Some advice from those experienced in fighting authoritarian takeovers..

Next Tuesday I'll be in a dialogue on Dark Personalities, with researcher Sharon Albuerne and moderator @csageland from @socialroots_io. We'll talk science + practical approaches for designing governance resilient to these dynamics. Register here: https://t.co/8qhII6Ewxa

An upcoming important NYC event on 'Comparative Authoritarianisms' with my good friend Julia Sonnevend: https://t.co/aoPNMSVrFC And an image that well encapsulates the problem - and good advice: DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE

The Decentralization Research Center and Project Liberty Institute present an initial report introducing data cooperatives as a model that could enable individuals and communities to have a voice, choice, and stake in the digital economy:

And this is why this Twitter exodus bothers me so much. At the time, @d1gi described this fake news ecosystem to me as a living organism growing, mestasizing. ‘Are you saying the internet has cancer?’ I asked him? ‘Yes,’ he replied. 2/ https://t.co/ahAXDhehaA

Repinning this to my profile

you think that's democracy you're breathing now?

i think we’re like 6 months to a year away from the right remembering they don’t like free speech, actually

If you're not feeling this place anymore, there are great alternatives! Come join me: https://t.co/ehTA0WaQ3l on Mastodon https://t.co/4kTviQLptr on Bluesky

Also slavery never stopped. 1) we buy stuff made by slave labour in other countries all the time without knowing it 2) America has 1.8 million people in prison many of them working jobs for corporations So yeah maybe we should be freaking out about slavery again.

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👇Democracy in the backlog

(7/8) To sum up — flow occurs when these specific conditions align: • The challenge slightly exceeds your current skill level • You have clear goals and immediate feedback • The task requires your complete attention • There are real consequences for failure • You're fully

Texas! Get out and VOTE!

The Collective Intelligence Project has been doing incredible work lately with bringing democratic practices to AI, incl. w/ OpenAI and Anthropic. I've joined them to take this work one step further: bringing democracy into companies themselves. Read here: ...

We're hiring a Digital Security Trainer to help facilitate security trainings with journalists, write educational materials, and more. New York-based applicants are encouraged to apply but strong U.S.-based remote candidates will also be considered. https://t.co/UuEanj5asp

they let me write the headline

This is trying to burn all the libraries on the planet, on a whim. Talk with your friends and support @internetarchive in whatever way you can. #librarian #libraries

What we know: DDOS attack–fended off for now; defacement of our website via JS library; breach of usernames/email/salted-encrypted passwords. What we’ve done: Disabled the JS library, scrubbing systems, upgrading security. Will share more as we know it.

A #songofcomfort for anyone who needs it.

@Collett45193711 Samaritan's Purse is doing great work coordinating volunteer cleanup crews. Can donate either money or time