Notices by Shauna (shauna@social.coop)

We live in a world of ever increasing abstraction held together by human trust in all the joints and footings.

AI and other technologies that abstract away and replace human connection are quickly eroding all the load bearing bits.

This abbreviated pop house version of American Pie is one of the worst covers I've ever heard

just clicking around slack at random, hoping that someday, eventually, the notification for the thing i read days ago will disappear

@cwebber

I feel like OpenAI is going for "our models are so smart!" but what it's giving is "our sandboxing is so incompetent!"

Spain dominating at everything but goals which is, unfortunately, the only thing that matters

If Spain cannot finally score something being up a player for 30 minutes they deserve to lose in a pk shootout

I have a lot of opinions for my second ever men's soccer game I've watched lol

I find myself struggling a lot lately with the way American individualism / neoliberalism / the nuclear family model (& also the breakdown of it + rise of two income families) / the hollowing out of third spaces and community groups leads to life being just so overwhelming with so much STUFF individuals need to do.

I wonder if folks have recommendations for writers/thinkers who talk about this? I have a vague sense of the historical forces behind it but would love to learn in more detail.

Sometimes I wonder if we're so focused on using technology to "empower" people because we're afraid we'll never figure out how to use healthy, boundaried, empathic human relating to empower each other.

The truth is the former can't succeed without the latter, and to the extent we manage the relating we often don't really need the tech.

if you could recommend 1-2 people to follow (whether that means listen to their podcast, follow them on social media, read their books, whatever) - who would you recommend and why? whose words do you wish reached more ears and eyes?

there's a confidence that comes from thinking you're always right, and a confidence that comes from being okay with being wrong

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/116601694922879674

"The pattern is always the same: build trust, establish dependency, then quietly renegotiate the terms."

@ireneista

Conflict between leftists is both inevitable and good. The problem is that leftists like most people in our society have never been taught to have conflict well, in a way that strengthens bonds rather than destroys them. So much leftist conflict is coming from a place of trauma and is even re-traumatizing

just saw an advertisement for a complex professional role offering $25/hr (freelance - no benefits) AND requiring contractors to check in twice daily

i hope these people get 0 applicants but i fear, given the economy, that they can find someone for their exploitative terms. :(

my friend's unemployment payments got paused because she didn't respond to a letter because she was away getting major surgery. then because she missed the letter they were like "you have to come in for an in person appointment" which she couldn't schedule for weeks because again, major surgery. so she's not getting unemployment for weeks while she also can't get any other kind of gig work because, yup you guessed it, major surgery.

means testing is so stupid.

Do people see "enshittification" as primarily solved by rigorous anti-trust enforcement or nah?

i really cannot express how little real activism looks like people's stereotypes of activism. i need help with a ton of things and none of it involves being out on the street marching and/or risking arrest, knocking on people's doors, donating money, and arguing on social media

there was one (1) very specific banner-making request that went unfulfilled this week for lack of capacity (RIP the "free portland free dc" sign for the spirit-thorns home opener tonight) but that's it for standard activism tasks

key activist skills i need: project management skills, ability and willingness to show up to places on time and with things you promised to show up with, artistic abilities, event planning abilities, training and mentorship abilities

If you have a GitHub account and do not want your data to be automatically used to train Microsoft's AI models, go to this page and opt-out of "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training": https://github.com/settings/copilot/features

GitHub has turned this on by default so if you have an account you have to proactively go and opt out.

The Trump admin now resorting to ripping up DC bike lanes https://51st.news/trump-administration-removing-dc-bike-lane/

#FreeDC

None of my current projects would be considered digital infrastructure, but if your project qualifies and needs someone to help it grow, please reach out. Maybe we can apply together!

I've spent the last 10+ years freelancing as an open source developer, community manager and project manager, with a special interest in governance & leadership development.

I have plenty of availability right now and I'd love to spend it supporting open source digital infrastructure.

https://www.sovereign.tech/news/2026-fellowship-applications-open