Hi. I’m working toward better networks for human sociability and collective survival. My new microstudio and current network writing is at wreckage/salvage.
If you're new here, you might want to start by:
- Watching or reading a talk I gave at XOXO to explain the extraordinary thing the Covid Tracking Project was, why I got off the internet, and why I'm back and all in on networks.
- Checking out the big findings report on governance in the fediverse, based on in-depth research with people who run Mastodon and Hometown servers.
- Reading one or more chunks of a feature-length dive into what Facebook/Meta did and didn’t do in Myanmar and how it relates to the genocide of the Rohingya people (it is almost certainly worse than you think).
- Getting into ghostly frequencies in an after-hours medical equipment lab and our haunted internet with a side of Susan Cooper’s Dark Is Rising sequence.
- Find out who I am and what I do, and why.
Some recent posts:
Against EntropyWhat I am doing during the explosive disassembly of the US administrative state and what I want, and why. 11 February 2025
XOXOThis post annotates a talk I gave on August 24, 2024 at the final XOXO Festival in Portland, Oregon, about the gifts and terrors of the social internet and why fixing it is essential to our ability to respond to collective crisis and institutional failure. 24 August 2024
Fediverse Governance DropAfter a few months of prepping and conducting interviews and then many more months of analyzing and writing up what we found, we’re releasing our findings. We found…so much. 20 August 2024
Untangling ThreadsMeta's Threads service is joining the Fediverse, and I think there are some things about Meta—and about Fediverse mechanics—that it's important to include in that conversation. 21 December 2023
Root & BranchWho should do the heavy, tricky, fraught work of making and keeping our networks good? How should they work? To whom should they be accountable, and how can “accountability” be redeemed from its dissipated state and turned into something with both teeth and discretion? 6 December 2023