Seasons are changing for technologists, and the industry we work in isn't the same as it was a decade ago. We have new realities and new responsibilities to accept.
Building in the dark forest
We write from our new home in the Dark Forest. This week we fully committed to our new universe: we abandoned Slack and moved all operations into DFOS, our new tool, available more widely in the coming weeks. It feels good in here. Calm. Cozy. Just enough activity for things
Against the dark forest
The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.
Thinning
This page highlight research produced in British lumbia focused on tree thinnning as it relates to forestry practices.
Dead Forest Theory
Internet darkness is turning into deadness and time is running out
Protect our Living Legends - Woodland Trust
Many of our oldest and most special trees are not legally protected. Urge Government to change the law and prevent further tragedy.
Swidden Agriculture and Forest Ecosystem Dynamics | Forest Ecosystems | Forestry Sciences | Applied sciences | Topics | Nature Index
Swidden agriculture, often termed slash-and-burn or shifting cultivation, encompasses cycles of clearing forested land by cutting and burning, cultivating ...
Autonomous Forest | LAS Art Foundation
Autonomous Forest is a living work of art and a new techno-legal entity that reimagines ecological regeneration
On Thickets, Enclosure, and Leaving
Every platform I left, I left for the same pattern: enclosure by othering — systems that define what is shameful, create targets, and point an aggressive majority at them. Substack's AI-detection turn is the latest, and it is Dark Forestry in action. The escape is spatial: go where the platforms ar…
The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web
An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web
Forestry.md - Open Source Digital Garden Hosting
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