Very interesting discussion on the Combinations page rn x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

In "Build Network Societies, Not Network States," authors Divya Siddarth, Gone to 🦋 same user name., and Anne-Marie Slaughter🇺🇦 warn that Balaji Srinivasan's ideas in "The Network State" are much closer to the mainstream than most political observers realize: "Srinivasan has crystalized a strand of

I am beyond excited to share my new Podcast! Sponsored by a group of plurality researchers via the Arbitrum foundation, Throw Away Your Phone takes a down-to-earth look at technology's effect on collective action. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5CXFIG…

Excellent talk from Ben Ward about web3 replicating old problems of financialized capital. "Decentralized" -> "Actually, 5 people control all the capital" ... oof!

Remembering when I got into NeurIPS Conference but then accidentally set up my poster behind the food stand lmao

Got around to uploading another episode of my podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/6argHR…

Cats of Iceland

Volcano report 👍🏻

Very excited for this

Introducing our next speaker: Joel Miller Joel Miller is a PhD Researcher at University of Illinois, Chicago. Miller is studying mechanism design and the social sciences, focusing on the ways communities realize their shared human values through algorithms. Recently, he led

We've got an incredibly packed agenda tomorrow. Here's our programming for Day 1 of the 2025 Grants Summit organized by the Grant Innovation Lab (GIL) at Metagov with support from Octant Stellar Scroll and DAOstar - Designing Grants That Grow With

Grants Summit - 2025 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Hell yes -- i absolutely encourage academic friends to apply to be a (paid!) reviewer for this new initiative from David Dao et al gainforest.notion.site/ai4pg

The "Post-Naive Internet Era" via Mozilla

I'll be presenting on my mechanism design work with Gitcoin at EAAMO today! Livestream link: us02web.zoom.us/j/84152852571?…

#Crowdfunding algorithms often assume people act alone. But what if fairness depends on our connections? 🤝This paper explores a new approach called Connection-Oriented Quadratic Funding, which gives more weight to community ties and shared purpose - arxiv.org/abs/2509.18343