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Cover of The Eternal Network Together with Aymeric Mansoux I co-authored an essay that looks at the interrelation between Free/Libre Open Source Software(F/LOSS) and the Fediverse, an alternative social media network. Through seven different theses, the essay explores how this latest federated social network challenges both the established forms of production and governance in F/LOSS software, as well as the governance of social media platforms. Table of Contents: Meet the Fediverse The Fediverse as the Transition from Meme Wars to Network Wars The Fediverse as an Ongoing Critique of Openness The Fediverse as a Site for Online Agonistic Pluralism The Fediverse as a Shift from a Technical to a Social Understanding of Privacy The Fediverse as a Way Out of Data Sharecropping and Free Labor The Fediverse as the Rise of a New Kind of Usership The Fediverse as the End of Free/Libre and Open Source Software as We Know It Download the essay on Monoskop.

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Americans mythologize economic competition, but it's actually the opposite of capitalism. If you want to create and capture lasting value, writes Peter Thiel, look to build a monopoly.

Merge Labs has emerged from stealth with $252 million in funding from OpenAI and others. It aims to use ultrasound to read from and write to the brain.

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I came of age in 1990s Baltimore. It was my very dangerous, drug-addled, murder playhouse. The city was pretty much disintegrating around me as I passed by on my skateboard, bought my first house, and had my first real adult career. It was a very different city then. It was not pretty. It had not been gentrified. It was a mess but it was my mess. I loved every crack in the sidewalk and still do.

In the seminal essay, Barbrook and Cameron insisted that there are other ways to build technology, and to do it democratically, writes Nathan Schneider.

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Margaret Archer, SOCIAL INTEGRATION AND SYSTEM INTEGRATION: DEVELOPING THE DISTINCTION, Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 4 (November 1996), pp. 679-699

Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto might be well-spirited, but one thing in it is fundamentally wrong: In times like these, the most important thing we at Facebook can do is develop the social infrastructure to give people the power to build a global community that works for all of us. Facebook isn’t, and can never be, a platform where people have the power to build anything. Facebook doesn’t even have the pretense of a non-profit like Wikipedia or Mozilla; there is no doubt about the company’s main focus — extracting as much as possible from you — by analyzing your data and showing you ads in exchange for advertiser’s money.

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It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.