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  • Exit to community in family

    Exit to community in family

    It’s out! On KGNU radio in Colorado and as a podcast, my interview with Anjali and James Young, founders of Collab.Land—on their #ExittoCommunity into a token-enabled co-op: https://lookslikenew.net/podcast/how-do-you-give-a-technology-to-its-community/

  • Governability over openness

    Governability over openness

    Maybe the question of whether a system is governable matters more than whether it is open. Illustration by Darija Medic. More in #GovernableSpaces

  • Beautiful Solutions is coming

    Beautiful Solutions is coming

    Just announced! After years of work collecting the work of many dozens of contributors around the world, the Beautiful Solutions are coming to your bookshelf: https://orbooks.com/catalog/beautiful-solutions/

  • Want to see where the internet is stored?

    Want to see where the internet is stored?

    Want to see where the internet is stored? I’m doing an event at the Internet Archive on June 8 in San Francisco: https://lu.ma/governable-spaces-sf Featuring Yasmine El Baggari (Hylo), Emeline Brule (Sequoia Fabrica), Shamika Klassen (Afrofuturistic speculation)

  • Never do a book event alone

    Never do a book event alone

    San Francisco, the democratic internet is coming for you. June 8, 4 p.m., at the former Christian Science church that is the Internet Archive.

  • Lightning talks at the SF #GovernableSpaces event

    Lightning talks at the SF #GovernableSpaces event

    Come hear from some amazing folks in SF 6/8: https://lu.ma/governable-spaces-sf

  • Another kind of sovereignty is possible (it already happened)

    Another kind of sovereignty is possible (it already happened)

    Spoiler alert: My book #GovernableSpaces ends with this image by Darija Medić, borrowing from the wonderful https://native-land.ca—a reminder from Indigenous legacies that sovereignty need not depend on monopolies over land and militarized borders. Start reading at the end, if you do that: https://luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.181/read/?loc=013.xhtml

  • Congratulations, Shamika!

    Congratulations, Shamika!

    I’m so thrilled to celebrate my friend Shamika Klassen for finishing her PhD here at CU Boulder. Read about her extraordinary work here: https://www.colorado.edu/cmcinow/2024/05/06/making-digital-less-discriminatory She’ll also be speaking at my upcoming book event in San Francisco, June 8: https://lu.ma/governable-spaces-sf

  • Governable Spaces in SF

    Governable Spaces in SF

    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

  • Are you ready to make hard decisions?

    Are you ready to make hard decisions?

    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.