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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 4h

Want to understand how nature loss becomes financial risk, and what to do about it? WWF's free Nature Finance Academy teaches banks, investors, and regulators to assess and price it. Self-paced, built for your role, open to all. 🌿 wwf.panda.org/discover/our...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Most impact claims run on "trust us." A company says it did the good, and you take their word for it. 🌱 Kim Chang of VeChain on building economies where good actions are rewarded in real time, and the impact is something anyone can verify. www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/autopgf...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nonprofits are curious about AI, but also have good reason to be wary of it: energy use, safety, Big Tech power 🤖🤔 In Ep. 269, we unpack these concerns and highlight 8 ways NGOs & communities are using small, local & sovereign AI tools for good 🌍 www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists Episode 269 - Small, Local, and Sovereign: 8 Ways NGOs & Communities Are Using AI for Good Without Compromising Their Values

In episode 269 of Crypto Altruists, we take an honest look at AI for nonprofits and address the biggest concerns: energy and water use, AI safety, and Big Tech's growing power. Then we explore 8 ways ...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Building something free, open source, or nonprofit for Ethereum? Devcon has free booth space for you. Its Impact Program reserves booths at Devcon 8 (Mumbai, Nov 3-6) for public goods teams and nonprofits that usually can't afford a spot. Rolling applications. 🌱 devcon.org/en/supporters/

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Devcon 8 India

Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. Join us 3–6 November 2026 in Mumbai, India.

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Crypto talks about decentralization like it invented the idea. 🤝 But co-ops have run on shared ownership and one-member-one-vote for over a century. The problems DAOs wrestle with, governance, engagement, power concentration, co-ops solved long ago. www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How do you explain Ethereum to someone new? We reach for a vending machine. 🍫 Put money in, make a selection, get exactly what you paid for. No trusting the operator. A smart contract is that, for anything: release funds when a goal is hit, refund everyone if it isn't.

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Our economy values destroying nature more than restoring it 💰 Treegens hopes to change that, using blockchain & AI to reward people for tree planting 🌱 For ep 268 we spoke w/ world record holder Jimi Cohen to explore how tech can help scale regeneration🌳🌐 www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists Episode 268 - From World Records to a Billion Trees: How Web3 & AI can Scale a Global Movement of Regenerators, with Jimi Cohen of Treegens

For episode 268 of the Crypto Altruists Podcast, we welcome back Jimi Cohen, founder of Treegens and world record tree planter. We explore his journey from dorm-room fundraiser to Guinness World Recor...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

An AI translated "intravenous antibiotics" into "intravenous insecticides" in Tigrinya, a language spoken by 9 million people. When AI safety is built only in English, these are the failures nobody catches. A sharp Rest of World read. 🌍 restofworld.org/2026/ai-safe...

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AI safety is designed in the West, and failing users everywhere

OpenAI’s pause shows the risks of rapid AI development, as safety frameworks fail to account for non-Western languages and contexts where harms are felt most.

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There's more AI being built for good than the headlines suggest, and it needs funding. ImpactOpen gathers 68 grants, fellowships, accelerators, and compute credits for AI in social impact, hand-verified and sorted by what closes soonest. 🔎 www.impactopen.org

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Most nonprofits spend the majority of their energy just chasing the next grant. 🍽️ Martin Simms from WYDE on a model that funds meals from a slice of everyday transactions, so orgs can focus on the work, not the fundraising. www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There's a new free financial literacy course for young people from UNICEF, covering budgeting, credit, interest, and the basics of blockchain. There's even a game, Neon Paycheck, where you earn, spend, and dodge scams in a neon city. 🎮 agora.unicef.org/course/info....

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The tech that reshaped daily life never made people learn to code. Spreadsheets just took what they already did and made it better. Bill Laboon of Web3 Foundation on the mistake web3 keeps repeating: asking people to understand the plumbing first. 💡 www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📢 Interesting resource alert! @MEDLabBoulder just released "How to Exit to Community," a free cookbook for actually handing a project's governance to the people who give it value. www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Small nonprofits shouldn't have to choose between making payroll and trying something new. 🧭 James Newell of GSR Foundation on a model where a well-funded backer takes on the risk of experimenting, then hands the proven tools to the orgs that need them. www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Human Rights Foundation just funded 16 freedom tech projects with 500M+ sats, tools that help people under authoritarian regimes save, message, and transact freely. Some of Bitcoin's most useful work sits far from the price charts. 🛡️ hrf.org/latest/hrf-g...

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HRF Grants 500M+ Satoshis to 16 Freedom Tech Projects Worldwide

NEW YORK (August 25, 2026) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is pleased to announce grants totaling more than 500 million satoshis from its Bitcoin Development Fund (BDF). This round supports 16…

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Good to see different corners of the web3 ecosystem step up after Nepal's Aug. 26 floods. Ripple gave $300K to World Central Kitchen and Mercy Corps, Solana auctioned logo space to raise $167K, and Polygon opened crypto donations to the national relief fund. 🤍 www.thestreet.com/crypto/marke...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When an election result comes down to "trust us, it was counted correctly," you're relying on faith in the people running it. 🗳️ Cooper Squirrell of UrVote on building voting where every voter gets an onchain receipt and can check for themselves. www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

AI companies are offering nonprofits hundreds of millions in free tools and staff. Anthropic's Claude Corps alone is $150M. A SSIR piece asks: What does the sector give up in data and independence, and should it be a partner, not just a grateful recipient? 🤝 ssir.org/articles/ent...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The mainstream crypto story isn't an impact one, so it's good to see Forbes tell the other side: farmers in Zambia who can finally prove their income, and the UN moving $555M a month to 4 million refugees. 🌍 www.forbes.com/councils/for...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What if you could fund good causes without ever giving your money away? That's the idea behind impact staking: stake your ETH or stablecoins, keep your principal, and send a share of the rewards to verified nonprofits. Jaydeep Korde on why it works. 💸 www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

For years we've covered the people using crypto and web3 for good, sometimes alongside partners who wanted to reach this audience. We've got room for a few more. 🤝 Reach, educate, or build something together. If it's a fit: partnerships@cryptoaltruists.com

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

For 20 years, billions went into building mobile money in Afghanistan, copying Kenya's M-Pesa. It never worked. Today under 6% have bank accounts, yet 30% of the country's electricity bills run through HesabPay, on a stablecoin built on Algorand. 💳 www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Trust is one of the biggest challenges of our time, whether it's how our data is handled or whether we can trust our elections 🔒🔎 We sat down w/ Cooper Squirrell of UrVote & Veri to explore how blockchain & zero-knowledge proofs can help in the age of AI 🌐 www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists Episode 265 - Rebuilding Trust Online: Private Digital Identity and Blockchain-Backed Verifiable Elections in the Age of AI, with UrVote and Veri

For episode 265 of the Crypto Altruists Podcast, we welcome Cooper Squirrell, Founder of UrVote and Veri. We explore how zero-knowledge proofs let you prove what's true without exposing everything els...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Nigeria keeps proving it's one of the biggest crypto markets on earth. Six Nigerian startups just won $521K from the Stellar Community Fund, and nearly all are building stablecoin rails for faster, cheaper payments across Africa. 🌍 technext24.com/news/stellar...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

One of our favorite projects, Endaoment, just published a lovely reintroduction to what they do. In short: they turn almost any asset into a tax-deductible grant to any of 1.8M+ nonprofits, as a full 501(c)(3), with every gift verifiable onchain. 🤝 blog.endaoment.org/blog/what-is...

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What Is Endaoment? Turning Gifts Into Grants

Endaoment is the grantmaking nonprofit engine powering our modern donor-advised fund program. We turn a gift of almost any asset into support for the causes you choose, on infrastructure we built and…

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We spend a lot of energy debating whether crypto or AI is "good" or "bad." ⚖️ Open Frontier's Carole House, a former White House National Security Council advisor, says that framing is a trap. www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

35 years ago today, Ukraine declared its independence. It will spend this anniversary, like the four before it, fighting to keep it. 💙💛 It's also where crypto first proved itself in a crisis. We told the story here. www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Big climate infrastructure has mostly been something you invest in only if you're an institution with a large ticket to write. Christian from ReFi Hub on opening solar & EV projects to everyday investors. ☀️ www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

With Ukrainian Independence Day on Monday, we'd like to celebrate Ukraine's resilience 💛💙 In Ep 264, we explore how crypto & blockchain have helped Ukraine persevere: $225M in donations, new humanitarian rails, stablecoin aid & more 🌐💸 🎧Listen: www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists Episode 264 - Crypto for Ukraine: A Case Study in Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response

In this solo episode of Crypto Altruists, we explore how cryptocurrency and blockchain helped Ukraine persevere after Russia's full-scale invasion. From mobilizing over $100 million in days, to DAOs a...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

After months of fighting over "treasury capture," @ensdomains reached a compromise. The foundation gets the $65M endowment and legal footing. The bigger treasury and protocol stay with tokenholders, who pushed back. 🏛️ cryptobriefing.com/ens-foundati...

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ENS DAO establishes new Foundation to oversee $65 million endowment

ENS DAO tokenholders voted to give the newly formed ENS Foundation administrative control of a $65 million endowment while retaining governance

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you care about digital rights, @web3privacy.info is worth a follow. They map the decentralised privacy landscape, run cypherpunk events, and put out consistently great content. Their newsletter is a solid way to keep up with where privacy tech stands. 🛡️ paragraph.com/@web3privacy

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In a war, a community can lose its people and its land almost overnight. Maksym Zalevskyi on why his network of Ukrainian ecovillages puts its solar, tree planting, and land regeneration onchain, so the record survives whatever comes next. 🌱 www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

More than 1,300 employees at the top AI labs just signed a statement asking governments to help pace frontier AI. No company can slow down alone without losing the race. Do you think it's possible to brake a whole field at once? ⏳ www.pacingthefrontier.com

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We spend billions making AI more capable, and almost nothing helping society keep up. This Noema Magazine essay calls that missing half "reverse alignment." Many of its fixes (personhood proofs, QF, DeSci) come straight from crypto. 🧩 www.noemamag.com/what-humanit...

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What Humanity Needs To Flourish In The Next Decade | NOEMA

We are headed toward a world of productivity without prosperity, execution without verification and capacity without constraint. But this outcome is not inevitable.

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A lot of people feel like each big technology wave has left them further behind, not better off. 🤔 So the anxiety around AI is less about the tech and more about who ends up better off once the dust settles. Open Frontier's Erik Balsbaugh on that fear. www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Inclusion powers innovation 🤝💡 We sat down with James Newell of The GSR Foundation to explore how they're making tech's benefits accessible to all, the blockchain for good projects they support, and shaping the future of philanthropy with crypto ⛓️🌍 www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists Episode 263 - Innovation for Everyone: Impact Staking, Blockchain for Good, and the Future of Philanthropy, with The GSR Foundation

For episode 263 of Crypto Altruists, we welcome James Newell of the GSR Foundation, a global charity ensuring no one is excluded from the benefits of technology. We explore impact staking, stablecoins...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Every big technology arrives with the same promise: this one changes everything. Crypto made that promise. Some of it held up, most of it didn't, and a lot of people walked away for good. Is AI now running the exact same playbook? 🧭 www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Carbon markets keep tripping over the same problem: nobody trusts the data. Sylvera is opening up a fix, a free, open dataset of forest carbon in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, the kind that lets smallholders into the market at all. 🌳 carbonherald.com/sylvera-laun...

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Sylvera Launches First-Of-Its-Kind Open Carbon Data Project Backed By The Rockefeller Foundation And Meta

Sylvera launches the Open Carbon Data Project to generate high-resolution, open-access forest CO2 data in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Communities have shared risk across networks for centuries. What history did, again and again, was enclose those systems into one currency. Will Ruddick sees blockchain's job as making that capture harder. 🌍 www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Big Tech scraped the internet to train its models. Now communities are forming data cooperatives to take back control, and making the likes of Meta negotiate for access instead of just taking it. 🤝 A great piece from @restofworld.org. restofworld.org/2026/ai-data...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

In Web3, we sometimes talk about decentralization like we invented it, but co-ops have been proving it works for centuries 🌍 We sat down w/ cooperative legend D.G. Safeer Hopton, to explore what DAOs can learn from his 50+ yrs in the movement 🎙️💡 🎧Listen: www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists Episode 262 - Co-ops and DAOs: What Web3 Can Learn from a Century of Cooperation & Decentralization, with D.G. Safeer Hopton

For episode 262 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we welcome D.G. Safeer Hopton, a cooperative pioneer with 50+ years in the movement. We explore the connection between co-ops and DAOs, what Web3 can l...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you care about open source, the free software we all quietly depend on, check out the Drips initiative with Stellar. 🛠️ They fund the people behind the code the world runs on, and just made getting paid faster and fairer. www.drips.network/wave/stellar

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Twenty years at the bedside taught Sharonda D. that nobody stands outside the health care system. The people locked out of care and the people getting it are in the same building, waiting on the same nurses 🩺 Can crypto help close that gap? www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Nonprofits sit on years of personal data, most of it no longer needed and becoming a liability. 🔒 On Aug 10, TechSoup is hosting a session on collecting only the data you actually need. 👇 engage.techsoup.org/c/upcoming-events/less-data-less-risk-minimizing-data-collection-to-protect-your-mission

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Impact organizations rarely fail because the idea was wrong. They fail after proving it works, when the support runs out mid-scale. ⏳ Inès d'Haultfoeuille of Egregor on the "missing middle," and why short funding cycles keep good work from getting anywhere. www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The United Nations is one of blockchain's biggest champions 🌍⛓️ Why? More efficient aid, greater transparency, and resilience in high-risk contexts 💪 In Ep 261, we explore why the UN is embracing crypto & what it means for the broader humanitarian sector www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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Crypto Altruists Episode 261 - Why the United Nations Is Going All In on Blockchain and Crypto, and Why You Should Too

For episode 255 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we explore the parallels between crypto's hype cycle and the moment AI is in now. From the same totalizing promises to the same public backlash, we mak...

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In 2024, AI helped win a Nobel Prize. Today, systems generate and test their own hypotheses. But as Long Now points out, they stall where datasets are too small. Whoever fixes that decides what gets discovered. 🔬 longnow.org/ideas/scienc...

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The Fifth Era of Science: Artificial Scientific Intelligence

The era of artificial scientific intelligence is here. As algorithms generate discoveries at scale, what role remains for human scientists?

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Crypto Altruists @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Most governance runs on single, time-boxed votes. You show up once, cast your vote, and hope for the best. 🗳️ @Paul_Glavin of @gardens_fund on conviction voting, a model where your support grows stronger the longer you hold it. www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...

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