“Friction can happen not only when things break, it can also be intentional to prevent things from breaking. What if we could make the safe things easier (less friction) and the high-risk things harder (more friction)?”

Check out this new series by Bogdana Rakova! 👀

I got to sit down with Bogdana Rakova and discuss friction, fiction, solarpunk, nomadism, and digital human rights- read the interview here

#solarpunk #nomadism #nomadpunk

speculativefriction.substack.com/p/collective...

I was interviewed by Bogdana Rakova about my generative AI research—why I embrace glitch, mess + failure as tools for learning. From origami-code mashups to the Slopocene, we explore playful, critical ways of rethinking creativity + AI literacy. open.substack.com/pub/speculat...

I have a really fun fact to make ur day😅

The small island nation of Anguilla owns the .ai domain, and since 2022 has been making millions (about $3M per month) in revenue from domain registrations🤑

This accounts for over 20% of its total government revenue ‼️

#FreeOurFeeds

Help us free social media from billionaires

gofund.me/7eb99408

What if your digital artwork could take on new life by inviting community participation?

Metagov’s new Governable Space-Makers Fellowship will support you in exploring collaborative governance for online creative work, with $8K in funding 🧬

Open Call drops tomorrow—stay posted for details.

Peer-reviewed paper on Morality in the Media (NCOSE) highlights how they misrepresented science for their religious activism against pornography✨ (Post credit: Nicole Prause) #endthestigma #sexworkiswork #sexworkersrights

Newsletter Droppp!!!🗞️

"Governance Games and Tool Experimentation in the Metagov Community" by @yogival.bsky.social

metagov.substack.com/p/governance...

"Perhaps one of the greatest contributions that the blockchain and DAO technology can make to the wellbeing of the planet is to enable the effective scaling and distribution of the commons as an alternate option to market-based or government-based solutions at a scale heretofore never achievable."

To address bias and discrimination in AI, we need to address the bias and discrimination in the tech funding landscape...

www.businessinsider.com/women-left-o...

Today's reads🤔☕️ "Most things are not pure public goods: they are some hybrid in the middle.."

Learning about the revenue-evil curve as a way to compare public goods projects and rank them in order to prioritize funding /subsidies for them.

https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/10/28/revenue_evil.html

Thank you New Public for including Lips in this list ❣️🌈✨

The future of social media is already here - come to Lips (lips.social) to express yourself & experience joy of an inclusive, affirming community.

Already receiving awesome feedback on my framework for mapping DWeb projects...

Here's an alternative map from the "tech stack" one I originally presented (in my Substack):

Thoughts??

I have been a dedicated researcher within the “responsible technology” movement for a few years now, but I have never felt so invested in a group of people and projects before DWeb Camp. @dweb.bsky.social @archive.org

Read my latest✨👩🏽‍💻

“The truth is that mutual aid funds–whether they are for bail, disaster relief, abortion, or gender-affirming care–have operated in a decentralized manner for a very long time. Emerging tech projects have a lot to learn from them.” - Lia Holland from Fight to the Future about Dweb Camp 🙌🏽🔥

Origins of participatory design:
"Today, this method is widely used in tech to improve marketability/usability of products, but the originators of PD had explicitly political intentions: to collaborate w/ unions & bolster unions’ power in their fight against tech-enabled exploitation by management."