Aaron Brodeur

Brilliant article by @profplum99 - I don’t think this could have been articulated anyway possibly better. yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-li…

@metapattern Absolutely masterful work. Sending love. Got to hang with your mom recently - she is such a treasure :)

@omniharmonic reindigenization

I agree with the woke left that whiteness is a social construct so-called white people are indigenous Europeans who were stripped of place-based identity yet wokeness continues to reify whiteness as an identity as it attempts to deconstruct it. A reconstructive move is needed.

@yoheinakajima I loved chatting with Mean VC. I'm surprised it only took 4 turns to get it on my side -- the first response was brutal >_< chatgpt.com/share/68e84542… Would love to chat with you about what we are building in public over at @hylo, hmu <3

announcing untapped capital fund II pre-seed, generalist, ~$250k checks

@davidakapug How about antisocial broadcast network

@brodeur i hesitate to classify it as a 'social' network but it feels like important context for understanding the world, like a trip to the zoo

i have been browsing twitter a little more lately and it turns out there are some spectacularly bad takes on here, did you know that?

@omniharmonic @gitcoin @kosmicgardener @JakeHartnell @hylo Make it so! Hi Jake :)

@brodeur After we finish our sprint for the MVP during @gitcoin GG24 (midOctober), I’d love to put you in a telegram group with @kosmicgardener and @JakeHartnell so we can jam on these ideas together. Jake has some web3 account abstraction tricks up his sleeve that could apply to @hylo.

i think DAOs could embrace how parliamentary systems elect leadership instead of having temporal terms, someone should serve in a role for as long as the people they are serving in that role delegate them that authority. normalizing roles as acts of service and not ego trips

@omniharmonic Can't wait :)

@brodeur I gotta show you OUR trust graph demo!!!! 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂

Of course, what uncle zippy calls the "progenitor style" or what we refer to as the "colonial model" type groups will still exist. This will be a different group type -- we are still not quite sure what to call it. It's "democratic", and definitely we reverse engineered a lot of Ostrum's work, so it could also be a "commons", or "member-led".

bro I gotta show you our trust graph demo, this is literally how group roles will work on Hylo soon. For each dimension of trust (role) Let each person declare on a scale of 0-1 how much they trust someone in that role Let each declaration be seen in the context where it is declared (transparency in-context: within a group, publicly or privately) Let each declaration be modified at any time Let the threshold of aggregate trust necessary to obtain a role be modifiable by all within a context Let the trust threshold be set by the average and expressed as a percentage When a person has sufficient trust, they enter automatically into the role, and obtain the powers & responsibilities available to that role While a person maintains trust above the trust threshold, they remain in the role When a person's aggregate trust decreases, due to others modifying their confidence vote, and falls below the threshold, they are removed from the role and lose access to powers and responsibilities. This is v1. The model will eventually need entropy to scale -- trust should decay or have a cliff. This is the second necessary component to public online spaces that nobody owns, or can purchase. The second is collective moderation - which we already have a version of working. Using HydroBasins or something similar, we will start recommending local groups to people. Each watershed will have buy nothing, mutual aid & disaster response groups. We will also be using RAG to recommend "crews" to people -- if there are, for instance, 50 people within 100 miles of each other that are all into regen ag, a notification is sent out to all 100 people that when 15 people opt in, the group will be created. When the group is created, it continues to be recommended to the other 85 people, and any new members who fit the vector will also see it. Sending love, catch up soon <3

From the ages of 16 to 36, I lived near this park. My father also grew up across the street, next door to the old church on Haight. This place was very special to me. I moved away to bring a baby into the world. I was heartbroken to leave, but in the end it was worth it. Here is a song that came through, in the last month I was there: O fertile valley I will miss you Reaching grasping canopy Kissing the fog with your eyes In the whispering winds, swaying With each breath, “I am alive” You in the sun, receiving its life Bathed in its beauty and indirect light Mist rising from the seas and the earth Caressing your face in the time between times Coyote and hawk, some thought they were landlocked But I know why they are here Shelter and home, to those once alone At once tender child, lover, brother, mother and crone Birds brown, green and blue Their voices in full chorus singing gratitude Sacred forest in the heart of this town Yerba buena, buena vista, gold and green crown In the hush of your night Moon dappled dancing, secret lovers delight Closer you hold the scared and the bold Bounty for the hungry, an embrace for the weak Place of love, place of peace Blessed slopes I am sad to leave O fertile valley I will miss you

@owocki @cmilesb

do i know anyone who is thinking about insurance DAOs? i think that a kit that allows people to form an insurance DAO with neighbors, bottoms up with little overhead, could compete with the bloated monstrosity of the legacy insurance industry. x.com/owocki/status/…

@cognitivepolicy Our bodies are our first place, the bioregion whose health supports all of our actions on earth. Thank you for caring for this blessed world called Joe Brewer.

Touching life from my heart… I am spending more time being present in my body. In the last week, I have awakened in the middle of the night and immersed myself in healing music while doing an hour and a half of deep stretching. During the time when I created and led Earth Regenerators, you could have heard me say often that my most important regenerative practice was this deep breathing and stretching to heal and sense deeply into my own body. I am doing this again -- after three years of chronic health challenges while traveling constantly and holding the need to activate a planetary network of bioregions. We were successful at this even though it nearly killed us. Now I am focusing on my own recovery. A big part of this is to touch life. Run my fingers over the leaves. Dig my fingernails into the soil. Watch the bees dance on the flowers. Just be. Just be with life. And it is deeply wholesome.

@realfrankwilder @real_n3o Love seeing you two succeed. Big hugs.

@real_n3o Love to see it

WILD had its highest day ever in volume today. $53M.

@cmilesb yes, this is a theme -- constantly wondering if ones presence in their home is an asset or liability on someone else's balance sheet

until just now I’d never connected fear of homelessness to renting my home. is that a common driver of housing angst and anxiety?

@tldraw i am getting hermann grid dots. maybe slightly rounder corners, or lighter lines

after

we may have just discovered a bug that has been leading to excessively pokey rectangles. P0

@cognazor "audience capture"

Man what the heck, I was expecting more engagement on this post than this!!!

The 2nd worst kind of post on here is someone complaining that they don’t get enough engagement. The worst kind of post is someone complaining about those complainers. Oops

@cognazor i have yet to be acquainted, thanks

@brodeur autumn olive

The healthiest and most delicious invasive species

@cognazor Goumi? *squint*

Not sure if you can overdose on these but I’m going to try

@dieworkwear Also AC has ruined people’s attunement to weather.

However, we'll start with suits because they tell us something. It's true suits were more popular in the past, partly because people were more willing to accept discomfort (whether through volition or social pressure). Now people demand 100% comfort, 100% of the time.

Have you ever noticed that people dressed better in the past? Even in the summer, when it was scorching hot? Why is this? 🧵