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Howard Silverman @hsilv.bsky.social · Sep 13

Yeah. Role of Discord in Nepal situation would make for a great @rabble.nz podcast

Howard Silverman @hsilv.bsky.social · Aug 30

"It's when we understand love-desire-intimacy as a force for transformation that we see more clearly why love, desire and intimacy are met with anxiety and regimes of control that aim to curtail and contain this transformative potential."
Meredith Whittaker
media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feeli...

Feelings are Facts: Love, Privacy, and the Politics of Intellectual Shame

A debut of new research and analysis, focused on emotions and the affective register—love! shame! intimacy! What happens when we put lov...

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Howard Silverman @hsilv.bsky.social · Aug 5

revolution.social

revolution.social - A Podcast About the Social Media Revolution

Join us as we explore the social media revolution and how we can build an open world for all.

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · Jul 2

The monetary commons is an idea whose time has come! monetarycommons.com

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John Thackara @johnthackara.bsky.social · Jun 15

Wild - in a good way - that these extraordinary posters on indigenous futurisms by Dr Ambelin Kwaymullina were commissioned by (and shown at) a School of Cybernetics @ourANU. They're a must-read. cybernetics.anu.edu.au/projects/Ind...

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Howard Silverman @hsilv.bsky.social · Jun 5

www.organism.earth/library/

The Library

The universe is aware of itself through all of us. Come get lost in The Library’s virtual aisles to find out more about this astounding revelation.

www.organism.earth

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Philip Laughlin @philiplaughlin.bsky.social · May 22

Open access edition of "Principles of Biological Autonomy" can be found here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Principles of Biological Autonomy

A new, updated edition of the 1979 classic from one of the foremost authors in cognitive science and theoretical biology, with the original text as well as

direct.mit.edu

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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · May 19

New ep: Quinn Slobodian on Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right. Anarcho-capitalist/paleo-libertarian mutant neoliberals promoting IQ as measure of value; hard borders for humans w free trade for capital; gold as only true currency www.thedigradio.com/podcast/haye...

Hayek’s Bastards w/ Quinn Slobodian

Featuring Quinn Slobodian on his book Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right. MAGA and its far-right populist siblings around the world aren’t just a backlash to neolibe...

www.thedigradio.com

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Howard Silverman @hsilv.bsky.social · May 16

"The environment contains no information; the environment is as it is." -Heinz von Foerster (1974/2003:252)

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Howard Silverman @hsilv.bsky.social · May 7

www.enactingecologicalaesthetics.com/batesons-cos...

Steps Around a Theory of Action: Notes on Seven Bateson Conferences Cosmos - Enacting Ecological Aesthetics Steps Around a Theory of Action: Notes on Seven Bateson Conferences Cosmos Steps Around a Th...

Notes from seven Gregory Bateson conferences exploring systems theory and ecological aesthetics.

www.enactingecologicalaesthetics.com

Howard Silverman @hsilv.bsky.social · Apr 7

"tacit knowledge transmitted as tacit knowledge, so that people can understand and feel it in a non-explicit, experiential way"

more brilliant interviews by @davidbollier.bsky.social
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Commoning within Arts Collectives, Episode #61 | Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier

What are some of the distinctive ways that precarious arts collectives share resources, support each other, and make art? This episode hears from artists' collectives in three countries to learn how t...

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Magic Canoe @magiccanoe.bsky.social · Apr 5

"If it wasn’t for these fish I wouldn’t be here today. My people would have died off a long time ago. We can’t walk away from this and we will not walk away from this.”

Excellent reporting by @ahofschneider.bsky.social / Jake Bittle, co-pub'd @gristnews.bsky.social / @underscore-news.bsky.social:

How the Klamath Dams Came Down - Magic Canoe

Last year, tribal nations in Oregon and California won a decades-long fight for the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story.

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Howard Silverman @hsilv.bsky.social · Apr 5

“poverty deepens as wealth increases, and wages are
forced down while productive power grows, because land, which is the source of all wealth and the field of all labour, is monopolised.” -Henry George, 1879

Taiwan experience w Georgist land reform >>

James Lin @jamestwotree.bsky.social · Apr 4

Open access publication! My book is now available open access for everyone to read and download free on the @ucpress.bsky.social website: www.ucpress.edu/books/in-the... A brief thread about the book /1

In the Global Vanguard by James Lin - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

www.ucpress.edu

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Howard Silverman @hsilv.bsky.social · Apr 5

This one's good too www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ts5...

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Azrael Abyss @shadowdancerpath.bsky.social · Mar 17

www.cascadiabiofi.org

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Howard Silverman @hsilv.bsky.social · Mar 21

fadmagazine.com/2025/03/05/l...

Landmark exhibition on more-than-human design to open at the Design Museum.

From an enormous nature calendar to spaces designed for multispecies encounters, this exhibition aims to set a new direction for design based on humanity’s collaboration with the living world.

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Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · Mar 11

🚨New Paper🚨 (hi law reviews!)

‘Digitizing the Fisc’ is the first article to address the current separation of fiscal powers crisis, exemplified by Trump's takeover of the Treasury's payments IT systems, through a tri-dimensional legal, political economic, & technological lens.

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Howard Silverman @hsilv.bsky.social · Mar 9

"If we want to keep open our option to buy food grown
near where we live, we must buy from local farmers--
whether or not they are organic. We have to save them first
and reform them later." -- Joan Dye Gussow, 1999

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/s...

Joan Dye Gussow, Pioneer of Eating Locally, Is Dead at 96

An indefatigable gardener, she was concerned, a colleague said, with “all the things that have to happen for us to get our food.”

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Howard Silverman @hsilv.bsky.social · Mar 6

values: fair, prosperous, plural, free
drivers: Economic Precarity, Ingenuity Gap, Message Distortion, Epistemic Fragmentation

Cascade Institute @cascadeinstitute.bsky.social · Mar 4

As Canada faces U.S. tariffs and threats of annexation, the Cascade Institute presents a strategic framework to revitalize and defend our democracy.

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Defending Canada's Democracy: A Strategic Framework

Released by the Cascade Institute on March 4, 2025

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · Feb 26

It took me longer than I hoped to finish but I'm really happy about the outcome: My big picture piece about Musk and Trump visiting Fort Knox. The headline tells you what you need to know but its also a very accurate summary of every step of my argument

www.crisesnotes.com/a-scam-built...

A Scam Built Atop an Accounting Gimmick Wrapped in Bullshit: Why Visiting Fort Knox Is Not About Selling Gold but is About Buying Bitcoin

Notes on the Crises pivoted on February 1st into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025. Today is Day Twenty Two Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Par...

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Howard Silverman @hsilv.bsky.social · Feb 26

dots and patterning...
technocracy, project russia, kill the fed...
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WHAT IS ELON MUSK'S ENDGAME? | That Trippi Show

YouTube video by Resolute Square

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American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social · Feb 22

Acting with the World: The Choreography of Agency

Conversation to explore an unfamiliar but important pattern of environmental action attuned to the agency of nature and wicked problems

📅 Sunday, March 16, 2025
⏰ 9:00 AM PDT | 12:00 PM EDT | 5:00 PM CEST

👉 Register now: https://buff.ly/4gWeVFX