“Our failure to remember that the mega-platforms are just intentionally extractive constructs run by brainmelted but very human weirdos is a failure of accountability, but our failure to remember that it doesn’t have to be this way is a failure not only of imagination, but of nerve.” Erin Kissane

https://www.wrecka.ge/against-the-dark-forest/ #TechPolicy #OldGold #HumanBehavior #SocialNetworks #tech

Against the dark forest

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
“On my team, I get to enjoy an agency-style variety of projects with the benefits of being at an established tech company.” Automattic Women: Christy Nyiri #OldGold @[email protected] automattic.design/2022/07/21/a...

Automattic Women: Christy Nyir...
Automattic Women: Christy Nyiri

We’ve grown three-fold (!!) since I started two years ago, and I’m proud of how we’ve refined and matured our design processes, and continue to do so, as our team scales.

Automattic Design
Bubbles, bubbles, toil and trouble. Return with us to January, 2006, where we evaluated the hype around “Web 2.0.” #OldGold #Web2pointOh Illo: Kevin Cornell. alistapart.com/article/web3...

Web 3.0
Web 3.0

Web 2.0 is a fresh-faced starlet on the intertwingled longtail to the disruptive experience of tomorrow. Web 3.0 thinks you are so 2005.

A List Apart

Bubbles, bubbles, toil and trouble. Return with us to January, 2006, where we evaluated the hype around “Web 2.0.” #OldGold Illo: Kevin Cornell.

https://alistapart.com/article/web3point0/

Web 3.0

Web 2.0 is a fresh-faced starlet on the intertwingled longtail to the disruptive experience of tomorrow. Web 3.0 thinks you are so 2005.

A List Apart
What your neurodivergent colleagues wish you knew data.blog/2024/04/04/w... #ND #neurodiverse #OldGold

What your neurodivergent colle...
What your neurodivergent colleagues wish you knew

In 2023, we asked members of Automattic’s neurodiversity ERG, ‘Neurodiverseomattic’, the question “What’s one thing you wish neurotypical people understood about your neurod…

Data for Breakfast
What your neurodivergent colleagues wish you knew

In 2023, we asked members of Automattic’s neurodiversity ERG, ‘Neurodiverseomattic’, the question “What’s one thing you wish neurotypical people understood about your neurod…

Data for Breakfast

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Daughter of white tobacco sharecropper at country store. Person County, North Carolina

#NorthCarolina #OldGold #Coca-Cola #Camel #PrinceAlbert #ModelTFord #Texaco #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772133/

The more things change… 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web, by @[email protected] – August 16, 2002 #blogs #blogging #writing #OldGold #AListApart #WritingForTheWeb #LivingWeb #eastgate

10 Tips on Writing the Living ...
10 Tips on Writing the Living Web

Your information architecture is as smooth, clear, and inviting as a lake. Your design rocks. Your code works. But what keeps readers coming back is compelling writing that’s continually fres…

A List Apart

The more things change…

10 Tips on Writing the Living Web, by Mark Bernstein – August 16, 2002

https://alistapart.com/article/writeliving/ #blogs #blogging #writing #OldGold #AListApart #eastgate #WritingForTheWeb #LivingWeb

10 Tips on Writing the Living Web

Your information architecture is as smooth, clear, and inviting as a lake. Your design rocks. Your code works. But what keeps readers coming back is compelling writing that’s continually fres…

A List Apart