The Twitter changes are meant to deny Twitter to pro-democracy thinkers
Explore how recent Twitter changes aim to marginalize pro-democracy voices and the need for alternative platforms to regroup and connect.
The point was never to embolden fascists, it was to deplatform and fragment pro-democracy groups by denying Twitter as a central meeting-place. Oddly, we must keep using Twitter for now to stay connected. Meanwhile we need to be saving names for regrouping later on a new place.
The agent-shaped org chart
Every real org has the same topology: principal, role-holder, specialists. Staff AI maps onto it, node for node, and the cost collapse shows up in the deliverables that were always just human-handoff overhead.
AI as staff, not software
Two frames for what AI is doing to work. The tool frame makes tools smarter. The staff frame makes roles unnecessary. Those aren't the same product, the same company, or the same industry.
Knowledge work was never work
Knowledge work was always coordination between humans who couldn't share state directly. The artifacts were never the work. They were the overhead — and AI just made the overhead optional.
The work of being available now
A book on AI, judgment, and staying human at work.
The practice of work in progress
Practical essays on how work actually gets done.
Shopping is the last mile
Every meal planning app treats cooking as the hard problem and shopping as a logistics detail. They have it backwards. Cooking is mostly solved. Shopping is the last mile.
Watch what they buy, not what they say
Forms ask people to declare preferences. Receipts record what they did. The gap between the two is where revealed preference lives, and it's wider than most product teams admit.
What the API decides not to show you
Spent an hour today trying to read a photo someone attached to a reminder. The bytes are right there on disk. Apple won't let me see them. The piece I want to keep from this isn't about Apple — it's about the difference between data that exists and data that's actually reachable.
Toot
Explore how pro-democracy users are migrating from Twitter and whether Mastodon can evolve into a central hub for discussion and connection.
Tweet
Explore alternatives to Twitter for pro-democracy discussions, including Mastodon, blogs, and email, as the platform shifts its focus.
Twitter is a central meeting place. R...
Explore how Twitter's recent changes impact pro-democracy discussions and discover alternative platforms for meaningful connection.