@kissane@mas.to

Doing uspol info mutual aid at Unbreaking.org. Squinting about knowledge and networks at wreckage/salvage. Previously: COVID Tracking Project + Knight Moz OpenNews + editorial and community in tech and culture orgs. I want our tools and networks to be better in more ways for more people in more places.

mas.to

Erin Kissane

@kissane@mas.to

Doing uspol info mutual aid at Unbreaking.org. Squinting about knowledge and networks at wreckage/salvage. Previously: COVID Tracking Project + Knight Moz OpenNews + editorial and community in tech and culture orgs. I want our tools and networks to be better in more ways for more people in more places.

mas.to

@kissane@mas.to · Jan 16, 2026

At Unbreaking.org, we added dozens of events across four timelines this week and did a short briefing on Immigration events in the US along with smaller updates from our Data Security, Federal Workforce, and Medical Research teams:

https://unbreaking.org/blog/this-week-at-unbreaking-jan-16/

#uspol

View on mas.to

47

0

43

0

Erin Kissane

@kissane@mas.to

Doing uspol info mutual aid at Unbreaking.org. Squinting about knowledge and networks at wreckage/salvage. Previously: COVID Tracking Project + Knight Moz OpenNews + editorial and community in tech and culture orgs. I want our tools and networks to be better in more ways for more people in more places.

mas.to

Erin Kissane

@kissane@mas.to

Doing uspol info mutual aid at Unbreaking.org. Squinting about knowledge and networks at wreckage/salvage. Previously: COVID Tracking Project + Knight Moz OpenNews + editorial and community in tech and culture orgs. I want our tools and networks to be better in more ways for more people in more places.

mas.to

@kissane@mas.to · Jan 13, 2026

@zompus@phire.place <3 <3 We are sure trying our best to take care of each other

View on mas.to

2

0

Erin Kissane

@kissane@mas.to

Doing uspol info mutual aid at Unbreaking.org. Squinting about knowledge and networks at wreckage/salvage. Previously: COVID Tracking Project + Knight Moz OpenNews + editorial and community in tech and culture orgs. I want our tools and networks to be better in more ways for more people in more places.

mas.to

Erin Kissane

@kissane@mas.to

Doing uspol info mutual aid at Unbreaking.org. Squinting about knowledge and networks at wreckage/salvage. Previously: COVID Tracking Project + Knight Moz OpenNews + editorial and community in tech and culture orgs. I want our tools and networks to be better in more ways for more people in more places.

mas.to

@kissane@mas.to · Jan 12, 2026

I guess this is a personal update: I hit winter break totally out of reserves and then two of our parents arrived at the last stages of their lives at basically the same time. We've been traveling back and forth and trying to keep everything as normal as possible for our kid, but we are about as much in limbo as you can be (without being a dead Catholic) rn, and of course the News of the World is…dire.

Anyway, I am missing a lot of emails right now, and I am not sure when I will catch up.

View on mas.to

133

0

2

0

Erin Kissane

@kissane@mas.to

Doing uspol info mutual aid at Unbreaking.org. Squinting about knowledge and networks at wreckage/salvage. Previously: COVID Tracking Project + Knight Moz OpenNews + editorial and community in tech and culture orgs. I want our tools and networks to be better in more ways for more people in more places.

mas.to

Erin Kissane

@kissane@mas.to

Doing uspol info mutual aid at Unbreaking.org. Squinting about knowledge and networks at wreckage/salvage. Previously: COVID Tracking Project + Knight Moz OpenNews + editorial and community in tech and culture orgs. I want our tools and networks to be better in more ways for more people in more places.

mas.to

@kissane@mas.to · Dec 27, 2025

@vruba@everything.happens.horse ~~ Ian Hodder’s hermeneutic spiral ~~

View on mas.to

1

0

Erin Kissane

@kissane@mas.to

Doing uspol info mutual aid at Unbreaking.org. Squinting about knowledge and networks at wreckage/salvage. Previously: COVID Tracking Project + Knight Moz OpenNews + editorial and community in tech and culture orgs. I want our tools and networks to be better in more ways for more people in more places.

mas.to

Erin Kissane

@kissane@mas.to

Doing uspol info mutual aid at Unbreaking.org. Squinting about knowledge and networks at wreckage/salvage. Previously: COVID Tracking Project + Knight Moz OpenNews + editorial and community in tech and culture orgs. I want our tools and networks to be better in more ways for more people in more places.

mas.to

@kissane@mas.to · Dec 26, 2025

@tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org I think that has to be part of it—we stabilize against erosion by building up root networks and I think about that all the time.

View on mas.to

7

0

1

0

Erin Kissane

@kissane@mas.to

Doing uspol info mutual aid at Unbreaking.org. Squinting about knowledge and networks at wreckage/salvage. Previously: COVID Tracking Project + Knight Moz OpenNews + editorial and community in tech and culture orgs. I want our tools and networks to be better in more ways for more people in more places.

mas.to

Erin Kissane

@kissane@mas.to

Doing uspol info mutual aid at Unbreaking.org. Squinting about knowledge and networks at wreckage/salvage. Previously: COVID Tracking Project + Knight Moz OpenNews + editorial and community in tech and culture orgs. I want our tools and networks to be better in more ways for more people in more places.

mas.to

@kissane@mas.to · Dec 23, 2025

Happy holidays, fediverse!

I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.

https://www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-story/

View on mas.to

366

0

253

0

Erin Kissane

@kissane@mas.to

Doing uspol info mutual aid at Unbreaking.org. Squinting about knowledge and networks at wreckage/salvage. Previously: COVID Tracking Project + Knight Moz OpenNews + editorial and community in tech and culture orgs. I want our tools and networks to be better in more ways for more people in more places.

mas.to

Erin Kissane

@kissane@mas.to

Doing uspol info mutual aid at Unbreaking.org. Squinting about knowledge and networks at wreckage/salvage. Previously: COVID Tracking Project + Knight Moz OpenNews + editorial and community in tech and culture orgs. I want our tools and networks to be better in more ways for more people in more places.

mas.to

@kissane@mas.to · Aug 20, 2024

Longer post(s) to come after the morning school rush, but!

The Fediverse governance research @darius@friend.camp and I have been working on this year—with the absolutely central participation of so many wonderful Mastodon and Hometown server teams—is out:

https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/releasing-our-findings

View on mas.to

179

0

139

0

Erin Kissane

Posts