Author: Nathan

Hey Bay Area! I’m excited to announce an event on #GovernableSpaces at the Internet Archive on June 8, featuring three brilliant governance experiments from: Yasmine El Baggari (Hylo)Émeline Brule (Sequoia Fabrica)Dr. Shamika Klassen (CU Boulder) Register here: https://lu.ma/governable-spaces-sf

If you’re, say, occupying space somewhere with other people, you’ll need to have a way to make hard decisions—like, say, how to face attacks by fascists or police. That’s why my lab is building CommunityRule.info, a tool for designing self-governance practices, grounded in mutual aid.

I’m quoted in a @CoinDesk report on the Bitcoin halving, in which I decry the longing for financial systems beyond human control: https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2024/04/18/this-bitcoin-halving-is-different-but-is-it-priced-in/

My friend and colleague Nabil Echchaibi opens up A Day for Palestine at CU Boulder—with food, art, dance, VR, poetry, and testimonies from Gaza, “to dream Palestine free.”

I wrote in America Magazine about masculinity and attention spans among some popular podcast philosophers: https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2024/04/08/joe-rogan-lex-fridman-youtube-247650

Cooperators! Join the movement to bring the powerful, care-centered social cooperative model to the United States—starting with this online academy from RMEOC: https://www.rmeoc.org/events/

ICYMI, the video of the #GovernableSpaces online book launch event is now available, thanks to the Metagovernance Seminar: https://archive.org/details/governable-spaces-schneider-20240228

From St. Drogo’s coffee shop in Boulder.

This week I returned to Counterpoint, a great listener-supported syndicated radio show, to talk about the proposed TikTok ban—and why Congress is approaching tech regulation backwards: https://btlonline.org/proposed-congressional-tiktok-ban-ignores-larger-issue-of-consumer-data-privacy/