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All Models Are Wrong

von Joshua Dávila

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Technology is never just technology. All Models Are Wrong examines who controls and benefits from these systems and how they might be organized differently.

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  1. Decentralization is a type of person | Seth Frey

    Seth Frey studies how communities govern themselves. He’s a cognitive and computational social scientist at UC Davis. His work looks at online communities like subreddits and Minecraft servers as model systems for governing a commons. Befor

  2. We need tech funding without venture capital | Wouter Tebbens (DWeb Camp)

    Wouter Tebbens has spent more than 20 years building open source and cooperative alternatives to big tech, including a cooperative cloud service in Barcelona and a member-owned alternative to Zoom. At DWeb Camp he helped launch the Democrat

  3. Running a company like an artist | René Pinnell (DWeb Camp)

    Edit: Since the recording of this interview many things have happened to René and the Artizen platform / community. René has suffered two strokes which has put his health at risk and has moved towards closing down Artizen. At the same time,

  4. Why experts are worse at predicting the future than you | Daniel Erasmus (DWeb Camp)

    Daniel Erasmus has spent about 25 years doing scenario planning for banks, governments and companies, and his starting point is that experts are bad at predicting the future. In 2006, a scenario he worked on helped one bank prepare for a gl

  5. What the Internet Archive founder predicted 50 years ago | Brewster Kahle (DWeb Camp)

    Brewster Kahle started planning the Internet Archive (creators of the Wayback Machine) in 1980 at the MIT AI lab, when he figured that machines worth talking to would need a library to learn from. Forty-six years later, he says the biggest

  6. Yanis Varoufakis on blockchain, the digital euro and being a class traitor

    I spoke to Yanis Varoufakis, economist and former Greek finance minister, at Web3 Summit in Berlin on June 18th, 2026, about why he thinks blockchain is one of the few tools left that can actually pull power away from Big Tech and the banks

  7. Zero Knowledge: Solution for Digital Identity? w/ Leo Fan

    I spoke to Leo Fan, founder of Cysic (https://cysic.xyz/), about what zero-knowledge proofs actually are, and why they might be one of the more promising answers to the internet's identity problem. We dig into how a ZK proof lets you prove

  8. AI, Empire, and the Left's Missing Voice w/ Nick Srnicek

    I spoke to Nick Srnicek (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/nick-srnicek), author of Platform Capitalism, co-author of Inventing the Future, and most recently Silicon Empires (https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=silicon-empires-the-f

  9. Harnessing Collective Intelligence better than LLMs w/ Sean Geobey

    I spoke to Sean Geobey (https://uwaterloo.ca/school-environment-enterprise-development/profiles/sean-geobey), associate professor at the University of Waterloo and Director of Groupthink Labs (https://polls.groupthinklabs.com/), about colle

  10. The Intelligence Curse w/ Evan Miyazono

    I spoke to Evan Miyazono, founder of Atlas Computing (https://atlascomputing.org/), about the neglected risks of advanced AI and what it would actually take to govern it. We dig into the threats he thinks aren't getting enough attention, fr

  11. Self-Repaying Loans and the Fight for Crypto's Soul w/ Scoopy Trooples

    I spoke to Scoopy Trooples (https://x.com/scupytrooples), the pseudonymous co-founder of Alchemix (https://alchemix.fi/), about self-repaying loans, the wreckage of DeFi scams, and what ethical crypto finance could actually look like. We di

  12. Sovereignty for Sale w/ Atossa Abrahamian

    I spoke to Atossa Araxia Abrahamian (https://www.atossaaraxia.com/), an independent journalist and author of The Hidden Globe (https://www.atossaaraxia.com/the-hidden-globe), about the world of offshore finance, special economic zones, and

  13. MEV Is Broken on Ethereum — Can Encrypted Mempools Fix It? w/ Luis Bezzenberger

    I spoke to Luis Bezzenberger (https://x.com/bezzenberger) of Brainbot (https://brainbot.com/) and core contributor to Shutter Network (https://www.shutter.network/), about MEV and threshold encryption for encrypted mempools. Luis comes from

  14. Crypto and Stablecoins in Tanzania w/ Victor Muhagachi

    I spoke to Victor Muhagachi (https://x.com/victorthetravlr), co-founder of NEDA Labs (https://www.nedapay.xyz/), building digital asset payment infrastructure in Tanzania and East Africa, about what it actually looks like to bring crypto to

  15. Why he left crypto for AI w/ Nader Dabit

    I spoke to Nader Dabit (https://x.com/dabit3), longtime crypto developer and educator who built at Aave, Lens, and Developer DAO, about what it felt like to be at the frontier of Web3 and why he eventually left. Nader spent years genuinely

  16. Collective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick Vincent from Data Leverage

    I spoke to Nick Vincent (https://www.nickmvincent.com/), assistant professor of computing science at Simon Fraser University and author of the Data Leverage (https://dataleverage.substack.com/) substack, about what it actually means that AI

  17. Delete Coinbase! Use this instead... w/ UnhappyBen (Peer.xyz)

    I spoke to UnhappyBen, head of growth and marketing at Peer (https://peer.xyz/) (formerly known as ZKP2P) which is a service that allows you to officially delete Coinbase and every other centralized exchange account you may have. Peer is pr

  18. Public or Perish: Decentralized Municipal Socialism w/ Boris Mamlyuk

    I spoke to Boris Mamlyuk, co-founder of Clean App (https://x.com/CleanApp) an AI-powered, crowdsourced environmental app designed for users to report waste and hazards in real-time, essentially a system for reporting civic feedback. I had h

  19. What if AI was Cooperative instead? w/ Tan Zhi Xuan

    I spoke to Tan Zhi Xuan (https://ztangent.github.io/), Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore's Department of Computer Science and founder of the Cooperative Intelligence and Systems Lab, a research group confronting th

  20. Did we learn anything from Anonymous? w/ Kate Stapleton | Devconnect 2025

    Continuing the publication of interviews from DevConnect in Buenos Aires, I sat down with Kate Stapleton (https://x.com/kate_stapes), a former member of Anonymous and privacy advocate, now able to speak publicly after the statute of limitat

  21. Why did Democracy fail in DAOs? w/ Theo Beutel | Devconnect 2025

    Continuing the publication of interviews from DevConnect in Buenos Aires, I sat down with Theo Beutel (https://theodorbeutel.de/) (academic secretariat at the Ethereum Foundation, researcher at Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau, University

  22. Is Crypto Governance Dead? w/ Eugene Leventhal | Devconnect 2025

    In this episode recorded at DevConnect in Buenos Aires, I sit down with Eugene Leventhal (https://x.com/bbeats1) (researcher at Metagov (https://metagov.org/), podcaster at Governance Futures (https://govfutures.podbean.com), new head of go

  23. How to send cryptocurrency to Gaza

    Note that this is from a video essay published on YouTube here (https://youtu.be/Px9ohL06jrc). For over a year, I've been helping people send aid to Gaza via cryptocurrency because traditional banking systems have failed Palestinians. PayPa

  24. Is the state DEAD? Farewell to Westphalia with Jarrad Hope and Peter Ludlow

    In this episode I spoke to Jarrad Hope, founder of Logos (https://logos.co/), and Peter Ludlow, philosopher and research advisor at the University of Hong Kong, and co-authors of the new book 'Farewell to Westphalia (https://logos.co/farewe

  25. Free Markets Are Planned: The Neoliberal Paradox with Christoph Sorg

    Dr. Christoph Sorg is a social scientist at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He researches theories of capitalism and post-capitalism and the new debate on economic planning in times of digitalization and the climate crisis. During the in

  26. Weaponized Design and the Digital Identity Event Horizon with Cade Diehm

    I spoke to Cade Diehm (https://shiba.computer/), Head of Research at the World Ethical Data Foundation (https://worldethicaldata.org/) and founder of New Design Congress (https://newdesigncongress.org/about), an independent research group c

  27. Nepal, DAOs and Secret Voting with Aragon CEO Leuts.eth

    I spoke to Leuts.eth (https://x.com/A_Leutenegger), CEO of Aragon (https://www.aragon.org/), a DAO tooling protocol that gives organizations the tools to build, govern, and accrue value effectively onchain. Aragon was probably the first org

  28. NETWORKED REALISM: Whoever Controls the Infrastructure, Controls Reality

    It's feeling like we're living in a very strange moment in time where liberal norms of openness have been shattered by the same class of tech industry titans who expressed these values just a decade ago. In this episode I spoke to Nick Houd

  29. How Urbit Failed with Adina Glickstein

    In this episode, I talk with Adina Glickstein (https://www.instagram.com/adina______images/) — Master’s student in Media Studies under Nathan Schneider at UC Boulder and editor-at-large at Spike Art Magazine (https://spikeartmagazine.com/)

  30. Free Market Friends with Naomi Oba

    About a month ago I spoke at Dappcon about Solidarity Primitives (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvhM4fxfZkk&pp=ygUdZGFwcGNvbiBzb2xpZGFyaXR5IHByaW1pdGl2ZXM%3D) we've been building at Bread Cooperative (http://bread.coop/). Before my talk,

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