Memberships

Instead of spending my lil' media budget on a few extra streaming services, I support these communities of practice with small, regular contributions. It's a small step, but tbh it feels good, and I get endless reading material out of it.

• American Society for Cybernetics to facilitate inter-/trans-/meta-disciplinary thinking and doing.
• Biomimicry Institute to design natural systems instead of unnatural systems.
• Blacksky to amplify, protect, and moderate content so users can safely build community online.
• Clearsky to monitor and health-check AT Protocol activity.
• Kawaakibi Foundation to bring about a world free from tyranny.
• Library of Economic Possibility to discover economic research for a better economy.
• The Marginalian to encourage meaning-making with a sense of wonder.
• The Nature of Software toward software design materials that heal instead of hurt our environment.
• The Sensemakers Club to learn how to make sense of messes together.
• Signal to encourage ad-free, surveillance-free, cross-platform, open source messaging.
• Special Projects to walk and talk and develop healthy archetypes for future generations.
• Strategy theory to enable social systems and institutions to evolve in relationship with our environment.
• The Verge to pay for great journalism.
• Wreckage/Salvage to consider potential cultural and technical futures.

Potential memberships

I'd like to support these organizations in the future:

• Albert Einstein Institute to equip and organize non-violent action.
• All We Can Save to protect our environment.
• Bluesky Public Benefit Corporation (Bluesky PBC) when subscriptions launch; to steward a flagship Atmosphere (AT Protocol) application.
• Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR) to recognize signal in the face of all the noise.
• Drupal Association to keep web content management open source and accessible.
• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) or a similar standards body when stewardship of the AT Protocol is transferred from Bluesky PBC.
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to maintain a resilient and accessible digital commons for everyone.

Other subscriptions

I do still subscribe to a few media services like Apple One and Amazon Prime. But I’d like to change some of that. We vote with our attention. More soon. :)