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:

https://erinkissane.com/xoxo

Now I get to write the essay version of Against the Dark Forest, as a treat.
(XOXO was an incredibly warm, clued-in, unexpectedly healing place to talk about this, and I'm never going to get over it.)
@kissane Really appreciated your talk, thank you!