wreckage/salvage

There is urgently needed a classification of clouds which will tell of the origin of the cloud and its life history.

I intend to look at technology the way Macpherson looked at democracy, as ideas and dreams, as practices and procedures, as hopes and myths.

I gave a new talk at the end of March for the network-makers at Atmosphere Conf in Vancouver, BC.

On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska.

Bonfire Networks is a tiny software org that has spent the past couple of years building a framework for communities on the open social web.

Last week, I finished an essay about platform design affordances and content moderation expectations and community-level context collapse on Bluesky for Tech Policy Press and set it aside to cool before a last read-through.

It’s coming up on been a year, somehow, since I started this website/micro-studio/space to think in.

I work on problems with networks because I am an ordinary person and I care about ordinary people.

For your own sanity, you have to remember that not all problems can be solved.

Ursula Martius Franklin was a Canadian physicist, metallurgist, writer, and activist working on technology and society, nuclear disarmament, urban governance, and the protection of humane ways of life.

Discussions on wreckage/salvage will take place in a semi-sheltered space to encourage generative and generous conversations.

In the game of Go, bad shape is the term for configurations of stones on the game board that are inefficient in achieving their offensive goal (territory capture) and unlikely to achieve their defensive goal (the state of "life").

This is a new kind of post for wreckage/salvage.

The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions—initially in Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler’s freeform noticings that apply science fiction writer Liu Cixin's