@rhappe@mastodon.socialI believe communities enable human potential. Fascinated by social dynamics & false truths. Systems thinker. Complexity wrangler.
Organization and culture strategist and architect. I believe in the power of community to spark cultures of joy.
Founder of Engaged Organaizations and TheCR.
My intro: https://mastodon.social/@rhappe/109297115950796128
boostedThis amazing pair of posts by @kissane on what ails Mastodon offer fantastic insights into why a given social media platform works — or doesn’t — & why the fediverse will face existential growing pains until people apply the lessons she shares at scale. https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt
Content Warning: they’re long. :)
This starts with children. When I became a parent I realized I was automatically assuming that when my child was objecting to something or crying/whining it was because she was trying to get away with something or manipulate me - and I realized how effed up that is.
Children do not appear in the world and somehow start scheming.
Interesting thought; most Americans gaslight themselves because of how pervasive gaslighting is in our society.
In my decades of consulting, people more often don’t or can’t change how they work not because there is any rule or leadership mandate but because they believe it is not acceptable to do something differently.
boostedGreat Wired read about a Wikipedia editor who's making sure that no one gets away with Nazi reputation-laundering. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/one-woman-s-mission-to-rewrite-nazi-history-on-wikipedia?utm_source=pocket-newtab
"...history is an edit war. Truth, factual and moral, hangs in the balance."
boostedElon Musk has been obsessed with destroying a much beloved brand by renaming it X for decades.
An excerpt from “The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power” by Max Chafkin
This is a beautiful piece if reflection from @mariapopova with advice about what to do when your parents are dying.
I lost my father in my mid-20s. He was my North Star and coming to terms with being adrift was earth-shattering and then, ultimately, redemptive. It flattened me and then set me free.
In some ways it it was a gift that it happened when I was old enough to understand and reflect on its impact but young enough to benefit from that growth.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/11/when-your-parents-are-dying-mary-gaitskill/
boostedThis is the real, human cost of mass surveillance of everyone's private digital communications.
If we actually care about keeping people safe, we need more end-to-end encryption not less.
boostedMastodon has a lot of creative, unique apps. You can definitely find a fit just for you.
But I think the #Threadiverse is having it's own golden era right now with a plethora of choices for us finicky #Fediverse users. The best list I could find for #Lemmy is attached, but it's still missing a few newcomers, like @bean
Nothing near as comprehensive for #kbin yet (the API is still getting it's legs) but there is the amazing @ArtemisApp@kbin.social
https://github.com/dbeley/awesome-lemmy from @dbeley@mamot.ft
What if we decided that owning wasn’t a thing?
In native mindsets the things we use are borrowed and transient; things flow throw us and move on to other beings, of which plants & earth are a part.
How do we untangle our realitity that is divvied up into crumbs that are locked away into personal caches?
I can’t imagine living without ownership and I think that is a huge problem; capitalism has broken human spirit in a fundamental way.
When do you decide to pack up a city and move?
Phoenix is unlivable and given the direction we are going it will only get worse.
I love the concept of a trellis - I did not intent to use this one for this plant but it’s beautiful.
boosted40% of the safest towns in the United States are in the Northeast. 26% are in Massachusetts, including mine.
I am going to guess why: gun controls, community policing, economic strength, education, and access to good medical care (including mental health) - all of which add up to a culture where we are not all pointing fingers at or scared of each other.
boostedThis is a powerful graph of the climate emergency.
https://climateemergencydeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DontMentionTheEmergency2018.pdf
boostedJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson hit the ground running. 
NYT:
“She was not cowed by her surroundings or the historical import of her appointment,” said Melissa Murray, a law professor at New York University. “She came to play.”
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. did not write his first solo dissent in an argued case until 16 years into his tenure. Justice Jackson issued three such dissents in her first term.
boostedFavourite summary of the current situation, from the Guardian and @firstdogonthemoon : https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/07/twitter-is-burning-bluesky-is-smug-where-is-the-best-place-to-do-your-pathetic-doomscrolling?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
It would be so nice if Microsoft could sort out there awful, horrible, no good authentication system. It has been broken for 20+ years and it has made my life difficult throughout.
boostedOMG THIS
My ability to get folx, who’d normally dismiss me as just another “angry Black woman”, to start paying attention to the harm they’re inflicted at scale is 100% the result of how this platform used to work
I’ve been on others for years and they don’t come close
This is a story about boundaries, narrative, trust, collective power & agency, the act of witnessing, change, and compassion.
It is a gift, connecting the treads of history and how they show up in simple acts of daily life. Do you smile or do you frown at someone?
It’s my introduction to Victoria Amelina, a Ukrainian writer who was recently killed in by the Russian war against Ukraine.
H/t @anneapplebaum
boostedUkraine and the meaning of home...this one is worth your time
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