Erin Kissane
@kissane.myatproto.social
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Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, building at Unbreaking.org. Cofounded the Covid Tracking Project, previously OpenNews, old web nonsense.
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kissane.myatproto.social
I believe we need to be able to understand what is happening to us. That's the sole reason for my work on knowledge ecosystems over the years, including Covid Tracking Project. A lot of things *can* be known, even in this political blender. We deserve real knowledge, not close-enough flyby guessing.
kissane.myatproto.social
Wishing you the smoothest and best passage through this, and excellent cardiac therapy on the other side. <3
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kissane.myatproto.social
Just verifying, this is such a perfect small wonder.
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Hand holding open book in front of slightly out of focus bookshelves. The left and right book pages have illustrations at the top: Dance of Death (left); Common Press (right) Decorated endpapers of book showing type and printing artifacts in black at an angle printed on top of a sharp red paper. Pivotal type casting machine (Barth caster) in line-art form tinted green. The machine has a variety of gears and adjustments to rapidly produce the same piece of type. Cover of Six Centuries of Type & Printing: green cloth in 8 by 5 inch format, with brass-colored foil stamping for a border around the title and "by Glenn Fleishman"
kissane.myatproto.social
And by "desktop app" I ideally mean "fancy website"
kissane.myatproto.social
Is anyone using a desktop app that combines ATProto + fedi feeds? (Openvibe looks like the way on mobile, but I am trying not to look at the feeds on my phone.)
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kissane.myatproto.social
Anyway the reason I came here to talk about info overload x channel proliferation instead of yelling into a tree is that I suspect that widespread feelings of precarity + low trust + responsibility-without-control can push a populace toward simplistic solutions that are also very bad.
kissane.myatproto.social
“An unauthorized pigeon walked through a school other than the one your child attends and then left and nothing happened.“
kissane.myatproto.social
I think we got ourselves into this state as a society by believing in the tool-sellers’ promises and now they are pushing a way to make the chaos more unaccountable and less connected to our actual desires (AI) as a solution to the problem they made
nshrubs.bsky.social
I have 13 different accounts I have to log in to at school just to do my job. Email, SIS, reading curriculum, math curriculum, science curriculum, explore learning, employee online login, HR/contract login, PD login, Google drive login, parent square, staff resources login, OSPI/eVal login.
kissane.myatproto.social
I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.
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sarambsimon.bsky.social
more work for mother, the twenty-first century edition
kissane.myatproto.social
I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.
kissane.myatproto.social
And our hospital‘s pre-check-in app they funnel you to to confirm appointments turns out to share data with advertisers 🙃
kissane.myatproto.social
It is an entire third shift!
kissane.myatproto.social
I’ve been feeling grim about my apparent inability to manage dozens and dozens of comms channels by ~building more and better toolchains~ or w/e and idk I woke up at 5am 100% certain that this is actually all a weird lie 🤷🏻
kissane.myatproto.social
I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.
kissane.myatproto.social
“Throw routinely away“ is my brain in a kernel panic
kissane.myatproto.social
“Here are fifty emails saying something with a long tracking number is in a process, you’re welcome!”
kissane.myatproto.social
The gmail filters that used to actually help now throw routinely away many of the things I most need ans which things they throw away changes from week to week. I really didn’t realize how bad it was till I did the accounting.
kissane.myatproto.social
Ours has seven apps. Seven. But two serve as PORTALS for the others.
kissane.myatproto.social
And that’s with a lot of consistent unsubscribing and filtering of all the unsolicited everything else. On “good“ weeks I guess I can spend the hours required to keep on top of all of this and sifting the crucial stuff from the rest but idk, I don’t think I should be.
kissane.myatproto.social
I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.
kissane.myatproto.social
It‘s either appalling and callous and vile or it’s the apocalypse and I guess we’ll find out