Aaron MoodieRE: https://ruby.social/@timriley/116497176134568168
Really enjoyed working on this with @timriley , @maxwheeler and the Hamani team, and love how it's all come together. Massive effort, congrats all! 🎉
Max Wheeler
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A duck once chased me. In the high-level details at Visibuild. He/him.
@timriley @aaronmoodie How can you not love these lil’ cuties?
RE: https://ruby.social/@timriley/116497176134568168
Had a lot of fun putting the new hanakai.org together. @timriley’s vision for a welcoming site and @aaronmoodie’s oh-so-cute brand set up such a great canvas to play with, and I’m so pleased with how it all come out.
HanakaiWelcome to Hanakai! The new home for Hanami, Dry, and Rom.
MΛTTTook the kids out geocaching today for the first time! We bombed out on the first two (autumn is a bad time to find things hidden on the ground) but came good with a third attempt. A+ adventuring.
“What happens if they land in a shark’s mouth?”
Bunnings new AI thing tried hard not to help me but we got there (now my son can stop pestering me about this for the remaining 5 hours of this car trip).
All I can think of whenever I see Commbank’s annoyingly worded advertising campaign.
𝔰𝔥𝔦𝔟𝔠𝔬In 2015 I was on a beach in Hawai'i helping build the prototype of what became Signal. I argued that the app needed pseudonyms because abusers know their victims' phone numbers. I lost the fight that day. History proved me right, and Signal would move to usernames under @Mer__edith's stewardship.
In this new essay, I trace the line from Barlow's Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace through smart-home forensics, metadata killings, and Archive Team's non-consensual Tumblr scrape to ask: when did we decide that a jpeg is a photograph, that a profile is a person, that storage is memory?
The answer involves a boat off Honolulu, the early days of Signal, Iran's missiles over Amazon's Dubai AWS facilities, and the communities already building for a world where the server goes dark. This is an essay about infrastructure, memory, archiving without consent, and what we lose when we mistake the filesystem for memory.
It is also the angriest and most personal text I've ever written. I'm furious, and you should be too. We bet an entire civilisation on a brutal and unreliable stack. Now, fate has come to collect that wager.
California has a lot to fucking answer for.
https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/
