Brent Schulkin

Profiled @nanfiero, the only West Oakland rapper rhyming “molcajete” with “cuetes,” for @Oaklandside oaklandside.org/2026/04/23/nan…

If one hundred people gave me $15 a month I could do so much more for the net betterment of human kind than all the billionaires combined The insane efficiency of what I could do with a slightly more financially stable life so I could focus on the Ŧrust code and experiment with the NEW LEDGER is unfathomable speakerjohnash.com

r/acc (regenerative accelerationism) by @omniharmonic r/acc says stop trying to fix capitalism and start building regenerative systems that compound toward life. r/acc is basically regenerative recursion: each cycle feeds back into the living substrate, strengthening soil, trust, resilience, and local capacity, instead of extracting and abstracting., 2 paragraph tldr: capitalism is an “egregore” (networked thought form) that extracts value by stripping things from their living context, turning them into commodities, and recentralizing wealth through finance. reform gets absorbed (carbon markets, esg, impact consulting), ai is basically gasoline on the fire of extraction and control. the answer is r/acc: regenerative accelerationism, a strategy of redirecting compounding dynamics into regeneration by “forking civilization’s source code” and scaling alternatives that re-embed value into relationships and place. 1 page tldr: r/acc is regenerative accelerationism. it starts from the claim that capitalism is not just “broken,” it is structurally extractive. capitalism is an “egregore”: a force that possesses systems and pushes them to consume, abstract, and consolidate. in r/acc terms, it’s a machine that eats context and turns it into tradable symbols. deterritorialization: things get torn out of relationship and turned into units of exchange. farms become line items. homes become rental yield. communities become market segments. then comes reterritorialization: extracted value gets pulled into finance and concentrated upward. the “hollowing out” phase is where the packaging remains but the living substance is gone. reform fails because the system metabolizes critique. carbon markets can become licenses to pollute. esg becomes a brand layer. “impact measurement” becomes a consulting industry that rarely changes outcomes. this leads to the accelerationist wager: if reform can’t stop the machine, maybe pushing it into its contradictions faster is the only way out. this doesnt mean endorsing techno-capital accelerationism. r/acc is the alternative. ai is gasoline on the fire: it scales extraction, persuasion, surveillance, and consolidation, and makes the future harder to predict and easier to weaponize. r/acc contrasts itself with d/acc (defensive accelerationism). d/acc matters because it hardens the terrain: protecting agency, privacy, and decentralization from techno-capital capture. but r/acc says defense is only a holding action. if we don’t fill that protected space with regenerative institutions, capital will eventually move back in and colonize it anyway. so r/acc proposes a positive program: fork civilization’s source code. don’t “tear down” capitalism or beg it to behave. build parallel systems that redirect energy, money, and coordination into living communities. the key r/acc distinction is system dynamics. regeneration is what we do (gardens, wetlands, community care). r/acc is how we scale it so it compounds without being captured. r/acc is basically regenerative recursion: each cycle feeds back into the living substrate, strengthening soil, trust, resilience, and local capacity, instead of extracting and abstracting. practical r/acc mechanisms for “composting capital” are: alternative/local currencies that keep value circulating locally, land trusts that decommodify housing, worker co-ops that keep surplus with workers, and daos/tokenized ownership that encode rights and governance. r/acc is an “ecology of alternatives.” the goal is networks of local systems. They reinforce each other, share templates, and spread through adaptation (cosmolocal), so the whole pattern gets stronger over time.

My friend Kevin Epps is on trial for murder right now and while this may be unlikely, I really hope that @BrookeJenkinsSF uses her discretion to drop this case. #Justice4KevinEpps sfbayview.com/2025/11/justic…

When it comes to big issues, the answers may be complicated. @stephlepp uses “Faces of X” to show how polarizing questions don’t always have a clear answer. Watch a live performance from the series by @BillHeckyes: ted.com/talks/bill_hec…