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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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Is there a canonical essay about (the problems with and complexities of) social media aggregation as journalism that I can just link to so I don't have to break down the angles and weirdnesses myself?

There has to be, right?

kissane, (edited ) to random
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Welp.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-fiatjaf-nostr-donation-2024-6

(https://archive.ph/uXdXN#selection-2141.0-2157.353)

ETA: Muting thread.

kissane, to random
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the puppy just barked at a piece of sweet potato I dropped while cooking

(then he ran off with it to his lair on the hearth rug and now they are friends)

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It's legitimately interesting to see how often volunteer moderation/server leadership is seen as a vulnerability or a problem in spaces where unpaid open-source dev work is positioned as normal or ideal.

kissane, to pdx
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PDX folks, do any of you have daytime dogsitting services you'd personally vouch for? Deets in following post.

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After weeks of planning, waiting, scouring, four-step protein mordanting, and dye extraction, the first batches of our kid’s summer market project are in production. Want to guess the (botanical) dye source?

kissane, to random
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Fell into a weekend rabbithole on social defeat stress and woke up thinking about social media as a structurally contagious form of it, like tin pest but with human sociability

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_defeat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUoVEmHuykM

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The robins and varied thrushes here are bad at glass detection so we have iridescent stickers on our unscreened windows to keep them alive—we use the ring-and-circle ones and a lot of them per window and they've zeroed out strikes on every window they're on.

Unexpected side benefit: The local hummingbirds like to zoom up examine them, so every day now the same crew of teeny warlords comes up very close and peers in through the windows behind my computer.

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One of the real delights of raising a kid is getting to share favorite (and new, specifically sought-out) music/books/movies at just the right moment. "Personal librarian to curious child" turns out to be my absolute dream job.

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throwing this on the DO NOT ORDER MORE BOOKS UNTIL THE TBR PILE IS NOT A STRUCTURAL HAZARD ERIN pile

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300259803/they-flew/

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This @briankrebs story is so wild

“As detailed by researchers at Radware, NoName has effectively gamified DDoS attacks, recruiting hacktivists via its Telegram channel and offering to pay people who agree to install a piece of software called DDoSia. That program allows NoName to commandeer the host computers and their Internet connections in coordinated DDoS campaigns, and DDoSia users with the most attacks can win cash prizes.”

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/stark-industries-solutions-an-iron-hammer-in-the-cloud/

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That Jackie West debut album that just dropped is very beautiful.

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Man, the Open Collective Foundation dissolution emails continue to be the worst and most needlessly hostile vibes. Pulling the rug out from under hundreds of great tiny vulnerable projects while speaking to them like a power-tripping schoolteacher is really something.

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I take it back I take it back Mastodon does like music don’t eat me

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Hey it’s that time again.

The contention that using high-filtration masks to prevent transmission of respiratory disease is “unscientific” and “lacking evidence” when we have reams of aerosol and transmission studies is a display of either unawareness/scientific illiteracy (super fixable! non-shameful!) or of an intentional disregard of the evidence for emotional or ideological reasons (common but troubling).

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Summoning summer to the coastal gloom zone by cranking Florence and all her various Machines, making iced coffee while wearing a sweater and heated gloves

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Delighted and totally honored to be at XOXO this year, look at these absolute badasses who will be speaking, lordy, no pressure or anything 😬

https://2024.xoxofest.com/

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everyone please think warm thoughts toward the fancy pumpkin seeds I got into the ground immediately before the weather went bad

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

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I got the giant puppy one of those toys you put frozen food in and they’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

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

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Every box of beans I order from Backporch Roasters comes with a handwritten note that reads “I hope this coffee finds you well” 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

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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, (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

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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.)

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