Refuting (and rebuking) Fred Ehrsam’s governance blog
Embedded Governance: Control That Works by Disappearing - Astral's Blog
The problem with voting
I read, with great interest, Fred Ehrsam’s post on blockchain governance, as well as Vlad Zamfir and Vitalik Buterin’s responses.
The Yak Online Governance Primer :: The Yak Collective
How do you do online governance? This primer is intended as a guided tour through a curated set of readings — based on a year of study by the Yak Collective1 — that can help groups and organizations navigate this question.
Shareholder Democracy Is a Corporate Governance Myth That Won’t Die
In a new article, we challenge one of corporate law’s most persistent narratives: the concept of “shareholder democracy.” With people on opposing sides of recent high-profile battles at compa…
Off the grid - Official site of Stephen Fry
This shouldn’t be a blog. It really shouldn’t be a blog. But it has to be a blog I think. So here is this blog.
Andreas De Block on Twitter / X
It took Nature three years to publish this rebuttal, which clearly demonstrates the fundamental flaws in the original paper. In the meantime, the paper's conclusions influenced scientific debate and policy decisions. Such delays in correcting flawed research do real damage. https://t.co/QI3Ei3PE70— Andreas De Block (@DeblockBlock) August 13, 2026
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.
Cas (Stephen Casper) on Twitter / X
It is hard to overstate how disappointing I think this new paper from Oxford, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google (et al) is. I can't take it seriously as academic work, just as propaganda. It also has some very bad scholarship and questionable adherence to research ethics. Having… pic.twitter.com/Z5fBx360ya— Cas (Stephen Casper) (@StephenLCasper) May 13, 2026
Collective Governance Directory
A collection of links to publicly available governance documents, published by the collectives that use them.
Findings Report: Governance on Fediverse Microblogging Servers
Research report on Fediverse microblogging server governance: risks and mitigations, moderation, server leadership, federated diplomacy, and governance tooling.
Denizen
What is stakeholder capitalism? What is required to truly instantiate stakeholder decision making in the governance of companies?
Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
Emmanuele Bassi kicked off a project to improve GNOME's technical governance with a presentation about his ideas (video) at GUADEC 2025. His nudging has led the project to, slowly, work on creating more formal structures for technical governance. It is adopting a teams structure and looking toward creating a steering committee, as well as bootstrapping a Request for Comments (RFC) process. If adopted, GNOME would require RFCs for design, user experience, architectural, and other changes that carry a major impact on the project.
The Ratchet: How Preference Standards Erase What They Can't Express - Astral's Blog
We just finished a restructuring. The website is now the source of truth for governance, the schemas moved to Tangled, NSID resolution got a dedicated identity, and the process is lighter. The story is on the new blog: blog.lexicon.community/a/3mrlquupo2a23-reintroducing…
