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Media theorist, author. Team Human. He, Him.

Hastings on Hudson, NY
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  1. Oct 8

    Twitter reaches for the sky from shaky ground by Daniel Sieradski Reminds me of and lost art of open systems. They're just better.

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    Oct 7

    Ouch. «The company is like Zuckerberg, dropping out of college before the myelin sheaths had fully formed around his prefrontal ganglia, leaving him without the benefit of adult impulse control, and without full executive function.» -Douglas

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  3. Oct 7

    "Spend time in somebody else's word space." An especially evocative bonus conversation with philosophy professor Sarah Pessin.

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  4. Oct 7

    Roy Christopher's interviews are the best. This book has Ian Bogost, Mark Dery,Pat Cadigan, William Gibson, Tyler the Creator...mad wisdom. Free for download, too!

    For decades now, has been dragging us all out near the horizon, trying to show us glimpses of our own future. Another rare one who's in both volumes of FOLLOW FOR NOW! Get a pretty paperback or open-access .pdf from :
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  5. Oct 6

    There are a few things happening in the digital realm that do give me hope for the future. I feel like doing a TV series about initiatives like Polis.

    The foundational paper for Polis () as a method has been released in a special edition of the journal RECERCA Huge thanks to for advancing visibility+formalization of the democracy innovation space + for invaluable feedback in the production of the manuscript.
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  6. Oct 1

    Why create solutions ‘at scale’ if operating at scale is itself the main problem?

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  7. Sep 29

    "We'll say, 'Look! It acts exactly like and imitates exactly like and therefore it must have...' but consciousness, in my understanding, is rooted in the human body..." The brilliant, embodied digital artist Ellen Pearlman on failing the Turing test.

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  8. Sep 29

    We can spend our time watching incendiary YouTubes and reading whichever Substack writer stokes our rage the best, or we can get to the real work of making our communities as resilient as possible. New monologue:

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  9. Sep 28

    Sorry to those who depend on College Board for sustenance, but the SAT and ACT are bad products and should be put to rest. They measure mostly test prep and affluence. Colleges: please liberate yourselves from this metric.

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  10. Sep 27

    'To the extent that we all breath different histories and presents, we all “speak different languages.” Setting out to do good politics is about learning to engage with this difficult fact, not “rah rah” our way over it.' has a Medium column:

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  11. Sep 26

    The Art of Activism also proves Activism can be a form of Art. Bravo to my friends at

    Our book is at the printer! 🖨📕🚚 Thanks to for all the support as we put it together. You can pre-order it now from (at 15% off)! More at
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  12. Sep 16

    "Power has a lot less to do with what you’re granted or what you have than what you do." The sensibly brilliant on the new

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  13. Sep 13

    Pranksters Dupe Newsmax Into Interviewing Fake Paul Wolfowitz—Twice via

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  14. Sep 11

    YouTube took down that link, but it has been saved:

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  15. Sep 11

    Is this the Great Awakening? "Paul Wolfowitz" turns on NewsMax, accusing them of leveraging 9-11 to foment a new era of domestic terror.

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  16. Sep 10

    Only a tiny, tiny fraction of us need to be hashing out these issues in public, weighing in on the pharmacological action of mRNA vaccines, or strategizing withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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  17. Sep 3

    Now that the effects of our own activity are upon us, we have no more power to mitigate them than the toddler does of preventing chest of drawers from toppling over.

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  18. Sep 1

    "Nothing is sacred" is the most powerful thing you can say. It's very new for us as human beings.

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  19. Aug 31

    How The System Plans to KEEP YOU POOR - and How To FIGHT BACK!!! via I'm so glad posted this excerpt from our conversation last year: how we can oppose the billionaire digital interests.

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