what is a modern corporation but a legal spell for turning reasoning beings into temporarily vacant machines?
Just one of a dozen clarifying lines. Masnick's Impossibility Theorem gets trotted out a lot, disingenuously I think by a lot of people who aren't Mike Masnick. Kissing is essentially saying "Yes, but" in this piece. Both should be read together.
News announcement on a new group from Evan Prodromou to support ActivityPub and the fediverse, The Social Web Foundation
Advice on how to listen to people. I don't want to say "effectively" because that sounds reductive and transactional. But how to listen with purpose to actually make connections with people . In summary:
Some of what she says I summarised a bit; a couple of the points were basically "Don't make it abut yourself" but from different angles.