Episode 16: Minimum Viable Torment Nexus

Zohran Mamdani won the NYC Mayoral election and now everybody is talking about his campaign's organizing and social media strategy. Also Bluesky would like to make conversations healthier on their platform.

November 07, 2025

Zohran Kwame Mamdani

3mo

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Micah Sifry ❌👑

3mo

In the end, more than 104K volunteers made 4.4M calls and knocked on more than 3M doors. And as Tascha Van Auken, Mamdani’s field director said last night, “This is going to transform our city. It doesn’t stop tonight.” UPDATED POST: theconnector.substack.com/p/solidarity...

Solidarity Tech: The Platform Powering Zohran Mamdani's Movement

A conversation with Ivan Pardo, the founder of Solidarity Tech, on how a platform built for "deep organizing" of workers building unions is being used to take power in New York City.

https://theconnector.substack.com/p/solidarity-tech-the-platform-powering

Paul Frazee

3mo

"Torment Nexus" comes from this tweet and is often used now to describe the kind of negative experiences you can have with social networks, like getting dogpiled or harassed or being pushed into conflict

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

Bartle taxonomy of player types

The Bartle taxonomy of player types is a classification of video game players (gamers) based on a 1996 paper by Richard Bartle according to their preferred actions within the game. The classification originally described players of multiplayer online games, though now it also refers to players of single-player video games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_taxonomy_of_player_types

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