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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.
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Radio interview on TikTok and privacy
This week I returned to Counterpoint, a great listener-supported syndicated radio show, to talk about the proposed TikTok ban—and why Congress is approaching tech regulation backwards: https://btlonline.org/proposed-congressional-tiktok-ban-ignores-larger-issue-of-consumer-data-privacy/
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Against “gender ideology”
The Vatican has just reaffirmed its hostility toward so-called “gender ideology.” I recently wrote in the magazine of the pope’s Jesuit order that this posture is a dangerous failure of imagination: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2023/11/16/gender-ideology-catholic-246515
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On the Tech Policy Press podcast
Thanks to Justin Hendrix of Tech Policy Press for a fun conversation on #GovernableSpaces: https://www.techpolicy.press/nathan-schneider-on-democratic-design-for-online-life/ While you’re there, check out Janet Vertesi’s great new piece on TPP on how AI is a shorthand for outsourcing: https://www.techpolicy.press/dont-be-fooled-much-ai-is-just-outsourcing-redux/