Category: Posts
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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
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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
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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.
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Bitcoin Halving
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/
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A day for Palestine
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.”
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“YouTube philosophers”
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
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Social cooperative academy
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/
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Governable Spaces online book launch now online
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
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Happy Feast of St. Drogo
From St. Drogo’s coffee shop in Boulder.
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On the Techdirt podcast
Just saw this—my #GovernableSpaces interview with the great theorist and journalist of technology Mike Masnick is up and out on the Techdirt Podcast: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/09/techdirt-podcast-episode-386-democratic-design-for-online-spaces/ I hugely admire Mike’s grounded thinking on protocols and decentralization. This was a really fun conversation.