Nick Merrill

An ideologically trustworthy communications network is a pre-requisite for any meaningfully liberatory struggle we might hope to achieve in our lifetimes. That network will be an internet. But perhaps not this internet.

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Jul 10

Pockets of liberation The 7th and final post in a series

Mar 8

Fight for control threatens to destabilize and fragment the internet I’m a researcher at the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity where I direct the Daylight Lab. This newsletter is my work as I do it: more than half-baked, less than peer-reviewed. This piece is adapted from one I wrote for The Conversation, a wonderful CC-licensed news…

Jul 30, 2021

But can it govern?Part 6 of a series

Mar 5

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Identity bureaus Part 5 of a series

Mar 3

An internet of DAOs A new logic of global data trade. Part 4 of a series.

Mar 2

What are DAOs?Part 3 of a series

Feb 7

How governance could be Part 2 of a series

Jan 28

Governable internets Part 1 of a series

Jan 25

Naming could be RAD DAOs and the future of internet naming

Jan 20

WARNING: Minority rule is possible Detecting minority rule in PoS networks, or "On setting a default"

Jan 9

Optimizing for deliberation Measuring (and enforcing) a democratic process

Dec 28, 2021

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