Endurance athlete, heavy-music appreciator, compulsive greeter of cats, host of Lifepod. My book “Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in A World on Fire,” is available from Verso; new books forthcoming 2026.
Aging, pensive schlub; dyspeptic alter kacker (Yiddish; do a search); crackpot
Upper Manhattanite.
Previously: @baslow
Atheist:
not a universalist,
not an essentialist.
#SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
#MamdaniForMayorNYC
XMPP: baslow@communitarium.org
I tend toward radical solutions to our collective problems.
Together, we MAKE meaning. We don't uncover it
tfr
Data, design, security, software engineering, press freedom, and epistemic trespassing. Engineering Manager for the Web and Dangerzone projects at Freedom of the Press Foundation. Learning to do good well.
#data #pressfreedom #design #ux #3dPrinting #making #webdev #SocialDance #TradFolk #fedi22
Architech × Excessively Black × East Coast kid on the West Coast × JU$T × Building a better Internet
She/her, English by birth, American by choice, living in the Midwest. I'm for less shareholder value and more user value.
Fave insult: Bless your heart and the horse you rode in on. Joined Mastodon in November 2022. I work in tech, finished a master's degree in Data Science in Oct 2024. 4th degree black belt in Kenpo karate.
Header photo is a picture of the Grand Canyon I took in 2007. Profile pic is me, smiling, standing in front of a stone wall. Posts delete after 6 months.
Social & computer scientist who works alongside communities on science for a safer, fairer, more understanding Internet.
Founder, Citizens and Technology Lab · Visiting Scholar, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia · Assistant Prof at Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Co-founder of @transparenttech
Enjoys taking photos & listening to books/poetry on very long bike rides.
Blatantly, unabashedly pro-democracy. Ex-Michigan farmboy makin' it work since 1958 (born in 1953, but coasted for a few years). Proud and concerned father, grandfather, dog dad, and atheist. Emigrated from New Mexico high desert to New Jersey lake, spring 2022. Used to be a whitewater canoeist, now happy paddling a quiet lake. ClassicPress/WordPress developer; websites for real estate agents. I smoke a pipe, therefore I'm a philosopher. Oxford comma because I'm civilized.
Thinking about what the future of research might look like. Community manager for https://mastodon.social/@digiresacademy
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing
#Color #Colour #ColorVision #ColourVision
#Neuroscience #Psychology
#Buddhism
#OpenSouce #Repair #logseq #Fairphone
#Cooperatives #coop #SolarPunk #antifa #HousingCoops #Anarchism #Anticapitalism
#London
#BiInSci #Polyamory
#woodpeckers #Rhubarb
Previously: fosstodon.org/@da5nsy
Also posts to: @workers_coop and @RadicalRoutes
The Free Knowledge Institute, a public benefit foundation since 2007, is working to build collective capacity around #freeknowledge, #democratictech and #coopcommons economy.
In the last 20 years we've done research and developed the Five Pillar framework for open/commons business models, and through it, we helped set up dozens of initiatives around Europe.
Now it is time to accelerate and build up collective digital resilience. Together we're developing the #DemocraticTechFund
working for a value-based economy, helping people and organisations to join the transition and build a human centred digital age.
Co-founder of Free Knowledge Institute, femProcomuns cooperative, Meet.coop, CommonsCloud, TTN.cat/XOIC.coop. Collaborator at Commons Network, former director PublicSpaces.net.
#commons #digitalcommons #cooperative #sustainability #businessmodels #FreeCulture #holochain #meetcoop #iot #LibreSoftware #OpenSource #sovereigntech #digitalautonomy #PublicSpaces
governance nerd; open source developer & community manager; novelist; activist; uswnt & washington spirit fangirl
i'm a symbiotic culture of bacteria and neurons, and a tree, and a pile of half-done compost, and a mockingbird, and a goofball weirdo dad. he/they
against teleology - there are no ends, only means
All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you.
#degrowth #librarySocialism #druidry #AuDHD
18-in-1 Pure-Castile shitposts
He/him is worth $1MM in prizes.
I post about Palestine-Israel and write about Zionism at https://OneSmallDetail.blog
Personal: https://lib.reviews/ and other projects under the https://permacommons.org/ umbrella.
Professional: Previously Wikimedia (2008-2015), Freedom of the Press (2018-2025).
Anarchist, socialist, advocate of GNU/Linux, Free/Libre Software, better privacy, cycling. Organizing with the Democratic Socialists (DSA).
Living on the stolen land of:
- O-ga-xpa Ma-zhoⁿ (O-ga-xpa) (Quapaw)
- Očhéthi Šakówiŋ
- Kaskaskia
- Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo)
#gnu #linux #FreeSoftware
#permaculture #socialecology #solarpunk #cycling #science #climatecrisis #climate #degrowth #anarchism #mutualaid #socialism
'In the end, however, we must escape from the debris with whatever booty we can rescue, and recast our technics entirely in the light of an ecological ethics whose concept of "good" takes its point of departure from our concepts of diversity, wholeness, and a nature rendered selfconscious -- an ethics whose "evil" is rooted in homogeneity, hierarchy, and a society whose sensibilities have been deadened beyond resurrection.'
The Ecology of Freedom, Murray Bookchin
Literary translator and under-employed actor - at the crossroads, looking for ways to survive the coming collapse of industrial civilisation. Generally in Athens.
(@amaenad from Twitter only older and less irate)
Photos: @CommonMugwort
I don’t content warn food, nor anything else you might see on any newsstand.
Most posts auto-delete in 2 months.
More professional on Bluesky.
