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🚨Free Markets Are Planned: The Neoliberal Paradox with Christoph Sorg

Dr. Christoph Sorg is a social scientist researching theories of economic planning in times of digitalization and the climate crisis.

We discussed his publication "Finance as a form of economic planning"

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November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🚨NEW VIDEO: How to NOT get SCAMMED in crypto? (5 Heuristics)

Here are FIVE heuristics (there could be many more but just these for now) to help you navigate the crypto world. Meant as a reminder for those actively engaging in it now and to share with others.

FULL VIDEO BELOW⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
November 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Weaponized Design and the Digital Identity Event Horizon with @shibco.newdesigncongress.org

Cade is Head of Research at World Ethical Data Foundation and founder of @newdesigncongress.org, confronting the gap between what is said and what is happening in digital societies

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youtu.be/5MFiY8Q7RfE
October 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
🚨How to not lose $2 billion

Just published about my experience having a call with a potential North Korean hacker and some of the signs that made me realize so you can see them too.

You can find the audio of the call in the post as well.

paragraph.com/@theblockcha...
October 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Just received a video from one of the families in Gaza that now have a tent to sleep in thanks to the donation from @chainleft's proceeds from Crimson Echoes 🇵🇸

If you would like to help out, please donate to casinoberlin.eth
September 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
i keep getting ppl trying to tell me that network states are not neocolonial so gonna leave this here
September 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🚨NETWORKED REALISM: Whoever Controls the Infrastructure, Controls Reality

i spoke to Nick Houde and @severinmatusek from @co_matter about their latest research memo describing how power, infrastructure and ideology have collided and warped reality.

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August 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The Ladder of Participation is a framework by Sherry Arnstein (1969) to classify the degree of citizen power in decision-making processes

The model highlights democratic participation needsthe redistribution of actual power, not just the appearance of involvement

DAOs take heed
August 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
🚨SLAVOJ ZIZEK ON NETWORK STATES

The one and only Slavoj Zizek published a piece on Network States and of course I had to read it and share it with you all. It's normally behind a paywall on his Substack but was put on @fileverse by recent guest @naomiii for all to read.
August 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Why Urbit Failed with @haunt0l0gy

We discuss Adina's recent piece in @compactmag_ about her experience in the Urbit community moving from enthusiasm to disillusionment as the reactionary politics became more clear.

The same politics that has driven Urbit into the ground.
August 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
preparing myself for a lobotomy
August 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Free Market Friends with @naomiii

crypto culture is kinda fucked atm

there's an obsession with quantification / financialization, at the expense of feel things like emotions.

“All that is solid turns into data points.” – Engels probably if he was still around

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July 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
lol so scaling basically isn't working because of MEV and spam?

but also the report writers org has been benefitting from MEV likely the most?

can someone explain?

https://writings.flashbots.net/mev-and-the-limits-of-scaling
July 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
VERY strong sign that Mamdani is going to win
June 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
For those coming to @dappcon_berlin, I'll be speaking tomorrow (Monday) at 10:55 on solidarity primitives and hope to see you there! ⭐♾️⭐

Also recommend watching my @breadchain_ co-founder @kassandra's talk on onchain privacy at 16:45🕶️
June 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
god i hate nfts
June 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Additionally we're having:

- @koeppelmannn speaking about Circles
- @kassandra explaining what Ethereum R1 is
- signed books and posters
- the first cryptoleft zine
- @turetzkyron on vibe coding
- how to send crypto to Gaza
- show all the initiatives we have atm
- great memes
June 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
did anyone else get a scammy email like this?
May 31, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Holonym: Digital Identity without Scanning your Eyeballs 👁️

Identity is clearly an important for improving the internet with the AI slop onslaught, but personally I don't trust the orb eye scanning ppl

So I spoke with @hebbianloop , founder of @0xHolonym

FULL EPISODE👇
May 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
As a Peruvian-American, the new pope has made me feel a sense of representation in media that I haven't felt since 2000 when the emperor's new groove came out in in theaters
May 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
WOKISM STRIKES AGAIN

not criticizing each other because you want to defeat the left is what creates an environment of cancel culture on the right

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
May 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Counterpoint
May 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
HBD to the GOAT

you would've loved ethereum
May 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
🚨Blockchain Governance: North Korea, Tornado Cash, and Trust

I spoke to @WesselReijers and @MannanMorshed recent authors of Blockchain Governance about the legal/philosophical history of blockchains from Tornado Cash, North Korean mega hacks, and rethinking property relations
May 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM