Joshua Dávila
@tbsocialist
I used to blog and podcast about crypto and the left
THIS TUESDAY September 29th at 11 EST / 17 CET
@breadcoop will be running an event with the folks at Democratic Tech Fund to discuss how we are building alternatives to the current funding landscape to support tech that is focused on the commons!
Register here:
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I'm excited to finally announce All Models Are Wrong (on @Substack)!
The thesis of the show is that the continued development and introduction of “frontier technologies” will (as it has already) bisect traditional political camps in ways that will surprise us. The models that we’ve grown up with to make sense of the w...
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What do we think?
Update on Farcaster, Clanker and Neynar
We’ve started a process to look for a new home / team to run the products going forward. Sharing here before anything is finalized so it’s less of a surprise this time.
Earlier this year, this seemed to be a good fit for our team: it was a developer-first network, and we'd bee
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After 6+ years, I'm retiring The Blockchain Socialist.
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This isn’t the end but what I believe to be a new beginning that better fits the current moment.
🧵 Why and what's coming next
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Great conversation with my friend Julio Linares on his book about Decolonizing Money and abolishing the US dollar
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AI is becoming the MEV of web search
It front runs the financialized attention of web users already monetized by advertising-dominant business models of the internet
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🚨Yanis Varoufakis on blockchain, the digital euro and being a class traitor
I spoke to @yanisvaroufakis, economist and former Greek finance minister, at @Web3summit in Berlin on June 18th, about why he thinks blockchain is one of the few tools that can pull power away from Big Tech and the banks.
Truly a privilege ...
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🚨 Zero Knowledge: Solution for Digital Identity? w/ Leo Fan
I talked to Leo Fan, co-founder of @cysic_xyz, about zero-knowledge proofs, how they let you prove something's true without handing over your personal data, why that matters as governments push digital ID systems, and how Cysic lets you use your own hardware...
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At @Web3Summit this past month, I gave probably what was one of the strangest presentations I've ever given. Over the past year I've been mulling over some big concepts and trying to put them all together in one coherent narrative.
What if all this talk about the K-shaped economy is actually just a visual representati...
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🚨AI, Empire, and the Left's Missing Voice w/ Nick Srnicek
I spoke to @nsrnicek, author of Silicon Empires, about how AI is consolidating Big Tech's power.
We also discuss:
- how the left should be involved in AI development
- why the gap between open and closed models may widen as frontier training costs spiral upw...
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I just baked some BREAD to help fund on-chain post-capitalism thanks to bread.coop!
I grew the bakery to 405,000 BREAD! 🍞 🍞 🍞
fund.bread.coop
Some reflections on speaking to @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social at @web3summit.com
theblockchainsocialist.com/five-takeawa...
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