Press Start to Steep - In Conversation with Zoyander Street

Artist-researcher Dr Zoyander Street joins Marti to talk about what algorithmic social media has taken from small creators and marginalised communities, and what we can build instead. We get into POSSE and PESOS, why Mastodon is a school cafeteria, whether there’s a middle ground on AI, and why trans people need to archive our own history before someone else rewrites it.

Content note: brief mention of suicide (around 30:19).

Topics

• Zoyander’s PhD by practice and Lucy Suchman’s Plans and Situated Actions
• Why content recommendation algorithms are really content suppression
• Intrapology, a live interactive queer sci-fi series where the audience shapes the story
• Desperate Living, a hand-built archive of trans health resources with Studio Voltaire, including a community-recorded audiobook of Stone Butch Blues
• Local AI, dependency, and who owns our tools
• Marti on GayBC, Transistor Radio, The Radical Trannies, and the history we’re losing

Zoyander Street

• Website: https://zoyander.cc/
• Blog: https://blog.zoyander.cc/
• Mastodon: https://merveilles.town/@zoy
• Intrapology: https://intrapology.com
• Games: https://zoy.itch.io
• Zine for Fedi Zine Fest: https://fedizinefest.fyi/
• Hand-built archives workshop with Studio Voltaire (November, hybrid, join remotely). Registration will be announced on Zoyander’s blog.

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