Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org. Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.https://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.socialhttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mnfnwrglys26Well this is very nice [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Jun 2026 17:44 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnfnwrglys26https://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mnfmrxpric2qI read the whole encyclical on a plane then I read @laurenshof.online on the encyclical's implications for decentralized networks on a different plane and Laurens is of course extremely good, and between planes the Hallgrimskirkja did me in. A truly odd time. https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr164-the-pope-on-defederation/03 Jun 2026 17:23 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnfmrxpric2qhttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mn5j7n3g322gThis is a thoughtful and honest-feeling essay about how weird and hard things are in the classroom rn and it has great points about service and doesn’t end with this. A lot of people have these moments of despair and it’s generous to think through them in public. https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-shell-university [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 May 2026 11:58 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn5j7n3g322ghttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmzermdeec2dgoogled for airplane snack suggestions that work around my increasingly weird allergies and the page-top gemini thing suggested: a cucumber and a can of sardines29 May 2026 20:28 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmzermdeec2dhttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmuvqczalc2mI could not hate this more, for all of us [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 May 2026 01:48 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmuvqczalc2mhttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmulw2vzcs2athe LLMs think I am a sap, this is somehow worse than I had imagined [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 May 2026 22:52 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmulw2vzcs2ahttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmuhvuegl22cThe Circuit Babel/temple design is pretty good! The dude looking down/up perhaps somewhat less successful. [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 May 2026 21:40 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmuhvuegl22chttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmubscp3yc22me posting 5k to 40k words: look, this means I cut 80% of the words already me reading some 3k word substack/medium post with that rat-a-tat cadence: Is this…a Claude??27 May 2026 19:51 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmubscp3yc22https://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmtm5bpdqs2tThey fired Brooke Vibber?? [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 May 2026 13:24 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmtm5bpdqs2thttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmrsnk4b422x"In other words, the threat isn’t so much that AI is inevitable as that the ongoing—and likely expanding—immiseration of workers is unstoppable." [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 May 2026 20:15 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmrsnk4b422xhttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmrranmkck2cAt @unbreaking.org, we did a roundup on what the Trump administration's brutal and arbitrary attacks on immigrants are doing to children and families. Thank you to all our volunteers who put this together, and especially to the reporters on the individual stories. An extraordinarily traumatic beat. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 May 2026 19:50 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmrranmkck2chttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmrcg3dbks2ySomeday I will stop moaning about ideological capture and that is how you will know I am dead26 May 2026 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmrcg3dbks2yhttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmrblrksrc2cExactly this. Every statement from almost every institution is kneecapped waaay before it begins by the unspoken but unilaterally understood requirement to first accept/protect the interests of the investor class. Without capitulation, you cannot be taken seriously. But the Pope can just go for it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 May 2026 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmrblrksrc2chttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmptwl7d722bA quote from the encyclical is going directly into my slide deck for PublicSpaces, which is not at all how I expected this chapter of my life to go26 May 2026 01:32 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmptwl7d722bhttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmpql6rntc26I suspect most people are not super aware of the historical range of interpretations of the Babel myth—it can do just about anything for just about anyone. And I know how nerdy this is but I am *psyched* to get a fresh Pope Take on it tbh, it is my favorite26 May 2026 00:32 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmpql6rntc26https://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmmpzalla22mthe thing about “put everyone together in an echoing brightly lit room with instant search that encourages everyone to post in oral-culture mode but judge each other by the standards of text-culture mode” is that deranged structures produce deranged behavior24 May 2026 19:44 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmmpzalla22mhttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmib4phk7s26A most eligible array of perfect gentlemen. And the guy waving one arm [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 May 2026 01:07 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmib4phk7s26https://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmhossats22wOh no, I missed this, the book was about… The—  Sir, https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/ai-put-synthetic-quotes-in-his-book-but-this-author-wants-to-keep-using-it/22 May 2026 19:39 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmhossats22whttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmhojathqk2bSuch welcome news. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/22/judge-dismisses-criminal-case-against-kilmar-abrego-garcia-0093424422 May 2026 19:34 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmhojathqk2bhttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmhnxecjac2uA characteristically great and thoughtful thread from @yvonnezlam.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 May 2026 19:24 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmhnxecjac2uhttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmhkbn5uls2eI would not myself call this "deleting 15 years of data" when talking about an agency that holds crucial datasets going back decades because I don't like giving people heart attacks, but obviously it's not good. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 May 2026 18:18 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmhkbn5uls2ehttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmhdjpmbos2fCan someone in gov data world take a look at this? There's a ton of older CFPB data still on the site—which obviously doesn't mean there wasn't a mass deletion of something ("posts"?), I'm happy to believe that there was, but I would really like to know what got taken down. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 May 2026 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmhdjpmbos2fhttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmhcgytf622yI'm not online much rn because my body is a game of Mousetrap that keeps finding new ways to come apart, but lordy when I restabilize I will sure have some things to say22 May 2026 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmhcgytf622yhttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mmhaggcdbs2kEvery week, we write a briefing about what the Trump administration has done—and where they've been obstructed—with links to the clearest news coverage and analysis we can find. This week we did immigration, food safety, and medical research funding. https://unbreaking.org/blog/briefing-2026-05-22/22 May 2026 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmhaggcdbs2khttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mm3wwxibck2hpv glob hive sink down18 May 2026 03:33 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm3wwxibck2hhttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mm3s6myazk2fBog Queen and Bog Wife were both astonishingly good. Bog Queen has me finally suiting up to tackle Menewood. Bog Wife has me dreaming of a Shirley Jackson everything reread.18 May 2026 02:08 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm3s6myazk2fhttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mm3h4y7pv22kI use Halide Process Zero pretty much exclusively, to the point that I forget where the iOS camera app is. I’ve never taken the time to learn how to do it properly, which is okay because I kind of love everything that comes straight out of the camera.17 May 2026 22:50 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm3h4y7pv22khttps://blacksky.community/profile/kissane.myatproto.social/post/3mlx3ibpdd224You know, given the population of Shrewsbury and the number of corpses, begin to think that Brother Cadfael is committing at least some of these murders himself16 May 2026 05:11 +0000at://did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlx3ibpdd224