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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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jordinn, to random
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This morning my last surviving grandparent died in Cheyenne. She would have been 91 next month. It's the end of an era for my family and I am definitely feeling some kind of way.

kissane,
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@jordinn I'm so sorry for your family's loss, and losses ๐Ÿ’œ

kissane, to random
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qotd from the fediverse research mines: "I don't know how the heck the universe is working and what the future is made of"

none truer ever spoken

ryan, to random
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Really wish I could trust Mozilla to not find a way to also inject AI into its browser

kissane,
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@ryan closing my browser before I can learn

hugo, to random
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the current US president really going all in on supporting the extermination in gaza during an election year really seems mystifying to me. as if deliberately trying to alienate his progressive base.

kissane,
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@hugo It is nearly impossible to explain the immense weirdness of the coalitions and history behind these decisions, but I think my best shot would be that he's maintaining near-perfect continuity with the political world of the past 40 years and there is an enormous rift here about whether we still live in that world or not. (And the rift is so hot and terrifying because both ~sides know that reality is up for grabs.)

kissane,
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@aehdeschaine @hugo I sure do not like the experience of being caterpillar soup, I tell you what

<3

kissane,
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@hugo yeah, I think "sclerotic" is maybe the best term for both our system as a whole and especially the people running its topmost layers

kissane, to random
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I got the giant puppy one of those toys you put frozen food in and theyโ€™re supposed to be entertaining for awhile but the giant puppy is VERY FOCUSED and got it all out, gave himself an ice cream headache, and spent the next five minutes growling mightily at god

kissane,
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@dsalo I mean the headache eventually abated, so

kissane, to random
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Every box of beans I order from Backporch Roasters comes with a handwritten note that reads โ€œI hope this coffee finds you wellโ€ and I receive this wish with a sincere belief in its earnestness because instead of an email they sent me my favorite coffee beans and I will hear nothing against them

kissane,
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(fwiw I am a dark-roast not-burnt low-acidity yes-nutty no-citrusy coffee person and I love their Daybreak blend. they have lots of great beans tho https://www.backporchcoffeeroasters.com/)

kissane,
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@aktbar They are blessรฉd humans

kissane, to random
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my favorite mis-transcription of Mastodon this week is a three-way tie between Macedon (fine) Massanat (??), and Mastermind (dying)

kissane,
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adding "MASTERNODE" which is unfairly comical to me

matthiasott, to random
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By the way, do you have a personal website and does it have a home page? (Iโ€™m pretty sure it doesโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜)

I would love to know: whatโ€™s on your โ€œhomeโ€ and why?

Feel free to share a link, of course. ๐Ÿค— As always, Iโ€™m also asking on behalf of my #OwnYourWeb newsletter subscribers.

kissane,
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@ryanrandall @matthiasott @dansinker Oh man, I have to make a real homepage, like at least a little bit, instead of just like "you get a blog post!"

kissane, to random
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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 wonโ€™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 donโ€™t post all that much there, but I have this last day or two! (I only use the web interface but theyโ€™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 โ€” and small but meaningful โ€” complexities of building and maintaining spaces for humans to be together is justโ€ฆhealing in the mode of a hyperbaric chamber.

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