Also excited to tell folks in person about my new role and org I just joined before I do any kind of social media blast.

Beautiful passport case gifted by a wonderful and well travelled friend x

...Each of these tools originated within Chinese coding circles, highlighting how resistance emerges from inside the very environment being controlled."

dti.domaintools.com/inside-the-g...

Often the 'innocent' answers are for example 'it's annoying and means I take longer to chat with my friends'

not 'This helps me think carefully about what i will say in a depersonalised space such as online'. Decent people don't often think about the times when they are less likely to be decent.

But can you do this in a fully configurable OSS tool? here's where keeping appropriate friction is a choice that you make to keep as a respectful human being, of course someone who can manipulate the code/tech can delete this line of code, this 'restriction' by why?

I think a lot about moderation tools. One feature I adore is how Twitch chat and Discord chats can put timers and slow mode/cool downs on typing in the chat boxes.

Appropriate friction that has likely helped folks not intending to be adversarial, stop and think before they send an abusive messge.

I think you can with design of technology, you add the extra steps of ' having harmful act in a location where it takes extra seconds of deliberate and concious thought to choose to do harm with that tool.

"You can use a knife to chop up vegetables to eat and also harm someone with a knife. How can the knife owner make it harder to do the latter? I can put/lock my knife in a drawer where by it takes an active decision to take it out to harm someone, i can do something similar with technology?"

"Technology is a tool and like every other tool it can be abused in ways that were never never intended."

Their status is 'god like' under the technologies domain, according to their own ability to adapt and manipulate the system/s and how this could possible be included in design choices that limit/throttle abusive behaviour and/or encourage non-abusive behaviour.

"Though Web3 is aligned with venture-capital, there’s a staggering amount of thinking and experimentation happening around governance in this space."

"Too many of them fizzle as they try to raise money through grants or crowdfunding efforts, while competing against similar projects that are injected with venture capital and whose sole fiduciary purpose is to make a profit for its shareholders."

"They often don’t compensate their contributors enough, if at all."

"We need to contend with the fact that it’s just not feasible to expect ourselves to effectively tackle systemic challenges based on goodwill and volunteerism. Values-first, free and open source, and peer-to-peer projects struggle financially."