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AWS - Austin Wade Smith - feral kite flying accretion - Executive Director @regenFdn - (they/them)
I dont really think the work I do is "ecological". I just think it's regular social stuff at a higher order of entanglement
The world always already was an internet and we just overlayed a payment system on it
One of my weirder beliefs is that ‘the internet’ has always existed, long before people or people-like creatures even existed. I have a lot of reasons for how this belief came about, but I’m not going to get into that here. I believe the internet will last a lot longer than us…
Am thinking about zero’s with metadata. A zero from Basel... Your sister’s zero... A file containing the number zero, that weighs 5mb. Nothing with provenance. So fun
“Formerly we thought of a hierarchy of taxa – individual, family line, subspecies, species etc – as the unit of survival. We now see a different hierarchy of units – gene-in-organism, organism-in-environment, ecosystem, etc. Ecology in the widest sense turns out to be the study…
Last year artist @alvarobarringto and I wrote about how Notting Hill Carnival creates £100 million in economic value through collective creativity and community enterprise. Now it faces urgent funding cuts that threaten its future. This is exactly what's wrong with our economic…
I'll be doing a deep dive on recent ideas and prototypes for the @UBC Blockchain Research Cluster this Thursday 06/12 at 1pm EST. Registration is open to public, so if you'd like to get a wash of some new thinking about how living systems and technical systems touch come through!…
A few years in the making—here’s a talk I gave w/ @RegenFdn: Living Covenants in Theory and Practice. I trace how we embed ethics of relational entanglement and care into self-executing contracts that move through legal, economic, and technical realms. youtube.com/watch?v=DpGTcy…
a tcp/ip for streaming the state of the living world / planet into contracts. oracle packet protocol = claims
particle lenia is my current love language. knob twisters delight. znah.net/lenia/
mens hygiene marketing is insane. why would i ever need a deodorant to last 72hrs
The atmosphere is the most permissionless system I can think of.