (maybe 90%) of my friendly acquaintances and former colleagues went to bsky, many after bouncing off fedi. So if I'm going to grumble about something with shared context to anyone besides my group chats, it's bsky or nowhere.

kissane, to random
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I'm spending most of my time in the research and writing deeps rn, but UGH, speaking with people working with so much attention, thought, and care on the big — and small but meaningful — complexities of building and maintaining spaces for humans to be together is just…healing in the mode of a hyperbaric chamber.

kissane, (edited ) to random
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US folks, we have an e. coli recall on organic walnuts sold in bulk bins or repackaged in-store (plastic clamshells, etc.)—recs are to throw them out and wash containers and contacted surfaces:

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/s0430-ecoli-walnuts.html

(Hat tip to the manager of our local co-op.)

kissane, (edited ) to random
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Sliding back in to ask—do you know without looking it up what "context collapse" is and where/how it entered the conversation about online sociability?

Many thanks, and boosts are welcome <3

kissane,
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@nikatjef Thank you!

kissane,
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fourth option voters name yourselves lol

kissane,
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@janl That's such a late and reductive definition, though! I mean Charlie's out there doing the lord's work but it's a hard spin on the earlier uses.

kissane,
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@cour13r5 This poll is giving me exactly the permission to over-egg my essay that I was hoping for/dreading tbh

kissane,
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@KevinMarks @cour13r5 That’s extremely kind, Kevin. I’m about six weeks into a big wrangle with Joshua Meyrowitz’s work, which was one of danah’s linchpins back in her dissertation days, and there is just so much there there.

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Heading offline for a stretch. <3

kissane, to random
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This would be a great day to put the fundraiser for Sydette Harry (@blackamazon in other places) over the top.

Sydette has been working on making online communities better and safer for more people for years and years, often with little recognition, and her fierce commitment to focusing on the people taking the most damage has genuinely changed the conversation.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/tired-and-taxes

kissane,
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@jlamoree yaaaaaaay!

kissane, to random
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FTC is the best TC.

kissane, to random
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A thing I really like about fedi culture as it exists in my little corner is that it’s possible to think out loud about things I’m really unsure about without getting immediately socially disciplined by people who read earnest blather as a tryout for Media Thinker jobs.

kissane,
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@mattblaze Citizens demand answers

kissane,
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@d I shitpost very mildly and put links to essays on Bluesky and put everything else here. Oh and anything to do with clothes or hair or whatever girl shit goes there because I have less than zero patience for the puritanism that crops up here about it.

kissane,
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@d It mostly means I post here when I'm trying to figure something out and there when I'm not. (I mostly just go there to see what friends and writers who aren't here are up to, and I don't end up posting much except replies.)

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