⿻ patcon (is at MozFest BCN)

⿻ patcon (is at MozFest BCN)

@patcon.bsky.social

& this is the wonder that keeps the stars apart. #complexity #plurality #democracy #civictech @CivicTechTO cfndr. @g0vtw fan. early pol.is cntrbtr. ex: biochemst @enviroDGI @HyphaCoop @nwspk @gc_talent 🏡 SF/Tkaronto/NOLA/London 🔗 nodescription.net/notes

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⿻ patcon (is at MozFest BCN)
@patcon.bsky.social

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

docs.google.comORI Pitch Jam: Collective Cognition Realtime DeckCollective 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...

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Jenny Yeremiy, P. Geoph 🪶🌿🇵🇸🇳🇬🇱🇧🇨🇦
@jennyyeremiy.bsky.social

Woot woot, Lulu wins! 👏 Viva o Brazil! 🇧🇷 A mathematical certainty with less than 2.5 million votes to count! The world is 2/3 this week. Alberta Separtism defeated✅ BC Con victory ❌ US agent Bolsonaro defeat ✅ #cdnpoli #brazil #elections #referendum #abpoli #bcpoli depor.com/en/us-live/w...

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⿻ patcon (is at MozFest BCN)
@patcon.bsky.social

Current status: thinking about artificial intelligence as "value heterotrophs" to human embodied experience. Kinda like how animals are heterotrophs for the energy fixed by plants in photosynthesis. So metaphorically, #deliberation is like the electron transport chain process :)

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Quantian
@quantian.bsky.social

Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

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⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳
@audreyt.org

Mission, not race.🚀 The singularity, the race, asks who wins. But ⿻Plurality, the movement, asks who is missing.🔎 Learn more via our State of Wikimedia & AI 2026: Freedom, Equity, Reliability at a Crossroad panel during #WikimaniaParis.🇫🇷 ▶️ au.civic.ai/p/mission-no... #LLAP🖖

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Boris
@bmann.ca

Replying to @bmann.ca

There are a few other individuals you can pay as consultants, but not really very publicly yet? @hypha.coop & @limeleaf.coop are a Canadian and US based consultancies who you can pay to work on atproto (and both are worker owned co-ops!)

⿻ patcon (is at MozFest BCN)
@patcon.bsky.social

Holy fuck, America. This attack is grotesque on so many levels... It's not just vulgar attack, but also takes the conservative electorate to be so basic and easily baited... I truly hope it doesn't land

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Stephen Miller: "It's very bold that Democrats would choose Texas to nominate their first transgender Senate candidate who's transitioning into a female. When Talarico goes in for a blood test, blood doesn't come out, instead soy milk comes out. This man has less testosterone than Jasmine Crockett."

⿻ patcon (is at MozFest BCN)
@patcon.bsky.social

With all respect & love to my spectrum-y friends: for all the ways the world's been weird while transforming under the partial-seeing eye of coders... AI is now empowering the intuitive class & the world is about to get weirder. There's perhaps an autist-to-artist handoff afoot

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Plurality Institute
@pluralityinstitute.bsky.social

Join Tech and Social Cohesion for their Global Expo 2026: From Harm Mitigation to Intentional Design. Explore intentional tech design for trust and collaboration. Full day virtual event May 20, 2026 Register here: www.techandsocialcohesion.org/expo-2026-re...

techandsocialcohesion.orgExpo 2026 RegisterRegister for the Global Expo 2026 on May 20. Join technologists, civil society, and peacebuilders exploring intentional tech design for trust and collaboration.
⿻ patcon (is at MozFest BCN)
@patcon.bsky.social

Every act of speech, even in service of #decentralization, is an act of centralization. Each expressed thought of language is uttered in the lingua franca of a central nervous system. Language is the master's tool with which we must perpetually try to dismantle the master's house.

x.com⿻ patcon (is in NYC 🔜) 🦋 @patcon.bsky.social on X: "So I sometimes think of human intelligence (if a product of this neuronal overgrowth; producer of language itself) as a disability we must work with. And so I often question the value of knowledge itself -- I wonder if it's more poison than asset, disability instead of strength" / XSo I sometimes think of human intelligence (if a product of this neuronal overgrowth; producer of language itself) as a disability we must work with. And so I often question the value of knowledge itself -- I wonder if it's more poison than asset, disability instead of strength

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heartpunk (sophie!!)
@heartpunk.com

lil note i showed my budtender today bcz she was stuttering again and a lil self conscious about it and i wanted her to know she means a lot to me!

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Brendan Arnold
@brendanarnold.bsky.social

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...

linkedin.com#policyinnovation #collectiveintelligence #innovationinpractice #publicsectorinnovation | Policy Lab UKCollective 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...
⿻ patcon (is at MozFest BCN)
@patcon.bsky.social

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 :)

⿻ patcon (is at MozFest BCN)
@patcon.bsky.social

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?

⿻ patcon (is at MozFest BCN)
@patcon.bsky.social

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 ❤️)

⿻ patcon (is at MozFest BCN)
@patcon.bsky.social

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.

⿻ patcon (is at MozFest BCN)
@patcon.bsky.social

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...

⿻ patcon (is at MozFest BCN)@patcon.bsky.social

Been rolling around the idea of an essay for a few years. Here's the provocation: What practical lessons (in culture-building, institution-building, community) can we draw from interpreting biological protein synthesis as a primordial, lower dimensional form of #storytelling? #complexity #democracy

⿻ patcon (is at MozFest BCN)
@patcon.bsky.social

‪> 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)‬

⿻ patcon (is at MozFest BCN)
@patcon.bsky.social

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.

civictech.caCivic Tech Toronto | A space to learn and collaborateCivic 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.
⿻ patcon (is at MozFest BCN)
@patcon.bsky.social

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

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "Death & destruction from the sky all day. We're playing for keeps. Our warfighters have maximum authorities granted personally by POTUS & yours truly. Our rules of engagement are bold, precise designed to unleash American power, not shackle it ... we are punching them while they are down"

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Robert Stribley
@stribs.bsky.social

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

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "Death & destruction from the sky all day. We're playing for keeps. Our warfighters have maximum authorities granted personally by POTUS & yours truly. Our rules of engagement are bold, precise designed to unleash American power, not shackle it ... we are punching them while they are down"

⿻ patcon (is at MozFest BCN)
@patcon.bsky.social

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 :)

mino.mobinovelty — mino.mobi
Minor Mobius@minormobius.bsky.social

Good news everyone! You can now analyze your own posts for semantic novelty from the famous Sichu post, ‘analyze the semantic novelty’ mino.mobi/novelty The consequences of my most offbrand post wondering how to relate to people are left to the reader for evaluation

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Prateek Buch
@prateekbuch.bsky.social

I'm glad I saw this *after*I just flew back from Mumbai to London... Grateful for safe passage 🙏🏽

Jo Kibble (Political Animal)@politicanimal.bsky.social

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

⿻ patcon (is at MozFest BCN)
@patcon.bsky.social

I think i figured out whats wrong with me! socially I'm a herd animal, but my executive function is cat-like. As in, self-management is mostly creating conditions in which I feel like my dear humans don't need things from me, at which point my executive brain starts figure-eighting their legs