In 2022, Cabin evolved from an experimental residency program into an organization actively building a network city. We entered the past year with a t...

Modern politics, and its underlying post-Enlightenment political theory, is stuck in a rut. Since the French Revolution of 1789, when the nobles sat o...

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For all of our excitement about the ways that DAOs could usher in a revolution of collective action, we should remember: they wouldn’t be the first on...

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If you look at the social DAO landscape, you’ll see communities with different social token models. Some, like FWB, use a fungible social token to gat...

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This week, a group of internet friends tried an experiment: what happens when you meet online and then come together IRL to build something? What ide...

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