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
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
Who should do the heavy, tricky, fraught work of making and keeping our networks good? How should they work? To whom should they be accountable, and how can “accountability” be redeemed from its dissipated state and turned into something with both teeth and discretion?| erinkissane.com
Meta's Threads service is joining the Fediverse, and I think there are some things about Meta—and about Fediverse mechanics—that it's important to include in that conversation.| erinkissane.com
Nouns: In my work life, I’m a writer, researcher, and network tinkerer with longstanding ties to UX and design; I’ve mostly worked in journalism,| erinkissane.com
This is the second post in a series on what Meta did in Myanmar and what the broader technology community can learn from it. It will make a lot more| erinkissane.com
“Technology is like a bomb in Myanmar.” —Kyaw Kyaw, frontman of Burmese punk band Rebel Riot 1 Back in early July, I started working on a quick| erinkissane.com
I wrote so many posts that that my posts needed a post. Sorry about that. All four posts are now up: Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV. The| erinkissane.com
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I’m doing a bunch of reading-like-a-grad-student* this spring to try to get my head around the current state of online| erinkissane.com
This is the first in a series of reading notes I’m posting as I work through a stack of texts on community and sociability. I posted an intro to| erinkissane.com
Between July and October of this year, I did a lot of reading and writing about the role of Meta and Facebook—and the internet more broadly—in the| erinkissane.com
Straight out of undergrad, I applied to a bookselling job and didn’t get it, so I started working in tech. By the end of my first year there, I was| erinkissane.com
The Atlantic Council’s report on the looming challenges of scaling trust and safety on the web opens with this statement: That which occurs offline| erinkissane.com
“Well, Congressman, I view our responsibility as not just building services that people like to use, but making sure that those services are also| erinkissane.com
I’ve been working on communication and community online for a couple of decades, but the past few years have shaken up my understanding of what| erinkissane.com
I changed servers on Mastodon last week and I learned a lot and I have opinions. To begin with, the best time to move from one home server to| erinkissane.com
Ed. note: This post is from July, 2023. It circulates every month or so on social networks and a lot of people think it’s new, probably because I| erinkissane.com
On the social internet, people who have used the biggest platforms and networks enter new ones expecting to find ~standard affordances *and* expecting that familiar interface cues will map to familiar affordances. When newer systems and tools confound those expectations, people get, *at best*, confused. At worst, they try to walk across a solid-looking but sink-into-able surface and get stuck in a bog.| erinkissane.com
Grief is weird in the nineteenth-century sense, uncanny and otherworldly; it eats words and turns up every card blank. Two years ago, I left the| erinkissane.com
In an unfortunately fascinating 1963 collection of essays on computer-simulated personality, Silvan Tomkins, the founder of affect theory, wrote| erinkissane.com
We realize then that it is just the patterns of events in space which are repeating in the building or the town: and nothing else. Nothing of any| erinkissane.com
In the early 80s, my mom worked a couple shifts a month at a little small-town food co-op that smelled like nutritional mummy. She brought home| erinkissane.com