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Modular Platform for Political Philosophers – WorkFlow Democracy
Hello, here a proposal for the Decidim.org community. Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Decidim is not easy to configure for people who are not tech-savvy. Currently, only individuals with in-depth knowledge of Decidim can properly set up an instance. This issue goes beyond the installation of the software—I’m referring to…
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The Speed of Power: can we calculate it?
There are many theories about what power is and how it can be exercised, but here, I propose to reason about the power that each one of us has. Every one of us could potentially write an email to someone; we could also buy a train ticket (if we have economic power); we could let…
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What does “fork” mean?
In the distant year 2002, a group of programmers released the first version of OpenOffice, which gained support from a large community. In 2010, instead of contributing to the updates and enhancements of OpenOffice, some programmers decided to create a “fork,” meaning they made a copy of the source code and incorporated their own improvements…
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Why digital collaboration is so important
Information technology enables a level of collaboration in certain activities that was inconceivable before. Many have found themselves writing simultaneously on the same shared document, effectively contributing with four or six hands, significantly boosting productivity without compromising quality. Another classic example of multi-party collaboration is Wikipedia. When it comes to creating the source code of…
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Thoughts about writing and artificial intelligence
As a person who always liked to read, and always wanted to be able to write well, I looked at the ChatGPT phenomenon, as something very interesting. Of course, I was shocked by how fast and precise it is, at the same time I’m so happy that I don’t have to write anything boring again!…
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Such news, much propaganda – What people talk and think about
We live in a very connected and globalized world, yet we do not know what other peoples are thinking and talking about. Sometimes we are locked in our media and social bubble, not realizing that other things are happening. The purpose of this project is to show at first glance what is talked about, and…
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The network effect
Sometimes we worry too much about things. If you work, you work. If you study, you study. If you think… :/ From now on I’ll try to not think too much, I’ll post my projects here, trying to see what will happen using the most unbelievable things of our epoch: the network. People worry about…
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Ending my History bachelor with a thesis about blockchains.
It was for me something obvious to mix History with blockchains, and I’m very happy that I’ve done it. It was for me a very interesting travel, where I had the opportunity to study something very fascinating, trying to find parallelisms with ancient times and thinking about the possibilities that the future will reserve us.…
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Hello World
Sometimes it happens that we do stuff without wondering too much about the time we spend doing that thing. Sometimes it happens because we want to escape from something, and we do not realize how in that way we are walking on a way that is not the right one. Other times we just need…