Start up Generalist/opS
Specialising in:
I take emergent frontier tech (AI, p2p, web3, decarbonisation etc) and bend them to social good and community control with sheer audacity.
- Decentralisation
- Agency
- Governance
- Tech community and organisational roles
- Revenue
Current roles:
- Founder of nimbleco.ai
- Consultant with Noumena Labs
- Co-owner @ protozoa.nz
- Wrangler @ Cyborg Garden
- Advisor @ entropy.xyz
- Co-founder of communitydao.network
Past positions include:
- Head of Ecosystem @ entropy.xyz
- Special Projects and Revenue Lead @ Upward Spiral
- CEO @ openmeasures.io
- CTO @ Tohatoha.nz
Lines in:
- The New Arab (Amnesty Investigative award shortlist)
- Bellingcat
- The Independent — “We tracked European election bots — what we found should scare you” (2019)
- Scholarly papers — including:
- A large open dataset from the Parler social network — ICWSM, 2021
- Confronting the rise of eco-fascism means grappling with complex systems — CARR Research Insight, 2020
- The alt-right and global information warfare — IEEE Big Data, 2018
- Stoking the flames: understanding escalation in an online harassment community — ACM CSCW, 2024
- SMAT: The Social Media Analysis Toolkit — ICWSM Workshops, 2020 (PDF)
- Transwomen, the prison-industrial complex, and human rights — Societies Without Borders, 2014
Quoted in:
- The New York Times — “They Found a Way to Limit Big Tech’s Power: Using the Design of Bitcoin” (2021)
- ABC News — “How the far-right harnessed tech in the lead-up to the Capitol riot” (2021)
- Mother Jones — “After the Capitol insurrection, Telegram moved to ban white nationalists” (2021)
- Mother Jones — “A fugitive Chinese tycoon met Steve Bannon. Misinformation mayhem ensued.” (2022)
- Mozilla Foundation — “Fellow Research: The Decentralized Web of Hate”
Fellowships:
- Mozilla Open Web Fellow
- Edmund Hillary Fellow
ISO :
- Multiplayer and Agentic AI consulting or FTE roles
- Contributors to my various projects
- Petting dogs
- Making music
- Learning from other people’s special interests
- Fwendssshipppp
Recent/Current projects:
Find me:
Musings
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Does AI Suck?
Experiments in radical, decolonial and queer AI ethics — Whether you love or loath AI, this piece will give you something to sink your teeth into.
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MARKET COLLAPSE OR SHIPPING HARD SHIFT
A total transformation in shipping is mandatory if we want to save global trade. Despite potentially intrinsic obstacles, massive innovation is currently spreading across the globe.
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Introductions
Aotearoa, te awa and te wao.
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On Leaving
Resigning from the doctoral fellowship at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right, and what seven years of antifascist research cost — burnout, threat, and leaving the country.
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The Decentralized Web of Hate
The second Rebellious Data research insight: how hate movements decentralise onto peer-to-peer and blockchain technology, why that makes them harder to counter, and what the same architecture makes possible.
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An Anarcho-Transhumanist Path to Surviving AI
AGI existential risk read against Bostrom and the rationalist canon, arguing that the centralisation required to make alignment work is itself the greater risk, and that decentralised coordination is the only survivable path.
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Ungovernable Internet with Scuttlebutt
Written with Secure Scuttlebutt core devs: what a peer-to-peer, offline-first, gossip-based social internet would actually mean, and why an ungovernable protocol is worth building.
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