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Jon Alexander

@jonjalex

Author CITIZENS: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us. activist / strategist/ citizen / co-founder @NewCitProj / advisor @DemocracyNext

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Noah Giansiracusa (@profnoahgian) 's Twitter Profile Photo

No joke, Andrew Ng just wrote this in his weekly newsletter: “I’m optimistic this will allow AI researchers to win more Nobel Prizes — someday also in economics, literature, medicine, and peace, too.” I didn’t think these guys could get any more hubristic. I was wrong.

pia mancini (@piamancini) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Big Announcement: The Open Collective Platform is moving to a community governed non-profit! blog.opencollective.com/the-open-colle…

PlayfulAnywhere (@playfulanytime) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So so chuffed by the way in which the playful spirits of Leeds have so wholeheartedly embraced getting involved in this first DIY city wide festival. We have come together as a community this year. Check it out. So much on for all leedsinspired.co.uk/collection/FOP… #LeedsPlayFest

So so chuffed by the way in which the playful spirits of Leeds have so wholeheartedly embraced getting involved in this first DIY city wide festival. 
We have come together as a community this year.
Check it out. So much on for all

leedsinspired.co.uk/collection/FOP…

#LeedsPlayFest
Hélène Landemore (@landemore) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A nice review in the The Guardian of the brilliant paper by Chris Summerfield et al. "The Habermas machine" whereby an #AI helps groups find common ground: theguardian.com/technology/202…

PlayfulAnywhere (@playfulanytime) 's Twitter Profile Photo

One of my biggest passions in playful place making & community development. I am particularly interested in what Jon Alexander calls the Citizen Story (as opposed to the ‘consumer story’) I’m interested in how we citizens transform our civic spaces, and how we go about it

Red Press (@redpresspub) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Looking forward to next week's event at the Conduit with Jon Alexander Martyn Sibley and Simon J Duffy talking about what we can learn about the future of democracy from those living with disability. #EverydayCitizenship theconduit.com/upcoming-event…

Looking forward to next week's event at the Conduit with <a href="/jonjalex/">Jon Alexander</a> <a href="/martynsibley/">Martyn Sibley</a> and <a href="/simonjduffy/">Simon J Duffy</a> talking about what we can learn about the future of democracy from those living with disability. #EverydayCitizenship 

theconduit.com/upcoming-event…
Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What's truly depressing is how much this is a mirror to the rot in the American economy and society today: you end up governed by self-interested autocrats when there is no value higher than personal profit.

Jon Alexander (@jonjalex) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Getting set for Caroline Lucas Grantham Institute Imperial Annual Lecture “How can bold climate action combat populism and rebuild our communities?” I’ll be on panel to share responses 🤓 Starting in t-45 mins Livestream 🔗 m.youtube.com/live/x8ixTKxKi…

Grace Blakeley (@graceblakeley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It feels really weird hearing the chancellor talking about economic growth without acknowledging the economic catastrophe of climate breakdown #budget

Kate Raworth (@kateraworth) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Over 50 city & municipal governments are embedding the concepts & tools of Doughnut Economics in their strategies, policies and processes - check out how they are getting started with some fantastic peer-to-peer inspiration summed up in our new report... doughnuteconomics.org/tools/cities-r…

Over 50 city &amp; municipal governments are embedding the concepts &amp; tools of Doughnut Economics in their strategies, policies and processes - check out how they are getting started with some fantastic peer-to-peer inspiration summed up in our new report... doughnuteconomics.org/tools/cities-r…
ਇਮਨਦੀਪ ਕੌਰ | Imandeep Kaur (@immykaur) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Just over a decade ago, after being so inspired by our years organising with TEDxBrum, Impact Hub Oakland and the Project 00 family, we took a big leap, signed the lease on a space, and launched this kickstarter, it was the start of something so special, so grateful for you all

Just over a decade ago, after being so inspired by our years organising with TEDxBrum, Impact Hub Oakland and the Project 00 family, we took a big leap, signed the lease on a space, and launched this kickstarter, it was the start of something so special, so grateful for you all
The Young Foundation (@the_young_fdn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Blog✍️| People feel research is often done to them, rather than with, by, or for them and the radical #CommunityResearchNetworks programme with UK Research and Innovation aims to ‘challenge this dysfunctional relationship’. Read here 👇 bit.ly/3BARaVl

Armen (@armen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Seeking Agency: Breaking the Cycle of Leadership Distrust and Building a Better Society, described by Jon Alexander From episode 348 of The Armen Show with Jon Alexander and Ariane Conrad, authors of "Citizens" Jon Alexander

Ece Temelkuran (@etemelkuran) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I want to make a postcard of this and send it to all those academics, politicians and journalists who smirked for years when I -together with a few thinkers- told them that Fascism is coming. However, I know very well that one shouldn’t direct her anger to those who couldn’t see

Timothy Snyder (@timothydsnyder) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. Nervous Musk, Trump, Vance have all been outclassed in public arguments these last few

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Matt Leach | @mattleach.bsky.social reflects on the findings of Community, not catastrophe, a report that calls for networks of trust, mutual aid, volunteering, community support, and civil society to urgently be recognised as ‘critical national infrastructure’ in UK crisis preparedness planning 👇

<a href="/matt_leach/">Matt Leach | @mattleach.bsky.social</a> reflects on the findings of Community, not catastrophe, a report that calls for networks of trust, mutual aid, volunteering, community support, and civil society to urgently be recognised as ‘critical national infrastructure’ in UK crisis preparedness planning 👇
Ece Temelkuran (@etemelkuran) 's Twitter Profile Photo

And the Spring is here. In several places like Turkey, Serbia and the US, the world is shaking off the paralysis of fear to end the bloody winter of politics. As the masses on the streets bring along the Spring, Together: A Manifesto Against the Heartless World comes to life.

And the Spring is here.  
In several places like Turkey, Serbia and the US, the world is shaking off the paralysis of fear to end the bloody winter of politics. As the masses on the streets bring along the Spring, Together: A Manifesto Against the Heartless World comes to life.