Sam Liebeskind

Yuka Shiratsuchi (白土由佳『はじめてのソーシャルメディア論』, Sanwa Shoseki, 2024, p. 60) defines social media by three elements: many-to-many communication premised on exposure and observation, individually optimized diversity of experience, and accumulation of digital footprints.

For a modern take we can look to Vyld, a biotech company fom Germany established in 2021. As a producer of women's health products made of seaweed it was paramount for Vyld that their company was as good as their product.

It just doesn’t make sense to produce a great, sustainable product, but

then have an exploitative company structure and culture.

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The open protocol community has inherited two intellectual traditions, both inadequate to this problem: an engineering functionalism that treats protocols as neutral infrastructure whose political consequences are someone else’s concern, and a governance minimalism that treats any collective decision-making structure as a potential vector for the... See more