Home | Modos

Imagining a Safer Future for Content Moderators

Through this blog series, we are exploring what the world can look like when technology is designed and deployed for the benefit of all.

Announcing the Modal Foundation - Updates from the Modal Foundation

We're a nonprofit dedicated to supporting decentralized social technologies that help people create, circulate and discover trustworthy information.

Modal Collective

We do development, design, organizing, policy campaigning, and more to make computing more useful, secure, and resilient. Our work is centered around software infrastructure projects such as GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, systemd, and the Linux kernel.

Modal Foundation

Supporting decentralized social tech and open standards to create trustworthy, public-interest social media alternatives and ensure access to vital information.

Modos Flow

A paper-like monitor for reading, writing, and focused work

Declaration of Digital Autonomy

We demand a world in which technology is created to protect and empower those who are impacted by it. Our technology must respect the rights and freedoms of those users. We need to take control for the purpose of collectively building a better world in which technology works in service to the good of human kind, protecting our rights and digital autonomy as individuals.

Home

Solidarity Infrastructures is a class that brings together creative practitioners from respective communities to investigate, strategize, upskill, and dream toward alternative socio-technological systems.

AOS – Technology for Human Thriving

AOS builds freedom tech that enhances, explores, and empowers human thriving through open, decentralized systems.

modular research preprint server demo with meaningful social context

a concept preprint server demonstrating what kinds of features would be possible in the future with more modular research publishing and an open social protocol to layer in the public discourse in meaningful ways.

Appropriating Technology | Public Sphere Project — Liberating Voices Pattern Language

Dematerialization, Participatory Design, Techno-Criticism, Intermediate Technologies, Users' IT Quality Network, Wholesome Design for Wicked Problems, Labor Visions, Community Inquiry, Tactical Media

What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit

The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort

meos | Get Meos

Download and install Meos — your local-first operating system built for privacy and control.

Disquiet – Listening to culture. Playing with audio. Sounding out technology. Composing in code.

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts, I’ve found, serves as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.

Momentos: A Decentralized Modular Start Page

Momentos: A Decentralized Modular Start Page Website: https://momentos.cc/ Github: https://github.com/momentoslabs/Momentos Introduction Momentos is a decentralized modular start page that lets users fully control the interface they see whenever they open their browser or device. Unlike traditio...

Home | Calm Tech Institute - Harmonious Design Principles

The Calm Tech Institute exists to redefine how people think about human-technology interaction, and provide a new UX standard for designing technologies that improve human life.