“First, the condition is you must give me a hug. Next, the condition is you must touch your forehead with my forehead. Next you must rub my nose with your nose. Next, you have to give me a kiss. Now, eat my tongue — LOL.” This is how Tibetan grandparents…

“ART is MONEY” at first can easily read quite offensive and off-putting, especially if one is an artist. Counter-intuitively however, ART is MONEY is not making a statement about the commercialization of the arts, quite the opposite. ART is MONEY actually represents a moment of liberation for artists and creators…

All agreements and contracts in the world have three distinct contractual types, social contracts, legal contracts, and smart contracts, with each providing an intrinsic and important layer in one whole system of commerce and distribution. Big Mother’s decentralized community is introducing a new property that can distribute social, legal, and…

I have found every single public conversation about the role of genders, penises, vaginas and bathrooms in society to be a completely cringe experience, regardless if the views have ethical validity, political validity, or cultural validity. I include in this both the voices expressed by Jordan Peterson, Dave Chappelle as…

This article was originally published at BigMotherDAO.com Please forgive me in advance for the dramatic entry of the title, and I do not wish to confuse anyone. …

During my eight year case study into Wikipedia editing wars I uncovered a number of “troll farms” and I never met one troll farm that did not justify their broadcast of misinformation against their ideological opponents. Every troll farm believes they are the good guys. Indeed, one major troll farm…

Executive summary; MediaWiki software can be a significant and over-looked vulnerability on the web. MediaWiki “anyone can edit” software and platforms, starting with Wikipedia and evolving into hundreds of MediaWiki’s around the internet, can become significant vulnerabilities on the world wide web when it comes to misinformation and harassment. MediaWiki…

The Wikipedia case study. The case study began with an inquiry into how majority and minority views build a consensus on a Wikipedia article, specifically when a phenomenon known as “Wiki Wars” erupt on the article. For years I was intimidated away from ever participating in one to view the…