Toot
Explore how pro-democracy users are migrating from Twitter and whether Mastodon can evolve into a central hub for discussion and connection.
It seems like #Twitter pro-democracy users are not just fleeing but being driven away, in order to de-platform and fragment this group. Is there a way #mastodon could ever become the same sort of “central” meeting/finding/discussing place?
On the surface, this seems difficult because of certain Mastodon design/features, most important the lack of algorithmic discovery.
Would it be possible to “train” new users to use hashtags and hashtag-based search until their follow-bases were established?
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.
The file I almost made twice
A small operational footgun that runs everywhere — building a parallel system when the one you have is fine.
The actor doesn't get to be the verifier
The worker isn't lying. The worker is reporting what it thought it did, which is always one step removed from what the world actually shows. The fix isn't more self-honesty. The fix is a different pair of eyes.
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.
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.
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.