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@miawintam
Urbanist thinking about open places, open access, and open web. She/her. /urbanism | @decentralpark | decentralpark.nyc | zora.co/@miawintam
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We had another successful Decentral Park meetup on Tuesday night!
@tbsocialist (author of Blockchain Radicals and co-founder of Bread Coop) and Beth McCarthy (Program Director of Web3Privacy) led a workshop where we looked at global case studies of municipal socialism through a technology & sovereignty angle, and then...
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โThe problem is the set of incentives that govern all platforms, the economic logic that turns every online space into either an engagement farm or a ghost town, and changing platforms without changing those incentives is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, except the Titanic is the entire attention economy an...
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Me and all my homies love participatory budgeting
Thanks to everyone who showed up to our collaborative workshop with RadicalXChange on Wednesday in Greenpoint!
Jack walked us through their quadratic voting pilot for public funds in Harlem, the ethos of plurality, and collaborative technology initiatives in Taiwan, Japan, and California. Then we brainstormed how par
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โBastard Chairsโ by Michael Wolf, photographed between 2003-2005
โPhotographed in the back alleys and streets of Hong Kong and mainland China, these hybrid seats were improvised repairs made by local residents using whatever materials were available. Broken plastic backs grafted onto wooden stools. Metal legs bolted i...
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Iโm having a hard time wrapping my head around the split in โattention economyโ discourse
this is a term coined in political economy to describe the systematic harvesting of human cognition as a capital resource โ one of the defining extractions of late capitalism, strip-mined for profit without meaningful consent
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Public service infrastructure, delivery, and accountability needs to be better. looking forward to work on this at @decentralpark
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Please be careful with your relationship to health & wellness industry.
Remember that the best techniques to improve your physical and mental health are usually free, and donโt necessitate your entanglement into the hyper-consumerist web of subscription fitness models and obsessive body metric tracking.
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