Hi. I’m a writer, researcher, and community lead working toward better networks for human sociability and collective survival.
Maybe you’d like to get started by…
- Checking out the freshly published findings on governance in the fediverse, based on in-depth research with people who run Mastodon and Hometown servers. (It's juicier than it sounds.)
- 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 (spoiler: it wasn't just shoddy content moderation).
- Getting really into ghostly frequencies in an after-hours medical equipment lab and our haunted internet with a side of one of Susan Cooper’s lesser-known books from the Dark Is Rising sequence.
- Find out who I am and what I do, and why.
Some recent posts:
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
Meta in Myanmar, Part I: The SetupI’ve never trusted Facebook, mostly because I’ve been around tech for a long time and everything I’ve ever learned about the company looked like a red flag. But once I started to really dig in, what I learned was so much gnarlier and grosser and more devastating than what I’d assumed. 28 September 2023
Meta MetaHousekeeping notes for the Meta in Myanmar series. 28 September 2023