🚨Collective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick Vincent
I spoke to @nickmvincent, AI researcher and author of the Data Leverage substack, about how AI systems are built on the collective output of humanity's digital labor and what we can do about it.
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🚨Delete Coinbase! Use this instead… w/ UnhappyBen
I spoke to @unhappyben from @zkp2p which is a service that allows you to officially delete Coinbase and every other CEX account you may have thanks to zkTLS!
We don't need centralized exchanges anymore!
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What's the answer to catching up to the kids with rich parents to pay the deposit on their first home?
It's solidarity and collective finance! 🎉
Join us this Thursday to learn more about the tools we're building to facilitate digital savings and lending circles with your trusted community!
Happy to share that I was chosen as an Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) fellow this year! Looking forward to connecting the work we're doing at @BreadCoop to the broader platform cooperative movement.
https://platform.coop/people/joshua-davila/
🚨 Public or Perish: Decentralized Municipal Socialism w/ Boris Mamlyuk
I spoke to the co-founder of @CleanApp an AI-powered, crowdsourced environmental app for users to report waste and hazards in real-time, essentially a system for reporting civic feedback.
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i remember one of the definitions of DAOs was "a subreddit with a bank account", but has anyone actually tried just doing that literally?
like make people's account a wallet with some kind of governance over a shared fund?
besides the dumb moons thing that r/cc tried
🚨Did we learn anything from Anonymous? w/ @kate_stapes
I sat down with Kate Stapleton, a former member of Anonymous and privacy advocate, now able to speak publicly after the statute of limitations expired.
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🚨Why did Democracy fail in DAOs?
I spoke with @theobtl at @devcon in Buenos Aires about his work with the @ethereumfndn as academic secretariat as well as the failure and future of democracy in DAOs
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🚨 Is Crypto Governance Dead?
I spoke with @bbeats1 at Devconnect o discuss the current crisis in crypto governance. The general feeling is that governance has been declared dead but there is still important democratic innovation work only crypto can bring to do
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🚨2025 year in review
As we kick off 2026, I'm reflecting on 6 years of The Blockchain Socialist and the developments of 2025. This year we professionalized production, expanded into video, and continued to provide the best left wing analysis of the crypto space.
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🗽FOR THOSE IN NYC THIS TUESDAY
@ontologymachine and I will be giving a workshop with @decentralparkny starting at 7PM in Brooklyn on how we can use decentralized technologies for supporting @ZohranKMamdani's agenda for NYC, see you there!
Sign up here: https://luma.com/40m53j9g
🚨Is the state DEAD? Farewell to Westphalia with @jarradhope_ and Peter Ludlow
I spoke to Jarrad Hope, founder of @Logos_network and Peter Ludlow, philosopher / research advisor at the University of Hong Kong, and co-authors of the new book ‘Farewell to Westphalia.’
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🚨Free Markets Are Planned: The Neoliberal Paradox with Christoph Sorg
Dr. Christoph Sorg is a social scientist researching theories of economic planning in times of digitalization and the climate crisis.
We discussed his publication "Finance as a form of economic planning"
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