Category: Posts
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“If words wept, this screen would be leaking.
“If words wept, this screen would be leaking.” My colleague Nabil Echchaibi on Gaza and the unspeakable in Social Text: https://socialtextjournal.org/periscope_article/this-is-a-scream-and-i-dare-you-to-publish-it/
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Social media elimination fantasies
It is striking that a plurality of my students’ homework this week involves fantasies of abruptly ending social media. The assignment was to plot a world takeover.
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Snow fort
Take this, NIMBYs.
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Assumptions in code
When you try to write code that breaks prevailing assumptions, you realize just how deeply embedded those assumptions are. Here’s a bit from #GovernableSpaces on one of my attempts to code my way out of “implicit feudalism.” Get the book: ntnsndr.in/govbook
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“What if democracy is not what we are after but the path to something else?”
Zizi Papacharissi in #GovernableSpaces. Read it now: https://www.lelandquarterly.com/govbook/
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Governable Spaces on KGNU radio
“Democracy is in crisis – and what is missing from the conversation is the crisis of democracy of everyday life online.” I’m proud as always to be featured on KGNU, Boulder’s community radio station: https://kgnu.org/shows/connections/03-08-2024
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A trust for Reddit user shareholders
Is anyone setting up a means for Reddit users to aggregate the stock voting power many will be receiving through an entity that can act in users’ interests? Consider the concept of “user trusts”: https://mediarxiv.org/sytdv
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Toward syndication
I’m starting to move back to the old way: making posts over at www.lelandquarterly.com, syndicating them on social. Hello, world. Wish me luck.https://indieweb.org/POSSEhttps://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202403091817
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The only important cause of the Colorado fires is not a mystery
Imagine if a group of foreign conspirators, by piloting a humming drone armada, dropped incendiary bombs on an American neighborhood. Somewhere between 500 and 1000 homes were destroyed. The smoke plumed over a major city, and flames threatened to stir up the radioactive particles in the soil of a nearby retired nuclear facility. Thousands of…
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“We need to reinvent the co-op”
Originally published by Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice in a series on “Cooperatives and Religious Communities.” When I discovered that the hardware company my grandfather ran at the end of his career was a cooperative, my uncle sent me an email with a single image: the New York Times photo of…