* Donna Haraway on Response-ability and Staying with the Trouble news.secondrenaissance.net/p… Seeds of a Second Renaissance Issue 1 (Feb 2025) - "Haraway makes the case for response-ability – an agentic response to our crises that begins with our entanglement in them. Renouncing ‘human exceptionalism’ and becoming sensitive to others and the more-than-human world. Response-ability starts with our present situation and surroundings; sensing into what’s needed, and preoccupied by neither hope nor despair. Not only do these states limit our connection to the present, but they also limit our agency. Whether we trust blindly that somehow everything will be okay, or believe that we’re doomed, it’s too easy to do nothing. Beyond this paralysis, Haraway invites us to meet troubled reality just as it is, coming face-to-face with loss, death and, importantly, grief."

In Italian: * Federated social networks: interconnection tailored for the Third Sector vita.it/social-network-feder… "Collaborative structures such as consortia and associations still lack a digital infrastructure capable of supporting them. The world is experimenting with different ways of networking than the current platforms: here are some examples where shared governance and active participation are at the core."

How authoritarian is the network state movement ? I'm here just in one small web3 group on a island in Thailand, a few dozen people attend; three of them are 'refugees' of the network state movement who were forcibly removed for mild critiques and disagreements. If that resonates, please share publicly or privately. Independently of whether we support the mercantilist 'network state' option or the more civic oriented 'network nation' movement, it is in our common interest that Web3 retains its pluralist traditions. There are preciously few places where we talk openly across our differences, it is worth defending.