PopVax Goes Clinical

First participants safely dosed in Melbourne, Australia, on August 31, 2026, in the first-in-human trial of our broadly-protective COVID-19 vaccine candidate PVX-001.

Spatial Analysis - at:// pizza thoughts

Some dense protocol theorizing about atproto spaces

The 15 best Luddite horror films

From Godzilla to Pulse to the Terminator, these are the best films that register an aggressive critique of technology.

The people holding up the internet

Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time.

What’s Earth’s dominant species by mass?

You might have heard that all the ants in the world weigh as much combined as all the humans. That isn’t true. We outweigh ants 5 to 1.1 Termites might have us beat, though.2 Either way, it’s not r…

Cosmolocal Initiative

What is heavy should be local, and what is light should be global and shared.

Embedded Evaluators Can’t Fix Companies That Choose to Be Bad — Stella Biderman

Embedded evaluators can report violations, but they cannot fix AI companies that knowingly disregard basic cybersecurity and safety practices.

We’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

Here’s a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I’m talking about the …

AI will kill open source

Rambles from near the front line.

Study: False news spreads faster than the truth | MIT Sloan

About 6 times as fast.

Making Community Governance Legible: A Semester with Bonfire

A collaboration with Princeton explores how Governance Cards can help communities explain how they organise, make decisions, and care for their shared spaces.

Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons

<I>Publishing Beyond the Market</I> argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for scholarly communication. By deploying theoretical literature on science and technology studies, care ethics, and the commons, the book critically interrogates open access and reimagines a more ethical future for researcher-led publishing. A case study of Plan S—the multifunder European policy for open access publishing—explores its tendency to rehearse all the failures of commercialisation. Through critical engagement with the open access landscape, the book reveals the shortcomings of market-centric and policy-based approaches to open access book and journal publishing, particularly their tendency to reinforce conservatism, commercialism, and private control of publishing.<BR /><BR /> Going forward, <I>Publishing Beyond the Market</I> explores the importance of collectivity and democratic governance within the transition to open access publishing. It suggests that developing a commons-based, scholar-led publishing landscape through a series of presses that are each managed by working academics could offer a productive counterpoint to marketised systems of open access and subscription publishing. In weaving themselves together in order to "scale small" these publishing initiatives would act as a counter-hegemonic project based on mutual reliance and care. By illustrating how these projects build toward a commons-based publishing future, and how they may complement other approaches to publishing within university presses and libraries, the book culminates in an argument for the infrastructures, policies, and forms of governance needed to nurture such a collective vision.

How should verification work on Aster? - Aster Blog

The Aster PDS is live and the invite phase is open. The hard part comes next.

The Facebook Fake-out - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner

We’re witnessing the death of hosting in America. The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975