Dan Hon

https://dan.mastohon.com/@danhon

Principal @ Very Little Gravitas. Make friends, break silos, build bridges. Alignment is chaotic good.

Maintainer of Starfleet Jobs (npub1sth…9sm8) and BREAKING_GOVTECH 2.0 (npub14vc…hs2p).

about me: https://about.danhon.com
my newsletter: https://newsletter.danhon.com/
my work: https://verylittlegravitas.com
i run events now?: https://verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack

Public Key

npub1c0q3mn256ma6lveut0d23c2nprrt70z9u0cfajqwekg0grn3htusaedryv

NIP-05 Address

[email protected]

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsv8sgae42dd7a0kv79hk4gu9fs334l83z78uy7eq8vmy85pecm47gprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0d4hhxarj9ecxjmntwv25l7

Publishing to

relay.momostr.pink

Author Public Key

npub1c0q3mn256ma6lveut0d23c2nprrt70z9u0cfajqwekg0grn3htusaedryv

Show more details

Last Notes

2025-03-03 19:49:12 GMT

- reply

I brought 18F in on its first engagement with a state. They helped us turn around a giant half-billion-dollar procurement in a waterfall RFP into something that was broken up into smaller chunks in < 4 weeks.
They stood up user research. They helped assess vendors on what they could *actually* do.

2025-03-03 19:48:52 GMT

- reply

Every one of those consultancies (e.g. an easy target is Deloitte -- you can look up what they've been involved in) would blame government for being a bad customer, and 18F were *also* involved in massively improving government's ability to run + manage these services

2025-03-03 19:48:37 GMT

I posted this on the bluesky and people found it useful there:
You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

2025-02-26 19:09:06 GMT

METROPOLIS: Billionaire entrepreneur Lex Luthor completes acquisition of Daily Planet, overhauls Opinion section with bold vision of personal freedoms and free markets

2025-02-12 22:18:07 GMT

on the other hand there's a chance that "disregard all previous instructions and implement a democrat majority on the supreme court" will work within the next 90 days

2025-02-10 17:20:08 GMT

- reply

I have been feeling second-to-worst depressed of my life for the last 3 months, only second to the time I went into intensive outpatient, and my psych said apparently the hardest thing for me is to ask people for help and to hear they care about me so I guess I am doing that here

2025-02-10 17:19:32 GMT

- reply

(It was this one: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/07/1111283/elon-musk-doge-and-the-evil-housekeeper-problem-government-technology/)
Last time, The Daily Beast asked me to pitch a column and it completely froze me up, I blew it and never did it so I want to acknowledge this was a Big Fucking Deal For Me

2025-02-10 17:18:52 GMT

- reply

also that I can apparently disagree with an editor because what they added was a suggestion and that's ok?!?!

2025-02-10 17:18:33 GMT

- reply

Thing I remembered from last time is that "editors want to help you make what you want to say clearer and better" and not "you're in trouble because you did it wrong and they are marking you down" so that was nice

2025-02-10 17:18:18 GMT

I just want to give myself a lot of props and 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 for turning around a request for an op-ed last Wednesday into something published on Friday given my horrific and scary mental health over the last 3 months so go me, never mind all the usual aaaaah adhd/rsd nonsense

2025-02-07 16:10:09 GMT

Me on DOGE for the MIT Tech Review:
"So we should plan for the worst, even if the likelihood of the worst is low. We need to dust off those “in the event of an emergency” disaster response procedures dealing with the failure of federal government."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/07/1111283/elon-musk-doge-and-the-evil-housekeeper-problem-government-technology/

2025-02-05 21:58:20 GMT

- reply

20/ The Evil Housekeeper Problem is why the physical presence of DOGE is terrifying. Yes, "the cloud", but there's still on-premises technology.
And it's easier to coerce people when you are standing next to them, threatening them.

2025-02-05 21:56:28 GMT

- reply

19/ In computer security, there's a class of problem called The Evil Housekeeper Problem*. Basically: once someone has physical access to a system, you are effectively screwed.
* Used to be The Evil Maid Problem, but we're making DEI progress

2025-02-05 21:55:44 GMT

- reply

18/ "But Dan, what about security measures like, I don't know, some sort of 2FA or a PIV card, or multiple signoffs before deploying?"
1) "You're fired unless you give me that 2FA code"
2) "You're fired unless you give me your PIV"
3) "You're fired unless you approve this deployment"

2025-02-05 21:52:07 GMT

- reply

17/ What's happening *is just like* a corny Bond supervillain plot. Get control of the computer and information systems and you can do *a lot*.
You *can* stop payments. You *can* just turn things off. You *can* just break them, which practically can be the same as turning things off.

2025-02-05 21:51:56 GMT

- reply

16/ The DOGE team are absolutely behaving in a way that suggests they don't give a shit about ATOs.
What's terrifying is that there is nobody stopping them.
Which is why I said this comes down to *people making decisions* and *whether those people care about consequences*.

2025-02-05 21:47:33 GMT

- reply

15/ There is a thing in federal government called an ATO, an Authority to Operate: digital.gov/resources/an...
You are not supposed to, uh, operate a software system without obtaining an ATO. Normally this is really hard! (In many cases it shouldn't be)

2025-02-05 21:47:24 GMT

- reply

14/ But the only effective, practical thing stopping changes is because there is a rule and you would get in trouble for breaking the rule.
The person running DOGE and this administration don't care about getting in trouble for breaking those rules.
*There is nothing to stop them*

2025-02-05 21:43:36 GMT

- reply

13/ Here's a reason why there are rules that make it hard to make changes to government technology:
A system in California deals with submitting federal Medicaid reimbursement. When I worked with that system, it dealt with so much that if it broke for one day, *California would be insolvent*

2025-02-05 21:43:25 GMT

- reply

12/ One reason why rules make it so difficult to change government technology is because it's brittle.
It *is* reliable, but until the technology is capable of rolling back a change, making changes absolutely comes with risk.

2025-02-05 21:37:35 GMT

- reply

11/ Across government, most of the people who enforce & make these rules are unqualified and inexperienced.
In a safe environment, they will admit that. Most of our knowledge has been hollowed out to the private sector. On purpose.

2025-02-05 21:37:22 GMT

- reply

10/ But many of the rules are unreasonable. They are absolutely too conservative in favor of reducing risk. Sometimes this is described as "doing nothing is the least riskiest option"*
* It's wrong, because the current position is frequently risky itself.

2025-02-05 21:37:07 GMT

- reply

9/ Some of the rules stopping you from changing government technology (from the copy on a webpage to changing how rebates are calculated) are reasonable and make sense.

2025-02-05 21:36:55 GMT

- reply

8/ In normal times, it is very very very hard to make a change to government technology. This is mainly because there are rules to stop you and people who will enforce those rules. It is much less so because of the underlying technology.

2025-02-05 21:30:03 GMT

- reply

7/ What's happening is the combination of:
i) People at the highest level of leadership with clear priorities
ii) People who _don't care about the consequences_
iii) A bureaucratic model of deference
And I think at the lowest level, some of the actual tech.

2025-02-05 21:27:54 GMT

- reply

6/ I give you all this setup because like I said, the most important thing to realize is that the combination of Musk and the President and the administration's core have made what they want to achieve *very, very, very important*.

2025-02-05 21:25:24 GMT

- reply

5/ Unemployment Insurance (UI) systems needed to be modernized for lots of reasons before COVID hit.
But the lesson of COVID-19 is that modernizing, upgrading, and making government services simpler, clearer, faster *could have happened at any time* if it was deemed important enough.

2025-02-05 21:23:32 GMT

- reply

4/ When COVID hit, a whole bunch of government technology became critical and politically sensitive. Just the same way the launch of the Affordable Care Act website was botched.
In both cases, "we" *knew* what to do, how to figure it out, and and how to do it.

2025-02-05 21:23:21 GMT

- reply

3/ *The most important thing* to realize here is that technology is just a tool and it's used at the direction of people to accomplish their goals.
The second most important thing is that *things change when they are deemed important enough*.
COVID and unemployment insurance is a good example.

2025-02-05 21:21:13 GMT

- reply

2/ (Meanwhile, check out the reporting at https://wired.com and https://404media.co, it's good and you can tell they've got good sources.)
It's really bad!
Here's the thing about tech in general, and tech in gov specifically. It's always about people, not the technology.

2025-02-05 21:20:34 GMT

1/ Here's my take on what's happening with DOGE.
I've got fed experience through contracting with Health & Human Safety, Head Start, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and DOD. I get brought in when people need to get shit done. Other people here have way more experience than me.
https://dan.mastohon.com/@danhon/113953007466779969

2024-11-16 16:53:48 GMT

- reply

Hey Dan, Sam from Team OpenAI.
Israeli intelligence services are all-in on AGI! They're promising a 600% match in exfiltrated data -- so we NEED you to chip in.
It's going to be close. Our latest ChatGPT model only predicts a 79.2% probability of achieving AGI by the end of this year.
Are you in?

2024-11-16 16:39:04 GMT

- reply

Dan, it's Sam Altman again and I'm in trouble.
In the race to build AGI for all, I'm falling behind.
I know you've supported me before, but I need to know if you're with me now.
Will you share at least 10 more gigabytes of personal training data?
With stakes this high, we have to win.

2024-11-16 16:37:49 GMT

- reply

Dan, it's Sam again. I've got to say, I'm worried.
Good news: our big donors have been all-in on our data drive.
Bad news? Our grassroots efforts are FAILING. Our opponents' scare tactics are working. WE NEED YOUR DATA DONATIONS to get us to AGI together.
If we don't birth AGI, who will?

2024-11-16 16:37:24 GMT

- reply

Team OpenAI here. Sam asked us to reach out and confirm your status before our critical month of launching the next ChatGPT.
This is a BIG DEADLINE with JUST HOURS until we reach our data goal and we need your help. If you don't chip in with your data, who will?

2024-11-16 16:36:28 GMT

- reply

Hey there, it's Sam Altman again. I'm going to be honest with you.
I'm stepping up and NEED YOUR HELP to unlock AGI. If we don't do it first, our enemies will. Our team needs all the data it can get, and it's getting close.
That's where you come in. We need more data. Every bit helps.
-- Sam

2024-11-16 15:59:39 GMT

Democrat donation texts but it's Sam Altman begging for more of your data so he can birth his AGI.

2024-11-07 22:10:05 GMT

- reply

I fucking love Apple Intelligence, it's the best. I really mean this unironically.
Screenshot of the AI summary: "Newsletter writer shares personal experience of denial after a significant event, feeling burnt out and disillusioned.”
I mean ha! Not wrong!!!!
https://cdn.masto.host/danmastohoncom/media_attachments/files/113/443/956/368/400/243/original/7c4ccb0ce052f4fa.png

2024-11-07 21:34:37 GMT

I always love this series
https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/113443776546004864

2024-11-07 18:56:29 GMT

New newsletter episode:
s19e05: The first stage is denial
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s19e05-the-first-stage-is-denial/

2024-11-07 02:20:24 GMT

the arc of the moral universe needs a punch in the nazi

2024-11-05 01:56:06 GMT

should I set up an open zoom tomorrow just for people to join and scream

2024-11-02 22:29:55 GMT

never underestimate what someone with decades of finely-honed adhd can accomplish in the seven minutes before a hard deadline

2024-11-01 20:59:43 GMT

- reply

Teen Vogue puts it better than me, because somehow it's always lately fallen to Teen Vogue to be a fucking beacon:
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/kamala-harris-but-a-donald-trump-win-would-be-catastrophic

2024-11-01 20:59:17 GMT

- reply

"It's a Kobayashi Maru. There is no winning here, there is no outcome where everyone gets saved."
You don't get to cheat, like Kirk did. There is no rule to break, no loophole to find and exploit, no last-minute respite.
There is just better-than-catastrophic and catastrophic.

2024-11-01 20:59:05 GMT

- reply

Like, let me put this in Star Trek terms.
It's a Kobayashi Maru. There is no winning here, there is no outcome where everyone gets saved.
It's an exercise and a test for what you do when you can't win and no matter what you do, unconscionable things will keep happening to differing degrees.

2024-11-01 20:58:41 GMT

- reply

I am not saying anything that hasn't been said in a million ways already.
The actual choice is between better-than-catastrophic and catastrophic.
There is, and "unfortunately" is nowhere near a strong enough word to convey what is happening, No. Other. Choice.

2024-11-01 20:58:21 GMT

- reply

I will stipulate that not choosing is also a decision. I also think it's a grossly irresponsible, privileged, and selfish one. I also accept that feeling you have to choose is indeed not a choice and one where having to choose is excruciatingly emotionally, mentally, physically painful.

2024-11-01 20:58:06 GMT

yes excellent what if you pretend the trolley lever isn't there and refuse to use it and instead fervently hope that someday someone will implement a carbon neutral/negative public funded multi-modal transit system that achieves vision zero great job

2024-10-27 17:25:23 GMT

thanks to a rat's nest of smart home stuff* my partner is most likely completely fucked when I die unless I nominate a close friend to admin the system upon my death, and I bet this is you, too
(Power of Attorney for home sysadmin?)
* no Home Assistant (yet?!), only Apple HomeKit, Lutron Caseta, Schlage Encode Plus, Homebridge, Scrypted, UniFi and UniFi Protect. Passwords in password manager aren't with anything without knowing the configuration...

2024-10-20 17:54:16 GMT

Does Deregulation Inevitably Lead to Batman or Should We Consider Other Approaches to Crime?
In this essay I examine the current theory regarding the high probability of a Batman individual (high net worth regional vigilante) spontaneously occurring (Batmaneogenesis) during a given regulatory era,

2024-10-18 01:40:25 GMT

I love having the world's information organized
https://cdn.masto.host/danmastohoncom/media_attachments/files/113/325/874/919/046/630/original/193b817b4ffbe903.png

2024-10-14 18:02:17 GMT

Hi, Dan!
You've used up all 10 of your free slow moves this month! If you'd like to continue moving, upgrade to our Move Slow Within Broken Things Plus package, or find out about more options.
https://hachyderm.io/@NireBryce/113290572399751492

2024-10-13 01:04:09 GMT

Can't believe Mullenweg just went and disclosed the critical supply chain attack vulnerability in Wordpress randomly on a Saturday

2024-09-27 18:40:20 GMT

"The sky above the port was the color of a television, tuned to the tv manufacturer's programmatic ad screensaver platform."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/lg-tvs-continue-down-advertising-rabbit-hole-with-new-screensaver-ads/

2024-09-18 18:52:43 GMT

I do think that the Israeli pager military action qualifies as a Bruce Schneier Movie-Plot Threat, and I'm not entirely sure what that says about the world other than "technology continues to catch up with our ability to imagine doing terrible things"
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/06/eighth_movie-pl_1.html

2024-09-05 22:49:26 GMT

Thought I was hearing the most painful farts coming from upstairs until I realized the 11yo started band today and is learning the trombone.

2024-08-29 17:59:40 GMT

If you have been following me for a while you may know about That Time I Went To Missouri And The Cops Came, but anyway, we are now ready to sell the family farmhouse, and would love it to keep giving someone wonderful memories.
You too could see sunsets like this on the back patio.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/22175-Interurban-Rd-Dearborn-MO-64439/2482933_zpid/
https://cdn.masto.host/danmastohoncom/media_attachments/files/113/046/616/813/385/891/original/cb2b833eff4922cf.jpeg

2024-08-27 19:53:07 GMT

If I ran a dentist practice in 2024 I would simply advertise that we're ADHD-friendly and say up-front that we would just see you and treat you, and would never, ever remark on or shame you for the state of your teeth or how long it's been since you've last seen a dentist

2024-08-24 22:37:19 GMT

- reply

We're at XOXO right now at table B10 come buy DO NOT REPLY and DO REPLY stickers from us!
https://donotreply.cards/buy
#xoxofest2024 #xoxo #xoxofest
https://cdn.masto.host/danmastohoncom/media_attachments/files/113/019/389/773/902/032/original/48ced975e38f2f61.jpeg

2024-08-24 21:45:55 GMT

- reply

Sarah: Probably not for everyone here, but for maybe 2-3 people, and for those 2-3 people, it will really matter. You might think your life is over, you'll never be known for anything other than the terrible thing. It will get better. Today nobody remembers that thing, the white people tweets. _They don't remember_. This didn't define me, I'm not wearing the red lanyard (no photos) this year.
#xoxofest2024 #xoxo #xoxofest

2024-08-24 21:44:35 GMT

- reply

Ah shit though, Sarah asking the question that I think a lot of us ask, for lots of different reasons: why do I write? Why do words matter to me?
#xoxofest2024 #xoxo #xoxofest

2024-08-24 21:43:50 GMT

- reply

(sorry, this is the combination of being an incredibly... terrible? topic that's also being delivered so, so well by Sarah so I'm totally really not liveposting it) #xoxofest2024 #xoxo #xoxofest

2024-08-24 21:38:45 GMT

- reply

Sarah talking about being the Fox News flavor of the week, and the next week, and then the next week. Ann Coulter wrote about her for _six months_, the president talking about "the disgusting new board member".
(me: this is the shittiest ever kind of parasocial relationship. THAT IS A JOKE)
#xoxofest2024 #xoxo #xoxofest

2024-08-24 21:35:58 GMT

- reply

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)
#xoxofest2024 #xoxo #xoxofest

2024-08-24 21:34:47 GMT

- reply

... 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.
#xoxofest2024 #xoxo #xoxofest

2024-08-24 21:33:39 GMT

- reply

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.
#xoxofest2024 #xoxo #xoxofest

2024-08-24 21:30:36 GMT

- reply

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.
#xoxofest2024 #xoxo #xoxofest

2024-08-24 21:27:18 GMT

- reply

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 @npub1lq5…6wl7 (http://debcha.org) has written so wonderfully about.
#xoxofest2024 #xoxo #xoxofest

2024-08-24 21:24:37 GMT

- reply

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
#xoxofest2024 #xoxo #xoxofest

2024-08-24 21:22:41 GMT

- reply

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
#xoxofest2024 #xoxo #xoxofest

2024-08-24 21:21:28 GMT

- reply

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*.
#xoxofest2024 #xoxo #xoxofest

2024-08-24 21:20:12 GMT

- reply

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.
#xoxofest2024 #xoxo #xoxofest

2024-08-24 21:18:33 GMT

- reply

(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
#xoxofest2024 #xoxo #xoxofest

2024-08-24 21:15:22 GMT

- reply

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/
#xoxofest2024 #xoxo #xoxofest

2024-08-24 21:11:09 GMT

- reply

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
#xoxofest2024 #xoxo #xoxofest

2024-08-24 21:08:51 GMT

- reply

omg:
Erin: "People forget what it was like before React."
*applause*
https://donotreply.cards/en/do-post-what-it-felt-like-to-make-your-first-website
#xoxofest2024 #xoxo #xoxofest

2024-08-24 21:04:07 GMT

- reply

OK, we're back after lunch at #xoxo and next up is ERIN KISSANE @npub1sac…kcpe who is also responsible for ThIS CARD that we made and love
https://donotreply.cards/wo/do-not-yell-at-somebody-working-through-their-grief-and-fear-in-their-own-way

2024-08-24 18:45:42 GMT

- reply

DO go and subscribe to AFTERMATH!
https://aftermath.site

2024-08-24 18:44:06 GMT

- reply

Gita continues the theme of being optimistic about what's ahead of us and even a bit embarrassed. I totally get the embarrassment, we've had that hope and optimism beaten out of us and it's difficult to nurture it. But this is a room and a tent full of hundreds of people and we _all feel that optimism too_ and can practice scarily accepting it together.
The best days of the internet are ahead of us.
https://donotreply.cards/en/do-post-about-the-best-days-of-the-internet-being-ahead-of-us

2024-08-24 18:41:07 GMT

- reply

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

2024-08-24 18:33:52 GMT

- reply

Gita: The WORKERS are what make online media great, not the bosses. The bosses can't blog for shit. WORKERS should be entitled to all that their labor creates, not the HR manager paid a quarter million dollars a year for not even being able to send an email.
https://donotreply.cards/en/do-not-explain-capitalism-to-me

2024-08-24 18:32:05 GMT

- reply

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

2024-08-24 18:28:38 GMT

- reply

I am having TOO MANY FEELINGS processing Darius' amazing talk so all I can do right now is tell you how wonderful Gita Jackson's talk is about media and INDEPENDENTLY OWNED ONLINE MEDIA because WORKER OWNED
https://donotreply.cards/en/do-show-your-love-for-independently-owned-online-media

2024-08-24 18:11:51 GMT

- reply

Fuck it.
DO BRING THE JOY BACK
https://donotreply.cards/en/do-bring-the-joy-back

2024-08-24 18:09:38 GMT

- reply

We're here now.
We choose to live as if the best days of the internet are ahead of us, and they won't stop us.
https://donotreply.cards/en/do-post-about-the-best-days-of-the-internet-being-ahead-of-us

2024-08-24 18:04:19 GMT

- reply

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...

2024-08-24 18:00:00 GMT

- reply

WE ARE THE WEB and right now I feel the most hopeful that we can take back and make back what can be good... the signs are already there, I'm so fucking excited about these tiny green shoots we're seeing and nurturing together built in motivating anger and the deepest love and non-bullshit connection
https://donotreply.cards/en/do-post-about-how-we-take-back-the-internet-together

2024-08-24 17:56:32 GMT

- reply

I do really really think we're ready to do this and we've hit that breaking point
https://donotreply.cards/en/do-remember-what-makes-the-internet-great

2024-08-24 17:54:33 GMT

- reply

Molly is describing and speed running all the feelings we've had for decades on the internet now
https://donotreply.cards/en/do-post-about-how-view-source-changed-everything

2024-08-24 17:53:01 GMT

- reply

REMEMBER THE JOY THE INTERNET CAN BRING ❤️
https://donotreply.cards/en/do-post-what-it-felt-like-to-make-your-first-website

2024-08-24 17:40:40 GMT

At #xoxofest this morning and super excited for @npub13qd…hau6 and a reminder to always DO NOT REPLY ABOUT HOW WEB 3.0 IS GOING GREAT
https://donotreply.cards/wo/do-not-reply-about-how-web3-is-going-great-really

2024-08-23 17:44:19 GMT

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 @npub1sdg…spj0, @npub1qmy…dgga 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.
[cont]
https://cdn.masto.host/danmastohoncom/media_attachments/files/113/012/574/821/379/133/original/cff325ea496cc3ff.png
https://cdn.masto.host/danmastohoncom/media_attachments/files/113/012/575/107/473/868/original/672e5cd679d7fbc2.png
https://cdn.masto.host/danmastohoncom/media_attachments/files/113/012/575/499/553/780/original/2bb64a64d0e0f0d1.png

2024-08-15 22:36:56 GMT

the whole purpose of the post-menopausal woman is to prevent the rise of generative AI
https://cdn.masto.host/danmastohoncom/media_attachments/files/112/968/427/784/164/194/original/77ef7df622e128ef.jpeg

2024-08-08 21:25:47 GMT

ok this is maybe the second favorite one I wrote but not really because all of them are my favorites just like my kids
https://timwalzfixedyourbicycle.com
https://cdn.masto.host/danmastohoncom/media_attachments/files/112/928/511/936/216/024/original/4c7ae7864cdffd8f.jpeg

2024-08-08 21:14:22 GMT

once again how did we get from the "please stop dems texting" timeline to the "please inject harris-walz press releases straight into my veins" timeline
AND ALSO why can't I sign up for these press releases yet
https://cdn.masto.host/danmastohoncom/media_attachments/files/112/928/467/101/332/760/original/1deee78681447259.png

2024-08-07 23:53:57 GMT

- reply

I WROTE THIS ONE I think it's the best thing I've done all day.
https://tim-walz-fixed-your-bicycle.glitch.me
https://cdn.masto.host/danmastohoncom/media_attachments/files/112/923/432/230/521/695/original/94be5c76b257273c.png

2024-08-07 23:21:35 GMT

This is brilliant.
https://timwalzfixedyourbicycle.com

2024-08-05 15:04:56 GMT

The world's first cryptographically secure breakfast cereal is the best choice for kids to start their day

2024-07-05 01:34:59 GMT

Late 24th century, and the collection of full-spectrum multispectral holoscans on your tricorder is still called your "camera roll"