May 17, 2026
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Paperclip
A short afternoon session with Too Bits about the paperclip itself — the bureaucratic signal originally used to flag a personnel file whose disqualifying details should be quietly routed around the normal vetting process. The reclamation: wearing it openly on hat and collar.
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Harassment Talk
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Utility Next Door
A morning session with Too Bits on Nextdoor's moderation behavior — how "disrespectful" works as a subjective evaluative term, what motivated-reporter capture looks like in decentralized moderation, and the argument for classifying neighborhood platforms as public utilities subject to non-arbitrary standards.
