TODAY IS THE DAY. Allow me to introduce you to my new book, "Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life" (w/ beautiful illustrations). It's about democracy in our everyday internet-lives. And it's FREE to the internet from @ucpress:

RT @BlockchainGov: Article of E2C week is this roadmap on how to E2C from the archives; written in 2021 by @MannanMorshed & @ntnsndr it's r….

RT @Paul_Glavin: 2019: . "people should use web3 to build platforms that are owned by their users" -@ntnsndr….

Great thread introducing the idea of Exit to Community!.

RT @JamesMartinSJ: The Works of Mercy and the Works of War,.by Rita Corbin (1930-2011).

RT @bbeats1: The Grant Innovation Lab (GIL) at @metagov_project is planning a virtual grant conference we're calling the 2025 Grant Summit….

For those interested in tooling for online self-governance, I can't recommend enough this post-mortem on the brilliant Ize project by @tysullberg:

RT @0xfw3: Stoked to welcome @ntnsndr and @crystaldstreet July 15 for a special FW3 fireside: Gods in the Machine, Commons in the Soil. A….

RT @matthewschmitz: Adina Glickstein was drawn to Urbit’s promises of decentralization and freedom. But she found it was something very dif….

What could enable economic democracy at scale? At the @DemocracyPolicy, Júlia Martins Rodrigues and I have a new report on lessons for state-level policy, based on experience from Colorado to Brazil:

Last week, I was granted tenure by my university. This moment, combined with the terrorist attack in Boulder, has had me thinking about the limits of what is unspeakable today, especially around the word “antisemitism.”

Just out from the @SSIReview —my essay on Sarah Schulman's book on solidarity. Why that word matters so desperately right now, and why it is not the same as allyship:

19th-century Catholic teachings, 21st-century tech: How concerns about AI guided Pope Leo’s choice of name Or, how ideas the last Gilded Age can fix the current one.

RT @BlockchainGov: "Religions have brought down empires before. Networks have reshaped the world before. Sovereign networks native to the i….

Just published in @americamag—we need a politics that resists the aspirations of "god mode" sysadmins:

RT @JamesMartinSJ: Vicar of Christ

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BTW, it was nice to pass you the other day on campus:).

I recommend that @DouthatNYT take a look at the recent Vatican statement on AI—which I have repeatedly heard praised by secular AI devs:

Remember that you are dust, and to dust you will return.

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