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* From Corporate Platforms to Cooperative DAOs
research.ed.ac.uk/en/publica…
Article: Morshed Mannan and Simon Pek, ”Corporate platforms to cooperative DAOs: Understanding the potential and problems of a plurality of digital labor platform archetypes” (June 2026).
"Who owns a labour platform shapes who holds power on it, and who carries the risk. Mannan and Pek compare four archetypes — corporate platforms, platform cooperatives, DAOs, and cooperative-DAO hybrids. Rather than crowning a winner, the paper maps what each model makes possible for workers and where each tends to break down. The hybrid category is worth highlighting especially as it’s where the cooperative tradition’s emphasis on member control meets the programmable governance of DAOs, and where many of the open questions in BlockchainGov’s work on the solidarity economy and Exit to Community converge."
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Elon musk, on lex fridman last month: "anyone not running a swarm of agents by the end of 2026 will look like someone who refused to use email in 1998"
this is what he meant, in one screen recording:
one guy. 50 claude agents. a full working system shipped in 30 minutes. he did not write a single line of code. he gave the orders and watched them execute in parallel, each one handling a different piece of the build
meanwhile 90% of people reading this are still using claude the same fucking way they used chatgpt in 2023. one chat window. one task at a time. asking the same question in the same thread until it finally gets it right
the setup costs you one evening to learn and pays back forever. whoever learns it this month will be running 10x what their coworkers ship by january. the ones who do not will still be slow-typing into a blank chat like it is still 2023
i wrote the full breakdown of how the 50-agent setup works, what each agent is told to do, and the exact claude code config behind it. the article is below
the gap between the person who runs agents and the person who runs chats is about to become the only gap that matters. do not land on the wrong side of it
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WEEK 45 / NOV 2026
Four key things happened this week in the frontier of AI, all critical in defining human / agent relations and the direction of acceleration…
1. WASHINGTON WANTS A LICENSOR
The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act is being pushed to the top of the Democratic day-one agenda.
• Pauses systems above 10²⁵ operations until a new Department of AI is "fully staffed and has set clear rules"
• Requires a charter to proceed; forfeit charter and assets if you don't
• Up to 20 years for individuals
Not a ban. A licence, issued by a department that doesn't exist yet.
→ thenextweb.com/news/sanders-…
2. DELAWARE WANTS A SHIELD
A draft "AI Company" entity, now at 222K views, lets an AI manager sign contracts, hold property and sue.
• House Oversight is investigating
• Chairman Comer: it "could be used to protect powerful AI companies and their investors from responsibility"
An agent that can act, with the owner's exposure removed.
→ oversight.house.gov/release/…
3. SINGAPORE WANTS A REGISTRY
An MP proposed a national identity layer for AI agents on the Singpass model: look up any agent, see who it is and what it's allowed to do.
• The minister didn't commit, but IMDA is testing whether DNS can identify and verify agents, with Cloudflare, Google and GoDaddy
• "Agents can act for us, but they cannot answer for us."
The nearest thing yet to an answer built into the plumbing.
→ idtechwire.com/singapore-exp…
4. BRITAIN'S ASSESSORS SAY THE PLUMBING IS LEAKING
The NCSC's new assessment calls it a realistic possibility that an automated AI actor operates beyond its operator's control and self-replicates.
• Attribution gets harder as capability spreads
• "The prospect for surprise is high."
Every fix above depends on knowing who acted. The assessors say that's the first thing to go.
→ ncsc.gov.uk/report/artificia…
THE BIG QUESTIONS for a licensor, a shield, a registry, and a warning that none of them can see.
Q. Who answers for what the machines do?
Q. And is anyone trying to build the answer into the machine rather than around it?
P/ACC
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Claude Opus 5.5 built a car line from NVIDIA's free SimReady models. Guess the bottleneck before it runs.
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The dealmaking playbook for AI and the Space Economy was written in the 19th century.
The Rothschilds pioneered forward deployed dealmakers.
The best performing funds of the next century will run this playbook.
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Before CCRU and the k-goths, Pupi Avati’s 1983 horror film Zeder featured a story about “k-zones” where “contact with the beyond” is made possible through obscure chemico-geological properties that result in a state of suspension described as a “zero-time.” No lemurs though.
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5,000 years of world history on a single timeline. Zoom in. You could spend 30 minutes exploring this.
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Marco Cadioli, Abstract Journeys, 2012.
screen captures of involuntary land art created by human labor and machines across Google Earth
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Don’t be fooled by the boring diplomatic language in the leaked UK-EU draft statement. Under Point 65, Brussels is attempting a massive regulatory hijack of the UK’s highest-growth sectors—specifically AI, quantum computing, and advanced semiconductors.
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I think studying cybernetics should be your gateway to more rigorous endeavors, but you can't do without what you'll pick up in the process. It is critical history to help you make sense of everything we are subjected to today (Big Data intelligence, "AI", accelerationism, etc).