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Erin Kissane

@kissane.myatproto.social

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Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, building at Unbreaking.org. Cofounded the Covid Tracking Project, previously OpenNews, old web nonsense.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · Aug 22

I believe we need to be able to understand what is happening to us. That's the sole reason for my work on knowledge ecosystems over the years, including Covid Tracking Project. A lot of things *can* be known, even in this political blender. We deserve real knowledge, not close-enough flyby guessing.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 5h

It‘s either appalling and callous and vile or it’s the apocalypse and I guess we’ll find out

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 5h

I mean, we’re probably not going to see deaths these specific teams could have prevented for a minute, given how these things move, but it’s certainly a gamble with our lives.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 5h

This is all super helpful, thank you!!

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 5h

I’m probably going to come back Monday to a million people with terrible bios screaming at me to be more afraid instead of getting my head straight and getting back to what I can do. And I am going to block every single one.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 5h

(Which just means we have to keep fighting and we’re also going to have to deal with SCOTUS the very moment we get the chance.)

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 5h

I am going to keep from losing my mind by remembering that a.) they lose a lot of cases and b.) this is probably in large part a game of chicken over the budget, albeit one escalated by very powerful sociopaths.

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 6h

It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 6h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 6h

Hi horse! 💜 I don’t disagree, I just tend to say that to my reps rather than than here on social media where they’ve made themselves immune to yelling.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 6h

It’s honestly difficult for me to *process* how disastrous this is. The court cases that come out of this are going to decide the future of so many people who don’t need to die of disease.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 6h

oh my god so young

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 6h

Ooh interesting, what was the trouble with the Supernote for you, if you don’t mind getting into it?

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 6h

It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7h

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 9h

Is it less skritchy? I don't *hate* skritch but it's a little sandpapery.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 9h

More than seemed humanly feasible

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 9h

TY! That is super helpful!

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 9h

I used to do this and then I had a child lol

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 9h

Yay, ty! I have just switched to reading lenses and…I need all the help I can get.

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 9h

I use the reMarkable daily so I seem to have the vibe, but lord is it clunky

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 10h

Thank you! Is the contrast on the screen high enough to be comfortable reading (in decent light)?

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 10h

* Someone who. Lordy I am ready for this week to be over.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 10h

Notebook/tablet people, do I *really* want to switch from a reMarkable to a Supernote?

Imagine that I am somehow who hates change and also hates spending money, but also someone who writes and annotates an enormous number of words by hand and finds the reMarkable stuff difficult to keep organized.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 12h

Oh no not criticizing, just admitting my own defeat here. Beyond rage, just blanked out.

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 12h

There's like a hundred of us now?? It's like a beehive for eating bad news and turning it into orderly information. What a weird beat.

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 12h

I can't look directly at this stuff and also be able to function, having spent that time in the documentation of what happened in Myanmar and watched so much footage of these kids.

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