I'd talked myself out of posting a written version of the We Fix the Networks talk I did at XOXO because talks are performances and doesn't translate well to the cold medium of text.
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I'd talked myself out of posting a written version of the We Fix the Networks talk I did at XOXO because talks are performances and don't translate well to the cold medium of text.
Also, frankly, this was an emotionally vulnerable talk for me, and I fucking hate feelings.
But video is not great for lots of people and y'all are presumably aware enough to know that a talk and an essay are different things, so here:
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Now I get to write the essay version of Against the Dark Forest, as a treat.
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(XOXO was an incredibly warm, clued-in, unexpectedly healing place to talk about this, and I'm never going to get over it.)
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@kissane I'm horrible at watching videos. Especially from conferences. Especially lately. (Nothing against them, it's just hard to find the time and energy to watch things. I bookmark them, mail them to myself, put them in random reminders. But rarely watch them.) I watched yours start to end in one sitting, and it's STILL gripping me days later.
Thank you. Thank you for sharing, thank you for the vulnerability, thank you for the WORK, thank you for the gumption, thank you for the hope.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrickreplied to Erin Kissane last edited by
@kissane It was an amazing talk, and so generous of you to make it more available.
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@kissane i just watched the talk, in silence, with everyone still asleep, and I’m completely flooded with emotions too hard to articulate but too precious not to return to you. Thank you from an Internet stranger. Please keep doing what you do, because you are doing it better than any of us who are yet trying.
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@kissane That was an excellent talk, and so thought-provoking. Thank you.
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IgnorePriorInstructionsreplied to Erin Kissane last edited by
@kissane thank you for sharing the talk on this platform and your research into a better self governed internet. It's hard not to see the struggle of independent networks as a fight for a collective identity that dares to hold capitalism responsible for poisoning the many to many channels.
Do you have the rest of the Atlantic piece that they declined?
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@kissane Fantastic. Thank you.
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@kissane I just watched your talk last night - it was very good! I’ve been following you for a while now, and had no idea you were on the Covid-19 tracking project. Incredible work.
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@paullu Thank you so much! The tracking volunteers were just some of the best people I’ve ever had a chance to work with and I will always be so grateful to them
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Erin Kissanereplied to IgnorePriorInstructions last edited by
@NormalOperator Absolutely, and yes—when the main systems are unaccountable, building outside of them feels like the only way to get to accountability.
I do have the draft of that piece but I don’t think I’ll share more of it beyond the extract. Too close to the bone, tbh.
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@BashStKid Thank you!
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I’m so glad it clicked for you! Thank you for telling me!
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Erin Kissanereplied to Kathleen Fitzpatrick last edited by
@kfitz Thank you so much, Kathleen! That means a lot to me.
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@stegrainer Eeee thank you! I find video really hard to fit in a lot of the time. I so appreciate this.
