roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 05/09/2026How can we have real online conversations, instead of attacking those we disagree with? Our new paper indicates that fractal dimension might provide some important clues: www.researchgate.net/publication/... 020 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 10/08/2026New podcast on fractals, culture and economy: youtu.be/Olh5kc0Ph6M?...youtu.beThe Thread: Dr. Ron EglashYouTube video by Grandy Productions 000 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Join us in a public zoom on July 29 for the Planetary Heutagogies Lecture Series www.instagram.com/willowtechno... 000 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Abstracts for our keynote panel, "Generative Justice as a Pathway to Abolitionist Futures" are online at bit.ly/4dxcf1V. This will take place at the 15th National Conference on Critical Perspectives in Criminology and Social Justice, May 20-22 at Brock University.bit.lysharable Generative Justice Panel - Abstracts15th National Conference on Critical Perspectives in Criminology and Social Justice, May 20-22, 2026. The conference is free, and everyone is welcome to attend in person at Brock University in St. Cat... 011 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Worker-owned and community-based design studios in Italy: a brief tour (part 2) eglash.substack.com/p/generative...eglash.substack.comGenerative Justice in Italy part 2: Venice, Bologna and FlorenceA brief tour through community-based and worker-owned design studios in Milan, Venice, Bologna, and Florence 000 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Part1 of our tour of worker-owned design cooperatives, community makerspaces and related institutions in Italy open.substack.com/pub/eglash/p...open.substack.comGenerative Justice in Italy part 1: MilanA brief tour through community-based and worker-owned design studios in Milan, Venice, Bologna, and Florence 000 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 29/04/2026A fun interview about fractal liberation with political scientist Beatriz Rey. You can get the English language version here: bit.ly/4eOZGBb Sobre sociedades fractais open.substack.com/pub/beatrizr...open.substack.comSobre sociedades fractaisUma conversa com Ron Eglash sobre como reimaginar a política 000 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Our new paper: African interlaces are continuous “over-under” paths, in African lusona, beadwork, textiles, etc. They visualize the “circulating vital energy” of Indigenous regenerative economies. Some survived the middle passage, creating new diaspora design ecologies. lnkd.in/grJU9Fuw 010 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Happy to chat with folks if you have questions. Our recent work is available on our website at generativejustice.org/projects/generativejustice.orgProjects – The Center for Generative Justice 030 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Our paper on Indigenous knowledge for STEM in Bali is out!. Traditional "subak" irrigation uses bottom-up, democratized resource distribution with ecological sustainability. Children learning with the subak model show statistically significant improvement in their STEM understanding. bit.ly/4rjvEt4 040 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 22/09/2025We need a statue for bi-partisan anti-violence, showing two left wing figures killed, and two right wing figures killed. The right-wing should be Charlie Kirk plus Brian Sicknick, the DC police officer (and Trump supporter) whose death was due to the Jan 6 rioters. 010 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Excited to see my former grad student, Kwame Robinson, now an assistant prof in Detroit, developing "AI for the People": lnkd.in/gDKmpe34 000 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 15/09/2025I am all for empathy. But it really hurts the cause to keep reposting false clickbate. Arendt, Einstein -- never said this. Plato said the opposite: that your subjective impressions are the lowest form of knowlege. Empathy is good, but so is responsible use of communication. 110 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 02/09/2025theatlantavoice.com/steve-r-alle... "“The wisdom of fractals derives from Africa as it was a commonly used technology by people and civilizations throughout history. ...Fractals and Afrofuturism provide pathways that unlock the doors to successfully administering his designs" 000 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Computer science majors now have one of the top unemployment rates in the nation. No one seems willing to admit that AI's chickens are finally coming home to roost. I'm hoping upper management is next. www.newsweek.com/computer-sci... 010 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Our new paper, Ubuntu AI: Machine Learning for Regenerative Design Ecologies. www.researchgate.net/publication/...researchgate.net(PDF) Ubuntu AI: Machine Learning for Regenerative Design EcologiesPDF | AI in Society provides an interdisciplinary corpus for understanding artificial intelligence (AI) as a global phenomenon that transcends... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res... 000 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Launching our new CSDT for Bali's Indigenous "Tri Hita Karana" algorithms: csdt.org/culture/bali... Will be trying it out with kids and teachers in Bangli and Denpasar this week. 020 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Generative Justice at the Venice Biennale: venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org/geology-brit...venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org 000 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Great paper! Would love to see how localized currencies might be used to assist the artisanal fishing and transitional aquaculture cases. See for example www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....tandfonline.comTinkering with malleable grassroots infrastructures: Kenyan local currencies in informal settlementsYou have to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings in order to use the eReader. 010 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 06/04/2025We also need mutual aid orgs that are self-sustaining, not charities. Examples like Mondragon work because they are financially self-sustaining. Even wikipedia creates an excellent, high value product. Our GJ platforms take this approach: generativejustice.org/af/ and generativejustice.org/uai/generativejustice.orgArtisanal Futures: Computing for a Community-Based EconomyArtisanal labor can be defined as work done with personal flair, pride in quality of craft, and the business independence to sustain that style of production. In our research project in Detroi… 052 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 17/03/2025This growing gap in White vs Black/Latine net household worth seems to have the same rate no matter which party is in the whitehouse. What is that telling us? 000 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Tehila we appreciate your critique of the "charity industry", microfinancing, and other failures. But @naticonrazon.bsky.social and myself are wondering if you classify radical interventions like Barcelona's Can Batillo under the same umbrella. undisciplinedenvironments.org/2020/07/09/t...undisciplinedenvironments.orgThe Can Batlló radical social innovation: Movements co-producing public services - Undisciplined EnvironmentsBy Viviana Asara. Barcelona's Can Batlló platform is a radical social innovation enacting a democratized public ownership and management of public services. By blending confrontational repertoires of ... 010 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 02/02/2025@ChrisGray's excellent new book, "AI, Sacred Violence, and War—The Case of Gaza" is available as a free download here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...link.springer.comAI, Sacred Violence, and War—The Case of GazaAn open access book on Israel’s use of Algorithmic Intelligence (AI) and other military high tech in the torture and seizure of the Gaza Strip 000 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 01/02/2025In the 1980s, creative music sampling in rap was condemned as theft. 40 years later, AI's steals all human creativity at scale, and they call it a genius breakthrough. 010 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Our prediction of the destructive effects of the election, and what is required to avoid it in the future: bit.ly/4aSAdCA #AI4good 000 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Nice article about our work developing AI tools for Black artisans in Africa and Detroit: stamps.umich.edu/news/ubuntu-aistamps.umich.eduUbuntu-AI: New Collaborations from African Heritage Communities at the Intersections of Art, Design, and Artificial IntelligenceRon Eglash and Audrey Bennett explore how AI can create opportunities and connections between African artists and Detroit artisans. 000 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 04/01/2025technews.co.zw/news/the-con...technews.co.zwThe Connection Between African Fractals And Modern AI ComputingThe Connection Between African Fractals And Modern AI Computing 010 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Since AI has essentially committed theft of all of humanity's internet images and text, and there is no way to individually proscute, the best legal action would be to require those corporations to put their AI models in publically accessible open source, free for anyone to utilize. bit.ly/406WwRDen.wikipedia.orgOpen-source artificial intelligence - Wikipedia 011 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 22/12/2024The problem with the model you are describing is that it is quite linear. Yes, convergent morphologies show evolution stablizing niches. But evolution simultaneously destabilizes niches. If convergence was king, we would not see one continent 99% marsupials, another 99% placentals. 000 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Some of the African artists and designers using our ubuntu-ai platform below. This Uganda group showcased their work at the British embassy. You can see samples from all 400 artists at ubuntu-ai.net. For more about the project uses AI to prevent value extraction, see generativejustice.org/uai/ 001 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 12/12/2024That's the great thing about networks, they are 100% tangents 110 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Perhaps of interest to @africanarchives.bsky.social - new publication suggests the diagonals in Washington DC streets reflect a geometric theme, "the West African X", due to African American land surveyor Benjamin Banneker. bit.ly/3NQ7Ev9 010 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 09/12/2024I took Peitgen's class at UCSC, cool dude. Pg9 "Nested patterns where there is a set of generalist species that interact with other generalist species, and then a subset of specialized species whose interactions are nested within the generalist interactions" -- Peitgen would have loved that. 110 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 07/12/2024The network diagrams you have are cool but I cannot find them in the article. www.researchgate.net/publication/...researchgate.net(PDF) Seeding success: Integrating seed dispersal networks in tropical forest restorationPDF | While the reassembly of fruit‐frugivore interactions remains at the forefront of tropical forest restoration, seed dispersal networks emerge as a... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne... 220 0
roneglash.bsky.social @roneglash.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Our focus is AI for worker-owned business. Your definition excludes that. I get it -- despicable companies claim "doing good" while making billions in military contracts. But restricting AI for good to "charity" recreates a stereotype those companies love. generativejustice.org/artisanal-cy...generativejustice.orgArtisanal Futures: Computation for a Community-based EconomyArtisanal labor can be defined as work done with personal flair, pride in quality of craft, and the business independence to sustain that style of production. In our research project in Detroit, we… 020 0
