“When I choose to see the good side of things, I’m not being naive. It is strategic and necessary.” Thanks @robinrendle.bsky.social robinrendle.com/notes/strate...

This latest Encyclical is really one for the cyberneticists and those who care a lot about the challenges inherent in measurement and all it obscures, especially those concerned with maintaining humanity in the face of technical systems www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

I carry this quote by the late Barry Lopez with me everywhere I go. It serves as an evergreen reminder and encouragement for me to stay focused on what matters in the midst of darkness, contradiction, paradox, and loneliness.

Lol at the new Google Workspace icons. It looks like an exec's nephew made them in MS paint with Clippy AI

Abstracts for our keynote panel, "Generative Justice as a Pathway to Abolitionist Futures" are online at bit.ly/4dxcf1V. This will take place at the 15th National Conference on Critical Perspectives in Criminology and Social Justice, May 20-22 at Brock University.

What email apps do ya'll use? I'm expirimenting with Apple's mac and iOS Mail apps. Not bad, but I'd prefer something cross-platform. Going to try Thunderbird as well.

Looking for office space for up to 3 Blacksky team members - In Brooklyn - Coworking is fine but need a private office - Guests allowed - Phone booths for calls - Accessible Any recommendations, send my way. Budget is flexible. Looking to move in within 1 month. Thanks.

Because macOS Bartender is now garbage software and no longer works reliably as a menu bar manager, i went on a search for something better. Turns out Thaw is the thing. Thaw is very good software. And it's open sauce! github.com/stonerl/Thaw

Anyone want to sponsor a creative’s stay in NYC for a month?? 👀🙏🏾🤔

blasting this to the TL without context since i've been strongly advised to not send this while angry "On a healthy team, the point of a post-mortem is to ask: 'How can we change our systems so the people operating the system are steered towards doing the right thing?'

Teaching Meaning is about teaching *with* rather than teaching *to*. If you’re able, I encourage you to get a copy for yourself, a friend, and a family member.

The paperback has finally been published! If Cognitive Load Theory tells us how to avoid overwhelming students, what comes next? Perfectly clear explanations don't guarantee deep understanding. Teaching Meaning, explores what works when telling isn't enough. mybook.to/teachingmean...

it is incredible the extent to which enterprise PaaS and SaaS software that used to work reasonably well simply does not work anymore.

Getting looped into convos about this book in its finishing stages expanded the scope of theory around neural networks in LLMs & Media — it opened up so many productive ways of thinking for me. Essential reading for anyone who’s been looking for a fresh theorization of critical AI.

Hit the hide button to hide any post instantly on the blacksky.community client thanks to Blacksky community member @jacky.wtf This is what building in community looks like.

Living up to my self-prescribed "corruptress of protocols" title, I've proposed a "handles taskforce" for the Social Web CG/WG: lists.w3.org/Archives/Pub...

Thrilled by this @publisherswkly.bsky.social review of A SECOND SIGHT. Love the book - which in my head is a sobering intervention into media and democracy - being called "upbeat." Come for the analysis stay for the hope my subjects generate despite everything.

The app builders in the ecosystem are super important! I see us as 'graph builders' Acorn is a step towards legibility and making it obvious that community is the moat -> the relationships are where the value is -> agency is in the hands of the ~community~

We're a 'collective intelligence' project at our core - a nonexistent category - Paid via Open ~Collective~ - People's Assembly for ~collective~ decision making - Trending Topics >emerge< from a ~collective~ of users - Have a 21M row archive of ~collective~ convos - Cash will have ~group~ accounts

“there will be no community without first communing.” a phrase i’ve heard spoken by @norabateson.bsky.social on a number of occasions (in recorded talks, interviews, conversations, maybe even writing). it’s a phrase that sticks.

words to live by

I'm live baby, yeah! With @chaosgreml.in

This is my version of touching grass.

Build a discourse weather warning system that you can check before posting, so you can opt into touching grass instead.

most knowledge work is throwaway work

from @doriantaylor.com youtu.be/zumdnI4EG14?...

once again #Blacksky to the rescue! If you are seeing this right now consider donating to opencollective.com/blacksky

Anyone know how to get a copy of The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle Between Two World-Systems for like, less than one-hundred dollars? Sad that it's out of print, annoyed that physical copies are selling for like a grand.

Blacksky is so fuckin revolutionary, yall They stand on many many books and reports opining on what safety on the internet should be. But they built it.

Happy to see XOXO launch Explore. Even with all the things that went wrong in Portland the year I went (2018), losing another event that celebrated creativity, craft, and care (after Catskills Conf) was devastating. What a gift this archive is! 🥹

Sign up for the waiting list now! acorn.blacksky.community

Something that a lot of people don’t understand about R&D: You want to share the break through with some research insight, so that the conversation is centered around the frame of the job or problem. If you share prematurely, you’ll get a lot of noise around technical rigor & over engineering.

A member once thought a colleague was disengaged. Turns out they were just quiet. Another thought someone was difficult — until that person became one of their closest collaborators. This week's conversation was a reminder that the story we hold about someone is rarely the whole story.

Oh hey it me!

what is a metalogue? well, isn’t that a funny question…

Placed my order for an instant classic: Teaching Meaning, the latest by Christian Moore-Anderson. @cmooreanderson.bsky.social has a way with words, and a way of teaching *with* rather than teaching *to*. Order a copy for yourself and to give a friend! christianmooreanderson.com/teaching-mea...

It’s also worth noting that in discussions of safety, trans and queer women, femmes, and non-binary people’s experiences are too often treated as less pressing or not urgent enough to reflect the violence of cis-heteronormative patriarchy. That, too, is social death.

"What happens when you do statistics to a Picasso of an ostrich?" Design Management International lecture series with @norabateson.bsky.social about Complexity in Living Systems www.youtube.com/watch?v=omQl...

Abby Covert at @thesensemakersclub.bsky.social is at it again. Today, you can buy Timeless Sensemaking for Modern Sensemakers: A Spell Book for Sensemakers. abbycovert.com/product/time...

everything is connected

was just thinking to myself oh wow brother has a good website. i wonder what enterprise cms they use. my friends, brother-usa.com uses sitecore. i used to architect sitecore websites. my career trajectory is weird and i hate that i can intuit what CMS or technology a website uses based on vibes.

what is the best most protest art label maker money can buy

The hardest thing to write is less. Anyone can generate words now. A prompt and a few seconds and you have paragraphs, pages, a manifesto. The machine never runs dry. Which means the words themselves… https://zeldman.com/2026/04/15/the-courage-to-stop/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

how are we fourteen days into Q2

The combination of @kagi.com Search + Orion browser (macOS, iOS) + Assistant have changed the way i do personal computing. This is some of the best software i've ever seen 🥲

kasey was a longtime twitter mutual. he invited me to his birthday party on may 6, 2023. that’s where i met @awarm.space. we all talked about bluesky, leaflet, and ATProto, among other things. never gonna forget that.

ya’ll if you’re interested in civic design, design research, or things like a library for economic possibility, it seems like @kasey.bsky.social may be here for good (or at least here to try things out). give him a follow. kasey’s a good man.

wait penpot's layout tools are actually better than Figma?????