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To be governed
Waking up here for today’s #GovernableSpaces event in SF https://lu.ma/governable-spaces-sf
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The theory of everything
What is a good name for the inevitability that, in every field of inquiry, someone will eventually try to turn it into a theory of everything?
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What if the problem is not venture capital?
I have often blamed venture capital for the problems of tech. But what if the exits VCs were after were #exittocommunity? Could VC be redeemed? Let’s go upstream to the source.
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Why the future of democracy could depend on your group chats
The future of democracy doesn’t lie just with Trump or Biden—it begins, I argue, in our everyday organizational lives, which we now live largely online: https://theconversation.com/why-the-future-of-democracy-could-depend-on-your-group-chats-229597
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Humans R Social Media—now includes “regulation”
The glory of Open Educational Resources! A new edition of the textbook I use in my Intro to Social Media course is now out—and with a new chapter from me on “regulation,” as well as an invitation to shared governance. https://opentextbooks.library.arizona.edu/humansrsocialmedia/
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Blood in the Machine
Just laid down a Bluesky thread on Brian Merchant’s Blood in the Machine, tech imaginaries, and cooperative history: https://bsky.app/profile/ntnsndr.in/post/3ktg5vrluac2z
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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/
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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
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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/
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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)