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   Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 (osma@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 18-Oct-2025 02:43:30 JST Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦

   • Paul Cantrell
   • Jesse Morris

   Helmets aren't infrastructure
   @aubilenon @inthehands

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 18-Oct-2025 02:43:29 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Jesse Morris

     @osma @aubilenon

     Systems that make helmets available and accessible to those who need them •are• infrastructure though

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 18-Oct-2025 03:23:59 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Deb Chachra
     • Jesse Morris

     @osma @aubilenon

     You should read @debcha’s How Infrastructure Works.

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     • Paul Cantrell
     • Jesse Morris

     That's stretching the definition of the word quite a bit further than I'd be comfortable stretching it.
     @inthehands @aubilenon

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 18-Oct-2025 23:50:11 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Deb Chachra
     • Jesse Morris

     @debcha @aubilenon @osma
     Indeed, all that — plus the fundamental outlook the book fosters to view infrastructure not just as physical objects (“infrastructure is wires, pipes, bridges”) but as •systems• (“the electrical grid is wires, people, laws, agencies…”). Thus my assertion that while helmets are not infrastructure, a system that collectively makes helmets readily available to people in contexts where they need them •could be• infrastructure.

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     • Paul Cantrell
     • Deb Chachra
     • Jesse Morris

     It's not available in my local books infrastructure (the library) so could you please reference how it relates to sharing helmets (rather than safe road space) as infrastructure development? Thanks!
     @inthehands @aubilenon @debcha

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     Deb Chachra (debcha@saturation.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Oct-2025 23:50:13 JST Deb Chachra

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     • Paul Cantrell
     • Jesse Morris

     @aubilenon @osma @inthehands Two points I make in the book that are relevant (and I suspect why it was suggested — thanks, Paul!): i) ‘infrastructure’ is used to describe many kinds of systems, although they all do have commonalities; ii) infrastructural systems are often highly place- and culturally specific.

     The book has more detail and covers a lot more ground (that’s why it’s a book!) but I also wrote this:

     https://comment.org/care-at-scale/