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Systemic fragility as a sign of possibility rather than collapse
I’m back at the keyboard after a challenging Summer that ended with an interesting opportunity to step up in front of a community in Sweden and start talking about the building blocks of a more generative society. For months, I have had this thought in my mind: What if
Spirit, Heart, Head, Hands
Approaching the world in the right order might be a key to rethinking our relationships and building a healthier society.
Crisis by design
A statutory debt ceiling disconnected from the regular budget process is just a posturing opportunity for leaders who refuse to govern responsibly within the system they ostensibly lead.
Section 230 isn't the tool we need
Two major Supreme Court cases decided last week show where we need to focus our attention if we hope to create a framework for guiding and regulating our public sphere.
Weekend Edition: No more blank pages
Some will see that declaration as a rubicon of achievement in the arrival of generative AI and be elated. But what might we be giving up?
Weekend Edition: Insufficiently public, insufficiently just
Fox News's settlement might be getting in the way of an opportunity to get what we need from the Sullivan standard and our defense of the First Amendment in the Dominion lawsuit.
A new labor race to the bottom?
Our policies about people need attention before we completely dehumanize ourselves.
Weekend Edition: What our debate about Section 230 and platform liability should be about
Two cases this week about Section 230 and social media liability for terrorism could affect the next generation of information and media systems and their influence on our public sphere.
The exceptional outsider democratists
A wonderful, posthumous gift from David Graeber invites us to think differently about the roots of democratic culture and the functioning of democratic communities.
Weekend Edition: A familiar breathlessness
What the last decade wrestling with the potential and effects of social media might teach us about how we greet ChatGPT.
Weekend Edition: We Were All Environmentalists Once
Our estrangement from nature might just be both older and less permanent that we think