Before Trans Day of Visibility comes to a close, we're wishing our community strength and solidarity in the face of a well-funded, organized, and cynical campaign to erase us from public life. The bigots will lose. Trans love and joy will win. We'll keep showing up every day to work towards this.

trans folks in my life and feeds, I feel privileged when you allow me to perceive you <3

Welp, that's enough internet for me.

The vod stream has 2.5 minutes of my talk and the rest is hidden elsewhere, the metadata elves are 100% on my side, it is perfect, no notes.

I am extremely interested in good information about the damage produced by data centers (all of them, not just the LLM-linked ones) but this whole cycle has been a mess.

Speaking of encryption, I'm using @germnetwork.com now, @tessa.germnetwork.com's talk on consent as a core design principle completely won me over.

I had missed that Columbia closed the Dart Center last year when the Dart Foundation apparently stopped funding it. Extraordinary timing. www.poynter.org/business-wor...

I am sorry for making it a tiny bit harder to connect later by refusing to use the QR scanning website irl, it’s cool, do go on, I just don’t like feeling more like a pokemon than I absolutely must

Welcome to the new era of Anisota — featuring a hand-carved brand mark, foundations of an immersive game world, swipe gestures, & lots more. This is Anisota senatoria... A new, more peaceful kind of social interface that helps you be offline more and oneline better. Enter the forest: anisota.net

This is the sweetest crew. Thank you, @ngerakines.me and @knowtheory.net @bmann.ca @chadkoh.com and @lucca.northsky.team and all these other folks for doing this with so much care and consideration.

A thing I learned growing up in an earnest but cultic knowledge milieu is that when someone tells you that you're not allowed to try to understand how something* works, you might be in a cultic knowledge milieu.

tired enough today that I got pretty far daydreaming about an edited audio component of the interview series I’ve been threatening to do for years before I remembered that is a podcast and slammed the laptop

Looking at the current ai discourse between my fingers and thinking about [jumbled compromised info substrate] + [flooded intake capacity] and having a not great time.

What more can be said about #AtmosphereConf than what's already been said. Bravo, and thank you @bmann.ca @knowtheory.net @ngerakines.me @essentialrandom.bsky.social @chadkoh.com @lucca.northsky.team + the countless others who made it happen. Never felt so much constant joy at a conference before.

I left Vancouver planning to order this @loriemerson.net book immediately and then we got home to find a media-mail box from @maxfenton.bsky.social waiting for us and Other Networks was inside it 🌼

My 6th grader went to school this morning wearing her new #AtmosphereConf shirt and carrying a cup covered in yet more conference stickers, and I know there are more important signals but I'm pretty psyched to see her get a little Internet-But-Good experience mixed in with everything else

I searched "data center coloring book" because I was trying to decide if I should make one and found this, from a power management company, and I don't think I can top this www.eaton.com/explore/_pfc...

This is a @lucca.northsky.team appreciation post! She did a great job putting together the whole volunteer program and running things on site. Among the many many other things we had to get done ahead of the conference!

got through customs with such ease that I can only assume it was the blessing of the novelty goose socks, which, yes, I showed them

last night when I tried to describe what it felt like to be at a conference with so much great work happening amid ~~everything else~~, I ended up just relating the Jackpot chapter of The Peripheral

Community is the only moat.

Thanks for the warm reception, #atmosphereconf! I'm moving my citations into Semble and will share out cites, notes, and slides as soon as I get them transferred. <3

I regret to inform you that the network scene is about to get extremely wild and I am into it

so far my #atscience experience as a general knowledge person from the journalism-adjacent zone is one of all-consuming envy

I’m going to wheatpaste this article to telephone poles until everyone reads it

This is now on my spring syllabus

While people are talking about good fantasy for kids I will just mention that reading The Golden Compass with a very smart and also very sensitive kid was a disaster. Ripping adventure, lot of fun, but also Pullman is pretty callous! Subtle Knife would have been a wrecking ball.

I feel the same way, grumpy sweet potato

You know what is great about prepping a crunchy new talk is the moment right after you deliver it and are done (and ideally fall through the trapdoor in the stage, directly into a temporary gentle coma)

Yaaaay talk picker

Do we already have a talk-picker/schedule customizer up anywhere for @atmosphereconf.org or am I reverting to making a paper list of which things I need to see when?

YES

I think people took this thread to be about not using LLMs to replace user research, and sure. But it's really about talking to people and caring about them and what they need when we make things for them.

erin what is ChatCPT

I sat in on a session awhile back where mostly-developers were trying to figure out how to boost mass adoption of [an open source thing], and the furthest they got was asking ChatCPT to make up Types of People and why those people would love [the open source thing], and they wanted to work from that

Yeah. This was always going to be the corner they painted themselves into, but it's still a horror movie experience seeing them fully embrace it.

Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪  Mar 20 (Year 2, Week 12) - major ruling! ACIP & vaccine schedule illegitimate - NIH funds finally(?) “flowing” & what that actually means - NSF still hostage to OMB & so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

*camel noises intensify*

The thrush is at it again and apparently the dog is only safe if he is sitting right on top of my lungs.

As a @propublica.org alum, I urge its leadership to talk seriously with staffers about guardrails around the use of AI in the newsroom. This seems like a solvable issue. Solidarity with my former colleagues @propublicaguild.org

Well, congratulations, I am a Puritan now.

“These cases are, of course, different in very meaningful ways. Yet both men have been central figures in the modern food system, operating from opposite ends: Redzepi in the world of fine dining; Chavez, among the laborers producing the food that ends up in the world’s kitchens.” — @soleilho.com

nooo you have to write a conclusion erin everyone says, you have to write an ending and I am like have you never heard of the irish goodb—

A great write-up on brand-new research I was involved in. We used a really different approach from the ones that we & many others have used previously to estimate how many Covid deaths there *really* were--almost 20% more than known. Our results broadly accord w others but add new demographic detail

Quote nesting got too deep—my below posts are about this study. (If you're going to be weird about it, please don't do it in my replies.) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is extremely interesting work—results not surprising except in a few areas, but tremendously useful if it holds up. (Please note the thread's warnings.)

the camel/evidence situation is trying to transmogrify into a separate blog post I do not have time to write; this is one of the many reasons writing is bad

*breathing into a paper bag*

Love this "you must be doing short video to be relevant newsroom mandates" x "that's not *journalism* by god that's a GIRL on TIKTOK" double bind, great work out there everyone

me: what do I think about the strength of this evidence? also me: