Distroid Issue 12
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Books
Research
Race and Gender Wealth Equity and the Role of Employee Share Ownership
Smart Contract Research Forum (SCRF) Research Pulse Issue #24 08/02/21
Smart Contract Research Forum (SCRF) Research Pulse Issue #25 08/03/21
Analytical paper: “Multi-homing: obstacles, opportunities, facilitating factors”
The Dissensus Protocol: Governing Differences in Online Peer Communities
Articles
Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped.
What are Data Unions? How do they work? Which ones can I use?
Art Blocks NFTs Soar as Savvy Collectors Snap Up Edgy Pieces
Crypto 2.0 and DAWCs: Dawn of Decentralized Autonomous Workers Councils
Coase's Penguin is learning to fly: Building the Wikipedia of the future
Introducing Twitter’s first algorithmic bias bounty challenge
Delivery Co-ops Offer Growing Alternative to National Gig Delivery Services
Special Delivery: Our New Report Shows How Local Delivery Services are Superior to the Big Apps
Brightly® – Scaling up worker cooperatives through the franchise model
Is Inequality Inevitable?: Wealth naturally trickles up in free-market economies, model suggests
Evergreen Cooperatives Acquires First Manufacturing Firm, Intellitronix
IPCC report: how to make global emissions peak and fall – and what’s stopping us
On Platform Design, Part I: From Subject-Centred Communities to Persona-Driven Platforms
Power to the Person: The Creator Economy, NFTs, and the Rise of the Solo Corporation
Consolidation is coming for US food delivery, unless the government stops it first
Videos/Podcast
07. SCOTT MOORE: DUNBAR’S NUMBER, CIVIC ROLES IN WEB3, AND CONSENSUS BY HUMMING
Julia Reinhardt: What do GDPR and AI regulations mean for Silicon Valley?
Palladium Podcast 62: Michael Zargham on Society As a Complex System
Kinjal Shah on DAO governance, the creator economy, & empowering female founders | Crypto Native 016
Michael Zargham presents the age of networks and the rebirth of cybernetics at Web3 Summit 2019
Athens Community Call 6/27/2021: AI, NLP, and text mining workflows in Athens
Transformers from the Ground Up - Sebastian Raschka | PyData Jeddah
Tools
Guides and Resources
Project Updates
Events/Hackathons
Gigs
Quests
Accelerator
Grants
Call for Proposals (CfP)
Word of the day
Credible neutrality
Essentially, a mechanism is credibly neutral if just by looking at the mechanism’s design, it is easy to see that the mechanism does not discriminate for or against any specific people. The mechanism treats everyone fairly, to the extent that it’s possible to treat people fairly in a world where everyone’s capabilities and needs are so different.1
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Vitalik Buterin, Credible Neutrality As A Guiding Principle, https://nakamoto.com/credible-neutrality/