🎙️NEW POD: FIXING BUGS IN DEMOCRACY What if democracy worked more like open-source software? @jessaroo speaks with @takahiroanno, an AI engineer and sci-fi writer who just won a seat in Japan's parliament. youtu.be/A_S6GP5-lBQ

Next Friday, on Nov 14 we'll be gathering for Learning with Ukraine 🇺🇦, a global conversation on democratic resilience & frontline innovation: 👉 luma.com/0iyrzr14 Why? Because even in the darkest of times, Ukraine is showing the world what 21st-century democracy can look like. Watch @jessaroo dive into this remarkable story with @maxsemenchuk of @Web3InstituteUA. Full RadicalxChange(s) episode: 📺YouTube | youtu.be/U0XH8WhVFlU 🎧 Spotify | sptfy.bio/rxcsukraine  Apple | bit.ly/43l8kRw

🚨ÉPICO: Chico Buarque e Gilberto Gil cantam ‘Cálice’ no ato contra a PEC da BANDIDAGEM! 📹 Mídia NINJA

Led by the extraordinary @hourly_radio . Amazing news!

This is how people in Brazil are responding to unaccountable congress members who want to change the law to be completely unaccountable for crimes and along the way pardon those who tried a Coup D’etat back in early 2023

Was a real pleasure to discuss my work on community currencies and the future of governance in the age of AI with @gov_futures. Many thanks @Bbeats1 & @Jamilya_eth!

Looking forward to this!

Glen did a great job of making arguments backed up by empirical evidence. Curtis tried to do the same, but imo his examples were more distant and so less effective. There's big differences between the peacetime political, wartime political and corporate settings that make examples from one scenario difficult to translate to the others (namely, the type of goal of the entity and the selection function that produces them). A little too close to "concentration is efficient, it's why bees huddle together in nests and why we have cities and yimbyism, therefore it's contradictory to oppose concentration camps as a tool of government" Glen did a good job of pointing out "you want X? Well let me tell you about actually-existing X in our current society". The critique that these examples don't count because they are a byproduct of our democratic status quo strikes me as weak; all political systems everywhere are born in a pool of inconvenient slop, your thing has to be robust to that. Curtis was at his strongest when critiquing the status quo. The argument that NYT depends on gov info leaks which can be viewed as a (decisive) unfair subsidy was novel, at least to me, and it's compelling. Democratic politics does need to have a more honest account of the role of elites; "they're all a bug in the system" is not it, and "they're there and if you don't trust them you're a bad conspiracy theorist and a danger to public health" is also not it. Glen's closing speech was amazing, though I think to a skeptic "I agree the US isn't a democracy, but I think we should actually become one" would not be convincing without specific compelling ideas for how that would happen. I would love to see Glen continue to flesh that out in more detail, perhaps more object-level than Plurality (eg. "how would my system decide how to solve urban crime and execute on the solution?")

LIVE Debate Happening Now: Should the U.S. Be Ruled by a CEO Dictator? featuring @curtis_yarvin and @glenweyl. Moderated by @JohnDonvan. x.com/i/broadcasts/1BdGYZpNo…

Tonight's LIVE DEBATE with @CurtisYarvin and @glenweyl is SOLD OUT, but you can still tune in via our FREE LIVESTREAM, starting at 7PM ET. Register here: bit.ly/3Vw7zR9

Direct link for tonight's debate with @curtis_yarvin @OpentoDebateOrg: workcast.com/register?cpak=1…

It will be an honor to finally engage someone who I have long held out as one of the leading intellectual influences on our time. @curtis_yarvin's mistaken ideas cannot be defeated with outrage alone; they must be answered with logic and fact.

Delighted to share my paper with @nickmvincent and @hanlinliii Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Information markets fail. They break everything. Here’s what to do about it. If there’s one thing I could yell from the mountaintops, it might be this. arxiv.org/abs/2506.10272

Obrigado to @_paulaberman, @IPPUC1, IMAP @_epimentel and @curitiba more broadly for a wonderful visit yesterday. For half a century, @curitiba has been one of the most innovative cities in Latin America. I am honored they are investing so much in continuing that innovation