Ronen Tamari

I think we should dogfood from day 1 by starting The International Journal of Authenticated Takes. We accept publications in multiple lexica that are AT-relevant, and we publish as a peer-review overlay journal.

I see a huge opportunity for how the AT Protocol could reshape academic publishing. Imagine researchers publishing continuously and atomically — before, during, and after research projects — in public connected continuous streams of discovery and insight.

You cannot say enough bad things about the banning of links on social media platforms. I truly feel it has a sizeable role to play in the downfall of society that we're witnessing.

Next up: Designing Institutions That Listen: The Future of Responsive Governance
- @bethnoveck.bsky.social (@northeasternu.bsky.social)

Next up: Designing Institutions That Listen: The Future of Responsive Governance
- @bethnoveck.bsky.social (@northeasternu.bsky.social)

Jeb on challenges for starting data co-ops in the US: Federal exemptions only for a few existing co-op types. New ones fight case-by-case in courts ($$). Credit unions as interesting legacy model.

Julia:
Many people say that AI is the end of co-ops.. On the contrary - co-ops are born when markets fail the ordinary people - for example the Rochdale co-ops in England during the industrial revolution

Join | Mozilla Data Collective Mozilla Data Collective is rebuilding the AI data ecosystem with communities at the centre.

Christine sharing an interesting Mozilla project: datacollective.mozillafoundation.org

Next up - Panel on Cooperatives in the Data Economy: Decentralizing Data, Democratizing Value
- Panelists: Jeb Bell ( @projectliberty.io ); Júlia Martins Rodrigues ( @medlabboulder.bsky.social ); Christine Kim ( @mozilla.org )
- Moderator: @theodoraskeadas.bsky.social

Call to action for a 'coalition of the willing' - orgs ready to either: (a) lock down info and collectively bargain, or (b) make this a cross-party political fight to rethink IP from the ground up.
Anything less = ecosystem collapse

Path 1: Lock down your data collectively to maintain control. Cost? It's no longer public/accessible.

Path 2: Pass new laws that let creators assert rights over already-public information. Cost? Requires fundamental IP reform.

Matt on why data co-ops are so hard:
Because we're avoiding the hard choices. There are only 2 real paths forward, and both are costly. Everything else is 'utopia land.' >

Panel on Data Intermediaries with Lacey Strahm (@openmined.bsky.social); Matt Prewitt (@radxchange.bsky.social ); Tom Cochran (Cochran Consulting)
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"We're also in a time of consolidation of power by tech billionaires working closely with autocrats... are corporations going to save democracy?"

@lizbarry.bsky.social moderating the panel with a great story about the untold elements underlying Taiwan's successes in deploying digital democracy. The success was in large part because the population had already learned how to engage in collaborative dialogue through non-technological means.

Now a panel with Axel & Beth.

Axel: "large scale deliberation tools showed me that our societies are actually less divided than we think."

Axel Dauchez of make.org sharing the secret sauce of how to scale deliberation to millions of citizens!
"Be obsessed about lowering the cost of engagement"
"Combine solutions at multiple scales"

Very cool demo from @bgoldberg.bsky.social ! New tools like Jigsaw's AI town hall unlock unprecedented levels of participation both in scale and frequency.

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Case study from Gitlab: company handbook is public, collectively authored, has been transformative for the company. handbook.gitlab.com

"People need *time* to be able to participate in democracy but we've created an economy where no one has free time and a majority of the population is living paycheck to paycheck"

"People need *time* to be able to participate in democracy but we've created an economy where no one has free time and a majority of the population is living paycheck to paycheck"

Panel - Designing Democratic Infrastructure for the AI Age.
Interesting mention of @cortico.bsky.social and how they scale sensemaking by enabling participants to annotate transcripts and highlight parts they agree with

Side convo on how AI safety field is not paying enough attention to the "here and now" risks of corporate power concentration. Also interesting history of corporations - they used to be state-chartered, time and mission bound entities. (eg a corporation to build a railroad bridge)

Similar to "governance overload" phenomena we discussed in osf.io/preprints/me... @ntnsndr.in @kelsiemvn.bsky.social @mzargham.bsky.social

and connect legislators to the experts / stakeholders that can help them understand the proposals they're voting on?

Interesting panel Q&A surfacing a key challenge for legislators that face an overwhelming amount of increasingly complex proposals - they lack the time, staff and literacy to make sense of the proposals they need to vote on. Can social network and AI help distribute the load more effectively >

LLMs as transformative tools for collective sensemaking - capable of synthesizing real time inputs at large scale to produce actionable proposals that reflect the key issues participants have surfaced

Also emphasizing importance of creating real demand for more participatory processes as opposed to just trying to get people's attention and asking them to vote on issue X or Y

Stuart on the challenge of engaging people in participatory processes - leverage social media to meet people where they are. Emphasizes the need for "rebuilding the democratic muscle" and getting people used to engaging in digital democracy from local to national levels >

Stuart Lynn from CrownShy talking about some very cool digital democracy projects in Scotland and elsewhere! Nice to see Harmonica mentioned @zhiganov.bsky.social ;)