THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE SUPERVISED

Thx to @hypha.coop members for joining in a spontaneous guerrilla pilot of my #polislike "reaction canvas" app, from the audience of @jakehirschallen.bsky.social's @dxcsummit.bsky.social panel this past weekend :) cc @anaserrano.bsky.social

polislike-partykit-reaction-canvas.patcon.partykit.dev

(My financial relationship with them is over, but they're friends now. It's notable that they supported me when they got value from my work, even when they could have just taken it, when most ppl just view my outputs as a gift to the commons.)

From being in circles with Nico and Yuting, I read these messages as being about peer support/alignment on what's in the commons between the building. I am not a traditional collaborator myself, and I recognise that they don't act like a normal "company" hawking wares.

I brought this up to @jay.bsky.team in Vancouver as well.

While Bluesky can be read as a generic, public platform without community boundaries, it also has subsets of community that can be targeted for specific conversations.

Instead of NDAs and Google Meets, you could gate a pol.is by DID.

#policyinnovation #collectiveintelligence #innovationinpractice #publicsectorinnovation | Policy Lab UK Collective Intelligence methods are evolving – and Policy Lab’s practice is evolving with them.   We recently joined partners from across Europe in Helsinki to test new approaches to large-scale digit...

I was brought into this group last year by @patcon.bsky.social who I met in Newspeak House atending Pol.is related gatherings - a chain of events which speaks to the grassroots movement of the Voxit Community and the value of these convening places.

www.linkedin.com/posts/policy...

Been trying to think of the most basic version of what I'm motivated by right now... 🤔 maybe...

Responsible Technology for the Telling of Loud Stories™️

Weirder variant: responsible digital technology for the networked deployment of simple social technology :)

The First Post-Reality Political Campaign Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is waging cognitive warfare on a new scale.

Viktor Orban is waging cognitive warfare on a scale no one else has tried before. "Emotions are high because the stakes are high. If he succeeds, he will once again blaze a path that others will follow. And if he loses, an era comes to an end."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A bee taking flight from a flower.

Current status: thinking about beehives & culture.

Bees forage for sugar, storing it in static structural wax comb of the hive, to power future work.

Humans forage for information & store it where? What is our hive? Our wax? Our honey?

What's culture? Books? Language itself?

ORI Pitch Jam: Collective Cognition Realtime Deck Collective Cognition Realtime Deck Open Research Institute: Pitch Jam The purpose of this document is a public place for patcon to gather thoughts on a recent project direction. Hello there 👋 -- If y...

Working on my next #collectiveintelligence project: it's like... uh...

Mario Party x crowd-karaoke x DJ software

With a bit of pol.is, @choirchoirchoir.bsky.social, and www.liberatingstructures.com thrown in for good measure :)

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#democracy #delibwave #polislike

Percussion generally is very much of the streetscape, can be quite accessible or professional at the other end, and of service to formal and informal festivals :)

Nice! Any particular areas of focus or optimism? I liked the salsa point. I think Afro-Brazilian drumming (samba, maracatu, etc) is similar in some cities like Toronto -- ppl join the big messy anarchic ones then hive off as they take it more seriously, like a flywheel. Lots of cross-cultural travel

359 – Hope is a Commitment (w/ Eleanor Finley)

❤️❤️❤️❤️💯💯💯❤️💯

"I'm starting to realize that maybe real #democracy involves far more than deliberative process" -- @eleanorfinley.bsky.social speaking about social ecology on the @srslywrong.bsky.social podcast

open.spotify.com/episode/5Mcz...

But then, like we can do when lagging in space, perhaps we can have time elastically recoil to bring us back to the front row, back to the hiking troupe, back to the perpetually cresting wave of the present reactive moment, that can somehow hold us all.

Current status: thinking about livestream participation interfaces that allow pausing, like lagging intentionally behind to comment (or just to think!). Or maybe just to quietly take a picture of the family from behind, to see the moment more clearly later. (Thanks mom ❤️)

Rewilding - Wikipedia

What might it mean to rewild human collectives? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewilding

And with parallels to job market turmoil brought by #llms... what might our democratic #rewilding mean for the zookeepers of our world? The lion tamers? The bull fighters? #collectiveintelligence #democracy

‪> Maybe there's something about how consecutive parts of a linear narrative divide people and/or bring them into alignment, which is part of a narrative when doing pro-life work (assembly/destruction of living structure in the right ways, in a Christopher Alexander sense)‬

Thanks to @hexafield.bsky.social and @michaelgarfield.bsky.social's mapmakers discord for giving this thought a chance to be articulated aloud :)

The homology of linear narrative and linear peptides is a deep interest for me...! bsky.app/profile/patc...

1339782!

You did it!

Currently hiring 1-2 postdocs to work on origins of life theory/experiment, assembly theory, life detection, with me and @leecronin.bsky.social, positions are mostly based at ASU but also some time could be spent at U. Glasgow, Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/176391 Please help us spread the word!

@saraimari.bsky.social You should def load your past tweets into bluesky so ppl can see you in this :))) mino.mobi/novelty/?han...

Civic Tech Toronto | A space to learn and collaborate Civic Tech Toronto is a vibrant and diverse community of Torontonians engaged in understanding and creating solutions for civic challenges through technology, design, and other innovative means.

Even the presentation I was about to give them -- they saw what I used to generate it ("I am speaking to attendees of a civic hacknight civictech.ca [...]") & they can judge the output. So they would leave the circle learning THAT even if the presentation was bad.

“The confidence I have in my taste and my ability to express what I feel.” - Rick Rubin Meme YouTube video by CoderClub

At last civic hacknight, was trying to sell a table of variously-technical attendees on ubiquity of learning in AI world (as an agent was live-writing the onboarding slide deck from my codebase)

We're all about to become better at articulating our taste, a very core primitive: youtu.be/jg1WUOxY6Cg

It's so disgusting that I can almost hear the countless hours this man has been talking to a sycophantic ChatGPT... thanks OpenAI

This is how you create a new generation of terrorists, Friends.

Sounds like someone who should be in jail for war crimes.

dyyyying

h/t @makeworld.space !!!

Holy shit, I want this to be my new "about me" link: mino.mobi/novelty/?han...

I sure as heck don't mind being benchmarked by such a cheap metric...! I think I actually appreciate novelty as a core value, so this is neat for something I value so much to be so easy to calculate :)