This post annotates a talk I gave on March 23, 2025 at the first ATmosphere Conference in Seattle, working toward thinking together about bringing vulnerable people into the center of our work and building out viable vernacular institutions and economies for new networks.| erinkissane.com
What I am doing during the explosive disassembly of the US administrative state and what I want, and why.| erinkissane.com
For your own sanity, you have to remember that not all problems can be solved. Not all problems can be solved, but all problems can be illuminated. —Ursula Franklin| wreckage/salvage
Ursula Franklin is one of my all-time favorite thinkers about both the obvious and obscured parts of our technological world.| wreckage/salvage
The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet.| wreckage/salvage
A lot of people are looking for ways to get off networks run by dipshit billionaires right now, and also for refuges online that don't come with their own terrible problems. I want to help them find some.| wreckage/salvage
One of the things required for doing good work is stability, of even the most provisional kind. Right now, I'm working from a one-legged stool; it needs more legs.| wreckage/salvage
The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.| wreckage/salvage
This post is a work in progress about a talk I gave on August 24, 2024 at the final XOXO Festival in Portland, Oregon.| erinkissane.com
After a few months of prepping and conducting interviews and then many more months of analyzing and writing up what we found, we’re| erinkissane.com