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:
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
Meta in Myanmar (full series)The landing page for the full series on Meta in Myanmar. 16 October 2023
Meta in Myanmar, Part IV: Only ConnectWhy I think Meta's failings in Myanmar should be widely known and understood, and why they should keep the people working on new and alternative networks up at night. 13 October 2023
Meta in Myanmar, Part III: The Inside ViewWhistleblower disclosures and investigative reporting have revealed a lot about what was happening—and what was known—inside Meta during the lead-up to the genocide in Myanmar, including a connection to a global wave of fake-page networks devoted to manipulation and political misinformation. 6 October 2023
Meta in Myanmar, Part II: The CrisisWhat happened on Facebook and on the ground in Myanmar and how those two worlds of experience were connected—even for people who never touched the internet. 30 September 2023