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🎙️NEW POD: FIXING BUGS IN DEMOCRACY What if democracy worked more like open-source software? @jessaroo speaks with @takahiroanno, an AI engineer and sci-fi writer who just won a seat in Japan's parliament. youtu.be/A_S6GP5-lBQ

From the ashes of adversity rises the phoenix of change.✨ Engaged California III is a conversation of co-creation & ⿻Plurality about the impact of AI on work.🛠️ It builds dialogue & strengthens people-government trust.🤝 Yes! The #TaiwanModel🇹🇼 & #CivicAI Can Help. #LLAP🖖

Gratitude to @aza of @HumaneTech_ for the top @TIME shoutout.🙏 What makes Taiwan🇹🇼 a digital democracy success? Freedom, democracy & #CivicAI!💯 Learn more & join The Human Movement.✅ ▶️ civic.ai ▶️ civic.ai/safer-sovereig… ▶️ human.mov #LLAP🖖

I didn't say a lot when the book came out, because I was hoping the authors (@DKThomp and @ezraklein) would get there themselves, but I have to say how disappointed I am with how little this 2 hour long, year-after reflection shows they have learned: nytimes.com/2026/04/28/opi…

Co-Creative Democracy, From Taipei to NYC 🖖 - mailchi.mp/radicalxchange…

On May 14–15 communities around the world, from Tbilisi to Thika, will gather to discuss the same topic on the same day: Deliberative Democracy in Practice Host a Plural Event in your city! Info session tomorrow, 4pm CET 👇

The book is available in English and German on Amazon, and freely downloadable at co-intelligence.institute/book-audrey

There is a crack in everything. That, as Leonard Cohen sang, is how the light gets in. 🌄 New essay on the blog by @martinrausch14, @tomatlee & Jenna Büchy — co-authors of the brand new book, Finding Light Through the Cracks: Reinventing Democracy with @audreyt

Its Happening !!! 🎊 The #PLURALITY Event is taking shape: 
🧩 20 IRL events in parallel, worldwide (May 14) 🧩 Collab between @RadxChange, @PluralityInst, @Logos_network, @hubs_network_, Comms Gardening 🧩 Results showcased at Neo-Cypherpunk Summit, June 14, Berlin

 (s26ber.web3privacy.info) Join the one in your city!: 📍Porto > luma.com/adqwa9z1 (hosted by @Takmalah116094 & Teresa)
 📍Malaysia > luma.com/2cvenfxl (hosted by @ns & @nsethereum) 📍Abeokuta City Nigeria > luma.com/il5nshq2 (by Austine)
 📍Barcelona > luma.com/gqbhhn8g (@nikoline_nik) 📍 Abakaliki, Ebonyi > luma.com/71yeez6m (by Mhiz) or… candidate to host one! > > > t.me/pluralevents We are calling on institutions and technologies aligned with the values of @pluralitybook and @audreyt to help expand the diversity of voices and cultures involved, and to shine a light on the challenges and solutions emerging from different regions. Thank you for putting your energy and love into this @nikoline_nik 🤍, @krrisis, @PG_CDG, Jack, Justina, Lorenzo.

One person, one vote treats all preferences as equal. They aren't. A passionate minority that desperately wants X can be outvoted by a bored majority that barely cares. Social welfare falls. @EricPosner & @glenweyl ask: what if we let people vote their intensity?

AI is cause for consternation.⛅️ But it’s not all doom & gloom.☀️ Humans aren’t the #DataOil. We’re the Kami-supported superintelligence tilling the #DataSoil!🧑‍🌾 Join The Human Movement & Let’s #FreeTheFuture🖖 — together. ▶️human.mov ▶️civic.ai

Plenty of food for thought in @rosenstein’s commentary.✅ ▶️fortune.com/2026/03/29/reg… Our #CivicAI & 6⃣Pack of Care developed with @EthicsinAI_AFP also make for a moreish meal of the mind.💯 ▶️civic.ai Democracy Needs Civic AI! ▶️civic.ai/democracy-need… #LLAP🖖

Great to garden against the Default Trajectory at the #CivicAI Conference by @EthicsinAI_AFP.✨ Gratitude to fellow changemakers for working to #FreeTheFuture🖖 — together! ▶️linkedin.com/posts/institut… Democracy Needs Civic AI! ▶️civic.ai/democracy-need… ▶️civic.ai

🖖 The Latest with RxC | April 2026 - mailchi.mp/radicalxchange…

📝 afp.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/event/civic-ai… 📖 Civic.ai

Terrific talking #TaiwanModel with @PPmerino at @AgenciaGobMX in Mexico — thank you. We’re of one mind when it comes to potential-packed co-creation in the digital & #CivicAI realms benefiting the people. The sky truly is the limit for Taiwan🇹🇼-Mexico🇲🇽 cooperation! #LLAP🖖

Magnificent to meet in Mexico with like-minded partners!💯 Dialogue with @RolandoZapataB & @Alonsotamez paves the way for Taiwan🇹🇼-Mexico🇲🇽 tie-ups in areas of shared digital interests & #CivicAI. Gratitude to @UKinMexico’s @el_rvelez for helping us #FreeTheFuture🖖 — together.

🖖 The Latest with RxC | March 2026 - mailchi.mp/radicalxchange…

That's not a technical problem. It's a collective action problem. And collective action problems have a well-known solution: we have to solve them together. We're working on what comes next, and we'll have more to share soon.

So, why didn't they build it? In Amodei's own words, this "might not work itself out due to collective action problems or blunt government action." Even if you believe compensation is right, and it appears Amodei did, doing it alone is a competitive disadvantage. No single company can pay for data when competitors train on the same material for free.

The case for data dignity is no longer coming only from advocates and academics. It's coming from inside the labs. In Bartz v. Anthropic, a class action in the Northern District of California, a 2021 internal memo from Anthropic was unsealed as an exhibit. In it, CEO @DarioAmodei lays out a framework for compensating the people whose data trains AI models.