Joshua Dávila
@tbsocialist
I used to blog and podcast about crypto and the left
My interview with René Pinnell from Dweb Camp is finally out for the public on All Models Are Wrong
Obv this one was complicated to publish since René's strokes and the announced shut down of Artizen where many people lost funds including my own @breadcoop
This is likely the last interview he did before his stroke. ...
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For those affected by the Artizen situation, I'm happy to share a showcase that I've been working on built on the @breadcoop stack as an alternative to get feedback.
tbsoc.github.io/pastry/
How it works:
- Deposit and get pasUSD, pasEUR or pasETH. You can always redeem them 1:1 for the underlying token
- The...
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🚨New episode of AMAW out on YouTube and @substack: Why experts are WORSE at predicting the future than you
@danielerasmus spent 25 years doing scenario planning for banks, governments and companies. In 2006, a scenario he worked on helped one bank prepare for the 2008 financial crisis, it was one of only two banks in...
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🚨The first episode of All Models Are Wrong is out🚨
What the Internet Archive founder predicted 50 years ago
I spoke with Brewster Kahle during DWeb Camp about his work on AI in the 80s, what went wrong with the web and the one time he tried to start a bank.
FULL EPISODE⬇️
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After 7 years, The Blockchain Socialist has ended but today, its rebirth begins:
All Models Are Wrong
AMAW examines who controls and benefits from technological systems, and how they might be organized differently.
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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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