“The greater is the multiplicity of small affairs, the more do men, even without knowing it, acquire facility in prosecuting great undertakings in common. Civil associations, therefore, facilitate political association:

Transformative justice and cryptoeconomics both challenge existing institutions through transcendent reference and immanent play.

Anxieties about cancel culture should instead be anxieties about the fact that there is no better recourse, that people feel powerless to address conflict in a proportionate, deliberate way.

In such moments lie opportunities for critique and meaning-making, resistance and world-building.

Miners often stand to benefit from ignoring their carbon footprint. A busier network roughly correlates to higher energy consumption and a higher trading price, increasing the value of the miners’ rewards.

I will argue for reorienting habits around online spaces from deskilling to political skills, from server control to community control, from paternalism to governability.

One form is onion-like.

wiki-style efforts to crowdsource constitutions, assemblies of randomly selected citizens drafting policy proposals, and the use of artificial intelligence to identify clusters of participant opinion independent of political parties.

Howard Rheingold