some thoughts on the US attacks on Italian hacker collective Autistici / Inventati

they want to debank leftsits... now what?

🚨Yanis Varoufakis on blockchain, the digital euro and being a class traitor

I spoke to @yanisvaroufakis, economist and former Greek finance minister, at @Web3summit in Berlin on June 18th, about why he thinks blockchain…

https://firefly.social/post/ff-d59534b3068b4d3db635d15a6faa90a5?s=bsky

🚨AI, Empire, and the Left's Missing Voice w/ Nick Srnicek

I spoke to @nsrnicek, author of Silicon Empires, about how AI is consolidating Big Tech's power.

We also discuss:

- how the left should be involved in AI…

https://firefly.social/post/ff-0586eaf9446d475fa967c4931ac092a2?s=bsky

🚨 Harnessing Collective Intelligence better than LLMs w/ Sean Geobey

I spoke to Sean Geobey, associate professor at the University of Waterloo and Director of Groupthink Labs, about collective intelligence, cooperative…

https://firefly.social/post/ff-8b2fbe9d529747fcbe077d6c1207c594?s=bsky

🚨The Intelligence Curse w/ Evan Miyazono

I spoke to @emiyazono, founder of @SafeWithAtlas, about the neglected risks of advanced AI and what it would actually take to govern it.

We dig into the threats he thinks aren't…

https://firefly.social/post/ff-a151a123e5954793a01faa27aa5cfdb3?s=bsky

🚨Self-Repaying Loans and the Fight for Crypto’s Soul w/ Scoopy Trooples

I spoke to @scupytrooples, the pseudonymous co-founder of @AlchemixFi, about self-repaying loans, the wreckage of DeFi scams, and what ethical…

https://firefly.social/post/ff-a6650482af834c528414853452779a62?s=bsky

🚨 Sovereignty for Sale w/ Atossa Abrahamian

I spoke to @atossaaraxia about her piece in @nytimes about Destiny, a kind of network state project on the island of Nevis led by @olivierjanss that has deceived local…

https://firefly.social/post/ff-aff09b6843eb40dd8a672373b41759c9?s=bsky

🚨MEV Is Broken on Ethereum — Can Encrypted Mempools Fix It? w/ Luis Bezzenberger

I spoke to @bezzenberger of @_brainbot and core contributor to @ShutterNetwork, about MEV and threshold encryption for encrypted mempools.

FULL EPISODE⬇️

🚨Crypto and Stablecoins in Tanzania w/ Victor Muhagachi

I spoke to @victorthetravlr, co-founder of @NedaLabs, building digital asset payment infrastructure in Tanzania, about what it actually looks like to bring crypto to communities in this context.

FULL EPISODE⬇️

@dabit3 on the new reality for developers

FULL EPISODE: https://theblockchainsocialist.com/why-he-left-crypto-for-ai-w-nader-dabit/

🚨Why he left crypto for AI w/ Nader Dabit

I spoke to @nader , well-known longtime crypto dev and educator, about what it felt like to be at the frontier of crypto and why he eventually left.

This is the first time he's spoken publicly about this.

FULL EPISODE⬇️

🚨Collective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick Vincent

I spoke to @nickmvincent, AI researcher and author of the Data Leverage substack, about how AI systems are built on the collective output of humanity's digital labor and what we can do about it.

FULL EPISODE⬇️

🚨Delete Coinbase! Use this instead… w/ UnhappyBen

I spoke to @unhappyben from @peerxyz which is a service that allows you to officially delete Coinbase and every other CEX account you may have thanks to zkTLS!

We don't need centralized exchanges anymore!

FULL EP⬇️

🚨Did we learn anything from Anonymous? w/ @kate_stapes

I sat down with Kate Stapleton, a former member of Anonymous and privacy advocate, now able to speak publicly after the statute of limitations expired.

FULL EPISODE⬇️

🚨Why did Democracy fail in DAOs?

I spoke with @theobtl.bsky.social at Devconnect in Buenos Aires about his work with the Etheruem Foundation as academic secretariat as well as the failure and future of democracy in DAOs.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pw...

🚨Is the state DEAD? Farewell to Westphalia with @jarradhope_ and Peter Ludlow

I spoke to Jarrad Hope, founder of @Logos_network and Peter Ludlow, philosopher / research advisor at the University of Hong Kong, and co-authors of the new book ‘Farewell to Westphalia.’

FULL EP⬇️