Infrastructure for Interdependence: Building technology in service of collective power - The Algo Rhythm by Blacksky
[This document serves as a memo for investors]
Beyond Horseless Carriages: Building Communities for the Decentralized Era, Rudy Fraser
Infrastructure for Interdependence: Building technology in service of collective power - The Algo Rhythm by Blacksky
[This document serves as a memo for investors]
Erika's quick-start guide to research nonprofits
You do NOT need permission from a university to do research (!!)
Cosmik awarded $1M grant from Open Philanthropy and Astera Institute for new social knowledge network for researchers - Cosmik Labs
The grants will support the development of Semble, a new knowledge sharing and discovery network for researchers
Many builders in the Open Social Web are discouraged by the lack of funding in the ecosystem, slow pace of feature development (e.g. private accounts), and “low” adoption relative to incumbents like Meta. In my keynote I emphasized multi-generational struggle & movement building. People who faced…
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open source sustainability
Funding / contribution structures
Alternative org, funding, finance, contribution structures towards... improving society somewhat
Community Building, Management, & Moderation
Resources, tools, & references
Social (media) tools
May or may not include Bluesky
How to: Use Signal
Signal, the secure messaging app: A guide for beginners
12 Commonsense Safeguards - staffny
Flock + Surveillance Talking Points - staffny
ACLU Recommendations - staffny
Exosphere
Using Ozone - AT Protocol Docs - AT Protocol
roostorg/osprey
Community owned infra (by Ronen Tamari) — Semble
Introducing Acorn: Community Infrastructure That Grows With You
Open Source
Ente Space
Roster — Your relationships are yours
j4ckxyz/tweets-2-bsky
Escape-X - Let's take back control of our digital spaces!
HelloQuitX - Let's Quit X together]
HelloQuitX - Let's Quit X together]
Online community building
Modular research
Social construction of technology
Science Nonprofit Leaders
People leading nonprofits involved in the science infrastructure/ecosystem/tool-building
A Research Lab for Open Source ✸ Software Stewardship Lab
An equitable company - Roomy
Ideas on a Financially Sustainable Atproto | Alex | Offprint
Software Stewardship Lab
Fund Your Internet
Project Funding (by Bee 🐝) — Semble
Founders Hub | Transform Finance
Conflict Systems
The new way we’ll do science
Zotero - InPeeR Ethi-quette (by Jay Patel) — Semble
Science: A New Golden Age
Plan S
San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics
Cayuga Heights trustees vote not to renew Flock contract - 607 News Now
cayugaheights.gov
Project 2025 Tracker
PalantirWatch — Tracking Palantir Technologies
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‘No plate? No problem’: High-tech cameras capture more than license plates
Binghamton Flock License Plate Reader Foes Want Devices Turned Off
Techno-capitalism, Crisis Epistemology, and Disaster Ableism: How (not) to Respond to Generative AI in Higher education (My presentation @ #PhiDisSocCh6)
CSDL | IEEE Computer Society
Operation Voder: AT&T, Bell Labs, and the Labor of Techno-Utopia at the 1939 New York World’s Fair
Weizenbaum examines computers and society - The Tech
The Folly of Technological Solutionism: An Interview with Evgeny Morozov - Public Books
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
We live in a golden age of biology. So why are people still dying from disease? Because discovery and development move slower than they should. Today, we’re partnering with Incyte to change… | Samuel G. Rodriques | 491 comments
Ronen Tamari
Travis Rich
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Kari Jordan, Ph.D.
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