Who owns the commons?
In this episode we talk with Lauren Gardner about building infrastructure for open-source projects and why lessons from DIY arts spaces like Babycastles & School for Poetic Computation might hold the key to collective digital life.
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MEDLab research fellow Kadallah Burrowes speaks with Lauren Gardner, Executive Director of Open Source Collective, about what it means to build infrastructure for the commons and why the lessons of grassroots arts spaces might hold the key to the future of collective digital life. Gardner stewards a network of over 2,500 open-source and community-driven projects, providing fiscal sponsorship and shared infrastructure to thousands of maintainers and contributors worldwide. Her path to the […]

This month on Looks Like New, Timnit Gebru joins MEDLab fellow Stephanie Abdalla to discuss AI ethics, the history of AGI, and resistance shaping alternative AI futures. Founder of Distributed AI Research Institute and co-founder of Black in AI.

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Can AI be rebuilt to serve communities? – Looks Like New

Tomorrow, March 24, from 8:30 AM to noon, MEDLab will be hosting Protocol Ecologies! All are welcome to join us at Case E330 at CU Boulder. Scan the QR code for more information.

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Thursday March 12th from 12:30 PM to 1:45 PM MEDLab will hosting From Survivor, To Researcher, To Steward, hosted by Dr KaLyn "Kay" Coghill from Blacksky Algorithms.

All are welcome to join at Case E330 on Cu Boulder's Campus! RVSP now!

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Monday March 9th at 4PM MEDLab will be hosting Wired and Unwell! A sunset talk facilitated by Jadyn Turbeville . All are welcome to join in CASE W250.

Check out our pre-read by scanning the QR code on the flyer!

See more events at https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/events

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What is the future of digital capitalism?

This month Kadallah Burrowes talks with Nick Srnicek about platform capitalism, automation, and the political forces shaping our digital economy asking who owns the platforms, who benefits from them, and how their future could be built differently.

Available now on: Looklikesnew.net

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what is the future of digital capitalism? – Looks Like New

What can ancient cosmologies teach the future?

This month Kadallah Burrowes talks with Ytasha Womack about Afrofuturism as active world-building, how imagination, ancient cosmologies, rhythm, and storytelling shape more humane tech and the futures we’re already living.

Available now on:
Lookslikenew.net

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Y8jLIjtVghU6mnTr2bpTt?si=0aa9e4a1bf1f4e42&nd=1&dlsi=db7099749a7448b0

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