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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

Good morning from Kelpland. Perhaps you’d like to look at some beautiful seaweed and/or think about knowledge. www.wrecka.ge/holdfast-0-situating

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Bonfire Social 1.0.5 is out! 🔥 **Archipelago mode** means instead of open federation (connect to everyone, then play whack-a-mole blocking bad actors), you can now choose to **federate** _***only***_ **with a hand-picked allow-list of trusted people or servers**. Communities can link up into an […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

Too late for this update, but AFL-CIO Minneapolis is endorsing a general strike (or "statewide action") on Jan 23 over ICE/CBP violence. minneapolisunions.org/system/files/… #uspol

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

At Unbreaking.org, we added dozens of events across four timelines this week and did a short briefing on Immigration events in the US along with smaller updates from our Data Security, Federal Workforce, and Medical Research teams: unbreaking.org/blog/this-week-at-un… #uspol

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This week at Unbreaking, January 16 — Unbreaking

This week, we have a briefing on Immigration and quick updates from our Data Security, Federal Workforce, and Medical Research Funding teams.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/12/2025

@vruba ~~ Ian Hodder’s hermeneutic spiral ~~

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025

@tomjennings I think that has to be part of it—we stabilize against erosion by building up root networks and I think about that all the time.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025

I have been very hesitant to repost nice things about my own work but then this year happened and I got over it.

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025

Gosh, there is just so much to love about a new essay from @kissane, even when it’s about so much heaviness like widespread memory leak. Erin is like a superfan for readers because she unpacks topics with such care and wit. This stuff seriously just rewires my brains […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025

@crackhappy Thank you! I edited this one with such a smushed brain and it shoooows

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

It is roughly 5k words long and some of the densest abstract thinking I've tried to do in years and I started drafting it while still in the last huge year-end push at Unbreaking.org and finished this morning. I am toast. See you in January!

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

Happy holidays, fediverse! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025

I understand that some people experience holiday nostalgia in the form of a longing for the movies or food of their childhood, which sounds great and all but I am always after that fresh computer smell, blinky lights on desktop, and a quiet room with a view onto a campus covered in snow

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025

Why yes I am putting Mac System 7 style holiday lights on my computers and no one can stop me benkurtz.org/maclampsx.html

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Ben Kurtz: MacLampsX

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025

Heads up that There Is No Antimemetics Division is out in revised and thoroughly superior new version, including an extremely good audio edition, just in time to ruin someone’s winter holidays.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025

I need a linter that just removes commas I stick everywhere in informal writing but I need it at the level of my brain

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2025

@jasonsantamaria Oooh I have not seen all of those! Thank you!

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2025

(it’s a dark month in a dark time and my coping mechanisms are very specific)

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2025

best three horror movies from the past 10 years, no torture porn, no hurting children, go

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CelloMom On Cars @cellomomoncars.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

The Tech Review article mentioned by @kissane is worth reading in its entirety: It outlines how many clickbait actors spread dangerous misinformation and fake news not so much out of malicious intent but entirely from a banal profit motive. (Of course there are propaganda actors too who use […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2025

Two years ago, I wrote at very great length about how this played out in Myanmar. It is so upsetting to see how many of the same dynamics are at work here now. erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-ful…

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Meta in Myanmar (full series) - Erin Kissane's small internet website

The landing page for the full series on Meta in Myanmar.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2025

This thing that 404 is writing about in the US—the dehumanizing fake content created purely because Facebook pays people to make it? www.404media.co/ai-generated-videos… It has a direct precedent in the Myanmar genocide and has been widely […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2025

The process of getting the right reading prescription and then training my eyes and brain to handle it has been so much wilder than I had expected, as someone who'd previously had extremely good eyesight. Wiiiiild.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

@CrisColor It's not easy to explain, and I've been workshopping it on my own with friends in conversation for more than a year 😅 @bonfire

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

it is taking all my willpower to not edit that extra space out of the first post

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

Also, any team who makes THIS as their crowdfunding campaign launch video has my axe. www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfi…

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

@bonfire is doing some of the most interesting work on the open social internet, and they're doing it in the most exhilarating ways. I am delighted to be even a little bit involved in the work they have planned: www.wrecka.ge/sparks-fly-up

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Sparks fly up

Once you’ve seized the tools of political life to build communal power, it’s hard to forget what a hammer feels like in your hand.

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

“People aren’t misguided to want shelter from surveillance and harassment, or to seek high-context, community-centric moderation; all echo-chamber punditry notwithstanding, those are necessary conditions when life online has such direct and dramatic effects on the character of our offline […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

Also this week I’m back on the Immigration timeline for Unbreaking, publishing an update tomorrow. This update at least has the guy in a giraffe onesie singing Do Ya Think I’m Sexy to ICE in it.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

And then I wrote about the connections between that piece and @ben’s great FediForum talk on wrecka.ge, where you can also behold this incredible cloud www.wrecka.ge/clouded-skies-for-ope…

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

I wrote about Bluesky’s moderation tensions and the White House’s threats and the critical need for open networks that can do broad connection and also care for communities at Tech Policy Press […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

@VoiceofDuum I hope you like it! It’s very…specific.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

Oh and the subtitle is fucking with you. That’s about all I can say about it that.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

I recommend going in cold if you can, and will note that the audio edition read by Natasha Soudek is top-notch and helps a lot with the sounds of the names and language. (I always go audio-first with Tokarczuk if I can.)

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

I still don’t know how I missed it last fall, but The Empusium is my favorite novel of the year by a mile. Stellar translation from Antonia Lloyd Jones. The critics who found it trivial are my enemies.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

@laurenshof Aww I love this. I say that go by and didn't make the connect to Scott—thank you for doing it!

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

@grant_h @skaverat I am the WORST at naming so I am steering clear, I would suggest something ultra-dorky like "Account Sets" or "Community Clusters" that no one would love.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

One last thing! Starter packs are a *really* good way to help whole communities (of practice or interest) move from one network to another without losing their whole history of connection and conviviality, and I think that's been quite successful at Bsky—it helped a lot of communities make the […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

The thing I had most hoped would happen on the feature-design side is that fediverse systems and ATProto systems would learn from each other and I think this is a good example of that actually taking place.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

I think Mastodon's proposal for starter packs is a significant positive evolution of the way Bluesky rolled them out. I wound up on a bunch of packs there and it was…not a great thing for my specific brain and purpose. I do hope the people in Masto's comments saying […] [Original post on mas.to]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

@stefan Thank you!! I will be so happy to have them out of my brain and into the world where they can bother other people instead 😅

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

It’s me, stumbling around the kitchen (my ghost install) trying to find the coffee (my ability to write words about networks in this wild year). Which is to say: Still here, still hammering away on a lot of things. Still don’t know what will happen! […]

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