Bootstrapping Arts and Engineering
Executive summary; MediaWiki software can be a significant and over-looked vulnerability on the web. There has been remarkably little reporting on the effects and influence of MediaWikis on the web. I have detailed an eight year case study showing how various troll farms exploit these vulnerabilities and many times influencing the broader web culture and…
Building on top of RadicalxChange’s concept RadicalxChange (RxC) is a well funded global movement and community comprised of scientists, designers, researchers and academics confronting extreme social problems with “radical” new ideas and concepts that can become implemented. A few members of Big Mother’s DAO are also members of this community. RadicalxChange’s Matt Prewitt introduced a…
“Computers make it practical to electronify wealth distribution games that accomplish the movement of goods in services in more channeled, designed structures. Not big brother though, since no central planning authority—just lots of dial-in ‘games’ with costs and rewards, likely to attract those with a self-interest in playing.” Bucky Fuller, Critical Path, 1981 BAE is…
Big Mother’s DAO features a community both in the arts and the sciences. Nothing represents this marriage of art and science more than the fields of cartoons and animation. For over a century, cartoonists have had to integrate wild imagination and highly caricatured visuals that defy the laws of physics, with precise mathematical timing. The…
Please forgive me in advance for the dramatic entry of the title, and I do not wish to confuse anyone. By DAO I do not mean anything at all esoteric or related to the Tao Te Ching or Daoist philosophy, I simply mean what web3 means, as in Decentralized Autonomous Organization. DAOs are interesting because…