







In the vast, boundless expanse of Plurality, each life …
Plurality
A book by E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang and the Plurality Community exploring how technology can support and strengthen democracy.

🌲☀️ 𝙽𝙳𝙲 𝙳𝚁𝙾𝙿𝚂
An independent research group confronting the gap between what is said to be happening and what is actually happening in digitised societies. https://newdesigncongress.org DISCORD -> https://discord.com/invite/Xu9D3qVana


Pluralistic: The online community trilemma (16 Feb 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The digital humanities are one of the true delights of this era. Anthropologists are counting things like sociologists, sociologists are grappling with qualitative data like ethnographers, computational linguists are scraping and making sense of vast corpora of informal speech:
The Digital Life Collective
The Digital Life Collective is an enabler. If you think we should be doing something we're not currently doing, we're here to help you and your project make the change you want to see in the world.
Pluralistic: What’s a “public internet?” (25 Jun 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The "Eurostack" is a (long overdue) project to publicly fund a European "stack" of technology that is independent from American Big Tech (as well as other powers' technology that has less hold in Europe, such as Chinese and Russian tech):
Pluralistic: What’s a “public internet?” (25 Jun 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The "Eurostack" is a (long overdue) project to publicly fund a European "stack" of technology that is independent from American Big Tech (as well as other powers' technology that has less hold in Europe, such as Chinese and Russian tech):
'Technology Freedom Cooperative' To Build Infrastructure for Human Rights and Justice Groups
A conversation with Maheen Khan, director of technology at the Invisible Institute, and Patrick Ball, director of research at HRDAG.

A People’s History of Tech
A collective storytelling project to build a more representative history that reflects the human impacts of technology.

From information free-riding to information sharing: how have humans solved the cooperative dilemma at the heart of cumulative cultural evolution?
Abstract. Cumulative cultural evolution, where populations accumulate ever-improving knowledge, technologies and social customs, is arguably a unique featu

Pluralistic: Model collapse (12 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
One of my favorite rhetorical and analytical moves is joining things together (showing that two different, seemingly unrelated ideas are aspects of the same phenomenon) and taking them apart (resolving a paradox by demonstrating that what appears to be one, contradictory thing is actually two different things that have been lumped together).
agreed. "𝕃𝕖𝕥’𝕤 𝕟𝕠𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕫𝕖 𝕤𝕒𝕪𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕙𝕦𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕤 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕡𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖." i understand the desire for privacy, but building trust for people to use a thing, or even just login to a thing should clearly indicate who built a thing #atdev most peolpe won't dig as hard as i do to determine who a dev of a thing is
Boris
@atmosphere.tickets you don’t appear to have DMs turned on and no indication of who you are. Following that to @atmosphere.money and the about page, also no people mentioned. Let’s normalize saying who the humans are please.
computingwithinlimits.org

Appropriate Measures — Real Life
Appropriate Technology

AI Science Fiction Versus Reality

The Racialization of Print

Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software

They Thought What?
quod.lib.umich.edu
Social construction of technology