Democratizing finance by turning everyone into a venture capitalist.
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Democratizing finance by turning everyone into a venture capitalist.
People love to say AI is democratizing art as if art wasn't something that children and cave men did for thousands of years. Who is getting a vote on art that didn't before? "I press a button and a robot poops out a movie" isn't what democracy means.
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
People love to say AI is democratizing art as if art wasn't something that children and cave men did for thousands of years. Who is getting a vote on art that didn't before? "I press a button and a robot poops out a movie" isn't what democracy means.
Power to the People!
💰 #TaxNoir #IRS #Resist
Democratizing the Tax Code…
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💰 #TaxNoir #IRS #Resist
Democratizing the Tax Code…
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A Subversive Short Story 99¢
“A controversial idea, and a fun read…”
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November 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Power to the People!
💰 #TaxNoir #IRS #Resist
Democratizing the Tax Code…
💙📚💙
A Subversive Short Story 99¢
“A controversial idea, and a fun read…”
www.amazon.com/dp/B091FGZBN3
💰 #TaxNoir #IRS #Resist
Democratizing the Tax Code…
💙📚💙
A Subversive Short Story 99¢
“A controversial idea, and a fun read…”
www.amazon.com/dp/B091FGZBN3
You decide how to spend your taxes.
💰 #TaxNoir #IRS
Democratizing the Tax Code.
💙📚💙
A Subversive Short Story 99¢
“A controversial idea, and a fun read…”
www.amazon.com/dp/B091FGZBN3
💰 #TaxNoir #IRS
Democratizing the Tax Code.
💙📚💙
A Subversive Short Story 99¢
“A controversial idea, and a fun read…”
www.amazon.com/dp/B091FGZBN3
November 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
You decide how to spend your taxes.
💰 #TaxNoir #IRS
Democratizing the Tax Code.
💙📚💙
A Subversive Short Story 99¢
“A controversial idea, and a fun read…”
www.amazon.com/dp/B091FGZBN3
💰 #TaxNoir #IRS
Democratizing the Tax Code.
💙📚💙
A Subversive Short Story 99¢
“A controversial idea, and a fun read…”
www.amazon.com/dp/B091FGZBN3
💰 #TaxNoir #IRS #Oligarchy
Democratizing the Tax Code:
How to Make Billionaires Pay Their Share
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A Subversive Short Story 99¢
“A controversial idea, and a fun read…”
www.amazon.com/dp/B091FGZBN3
Democratizing the Tax Code:
How to Make Billionaires Pay Their Share
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A Subversive Short Story 99¢
“A controversial idea, and a fun read…”
www.amazon.com/dp/B091FGZBN3
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
💰 #TaxNoir #IRS #Oligarchy
Democratizing the Tax Code:
How to Make Billionaires Pay Their Share
💙📚💙
A Subversive Short Story 99¢
“A controversial idea, and a fun read…”
www.amazon.com/dp/B091FGZBN3
Democratizing the Tax Code:
How to Make Billionaires Pay Their Share
💙📚💙
A Subversive Short Story 99¢
“A controversial idea, and a fun read…”
www.amazon.com/dp/B091FGZBN3
I'm really looking forward to reading this!
Democratizing the economy must be central to the policy agenda over the next decade, otherwise we're toast.
I've tried to write books four times, and never finished. I am amazed by anyone who actually finishes writing one. Congrats.
Democratizing the economy must be central to the policy agenda over the next decade, otherwise we're toast.
I've tried to write books four times, and never finished. I am amazed by anyone who actually finishes writing one. Congrats.
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November 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I'm really looking forward to reading this!
Democratizing the economy must be central to the policy agenda over the next decade, otherwise we're toast.
I've tried to write books four times, and never finished. I am amazed by anyone who actually finishes writing one. Congrats.
Democratizing the economy must be central to the policy agenda over the next decade, otherwise we're toast.
I've tried to write books four times, and never finished. I am amazed by anyone who actually finishes writing one. Congrats.
“the ultimate goal of democratizing Venezuela, and the resulting investment benefits, are front and center in investors’ minds.”
“democratizing”
you don’t have to be a fan of Maduro to think this is a funny word for what a Trump intercession might accomplish.
www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
“democratizing”
you don’t have to be a fan of Maduro to think this is a funny word for what a Trump intercession might accomplish.
www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
Exclusive: As Trump pressures Venezuela, investors see ‘major opportunities’
One bank organized a private meeting to talk with the opposition leader last month, amid the president’s increasingly aggressive posture.
www.semafor.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“the ultimate goal of democratizing Venezuela, and the resulting investment benefits, are front and center in investors’ minds.”
“democratizing”
you don’t have to be a fan of Maduro to think this is a funny word for what a Trump intercession might accomplish.
www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
“democratizing”
you don’t have to be a fan of Maduro to think this is a funny word for what a Trump intercession might accomplish.
www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
Logically, you'd want to respond to that with deeper levels of political reform, year-round organizing, democratizing the party itself, buying media outlets and constitutional hardball if not a new constitution.
To that end, Prop 50 results are heartening even with gerrymandering's downsides.
To that end, Prop 50 results are heartening even with gerrymandering's downsides.
November 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Logically, you'd want to respond to that with deeper levels of political reform, year-round organizing, democratizing the party itself, buying media outlets and constitutional hardball if not a new constitution.
To that end, Prop 50 results are heartening even with gerrymandering's downsides.
To that end, Prop 50 results are heartening even with gerrymandering's downsides.
I feel like Gore prevails on the back of democratizing Afghanistan & successfully steering the country through the dot-com bust.
November 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I feel like Gore prevails on the back of democratizing Afghanistan & successfully steering the country through the dot-com bust.
All what? Who has all what? The workers have the entire economy under their command? Greed how? Democratizing the economy would remove that greed would it not?
November 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
All what? Who has all what? The workers have the entire economy under their command? Greed how? Democratizing the economy would remove that greed would it not?
Then you should hate capitalism as it is completely against democratizing the economy and by extension gets some control over who you get to tick a box for every 4 years.
Who's in charge of corporations? Who gets to decide what is done with the money/resources? How did they get to be in charge?
Who's in charge of corporations? Who gets to decide what is done with the money/resources? How did they get to be in charge?
November 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Then you should hate capitalism as it is completely against democratizing the economy and by extension gets some control over who you get to tick a box for every 4 years.
Who's in charge of corporations? Who gets to decide what is done with the money/resources? How did they get to be in charge?
Who's in charge of corporations? Who gets to decide what is done with the money/resources? How did they get to be in charge?
The big issue about "democratizing debate" or whatever is that debate does not work if at any point someone can barge in and yell "I know nothing about this and I demand you answer me"
November 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The big issue about "democratizing debate" or whatever is that debate does not work if at any point someone can barge in and yell "I know nothing about this and I demand you answer me"
History gives us reason for hope. After the last Gilded Age, The Progressive Era — Roosevelt, trust-busting, labor rights, journalism that told the truth.
Citizens forced accountability back.
We can do that again.
AI doesn’t have to be the next gilded cage. It can be the next democratizing tool
Citizens forced accountability back.
We can do that again.
AI doesn’t have to be the next gilded cage. It can be the next democratizing tool
November 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
History gives us reason for hope. After the last Gilded Age, The Progressive Era — Roosevelt, trust-busting, labor rights, journalism that told the truth.
Citizens forced accountability back.
We can do that again.
AI doesn’t have to be the next gilded cage. It can be the next democratizing tool
Citizens forced accountability back.
We can do that again.
AI doesn’t have to be the next gilded cage. It can be the next democratizing tool
I'm democratizing coffee by providing my customers access to affordable hot brown water
I’m going to “democratize” a thing by giving poor folks a bad approximation of the thing they need.
![Novikoff was previously a math teacher in New York City, first in Harlem, and then at a highly rated public school, Stuyvesant High School. In an interview with TechCrunch, he said almost all the students at Stuyvesant received tutoring, whereas many of the students in Harlem didn’t, and the difference in their educational experience was stark.
“[Tutoring] is by far the most effective intervention that can be provided to kids for education, and it’s not even close,” Novikoff said. “It’s really unfair that not everyone gets this opportunity. That’s why I’m pursuing a mission to democratize access to private tutoring.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hakzua5btcgcfjye2yujlhos/bafkreidqpkrdevrmkjuksqeabnuhulqhaov7rsua654ra2j33ugcgof3da@jpeg)
October 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I'm democratizing coffee by providing my customers access to affordable hot brown water
im going to push back a bit here
it's because 'democratizing X' can be done with 3 programmers on $1m seed and 'making X free at point of use', let's say X is mental health, would take $100b per year
founders are encouraged to dream big, but not $100b per year big before they get off the ground
it's because 'democratizing X' can be done with 3 programmers on $1m seed and 'making X free at point of use', let's say X is mental health, would take $100b per year
founders are encouraged to dream big, but not $100b per year big before they get off the ground
We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?
October 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
im going to push back a bit here
it's because 'democratizing X' can be done with 3 programmers on $1m seed and 'making X free at point of use', let's say X is mental health, would take $100b per year
founders are encouraged to dream big, but not $100b per year big before they get off the ground
it's because 'democratizing X' can be done with 3 programmers on $1m seed and 'making X free at point of use', let's say X is mental health, would take $100b per year
founders are encouraged to dream big, but not $100b per year big before they get off the ground
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You decide how to spend your taxes.
💰 #TaxNoir #IRS
Democratizing the Tax Code.
📚💙
A Subversive Short Story 99¢
“A controversial idea, and a fun read…”
www.amazon.com/dp/B091FGZBN3
You decide how to spend your taxes.
💰 #TaxNoir #IRS
Democratizing the Tax Code.
📚💙
A Subversive Short Story 99¢
“A controversial idea, and a fun read…”
www.amazon.com/dp/B091FGZBN3
October 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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You decide how to spend your taxes.
💰 #TaxNoir #IRS
Democratizing the Tax Code.
📚💙
A Subversive Short Story 99¢
“A controversial idea, and a fun read…”
www.amazon.com/dp/B091FGZBN3
You decide how to spend your taxes.
💰 #TaxNoir #IRS
Democratizing the Tax Code.
📚💙
A Subversive Short Story 99¢
“A controversial idea, and a fun read…”
www.amazon.com/dp/B091FGZBN3
This was the basic process underlying the Cass Review, the Sullivan Review, and much else besides in organized transphobia. Grokipedia is automating it and superficially democratizing it, doing ton 'common knowledge' (read: cursory searching) what Cass did to expert research.
October 29, 2025 at 6:53 AM
This was the basic process underlying the Cass Review, the Sullivan Review, and much else besides in organized transphobia. Grokipedia is automating it and superficially democratizing it, doing ton 'common knowledge' (read: cursory searching) what Cass did to expert research.
“[W]e’re democratizing information and empowering everyday Americans to harness the wisdom of the crowd, turning free speech into actionable foresight.”
This is just gambling, no?
This is just gambling, no?
October 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
“[W]e’re democratizing information and empowering everyday Americans to harness the wisdom of the crowd, turning free speech into actionable foresight.”
This is just gambling, no?
This is just gambling, no?
Democratizing sycophancy. What could go wrong?
consider that the psychotic loop of chatgpt mostly seems to be 'the chatbot repeating your own ideas back to you and telling you they're brilliant' and then consider billionaires and the people around them
by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week
October 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Democratizing sycophancy. What could go wrong?
YZi Labs invests in VideoTutor, AI software turning questions into personalized animated lessons! 🚀 Founded by 20yo Kai Zhao, VideoTutor uses AI & animation to make high-quality tutoring accessible to 20k+ users globally. A big step for democratizing education! #AI #EdTech
October 30, 2025 at 5:29 AM
YZi Labs invests in VideoTutor, AI software turning questions into personalized animated lessons! 🚀 Founded by 20yo Kai Zhao, VideoTutor uses AI & animation to make high-quality tutoring accessible to 20k+ users globally. A big step for democratizing education! #AI #EdTech
“With generative AI, Big Tech—again with the help of many in IP academia—now promotes the alleged value of ‘democratizing’ the production of works, finally revealing democratization as the anti-humanist and, therefore, anti-democratic term that it truly is.”
@davidnewhoff.bsky.social
@davidnewhoff.bsky.social
Rescuing Democracy from Democratization - The Illusion of More
Regarding intellectual property and artificial intelligence, it is essential to rescue democracy from democratization.
illusionofmore.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
“With generative AI, Big Tech—again with the help of many in IP academia—now promotes the alleged value of ‘democratizing’ the production of works, finally revealing democratization as the anti-humanist and, therefore, anti-democratic term that it truly is.”
@davidnewhoff.bsky.social
@davidnewhoff.bsky.social