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Posts by Rufus Pollock

2026-03-27 on the lack of good sensemaking infrastructure

Someone pointed me at Terafab announce by Musk last week.

I wanted to dig in and find some high quality evaluation ( Musk tends to overclaim/overpromise πŸ˜‰)

And it's hard going ... the best i found was a paywalled substack article.

πŸ‘‰ a deeper sensemaking need rufuspollock.com/logs/2026-03...

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now | Rufus Pollock | Offprint What I'm thinking about now

Impressed with @offprint.app - substack for the decentralized, bluesky world.

And was a smooth experience signing up - now.offprint.app

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AT Protocol - AT Protocol The AT Protocol is an open, decentralized, and high-performance network for building social applications.

I really think AT protocol may have legs. This is super cool. atproto.com/docs

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Flowershow: Publish your markdown as a beautiful website – in seconds. | Product Hunt Turn your Markdown into a beautiful website instantly. Publish docs, blogs, wikis, and knowledge bases in a fully hosted platform, without dealing with deployment or maintenance. No proprietary format...

Launched @flowershowapp.bsky.social, the best way to publish #markdown docs, blogs, wikis and sites on ProductHunt

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Please take a look and upvote!

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Publish a Blog from Obsidian with Flowershow
Publish a Blog from Obsidian with Flowershow YouTube video by Flowershow

Turn your Obsidian vault into a blog β€” no coding needed.
Write in Markdown, publish with @flowershowapp.bsky.social .

πŸŽ₯ Watch tutorial: youtu.be/ZbQRlNm2dww
πŸ“š Or read the docs: flowershow.app/blog/how-to-...

#blog #markdown #obsidian #website #publish

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Flowreshow CLI: Publish Markdown right from Your Terminal
Flowreshow CLI: Publish Markdown right from Your Terminal YouTube video by Flowershow

Sometimes you finish writing a Markdown file and all you want is a URL.

That’s why we built the Flowershow CLI: one command, file β†’ web. No dashboard. No repo. No setup decisions.
youtu.be/ou1bigOIlPk

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EP 336 Rufus Pollock on the Wisdom Gap and the Second Renaissance Why open knowledge doesn't make open minds, what the metacrisis really is, pragmatic utopianism, and much more.

πŸŽ™οΈ w/ @rufuspollock.bsky.social on the metacrisis, the wisdom gap, and what a Second Renaissance might look like.

Why open knowledge doesn't make open minds, what the metacrisis really is, pragmatic utopianism, and much more.

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We have think tanks for accelerating technology/science (which we are already pretty good at) with but what about for "accelerating" wisdom?

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Research We are a research collective exploring paths to a second renaissance and awakening societies 🌻. We produce reports, papers, methods and tools.

Busy converting lifeitself.org/research over to its own #Flowershow (flowershow.app) powered site research.lifeitself.org

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Truth is a mountain with no top: we can still sense up even if there is no summit The relativist fallacy conflates no perspective being final with all perspectives being equal. However, we can retain a sense of truth and right(er) even if there is no absolute truth or right

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Second Renaissance Our current civilization is crumbling, leading to a period of crisis and potential rebirth – a

Check out the #SecondRenaissance white papers for an accessible introduction to what is happening right now in terms of #climatecrisis #xrisk with AI #populism and what is a credible path to a radically wiser future.

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Life Itself We’re committed to practical action for a radically wiser, weller world. We create hubs, start businesses, do research and engage in activism to pioneer a wiser culture.

@mssophiaparker.bsky.social looking for a way to connect to talk about emerging futures - this is Rufus from lifeitself.org and secondrenaissance.net

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Huge win! Government announces plan to open up Land Registry This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Today the UK Government has announced plans to open up the Land Registry – which, if delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wale…

Finally, 15y+ after we recommended in our review to the UK gov (back in 2007/8) the UK Gov opens up the land registry

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67c9af...

More info in excellent post here:

whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h...

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If you're looking for good #opendata datasets check out datahub.io

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What Is Second Renaissance? An Introduction
What Is Second Renaissance? An Introduction YouTube video by Life Itself

We've just released our first video intro to the #SecondRenaissance this moment of civilizational crisis and awakening. Love to get feedback as we want to evolve it and do more.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xdU...

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βœ… Moved #markdownit markdownit.com to #Flowershow Cloud ☁️ (flowershow.app)

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Introducing the Data Collective - Fireside chat #1 Rufus and David give a short introduction to what the data collective is and why it exists

If you're interested in #OpenData, you should follow what @rufuspollock.bsky.social and @davidgasquez.com are doing with the data collective. I think great things will come from them :).

open.substack.com/pub/thedatac... #databs #datasky

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