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Samer Hassan

@samerp2p.bsky.social

Activist, Researcher, Professor at @ucm.es Madrid, faculty associate at Berkman Klein Center at @Harvard.edu. Lead EU ERC project P2P Models and others. #commons #socialcomputing #web3 #decentralization he/they 🍉 https://samer.hassan.name

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Samer Hassan@samerp2p.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New paper out with @silviasemenzin.bsky.social on digital sex work, crypto and neoliberal techno-solutionism: “My body, my money”: SpankChain and the intersection between sex work and cryptocurrencies imaginaries. Open access in the Porn Studies journal: doi.org/10.1080/2326... 1/n

‘My body, my money’: SpankChain and the intersection between sex work and cryptocurrencies imaginaries

This paper examines the material and ideological entanglements between sex work and blockchain technology through a case study of SpankChain, a blockchain-based platform designed with sex workers a...

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Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Samer Hassan@samerp2p.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I was very happy to speak at the AI Ethics conference ACM AIES 2025 in my hometown, Madrid The program was amazing. I encourage to check out the lineup and proceedings: www.aies-conference.com/2025/ I shared some highlights in this Bluesky thread🧵

Samer Hassan@samerp2p.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Blockchain's hype boosted DAO communities, which, a decade later, now manage $16 billion. Did DAO platforms deliver on their initial promises? Our new paper covers a 7-year mixed-methods postmortem of a first-gen DAO platform. What worked, what broke, what can we learn doi.org/10.7717/peer... 🧵⬇️

The rise and fall of DAOstack: lessons for decentralized autonomous organizations

Despite the hype and scandals around blockchain, there are valuable applications beyond finance, such as decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). DAOs are self-governed online communities where ...

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Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last yr.

I wish there were more attention and support for projects that have been trying for over a decade to address this problem

Taking on link rot: Harvard Library Innovation Lab’s Perma.cc | News

Location: E25-401 Perma.cc is a web archiving platform and service developed by the Harvard Library Innovation Lab (LIL) to help combat link rot. Link rot occurs when links to websites point to web pa...

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Conrad Hackett@conradhackett.bsky.social · last yr.

LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later. Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website. Many implications for knowledge 🧪

A line chart showing that 38% of webpages from 2013 were no longer accessible one decade later.
Sasha Costanza-Chock@schock.cc · last yr.

Tl;dr they will pay a one-time $1.5 Billion settlement. They're currently valued at $183 Billion so it's a slap on the wrist. No ongoing royalties, no model deletion, no required negotiation with authors or publishers for what happens next.

Freedom of the Press Foundation@freedom.press · last yr.

Great work by @rsf.org for organizing this. It's unfortunate that more U.S. outlets did not participate. If the outlets you support were not among the few, ask them why.

RSF and Avaaz launch international media operation: “At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed”

Hundreds of media outlets, brought together by the campaigning platform Avaaz and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), are waging a campaign calling for the protection of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, ...

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Molly White@molly.wiki · last yr.

"Rather than end the genocide, the response instead is to continue firing, doxing, smearing, and attempting to censor inconvenient narratives."

Common Dreams@commondreams.org · last yr.

House Republicans sent a letter Wednesday asking Wikipedia to reveal the identities of editors it claims have an anti-Israel "bias." It coincides with a similar effort by the far-right Heritage Foundation to "identify and target Wikipedia editors." www.commondreams.org/news/house-g...