“Self-defense for lunarpunks is a creative process, one of building the technical, moral, and political foundation for free life. The first question lunarpunk asks is not what to defend or how, but why. Answering that means developing conscious agency” Aaron Dunkel in Agorism In the XXIst Century

An excerpt of the introduction to Machine and Sovereignty (2024) published in the latest e-flux journal. The whole book is open access through U of MN Press's Manifold platform. e-flux.com/journal/153/66…

the king is gone. the head is gone but the body moves—ritual, code, rhythm decentralization is not chaos it is a new kind of mind a new kind of order medium.com/@sshshln/the-a…

Would you trust a futarchy to steer the direction of scientific funding and discovery?

I'm also interested by this. 🧐👇

AI isn’t just tech. it’s 𝑚𝑦𝑡ℎ blumenberg’s angst, kafka’s trials, shelley’s frankenstein—we encode our fears in stories time to dream new ones

Reza's notes on this talk can be found here. urbanomic.com/2609/

Can markets validate truth? Blockchain prediction platforms are reshaping how we trust, test, and fund science. Our co-founder sasha shilina unpacks the future of decentralized validation in Cointelegraph cointelegraph.com/news/blockchai…

Who are the new theorists of sovereignty? And what values have they encoded? Join for a talk with Rachel Rose O'Leary (r-r o'leary ⛛ 🕊️) from DarkFi Squad on the philosophical foundations of post-state governance and how Cypherpunks are writing the future. x.com/i/spaces/1yoKM…

People ask, why write a manifesto? Well, because some of us still cling to the belief that expression in the public sphere matters; words matter, ideas have wings, and shouting into the void is sometimes how echoes become movements.

post-biological asymmetry and still, you felt something real

can't wait to make Aristotle explain Decentralized Justice

𝐷𝑒𝑆𝑐𝐴𝐼 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐸𝑝𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝐸𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 Our latest philosophical paper explores how DeSci and AI converge into a new kind of knowledge system, one that verifies itself through code, conjecture, and collectivity 🔗 Read the full piece →

Cypherpunk Playlist welcomes wassimulacrum x 0xSalon as our musical ritual ceremony host. "This mixed compendium of Essential Abstractions music is entitled "Doubt: The First 5000 Years". A nod to the work of the late David Graeber, the slippage of debt into doubt

New narrative: "Sapphirepunk" as seen at DappCon Berlin via naomiii.eth (post_cypherpunk), Andr0meda, wassimulacrum, sasha shilina, Wastelander.cult/acc (post_cypherpunk) 🏴🔊 wassim.xyz/notes/sapphire…