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Is crypto a scam or FINDOM fetish?
There seems to be an ever increasingly thin line between crypto, scams, and financial domination. I spoke Steve Pikelny, CEO, CTO, CFO, COO of http://FastCashMoneyPlus.biz and Jesus pamphlet collector aka steviep about his newest art project FinSexy to explore the uncomfortable intersection between findom and crypto. If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on…
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The Left does NOT hate crypto (script)
Hi Patrons! I hope you enjoyed my first video essay on the actual evidence of the left hating crypto. As extra content to thank you for being a patron, I’m sharing the script I used for making the video in case you want to look deeper into the sources cited through out the video. You…
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The Left does NOT hate crypto
Scroll through the social media platforms that crypto enthusiasts and think bois like to post and you’ll get the idea pretty quickly that a whole lot of them think that the Left is fundamentally opposed to cryptocurrency and its use and the only way to protect crypto from being totally destroyed from the hammer of…
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Who Controls the Killswitch?
I spoke to Eric Alston again! Eric is a professor at University of Colorado and recently completed a fellowship with the Summer of Protocols studying the governance of killswitches. His report is titled “Killswitch Protocols: Or On Engineering Recursive System Death” and co-authored with Seth Killian and Garrette David. During the interview we discussed the history of…
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Tech Workers Coalition: Adapting the Labor Movement for the Digital Age
For this episode I spoke to Simone Robutti. Simone works as an organization designer, adversarial researcher, and teacher. Formerly a software developer, he has been part of different chapters of Tech Workers Coalition since 2018. During the interview we discussed how to start a labor union at your tech company, innovative ways to go on strike, and how…
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Islamic Economics: Solving Wealth Inequality by Mixing Libertarianism with… SOCIALISM??
For this episode I spoke to Ahmed Gatnash, the Executive director of Kawaakibi Foundation. He is also a Strategy Advisor at the Albert Einstein Institution, and is the co-author of Middle East Crisis Factory, a primer on systemic crises and a vision for a positive future for the MENA region. During the discussion we spoke about the context…
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It doesn’t matter if the AI is fake, it’s all magic anyways
For this episode I spoke to Nick Susi, Executive Director of Strategy at dotdotdash who recently wrote a really interesting article on his Substack titled magic, online!. The article goes into the history of magical thinking that accompanied many of the past’s technological achievements like phones that let you talk to the dead or fairies that appeared in some…
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Exploring ZK potentials on social protocols (EthCC Panel)
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GnosisDAO Community Call with Breadchain Cooperative
I recently presented Breadchain Cooperative in the GnosisDAO Community Call! I go through what the project is about, what we’ve been working on, and what to expect in the future (including a Breadchain Launch event during ETH Berlin on May 25th). I am expecting the work we’ve been doing at Breadchain to start revving up…
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A Regenerative Village as a DAO in Portugal (Traditional Dream Factory)
You can find the video version of the interview here where I’ve cut the interview with some film I took while at TDF. In this episode I spoke to Sam Delesque (@samueldelesque), founder of Traditional Dream Factory (TDF), a regenerative village based in Abela, Portugal that is blending crypto with permaculture and community. TDF is the first village part…
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The incredible irony of crypto advertising (Video)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Years! To end off the year I recorded a video reaction to a few recent crypto advertisements to analyze how they frame cryptocurrencies and their “radical” potential. Of course from a for-profit company’s point of view, what they consider radical and what I would are quite different. I take a…
