Greg Bloom
@greggish.bsky.social
commoning praxis
Leading the Open Referral Initiative: openreferral.org
Visiting Scholar @ the Ostrom Workshop - IU
Leading the Open Referral Initiative: openreferral.org
Visiting Scholar @ the Ostrom Workshop - IU
Great to see this 'bill of rights' for property insurance policyholders from @consumerreports.org – not sure what the path to wins would be here at this point but any one would begin with articulating where we want to go. This is a good start. Sign on! action.consumerreports.org/nb-20251003-...
Americans deserve affordable home insurance
Fed up with skyrocketing home insurance rates? Demand home insurance companies adopt basic protections for all policyholders. Take action by signing Consumer Reports’ petition today.
action.consumerreports.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Great to see this 'bill of rights' for property insurance policyholders from @consumerreports.org – not sure what the path to wins would be here at this point but any one would begin with articulating where we want to go. This is a good start. Sign on! action.consumerreports.org/nb-20251003-...
Not just political establishment but healthcare, civic tech, and the nonprofit industrial complex more broadly. This new reality has major strategic ramifications for any organization working on something like "health equity" or "civil society" but ... nobody wants to talk about it.
Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
November 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Not just political establishment but healthcare, civic tech, and the nonprofit industrial complex more broadly. This new reality has major strategic ramifications for any organization working on something like "health equity" or "civil society" but ... nobody wants to talk about it.
this was at churchill’s, it’s miraculously reopened, i’m watching kids about this age in a show next door at sweat records, nature is healing 🙏✨🤘
Every day someone new learns that Oscar Isaac was in a late 90s Christian ska band. Who will today’s person be.
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
this was at churchill’s, it’s miraculously reopened, i’m watching kids about this age in a show next door at sweat records, nature is healing 🙏✨🤘
I am here in person and it is fantastic
Everyone, the llama costume contest is live.
2025 Minnesota State Fair – 4-H Llama & Alpaca Costume Contest – 6PM CT -
Walton Webcasting -
Livestock like you've never seen before
www.waltonwebcasting.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I am here in person and it is fantastic
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just an absolutely terrible time to be a rational person who is capable of critical thinking and cares about other people
August 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
just an absolutely terrible time to be a rational person who is capable of critical thinking and cares about other people
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asofterworld.com on November 29, 2004
https://web.archive.org/web/20041129010906if_/http://www.asofterworld.com:80
https://web.archive.org/web/20041129010906if_/http://www.asofterworld.com:80
August 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
asofterworld.com on November 29, 2004
https://web.archive.org/web/20041129010906if_/http://www.asofterworld.com:80
https://web.archive.org/web/20041129010906if_/http://www.asofterworld.com:80
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free palestine
August 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
free palestine
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Ever thought about what it takes for Safari, Chrome, and Firefox to display more or less the same web?
The latest interview at the Protocol Oral History Project is with @robin.berjon.com, reflecting on a career between tech companies & common standards: protocol.ecologies.info/interviews/b...
The latest interview at the Protocol Oral History Project is with @robin.berjon.com, reflecting on a career between tech companies & common standards: protocol.ecologies.info/interviews/b...
Robin Berjon: Web standards
The standards that govern the World Wide Web develop at the intersection of profit-seeking companies, nonprofit organizations, and small groups of people with …
protocol.ecologies.info
August 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Ever thought about what it takes for Safari, Chrome, and Firefox to display more or less the same web?
The latest interview at the Protocol Oral History Project is with @robin.berjon.com, reflecting on a career between tech companies & common standards: protocol.ecologies.info/interviews/b...
The latest interview at the Protocol Oral History Project is with @robin.berjon.com, reflecting on a career between tech companies & common standards: protocol.ecologies.info/interviews/b...
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Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
June 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
Really cool project from @ntnsndr.in (when do you sleep???) collecting oral histories of standards and protocols: protocol.ecologies.info
cc @360giving @iatistandard.org @buttplug.engineer
cc @360giving @iatistandard.org @buttplug.engineer
The Protocol Oral History Project
The Protocol Oral History Project is an effort to honor and share the stories of protocol artists—the skilled builders and stewards of the rules, standards, and …
protocol.ecologies.info
May 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Really cool project from @ntnsndr.in (when do you sleep???) collecting oral histories of standards and protocols: protocol.ecologies.info
cc @360giving @iatistandard.org @buttplug.engineer
cc @360giving @iatistandard.org @buttplug.engineer
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there aren't any words for how much I hate the people doing this. I wish every harm upon them, it is right and just to pray for such harm
April 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
there aren't any words for how much I hate the people doing this. I wish every harm upon them, it is right and just to pray for such harm
A generation spent focusing on interface design, when the true crisis was clearly a matter of institutional design.
It certainly is not responsible for the scale of what is happening, but eventually folks are going to have to reckon with how DOGE’s tactics mirror USDS’s & how more checks were needed.
from 2017 federalnewsnetwork.com/reporters-no...
from 2017 federalnewsnetwork.com/reporters-no...
February 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A generation spent focusing on interface design, when the true crisis was clearly a matter of institutional design.
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Why do people who seem otherwise intelligent and competent keep suggesting GenerativeAI as a solution to problems that require accurate information when the one thing it can’t deliver is…accurate information?
January 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Why do people who seem otherwise intelligent and competent keep suggesting GenerativeAI as a solution to problems that require accurate information when the one thing it can’t deliver is…accurate information?
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In this post, I propose that we need a suite of practical tools for civic organizations. This is urgent at the onset of the 2nd Trump Administration as well as a more permanent need. I start with a general argument and conclude with a preliminary list of needed tools.
peterlevine.ws?p=33196
peterlevine.ws?p=33196
December 19, 2024 at 2:29 PM
In this post, I propose that we need a suite of practical tools for civic organizations. This is urgent at the onset of the 2nd Trump Administration as well as a more permanent need. I start with a general argument and conclude with a preliminary list of needed tools.
peterlevine.ws?p=33196
peterlevine.ws?p=33196
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GKC, knowledge commons, data governance starter pack: go.bsky.app/21AV2bt
November 13, 2024 at 11:55 PM
GKC, knowledge commons, data governance starter pack: go.bsky.app/21AV2bt
@alawyer.bsky.social hi. Someone just pointed me at your account. I recently helped organize this: drive.google.com/file/d/1NUEQ...
Maybe you'd be interested in talking?
Maybe you'd be interested in talking?
Report: 2024 Miami-Dade Property Insurance Forum.pdf
drive.google.com
November 14, 2024 at 12:15 AM
@alawyer.bsky.social hi. Someone just pointed me at your account. I recently helped organize this: drive.google.com/file/d/1NUEQ...
Maybe you'd be interested in talking?
Maybe you'd be interested in talking?
For whatever the fuck this is worth, I renounce any Judaism that is not anti-zionist. Utterly disgusted with the horror committed in our name. Shonda-ass nation.
It feels both futile and also necessary to say this.
It feels both futile and also necessary to say this.
October 14, 2024 at 11:49 AM
For whatever the fuck this is worth, I renounce any Judaism that is not anti-zionist. Utterly disgusted with the horror committed in our name. Shonda-ass nation.
It feels both futile and also necessary to say this.
It feels both futile and also necessary to say this.
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Ah, prediction markets…
August 23, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Ah, prediction markets…
thoughts and prayers youtu.be/iG0MOPmofMs?...
Jim O'Rourke - Women of the World
youtu.be
July 21, 2024 at 11:30 PM
thoughts and prayers youtu.be/iG0MOPmofMs?...
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Apropos of *gestures around at everything* Today is the day that Parable of the Sower begins.
July 20, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Apropos of *gestures around at everything* Today is the day that Parable of the Sower begins.
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One thing I've learned the hard way in news is that whenever there's a situation where I think "this is untenable, it can't go on like this!" it's goes on for a shockingly long time.
July 8, 2024 at 7:26 PM
One thing I've learned the hard way in news is that whenever there's a situation where I think "this is untenable, it can't go on like this!" it's goes on for a shockingly long time.
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Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life.
But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
June 22, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life.
But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
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Too much of American life is the expensive performance that doesn’t solve any problems but makes someone offstage rich.
It was always more a mix of PR and pork for contractors than it was an actual effort to improve the situation on the ground. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/u...
U.S. Military Faces Reality in Gaza as Aid Project Struggles
The Pentagon predicted that a stream of humanitarian aid would be arriving in Gaza via the floating pier, but little relief has reached the besieged strip, officials acknowledged this week.
www.nytimes.com
May 24, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Too much of American life is the expensive performance that doesn’t solve any problems but makes someone offstage rich.
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the best biome is crater. crater living, crater shopping, many advantages
May 1, 2024 at 12:06 AM
the best biome is crater. crater living, crater shopping, many advantages