Listening to Infinite Monkey Cage (podcast) while I pack, and a panelist mentions Zarinah Agnew running up to people at the UK beatboxing championships asking if they (singular) can scan people's brains. Ha. So proud of them. 💘you Z

We are raising funds for an embassy house for our formerly incarcerated community - an autonomously run space for collective empowerment, so they are not forced to only re-enter an existing society, but have a space & means to reshape it.#givingtuesday facebook.com/donate/2655770…

There is a smattering of embassy humans participating in Vision Weekend, hosted by the Foresight Institute this weekend. Join us! Featuring Jessy Kate Schingler @wsm1 on spacetech, Zarinah Agnew & Daniel Barcay on neurotech, Lou de K and others. foresight.org/vision-weekend…

Be part of instigating the Second Life House - an intentional home built with and for the formerly incarcerated community. Together, we're developing alternative justice approaches in this autonomously run space Embassy Network Zarinah Agnew #givingtuesday facebook.com/donate/2655770…

Second Life playing Dungeons & Dragons @ the Embassy, featured on the ABC show More in Common <3 #dnd #dungeonsanddragons @secondlife #prisonabolition #alternativejustices facebook.com/MoreInCommon/v…

Today’s #microreading from “Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism” - which asks ‘what makes people live and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name?’ (link in thread)

15 minute #microreading for today was the paper “The social significance of subtle signals“ Nature Human Behavior 2, 452–457 nature.com/articles/s4156…

Experimental and observational research suggests that as we consider who to cooperate with, we care more about how how fair someone is than how successful/how much wealth they have

"So even these kind of failed Utopian visions, the failure to imagine something that’s really different also succeeds, because they function as critical tools." - Kathi Weeks via Zarinah Agnew

Rhizomatic readers - snippets of readings, feel free to use the time locked comments for open for discussion #collective #radicalreadings #criticaltheory from the Embassy Network soundcloud.com/user-865822051…

In short, it was a bad idea to make one of the pillars of democracy an almost entirely capitalistic enterprise dependent on advertising revenues. Yes it was was short-sighted. But the consequences affect everyone, not just this industry.

From the intro of Ursula Le Guin's version of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way. "poetry... a patterned intensity of language... [where] beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning. It is the truth." astudygroup.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/lao-tz…

Speaking at #NightOfIdeasSF SF Public Library on working cities. Happy to be alongside Richard Walker &others extorting the possibilities of #fullyautomatedluxurycommunism as the future of (not) work.

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The Red Victorian relaunches as the Experimental Hotel <3

Rogue Science is go! #redvictorian #experimentalhotel #sf

Speaking on #AlternativeJustices this Friday evening at Darwin College. A feminist collective, #restorativejustice & #transformativejustice that goes beyond call out culture, beyond #metoo, beyond punitive measures, beyond incarceration. #prisonabolition facebook.com/events/2008869…

We're working with urgency to change things. Normal was the problem; we will not go back. DMs open; let's coordinate. What are you working on? How can we support? #strongertogether #dontgobacktonormal

The Common Cents Lab #BehavioralImmersion2017 conference is not at your typical conference venue. #RedVictorian #Behavioralscience

Rereading the Outer Space Treaty with @wsm1. It really might be the most staggeringly radical piece of int'l law ever: Basically the ENTIRETY of outer space "shall be used for peaceful purposes" and "the province of all mankind." unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwor… 🚀