Saussure's Error: On the Need for a Biophilic Postmodern Perspective This may seem odd, but the primary cultural and intellectual mistake of Western culture in the 20th century began with Saussure's notion that language could only ever be self-referent, and loosely bound to

Cash is P2P (post-issuance .. )

So, consider animals as machines built by microbes; spaceships, as it were, full of seawater-like soup so they can colonise land. Their machines got better, and eventually artificially intelligent (conscious). 'Artificial' compared to the 'direct' intelligence of a cell. 1/-

Data in service of life 🌿 Pt.1 of our guest post on ‘data commoning’ with Holochain #datacommons #datacommoning #data #web3 #web3

The second part of "Data Commoning with Holochain" by Ché Coelho and Ross Eyre is out now! This time, they're unraveling the complexities of knowledge graphs. 🌐 Curious about pluralistic data commons and the dynamics of knowledge integration? bit.ly/data-commoning…

All economies, across time and space, eventually boil down to one thing: human beings applying themselves to an ecological system. The foundation of all economies, then, is ecology and community, not markets

Jim Rutt Reasonable / proportional transparency, perhaps. Radical transparency is inherently totalitarian. Adaptive / emergent complexity requires membranes. Membranes entail opacity, as the price of abstraction / simplification. A desire to see within / through all such membranes

How successful are commons-oriented approaches ? * The case of the reforestation of Nepal: "After relinquishing control of forests to the villages that depend on them, forest cover in this small mountainous country nearly doubled." earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150937/…

“The market will regulate itself!” The market:

I did not expect to wake up today to find my article about local economies published on the front page of HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology hackernoon.com/economies-of-s…

The problem with liberalism is that it rests on a fundamental contradiction that cannot be resolved. It will always fail, it will always collapse, and this explains everything about our current moment. Liberals try to hold two commitments at once: on the one hand, they are

1/ #GreenwashFiles will listen and respond to false climate solutions dominating the narrative space during #COP29, archiving what is and importantly isn’t spoken about at the summit. 🌍🗃️ So, what’s our point-of-view? 👀 🧵We’ve compiled several threads exploring topics from

Caved and got o1 Pro. I asked it my favorite question to ask these models, and it gave much more interesting answers than either o1 preview or Claude 3.5 Sonnet. They're not quite as mind-bending as I'd want -- I've seen a version of all of them except #7 -- but still better:

👏👏 protocols for economic commons

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Transparency is key. We've just launched our new Holochain roadmap for a clearer view into our development process, timelines, and future releases. See what we've shipped, what's in progress, and what's next. ⬇️ #Holochain #DevTools #OpenSource #P2P

1/9 🧵 Something's been brewing with Arkology Studio and Slum Dweller's International (Slum Dwellers International) .. What if the most sophisticated AI could serve the most marginalized communities WITHOUT extracting their knowledge? 🤔 #DataCommons #AICommons

Everyone ‘knows’ AGI will either make us all unemployed or fabulously wealthy. Except, a rather brilliant (and chilling) paper from a Yale economist suggests it's neither. It says the economy will boom, and our wages... won't. A bit awkward. I've been digging into this 2025

I gave 7 AIs access to a pen plotter- And asked them to draw their self portraits- here's what happened: GPT-5: