Notices by Dan Hon (danhon@dan.mastohon.com), page 5

I mean, fuck's sake, I'm _liveblogging a conference talk_ and swear to god _this_ is the optimistic one, the hopeful liveblogging , not the kind from 20 years or more ago...

Erin's talking about the Covid Tracking Project and how every day the team would wake up wanting to see the CDC finally get their data together...

Oh boy let me tell you How Hard It is To Build Government Technology and infrastructure like “knowing how many people have covid" and “where are vaccines”:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/17/1020811/better-tech-government-pandemic-united-states/

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(Me: The dirty secret of a volunteer organization with SO MUCH MORE LATITUDE and ability and capacity to build infrastructure, because the institutional belief that the U.S. shouldn't even *have* functional government in the first place and hollowed it out. It's a fucking disgrace.

Erin's point: without the social internet, volunteers *wouldn't have been able* to organize to build the tracking site. It's the people. Always has been.gif

https://donotreply.cards/en/do-remember-what-makes-the-internet-great

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Fuck it.

DO BRING THE JOY BACK

https://donotreply.cards/en/do-bring-the-joy-back

Erin: Our networks are *worse* now in 2024 than they were back when we created the covid tracking project. We wouldn't be able to do that now. The network is hostile to sociability, it's going underground to private discords, private slacks, partly because platforms have poisoned so much.

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Erin: When those of us found our friends and retreat into private spaces, we're *slamming the doors* on people who haven't got there yet. We definitely need 1:1 and few:few relationships and places to build trust. And that's hard to do in public, but we *also still have to find each other*.

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Just hearing Gita recap the development of media and hit that part of online media and EYEBALLS and fuck me if it didn't just hit me ALL OVER AGAIN exactly how depersonalizing the internet became, when the valuable thing about it is that it connects PEOPLE

https://donotreply.cards/en/do-remember-what-makes-the-internet-great

Erin: We need a social internet that isn't trying to kill us. And we can't cede everything aboveground to the poisonous platforms.

Erin: WE HAVE TO FIX THE FUCKING NETWORKS.

(Me: FUCK YES)

https://donotreply.cards/en/do-post-about-how-we-take-back-the-internet-together

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Gita: Community is… just weird people looking for other freaks I LOVE YOU ALL ❤️

https://donotreply.cards/en/do-post-about-the-internet-being-the-friends-we-made-along-the-way

Erin talking about if we want to build better networks, we need to understand _what’s happened to us_ and try new things in a _deliberate and painstaking way_ paying attention to the human costs of our experiments.

No matter what happens in the US in November we all know in the future there _will_ be a next crisis, next pandemic, next climate disaster, next genocide.

We *have* to fix the networks now, to help the next people get to the other side.

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Next up, Sarah Jeong, starting with a clip of her previous talk at XOXO in 2016: https://xoxofest.com/2016/videos/sarah-jeong/, today covering what's happened since, including the experience of being the target of a right-wing harrassment campaign.

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and... the wonderful experience of working with amazing data journalists…

hey guess what tell us your favorite datasets :)

https://donotreply.cards/en/do-share-your-favorite-dataset

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Erin: These new networks/pretender technologies can also be labs for trying new features. I'm saying this to all of you in this room who remember an internet that was deeply flawed but *not* systematically designed to [bleed us dry].

We all have a role in making networks that are better for us.

Treat the problem of making better networks as OUR PROBLEM and not someone else’s. We'd have this in the bag.

https://donotreply.cards/en/do-post-about-how-we-take-back-the-internet-together

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Erin right now is I think very much talking about the idea of our responsibility to build networks together as part of the infrastructure of care, that @debcha (http://debcha.org) has written so wonderfully about.

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... and Sarah taking us through some talks that she pitched to the Andys, all of which are kind of terrible-painful-true micro-targeted titles that I didn't write down quickly enough.

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Sarah: My wikipedia page is not up to date, so I'm sure the 30% of the audience here who are wikipedia editors who can fix that right now. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Jeong)

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Six new DO REPLY stickers now on sale at #xoxofest (if you can find us!) and online for $12! We always intended DO NOT REPLY to also encourage wholesome internet posting, so @Ffangohr, @ted and I got down to it.

Here's the first 3/6.

DO POST ABOUT HOW VIEW SOURCE CHANGED EVERYTHING

DO POST ABOUT HOW WE TAKE BACK THE INTERNET TOGETHER

DO POST YOUR SUPPORT FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS AND CREATORS

https://donotreply.cards/buy. 10% to Trans Lifeline + Union Printed.

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hey hello I'm at #xoxofest and would love to meet up with old friends, internet friends, and make new friends!

well fuck this

the whole purpose of the post-menopausal woman is to prevent the rise of generative AI