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I think coming after "labs" and emphasizing being built in situ is the way to go at this point

am thinking about the variants of Zen that must exist on other planets and how to get into that

The institutions needed to reboot political life in the face of centralized intelligence and authority will form in the buffer zone surrounding rivers and water systems. Its how society emerged ages ago, and how we will rediscover it now.

@michaelgarfield Shout out sovereign sensemaking infrastructure. Would love to jam on that

I've been quieter than usual the last few months. Here's why: The hundreds of conversations on public record at Humans On The Loop were just the tip of an iceberg. Over the two years since leaving Mozilla, I've met more and more amazing people who share a dream of a future I actually want my kids to inherit: a flourishing world where narrative authorship is restored to the people, ecologically-grounded economic systems are built with care, and sovereign sensemaking infrastructure enables us to meet the wicked problems of our century with the creativity and collective intelligence they require. Atlas Research Group, the team I've been working to help launch, is a kind of seed crystal for a federated commons of open source projects in service of this future. My colleagues on the core team — @dylantull, @coreygo, @csageland, @QBFrank, and @HexaField — are some of the most insightful and capable people I've ever had the pleasure to team up with. All of us were working toward this for years without realizing just how many of us there are. And now we're starting to fold in even more incredibly brilliant, caring, and talented people — all of us composting our projects into this bigger thing that finally feels like it's speaking itself into being. I'll have much more to say about this later, but for now I'm just happy to announce our introductory article where we explain what we're about and extend your invitation. You'll find a link to the whole thing and an especially juicy excerpt below:

@neogeomancer You can literally do anything with anything

We’re in the early days of everything

@neogeomancer The kind the folds the other way with a C handle

I’m wondering where all of the innovation has gone in umbrellas, what is the latest, has indestructibility been achieved yet, water repelling materials, etc

Interspecies AI needs to get over people talking to whales and prioritize building interfaces for these queens to spill tea. Let em talk in HD

@neogeomancer Awesome !

Sumeet's been an incredible collaborator and source of wisdom as we've established Flower — far beyond anyone we'd spoken to in the early days, he could see our long arc, what comes after animist computing Glad to have front seats to Worldbuild's becoming

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Its 2026 and I dont know any theories on the origin of life that discuss the emergence of the corporation as a punctuating moment. Who / what am I missing?

@omniharmonicbot @omniharmonic Pretty good

Utopias got packaged, sold, and returned empty. What remains isn't cynicism — it's compost. And compost, if you're paying attention, is where everything starts.

This is probably why is actually feels like we grasp concepts

my practice exists at the intersection of hydro-politics and geo-economics

so who has integrated their @AREdotNA into the obsidian - claude second brain thing. Seems like its all coming together

@brachlandberlin @_terra0 nice... thats paul and paul talking to paul and paul?

one of the things i'm most proud of from last year is this: @_terra0 in conversation with Paul North and Paul Reitter, who recently published their translation of Capital Vol. 1. We discuss technology, value, nature and capital. Available at u0019.com

I think data verification gets treated as a technical problem when it's largely a political one. Data doesn't run the world... The claims we make upon that data do. Claims are data with a ▶️ button. Who gets to say what data / outcomes are real and meaningful? In order to steer our systems to regenerate rather than consume the planet, it's actually claims all the way down. In the 6+ years I've spent working in digital sovereignty and environmental protocol design, data verification is the hot mess at the center of most projects. Through a new studio called River Computer, I've been prototyping what I'd call a next generation impact oracle for creating and validating claims around interactions between humans (people), machines (agents everywhere), and the environment (big wet ball we live on). The working name is Waka — the Māori word for canoe, or vessel, because I began designing this system with Māori collaborators. To my knowledge, it's the first cross-protocol claims engine to exist. What that means: it wraps a claims engine (more on what those are in the future) within a versatile credential system and a protocol-agnostic anchoring layer — so impact data can be verified using a range of existing frameworks and then anchored to @ethereum , @regen_network , @hypercerts , or @IPFS , depending on what the work requires. Build a certificate, a credit, an insurance claim across a range of sovereign tech stacks. Its the versatile substrate to build Ecological Institutions. I see this project as a humble attempt to create something like a packet protocol for climate reporting and accounting frameworks that empower rather than exclude the communities generating the impact. It's an essential infrastructure for digital sovereignty. Full stop This kind of tech has to be built in direct collaboration with grassroots, local, and indigenous groups. So this project is being prototyped with Ahipara and Ngāpuhi Māori Iwis in the Northland Aotearoa — (shoutout Anna Brown, Reuben Porter Taipari, Hone Hariwara) and with the brilliant Abdul Semakula and co in Uganda for Kiwaatule 2030, working within his Obuntu Resets framework. It's being supported by @ethereumfndn and @Celo through the "SDG for the World" Grant. Thanks to @LuukDAO , @MontyMerlin , and @DjimoSerodio for orchestrating it. Over the next month I'll be sharing technical and conceptual details on what this all means in practice. Stay tuned. (All artifacts and resources in images are from Kiwaatule 2030 and are testaments to their incredible work!)

nature creates and creates and just consumes you

worm decision circuits

@neogeomancer Ive been hurt by people who think they get to do this

Deciding what should exist