Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality - Clay Shirky

The web was always about redistribution of power. Let's bring that back.

It's time to rekindle the movement.

Praxis on Twitter / X

I think Eduardo Galeano in this piece does a great job pointing out how society tolerates inequalities. More importantly he exposes the sanitized terms we use to justify them. He juxtaposes concepts that our political and ethical dictionary would never allow together. When a++ pic.twitter.com/XJsvSNUxVY— Praxis (@praxiss) September 25, 2026

Non-Coding Contributors in Open Source

The tradition of privileging only technical skills triggers imbalance and inequality.

The Divide — Jason Hickel

The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions Penguin Random House UK, 2017

New Capitalism II: Compositional vs income inequality

Are all class-based societies unequal?

Attention is all we have

A conjectural theory of cognitive inequality

annotations: Les aspects structurels des inégalités

Traduction française du billet de blog "Inequality: the structural aspects" de Branko Milanovic

Power: A Primer for Perplexed Economists

Let's Assume an Unfettered Marketplace of Ideas! Or Actually, Let's Not.

Is Inequality Inevitable?

Wealth naturally trickles up in free-market economies, model suggests

Diversity, equity and inclusion

I'm in favour of diversity, equity and inclusion in open source communities, and here's why I think it matters.

Reclaiming the Computing Commons

Hunter writes: The commodification and exploitation of nature; the enclosure of the intellectual and informational commons in medicine, agriculture, and other areas of technical knowledge; the expropriation of public space to secure profit-all define an economic system supposedly premised on freedom.

Shirky: In Praise of Evolvable Systems

Clay Shirky's writings about the Internet, including Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source, and Genetics As Information Science

Reclaiming the Computing Commons

Resisting the commodification of information is a political struggle, not a technical one.

Solutions Privilege: How privilege shapes the expectations of solutions, and why it’s bad for our work addressing systemic injustice

Hi everyone, quick disclaimers. Game of Thrones is back, and it runs on Sunday nights, when I’m usually doing my writing, so the next several blog posts will likely decrease in quality and coherence. The last few days also found my kids with food poisoning. I will spare you