The docs on WHAM and Milli Vanilli are both actually great – novelistic stories.

I also really enjoyed Roberta, and Still Bill; didn't see them mentioned here, and they're really worth checking out :)

*bee wings! 🤦🏼‍♂️

First prize!

The pic does not convey the full glory of the flapping butterfly wings.

I’ve been procrastinating so hard on posting the preview of my values-as-boundaries paper… just seems like not super timely for it, given *everything going on*? But will that ever change?

But there are always countercultures, and swings back. People will rediscover the wealth of networks. I believe that anyway. And, maybe having learned the hard way, more people will be more willing to treat the work of collective decisionmaking as worthy of their care. Idk @lu.is is that naive

Maybe @lu.is is right that software development culture has shifted away from co-production?

I think this reflects the failure of cybertriumphalism, which understood digital commons in the Hardin sense: no rules, no structure. No politics. But this turns tragic even when resource is not exhaustible

his ass should be in prison!!!

It’s so embarrassing. Jessica i’m so tired

Thanks for the connection! I am working with Wallis Greenslade from NZ, i’ve learned a lot from them. See here: buff.ly/4fOy8tn

Thanks, yeah it’s very concerning! Significant potential for privatization of public power, all cloaked under the false pretense of simple “user centered” solutions to social problems.

My dude they are gearing up to gut Medicaid, maybe you can take a break from all your podcasts and find some way to help out?

i dont even know what happened but i am so scared for ukraine and us all

This is pathetic. Get a fucking grip.