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Division and Social Media and Centralized Governance
Who Benefits From Your Division? ReactionReason On Balance & Self-Governance Who BenefitsFrom Your Division? Centralized entities — social media platforms, major media outlets, concentrated political power — are not built to serve you. They’re built to serve themselves. That’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s just how the incentives are wired. And the clearest way they…
WORLD EVENT: EU AI Act + US–UK Data Pact
World’s first comprehensive AI law, classifying systems by risk, banning “unacceptable” uses, and imposing heavy compliance costs across 27 countries.
A day in the life
Before you read this, a note worth sitting with.… That story is fiction. The frustration in it is not. And the gap between Switzerland’s model and most people’s lived experience is exactly what this system is designed to close. Switzerland consistently records democratic satisfaction rates roughly four times higher than comparable western nations. Not because…
Global support for the as yet non existant Direct Democracy system
Around the world 70% of people support the concept of Direct Democracy versus 77% support for Representative Democracy. That’s despite Direct Democracy not even existing yet. We share important information here from Pew Research. Full details of this research at https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/02/28/representative-democracy-remains-a-popular-ideal-but-people-around-the-world-are-critical-of-how-its-working/ Enthusiasm for Representative Democracy has slipped in many nations since 2017. And the survey…
Winning proportional representation: Lessons from New Zealand
2023 has been a big year of 30th anniversaries for us. In 1993 we were married. FairVote, the organization we helped found, moved into its first …
‘Nature markets’ may help preserve biodiversity – but they risk repeating colonial patterns of Indigenous exploitation
As the latest global biodiversity summit gets underway in Colombia, finance for the conservation and restoration of nature is one of the key themes …
A Modern Triumvirate? New Zealand’s Political Power Play and Its Historical Parallels
History doesn’t always repeat itself, but sometimes it sure does come awfully close.As one does at 3am when they should be sleeping or cleaning or …
In history, context is everything
Te Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti outside Parliament Buildings, Wellington, November 19, drew tens of thousands opposed to the Principles of the Treaty of …