Greg Bloom

It is the only clear proposal i’ve ever seen for how we could get all the way through and past this mess. I wish more people talked about it!

(tbh i think it would make for a great prestige tv show. georgetown squaring off against anacostia!)

harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

One would think that this would merit an emergency convening of all Blue state governors, Attorneys generals and Congressional representatives. It's a declaration of war on one state which means they'll do it to others too.

omg was that Homeland Hugh

this is good; i’d be morbidly curious to subscribe to a list of em

It’s boring PR

this is uh, fucking crazy

i still have the book somewhere

“Late 2020s” is a phrase with a real ominous vibe.

I am prepared to accept the possibility that there is no documentation for the governance model of the Scumdogs of the Universe in existence on the internet

i still want to know about Gwar’s governance model

meanwhile: no, actually that’s not even close to the answer i was looking for.

i really miss when google worked.

New paper: the Value of Declaring Your Values A few years ago, shortly after I’d published “Averting Tragedy of the Resource Directory Anti-Commons” in The Cambridge Handbook on Commons Research Innovations, Angie Raymond asked if I woul…

I just shared an advance copy of my newest paper, "The Value of Having Values," pending publication in a book next year about Environmental Knowledge Commons: gregbloom.org/2025/12/02/n...

RIYL governance, fairness, etc

There's a lot more I want to unpack here; stay tuned!

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Great to see this 'bill of rights' for property insurance policyholders from @consumerreports.org – not sure what the path to wins would be here at this point but any one would begin with articulating where we want to go. This is a good start. Sign on! action.consumerreports.org/nb-20251003-...

Not just political establishment but healthcare, civic tech, and the nonprofit industrial complex more broadly. This new reality has major strategic ramifications for any organization working on something like "health equity" or "civil society" but ... nobody wants to talk about it.

this was at churchill’s, it’s miraculously reopened, i’m watching kids about this age in a show next door at sweat records, nature is healing 🙏✨🤘

The docs on WHAM and Milli Vanilli are both actually great – novelistic stories.

I also really enjoyed Roberta, and Still Bill; didn't see them mentioned here, and they're really worth checking out :)

*bee wings! 🤦🏼‍♂️

First prize!

The pic does not convey the full glory of the flapping butterfly wings.

I am here in person and it is fantastic

just an absolutely terrible time to be a rational person who is capable of critical thinking and cares about other people

Screenshot of asofterworld.com on November 29, 2004

asofterworld.com on November 29, 2004
https://web.archive.org/web/20041129010906if_/http://www.asofterworld.com:80

free palestine

Robin Berjon: Web standards The standards that govern the World Wide Web develop at the intersection of profit-seeking companies, nonprofit organizations, and small groups of people with …

Ever thought about what it takes for Safari, Chrome, and Firefox to display more or less the same web?

The latest interview at the Protocol Oral History Project is with @robin.berjon.com, reflecting on a career between tech companies & common standards: protocol.ecologies.info/interviews/b...

I’ve been procrastinating so hard on posting the preview of my values-as-boundaries paper… just seems like not super timely for it, given *everything going on*? But will that ever change?

But there are always countercultures, and swings back. People will rediscover the wealth of networks. I believe that anyway. And, maybe having learned the hard way, more people will be more willing to treat the work of collective decisionmaking as worthy of their care. Idk @lu.is is that naive

Maybe @lu.is is right that software development culture has shifted away from co-production?

I think this reflects the failure of cybertriumphalism, which understood digital commons in the Hardin sense: no rules, no structure. No politics. But this turns tragic even when resource is not exhaustible

his ass should be in prison!!!

It’s so embarrassing. Jessica i’m so tired

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

Thanks for the connection! I am working with Wallis Greenslade from NZ, i’ve learned a lot from them. See here: buff.ly/4fOy8tn