Nathan Schneider
@ntnsndr
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TODAY IS THE DAY. Allow me to introduce you to my new book, "Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life" (w/ beautiful illustrations).
It's about democracy in our everyday internet-lives. And it's FREE to the internet from
@ucpress
:
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Happy Easter! The pope just called for universal basic income. Here's a bit on what this means and why it matters:
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My first friend lost to coronavirus: Fr. Jorge, a wonderful priest, loving and loved. Too young. Left home in Mexico to be a missionary in Brooklyn. The Easter Vigil will miss his voice. God have mercy.
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Okay, coming out party: I think those of us interested in justice and democracy need to get out of the Web3 talk.
We really should be talking about the DWEB.
This is the work of the commons, not VCs. It is about principles, not mere addition:
You don’t own “web3.”
The VCs and their LPs do. It will never escape their incentives. It’s ultimately a centralized entity with a different label.
Know what you’re getting into…
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I guess I'm forced to choose the side with the larger number and proportion of Catholics in it? And living persons? And the only one with a person of color? Thanks for this unintentionally clarifying mailing,
@catholicvote
.
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Was remembering this thread, with gratitude and embarrassment, the other day.
Look how good
@ntnsndr
is at not letting go. This should tell you everything you need to know about his journalism.
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We live in a world where there is no policy framework for democratic ownership of the most important spaces for public discourse.
But one guy can buy it, sure. And we wonder what has happened to democracy.
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Hey, people still in crypto!
This is a thread on what it might look like to create a healthy, grown-up parallel economy, a viable alternative to the state and banks. Because so far, it's not happening.
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Have you ever intentionally clicked an ad on the internet? Like, on purpose?
How is this the business model behind the biggest companies in the world?
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Always fun when you're trying to promote a book you edited and the main author calls the entire medium into question.
Question for people who argue that reading long-form books is virtuous or even necessary:
Are podcasts an acceptable substitute? If not, why not, and what even is the difference between a podcast and an audiobook?
(I frequently listen to both)
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I really should be writing an article on
@americamag
on this, but an insect infestation isn't allowing time for that now. Here's the thing: Using an abuse and accountability scandal to criminalize Catholic queerness is not okay.
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I've been trying to focus on what the crypto can learn from the left, but the recent onslaught of self-defeating leftist ignorance is making me want to flip that around.
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It arrived! Coming out free to the internet on February 27.
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Grateful for this response to my summer project from the founder of Ethereum, who in addition to more worldly accomplishments has become one of my favorite thinkers and writers.
Responding to (and largely agreeing with) Nathan Schneider
@ntnsndr
's piece on blockchain governance and moving beyond financialization:
Also a good opportunity to expand on the language of collusion prevention.
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The week that the financial crisis turns ten, after five years of reporting on the cooperative revival the crisis gave rise to, Everything for Everyone is officially out today! Please help me share this counter-story of hope.
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If you're building a new
#mutualaid
group quickly, consider adapting a template from to make sure you're ready for when hard decisions come. It's new, and feedback would be very welcome. Wishing you the best!
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@VitalikButerin
@elonmusk
I'm sorry there is nothing to respect about a bot poll with no concept of skin in the game, identity, or process. He controls the platform. It is more autocratic performance.
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"Online Communities Are Still Catching Up to My Mother's Garden Club," at
@hackernoon
:
An overview of my current line of work with
@MEDLabBoulder
and
#metagov
in online governance.
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This is not a fantasy or a utopia. Democratic ownership is a forgotten tradition that helped build our world. It built companies like Visa and REI and even
@landolakesinc
(which is here at
#sxsw
)
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It's hard to convey the stakes and satisfaction of the Bernie-Bloomberg matchup for people who were involved in
@OccupyWallStNYC
. The more I keep seeing old
#Occupy
friends campaigning, the more I want to start a [thread].
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Word is out: I have had the fun of editing a book by Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin. It is out in a month. Time to preorder online or from your local bookstore.
And yes, there is an NFT, which will also turn into a signed book.
"Proof of Stake", the (physical and digital) book compiling various writings I've made over the last ~10 years, will be out in a month!
You can get a signed digital copy and NFT here:
My share of the proceeds all goes to
@gitcoin
grants public goods!
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The story of what startups are for is broken. It turns good intentions into broken promises.
#ExitToCommunity
is a strategy for changing that.
Read an intro to the idea in
@NoemaMag
:
Get our collaborative zine with
@Zebras_Unite
:
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This morning my kid announced she had made a bunny to go with my book
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What I've been up to the past five years, according to
@FastCompany
:
#EverythingForEveryone
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Check this out: with our Gateway prototype, you can create governance processes in platforms like Slack, Loomio, and Discourse that can directly release funds in Open Collective. The DAO stack for regular people is here.
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A long time coming: I've just published my article on "Cryptoeconomics as a Limitation on Governance" on
@viamirror
.
It has already been widely discussed in crypto-land (), but not formally published because academic peer review.
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American decline could be a beautiful thing if we do it right.
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Can we have a real global anti-war movement again now?
This shit should not be possible.
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New essay draft up—I'd love your comments.
"Web3 Is the Opportunity We Have Had All Along"
Or, why I think crypto matters, even if it shouldn't have to.
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Has anyone proposed a virtual Works Progress Administration where government hires disrupted workers for virtual infrastructure projects?
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I'm thrilled to announce the publication of a new OPEN ACCESS article with Júlia Martins Rodrigues:
Scaling Co-operatives Through a Multi-Stakeholder Network: A Case Study in the Colorado Solar Energy Industry
A few remarks:
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Starting to slip out.
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I think of crypto as not good or bad, but as a struggle—one where some of the rules for the next economy are being written. If this struggle matters to you, please consider supporting the students I'm equipping to take part in it.
We're supporting students who are learning to make new tech like Web3 more democratic and accountable. Now, you can support our fellowship program with crypto—fund our Gitcoin grant here:
Even a little bit helps!
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@signalapp
such a shame. I'll now have to switch from using Signal constantly, daily to occasionally on the off chance another Signal user writes me. It was a good app while it lasted.
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"anarchism offers a stark alternative. It calls for a politics that doesn’t begin and end with politicians"
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Well,
@jacobin
/
@PatrickMMcGinty
has spoken: Because
@VitalikButerin
(who has never claimed to be a leftist) does not make a leftist case for crypto, no such case could possibly exist.
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The state of ebook tech is a disaster. The only way to read legally is if your reading device is a locked-in corporate store.
Watch the takedown of deDRM, an important tool that enables people to read books they bought on whatever device they want:
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Coming in February!
"Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic medium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before."
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This is huge: The journalist-owned
@ColoradoSun
just acquired 24 suburban newspapers in the state with help from
@the_ntln
:
This is a powerful example of how employee ownership can retain both focus and scale through network-building.
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Pro tip: Scholars, do not use "this reads like journalism" as a criticism in your peer reviews.
Journalism has different goals, but I can promise you that being fact-checked at good magazines involves a rigor that makes most peer review look like a mutual appreciation society.
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Thanks to all those who have reached out to see that we're okay. My family is on the other side of town. But no distance is real distance from such senselessness. This society has become so ill.
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Who wants to buy this college campus as a cooperative please?
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Co-op friends, we finally have an accelerator for you.
is officially open for applications for the inaugural class. If you know someone who would be interested in applying for $10,000 in cash plus mentorship, share this:
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And so much for a) liberal media, b) data journalism, c) predictions. Maybe reporting will require talking to people again.
#ElectionNight
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Brace yourself and listen to
@JeffSharlet
decode the latest Trump rhetoric. From prosperity gospel (2016) to gnosticism (2020) to apocalypse (and it is still just 2023)
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Recall that Mark Zuckerberg plans to sell off most of his Facebook stock to the market to fund his new projects. What if he sold it to his users?
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First time seeing a book of mine (well, that I edited at least) in an airport bookstore. Somehow this feels important.
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All this is to say: storming a legislature is a perfectly legitimate tactic. The illegitimacy here lies in the cause, not the act.
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A random poll from a CEO is obviously not democracy.
This is like what Roman emperors would do when asking if a gladiator should die. Theater.
So what would an actually democratic platform look like?
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The DWeb idea stresses "human agency" over "autonomous organizations," and insists that what matters is distributed benefits for people, not distributed systems.
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Web3 points back to "Web 2.0," a VC-fueled rebranding of the open Internet into a business model for corporate data harvesting:
DWeb comes from the work of the
@internetarchive
and friends, people committed to nonprofit infrastructure for the common good.
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What a raw time. Afghanistan, Haiti, climate. The failures of human governance (and the supposed leadership of the US government) over the past few decades have been so profound. Where does one even begin? I suppose by not being just one.
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@chrislhayes
Alternatively, the Populists' solution to demagogues and reaction was grassroots democracy, particularly through unions and farmer co-ops:
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Want to learn more about
#platformcoops
? Check out our new collective manifesto:
#ISCOOP16
from
@orbooks
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A co-op is trending. I don't see any mention of how, in addition to removing the colonialist image, Land O Lakes elevated its "farmer owned" status. Yet another big co-op reclaiming the power of its structure.
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An IPO is an
@exittocommunity
, too, just to the wrong community.
We already know how to handle ownership by lots of stakeholders. The problem is all they have in common as a community is wanting more money.
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"Beyond Cryptoeconomics: Platform Cooperativism and the Future of Blockchain Governance"
New at
@ProjectReboot
:
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To my knowledge,
@savvy_coop
is the first
#platformcoop
to take venture capital, with aligned fund
@indievc
:
This is a huge step toward both viability for coops and pioneering new investment models.
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Just got to tell my daughter that a girl is gonna be vice president.
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If you're, say, occupying space somewhere with other people, you'll need to have a way to make hard decisions—like, say, how to face attacks by fascists or police.
That's why my lab is building , a tool for designing self-governance practices, grounded...
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Just announced! After years of work collecting the work of many dozens of contributors around the world, the Beautiful Solutions are coming to your bookshelf:
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Queen Elizabeth achieved a remarkable thing in convincing the world that the monarchy's raw power and wealth is actually a duty and a burden.
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"Our world is ripe for revolution. 10 years after Occupy and the Arab Spring, what have we learned?"
10 years in the making.
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New syllabus draft now online, feedback very welcome!
Digital Culture and Politics
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@joshshepperd
The best part is, our syllabi get longer every year with no effort whatsoever from us!
Honestly, there has to be a better way to deliver identical information to students.
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What is a theory that helps explain why society forgets its own rules (labor and privacy law, for instance) when a new technology shows up?
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The only important cause of the Colorado fires is not a mystery:
Some collected reflections on what isn't being said.
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I am REALLY excited about this conversation on co-ops and DAOs hosted by
@reboot_hq
, featuring some of my heroes:
- Jessica Gordon Nembhard (historian of Black US co-ops)
-
@austinrobey_
(
@ampled
/
@metalabel_xyz
)
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"It is a book for everyone and a book for our times: read it, share it, but don’t just talk about it." - Robin D.G. Kelley
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The impending sale of GitHub to Microsoft is another example of what happens when we fixate on
#opensource
IP but not equitable corporate ownership models. How *should* the repository of most free, open software projects be owned?
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I wrote a book about what gives me hope. Coming in September.
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It really astonishes me sometimes what capitalism pays people to do while others are sleeping under bridges.
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Anyone want to start a country and try to govern it using some of the clever new online governance tools out there?
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The stocks are not and never have been the economy. Their health is not our health; their distress doesn't begin to explain ours.
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Happy Easter! The pope just called for universal basic income. Here's a bit on what this means and why it matters:
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This. My favorite essay right now on the anticapitalist possibilities of DAOs.
"you don’t try to abolish books because there are terrible ones. Instead you try to leverage what you can for the good."
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"How to build mutual aid that will last after the Coronavirus pandemic" - my latest at
@americamag
:
Featuring the new little project !
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The DWeb Principles are not an uncritical, ra-ra embrace of technology. With their insistence on "humanity" and "ecological awareness," they resist some leading tendencies of crypto and the Web3 scene, which see a utopia in which we are floating partial-bodies in monetized space.
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In-laws are writing to me about how grateful they are for
@JamesMartinSJ
's witness for love and openness right now. I am too.
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Today I prayed, where St Francis found his calling & wrote the first Laudato Si, that we can find our calling & live up to the recent one.
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Crypto is about so much more than token prices.
This book is an invitation to the real conversation.
"Proof of Stake", the (physical and digital) book compiling various writings I've made over the last ~10 years, is finally out!
Orderable here:
Big thanks to
@ntnsndr
@7StoriesPress
and everyone else who helped make this happen!
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I'm so so proud of my
#uglydogs
#Iditarod2019
friends
@BlairBraverman
and
@QuinceMountain
. Two of the holiest souls I've ever known. There just aren't words, only joy.
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Forgive me a little bit of a thread here to introduce a newly published article, something I've been wrestling with for a while and that means a lot to me:
GOVERNABLE STACKS AGAINST DIGITAL COLONIALISM
Okay, here goes.
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Unpopular opinion:
DAOs on the regulatory platform should be entirely controlled by direct, active participants, not by investors contributing only capital.
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For the brief moment when I am near the top of the Media Studies bestseller list, I am grateful that I am being trounced by the great bell hooks, whose concept of "homeplace" is central to the reparative strategy of my book.
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New paper draft out, feedback very welcome:
"Is Democracy Sacred?
Case Studies in Political Imagination"
It explores two very different life-worlds:
* transformative justice activists & the "defund" demand
* crypto BUIDLers & the cult of Moloch
Here:
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Please congratulate me because today I achieved a major career goal: Appearing at the very bottom of the credits of an episode of my great guilty pleasure, the
@ezraklein
show.
More importantly, though, listen to Klein talk with
@VitalikButerin
today!
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I just joined a union!
Thanks,
@boulderCRC
!
Happy
#MayDay
.
Happy Feast of St. Joseph the Worker
If not now, when?
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