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@yogival.bsky.social
she/they 👩🏽💻🌈 | algorithmic bias researcher @ reliabl.ai | community lead at metagov | aquarius☀️, cancer🌙
The Protopian Prize deadline approaching! Seeking previously unpublished short stories of 500 - 6,000 words in two categories; Public AI & Democratic Futures. Deadline: July 31, 2026. $3k Prize per category protopianprize.com
The Protopian Prize | The Fiction Contest
The Protopian Prize is a fiction contest inviting you to share your vision of people working toward liberatory futures, meeting obstacles, and making real change. “Protopian”—a word coined by Kevin ...
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Only two more weeks to enter your sci-fi stories for the Protopian Prize, given to works that imagine positive futures for humanity, w/tech that serves the public interest. (I'm one of the judges!) Two winners get $5000 US each, and publication in an anthology from MIT Press! protopianprize.com
The Protopian Prize | The Fiction Contest
The Protopian Prize is a fiction contest inviting you to share your vision of people working toward liberatory futures, meeting obstacles, and making real change. “Protopian”—a word coined by Kevin ...
protopianprize.com
Anand Gandhi on how the governance layer of human #cognition cannot be privately-owned and instead should be treated as a commons. THIS is a Protopian #future we want to see. Submit your vision of a future of public #AI to the Protopian Prize before July 31st!
#Futuring (the verb) - especially optimistic, liberatory futuring - is a full body practice, which is why we started with some deep breaths and gentle stretches. #Creativity requires the entire body, mind, and spirit - which is what we are trying to unlock with our #workshops.
We are so grateful to everyone that was able to attend our #writingworkshops this past week in #NYC! We’re looking forward to reading the #writing submissions to our Protopian Prize #fiction contest. ☁️ It’s not too late to submit! The deadline is July 31st.
A friendly reminder that Mother Earth is a GREAT masseuse 🥰🔥😅
DWeb@getdweb.net · last mo.Here are two glimpses from the warm-up for #DWebCamp BUILD Day 3. You got the gist 🧚
Listen to #sci-fi #writer and Protopian Prize judge @karlschroeder.bsky.social talk about the impact #fiction that is near-future, governance-expanding, and incorporates socially responsible uses of #technology.
Thank you to everyone that attended last night's #writingworkshop in #NYC! Our 2nd session "#Writing Possible, Protopian Worlds: An NYC #Futuring & Writing Workshop" is happening tonight in partnership with @girlswritenow.bsky.social! Details & RSVP here: luma.com/c4gxnbfi
Join us for "Writing Possible, Protopian Worlds: An NYC Futuring & Writing Workshop" (in partnership with @girlswritenow.bsky.social) this week, in #NYC. Details and registration here: luma.com/c4gxnbfi #future #imagine #collective #futuring #governance #tech #infrastructure #writing
In this "Imagining & #Writing Protopian Futures for #NYC" workshop, we'll introduce participants to the practice of protopian #futuring, walk through different imagination exercises, #fictionwriting prompts, & collective future-weaving... Details here: luma.com/czgsmy4t #newyorkcity #writers
Win $5,000 & have your story read by our incredible judging panel: @glichfield.bsky.social @r-emrys.bsky.social @kevin2kelly.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @karlschroeder.bsky.social @aratip.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social Ida Yoshinaga Deji Bryce Olukotun Hannu Rajaniemi
Submissions for The Protopian Prize Fiction Contest are now officially open! (through July 31st) 🔗 protopianprize.moksha.io/publication/... We can't wait to read your stories of achievable, hopeful futures and the work it takes to get there.💪📚🤓
Join us for our official launch event on Wednesday, April 22nd at 12pm EST! We’ll be introducing the prize, hosts & planning committee, our esteemed judges, and answering any questions you might have. Register here: luma.com/sygvk1ms
Seminar: Protopian Prize Fiction Contest Launch · Zoom · Luma
This will be the official launch of the The Protopian Prize Fiction Contest! The Protopian Prize is a fiction contest inviting writers, storytellers, and…
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Announcing The Protopian Prize | Fiction Contest 🕊️ Write the story of humanity’s future... The Protopian Prize is a fiction contest inviting you to share your vision of people working toward liberatory futures, meeting obstacles, & making real change. protopianprize.com
The Protopian Prize | The Fiction Contest
The Protopian Prize is a fiction contest inviting you to share your vision of people working toward liberatory futures, meeting obstacles, and making real change. “Protopian”—a word coined by Kevin ...
protopianprize.com
Hot off the Substack press! Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention (Digital Zine Release) Check out our latest community-led research output and learn about how to leverage Metagov's community infrastructure for collaborations. metagov.substack.com/p/collective...
Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention (Digital Zine Release)
Check out our latest community-led research output and learn about how to leverage Metagov's community infrastructure for collaborations.
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Huge shoutout to so many community contributors for jumping into the doc, adding, editing, and collaborating on this effort! That's how we do it at Metagov🔥
With this digital zine, our goals were: 1) break AI into distinct tech stack layers 2) describe ways to insert collective governance structures & processes at each layer 3) point to existing, real-world projects steering that layer toward meaningful collective governance
Like many collaborations in our community, it all started with a shared Google Doc (s/o @ntnsndr.in)... The Metagov community proudly presents "Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention" metagov.org/cg-ai/
Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention
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“Friction can happen not only when things break, it can also be intentional to prevent things from breaking. What if we could make the safe things easier (less friction) and the high-risk things harder (more friction)?” Check out this new series by Bogdana Rakova! 👀
I got to sit down with Bogdana Rakova and discuss friction, fiction, solarpunk, nomadism, and digital human rights- read the interview here #solarpunk #nomadism #nomadpunk speculativefriction.substack.com/p/collective...
Collective Bargaining Through Code: How Solarpunk Fiction Imagines AI Beyond Corporate Control
A conversation with Christopher Muscato
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I was interviewed by Bogdana Rakova about my generative AI research—why I embrace glitch, mess + failure as tools for learning. From origami-code mashups to the Slopocene, we explore playful, critical ways of rethinking creativity + AI literacy. open.substack.com/pub/speculat...
Glitching Toward Understanding: Speculative Methods, Tiny Companions, and Life in the Slopocene
A Conversation with educator, filmmaker, and artist Daniel Binns
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I have a really fun fact to make ur day😅 The small island nation of Anguilla owns the .ai domain, and since 2022 has been making millions (about $3M per month) in revenue from domain registrations🤑 This accounts for over 20% of its total government revenue ‼️
An AI-Powered Boost to Anguilla's Revenues
A Caribbean island is receiving a fiscal boost from internet domain registrations and offers lessons for others.
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#FreeOurFeeds Help us free social media from billionaires gofund.me/7eb99408
Donate to #FreeOurFeeds - help secure the future of social media, organized by Free Our Feeds
We are determined to free social media from billionaire control … Free Our Feeds needs your support for #FreeOurFeeds - help secure the future of social media
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What if your digital artwork could take on new life by inviting community participation? Metagov’s new Governable Space-Makers Fellowship will support you in exploring collaborative governance for online creative work, with $8K in funding 🧬 Open Call drops tomorrow—stay posted for details.
Peer-reviewed paper on Morality in the Media (NCOSE) highlights how they misrepresented science for their religious activism against pornography✨ (Post credit: Nicole Prause) #endthestigma #sexworkiswork #sexworkersrights
Newsletter Droppp!!!🗞️ "Governance Games and Tool Experimentation in the Metagov Community" by @yogival.bsky.social metagov.substack.com/p/governance...
Governance Games and Tool Experimentation in the Metagov Community
As a laboratory for digital governance, Metagov has a rich history of practicing governance through playing games and testing out cool software tools - come join the fun! 🤸🏽♀️
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"Perhaps one of the greatest contributions that the blockchain and DAO technology can make to the wellbeing of the planet is to enable the effective scaling and distribution of the commons as an alternate option to market-based or government-based solutions at a scale heretofore never achievable."
Commons Sense - An Introduction to DAOs as Ecological ↔ Digital …
How might interspecies DAOs rewire our societal firmware through new visions of planetary social life.
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To address bias and discrimination in AI, we need to address the bias and discrimination in the tech funding landscape... www.businessinsider.com/women-left-o...
Men are getting rich from AI. Women, not so much.
A report from the Alan Turing Institute found that while global investment in AI is booming, the majority of funding is flowing into male-run companies.
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