Christian

Blacksky Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.

The blacksky.community web application now uses our own API servers to load posts, timelines and profiles.

When data is missing (accounts on the edges of the network, outside of our primary community, etc) we leverage @microcosm.blue

HCI Seminar - Andy Matuschak - Apps and programming: two accidental tyrannies | MIT CSAIL Abstract:One of the personal computer revolution’s grandest dreams was that we'd all have not only our own computers, but that we’d also create our own dynamic media, exquisitely tuned to our own…

Boston-area mutuals: I'll be giving the MIT HCI seminar this Tuesday at 4PM. I've got some open time on Wednesday morning—DM me if you'd like to chat! 👋

While much has been & can be said about the outsized impact our work tried to do (and all the stuff we weren't able to do)

In reality, I just miss getting to work with a cadre of smart, outstanding people who were trying to improve things for millions of people everyday.

the bias of a system is what it does

Rudy's Theory of Revolution - Eclecticisms Eclecticisms Conversations Series: Episode 001 - Interview with Rudy Fraser of Blacksky

Everyone on the team is brilliant. @rude1.blacksky.team

eclecticisms.leaflet.pub/3mfu4f2hz7c2x

Love this ↓

I’m inspired most days by @cmooreanderson.bsky.social’s work. I have a couple of his books. Christian is helping evolve the way education works. For the better.

Second-order h/t to @roneglash.bsky.social, who shared this with me.

Afro-now-ism | NOEMA The unencumbered black mind is a wellspring of possibility.

“Black liberation rests on the construction of a non-oppositional consciousness, unburdened by the need to endlessly challenge the fears, imaginative apprehension, oppression and entanglements of others.”

Just one of the many bangers in this piece!

www.noemamag.com/afro-now-ism

Love to see it

for example, MCII (or similarly strategic foresight), when paired with Bateson’s Method (double description), provide a sort of language of applied abductive process and biosemiotics that i’ve found very revealing when considering biomimicry in e.g. team topologies

the threaded post felt generative and sparked the cybersystemics connection for me. I love this type of transdisciplanary commentary because it’s so needed in the worlds of software engineering org design, and S&O. all these communities have much to learn from each other

bsky.app/profile/grim...

cyberschismogenesis explains a lot.

Cyberpsychology Cyberpsychology, Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, Smahel, David

e.g. cyberpsychology.eu and others

Reimagining Systems Thinking as Cybersystemic Researching: An Invitation to a Cyber‐Systemic Co‐Inquiry This paper reimagines the future of systems research as an enacted cybersystemic praxis that moves beyond traditional notions of systems thinking. We argue that systems research is best understood as...

as it relates to @strategytheory.com, i am very interested in emerging transdisciplinary communities of practice developing around cyberpsychosocial concerns such as cybersystemics

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

app tensegrity :p

well, i guess technically management science was created by an academic institution funded by an asbestos conglomerate. tomayto, tomahto.

management science was created by an asbestos conglomerate

Welcome back to the good place, my friend.

CSS is a programming language

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hey Mel, i sent you a follow up email per our 2024 thread. hope to catch up soon :)

we accept the information we think we deserve

Yes.

Oh hey, #atproto, we wanted to say hi! We're atproto LA, the community for Bluesky/AT Protocol users/contributors/developers/journalists/creators/etc. here in the Los Angeles Metro area.

Right now, the community is just @chaosgreml.in and @alex.bsky.team, but we know there are more of you!!

Sometimes industry rhetoric involves dehumanizing people.

Other times it involves humanizing AI.

It’s important to recognize how both of these moves work together to serve industry goals.

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i use a Studio Display with Nano-texture glass. when i look at displays for long periods that don’t have the combination of high pixel-density and a matte finish i feel like i’m doing a disservice to my eyes

me having dinner at OK Chicken and Khao Soi with @hsilv.bsky.social

going to Portland Oregon brb

a tiny copy of On Bullshit, by Harry G. Frankfurt

yeah man