Taking power out of institutions and giving it to individuals.
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We wanted to use Instagram ads to highlight how ad tech invades your privacy. Instead, Facebook shut our account down: signal.org/blog/the-instagra…
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the primary function of open source is to insulate technical projects from organizational risk
This is insanity, years of internal tools, infrastructure, research and data should not be lit on fire. They don’t deserve to have to rebuild from zero.
Board had already committed career suicide but still that doesn’t seem like punishment enough for them.
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someone needs to write an ecosystem playbook abt @cosmos & its chokehold on berkeley students. It's actually insane how much of the ecosystem is built by @CalBlockchain students/alums, & how so much of it has to do with community, friendships, & a physical space/office to hang in
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1/ I want to talk about something that’s been troubling me. We’ve seen a stark increase in hateful, discriminatory rhetoric circulating in our community and it’s time to confront the grave risks it poses to our collective well-being.
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Really looking forward to human+ai art exhibitions in the near future, gonna be so much better than those god awful NFT galleries 🙄
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Good thread on balancing community moderation and free speech…
Temporarily breaking out of my Twitter-minimization for a short thread on issues around free speech and the mass deplatformings of the last week.
Obviously the riots were terrible, people still supporting DT are crazy, so moving on to some things that have not yet been said...
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And ActivityPub serves as this neutral content distribution layer, on top of which we’ve added a decentralized governance interface to create Fora
The other is to make Twitter more email-like, a protocol that one can have many interfaces to. This punts the problem of moderation to the interface layer, and there could be many different interfaces.
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Hopefully there are many more experiments in this space to come!
The crypto space can also participate here. @peepethApp is a great experiment. Another cool experiment would be to try decentralized forums moderated by Kleros. Kleros has already shown its sanity by correctly deciding that Biden has won the election: klerosboard.com/dispute/?id=…
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#STEMinistsnapshots @rhodes_trust Scholarship recipient Namrata Ramesh (she/her/hers) has recently graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley, where she majored in Physics. She will now be pursuing her masters in Material Science at Oxford University.
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Looking forward to seeing this initiative grow out of Berkeley!
Imagine being in lecture, and the rest of the seats are filled with men. #STEMinistChronicles is an organization that uses art to bring such experiences of women/folx in STEM to light. Follow us to hear more stories and bridge this gender gap. #feminism #STEM #UCBerkeley
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Whoo!!
Congratulations to physics major Namrata Ramesh on being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship! physics.berkeley.edu/news-ev…