This is a crucial moment for those in the EU to stop #Article13 and #Article11—votes in the coming weeks will determine whether huge swaths of online expression will be subject to mass, arbitrary control. Here's what you can do today to help: eff.org/deeplinks/2019…

The current U.S. #immigration system often fails children. In our latest initiative, “Reimagining Children’s Immigration Proceedings: A Roadmap for an Entirely New System Centered around Children,” we carve a different path. Join us for the launch event: bit.ly/reimaginingthe…

Tension between work and play, art and business makes it such a rich topic. One of my old favorites, about a game that's still going strong 13 years later. nytimes.com/2007/06/17/mag… Julian Dibbell (I got sucked back in last month, but the pull is much weaker compared to college)

Julian Dibbell provided us all those years ago with a glimpse into an emerging #cyberworld. This piece had always haunted me and in fact inspired me to keep going on other pieces about #assault in #VR worlds.

"I told every new Oculus employee to read 'My Tiny Life' [by Julian Dibbell]... I talked to Robin Harper to make sure I learned the lessons from her experience at Linden, as well as Raph Koster... but the work clearly didn't get prioritized." nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2022/02/ho…

Virtual worlds with self-governance and open economies have existed since the 1980s. P&E and Metaverse projects should pay close attention to these past experiments to know what has worked and what hasn’t. Some must reads on the subject:

1/ My Tiny Life by Julian Dibbell describes his experience participating in the politics and social life of LambdaMoo - a player governed text based virtual world. Julian goes deep into the political processes, intrigues of players with observations on …

7/ Regarding economics, you should definitely read Play Money by Julian Dibbell. Arguably the first book on play to earn, Julian details his journey to becoming the 2nd largest seller of Ultima Online gold and talks extensively about sustainable economics.

Open virtual worlds governed by their players are not new. In my prev thread, I introduced some seminal works: x.com/0xtaetaehoho/s…… Here I provide a summary of My Tiny Life (1998) by @Juliandibbell. (🔥 tl;dr at the end) 🧵

“'A Rape In Cyberspace' is to my mind one of the canonical stories of online community, ethics, and what exactly it means to 'be' on the internet" Julian Dibbell newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5942/…

I’ve been reading and *really* enjoying “Play Money” by Julian Dibbell. Highly recommended for anyone interested in virtual worlds. It’s also striking how similar the discourse is to today’s, some 16 years later. #metaverse #web3 #nfts #virtualrealestate

"What do people get here that they don't get in the real world? It's a sense of malleability and fun. And, the office stuff is not so much that.” - Julian Dibbell bit.ly/3SUKS5m

✊In 2022, our staff and volunteers across our eight Young Center offices met with children in immigration proceedings every week and bore witness to their stories. We advocated for children's safety & well-being & fought tooth and nail to reunite and support separated families.

📢We also launched a new program to safeguard the rights of immigrant children caught in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.

💪Through our work this fiscal year, we served 1,603 children, including very young children for whom determining their best interests can be difficult.

We CAN welcome asylum seekers to the United States. As a country, we have the resources and a moral obligation to do so. Unfortunately, people in power lack the will and the courage to do what is right on this issue. Enough. It's time to end Title 42 once and for all.

🧵In a scathing indictment of our failed immigration system, Hannah Dreier documented the horrific exploitation some immigrant children face by American companies who, to increase profits, hire children for patently dangerous work. Let's unpack this⤵️ nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/…

The Biden administration’s proposed “asylum ban” would prevent many people fleeing violence and persecution from finding safety in the US. Share our open letter to President Donald J. Trump to show your support for asylum seekers today: rescue.org/asylumban