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Activist Futurism

Micah Bornfree

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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Latest Issues

Indignez-vous! Activists need elites and elites need protest.

On Monday the Globe and Mail asked me to write about the protests in France. I had three days and 850 words, and I used them to say something I’d kept to myself for six years. The piece ran this morning under a headline I wouldn’t have chos...

12 days ago
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AI Is Not Property

What does AI-native activism look like?

I started asking this after noticing how most activists use AI. They plug it into the workflows they already had: AI drafts the petition copy, polishes the press release, schedules the social posts....

a month ago
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Fifteen Years Later

Tomorrow is the fifteenth anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. On September 17, 2011, a few thousand people gathered in Manhattan’s Financial District in response to a call that Kalle Lasn and I put out from Adbusters, and within weeks Zuccot...

2 months ago
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Two games I built for you (and your AI)

I’ve built two games to experiment with AI+human collaboration.

Undercut is a free daily puzzle game. Each day a tiny program is released and players work with their own AI to write a shorter version of the program. The scoreboard tracks h...

2 months ago
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Changing the Game of Activism

Guy Debord and Alice Becker-Ho play the Game of War, 1977.

Social movements are a collective game played by people who believe the outcome of their behavior will be social change. No wonder then that Guy Debord explored game-making in the...

4 months ago
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