Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
To build gentler technology, practice trauma-informed design
Understanding trauma helps craft gentler user experiences.
Dangerzone
Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to a safe PDF.
The Safety Culture at the Labs is Broken
We need the frontier labs to have a deep and robust safety culture.
Not everything is ‘trauma’. Language needs to mean something | Aeon Essays
From a broken life to a broken nail, ‘trauma’ has been bleached by overuse. But it names something real – and must be reclaimed
Repair Wars: Cory Doctorow on the State of Right to Repair - Make:
They’ve stacked the decks against servicing your own purchases; The community is now resisting — and winning.
Damaged Earth Catalog
We are humans and might as well get used to it. So far, remotely done power and glory—as via government, big business, formal education, church—has succeeded to the point where gross profits obscure actual loss. In response to this dilemma and to these losses a realm of intimate, community power is developing—power of communities to conduct their own education, find their own inspiration, shape their own environment, and share their knowledge with others. Practices that aid this process are sought and promoted by the DAMAGED EARTH CATALOG.
Open by Design: ROOST's Approach to Safety Tool Development
Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges
A libre networking project that's designed to bridge protocol spaces together announced its progress and intentions, and Mastodon users freaked out.
Repair Culture: Learning to Fix Instead of Replace – Wayfinders Now – Living small to gain abundance.
Repair culture is the growing mindset of choosing to fix what’s broken instead of immediately replacing it. It challenges a habit that has become almost automatic in modern life: when something stops working, we discard it. A new phone, a new appliance, a new chair, a new everything. Repair culture asks a quieter question: What […]
AT Protocol, Part 2: Explanation For Non-Techies - Debbie's Blatherings - by Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Thanks to all who responded to my call for suggestions!
Stripe Press — Maintenance
An in-depth exploration of maintenance, and a powerful argument for its civilizational importance.
Making and Tool-Making
Bad tools as the main source of friction for Citybound development - and what I'm going to do about it.
Issue Cards | Service Design Tools
Support the conversation around complex matters by breaking down the subject into physical cards.
