Howard Silverman
@hsilv.bsky.social
waymaking with faulty maps amidst evolving territories
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I don't know if my description really captures it, but this is one of my favorite pods I've ever recorded. This is absolutely the future of the grid, and it's amazing.
January 14, 2026 at 6:33 PM
I don't know if my description really captures it, but this is one of my favorite pods I've ever recorded. This is absolutely the future of the grid, and it's amazing.
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"If your city does not have a public financing system for elections ... we strongly suggest you fight to win a program like Democracy Vouchers."
jacobin.com/2026/01/kati...
jacobin.com/2026/01/kati...
We Ran Katie Wilson’s Campaign. Here’s What We Learned.
Seattle’s new socialist mayor, Katie Wilson, won with an authentic image, a strong social media presence, a dedicated and energetic volunteer base, a relentless focus on material issues over political...
jacobin.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:49 PM
"If your city does not have a public financing system for elections ... we strongly suggest you fight to win a program like Democracy Vouchers."
jacobin.com/2026/01/kati...
jacobin.com/2026/01/kati...
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Call for Participation for the ASC 2026 Conference: Conversational Confluences, to be held in Ouro Preto, Brazil, from August 3 to 7, 2026.
Submission: December 22, 2025, to February 23, 2026
More information:
events.asc-cybernetics.org/2026/
#cybernetics #art #design #Beer100 #vsm
Submission: December 22, 2025, to February 23, 2026
More information:
events.asc-cybernetics.org/2026/
#cybernetics #art #design #Beer100 #vsm
December 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Call for Participation for the ASC 2026 Conference: Conversational Confluences, to be held in Ouro Preto, Brazil, from August 3 to 7, 2026.
Submission: December 22, 2025, to February 23, 2026
More information:
events.asc-cybernetics.org/2026/
#cybernetics #art #design #Beer100 #vsm
Submission: December 22, 2025, to February 23, 2026
More information:
events.asc-cybernetics.org/2026/
#cybernetics #art #design #Beer100 #vsm
First, champion digital public money that is privacy-preserving and not reliant on for-profit intermediaries;
Second, regulate shadow money, e.g., Stablecoins;
Finally, target speculative, extractive finance, not private currencies.
[email protected]
lpeproject.org/blog/how-the...
Second, regulate shadow money, e.g., Stablecoins;
Finally, target speculative, extractive finance, not private currencies.
[email protected]
lpeproject.org/blog/how-the...
How the Left Lost the Plot on Crypto (and How to Find it Again)
The story of crypto’s transformation from cypherpunk experiment to Wall Street darling is bleak, but it was not preordained. Where did the left go wrong, and how can it reassert itself in shaping the…
lpeproject.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:11 AM
First, champion digital public money that is privacy-preserving and not reliant on for-profit intermediaries;
Second, regulate shadow money, e.g., Stablecoins;
Finally, target speculative, extractive finance, not private currencies.
[email protected]
lpeproject.org/blog/how-the...
Second, regulate shadow money, e.g., Stablecoins;
Finally, target speculative, extractive finance, not private currencies.
[email protected]
lpeproject.org/blog/how-the...
"Mimetic innovation became the Anglo-Atlantic world’s final comparative advantage: shaping how the world imagined itself." - Chor Pharn
thecuttingfloor.substack.com/p/the-treaty...
thecuttingfloor.substack.com/p/the-treaty...
The Treaty of the Machine Century
After the Hero
thecuttingfloor.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"Mimetic innovation became the Anglo-Atlantic world’s final comparative advantage: shaping how the world imagined itself." - Chor Pharn
thecuttingfloor.substack.com/p/the-treaty...
thecuttingfloor.substack.com/p/the-treaty...
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While we wait for the polls to close, check out my interview with Ivan Pardo, who built the technology that the Mamdani campaign has used to organize its way to City Hall. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
Solidarity Tech: The Platform Powering Zohran Mamdani's Movement
A conversation with Ivan Pardo, the founder of Solidarity Tech, on how a platform built for "deep organizing" of workers building unions is being used to take power in New York City.
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
While we wait for the polls to close, check out my interview with Ivan Pardo, who built the technology that the Mamdani campaign has used to organize its way to City Hall. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
"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...
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...
media.ccc.de
August 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"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...
Meredith Whittaker
media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feeli...
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The monetary commons is an idea whose time has come! monetarycommons.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The monetary commons is an idea whose time has come! monetarycommons.com
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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...
June 15, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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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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
May 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Open access edition of "Principles of Biological Autonomy" can be found here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
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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
May 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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...
"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
david-bollier.simplecast.com/episodes/com...
more brilliant interviews by @davidbollier.bsky.social
david-bollier.simplecast.com/episodes/com...
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...
david-bollier.simplecast.com
April 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
"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
david-bollier.simplecast.com/episodes/com...
more brilliant interviews by @davidbollier.bsky.social
david-bollier.simplecast.com/episodes/com...
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"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:
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.
magiccanoe.org
April 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
"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:
Excellent reporting by @ahofschneider.bsky.social / Jake Bittle, co-pub'd @gristnews.bsky.social / @underscore-news.bsky.social:
“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 >>
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 >>
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
April 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
“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 >>
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 >>
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March 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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🚨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.
‘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.
March 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
🚨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.
‘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.
"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...
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.”
www.nytimes.com
March 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
"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...
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...
values: fair, prosperous, plural, free
drivers: Economic Precarity, Ingenuity Gap, Message Distortion, Epistemic Fragmentation
drivers: Economic Precarity, Ingenuity Gap, Message Distortion, Epistemic Fragmentation
As Canada faces U.S. tariffs and threats of annexation, the Cascade Institute presents a strategic framework to revitalize and defend our democracy.
cascadeinstitute.org/technical-pa...
cascadeinstitute.org/technical-pa...
March 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
values: fair, prosperous, plural, free
drivers: Economic Precarity, Ingenuity Gap, Message Distortion, Epistemic Fragmentation
drivers: Economic Precarity, Ingenuity Gap, Message Distortion, Epistemic Fragmentation