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highly recommend to @chaosgreml.in's reading this wonderful piece about building coalition

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this wasn’t how I thought Dead Internet Theory would play out

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@dylantdoyle.bsky.social and I are starting a podcast! We're bringing together researchers, organizers, critics, and storytellers to help us imagine what more liberatory and human-centered tech futures could look like. First ep lands on Tuesday 🌱 Subscribe now ⬇️ otherfutures.transistor.fm

Hey, come hangout with us next weekend at bikeshed! And bring ya friends 🫡

We have a hard time conceptualizing the difference between a "I want to code this in my spare time and make something that's fun for me and others" or "I want to build a community project" or "I want to build a product" or "I want to build a startup" and it fucks us all up at many different levels

Post-app feed just dropped!

exploring this idea of guided internet walks great for real-time events but also could record tours that people follow but also can wander on their own and return to it i feel like there must have been prior versions of this idea made. anything come to mind?

Okay frick it, I'm announcing the project I've been working on. It's called Reams, a markdown editor that syncs over atproto spaces. It works offline, doesn't require a login, and has a bunch of features packed in. Try it at reams.ink, install the PWA for the best experience!

It is becoming increasingly apparent that societies must create conditions to stop being merely spectators (and exploitation objects) of digitalisation. Instead of allowing it to further concentrate wealth, influence, and surveillance, open corporate silos and simultaneously build public capacity.

reminded of the way @kissane.myatproto.social articulated it hopefulnature.studio/gradients-of...

social internet on the rise

Hoping to share some writing that dives deeper into this soon, but the angle for shifting the overton window that I find compelling is popularizing the idea of Account Service Providers, streamline the infrastructure to make it happen, and advocate for laws/regulation to sustain it.

Updated my folksonomy with a new type of lexicon, the meta-lexicon. It's very cool to see, particularly the part where different accounts/orgs can choose how lexicons should be searched across. I've come across a need for this type of lexicon too, I wonder if we should attempt to standardize it

Updated my folksonomy with a new type of lexicon, the meta-lexicon. It's very cool to see, particularly the part where different accounts/orgs can choose how lexicons should be searched across. I've come across a need for this type of lexicon too, I wonder if we should attempt to standardize it

The next atproto.la gathering is happening this Sunday at 11am @crashspacela.bsky.social! We've been having discussions and talks about the social internet and make some zines about it.

"History has never just been a neutral observer, history is an editor and it shapes who and what we celebrate today."

New Video on Interface Studies: What “Infinite Scrolling” was for. Infinite scrolling was built in 2005 to make exploring image search results easier. Twenty years later, politicians want to ban it and the designer most associated with it keeps apologising for it. youtu.be/eDDI9OSWY9k?...

thinking a lot about this last space with playhtml.fun & how we can take advantage of existing contextual existence in our normal browsing of the web has anyone mapped out all these different angles of social media trying to think of what the axes are… public vs private global vs contextual?

Ok, how are we feeling about the at-tags proposal? Small core, open to extension, seems like it's a good starting point to me 🤔

the playbook for most digital platforms will continue to be gain adoption via network effects and integrations from open protocols, then lock things down by removing open protocols.

Feels like atproto is around this point – past commercial access to the web (CIX, 1991) and just before the world-wide web was fully operational (~1996). itsec.group/blog-post-sh...

Making common cause in slowness. Operating actively against the industrialized clock of never-ending productivity is part of disability justice. It’s also a way to protect the time and space necessary to reconsider and reconfigure relations. medium.com/@biancawylie...

It's worth noting that technological mysticism isn't specific to the computer or AI. It's a continuation of a much deeper zeitgeist that Leo Marx calls the technological sublime, which is deeply interwoven in to the founding and history of America.