Let me know if you find out. I’ll make my matcha at home in the meantime 🍵

I helped build Facebook and saw it go wrong. AI is headed the same way | Fortune I also co-founded Asana and One Project, and we have to move away from the White House's self-regulation framework for AI.

My 5yo daughter Evie asked what my Fortune piece is about.

"We need to change what AI companies get money for. And have that decided by everyone. Because currently, companies can get money for hurting the world."

Her: “Wait, we give people money for hurting the world? We should do the opposite.”

As a long-time listener of Future Histories, it was great to talk about and revisit my work on economic planning and the idea of 'metabolic municipalism' with Jan Groos, focusing on two articles (see images). Check out all the great episodes here! futurehistories-international.com

How to Make AI Serve the Public - One Project Rethinking AI power: why the public must govern the systems shaping our lives.

66% of Americans support citizen panels helping set AI rules.
Trump voters, Biden voters, swing voters: nearly identical numbers. When was the last time that happened?
Here’s how that would work in practice: oneproject.org/how-to-make-...
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I helped build Facebook. I watched it become a machine for addicting people. Because addiction was more profitable.

Now the same logic is driving AI. I wrote about what we do about it. 🧵

A Government Guide to Open Protocols Public sector teams must go beyond the in-house or off-the-shelf dichotomy to take advantage of open protocols, which offer a unique way to manage both software costs and geopolitical exposure

Please share this primer on open protocols with your favorite government officials. protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/a-governme...

Where’s the Portland date!?

Reading Capital Courses: Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 1 with David Harvey (2019 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I with David Harvey (2007 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 2 with David Har…

I've made 7 free online courses to help you read Karl Marx

Reading Marx's Capital v1 (2019 & 2007 eds)
Reading Marx's Capital v2
Reading Marx's Grundrisse (2023 & 2020 eds)
Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason
The ABC of Contemporary Capital

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PODCAST 15.1 — The Grounds of Planning I: John O’Neill on the Socialist Calculation Debate - KTB What does it mean to plan an economy rationally—and who gets to decide what counts as rational? In part one of this series on planning, Jacob Blumenfeld speaks with political economist and philosopher...

New Podcast Episode: In part 1 of this two-part series on planning, Jacob Blumenfeld speaks with political economist and philosopher John O’Neill about the socialist calculation debate and its legacy.
Listen to it here or on your usual podcast app: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/podcast/podc...

THE STORY OF CAPITAL by David Harvey | What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works YouTube video by Verso Books

Today, February 24th, is publication day for my latest book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, published by @versobooks.bsky.social

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Each time Ursula Le Guin started writing, she would begin by drawing a map. Our video of the week foregrounds Le Guin's cartography as tools for imagining the violent coordinates of gender, property, and planetary crisis.

Ft. @suchmayer.bsky.social, @unamccormack.bsky.social et al.

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Introductory online Workshop: “What is Democratic Economic Planning?” This workshop is hosted by The New Centre for Research and Practice and is organized in partnership with INDEP. It will consist of two sessions, which will be three hours each. The first session will…

We are partnering with The New Centre for Research & Practice to hold an introductory online workshop on democratic economic planning on Thursday 30th April and Thursday 7th May. You can find out more about the workshop and how to register here: www.indep.network/event/introd...

Ännu ett pedagogiskt avsnitt, om hur pengar skapas och hur pengaskapande skulle kunna demokratiseras 👌

Eternal Recurrences - The Ideas Letter Evgeny Morozov knows how to theorize (and, a fortiori, how to intellectually provoke) like few other mortals. The elegance of his argumentation and the sophistication of his critiques are legendary.…

Great exchange between @evgenymorozov.bsky.social, @abenanav.bsky.social, and @leifw.bsky.social in the ideas letter:

www.theideasletter.org/issue/eterna...

A new episode of Future Histories!

This time I talk to Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social) and Raphael Arar (@rarar.com) about the Monetary Commons.

Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...

#FutureHistories #Podcast

Silicon Empires w/ Nick Srnicek Nick Srnicek on Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI. A deep exploration of the political economy of AI: the fulcrum of the authoritarian tech oligarchy—and of global contests for economic ...

The Dig you’ve been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek.bsky.social on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI www.thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...

Documentation for Raphael Arar’s Exhibition ‘Planning’ uploaded Raphael Arar has uploaded photo- and videodocumentation of the artworks included in his exhibition ‘Planning’, which was taking place at Carnation Contemporary in Portland, Oregon late last year.

Raphael Arar has uploaded photo- and video documentation of the artworks included in his exhibition ‘Planning’, which was taking place at Carnation Contemporary in Portland, Oregon late last year. www.indep.network/documentatio...

Come work with me! People Powered is hiring for two positions. Please share with anyone interested in building a more participatory democracy, while working with a fun and growing global community. 🙏🏼

Is AI More Like a Mind or a Market? A group of scholars argue we should think of it as a “social technology” akin to a bureaucracy, a democracy or a marketplace.

Hayek's (Arguably More Legitimate) Children www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

They just triggered Europe’s next crisis - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts YouTube video by UnHerd

They just triggered Europe’s next crisis - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-KG...

How Gaza Broke the Art World • EQUATOR The former editor of Artforum, fired in the wake of 7 October, reckons with two years of division, fear and silence

Out today: a major new essay by former Artforum editor David Velasco, fired over a pro-Palestine open letter, surveying 2 years of turmoil in the art world, which was "practically designed to celebrate and aestheticize every rebellion" -- except Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/how...

439. Do Socialists Dream of Electric Institutions, Part 2 (ft. Aaron Benanav) We’re joined yet again by Aaron Benanav to chat about his essays Beyond Capitalism. In this episode we discuss what it means to lay out concrete models for an alternative world—ones that are not overs

In the new TMK, I'm joined yet again by @abenanav.bsky.social to discuss his concrete models for an alternative world beyond capitalism—ones that are not overly rigid as blueprints, but also not insubstantial as visions. soundcloud.com/thismachinek...

Excerpt reads: "Prioritize your neighborhood Neighborhoods drive our happiness (or unhappiness) more than we think. When Lina Martinez, director of POLIS, the Center for Wellbeing Studies at Universidad Icesi in Colombia, studied the happiness of households in the city of Cali, she couldn’t find much difference between poorer and richer areas. “Their happiness is pretty much the same,” she said. But that changed when she isolated neighborhood conditions, such as access to transit, health care and parks. “The conditions of the neighborhood affect happiness,” she said. “I can’t link that to the space where [people] live.” That aligns with findings from a 2023 study of the Vancouver metro area: Researchers found no significant differences in well-being between people living in single detached homes, duplexes, townhouses, laneway houses and apartment buildings (basement units smaller than 300 square feet were the only negative exception). What did people say they missed most in their neighborhood? Affordability, proximity to family and friends, and a sense of community. Home design was eighth on the list."

A Washington Post article suggests that, beyond a certain threshold, larger homes don't make people happier. Instead, well-being is correlated with affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods where they feel socially connected.

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

"In this moment of clear, acute, and mounting violence against the people of Venezuela, silence is complicity."

🇻🇪 Statement from the Cabinet of the Progressive International on the US invasion of Venezuela.

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A new episode of Future Histories!

This time I talk to Kim Stanley Robinson about Real Utopian Futures.

Full episode here: www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...

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Bernie Sanders bursting out laughing as Eric Adams seethes at Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration

Obsessed with this juxtaposition

Who Is Mubi For? The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following. Then it started to expand.

"The team behind No Other Land was in the middle of negotiations with Mubi for a streaming deal that would have helped support the residents of Masafer Yatta when the Sequoia news dropped. “We were surprised and heartbroken,” Abraham told me. The deal fell apart."

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Our broken child care system can learn a lot from New Mexico - the state that is leading the way in guaranteeing free child care for all.

There is no better rate of return than investing in our children.

The rest of the country should follow New Mexico’s lead.