What renaming a lake tells us about sovereignty, and the normalization of ownership
A Tale of Two Theories (of Coordination)
Leveraging and Deleveraging Toward Thick Sovereignty
Do not conquer what you cannot defend — LessWrong
Once upon a time there was a great king. He ruled his kingdom with wisdom and economically literate policies, and prosperity followed. Seeing this, t…
Google Maps renames Lake Ontario after Trump’s decree on ‘Lake America’
Tech giant says name to remain Lake Ontario for Canadian users, change reflects decision by US government agency.
The Eye 02: When is sovereignty not sovereign?
As we start to reject reliance on US tech monopolies, Palantir and its allies rush to strip the word "sovereignty" of its meaning
Why your Steppe Empire can not exist
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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight
This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, I thought I might try to lay out a more general sense of how military systems te…
Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America
Canada has rejected the new name of the lake, which straddles both countries, as their row deepens.
Digital Sovereignty
Digital sovereignty has a bad reputation. In internet governance circles, sovereignty is considered awkward enough to be referred to by as the "s-word." It is often associated with misguided attempts at returning to the era of national champions, like building a French search engine or a European Google, or worse with the eternal boogeyman that is the "splinternet." It doesn't have to be this way!
The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition
The Nation on No Map examines state power, abolition, a…
Governance Archaeology: Research as Ancestry
Abstract. This essay presents the idea of governance archaeology, an approach to learning from the past to inform the politics of the future. By reporting on a prototype historical database, we outline a strategy for co-producing a global commons of collective governance practices that can inspire institutional learning and experimentation, particularly in the face of rapid technological change and vexing global crises. Embedded in our approach is an orientation of ancestry whereby practitioners cultivate relationships of accountability and responsibility to the legacies they learn from, recognizing the harm from past patterns of exploitation. By taking seriously a wide range of historical governance practices, particularly those outside the Western canon, governance archaeology seeks to expand the options available for the design of more moral political economies.
Mitigating Geopolitical Risks with Local-First Software and atproto
Martin Kleppmann discusses the urgent need for technological sovereignty in modern infrastructure. Exploring the shifting landscape of global tech dependencies, he shares how engineering leaders can leverage multi-cloud architecture, de facto API standardization, the AT Protocol, and local-first development paradigms to reclaim user agency and build highly resilient systems.
Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization by …
How Control Exists after Decentralization by Galloway, …
on #atproto The public will not migrate first, so institutions must create the conditions for that migration. In their view, sovereignty is not a slogan but a staged process of building trustworthy platforms and making them worth using. Really good piece by @nicolashenin.net and @robin.berjon.com
“Digital sovereignty is built in stages, and if the institutions do not take action, the public will not either” - Nicolas Hénin
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