🚨New episode of AMAW out on YouTube and @substack: Why experts are WORSE at predicting the future than you @danielerasmus spent 25 years doing scenario planning for banks, governments and companies. In 2006, a scenario… https://firefly.social/post/ff-517f2a4e2ecc4a56ab1c269fd7b00ecd?s=bsky

🚨The first episode of All Models Are Wrong is out🚨 What the Internet Archive founder predicted 50 years ago I spoke with Brewster Kahle during DWeb Camp about his work on AI in the 80s, what went wrong with the web and the one time he tried to start a bank. FULL EPISODE⬇️

After 7 years, The Blockchain Socialist has ended but today, its rebirth begins: All Models Are Wrong AMAW examines who controls and benefits from technological systems, and how they might be organized differently. 🧵

THIS TUESDAY September 29th at 11 EST / 17 CET @breadcoop will be running an event with the folks at Democratic Tech Fund to discuss how we are building alternatives to the current funding landscape to support tech that… https://firefly.social/post/ff-14cadab3e4e3403cafbeb3bc93b17941?s=bsky

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THIS TUESDAY September 29th at 11 EST / 17 CET @breadcoop will be running an event with the folks at Democratic Tech Fund to discuss how we are building alternatives to the current funding landscape to support tech that is focused on the commons! Register here: https://dandelion.events/e/solidaritydemocratictech

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THIS TUESDAY September 29th at 11 EST / 17 CET @breadcoop will be running an event with the folks at Democratic Tech Fund to discuss how we are building alternatives to the current funding landscape to support tech that… https://firefly.social/post/ff-14cadab3e4e3403cafbeb3bc93b17941?s=bsky

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THIS TUESDAY September 29th at 11 EST / 17 CET @breadcoop will be running an event with the folks at Democratic Tech Fund to discuss how we are building alternatives to the current funding landscape to support tech that is focused on the commons! Register here: https://dandelion.events/e/solidaritydemocratictech

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We've proven for over 2 years that our Solidarity Funding model delivers consistent results. You've helped make this happen. We're hosting a session with the Democratic Tech Fund & Free Knowledge Institute to show how communities can fund ideas that matter. Link in our bio

no country for tech bros @the_point_mag

I'm excited to finally announce All Models Are Wrong (on @Substack)! The thesis of the show is that the continued development and introduction of “frontier technologies” will (as it has already) bisect traditional… https://firefly.social/post/ff-55c57f4d206842b8b12c8aab22ea3c48?s=bsky

some thoughts on the US attacks on Italian hacker collective Autistici / Inventati

@kevincarson1.bsky.social I'm curious if you ever had the chance to read the book?

We're proud to be an employee-owned company 🙃 No big tech or shady investors here! And that means we can stay true to our mission of supporting indie bookshops with your audiobook (and soon, ebook) purchases 💓

Yes. It's ok, the weird part is that it's not from leftists but from a conservative perspective begrudgingly agreeing with and trying to convince leftists to get on board. This is a much better and honest book for them and we've had way more success with @tbsocialist.bsky.social book:

After 6+ years, I'm retiring The Blockchain Socialist. ⬛ 🟥 ⬛ This isn’t the end but what I believe to be a new beginning that better fits the current moment. 🧵 Why and what's coming next

Great conversation with my friend Julio Linares on his book about Decolonizing Money and abolishing the US dollar https://www.wesmellgas.org/resources/0109-en

Decolonizing Money from Behind the Bar

What would a world without the U.S. petrodollar look like, feel like, smell like? Rooted in abolitionist, anti-colonial and anarchist thinking, Julio Linares takes us from the counter of a community bar onto a journey across debt cancellation, community-owned solar currencies and the burning of dollar bills.

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This statement is super important and totally overlooked by most, in particular by the progressive left. “… for Varoufakis, crypto represents an opposition to cloud capital. Or at least it can be. “

they want to debank leftsits... now what?

AI is becoming the MEV of web search It front runs the financialized attention of web users already monetized by advertising-dominant business models of the internet

🚨Yanis Varoufakis on blockchain, the digital euro and being a class traitor I spoke to @yanisvaroufakis, economist and former Greek finance minister, at @Web3summit in Berlin on June 18th, about why he thinks blockchain… https://firefly.social/post/ff-d59534b3068b4d3db635d15a6faa90a5?s=bsky

The US government is directly threatening to debank leftists. I have a book for you if you're worried about it.

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I feel like this should be a bigger story 🤔 www.democracynow.org/2026/7/17/tr...

i know a lot of you guys aren't on twitter but i bring good news, the malaysians are VERY upset about the network school (adult summer camp for people into network states by balaji srinivasan) having israelis around and it seems like they're getting their business licence revoked

Some reflections on speaking to @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social at @web3summit.com https://theblockchainsocialist.com/five-takeaways-from-my-qa-with-yanis-varoufakis/

🚨 Zero Knowledge: Solution for Digital Identity? w/ Leo Fan I talked to Leo Fan, co-founder of @cysic_xyz, about zero-knowledge proofs, how they let you prove something's true without handing over your personal data, why… https://firefly.social/post/ff-29575c38d08e4126a4c1d721b117fdde?s=bsky

Thanks for joining us for an eventful Berlin Blockchain Week! 🍞 @tbsocialist.bsky.social interviewed @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social on stage @ Funkhaus 🍞 Our own curated space @ Neocypherpunk Summit 🍞 Showcasing our new savings circle tool @ DappCon Photos and the full write-up linked in bio 🤗

At @Web3Summit this past month, I gave probably what was one of the strangest presentations I've ever given. Over the past year I've been mulling over some big concepts and trying to put them all together in one coherent… https://firefly.social/post/ff-4ff82bafc6604aefb0ec3b077e01048a?s=bsky

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At @Web3Summit this past month, I gave probably what was one of the strangest presentations I've ever given. Over the past year I've been mulling over some big concepts and trying to put them all together in one coherent narrative. What if all this talk about the K-shaped economy is actually just a visual representation of a collective k-hole? Yes, that kind of k-hole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XujvC7le9Ww

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🚨AI, Empire, and the Left's Missing Voice w/ Nick Srnicek I spoke to @nsrnicek, author of Silicon Empires, about how AI is consolidating Big Tech's power. We also discuss: - how the left should be involved in AI… https://firefly.social/post/ff-0586eaf9446d475fa967c4931ac092a2?s=bsky

Some reflections on speaking to @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social at @web3summit.com https://theblockchainsocialist.com/five-takeaways-from-my-qa-with-yanis-varoufakis/

Read books. These books you could buy @ Neo-Cypherpunk Summit & support freedom cause: "The Politics of Privacy" curated by @pg.web3privacy.info "Vanishing Culture" by @internetarchive.eu "Decolonizing Money" by Julio Linares "Blockchain Radicals" by @tbsocialist.bsky.social

At @protocol.berlin, @ontologymachine.bsky.social and Ryan talked about live events, community weaving, and relational graphs to life. @tbsocialist.bsky.social sits down and joins to explain @breadcoop.bsky.social and why crypto keeps defaulting to financialization. youtu.be/aqPMVT_Xmso

🚨 Harnessing Collective Intelligence better than LLMs w/ Sean Geobey I spoke to Sean Geobey, associate professor at the University of Waterloo and Director of Groupthink Labs, about collective intelligence, cooperative… https://firefly.social/post/ff-8b2fbe9d529747fcbe077d6c1207c594?s=bsky

Why does the world cup need an official crypto exchange?