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Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

User Trusts: Broad-Based Ownership for Online Platforms

Nathan Schneider mediarxiv.org

Competitive Moats in an Information World — Geoff Yamane

Geoff Yamane geoff-yamane.com

Increasingly, our online worlds are being built by individuals, not just communities.‡

Nadia Eghbal • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

How to Win the Future: An Agenda for the Third Generation of the Internet

a16z.com

Ball and Enjeti are not immensely popular influencers earning many millions of dollars from a vast audience of followers. But they’re also not toiling away on a show that’s effectively a nonprofitable side hustle. They instead fall into a middle ground that Lanier despaired didn’t exist for creative professionals. The total budget for “Breaking Poi... See more

Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class

Inexpensive and user-friendly digital tools for manipulating text, images and sounds — think Photoshop or GarageBand — have dramatically broadened access to the means of cultural production and blurred the lines between amateurs and professionals. But the question is not just how many people engage in cultural production — it’s how people engage.&

ROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents

Plurality Philosophy in an Incredibly Oversized Nutshell

Glen Weyl vitalik.eth.limo

His name is Tristan Harris, a former start-up founder and Google engineer who deviated from his well-worn path through the world of tech to become something decidedly rarer in this closed world: a whistleblower.

“This thing is a slot machine,” Harris says early in the interview while holding up his smartphone.

“How is that a slot machine?” Cooper ask