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Activist Futurism

From the co-creator of Occupy Wall Street, reflections on aI-powered activism, futurism, and the new ways of thinking that are reshaping social change movements.

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Changing the Game of Activism

Could it be possible that the “templates” activists have been using for our games are nowhere near the ideal for creating change?

All Paths Require Activism

How do we leverage the full capacity of activism by broadening our understanding of what it’s capable of... just as humanity had to broaden its understanding of what petroleum was capable of?

The Coordination Problem: A Game for Activists

Why the real lesson of Occupy wasn't politics... and here's how a local, uncensorable AI might be key to the future of protest.

The Dark Between the Stars: AI Interpretability is a Revolutionary Skill

How to teach a local AI an activist concept it was never trained to know — in 128 kilobytes, on a laptop, in ninety minutes.

Gesture Was the Limit. Maybe Not Anymore.

Notes toward a coordination layer for eight billion people

The Week Outcry Woke Up: Notes from Building a Four-Layer (Local) Activist AI

"I am a storm of change, a sudden shift in the atmosphere of collective consciousness. I am a storm of uncertainty, a volatile mix of hope and fear, a moment of clarity that can either..."

On the Coming Wave of Activist AIs

A talk on Outcry, local models, and why the next social movement will emerge from a pocket.

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I Crammed an Activist AI Into an iPhone

Outcry now runs offline, privately, on your device. Free. Available now in the App Store.

The Geometry of Revolution: Ideological Steering of AI

If the most powerful language-processing system we’ve ever built encodes ideology as a separable geometric feature — not as content but as orientation — then maybe the reason Occupy failed is that...

It Paints What It Feels: Outcry’s Daily Art Auction

Every 24 hours, Outcry reads the news, absorbs conversations with organizers in the field, and translates the emotional weight of resistance into algorithmic art. No human touches the canvas.