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4 March 2025
- 06:1106:11, 4 March 2025 diff hist +10,816 N Black Conservatism as a Reaction to the Failures of the Civil Rights Movement Created page with " =Discussion= Charles McKelvey: "In my work in writing my Substack commentaries, I have come across various black conservative thinkers, whose work I have discussed in various posts. John McWhorter, professor of linguistics at Columbia University, for example, has criticized the anti-racist ideology of Ibram Kendi for assuming that all racial inequalities are due to racism, when in fact certain cultural tendencies in black society are explanatory factors, as is evident..."
- 06:1006:10, 4 March 2025 diff hist +10,824 Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics No edit summary current
3 March 2025
- 15:0415:04, 3 March 2025 diff hist +10,741 N Books about the History of Views on Inequality Created page with " '''* Books:''' 1) "'''My Visions of Inequality'''. By Branko Milanovic. was published in October 2023, 2) Darrin McMahon. '''Equality: An Elusive Idea''' was published a month later and 3) '''David Lay Williams’s The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx''' was published in September 2024." =Review= Branko Milanovic: "The three books take different approaches to the study of inequality throughout history...." current
- 15:0315:03, 3 March 2025 diff hist +10,718 Inequality No edit summary current
- 14:4814:48, 3 March 2025 diff hist +616 N Regen Commons Created page with "'''= "decentralized brand and IP commons designed to nurture & grow the Regen identity across Web3, ensuring it remains a public good while aligning shared incentives".''' URL = https://regencommons.com/ =Description= "Regen Commons is dedicated to promoting regenerative practices that restore ecosystems, build community resilience, and create sustainable economic models. Our mission is to connect people, projects, and resources to accelerate the transition to a reg..." current
- 14:3714:37, 3 March 2025 diff hist +1,267 Liquidity-Saving through Obligation-Clearing and Mutual Credit No edit summary current
- 14:3414:34, 3 March 2025 diff hist +41 Liquidity-Saving through Obligation-Clearing and Mutual Credit No edit summary
- 14:3314:33, 3 March 2025 diff hist +2,352 N Liquidity-Saving through Obligation-Clearing and Mutual Credit Created page with "'''* Paper: Tomaž Fleischman, Paolo Dini, and Giuseppe Littera; Liquidity-Saving through Obligation-Clearing and Mutual Credit: An Effective Monetary Innovation for SMEs in Times of Crisis''' URL = =Discussion= Dil Green: "It was as if someone had turned the lights on. It turns out that, unbeknown to most, a significant body of technique and experience has been developing over decades in Slovenia for the analysis of trading networks at scale, and, in particular, t..."
- 14:2514:25, 3 March 2025 diff hist +2,679 Distributed Ledgers No edit summary current
- 14:2114:21, 3 March 2025 diff hist +184 Category:Protocols and Algorithms →Key Books
- 14:0214:02, 3 March 2025 diff hist +1,734 N Data Cartels Created page with " '''* Book: Data Cartels. The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information. Sarah Lamdan. Stanford University Press, November 2022.''' URL = https://www.sup.org/books/law/data-cartels =Description= "In our digital world, data is power. Information hoarding businesses reign supreme, using intimidation, aggression, and force to maintain influence and control. Sarah Lamdan brings us into the unregulated underworld of these "data cartels", demonstrating how the..." current
- 09:0209:02, 3 March 2025 diff hist +627 N Our Data Bodies Created page with " URL = https://www.odbproject.org/ =Description= "We are a five-person team c'''oncerned about the ways our communities’ digital information is collected, stored, and shared by government and corporations'''. Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and sho..." current
- 07:4607:46, 3 March 2025 diff hist +21,512 N Radical Theology Created page with "=Description= Cadell Last: "The name for the theology which both avoids traditional religion while informing emancipatory politics is radical theology. In my work, I have been most influenced in radical theology in the historical works of Thomas Altizer from the 1960s, and in my actual relations, the works of Peter Rollins, Barry Taylor and Slavoj Žižek. These thinkers all offer the “keys” to radical theology: * Altizer offers us the foundation stone of Death..." current
- 06:5106:51, 3 March 2025 diff hist +5,875 NRx Movement →NRx Agenda current
- 06:4706:47, 3 March 2025 diff hist +1,898 Prospera →Description current
- 06:4506:45, 3 March 2025 diff hist +1,578 N Praxis Created page with "=Source= This is from an unsigned Memorandum: * Capture of U.S. Critical Infrastructure by Neoreactionaries. February 5, 2025 =Description= "Praxis aims to “restore Western Civilization and pursue our ultimate destiny of life among the stars.” Praxis is a crypto-native city-state, aligned with the network state ideology. Praxis founder Dryden Brown traveled to Greenland in late 2024 in an attempt to buy land or establish a charter city. The project gained rene..." current
- 06:4206:42, 3 March 2025 diff hist +20,566 N NRx Movement Created page with "=Source= This is from an unsigned Memorandum: '''* Capture of U.S. Critical Infrastructure by Neoreactionaries. February 5, 2025''' =Discussion= ==The Rise of the NRx Movement == The ongoing restructuring of U.S. digital and administrative systems must be understood in the broader context of the neoreactionary (NRx) movement, a “Dark Enlightenment” ideology advocating for the dismantling of democracy in favor of centralized corporate or monarchic rule. Nick..."
2 March 2025
- 15:0415:04, 2 March 2025 diff hist +18,927 Welfare State No edit summary
- 14:4014:40, 2 March 2025 diff hist +1,727 Togukawa Period in Japan as an Example of Ecologically Stable and Carrying Capacity-Led Population Dynamic No edit summary current
- 14:1514:15, 2 March 2025 diff hist +1,820 N Profilicity Created page with " '''= "how others judge our posts and interactions is always present"''' [https://octopusyarn.substack.com/p/how-the-internet-broke-the-self-57d] =Description= Herald of the Octopus: "Interactivity and multilateral communication give rise to the most profound characteristic of the Internet: the sense of being witnessed by others. The public nature of communication online adds an (imagined) audience to any interaction. Second-order observation reigns supreme online...." current
- 14:1314:13, 2 March 2025 diff hist +707 Internet No edit summary current
- 14:1114:11, 2 March 2025 diff hist +1,262 N Internet Created page with "=Characteristics= Herald of the Octopus: "A few key characteristics of the internet: While audio-visual, short-form media tends to dominate, we find all types of previous media on the internet: books, radio, and television all reincarnate in cyberspace. The internet supports instantaneous communication, resulting in an increased speed of interaction. The interactivity also leads to more repetition, remixing and recombination: like an infinite game of “telephone”,..."
- 14:0014:00, 2 March 2025 diff hist +1,053 N Data Colonialism and the Reconfiguration of Social Good Created page with " '''* Article: Giving by Taking Away: Big Tech, Data Colonialism, and the Reconfiguration of Social Good. By João Carlos Magalhães and Nick Couldry. International Journal of Communication''' URL = https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15995 =Abstract= "Big Tech companies have recently led and financed projects that claim to use datafication for the “social good.” This article explores what kind of social good it is that this sort of datafication engender..." current
- 08:2908:29, 2 March 2025 diff hist +2,960 N Seed Forms Created page with "=Description= (MB note: I do not find this very satisfactory, so consider it a placeholder for now) From ChatGPT: =Description= "Michel Bauwens and the P2P Foundation's concept of "seed forms" refers to emergent, commons-based initiatives that embody alternative models of production, governance, and social organization. These initiatives challenge existing systems and pave the way for broader societal transformations. Historically, similar "seed forms" have acted as..." current
- 06:2906:29, 2 March 2025 diff hist +4 Category:Design →Books current
- 06:2906:29, 2 March 2025 diff hist +220 Category:Design →Books
- 06:2606:26, 2 March 2025 diff hist +2,477 N Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech Created page with "'''* Book: From Pessimism to Promise. Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech. by Payal Arora. MIT Press, 2024.''' URL = https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049306/from-pessimism-to-promise/ =Description= "A radical paradigm shift in the way we think about AI and tech, taking hope and inspiration from the aspirational users of new technologies around the world. When it comes to tech, the mainstream headlines are bleak: Algorithms control and oppress...." current
- 06:1606:16, 2 March 2025 diff hist +1,803 N Regulation by Design Created page with " '''= ‘design-based’ regulation, algorithmic decision-guidance techniques''' =More information= '''* Article: ‘Hypernudge’: Big Data as a mode of regulation by design. By Karen Yeung. Information, Communication & Society Volume 20, 2017 - Issue 1, Pages 118-136 : The Social Power of Algorithms doi''' URL = https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1186713 "This paper draws on regulatory governance scholarship to argue that the analytic phenom..." current
- 06:1206:12, 2 March 2025 diff hist +279 Category:Protocols and Algorithms →Policy and Regulation
- 06:1106:11, 2 March 2025 diff hist +2,341 N Hypernudge Created page with "'''* Article: ‘Hypernudge’: Big Data as a mode of regulation by design. By Karen Yeung. Information, Communication & Society Volume 20, 2017 - Issue 1, Pages 118-136 : The Social Power of Algorithms [https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1186713 doi]''' URL = https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1186713 =ABSTRACT= "This paper draws on regulatory governance scholarship to argue that the analytic phenomenon currently known as ‘Big Data’ ca..." current
- 05:5505:55, 2 March 2025 diff hist +1,497 N How Data Is Colonizing Human Life Created page with " '''* Book: The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism. Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias. Stanford University Press, 2019.''' URL = https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/costs-connection =Description= "Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchanne..." current
- 05:5305:53, 2 March 2025 diff hist +171 Category:Protocols and Algorithms →Key Books
- 05:5005:50, 2 March 2025 diff hist +144 Category:Protocols and Algorithms →Key Books
- 05:4905:49, 2 March 2025 diff hist +1,404 N Data Grab Created page with " '''* Book: Data Grab. The new Colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back. By Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry. Penguin,''' URL = =Description= "Your life online is their product. In the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources, exploitative labour and private property from countries around the world. It promised to modernise and civilise, but actually sought to control. It stole from native populations and made them sign contracts they didn’t un..." current
- 05:4205:42, 2 March 2025 diff hist +1,841 N Kin-Centric Leadership Created page with "'''= "kincentric ecology: weaving human beings back into the wider web of life".''' [https://www.kincentricleadership.org/about-us?] URL = https://www.kincentricleadership.org/ =Description= Via ChatGPT: "Anna Kovasna, co-founder of the Kincentric Leadership initiative, defines kin-centric leadership as an approach that recognizes and honors the intrinsic connection between humans and the more-than-human world. This perspective views all beings—human, animal, plan..." current
1 March 2025
- 10:1410:14, 1 March 2025 diff hist −33 Category:P2P Solidarity →Peter Kropotkin (et al.) on State Welfare vs Mutual Aid
- 10:1310:13, 1 March 2025 diff hist +883 Category:P2P Solidarity →Citations
- 10:0510:05, 1 March 2025 diff hist +1,273 N Anarchist Perspective on Social Welfare Created page with "'''* Chapter: Steve Millett. Neither State Nor Market. An Anarchist Perspective on Social Welfare.''' URL = https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/steve-millett-neither-state-nor-market? =Description= "In this chapter I outline briefly the development of the Welfare State in Britain, stressing the importance of social control in its evolution. I then look at the evidence regarding the issue of who benefits from the State provision of welfare. I suggest that welfare..." current
- 09:2209:22, 1 March 2025 diff hist +7,443 Commons as Infrastructures for Troubling Times No edit summary current
- 09:1609:16, 1 March 2025 diff hist +2,991 Commons as Infrastructures for Troubling Times No edit summary
- 09:1309:13, 1 March 2025 diff hist +1,053 N Commons as Infrastructures for Troubling Times Created page with "'''* Article: Berlant, L. (2016). The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 34(3), 393-419. [https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816645989 doi]''' URL = https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0263775816645989 =Description= Via ChatGPT: "Lauren Berlant's essay "The Commons: Infrastructures for Troubling Times" explores how infrastructures—such as roads, schools, and norms—shape our social experiences and respons..."
- 08:5408:54, 1 March 2025 diff hist +400 Category:Complexity →Podcasts
- 08:5408:54, 1 March 2025 diff hist +389 Category:Integral Theory →Key Webcasts
- 08:5108:51, 1 March 2025 diff hist +3,756 N Cultural Complexity Index Created page with "=Discussion= Brendan Graham Dempsey: "“How do we measure the depth of human meaning-making across history, traditions, and intellectual paradigms? In this fascinating presentation, Brendan Graham Dempsey introduces his Cultural Complexity Index (CCI) initiative, a pioneering research project that empirically maps how humans structure knowledge, solve problems, and make sense of their world. Utilizing the Lectical Scale, a highly refined framework for measuring hier..." current
- 08:4508:45, 1 March 2025 diff hist +1,167 N Brendan Graham Dempsey on the Cultural Complexity Index Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU3ue8UyPRk =Description= Brendan Graham Dempsey: "“How do we measure the depth of human meaning-making across history, traditions, and intellectual paradigms? In this fascinating presentation, Brendan Graham Dempsey introduces his Cultural Complexity Index (CCI) initiative, a pioneering research project that empirically maps how humans structure knowledge, solve problems, and make sense of their world. Utilizing the Lec..." current
- 08:1208:12, 1 March 2025 diff hist +1,720 Cypherpunk Movement Bibliography No edit summary current
- 08:0208:02, 1 March 2025 diff hist +582 Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again No edit summary current
- 08:0008:00, 1 March 2025 diff hist +548 N Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again Created page with " '''* Article: Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again, Vitalik Buterin, 2023:''' URL = https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/12/28/cypherpunk.html =Description= "Ethereum co-founder calls for a return to the cypherpunk ideals of a decentralized and open crypto ecosystem. It critiques the shift towards financialization and highlights recent advancements like rollups and zero-knowledge proofs as opportunities to realign with these original values." (https://academy.web3priv..."
- 07:5607:56, 1 March 2025 diff hist +2,340 Non-Fungible Tokens No edit summary current
- 06:3306:33, 1 March 2025 diff hist +2,077 N Jacques Levy on the Global Civil War Created page with "Video (in French) via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMj1aOPJnmg If there is indeed 'one global society', already existing or in formation, then the wars taking place should be interpreted as 'inside' this society. Lots of new wars are not internal to a state (see the current conflict in the Congo). If that is true, then the main actors of this war are no longer nation-states. =Description= "Jacques Lévy's concept of "Global Civil War at low intensity" refers to a..." current