ATConf
This is a reference page for “People in Protocols,” a talk I gave (remotely) on March 23, 2025 at the first ATmosphere Conference in Seattle. Right now, it contains citations and further reading, but I may expand it later with additional material and/or a written version of the talk. Massive thanks to everyone who ran the conference and let me remote in when I couldn’t come in person.
Text notes
- XOXO Festival talk in video and written form
- Covid Tracking Project
- Meta in Myanmar series
- Fediverse governance research project findings
- Social threat modeling notes from Jon Pincus from 2018
- the EFF work I’m drawing on to think about collective threat modeling
- “A Social Threat Modeling Framework to Structure Teaching about Responsible Computing” by Yanyan Ren and Kathi Fisler from SIGCSE 2023
- Design Justice, by Sasha Costanza-Chock (open access!)
- a short essay expanding on Ursula Franklin on justice and justifiable fear
- Ursula Franklin’s “The Real World of Technology” Massey Lectures, which are a fantastic intro to her work and are also available as an expanded book version—but really, listen to the lectures too, she’s a total delight
- Alastair McIntosh’s Soil & Soul on Hebridean vernacular economies and everything else
- “Islam and the Built Environment: Vernacularism as an Environmental Ethic” by Mohammed Abdullah Eben Saleh (grainy lo-def 90’s research! I want a whole book of this stuff)
- the source of David Graeber’s “ultimate, hidden reality…” quote
Image notes
- Paulo Uccello’s The Hunt in the Forest is at the Ashmolean
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Gloomy Day (Early Spring) is at the Kunsthistorisches Museum (and ty to this nice Dutch man for teaching me that I was pronouncing “Bruegel” wrong for most of my life)
- traditional Basque baserri (farmhouse) photo by Ksarasola (CC-BY-SA-4.0)
- whitewashed Greek house photo by Alan Bron (public domain)
- Kazakh yurt photo by Alexandr Frolov CC-SA 4.0
