Christian
@christian.bsky.social
Action research. Research design. Cybersystemic org dev. Complex adaptive systems. Indirect action. Information architect at heart. Hopeful. 📍 Seattle or Maine 🪪 caj.io 🌐 @ecosystemaction.com 💼 @strategytheory.com & @opsops.com
Because I see climate crisis going around today, I turned our recent relevant newsletter issue into a handy blog post. I went around on the title and landed on the thing I wanted to get into everyone's head. What to do instead? Read the blog. www.muledesign.com/blog/stop-ra...
Stop Raising Awareness — Mule Design
Raising awareness might be the worst thing you can do
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Inspired by @kissane.myatproto.social's announcement and @tessa.germnetwork.com's community building.
Holding space for each other
Every builder is advancing a critique of the hellscape we're currently in. Everyone who's building a community is pathbreaking Another Way that things could be.
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Excited to announce that I'm a speaker in MIT Media Lab's upcoming AHA Seminar Series! I'll be presenting on @blackskyweb.xyz's moderation and how we are navigating the nuances around automated content moderation that is community-governed
AHA Seminar Series: Rishi Balakrishnan | Who Moderates? Community Control of Automated Content Moderation – MIT Media Lab
Join us for our online seminar series event hosted by MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) research program! This event features Rishi…
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Interesting paper by @rutgerclaassen.bsky.social about the genealogy of the corporation H/t @the-syllabus.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The corporation—a return to origins? - Rutger Claassen, 2026
This paper contributes to contemporary debates in political theory about the power of business corporations by offering a genealogy of the corporation through t...
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This whole situation is reminding me that Citizen app should not cost $20 bucks a month and this is the type of thing that maybe could benefit from a cooperative governance model and a public broadcast network.
Love what kasey is doing at Primitive for product and engineering team coordination. Got a lil preview some time ago and lemme tell ya, you can see kasey’s multidisciplinary research background and care for craft shining through
kasey klimes@kasey.bsky.social · 3w agosome news: I’m building a startup! we’re solving coordination by building real infrastructure for your most important asset—your decisions. it’s called Primitive. we can’t wait to share it with you. getprimitive.ai
Our first Annual General Meeting is set for September 19, 2026. This is the co-op’s main moment for collective decision-making. Read in full on our blog here: www.subvert.fm/blog/subvert... RSVP at luma.com/subvert2026 Not a member? Join the co-op at subvert.fm
Subvert Annual General Meeting 2026 · Luma
Join Subvert's first (online) Annual General Meeting. This is our cooperative's hallmark annual event. A preview of our AGM Agenda: State of Subvert: A…
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We need 2-3 more writers with a science-y backgrounds to help us turn news chaos into orderly information on @unbreaking.org's infectious disease control, food safety, and medical research funding pages. The commitment is a few hours every couple of weeks. Is this you? 🌱 unbreaking.org/how-to-help/
How to help — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Hey everyone, I spent the last three years as a Trust and Safety professional researching traditional social media and decided to put words to my thoughts. I hope you find my findings enjoyable or intriguing.
Traditional Social Media as a Prison
Social media apps have become a vehicle for community building, world news, and political campaigns. As app owners have enmeshed themselves more with the state, the carceral logics that haunt marginalized communities offline, became a part of their digital realities online.
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For any new followers, here is why I avoid "UX". hashtag vonnegutmaxxing www.muledesign.com/blog/triple-...
Thinking in Triplicate — Mule Design
To align design and business, visualize the shared narratives
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Hey everyone! I’m starting a monthly blog about trends in moderation from Blacksky’s Trust and Safety team called: “What’s Happening on My Feed?” The first post: “Putting the Trust back in Trust and Safety” is out now, check it out: whatshappeningonmyfeed.leaflet.pub/3mpont6fedc2z
Putting the Trust back in Trust and Safety
Moderation events in June 2026
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coming back to this after some post-sangha clarity we had a discussion today about how our experiences shape the lenses through which we view the world and how the most neutral of data will be interpreted differently because of our unique filters
kat excellence ✨@katexcellence.io · last mo.which is sad because we need these conversations, but alas the goals are different, and some people just want to be angry
Stellar job description. Incredible team.
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂@rude1.blacksky.team · last mo.Blacksky is building ~the intercommunal net~ where communities create virtual spaces collectively managed by their members -- from moderation policies to recommender algorithms. We're hiring a Founding Engineer (Rust) @ $180K base who will report directly to me and lead our atproto implementation.
networksofny2026.bigcartel.com/product/netw... hi, did you like my book Networks of New York when it came out in 2016? you might like the updated 2026 edition which I'll be releasing in September and you can pre-order now
Networks of New York, 2026 Edition (PRE-ORDER)
SHIPPING SEPTEMBER 2026! Networks of New York is a book by me, Ingrid Burrington. It helps readers identify indicators of physical internet and telecommunications infrastructure in New York City. Usin...
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In celebration, I'm sharing a new piece of evidence from the book every day, and how it helps us understand our minds and build more thriving, joyful communities in technology ❤️ Find THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS where you like to buy books: www.drcathicks.com#book
Dr. Cat Hicks
Leading teams that put science behind software team success
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1) preorder her book! bookshop.org/p/books/the-... ⬇️
The Psychology of Software Teams
Check out The Psychology of Software Teams - <p>To build the future, we need new ways of supporting software teams. This book will give you a secret weapon: the psychology that creates resilience for ...
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Cat’s one of the best people I know. I’m proud to call her friend and thought partner, and I look forward to doing more intentional collaboration with her in the future. Her work helps me learn better, live better, advocate for myself, and build better teams - what more could I ask for? 2 things⬇️
Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe hear about competition all day long. Win goals, win games, win business, win against the other applicant, win against the other team.
Many builders in the Open Social Web are discouraged by the lack of funding in the ecosystem, slow pace of feature development (e.g. private accounts), and “low” adoption relative to incumbents like Meta. In my keynote I emphasized multi-generational struggle & movement building. People who faced…
This session was special. These people are creating what’s next.
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂@rude1.blacksky.team · 2mo agoRefreshing, rare, and validating to be in conversation with people adjacent to the technology world but uncorrupted and even resistant to their influence + speaks in the language of community agency. ❤️🔥 Monique Steijns, Rayén Jara Mitrovich, and Cynthia Liem are new co-conspirators for better tech ✊🏾
Blacksky Algorithms founder @rude1.blacksky.team gave the most real keynote and call to action to close out PublicSpaces 2026.
hi Amsterdam 👋 here for a few days, orbiting Public Spaces conf, mostly hallway and cafe tracks
Last day in Oslo before i travel to Amsterdam for Public Spaces conf. gonna miss cafe culture here
We can’t democratize the web without democratizing our corporations. @goldavelez.org is doing pioneering work to do just that, cleverly grafting novel affordances of collectivity on top of familiar structures like the SAFE and PBC.
Golda Velez@goldavelez.org · 2mo agoWriting some thoughts on small-d democracy and societal regrowth after the dark, as well as concrete things about an Earned Governance accelerator and wanting advisors... linkedtrust.us/blog/grow-li... #dweb #coops #democracy
This latest Encyclical is really one for the cyberneticists and those who care a lot about the challenges inherent in measurement and all it obscures, especially those concerned with maintaining humanity in the face of technical systems www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
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I carry this quote by the late Barry Lopez with me everywhere I go. It serves as an evergreen reminder and encouragement for me to stay focused on what matters in the midst of darkness, contradiction, paradox, and loneliness.
