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Excited to share my Techtonic interview with @cyberlyra - aka Janet Vertesi - founder of the #optout project and #techreclaimers .
Janet explains WHY and HOW to get off of Big Tech, and onto community-minded alternatives.
Full episode:
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-03-23-janet-vertesi-founder-of-the-opt-out-project/
Thanks to @markhurst for having me on Techtonic this week!! You can listen to me wax poetic about the #optout project and #techreclaimers here:
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-03-23-janet-vertesi-founder-of-the-opt-out-project/
Techtonic’s signoff tells you to “get off Google,” and Janet Vertesi shows how it’s done. Janet founded the Opt Out Project to show people how to switch from Big Tech surveillance platforms to better, community-minded alternatives.
"77% of air traffic control is understaffed, with NYC ATC staffed at 54% of the correct level."
This data point from @pluralistic today, on the dangers of understaffing, makes me think of the LaGuardia crash.
I have an email from my collaborator saying he just re-ran the CRASH Clock code, and we are now under 3 days for the first time ever! Good work on bringing us that much closer to Kessler Syndrome, everybody. Special congrats to SpaceX on that one. Hope you take full credit when it starts!
https://outerspaceinstitute.ca/crashclock/ (Website hasn't been updated yet, but here's info on what the CRASH Clock tells us about how close we are to Kessler Syndrome)
New from me, a hopeful essay: my experience visiting the Repair Cafe El Barrio in East Harlem, NYC.
This is how we'll win over the oligarchs: by getting together and helping each other.
https://buttondown.com/creativegood/archive/finding-hope-at-the-repair-cafe/
New from me, a hopeful essay: my experience visiting the Repair Cafe El Barrio in East Harlem, NYC.
This is how we'll win over the oligarchs: by getting together and helping each other.
https://buttondown.com/creativegood/archive/finding-hope-at-the-repair-cafe/
Excited to share this Techtonic episode featuring my visit to Repair Cafe El Barrio: volunteers repairing items, and guests who are ecstatic with the results.
This is how we'll beat the billionaires: building community.
Full episode:
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-03-16-a-visit-to-repair-cafe-el-barrio/
In this one-hour radio program, Mark Hurst (@markhurst) visits a repair cafe. He talks both to repair "coaches" and to guests, and learns not just about the fix-it activities, but about the social benefits as well.
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-03-16-a-visit-to-repair-cafe-el-barrio/
Repair cafes, staffed by volunteer “repair coaches,” allow people to get free repairs for appliances and clothing items. Mark visited Repair Café El Barrio, in New York’s East Harlem neighborhood, and talked to coaches and guests.
Why use AI to simulate customer research?
Why not actually talk to actual people?
New from me: The forgotten superpower of listening to customers.
https://buttondown.com/creativegood/archive/the-forgotten-superpower-of-listening-to-customers/
Some art forms are not to be crossed
Cyberlyra
Prof. Sam Lawler
mytwobits01
Jason Lefkowitz