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The narrators of the "Tech Industrial Complex."
The problem of the techno-determinist mindset.
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The Age of Participatory Media
Let's generate 'cold media,' shall we?
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Is tech a religion? Is Elon Musk a hungry ghost?
My conversation with Greg Epstein, author of the new book Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It…
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Are blockchains immutable?
A dive into the collective belief that ‘yes, assets CAN be digital, and you CAN own them!’
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Top 5 Essays of 2024
PLUS: Your last chance to get a free annual subscription to Untangled
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🔮 Artificial Intelligence

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Can we democratize AI?
My conversation with Divya Siddarth, Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Collective Intelligence Project
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⚒️ Practical Tools & Frameworks

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What does it mean to ‘train’ AI anyway?
A survey of how individual datapoints become large, training datasets
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📖 Crypto Reading List
PLUS: The problem(s) with the Apple Vision Pro.
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📖 AI Reading List
My favorite articles, papers, and books on AI and how it is entangled in social systems like race, gender, and power.
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🖼️ The Primer
Frameworks, themes, and daily actions - oh my!
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🤯 Technically Social
A special issue! What actually IS technology? How does it shape social systems?
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📺 Media & Tech

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The Age of Participatory Media
Let's generate 'cold media,' shall we?
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Building healthy local communities online & off
A conversation with Deepti Doshi, Co-Director, New_Public
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Block, build, be
A conversation about the work ahead with Anya Kamenetz, creator of The Golden Hour
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Anya Kamenetz
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Fragment the media! Embrace the shards!
For this election, think less about our ‘shared reality’ and more about information integrity
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🎧 Unfollow your friends!
An interview with Louis Barclay, creator of Unfollow Everything.
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🤑 Crypto

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The narrators of the "Tech Industrial Complex."
The problem of the techno-determinist mindset.
 • 
Charley Johnson
Are blockchains immutable?
A dive into the collective belief that ‘yes, assets CAN be digital, and you CAN own them!’
 • 
Charley Johnson
Crypto Untangled
A book about crypto for the curious skeptic.
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Charley Johnson
The Church of Number Go Up
Is crypto a casino? A church? A new kind of infrastructure? The answer is: yes
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🧠 In crypto, everything is a ponzi
…until sometimes, it’s not.
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