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Ooh, I'm excited about this report on "Social Clubs, Community Power, and Political Participation": https://www.democraticbusiness.org/publications/reports/social-clubs-report-2025

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On AI and popes named Leo: https://theconversation.com/19th-century-catholic-teachings-21st-century-tech-how-concerns-about-ai-guided-pope-leos-choice-of-name-256645

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I was just blown away that Gemini can read my handwriting perfectly and transcribe it. Since I don't want to give it my personal writing, I tried the same thing with Gemma running locally on Ollama. It thought I was writing random letters and swear words.

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New in @TheConversationUS, I explain the radical lessons from Pope Leo XIII that suggest how Leo XIV might approach AI […]

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A new paper out—not the easiest going, but an effort to theorize some of the dynamics of governance through protocols, with Johannes Bennke: https://doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/10661

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Hacker News at its best Is-even-ai – Check if a number is even using the power of AI | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036438

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Rainbow under shamrock, if you squint your eyes just right

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I have no illusions about the beneficence of OpenAI, but I think in a decade or two to come, we'll be thankful that the coup against the nonprofit parent org failed. Thinking this after hearing a friend describe all the daily medical/nutritional/etc. data he feeds into ChatGPT. I still would […]

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A really good way to hold off the desire for new hardware is to totally change up the software.

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My favorite book on the legacy of Pope Leo XIII (the namesake of Leo XIV) is by the Australian politician Race Mathews—who realized that, to understand economic democracy, he had to get a theology degree: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/jobs-of-our-own Thank […] [Original post on social.coop]

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REI members show their power! Consumer cooperation and labor unions unite. https://www.thenews.coop/rei-members-reject-all-three-board-candidates-in-election/

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This is some interesting disinformation: "Elon Musk Backs Cardinal Robert Prevost for Next Pope with Unprecedented Financial Commitment" https://medianewsc.com/linh/elon-musk-backs-cardinal-robert-prevost-for-next-pope-with-unprecedented-financial-commitment/

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I'm super glad I became a vim-er just before taking on @pop_os_official COSMIC, which has vim bindings everywhere.

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Congratulations to @jamiem and the @mayfirst community for this beautiful report on getting out of the Google ecosystem! https://mayfirst.coop/en/post/2025/cutting-the-cord/

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Just published in America—why we need a politics that resists the aspirations of "god mode" sysadmins: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2025/05/14/trump-musk-sysadmin-king-250593

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Sorry, but did my notes on the Stanford Blockchain Governance Summit on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/ntnsndr.in/post/3louk5pt6ck2l

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Just made my first entirely handwritten slide deck. AI slop is a good motivation to get back to basics. I recommend it! Stack: - PineTab hackable tablet - Xournal++

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New interview up at the Protocol Oral History Project—Camille Acey on organizational closures: https://protocol.ecologies.info/interviews/acey-organizational_closures/

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I'm excited about this bash alias (anybody see any issues with it?): trash() { mv "$@" ~/.local/share/Trash/files/ }

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Sweet Bible quote at the Stanford Blockchain Governance Summit

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Hacker News is excited that the new pope was a math major.

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I just have to say it: last weekend, my son took Leo as his Confirmation name.

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The new pope's name is hugely significant. Pope Leo XIII was the founder of modern Catholic social teaching, a prophet of economic justice: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/jhrmd_v1 And an enemy of (real) antisemitism. May peace with justice roar with this lion.

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I can't believe it. I've been looking for a great FLOSS dashboard for my browser. And it turns out the one I've been looking for is Renewed Tab by @rubenwardy: https://renewedtab.com/en/ @rubenwardy is also a lead dev of @Luanti and hosts my kids' favorite game server, Capture the Flag […]

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From the Internet Archive's edition of my old book Thank You, Anarchy.

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I'm thrilled to share the release of some of my favorite interviews of my career—the Protocol Oral History Project. It explores wildly diverse kinds of protocols as a form of human governance, from state diplomacy to food in our guts: https://protocol.ecologies.info/

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Are you a member of #Socialcoop but haven't gotten involved in the co-op directly? Please consider joining the Finance Worker Group, where I'm stepping down as a member. Let me know if you're interested or have any questions!

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If you're around Denver on May 1, please join me for a Beautiful Solutions release event featuring two leaders in the Colorado solidarity economy—hosted at the incomparable MATTER bookshop […] [Original post on social.coop]

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Writing about my last ten years in the science of tech policy, I am reminded how designers & advocates perpetually imagine ourselves at the start of something new. It's a trap. I'm grateful for humanities training that draws me to history amidst deliberate amnesia. @ntnsndr explains this […]

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Balaji Srinivasan is speaking at CU Boulder right now. Argues that world history is running in reverse, laying the groundwork for an explosion in state creation.

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"the crisis of our institutions’ contradictions has long been brewing. Merely defending the status quo will win us no new friends. Standing for what we should be will reveal the absurdity of what we are up against." https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/04/25/higher-ed-trump-dei-woke-250477

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"No amount of extortion in the world (or D.E.I. trainings, for that matter) will produce universities that better reflect our society without removing the barriers to entry." https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/04/25/higher-ed-trump-dei-woke-250477

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"The deepest problem with American higher education, which I see every day in my classrooms, is its cost." https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/04/25/higher-ed-trump-dei-woke-250477

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"The problem of antisemitism is only made much worse when institutions fail to allow space for honest, necessary critiques of U.S.-Israeli policy toward Palestinians. As a person of Jewish descent, I have never experienced treatment like what I have seen Palestinian students endure." […]

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Just out: I argue that if the Trump administration were actually trying to do the things it says it is doing, it is doing it all wrong. https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/04/25/higher-ed-trump-dei-woke-250477

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It is pretty awesome how @pop_os_official COSMIC is combining the slickness of GNOME with the flexibility of XFCE.

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I'm really looking forward to this upcoming Metagov seminar and zine-release party, led by @daspitzberg: "What Are Meetings?" Join us! https://lu.ma/291lt7pf

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#Socialcoop friends: who has never been on a working group in our community and would like to try? I'm leaving the Finance Working Group after being on it basically from the start. We need some new energy and new ideas. Is that something you can offer?

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For Earth Day today, I had the honor of remembering Pope Francis on Democracy Now, recalling how first reading his Laudato Si' brought me to tears and how he saw social movements as a site of revelation: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/22/pope_francis_vatican_climate_crisis

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