Tag: commons
The Petition as Actualization: Notes Toward a Political Philosophy of DMML
A real conversation about theodicy, immune systems, Simondon, Deleuze, Alexander, Benjamin, capability security, Hardt and Negri, and Ostrom — and how they all turned out to describe the same design decisions in a text-adventure engine's world-description language.
friendsof.wiki: a quick changelog
Some quick notes on a couple of weeks of small-bore hacking.
Wikipedia and friends: learning through code
I built friendsof.wiki to surface the open knowledge graph alongside Wikipedia articles, and learned a few things along the way.
What Is a Harness?
LLMs are engines. Harnesses are everything else—the wheels, brakes, dashboard, GPS—that turn a raw engine into a useful vehicle. First in a series on harnesses for the open knowledge commons.
W Social and the ancient art of neighbourliness
Good behaviour matters more than good code
Good, Standard Work: Creating the Commons
A defence of digital stewardship, IndieWeb principles, Blackfoot models of collective flourishing, and what it means to plant seeds in a garden you'll never see. From Garrett Hardin's infamous 1968 essay to Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning refutation, the tragedy of the commons was never inevitable. It was always a choice.
Where Do the Meetings Happen?
In a Japanese mountain village, a detective patrolling the closed commons found thirty intruders cutting bamboo poles for their vegetable trellises. Among them were heads of leading households. The village headman had set the opening date too late — the farmers' crops might be lost.
Labels as Monitoring: Governing the Attention Commons
The shared rivalrous resource on social networks isn't data. It's attention.
Zur Einleitung von Sven Beckerts Kapitalismus-Buch: Kapitalismus als Prozess
Am Montag habe ich die Einleitung zu Sven Beckerts Geschichte des Kapitalismus (Beckert, 2025a) gelesen. Ich habe die englische Epub-Version gekauft; das Buch ist auch auf deutsch erschienen (Beckert, 2025b) und medial zu Recht gerade sehr präsent. Empfehlenswert zur Orientierung ist Thilo Jungs Gespräch mit Beckert bei „Jung und Naiv“ (Jung & Naiv, 2026). Die...