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Last Notes npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 How are middle powers leading on tech policy? Grateful for the chance to catch up on Canadian tech policy with the global conversation at the Attention 2026 conference here at McGill University. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Movies about social change & organizing don't often have dramatic spreadsheet scenes where someone made a difference in the world through responsible financial projections, but if they did, my morning would have been epic. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 “The Tioga is going to go from dead to being a trout river, and not a little trout river,” he said. “The Tioga River is going to turn into a destination fishery.” npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Looks like I'll be going to MozFest this year and am looking forward to meeting all sorts of new folks and old friends. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Persimmons, parks, ponds, and pizza 🍁 npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 "What we need to demand from universities far and wide is clear: Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism." npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Reading Edward Taylor for no reason at all and realizing that the displacement theory of social media & mental health has deep roots in Puritanism: npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Great question! We've seen a lot of folks ask about human-only social spaces. A lot depends on what you mean by "human-only" npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Today a social media algorithm showed me a post stoking outrage about the cost of a local library's holdings. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 When you think about it, why not express your admiration for surveillance technologies, efficiently introduced without the hassle of community consultation? npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Phrase I am very pleased to write in an email to collaborators today: "We can build the AI Thrutopia" npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 “Canada’s willingness to support research that challenges commercial and political threats to democracy is deeply necessary at a moment where authoritarianism is on the rise around the globe” npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 "This year, The 19th also launches a development fellowship — a critical and historically underrepresented career pathway in news. It’s designed to expand who participates in shaping how journalism is funded, while equipping the fellow with experience in fundraising strategy, donor engagement and the business of nonprofit journalism. " npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Wilson's book Strange Stability checked off a bingo card of issues that could have easily been in AI policy news today: npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 What can tech policy folks learn from the nuclear age about the role of science in policy? npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…xyqv 🤩 🤩 🤩 npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Hypothesis: even relatively weak causal arguments with timeseries can be persuasive because debates over causation (as people squint at the chart) generates debate that spreads a catchy plot further to more people who believe it. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…3ge4 yes, I remember that too! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…3ge4 <3 npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…n00n I see the link to audio and video is down- are they archived somewhere public? npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…6ns8 @nprofile…uj42 that meme <3 😢 npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 I hope folks realize that scholars of color, perhaps especially the most scrupulous with impeccable integrity, are wondering: given how effective intimidation was here, are they going to come for me now? npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…97y5 thank you for your work on this, both the work that your book tells us about, and all of the work to tell your story in a way that others can learn from npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…lhdz The PreprintMatch project does this: npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…hrrk my guess is that one reason for this success is a program that has expanded the number of places where people can take the training. Until last year, people had to study in Oklahoma City. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…d4hg hurrah for consequential bureaucratic victories even if they're not the kind of thing that is very visible npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…99z9 oh, thanks for this recommendation; it looks like a beautiful film! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…3mlt and I learned much about cultivating ideas over time. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…s45g @nprofile…d2v0 @nprofile…6r9q Nice! Are those the Continental Contact Urban tires? npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…d2v0 @nprofile…s45g @nprofile…6r9q npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…zejv Yep- just looked at the time and clicked "schedule send" npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Ohai MIT Press- happy to see our book out in the wild! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…xrhq thanks for the link; Klein, Elter and collaborators have done great work to investigate the challenge of replication, and put it into its historical context! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Sometimes words just aren't enough to describe the grace of living in a world of such beauty. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 "I’m not sure what these students should be learning... Increasingly, I find myself asking not simply whether students can do the work, but whether they should want to do the work." npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 "Sociocracy is a governance system, just like democracy or corporate governance methods. It’s best suited for organizations that want to self-govern based on the values of equality." npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 When people seek guidance from science, they expect it to work more than once. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 > "Some find me a sword; some npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Reflecting today on "The Wreck of the Deutschland" by G.M. Hopkins, with its tumultuous convergence of culture war, tech failure, deportation over thought crime, global media, and the drive for mastery over understanding. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 "States including Indiana, Kansas and Kentucky have offered workers financial incentives to relocate to places where they'll have a lower cost of living in the long run. Many of the largest are still operating." npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…d2v0 @nprofile…6r9q npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Great question! Every time I travel (trying to do less flying) I bring my Bike Friday New World Tourist, which fits in regular check-in luggage. I can then unpack it at the other end and ride a bike that matches my regular bike fit. I've used it: npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Want access to expensive subscription archives of academic papers and other paywalled online material? npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 How can people trust it's safe to go outside during wildfire smoke events? We urgently need to improve air pollution forecasting around public health. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Grateful to have arrived in Boston for the year after stopping by Lanesborough for breakfast with @nprofile…xxx3 npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 What might it mean to cultivate something that thousands of people collectively decide is worth carrying into the future? npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Tech firms are continuing their speed run through dystopian literature by recreating Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" except we don't get the utopia, and it's more than one child who suffers. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…d2v0 @nprofile…6r9q npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Good news: I've been selected for a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, where I'm working on Academic Freedom & Connecting Across Difference. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…r4z3 Basically I want an rss reader for email- or a way to convert email newsletters into something I can process with an rss reader. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Now that more authors and organizations are understandably requiring email sign-ups to access blog posts, reports, and articles, it's harder than ever to read email. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…y6z3 this is so cool! Is there documentation for how you set it up? Thinking about something similar for my neighborhood. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…02q5 for someone not working on the Christian Tradition, I wonder if Kanagy's 2023 theological biography of Bruegemann or would be even more helpful. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Afterward, multiple people reached out to ask about our charts - we used Tamara Broderick’s “Distrosaurs” to illustrate statistical distributions. I’m delighted to share that the distrosaurs are available under a CC license: npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Many thanks to Wikimedia NYC for a wonderful event. We enjoyed meeting NK Jemisin, who shared a moving story on the importance of truth telling, & Alexis Nikole (Blackforager) who shared a life with plants. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 As Wikipedia turns 25, what do we learn from it about our potential to organize for the common good? npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…02q5 within religious studies, Bruegemann’s The Prophetic Imagination was a manifesto for this. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 What does it take to prove causality in tech harms cases? After rulings in NM & CA, commentators are throwing around causality in arguments both for & against the results. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…53rs yep. I've also been following the story of Times Up, which eventually dissolved after a series of scandals, though the legal defense fund continues. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Has anyone done any research on what appears to be a decline in #MeToo? It changed norms, increased reports, increased arrests, & transformed laws. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…d2v0 @nprofile…pqf4 @nprofile…6r9q npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…pa6j There are a number of books on this, and we can ask the anthropologists for their top suggestions! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 As a US citizen whose research and freedom of expression have been harmed by this US censorship policy, I am a named declarant in the lawsuit. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Since May 2025, the US State Department has publicized a visa restriction policy that targets and threatens deportation toward people who study and report on online harms. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 “ Set free from present sorrow, npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 You can read the letter here: https://csa-scientist-open-letter.org/ageverif-Feb2026 npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 A large number of privacy and infosec researchers have published a detailed letter calling for a moratorium on laws requiring age assurance technologies until there is a scientific consensus on the risk/benefit tradeoff of using them npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Amidst overwhelming Epstein revelations, I've heard from many scientists, especially women, about the deafening silence from so many corners. Many ask "how could things be different?" npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 ""Tactics that weaponise investigations to intimidate or exhaust researchers set a dangerous precedent for scientific inquiry as a whole, where critical, independent research across disciplines can be chilled through fear and resource depletion"" npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…jpgl It is a wavecell helmet- I am not sure how much better it is or isn’t, due to debates over the best way to measure helmet safety, and I hope I never have to find out. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 After brief hopes of going on a ride, the fog and air pollution in Ithaca returned to the thick levels that have made it nearly impossible for me to safely venture out for over a week. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 In an analysis of new S&P 500 directors by demographic, starting in 2021, the proportion of new S&P directors by demographic has returned to rates that include an even lower proportion of Black directors than before 2016, after temporary gains. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…pa6j I'll be writing more about it in the next week npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…pa6j given your interest in community-driven hypothesis development, you might be interested in the Wikimedia Futures Lab, which just happened in Frankfurt where community leaders developed 50+ experiment ideas to support the movement. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…4mmp this is perfect <3 ☠️ npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 It takes tremendous courage for communities to work with scientists to study harms when the results might overturn important beliefs. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Reading this commentary by Amelia Gentleman, I may have to update the message I send to decline without changes when invited to speak on a manel. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Today I learned that Cryptpad can support ranked choice voting. For my needs, this is the winning factor that puts it ahead of Google Docs for quick form creation and management. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…xl49 this was the realization a decade ago that led me to the tenure track. I realized that it would be impossible to achieve my hopes in a few short years, and that it would require a level of stability and commitment to the next generation that few other jobs could afford. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Tech safety advocates are constantly telling me "we don't have that long," and I agree. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 In the most generous telling, US auto safety took 62 years, ongoing Tobacco governance took 100 years, and PFAS will take 94 years before being phased out in the US. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 What will it truly take to achieve AI and social media that are safe and reliable? npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…6ns8 oof, sigh. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…6ns8 what a fascinating argument. I think of them in very different terms. When done well, TDD requires someone to understand their purpose so well that they can express it in two different ways, and have a tool for discussing requirements with other humans. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 One way to break the traffic jam in the science of tech harms is with a list of "bad if true" concerns. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 New post: How can scientists avoid gaslighting people about online harms and contribute to solutions — while also maintaining our commitment to following the evidence? npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…tdgs oooh, thanks! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 I'm enjoying Jáñez-Martino & co's review article and empirical work on the problem of machine learning content classification in adversarial contexts. They show that when studies account for creative adversaries, high-performing models do very, very badly at detection npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Content moderation / AI scholars - what's the best paper you're aware of that quantitatively studies the problem of creativity in the evasion of content moderation systems? npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…2wxk <3 can we see the bike? Curious! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Morning glory npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Sent in an article for review this evening; grateful for everyone who commits to the hard, careful work of trust-but-verify. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…dupy @nprofile…dxpt <grin> npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Helpful article about broader declines in revenue across the tech sector due to the agents problem, which is leading people to do less clicking on and reading of webpages. Hence lawsuits. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…6ns8 ooooh, thanks! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Hello fediverse, I'm going to be in Frankfurt for the Wikimedia Futures Lab Jan 31 - Feb 1st. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Went on an extended loop for my commute home after a long day at work and stopped a very classic rando gas station dinner. #bikenite npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…amk7 hello, and thanks for the note! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @nprofile…r37k npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Digital mansplainers *love* reverse chronological algorithms since they offer a simple way to spray themselves & their words all over your feed - post more to occupy more space.
