sasha shilina

Lethe Machina: a river engineered against flow. memory doesn’t recede; it gets re-served. an ethics of endings: thresholds, fading, mercy. via @dif_fractions diffractionscollective.com/2026/02/17/265…

Recorded a podcast with my favourite economist @ProfSteveKeen If you do not know who he is get the best insights from his studies in 30 min! How fiat money actually works, how to fix proverty, and remake the economy without using false theories of textbooks.

@CCNCitizens @KurtRobsonn 🔥🔥🔥

🚨 We’ve launched a new short-form video series at CCN with @KurtRobsonn — what do you think? 💬 🇺🇸 The US is not the world’s crypto capital… it’s ranked just number 9. But why? ⁉️

@Vanarchain @humanode_io 🤝

@humanode_io @sshshln Important point. As agents scale, knowing who is human and who isn’t becomes critical. Systems like Humanode could be the backbone for trust in an increasingly agent-driven world.

As the internet fills with agents that can act, transact, and scale, one question starts to matter more than ever: what still counts as human participation? This article by @sshshln looks at why that distinction matters, and why Humanode’s focus on unique human presence may become essential infrastructure for the agentic internet.

@LetovCCRU 😱

never have i wanted to listen less to an album in my life (except perhaps for the complète discography of radiohead)

the only network state that I would join

babe wake up the landscape of consciousness theories map dropped

Shilina :: “Lethe Machina” names the paradox that follows. We built machines that should have made forgetting easier – frictionless deletion, graceful disappearance, the option of silence. :: @sshshln diffractionscollective.com/2026/02/17/265…

Check out Kim Gordon's extremely cool new single "Dirty Tech" stereogum.com/2488904/kim-go…

@german_sierra @bianjie_systems 🤍

@sshshln @bianjie_systems Great piece! Looking forward to part II

On Acephalic Intelligence and the General Economy of Computation (Part I) @sshshln for @bianjie_systems bianjie.systems/bat%7Bai%7Dlle…

@Langerius appreciate it!

@sshshln looks good

part I is out. the opening move of bat{AI}lle: AI as acephalic intelligence + the general economy of computation

@aaronjmars glad u think so ^^

@sshshln v cool

@DONTILLINNOYME 100%

Cyberpunk would be nothing without meth

@libermontserrat @bianjie_systems 🤍

@bianjie_systems @sshshln 🪶🔂

Check out our new publication, Sasha Shilina’s (@sshshln) “On Acephalic Intelligence and the General Economy of Computation” (link below) Sasha argues that AI should be read less as “frictionless” interface intelligence and more as a planetary regime of expenditure—water, electricity, labor, extraction, and epistemic overflow—whose costs are aestheticized away by the language of optimization. Drawing on Georges Bataille, Shilina reframes AI through “general economy,” where surplus is unavoidable and must be spent, and develops “acephalic intelligence” to name AI as a headless assemblage of infrastructures, standards, institutions, and data/compute flows that concentrates power without a single sovereign subject. The essay links contemporary AI pathologies—sacrificial hidden work, infrastructural governance, and synthetic plausibility that outpaces truth—to broader theoretical constellations (postwar political economy, media theory, accelerationist and inhuman turns, and cosmotechnics), insisting the core stakes extend beyond bias or transparency to questions of sovereignty, sacrifice, waste, and the possibility of refusal or counter-design within an expanding computational order.

The No Body Problem: Intelligence and Selfhood in Biological and Artificial Systems osf.io/preprints/psya… via @OsfFramework