Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack, a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in. – Leonard Cohen, from his poem Anthem Dear friends, When my friend and collaborator Martin Rausch set out to translate Audrey Tang’s and Glen Weyl’s philosophical and technical …
Time-sensitive through March 18, 2026. See “IF YOU’RE QUICK”, below. Dear friends, Many of you know that I participated in the 1986 …
I’ve been promoting mini-publics – citizen assemblies, citizens juries, citizen councils, etc. – for more than two decades. Their design is a …
Dear friends, Today I realized I need to add another source of collective (and individual!) wisdom – Attunement. This source has been …
Dear friends, While working on my last blog post about Audrey Tang’s work, I was also helping organize and edit a book …
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——-My quiet winter fundraising campaignwill continue through January…So far we’ve received $775 from 15 people(out of 1500 subscribers).Might you join them?If you …
Dear friends The intention of this series of posts has been to demonstrate the value of engaging chatbots in respectful collaborative explorations …
Dear friends, This round I asked Chat GPT, AlterAI and Claude to look over their individual responses to the previous rounds’ prompts …
Dear friends, In a Q&A interview at the end of a remarkable speech by AI expert Kate Crawford that I watched yesterday, …