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- 05:23, 11 October 2025 Two Invisible Hands of Adam Smith (hist | edit) [6,042 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= O.G. Rose: "In Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, the emphasis is on a “high order” coordination that spreads ethics and empathy, whereas in The Wealth of Nations, Smith is using the same metaphor to describe what we more commonly today understand “the invisible hand” to be describing: ‘As every individual, therefore, endeavors as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestic industry, and so to direct that industry th...")
- 05:20, 11 October 2025 Hikikomorism (hist | edit) [1,117 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= O.G. Rose: "“Hikikomorism” refers to the growing trend of people who rarely leave their apartments or homes, except maybe here and there for food and basic necessities (which can increasingly be delivered). The social phenomenon was first noted in Japan, mostly with young men who basically gave up on society, family, and career. Japan is notoriously a “shame culture,” and those who fail to excel in school and work can be made to feel absolutely...")
- 04:58, 11 October 2025 Towards an Archipelago of Regenerative Places (hist | edit) [12,969 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Text= Michel Bauwens, October 2025: Towards an Archipelago of Regenerative Places? What does the third-place in Court-Saint-Etienne represent? What is the context that makes this project something which is not only anchored in a specific place, but also transcends it? The context is indeed a kind of general crisis of the societal model that is the product of Western modernity, and which has been adopted worldwide. But this model has reached its limits, and its 'in...")
- 03:46, 11 October 2025 Brett Scott on Resisting the Cashless Society (hist | edit) [318 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Video via https://www.asomo.co/p/why-you-should-resist-cashless-society "In a cashless society you’re permanently fused to Big Finance and Big Tech with no way to escape. In this video I give 10 reasons for why that’s a bad way to arrange our economy and our society." Category:Webcasts Category:Money ")
- 03:39, 11 October 2025 Uniswap (hist | edit) [1,990 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= Blockchain for Good: "Uniswap is a protocol with two functions: a DEX* (Decentralized Exchange) and an AMM (Automated Market Maker). A DEX allows users to exchange their crypto-assets for other crypto-assets, for example exchange CICs for Sarafus. To do this, Uniswap relies on “liquidity providers” who deposit crypto-assets in reserves, being remunerated for this through transaction fees levied on traders, those who exchange crypto-assets (their amo...")
- 03:29, 11 October 2025 Crypto-Economic Aspects of the Sarafu Kenyan-Based Grassroots Economics Project (hist | edit) [4,655 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= ==Crypto-Economic Aspects of the Sarafu Kenyan-Based Grassroots Economics Project== Excerpted from an interview with Blockchain for Good. Will Ruddick: "While Grassroots’ technology is built on a blockchain, it is important to note that the people using the CICs do not know that they are using this technology. Indeed, the user interface has been designed to be easy to learn. The wallet used by Grassroots Economics is a custodial wallet, meaning th...")
- 03:29, 11 October 2025 Community Inclusion Currencies (hist | edit) [6,179 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= Will Ruddick: "The CICs represent a form of reappropriation by the communities of their medium of exchange. Indeed, some Kenyan villages are completely deprived of monetary instruments during periods of economic crisis. This is due to the colonial implementation of money, which has left many of these communities completely deprived of money during these times. To solve this problem, we have developed electronic vouchers collateralized on goods and servic...")
- 13:36, 10 October 2025 Benjamin Studebaker, Michel Bauwens and O.G. Rose on the Revolutionary Subject in the Current Transition (hist | edit) [783 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSm6hTytv_M =Description= Hosted by Tim Adalin of Voicecraft: "What are the prospects of social and political revolution? How can we understand revolutionary subjectivity today? Who, what, when, and where is the revolutionary subject? Inspired by a Philosophy Portal conversation between Cadell Last and Michel Bauwens, this dialogue welcomes political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, philosopher O.G. Rose, and Commons / Civilisat...")
- 09:04, 10 October 2025 Data Science as Machinic Neoplatonism (hist | edit) [1,093 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''* Dialogue with Tim Jackson about Dan McQuillan's Critique of Data Science as "Machinic Platonism"''' Video via https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-participatory-platonism =Description= Matthew Segal: "Timothy Jackson and I discussed Dan McQuillan’s article “Data Science as Machinic Neoplatonism” (2018). McQuillan should be praised for his prescience in acknowledging the dangerous potentials of algorithmic discrimination and the evasion o...")
- 08:57, 10 October 2025 Civilizational White Holes (hist | edit) [1,382 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= Will Ruddick: "In Buddhist tradition, a Bodhisattva is one who attains awakening but chooses to remain … to assist all beings in reaching liberation. In this cosmic-evolutionary light, the Bodhisattva is like a conscious agent at the event horizon … hovering between black hole collapse and white hole emergence. They carry the memory of the past (black hole) and seed the conditions for awakening (white hole). The Bodhisattva enters the black holes...")
- 08:56, 10 October 2025 White Holes (hist | edit) [1,506 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " * see also: Civilizational White Holes =Description= Will Ruddick explains: "Across the curvature of spacetime, there are regions where the known laws of physics bend toward mystery. Black holes: the endpoints of stellar collapse, where information compresses beyond the limits of imagination. But what if this isn’t the end? What if on the other side of that collapse, something new begins? Physicists have long speculated about white holes.. the time-reversed...")
- 08:03, 10 October 2025 Tokenomic Automatons (hist | edit) [841 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= Will Ruddick: "Overly automated token contracts that try to manage value and behavior by formula instead of stewardship. They move numbers without reading context, often creating overload, artificial complexity and centralization rather than emergent, relational coordination. Simple, human protocols create clarity; over-engineered tokenomics create fog. Demurrage on a voucher, much like bonding curves, proved too automated for how communities actually c...")
- 07:47, 10 October 2025 Kuznets Cycle (hist | edit) [1,599 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''= The Kuznets 'Swing' is a 15-20 year hypothized economic cycle''' =Description= From the Wikipedia: "The Kuznets swing (or Kuznets cycle) is a claimed medium-range economic wave with a period of 15–25 years identified in 1930 by Simon Kuznets. Kuznets connected these waves with demographic processes, in particular with immigrant inflows/outflows and the changes in construction intensity that they caused, that is why he denoted them as "demographic" or "building...")
- 16:18, 9 October 2025 Jose Luis Vivero Pol on Treating Food as a Commons (hist | edit) [4,768 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Podcast via https://david-bollier.simplecast.com/episodes/jose-luis-vivero-pol-treating-food-as-commons-not-commodites =Description= David Bollier: “How is it possible that extreme hunger and food abundance coexist in today's world? Why is it that food, one of the most fundamental necessities of life, is so scarce for so many people even though the global food system produces so much and wastes so much? These questions have long bothered Jose Luis Vivero Pol, an a...")
- 16:16, 9 October 2025 Communal Individuation (hist | edit) [2,319 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Directory= (info below likely produced by ChatGPT) '''* Thinkers Who’ve Moved Jung Toward Communal Contexts''' "Several theorists and practitioners have attempted to bridge Jung’s individualism with collective frameworks: ==1. James Hillman & Archetypal Psychology== Communal Shift: Hillman, a post-Jungian, critiqued Jung’s focus on the individual’s "inner work" and argued for a soul-centric approach tied to culture, ecology, and community. Key Idea:...")
- 15:40, 9 October 2025 Urban Ecology Labs in Shanghai (hist | edit) [1,705 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " URL = ecology.shanghai-visual.org =Description= John Thackara: “In the Ecology and Cultures Innovation Lab at Tongji University in Shanghai, researchers promote the ecological literacy of citizens, and community-scale ecological participation, in ways that support the emergence of Ecological Civilisation in Chinese cities The work begins to enable action at a local level that meets national commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity. Strengthening fo...")
- 06:48, 9 October 2025 Indigenous Insights for Planetary Health and Sustainable Food Systems (hist | edit) [1,071 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''* Book: Indigenous Insights for Planetary Health and Sustainable Food Systems. Learning from International Case Studies. By Shailesh Shukla, Priscilla Settee, Noa Kekuewa Lincoln.''' URL = https://canadianscholars.ca/book/indigenous-insights-for-planetary-health-and-sustainable-food-systems/ =Description= "Cultivating new partnerships with scholars, community organizations, and grassroots practitioners across the globe, this follow-up volume (to 'Indigenous Food...")
- 16:40, 8 October 2025 Oxford Bibliography on Food as Commons (hist | edit) [4,992 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''* Bibliography: Food as a Commons. By Jean-Marc Louvin. Food Studies / Oxford Bibliographies.''' URL = https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780197764381/obo-9780197764381-0050.xml =Description= Excerpted from the introduction and ‘general overview’: “Food as a commons is a new narrative around food and food systems. It is a new way of framing the production, distribution, consumption, and post-consumption of food anchored in the idea...")
- 16:27, 8 October 2025 IConscious Model (hist | edit) [673 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Video: The iConscious Model and the Myths of Enlightenment w/ Ted Strauss URL = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjTQRbXS6No =Description= "iConscious, a groundbreaking framework for accelerating human potential. In this event, we’ll explore how consciousness development can be mapped, measured, and cultivated, both individually and collectively. Drawing from decades of research in psychology, spirituality, and systems theory, Ted will share insights into the iConsc...")
- 16:24, 8 October 2025 Transitioning to Post-Growth Cities (hist | edit) [1,204 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''* Article: Transitioning to Post-Growth Cities. By Angelos Varvarousis, Giorgos Kallis, and Maria Kaika. Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy, V 1 N 1''' URL = https://utppublishing.com/doi/pdf/10.3138/jccpe-2025-0006 =ABSTRACT= “Cities around the world depend on growth, but such growth has become, to use Herman Daly’s term, uneconomic—the costs of growth, within and beyond the cities’ boundaries, far exceed the benefits. Post-growth cities are citi...")
- 04:58, 7 October 2025 Terricide (hist | edit) [603 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= Carlos Tornel: “Following Mapuche thinker and defender Moira Millan, call a “terricide” – the systematic destruction of life through extractivism – these struggles are not only about rights or identity. They are about defending the very conditions for existence and opening space for a future built from the ground up, in relationship with others, human and more-than-human alike.” (https://berlinergazette.de/pluriversal-territories-reclaiming-...")
- 04:56, 7 October 2025 Epistemic Extractivism (hist | edit) [2,108 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= Carlos Tornel: “As Ivan Illich once warned, powerful ideas can be hollowed out and turned into “plastic words” –flexible, fashionable terms that lose their original force. The pluriverse risks becoming one of them. Originally rooted in deep critiques of development, colonialism, and modernity, the concept has been increasingly absorbed into Global North academic discourse in ways that dilute its radical edge. This process, sometimes called episte...")
- 04:54, 7 October 2025 Insurgent Universalism (hist | edit) [812 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= Carlos Tornel: “We need to return to what Japhy Wilson calls “insurgent universality” – a shared struggle that doesn’t erase difference but builds on it. This isn’t about relativism or vague pluralism, but about confronting the systems that deny the existence of other worlds. It means seeing the pluriverse not as a collage of cultures, but as a convergence of struggles that interrupt the dominant order. If the pluriverse is to remain a force...")
- 04:51, 7 October 2025 Vitalik Buterin on Mitigating AI (hist | edit) [3,793 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= Vitalik Buterin: “Slowing down superintelligent AI is still good. It's less risky if superintelligent AI comes in 10 years than in 3 years, and it's even less risky if it comes in 30 years. Giving our civilization more time to prepare is good. How to do this is a challenging question. I think it's generally good that the proposed 10 year ban on state-level AI regulation in the US was rejected, but, especially after the failure of earlier proposals like...")
- 04:45, 7 October 2025 Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms (hist | edit) [1,356 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''* Book: The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics And The Empire of Norms,” Olivier Roy''' =Discussion= Nathan Gardels: "Olivier Roy traces the origins of today’s pushback in the West to the ethos of the “desiring individual” that arose with the youth rebellion of the 1960s. That ethos, which sought liberation from the staid shackles of historically inherited and dominant traditions, coursed through all aspects of society over its long march through establ...")
- 04:40, 7 October 2025 Search for Unconventional Terrestrial Intelligence (hist | edit) [1,936 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= Mike Levin: "SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, is one of those scientific endeavors that not only would have enormous impacts if it were to succeed, but is fascinating in itself, regardless of whether anything is found. Embarking on the search for alien life forces us to ask fundamental questions in science and philosophy. What exactly are we looking for – how do we know if we’ve found it? What is intelligence, defined broadly enoug...")
- 03:32, 7 October 2025 Hyperhumanism (hist | edit) [9,591 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''= "a counterpoint to transhumanism. Instead of outsourcing our intelligence to machines, hyperhumanism asks us to reclaim the innate capacities of the human body, imagination, and relational field".''' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO01BVw1Ls8] =More information= * Video: Carl Hayden Smith on Hyperhumanism Category:Webcasts Category:Movements Category:P2P Futures ")
- 03:30, 7 October 2025 Carl Hayden Smith on Hyperhumanism (hist | edit) [3,008 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO01BVw1Ls8 =Description= Rudy De Waele: "Carl introduces hyperhumanism as a counterpoint to transhumanism. Instead of outsourcing our intelligence to machines, hyperhumanism asks us to reclaim the innate capacities of the human body, imagination, and relational field. He reminds us: we may not yet be fully human. The task is not optimisation, but slowing down, listening deeply, and inhabiting our natural limits with gr...")
- 08:00, 6 October 2025 Charles Marohn on the U.S. Strong Towns Movement (hist | edit) [440 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7FnbCShBKc =Description= "America was a place of untold wealth in the post-war period. But today, many small towns are faltering and facing financial collapse. In this podcast, Strong Towns founder and president Charles Marohn sits down with Marc Barnes and Jacob Hyman to discuss how this collapse came about, and how to rebuild the small town." Category:Webcasts Category:Urbanism ")
- 02:17, 5 October 2025 Informational Theory of the New Authoritarianism (hist | edit) [1,132 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''* Article: How Modern Dictators Survive: An Informational Theory of the New Authoritarianism. By Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman.''' URL = https://eui.eu/Documents/DepartmentsCentres/Economics/Seminarsevents/Guriev-Micro.pdf =Description= "We develop an informational theory of dictatorship. Dictators survive not because of their use of force or ideology but because they convince the public—rightly or wrongly—that they are competent. Citizens do not observe...")
- 09:46, 4 October 2025 Staking (hist | edit) [891 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= Blockchain for Good: "Staking involves a user immobilizing and locking tokens in a smart contract. The protocol randomly assigns one of the participants the right to validate a block of transactions and receive a token reward. The "proof-of-stake" mechanism encourages users to lock up their tokens, as the probability of being chosen to validate a block of transactions is proportional to the number of tokens locked. The more tokens a user has locked, the...")
- 09:37, 4 October 2025 Crypto-Economic Aspects of the EthicHub Financing Model (hist | edit) [3,801 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Interview= ==The Crypto-Economic Aspects of the EthicHub Financing Model== From an interview of Blockchain for Good with the founder, Jori Armbruster. Translated from the French. * "BfG: '''Let's start with the stablecoin* lending solution you are developing. How do the farmers convert the xDAI into their local currency?''' JA: For conversions, we rely on established exchange platforms. For example, in Mexico, it's [https://bitso.com/ Bitso]. The farmer coopera...")
- 09:18, 4 October 2025 Plural Community (hist | edit) [3,027 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= Paul Mueller: "The plural community, seems the most attractive to classical liberals—though also to many conservatives. It shares the ecological community’s deep suspicion and dislike of centralized political power and sovereignty. It advocates voluntary associations and intermediate institutions both to preserve tradition and to protect individual liberty. Yet the kind of liberty pluralists concern themselves with is very different from how advocate...")
- 09:17, 4 October 2025 Robert Nisbet's Typology of Societal Communities (hist | edit) [590 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Typology= * Plural Community * Revolutionary, cfr Robert Nisbet on the Tragic Aspects of Revolutionary Communities as Civilizational Forms * Religious, see: Robert Nisbet on How the Religious Community and Civilizational Form Differs from the Political and the Military Form * Military: ** Feudalism as a Militaristic Community ** Robert Nisbet on the Military-Civilizational Transition in Ancient Rome ** Robert Nisbet on the Milit...")
- 09:06, 4 October 2025 Public AI Intelligence (hist | edit) [1,936 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= Kevin Kelly: "Imagine 50 years from now a Public Intelligence that was a distributed, open-source, non-commercial artificial intelligence, operated like the internet, and available to the whole world. This public AI would be a federated system, not owned by any one entity, but powered by millions of participants to create an aggregate intelligence beyond what one host could offer. Public intelligence could be thought of as an inter-intelligence, an AI co...")
- 12:09, 3 October 2025 OpenxAI Network (hist | edit) [680 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " URL = http://openxai.org "OpenxAI is '''a P2P permissionless AI protocol'''. What Bitcoin did for money, OpenxAI does for intelligence. Anyone anywhere can launch own and monetize AI apps agents and services fully on chain. No banks. No corporations. No gatekeepers. Intelligence becomes open sovereign unstoppable and GPU compute turns liquid with tokenized credits (tGPU). Built by core contributors from Fantom, Solana, ICP, Binance, NEAR, and AragonDAO, OpenxAI runs e...")
- 12:09, 3 October 2025 P2P Permissionless AI Protocol (hist | edit) [67 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " * See: OpenxAI Network Category:Protocols and Algorithms ")
- 22:01, 2 October 2025 Robert Nisbet on the Tragic Aspects of Revolutionary Communities as Civilizational Forms (hist | edit) [3,183 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= Paul Mueller: "the Revolutionary community. Though derivative, in a sense, of all three major types of community (Military, Political, and Religious), the revolutionary community has demonstrated incredible influence. From the French Revolution to the major communist revolutions of the twentieth century to the cultural Marxism and critical race theory of the twenty-first century, the revolutionary community is a force to be reckoned with. Nisbet does an...")
- 21:59, 2 October 2025 Robert Nisbet on How the Religious Community and Civilizational Form Differs from the Political and the Military Form (hist | edit) [2,569 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= Paul Mueller: "The third major form of community contrasts with the first two. Christianity and the religious community have profoundly shaped western culture. Nisbet focuses on how subversive universal religions like Christianity are. Jesus demands complete obedience—even to the sacrificing of relationship with father, mother, sister, or brother. One’s relationship with Christ becomes the primary identity and the community of faith takes precedence o...")
- 21:55, 2 October 2025 Feudalism as a Militaristic Community (hist | edit) [1,507 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= Paul Mueller: "Feudalism also developed as a kind of militaristic community. It was concerns about military order and community that captivated the attention of Machiavelli(1469–1527 AD). He was fascinated by the role of war and war-making in the state. Similarly, Grotius (1583–1645 AD) wrote his monumental works about international law and rights through the prism of just and unjust warfare. In fact, warfare seems remarkably prevalent in western Euro...")
- 21:53, 2 October 2025 Robert Nisbet on the Military-Civilizational Transition in Ancient Rome (hist | edit) [1,717 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= Paul Mueller: "Nisbet tells a similar story about the transition from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire. Pressures from war were the crucible that forged Roman society into a military community. And the process was remarkably similar to what had occurred in Athens. In Rome, the idea of the “patria potestas” dominated during the Republic. Fathers were priest and king of the family. Families were their own religious and political communities. Every...")
- 21:51, 2 October 2025 Robert Nisbet on the Military-Civilizational Transition in Ancient Greece (hist | edit) [2,894 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= Paul Mueller: "The three primary forms of community are the Military, the Political, and the Religious. More recent organizing forms of community are the Revolutionary, the Ecological, and the Plural communities. Each community emerges through conflict with other forms of community. All of them represent departures from what we might call the “original” human community of kinship. The military community powerfully competes with the community built ar...")
- 21:38, 2 October 2025 Vocdoni (hist | edit) [4,149 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= Ferran Reyes: "Vocdoni is a decentralized, censorship-resistant and transparent digital voting system. The idea of building Vocdoni was conceived informally among crypto enthusiasts, cryptographers, and distributed systems experts stunned by the effectiveness of the censorship over the 2017 Catalan referendum. This group’s goal was to develop a decentralized governance system that would bypass any form of censorship anywhere in the world, similar to w...")
- 21:33, 2 October 2025 Decentralized, Censorship-Resistant Digital Voting System (hist | edit) [82 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Example= * Vocdoni Category:Democracy Category:Crypto Governance ")
- 01:37, 2 October 2025 Big Asia (hist | edit) [1,733 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''* Article: Nile Green, Big Asia: Rethinking a Region, The American Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 2, June 2025, Pages 646–651,''' URL = https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaf178 =Description= "In recent years, after decades of increasing specialization, new approaches have emerged in Asian studies that focus on larger units of analysis. Some are predicated on transnational or transimperial spaces, whether based around language (the “Persianate world” and...")
- 12:14, 1 October 2025 Vietnam's Policy on AI Sovereignty (hist | edit) [995 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Nathan Gardels: Vietnam is claiming 'AI Sovereignty': "Who gets to define the terms of intelligence itself? The stakes are stack-level choices — black-box dependence or modular improvisation; opacity or legibility; someone else’s roadmap or a sovereign design of your own … The decision is the difference between consuming intelligence as a service and composing it as an act of sovereignty. One rents a mind, the other trains its own in the wild. “This is, in...")
- 12:13, 1 October 2025 Civilizational AI (hist | edit) [2,139 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= Nathan Gardels: .. on Kai-Fu Lee on Civilizational AI. "LLMs will indeed carry the imprint of cultural-political values, he posited, not only in China, but everywhere. Different cultural zones with different values will censor different things. While the Chinese state might censor any criticism of the Party, in the West there is a kind of culturally driven “woke” or “anti-woke” censorship over sensitive speech on race and gender. In the Islamic w...")
- 08:46, 30 September 2025 Long Cycle of Global Politics and the Nation-State (hist | edit) [7,283 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''* Article: The Long Cycle of Global Politics and the Nation-State. George Modelski. Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 20, No. 2, Varieties of Modernization (Apr., 1978), pp. 214-235''' URL = https://www.jstor.org/stable/178047 Category:P2P Cycles Category:P2P State Approaches Category:Articles ")
- 08:35, 30 September 2025 Patio Community (hist | edit) [615 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''= "we are tech cooperatives from all over the world."''' URL = https://patio.coop =Description= "We are a global community of worker cooperatives, specialized in the development of digital technology, communication and design, located in 19 different countries (and growing), working on projects with an international scope. This translates into the permanent possibility of scaling the team to work on projects of dimensions that require it. It also allows us to ass...")
- 21:13, 28 September 2025 Universal Basic Capital (hist | edit) [1,121 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= Nathan Gardels: "Digital capitalism that are increasingly divorcing employment and income from productivity growth and wealth creation, generating an ever-accelerating gap between those who “own the robots” and those who labor for their livelihood. Policies that respond to this challenge would foster an ownership share for all in the wealth generated by intelligent machines that are diminishing or displacing gainful employment. The aim is to enhanc...")