Blaine Cook

@blaine

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Nelson, BC
Joined May 2006
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    11 Aug 2014

    The only thing better than a kitten is two kittens [playing tag between the curtains, obvs].

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  2. Jan 21

    We have communities of people who aren't programmers first but who care about these issues and understand the trade-offs. They need to be involved.

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  3. Jan 21

    Many of the people who worked on the doc are amazing organizers and social thinkers in their own right, but their participation is/was predicated on being technologists.

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  4. Jan 21

    The thing that's missing from this document, though, is sociologists. Moderators. Community organizers. The technology matters, but a big part of the reason I stopped working on these things was because those voices were missing. I worry they're still missing.

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  5. Jan 21

    I'm so grateful to everyone who did continue, because it's incredible to see all the things that have and are emerging in this world. I have a ton of hope that we'll break good.

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  6. Jan 21

    I gave up working actively on this stuff in ~2012, because it was clear that we had too far to come and for a bunch of reasons I didn't have the personal capacity to continue pushing.

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  7. Jan 21

    Reading this document is a total trip. So many conversations and, frankly, traumas, that led to many of the standards and protocols described in it.

    Working virtually through the pandemic, this group self-organized, invited additional experts, and created a review of the ecosystem around protocols for social media. You can read it here:
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  8. Jan 20

    the artistic presents on this website are free 🎨🎁

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  9. Jan 20

    Phew, nipped that one in the bud.

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  10. Retweeted
    Jan 16

    With the deplatforming of forums where trumpists and right-wing figures congregate, there's a lot of chatter about whether and when private entities have the right to remove speech, and what obligations come with scale. 1/

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  11. Retweeted
    Jan 16

    As someone who founded an org to build decentralized tech with, for & by marginalized communities I always find variations of this take naive & facile. It ignores both the ethos of decentralized tech as well as the practicalities and realities of how tech serves different groups.

    2/ By definition, the extremists kicked off centralized media platforms are marginalized people, even if justifiably so. If you are building tech that serves all marginalized people, it will serve them. You can’t have it both ways.
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  12. Retweeted
    Jan 13

    Thoughts on moderation and decentralizing Twitter: Consolidating and fragmenting forces are forcing this platform out of the status quo. Decentralization is voluntary fragmentation, which, if done correctly, can anticipate these changes and establish new norms.

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  13. Jan 15

    Oh, gosh, they're not kidding. Nice work, !

    Check out our brand new, fast-loading homepage now. (did we mention it’s fast?)
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  14. Jan 15

    I have all the sympathy in the world for the signal team right now. At the same time, it's *deeply* problematic that we're all rushing to yet-another centralized infrastructure, even if it's run by people we like and trust, in order to mediate really basic text communications.

    Signal is experiencing technical difficulties. We are working hard to restore service as quickly as possible.
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  15. Jan 14

    brb dying my hair snow-white

    new hair to match my new home
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  16. Jan 14

    This looks really interesting, but I don't use an iOS device, which apparently clubhouse requires? Good work excluding 80% of people with mobile devices, clubhouse. Well done. 🤦‍♀️ 👏 👏 👏

    I usually don’t use this wretched platform - which btw is in desperate need of trust and safety measures - but this conversation is happening and it’s important, so if you’re available in 35 minutes, join us!
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  17. Retweeted
    Jan 14

    FYI:

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  18. Jan 14

    Make it opt-out if you're worried about "freedom of speech" but don't or refuse to understand what that means.

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  19. Jan 14

    Feature request: GMail filtering of not just spam, but nazis, too. Not for (just) my inbox, but for the millions of people who are getting inundated with toxic garbage every day.

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  20. Retweeted
    Jan 13

    Everytime someone talks about good design in government services I want to scream from the top of my lungs WHAT ABOUT IMMIGRATION SERVICES. Applying for citizenship 2 years ago was one of the most gruelling processes I’ve ever gone through where traps were laid everywhere.

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  21. Jan 13

    "I've seen the future... And now I have to live in the goddamn past until the world evenly distributes it."

    Some ideas don't succeed at first because the world isn't yet ready for them. After realizing how common this is, I've been learning to control my frequent urge to shout "this isn't new — it was tried 20 years ago!" and instead ask myself if the idea is worth another chance.
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