Howard Silverman
@hsilv.bsky.social
waymaking with faulty maps amidst evolving territories
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A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet : Cory Doctorow : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all of America's...
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I don't know if my description really captures it, but this is one of my favorite pods I've ever recorded. This is absolutely the future of the grid, and it's amazing.
"If your city does not have a public financing system for elections ... we strongly suggest you fight to win a program like Democracy Vouchers." jacobin.com/2026/01/kati...
We Ran Katie Wilson’s Campaign. Here’s What We Learned.
Seattle’s new socialist mayor, Katie Wilson, won with an authentic image, a strong social media presence, a dedicated and energetic volunteer base, a relentless focus on material issues over political...
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Call for Participation for the ASC 2026 Conference: Conversational Confluences, to be held in Ouro Preto, Brazil, from August 3 to 7, 2026. Submission: December 22, 2025, to February 23, 2026 More information: events.asc-cybernetics.org/2026/ #cybernetics #art #design #Beer100 #vsm
First, champion digital public money that is privacy-preserving and not reliant on for-profit intermediaries; Second, regulate shadow money, e.g., Stablecoins; Finally, target speculative, extractive finance, not private currencies. --@rohangrey.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/how-the...
How the Left Lost the Plot on Crypto (and How to Find it Again)
The story of crypto’s transformation from cypherpunk experiment to Wall Street darling is bleak, but it was not preordained. Where did the left go wrong, and how can it reassert itself in shaping the…
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"Mimetic innovation became the Anglo-Atlantic world’s final comparative advantage: shaping how the world imagined itself." - Chor Pharn thecuttingfloor.substack.com/p/the-treaty...
The Treaty of the Machine Century
After the Hero
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While we wait for the polls to close, check out my interview with Ivan Pardo, who built the technology that the Mamdani campaign has used to organize its way to City Hall. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
Solidarity Tech: The Platform Powering Zohran Mamdani's Movement
A conversation with Ivan Pardo, the founder of Solidarity Tech, on how a platform built for "deep organizing" of workers building unions is being used to take power in New York City.
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"It's when we understand love-desire-intimacy as a force for transformation that we see more clearly why love, desire and intimacy are met with anxiety and regimes of control that aim to curtail and contain this transformative potential." Meredith Whittaker media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feeli...
Feelings are Facts: Love, Privacy, and the Politics of Intellectual Shame
A debut of new research and analysis, focused on emotions and the affective register—love! shame! intimacy! What happens when we put lov...
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The monetary commons is an idea whose time has come! monetarycommons.com
A Trust Fund for Everyone
A Trust Fund for Everyone Paying a Dividend to Each within a Monetary Commons
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Yanis Varoufakis@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · last yr.The rise of private stablecoins is a timebomb in society's foundations. But a public stablecoin system, using the same blockchain technology, would work like a Monetary Commons that makes possible a trust fund for all and a personal dividend for each! www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/p...
Wild - in a good way - that these extraordinary posters on indigenous futurisms by Dr Ambelin Kwaymullina were commissioned by (and shown at) a School of Cybernetics @ourANU. They're a must-read. cybernetics.anu.edu.au/projects/Ind...
Open access edition of "Principles of Biological Autonomy" can be found here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Principles of Biological Autonomy
A new, updated edition of the 1979 classic from one of the foremost authors in cognitive science and theoretical biology, with the original text as well as
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New ep: Quinn Slobodian on Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right. Anarcho-capitalist/paleo-libertarian mutant neoliberals promoting IQ as measure of value; hard borders for humans w free trade for capital; gold as only true currency www.thedigradio.com/podcast/haye...
Hayek’s Bastards w/ Quinn Slobodian
Featuring Quinn Slobodian on his book Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right. MAGA and its far-right populist siblings around the world aren’t just a backlash to neolibe...
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Steps Around a Theory of Action: Notes on Seven Bateson Conferences Cosmos - Enacting Ecological Aesthetics Steps Around a Theory of Action: Notes on Seven Bateson Conferences Cosmos Steps Around a Th...
Notes from seven Gregory Bateson conferences exploring systems theory and ecological aesthetics.
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"tacit knowledge transmitted as tacit knowledge, so that people can understand and feel it in a non-explicit, experiential way" more brilliant interviews by @davidbollier.bsky.social david-bollier.simplecast.com/episodes/com...
Commoning within Arts Collectives, Episode #61 | Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier
What are some of the distinctive ways that precarious arts collectives share resources, support each other, and make art? This episode hears from artists' collectives in three countries to learn how t...
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"If it wasn’t for these fish I wouldn’t be here today. My people would have died off a long time ago. We can’t walk away from this and we will not walk away from this.” Excellent reporting by @ahofschneider.bsky.social / Jake Bittle, co-pub'd @gristnews.bsky.social / @underscore-news.bsky.social:
How the Klamath Dams Came Down - Magic Canoe
Last year, tribal nations in Oregon and California won a decades-long fight for the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story.
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“poverty deepens as wealth increases, and wages are forced down while productive power grows, because land, which is the source of all wealth and the field of all labour, is monopolised.” -Henry George, 1879 Taiwan experience w Georgist land reform >>
James Lin@jamestwotree.bsky.social · last yr.Open access publication! My book is now available open access for everyone to read and download free on the @ucpress.bsky.social website: www.ucpress.edu/books/in-the... A brief thread about the book /1
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Landmark exhibition on more-than-human design to open at the Design Museum.
From an enormous nature calendar to spaces designed for multispecies encounters, this exhibition aims to set a new direction for design based on humanity’s collaboration with the living world.
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🚨New Paper🚨 (hi law reviews!) ‘Digitizing the Fisc’ is the first article to address the current separation of fiscal powers crisis, exemplified by Trump's takeover of the Treasury's payments IT systems, through a tri-dimensional legal, political economic, & technological lens.
"If we want to keep open our option to buy food grown near where we live, we must buy from local farmers-- whether or not they are organic. We have to save them first and reform them later." -- Joan Dye Gussow, 1999 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/s...
Joan Dye Gussow, Pioneer of Eating Locally, Is Dead at 96
An indefatigable gardener, she was concerned, a colleague said, with “all the things that have to happen for us to get our food.”
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values: fair, prosperous, plural, free drivers: Economic Precarity, Ingenuity Gap, Message Distortion, Epistemic Fragmentation
Cascade Institute@cascadeinstitute.bsky.social · last yr.As Canada faces U.S. tariffs and threats of annexation, the Cascade Institute presents a strategic framework to revitalize and defend our democracy. cascadeinstitute.org/technical-pa...
It took me longer than I hoped to finish but I'm really happy about the outcome: My big picture piece about Musk and Trump visiting Fort Knox. The headline tells you what you need to know but its also a very accurate summary of every step of my argument www.crisesnotes.com/a-scam-built...
A Scam Built Atop an Accounting Gimmick Wrapped in Bullshit: Why Visiting Fort Knox Is Not About Selling Gold but is About Buying Bitcoin
Notes on the Crises pivoted on February 1st into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025. Today is Day Twenty Two Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Par...
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dots and patterning... technocracy, project russia, kill the fed... www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXIa...
WHAT IS ELON MUSK'S ENDGAME? | That Trippi Show
YouTube video by Resolute Square
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Acting with the World: The Choreography of Agency Conversation to explore an unfamiliar but important pattern of environmental action attuned to the agency of nature and wicked problems 📅 Sunday, March 16, 2025 ⏰ 9:00 AM PDT | 12:00 PM EDT | 5:00 PM CEST 👉 Register now: https://buff.ly/4gWeVFX
