This Is How Free Speech Dies Clare Daly NetworkAffects Ondřej Dostál

Brent Scher Daily Wire here is the full report judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subs…

🧵 Plural Publics: From Counting to Meaning For centuries, we treated governance like math. 🧮 Count votes. Count tokens. Trust the sum. But what if governance isn’t about counting opinions but about composing shared meaning?

vitalik.eth has wrestled with this for years. 🔍 2017: Coin voting → plutocracy 🩹 2021: QV, futarchy, conviction voting → clever patches 🌐 2024: Plurality, the idea that good governance means plural publics

“Good governance is not opinion aggregation. It’s building and maintaining plural publics.” -Vitalik, Plurality (2024)

So what’s wrong with counting? 🐋 Coin voting: whales win, votes get bought, no depth 🧩 Quadratic Voting: more nuance, but Sybil attacks and collusion persist ⚙️ Both treat governance like an equation but humans aren’t numbers

Plurality flips this logic. It’s not a voting system, it’s a coordination philosophy 🤝 People are interdependent 🔗 Trust comes from context 🗣️ Legitimacy comes from meaningful participation

In practice, this means 🪪 Proof of personhood (ZK IDs) 🌐 Trust graphs (who trusts whom and on what) 🕵️ Privacy-preserving voting 📡 Delegated, contextual voice

Nowhere else on earth.☝️China has built the world's largest renewable energy system, with a capacity of 2.09 billion kW as of May, more than doubling in just 5 years. Result: 1/3 of China's electricity is green now. This is absolutely a huge feat.

Francesca Albanese is now under sanctions by the U.S. for being vocal against genocide and war crimes. For having humanity, honesty and courage. For Trump, Netanyahu and their stooges, no good deed goes unpunished. And yet, they will not have the last word. Francesca will!

In Living Water Cities, floating island ecosystems can be added bit by bit - but continuously - to help revitalise damaged rivers and watersheds. Great work here by Biomatrix Water - and thanks to Daniel Christian Wahl for the tip biomatrixwater.com/living-water-c…

"the German Minister of the Interior travelled to Israel to secure cooperation on cyber- and security issues." german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail…

One of my favourite political thinkers, on how to roll back the excesses of globalization: thenation.com/article/cultur…

Report on the drone arms race: youtu.be/RmfNUM2CbbM?fe…

I unfortunately missed this, but am driving back to Chiang Mai today (cc Dev Lewis ) * "Cosmo-local Chiang Mai | Aligning Sacred with Science The event summary + full recording from our dinner discussion on 27 June is now live! 🌀 We explored Complexity Science, Applied

Tonight in Chiang Mai, at 4seas Nimman: * Planetary Thinking Needs a Cosmic Perspective "Planetary thinking (and ecology at large) relating to questions around Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence, species extinction, and other such global challenges, is impossible without

A critique of * Nature-Based Solutions "At the heart of NbS is the commodification of environmental systems through carbon financing mechanisms aimed at offsetting emissions through unregulated voluntary markets. Reducing nature to economic terms oversimplifies our

Bloomberg terminal now denominates bitcoin's price in the millions.

CCG25, the Crypto Commons Alliance gathering: happening August 24–29 at the Commons Hub here’s the link: ccg2025.vercel.app

Michel Bauwens Benjamin Life Here’s the GPT on Point Zero and commitment pooling (English) The "Point Zéro" approach from France aligns closely with commitment pool logic, particularly in its regenerative, relational framing. Here are its key characteristics: --- 🔍 Essence of Point Zéro (in French