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Rabble is a software developer and hacker based in Wellington, New Zealand. Rabble was lead engineer at Odeo, where he hired Jack Dorsey into the company, which would later pivot into becoming Twitter.
Since then he has been focussed on building impactful projects and social media with the open & decentralised vision that Twitter originally had in its early years but which was eventually lost.
Rabble has created the Nostr client Nos.social, and is involved with Ahau.io, a Māori community tool built on Nostr’s predecessor protocol, Secure Scuttlebutt.
We talk about Bitcoin, new ways of living, solarpunk, creative work and what the opportunities are for it all to come together.
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Nos.social - https://www.nos.social/
Protest.net - http://protest.net/
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Rabble's Website - https://evan.henshaw-plath.com/
Enspiral - https://www.enspiral.com/
Solarpunk Living - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk
Art Hack Wellington - https://arthack.nz/
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Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60098290
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