Post #582901
2025-12-23 22:23 UTC
Replies (17)
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@kissane@mas.to 2025-12-23 22:23
It is roughly 5k words long and some of the densest abstract thinking I've tried to do in years and I started drafting it while still in the last huge year-end push at Unbreaking.org and finished this morning. I am toast. See you in January!
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@onpaperwings@typo.social 2025-12-23 22:33
@kissane Featuring Margo Italic from @HEX!
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@rmi@cloudisland.nz 2025-12-23 23:13
@kissane Thank you ❤️
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@crackhappy@mastodon.world 2025-12-24 06:01
@kissane Wonderful article, thank you so much for writing and sharing it. BTW, you're missing a word in this sentence: Not because the circumstances of megathrust earthquakes in fjords are literally the same as the societal problem of collective derangement, but because it gives me new ways to take problem apart and see how the pieces interact.
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@fschaap@mastodon.social 2025-12-24 09:25
@kissane Larping Un chien Andalou is a really unsettling image that I won't shake for a while. I marvel though at that one nerve ending that at one point reached out, connected, held on for all that time and now let that comparison pop up. The brain really is amazing.
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@urlyman@mastodon.social 2025-12-24 09:49
@kissane magnificent. Also, I loved… “about as much fun as larping Un Chien Andalou” 😆😬
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@dymaxion@infosec.exchange 2025-12-24 11:53
@kissane If I were to extend this metaphor slightly, I'd say that the plate tectonics driving this earthquake is yes all of the changes in the technological process of information, but more deeply the geological tensions built into the concept of the enlightenment — itself a thing constructed from the rubble of at least three societies and used as the bedrock on which to build modernity. Another thread here is the success of the 50s red scare and cointel-pro at suppressing the practice of peer grassroots political education among the left, leaving the social counternarratives that could have stabilized some parts of the political landscape to obscurantist academic work and it's non-academic counterculture opposites.
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@me@t.joeldebruijn.nl 2025-12-24 17:57
@kissane Thank you for writing this, much appreciated.
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@brasscrown@mastodon.world 2025-12-24 19:44
@kissane oh damn, this is tremendous. I've been thinking (more accurately: being recurrently terrified) that "flood the zone" has been the most important tool for upending our knowledge systems, but you've gone way further and with such great writing. Enjoy the holiday and thanks!
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@vivtek@indieweb.social 2025-12-24 21:37
@kissane This, and I want to look you in the eye as I say this, Erin, this is the best and most consequential thing you have ever written. [Of that subset of those things that I have seen.] I'll be returning to this article often.
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@Kitone@mastodon.social 2025-12-25 12:38
@kissane Thank you for your deeply insightful article and valuable work. Your thesis on digital foundation densification is truly enlightening, and many others — in different geographies — could and should follow your lead. Happy holidays!
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@dec23k@mastodon.ie 2025-12-25 12:39
@kissane Another tiny correction, about half way through: sold - solid "When a series of shocks that are very big and close together jackhammer into a loose flooded substrate, sold ground liquefies."
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@eldersea@expressional.social 2025-12-26 03:33
@kissane Thank you! This was a great read and at the end, I love the thanks to Kathryn Schulz. The Really Big One occupies a permanent tab in my browser for a yearly re-read. Yours might now too.
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@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green 2025-12-26 16:18
@kissane that's good work, Erin. Not just an insight, but one that suggests possible courses of action. Re: the insight, I was marginally involved with the Makers movement in the 2000s. A common challenge was: can you explain X from prime principles? Almost always no, we could not. (Arduino founder Massimo Banzi, though, claimed he could, for most common objects - a fridge, for example). "Atoms are hard", people used to say. Hence the culture of instructables, documentation, and community.
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@johncormier@mstdn.ca 2025-12-26 18:42
@kissane thank you for an excellent and thought-provoking essay! It’s given me much to think about.
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@r343l@freeradical.zone 2025-12-26 20:18
@kissane I have been thinking a LOT about how we only really “know” things in groups via how we build and maintain shared understandings. This is largely because I found out that Peter Naur (yes THAT Naur) wrote an article in like 1984 (https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf) that helped me define a frame about my impulses towards documentation and being thoughtful to future team members (including oneself). So kind of intense to see it expanded to EVERYTHING & being internally screaming YES YES OMG.
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@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space 2025-12-27 04:12
@kissane it's good writing and good thinking. many thanks for it.