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Algorithms All the Way Down: People Die, Capital Does Not Dec 11, 2022

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For this interview I spoke to Ian Wright (@ianpaulwright), the author of the Dark Marxism blog which explores Marxism and the occult. Ian is also a programmer who has worked in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
During the discussion we spoke about what Marx means when he refers to capital as a "real God", how capital is like an algorithm controlling our lives in ways we often don't fully comprehend, and venture communism. Ian also provides a case for why the Left should take crypto more seriously from an internationalist point of view.
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SBF proves we live in post post post-modernism (clown world) Dec 04, 2022

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I'm sure most reading this probably have heard the news about the collapse of FTX and the ensuing crypto financial contagion it's caused. A lot of strange and bad analyses are being spread around crypto Twitter and elsewhere so Ben Basche (@basche42) and I try to describe a more reasonable account of the situation that doesn't flirt with fascism.
During the interview we review and contextualize the series of events, the strange literalness of everything, and what the next steps are. We also discuss Ben's article on the road ahead for crypto which you can find on his Mirror page.
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Techno-Utopianism vs Class Struggle Technologism Nov 27, 2022

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For this interview I spoke to Izzy Meckler (@izmeckler), the Chief Science Officer of 0(1) Labs which is currently building the Mina Protocol. Mina is a blockchain that utilizes zero-knowledge proofs to be as light and scalable as possible. Izzy is also an active member of East Bay DSA and has a blog called Parametricity.
During the interview we spoke about his journey from making a startup to becoming a socialist and converting it to a worker-owned cooperative, how zero-knowledge proofs work, and the political implications of these technologies.
Mentioned Sources
On Moralism
On Techno-Utopianism
Mina Protocol Documentation
snarkyJS Github
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Talking Politics with Vitalik Buterin (Part 2) Nov 20, 2022

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I interviewed Vitalik Buterin about his thoughts on the political aspects of crypto. It was a candid discussion about his book "Proof of Stake", the evolution of Ethereum, and the dangers of the far right.

Although our discussion happened just before the current scandal with FTX, there were many relevant threads. History has shown that similar types of events can create openings for radicalization and it's important that we make the appropriate moves to tamp down the fascistic tendencies in this space.

This is the second half of the full 2.5 hour long discussion we had. Although you don't have to, I'd recommend listening to the first half of the interview which you should be able to find it on whichever platform you're listening to this episode.

Very big thank you to alritedi for helping produce this episode . You can hear his music throughout the episode and find his music through his linktree.

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Talking Politics with Vitalik Buterin (Part 1) Nov 13, 2022

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This is just the first half of the full 2.5 hour long discussion we had. The second half of the interview will be released next week, or if you can't wait that long, you can listen to the full interview already through Patreon, or the crypto native way via Unlock Protocol on my website. To do this you will need to buy a Membership NFT with BREAD tokens on the Polygon network. You can get the tokens with DAI here and learn more about the application here.

The NFT works similar to Patreon in that it allows a monthly recurring payment of 10 BREAD, but will give access to all future paid content directly on this website. You only need to pay 10 BREAD for access to this interview and continuously only if you want to support and get access to future bonus content.

If in the past you have purchased an NFT on Mirror from a Breadchain Cooperative article, you've also been airdropped a membership NFT to the same wallet and should be able to access the full interview without paying.
Very big thank you to alritedi for helping produce this episode . You can hear his music throughout the episode and find his music through his linktree.

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Participatory Budgeting, Real Public Goods, and why Bernie would've won with quadratic funding Nov 06, 2022

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For this interview I spoke to Eli Zeger (@ezeger16), a writer, editor, and musician. He is also a worker-owner at Ampled and a member of the Exit to Community Collective. He recently published a piece for the Zora Zine titled Appetite for Redistribution: Budgeting for All talking about how blockchains and quadratic funding could be used to facilitate and scale participatory budgeting .
During the interview we spoke about the history of public campaign fund matching in NYC, how the local NYC election system used to be more democratic until the Cold War, and how adding quadratic funding mechanisms could be a powerful tool for democracy.
More from Eli
Ranked Choice Voting in NYC
Public Matching Funds in NYC
How to make voting more truly representative

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Why Socialists should NOT cede crypto to the Right Oct 30, 2022

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For this interview I spoke to Joshua Citarella (@JoshuaCitarella on social media), an artist, researcher, and Twitch streamer who studies niche online communities. He authored the book the Politigram and the Post-Left exploring esoteric online political beliefs. He has done a lot of work exploring various "e-deologies" and the very online young people who create and subscribe to them.
During the interview we discussed the pros and cons of e-deologies, how gamer guilds practice market socialism, and the need to contest spaces, even if they are aestheticized as being right wing. We also spoke about the current problems facing leftwing media and how we have so far settled with allowing platforms like Patreon to essentially be our shared infrastructure rather than creating our own.
“E-deology” is an internet slang term used to describe the overuse of prefixes and suffixes to generate complex ideological labels. These hyper-specific categories serve as a gamified form of identity play and niche personal branding in the chaotic landscape of online politics.
More from Joshua Citarella
DKP is Market Socialism Video
Yung Chomsky on Physical Fitness and the Left Podcast
Joshua Citarella's Patreon
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Extitutional Theory: No Rules, No Roles, just Dynamics Oct 23, 2022

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I spoke to Primavera De Filipi (@yaoeo), one of the earliest scholars on law and crypto, Internet activist, and artist. She is permanent researcher at the CNRS and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She is author of the book Blockchain and the Law published by Harvard University Press.
During the interview we spoke about some of the biggest questions facing crypto in regards to the law, her work on Extitutional Theory, and whether code is law. To understand the difference between using an institutional versus an extitutional framework, you can compare them like this:
Institutions = roles and rules, membership, well-defined boundaries, procedures and outcomes, competition
Extitutions = identities and relationships, participation, rhizomatic networks, rituals and processes, cooperation
More sources on Extitutional Theory
Academic primer on Extitutional Theory
Shorter blog post on Introduction to Extitutional Theory
Longer blog post on Extitutional Theory
Very big thank you to alritedi for helping produce this episode . You can hear his music throughout the episode and find his music through his linktree.

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MEV: existential threat to blockchains or solvable problem? Oct 02, 2022

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You may have heard of Maximal Extractable Value, or MEV, which refers to the extraction of value from Ethereum users by reordering, inserting, and censoring transactions within blocks by block producers. It's become a hot topic of debate on how best to deal with it, however these types of conversations can become very technical very fast.
In order to break it down, for this episode I spoke to Luis Bezzenberger (@bezzenberger) who works at Shutter Network, an anti-MEV/front running solution using Distributed Key Generation and threshold encryption. During the episode we spoke about how MEV works at a high level, the different camps on the issue, and how Shutter Network is proposing to deal with MEV.
More Sources
Rolling Shutter: MEV protection built into Layer 2
Announcing Shutter Governance - Shielded Voting for DAOs
Thread on a "shutterized beacon chain" for Ethereum
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How to make a good ART PONZI Sep 25, 2022

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I'm not much of an art NFT collector myself, but I do dabble in at least appreciating some NFT art that I find to be interesting in one way or another. So for this episode I spoke to Chainleft, my potential anon online doppelganger, who has recently started a new NFT collection he calls ART PONZI. Having been involved in the NFT space quite early, he is using this collection as a critique of many NFT projects while also testing out very novel mechanisms that few others have dared to try.
In the interview we spoke about how he uses his data science skills to help other NFT projects, why he calls this collection ART PONZI, and why he loves SVG file types for 100% on-chain art. Towards the end we also spoke about the research he calculating the inequality created through Proof of Work versus Proof of Stake consensus mechanisms. His published work on Mirror showed that Proof of Stake creates less inequality than Proof of Work.
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