Erin Kissane
@kissane.myatproto.social
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.
Cofounded the Covid Tracking Project, previously OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Pinned
The fight against authoritarianism has many fronts. At Unbreaking, we choose to work against information overload and for collective understanding. On our Immigration timeline, we track major and representative events from across the US—now filterable by legal case:
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This is what I spent most of last week working on with other people who cannot leave this stuff alone. Gotta put the facts in order in a stable place and then see what meaning emerges.
A law that very heavily restricted AirBnBs in NYC went into effect in 2023 and the hotels (that all lobbied for the law so hard) have been cranking up prices ever since.
www.wired.com/story/airbnb...
www.wired.com/story/airbnb...
December 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
A law that very heavily restricted AirBnBs in NYC went into effect in 2023 and the hotels (that all lobbied for the law so hard) have been cranking up prices ever since.
www.wired.com/story/airbnb...
www.wired.com/story/airbnb...
Fuck yeah First Presbyterian
December 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Fuck yeah First Presbyterian
Hey folks, if you follow me over the @ap.brid.gy bridge from the fediverse and your account is not bridged, I can't interact with you from this account. (Bridgy Fed quite sweetly DMs me that you tried to send a reply, but I can't reply back without switching networks.)
December 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Hey folks, if you follow me over the @ap.brid.gy bridge from the fediverse and your account is not bridged, I can't interact with you from this account. (Bridgy Fed quite sweetly DMs me that you tried to send a reply, but I can't reply back without switching networks.)
I allow myself exactly one Jacob Marley joke per year
December 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I allow myself exactly one Jacob Marley joke per year
Ian Bogost was bait to begin with
December 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Ian Bogost was bait to begin with
The wildest thing about these ludicrous boondoggles is there’s no material penalty for having been a booster and no material advantage to having seen it coming. Probably the reverse.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The wildest thing about these ludicrous boondoggles is there’s no material penalty for having been a booster and no material advantage to having seen it coming. Probably the reverse.
The problem with working with a theory with apparently explanatory power is that I am incredible suspicious about anything with high explanatory power so I am miserable the entire time whether it works out or not.
December 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The problem with working with a theory with apparently explanatory power is that I am incredible suspicious about anything with high explanatory power so I am miserable the entire time whether it works out or not.
Did Jerry already make the one Pluribus a week more like Unibus joke
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Did Jerry already make the one Pluribus a week more like Unibus joke
People will still fight you on here if you say that a majority of white women voted for Trump in 2020 and 2024. This should not be the thing that makes my brain turn to cinders today but it kind of is.
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
People will still fight you on here if you say that a majority of white women voted for Trump in 2020 and 2024. This should not be the thing that makes my brain turn to cinders today but it kind of is.
Not entirely clear to me what will happen at the border if I attend a conference in Vancouver in the spring, tbh
December 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Not entirely clear to me what will happen at the border if I attend a conference in Vancouver in the spring, tbh
Zero point two tonal steps away from a Succession script
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Zero point two tonal steps away from a Succession script
Reposted by Erin Kissane
This is really important. Both in the fact of IMLS reinstating grants. (Which have been *crucial* for libraries and civic life across the country. Notably in rural areas.)
And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.
And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.
IMLS announces "upon further review" that it is reinstating all federal grants to libraries. It leaves out that it's doing this because a federal court told them a few weeks ago that the Trump admin's decision to destroy libraries was not legal.
www.imls.gov/news/stateme...
www.imls.gov/news/stateme...
Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants
Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants Washington, DC– Upon further review, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has reinstated all federal grants. This action supersede...
www.imls.gov
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This is really important. Both in the fact of IMLS reinstating grants. (Which have been *crucial* for libraries and civic life across the country. Notably in rural areas.)
And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.
And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.
Reposted by Erin Kissane
I seem to have accidentally stumbled upon a lost media CHRISTMAS MYSTERY...can you help me solve it?
Here's what happened: I sang a carol to my partner the other day, and he didn't recognize it. Fair enough, he's from England, so we don't always know the same music. So I tried searching for it...
Here's what happened: I sang a carol to my partner the other day, and he didn't recognize it. Fair enough, he's from England, so we don't always know the same music. So I tried searching for it...
December 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I seem to have accidentally stumbled upon a lost media CHRISTMAS MYSTERY...can you help me solve it?
Here's what happened: I sang a carol to my partner the other day, and he didn't recognize it. Fair enough, he's from England, so we don't always know the same music. So I tried searching for it...
Here's what happened: I sang a carol to my partner the other day, and he didn't recognize it. Fair enough, he's from England, so we don't always know the same music. So I tried searching for it...
while I'm talking out of turn Stevie Nicks sounds exactly like a stoned singing sheep esp in her solo career and it's charming, actually
December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
while I'm talking out of turn Stevie Nicks sounds exactly like a stoned singing sheep esp in her solo career and it's charming, actually
is it permissible yet to express skepticism about the Brené Brown industrial complex or no
December 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
is it permissible yet to express skepticism about the Brené Brown industrial complex or no
Who taught you math
December 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Who taught you math
Welp, radio is making me a terrible grump, time to turn it off and log out of all the things
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Welp, radio is making me a terrible grump, time to turn it off and log out of all the things
Like I am going to read Nerd Reich but I have been reading about this in the mainstream press for years and years. And of course WIRED has covered the bejeezus out of it and there’s so much indie reporting.
The frame warfare here deserves better arguments than “No one is covering it.”
The frame warfare here deserves better arguments than “No one is covering it.”
The claim that no one in mainstream media is covering the influence of tech money in the rise of authoritarianism, which I just heard Gil Duran say on KQED, makes me feel insane.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
www.newyorker.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Like I am going to read Nerd Reich but I have been reading about this in the mainstream press for years and years. And of course WIRED has covered the bejeezus out of it and there’s so much indie reporting.
The frame warfare here deserves better arguments than “No one is covering it.”
The frame warfare here deserves better arguments than “No one is covering it.”
The claim that no one in mainstream media is covering the influence of tech money in the rise of authoritarianism, which I just heard Gil Duran say on KQED, makes me feel insane.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
www.newyorker.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The claim that no one in mainstream media is covering the influence of tech money in the rise of authoritarianism, which I just heard Gil Duran say on KQED, makes me feel insane.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
My eyes keep being weird so I'm trying to find non-text ways to get the information I need, and man, national daily news audio is a real hellscape of people acting either two notches dumber (relatability!) or two notches smarter (counterintuitive cleverness!) than they actually appear to be.
December 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
My eyes keep being weird so I'm trying to find non-text ways to get the information I need, and man, national daily news audio is a real hellscape of people acting either two notches dumber (relatability!) or two notches smarter (counterintuitive cleverness!) than they actually appear to be.
And yet wherever ICE and CBP show up in force, young people do come out to protect their neighbors—and at far greater risk to themselves than the risks posed by mass protests that may help in a diffuse way, or may work more like an accountability sink than a countermove.
Fantastic data in here. Was just talking to a neighbor about the age curve at No Kings. Not an easy thing to fix.
The Times piece by @brendannyhan.bsky.social about No Kings made me curious about the political activism of young people over time. So I pulled some CES data and made some charts. www.pbump.net/o/how-severe...
December 2, 2025 at 4:50 AM
And yet wherever ICE and CBP show up in force, young people do come out to protect their neighbors—and at far greater risk to themselves than the risks posed by mass protests that may help in a diffuse way, or may work more like an accountability sink than a countermove.
The child for whom I have been collecting books recs was given the chance to request a book for the school library and she asked for an, uh, body horror…caper? About ancient fish gods that eat human fear? And it has arrived. So she is now slowly converting her classmates to the fish cult.
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The child for whom I have been collecting books recs was given the chance to request a book for the school library and she asked for an, uh, body horror…caper? About ancient fish gods that eat human fear? And it has arrived. So she is now slowly converting her classmates to the fish cult.
🎁📚 People who acquire books for middle schoolers: many banger recs await you in the replies to this post
This year’s holiday recs request: Moar Books for child (12) who finally got to read the Murderbots and loved them the most, but is not ready for Locked Tomb levels of grief and death. Preferences in next post.
December 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
🎁📚 People who acquire books for middle schoolers: many banger recs await you in the replies to this post
my brain saw “whistleblowers” and “leave“ and told me FEMA got rid of leafblowers so make fun of me all you want but it’s better in here
In a reversal from this morning, FEMA puts whistleblowers back on leave after reinstating them
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
FEMA Puts Whistleblowers on Leave Shortly After Reinstating Them
Days after reinstating a group of Federal Emergency Management Agency employees who raised concerns about the government’s disaster preparedness, federal officials have placed those whistleblowers bac...
www.bloomberg.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
my brain saw “whistleblowers” and “leave“ and told me FEMA got rid of leafblowers so make fun of me all you want but it’s better in here
Reposted by Erin Kissane
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Check out @sarambsimon.bsky.social (Northwestern University)’s review of Brian Michael Murphy (Williams College)’s book _We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World_ pub 2022 @uncpress.bsky.social
#hstm
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
Check out @sarambsimon.bsky.social (Northwestern University)’s review of Brian Michael Murphy (Williams College)’s book _We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World_ pub 2022 @uncpress.bsky.social
#hstm
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Check out @sarambsimon.bsky.social (Northwestern University)’s review of Brian Michael Murphy (Williams College)’s book _We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World_ pub 2022 @uncpress.bsky.social
#hstm
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
Check out @sarambsimon.bsky.social (Northwestern University)’s review of Brian Michael Murphy (Williams College)’s book _We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World_ pub 2022 @uncpress.bsky.social
#hstm
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social