Christian
@christian.bsky.social
Design research & research design. Information architect at heart. Hopeful.
📍 Seattle mostly, sometimes Maine.
🌐 caj.io · @strategytheory.com
📍 Seattle mostly, sometimes Maine.
🌐 caj.io · @strategytheory.com
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Christian
@christian.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Our Social Internet Atmosphere 🦋 | Christian Alden Jacobs
An alternative social internet atmosphere (AT Protocol) is emerging. Bluesky is the future of online social networking. And the future is now.
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Our Social Internet Atmosphere 🦋
Recently updated, now with more hot bluesky tips, starter packs, and feeds
caj.io/atmosphere
Recently updated, now with more hot bluesky tips, starter packs, and feeds
caj.io/atmosphere
People dunk on cybernetics for a bunch of good reasons.
November 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
People dunk on cybernetics for a bunch of good reasons.
"Cybernetics allows us to understand science itself. With this self referentiality, you generate a new way of talking. Because you include yourself in the analysis, you are now responsible for that what you are doing.
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
"Cybernetics allows us to understand science itself. With this self referentiality, you generate a new way of talking. Because you include yourself in the analysis, you are now responsible for that what you are doing.
Oldie but goodie. Heinz von Foerster and Humberto Maturana on understanding complexity with cybernetics (Part 1).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDbl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDbl...
Understanding Complexity Cybernetic Approach Part 1 with Heinz von Foerster
YouTube video by Juan David Campolargo
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Oldie but goodie. Heinz von Foerster and Humberto Maturana on understanding complexity with cybernetics (Part 1).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDbl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDbl...
Funny how a simple web search has become a chore. The degradation of once-reliable search engine results, anthropomorphism of simple summary queries, competing vendors chasing lock-in.. it's all a bit much.
November 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Funny how a simple web search has become a chore. The degradation of once-reliable search engine results, anthropomorphism of simple summary queries, competing vendors chasing lock-in.. it's all a bit much.
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If you're always an inspector at the end/external to/outside of the "core group" you're seen as not truly belonging, not truly "one of us," especially in organizations that are doing a bad job of protecting their dissenters and divergent thinkers (many tech orgs, ofc)
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
If you're always an inspector at the end/external to/outside of the "core group" you're seen as not truly belonging, not truly "one of us," especially in organizations that are doing a bad job of protecting their dissenters and divergent thinkers (many tech orgs, ofc)
a nature conservancy canvasser was the first reply guy
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
a nature conservancy canvasser was the first reply guy
Alphabet really managed to fumble the reason they exist.
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Alphabet really managed to fumble the reason they exist.
there should be a bluesky feature that makes u promise you’re not gonna be a total butthead before replying to a thread no one invited u to
November 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
there should be a bluesky feature that makes u promise you’re not gonna be a total butthead before replying to a thread no one invited u to
all’s findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable in love and war
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
all’s findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable in love and war
"It's not just that and nothing more."
medium.com/p/96d8aed927bc
@norabateson.bsky.social on aphanipoiesis
medium.com/p/96d8aed927bc
@norabateson.bsky.social on aphanipoiesis
Aphanipoiesis
Nora Bateson, President, International Bateson Institute
medium.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"It's not just that and nothing more."
medium.com/p/96d8aed927bc
@norabateson.bsky.social on aphanipoiesis
medium.com/p/96d8aed927bc
@norabateson.bsky.social on aphanipoiesis
Accidentally subscribed to the IETF Montreal in-person attendees email list and now i have FOMO.
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Accidentally subscribed to the IETF Montreal in-person attendees email list and now i have FOMO.
@harishjose.bsky.social the cover photo for a google search of W. Ross Ashby is a synthetic-looking portrait of Heinz von Foerster’s likeness on your website. The irony!
November 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
@harishjose.bsky.social the cover photo for a google search of W. Ross Ashby is a synthetic-looking portrait of Heinz von Foerster’s likeness on your website. The irony!
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
In January 2023 I started working on a book-shaped thing about systemic trauma, cybernetics, maps, naming things, generalizing design strategy, and more.
November 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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"Authoritarianism thrives on the suppression of dissent not just for control, but because it simplifies cognition"
New blog post, in a slightly new style!
Why do groups sometimes get stuck on the wrong thing?
How do minority voices help systems stay honest?
What does design has to do with dissent?
Some thoughts, and some group science, on problems big and small
www.jrwinget.com/blog/2025-10...
Why do groups sometimes get stuck on the wrong thing?
How do minority voices help systems stay honest?
What does design has to do with dissent?
Some thoughts, and some group science, on problems big and small
www.jrwinget.com/blog/2025-10...
When Groups Get Stuck on the Wrong Problem – Jeremy R. Winget, PhD
Dissent, sharedness, and the design of collective intelligence
www.jrwinget.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"Authoritarianism thrives on the suppression of dissent not just for control, but because it simplifies cognition"
What is a Laboratory, that Cybernetics need escape it?
@paulpangaro.bsky.social of @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social explores how we might incubate cybernetics as a living response to today's wicked challenges.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jDT...
@paulpangaro.bsky.social of @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social explores how we might incubate cybernetics as a living response to today's wicked challenges.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jDT...
What is a Laboratory, that Cybernetics need escape it?
YouTube video by American Society for Cybernetics - ASC
www.youtube.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
What is a Laboratory, that Cybernetics need escape it?
@paulpangaro.bsky.social of @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social explores how we might incubate cybernetics as a living response to today's wicked challenges.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jDT...
@paulpangaro.bsky.social of @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social explores how we might incubate cybernetics as a living response to today's wicked challenges.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jDT...
Reposted by Christian
Important work
I'm excited to finally have a preprint of this paper up, a few years in the making.
In it we argue that industry-driven manipulation of social media research is well underway and that norms and institutions in the field are ill-prepared to resist tech's influence.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894
In it we argue that industry-driven manipulation of social media research is well underway and that norms and institutions in the field are ill-prepared to resist tech's influence.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894
October 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Important work
I just looked at Figma for the first time in like six months and lol what is Buzz?
October 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I just looked at Figma for the first time in like six months and lol what is Buzz?
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“Frank Chimero · Selling Lemons”
https://frankchimero.com/blog/2025/selling-lemons/
> I think we’re in the lemon stage of the internet.
Akerlof's lemon paper was an early major influence on my thinking so it's always good to see it spreading
https://frankchimero.com/blog/2025/selling-lemons/
> I think we’re in the lemon stage of the internet.
Akerlof's lemon paper was an early major influence on my thinking so it's always good to see it spreading
September 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
“Frank Chimero · Selling Lemons”
https://frankchimero.com/blog/2025/selling-lemons/
> I think we’re in the lemon stage of the internet.
Akerlof's lemon paper was an early major influence on my thinking so it's always good to see it spreading
https://frankchimero.com/blog/2025/selling-lemons/
> I think we’re in the lemon stage of the internet.
Akerlof's lemon paper was an early major influence on my thinking so it's always good to see it spreading
Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, etc., road trip thread 👀
September 24, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, etc., road trip thread 👀
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Join us for Ecologies of Knowing: Design Cybernetics Day
October 12, 2025, online |
Hosted by #NewMacy and @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social at Systemic Design Symposium (RSD14)
rsdsymposium.org/ecologies-of...
#cybernetics #systemicdesign #conference
October 12, 2025, online |
Hosted by #NewMacy and @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social at Systemic Design Symposium (RSD14)
rsdsymposium.org/ecologies-of...
#cybernetics #systemicdesign #conference
ECOLOGIES OF KNOWING
RSD is a systemic design resource that is continuously updated with the proceedings of the annual symposium and other Systemic Design Association (SDA) events. It serves as a searchable repository of ...
rsdsymposium.org
August 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Join us for Ecologies of Knowing: Design Cybernetics Day
October 12, 2025, online |
Hosted by #NewMacy and @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social at Systemic Design Symposium (RSD14)
rsdsymposium.org/ecologies-of...
#cybernetics #systemicdesign #conference
October 12, 2025, online |
Hosted by #NewMacy and @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social at Systemic Design Symposium (RSD14)
rsdsymposium.org/ecologies-of...
#cybernetics #systemicdesign #conference
I was today years old when I learned a Presta valve needs to be opened to pump air into it 🥲
August 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I was today years old when I learned a Presta valve needs to be opened to pump air into it 🥲
Annnd I’m back in Seattle 👋
July 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Annnd I’m back in Seattle 👋
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