Given the recent data breach and Coinbase’s user agreement that aims to force customers into arbitration rather than individual or class action lawsuits, it’s interesting to read the outcome of a recent arbitration case against Coinbase.

Shame. $Trump is both a violation of the emoluments clause and an open auction for regulatory capture. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

We are grappling with many tensions today: money/voting, public/private, democratic/corporate, voice/exit.

Here’s my draft to reconcile them.

🚀 Community Currencies: The Price of Attention & Cost of Influence or 💡 The Price of Entry & Cost of Exit

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Since AI x crypto agents seem poised to take over the world, I’m throwing this *draft* into the wild for public comment, critique, and ridicule:

🚀 Community Currencies: The Price of Attention & Cost of Influence ---or--- 💡 The Price of Entry & Cost of Exit

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Is it possible some black holes are just failed AIs?

The plural/quadratic research agenda (of which I'm familiar through collaboration with @pujaohlhaver.bsky.social) has some resonance with this challenge imho: youtu.be/guLDNMAOn24

Most people still don’t understand that decentralization is a political innovation.

It requires acknowledging the people that stand between the 0s and 1s.

Had a big eureka moment today—-the kind where the universe seems to fall elegantly into place and mysteries are no longer mysterious, but ordered complexity.

Then I realized I had the same eureka a year ago and just entirely forgot about it.

Not sure how I should feel about it.

Adverse selection is centralizing. Most people don’t get that.

1. I saw a lot of people on Bluesky yesterday poking fun at Lindsay Graham saying that the U.S. would use financial sanctions to "crush" the economies of allies who tried to help the ICC. Graham is characteristically grotesque in his language, but I'm not laughing myself.

Son just asked me if anything is faster than the speed of light?

Snap response: love.

Hate externalizes high entropy, releasing unprocessed chaos into the world.

Love absorbs entropy, integrating chaos into coherence.

That's why the greatest stories are always about love.

I had to interview a crying mom talking about her dead son for this story, so it would be nice if it got read reason.com/2024/11/19/t...

How do you negotiate with someone who feels that any compromise with you risks infinity?

after forcing election administrators to become misinformation experts, after forcing doctors to become misinformation experts, after forcing federal law enforcement officials to become misinformation experts...

This is maybe my favorite passage in the book.

How can social media generate more common knowledge?

Check out my blogpost (written in the context of X but applicable to Bluesky!)

"Common Knowledge Machines:
From Community Notes to Community Posts"

Why the late James Scott's work helps explain Silicon Valley www.programmablemutter.com/p/high-moder...