'Lonesome No More' is the campaign slogan of the protagonist of Kurt Vonnegut's book 'Slapstick' as he runs to become President of the USA. He passes a law which gives every US Citizen a new middle name, comprising a flower name and a number (such as 'Daffodil-8'). In this way, every citizen acquires a set of ~10k brothers and sisters, and 100k cousins (Daffodils with other number suffixes). since these families are assigned at random, these new families cut across all divides. Last edited May 2023 (significant changes from Jun 2020 version) Intent Set out the scope and themes of a paper proposing the mvp for a generative identity scheme in which asserted membership of a variety of groups is the core mechanism for establishing trust in a message provenance address as being controlled by a specific entity. Context The next phase of civilisation requires a relocalisation - an emphasis on entitites (mostly humans, but also groups of humans, and probably bots, too) as members of several more-or-less well-defined groups, rather than rootless, atomised individuals. However, it must be accepted that reversion to historical group modalities cannot succeed. Capitalism is not the sole driver of atomisation - it has also results from people 'voting with their feet' - deliberately relinquishing the prescribed sociality of historical in-groups in order to be able to express themselves more fluidly, with more variety. Far from seeing this fluidity and variety as symptoms of 'social breakdown', this paper is based in the assertion that it is through the increased diversity that they support that civilisation can evolve to the required next stage, where with and through increasingly purposive consciousness.
5/29/2023Brixton Mint CCF Bid Phase1 Project Timeline gantt title Brixton Mint Phase 1 - Sep '22 - Jan '23 dateFormat YY-MM-DD axisFormat %W-'%y Project start : milestone, mile1, 22-09-01,0.1d section Engagement Engagement Strategy : strategy, after mile1,5d
6/22/2022To build an open, federated marketplace for collaborations; a social technology supported by digital tooling, a global community and a world-wide movement of local events. A kickstarter-meets-angellist for the new economy. A place where a person with a purpose can search and find valuable collaborators to make a shared dream a reality. They can form a crew, organise the collaboration, make good agreements, and work in concert towards shared goals. A system enabling crews to find each other and discover purposes, projects and teams to support through easy to use software tools based around open protocols. A software system and movement of local events enabling incentivised curation of people, crews and projects. A system for effective social discovery based on data sovereignty, open protocols and open software.
5/16/2021After Feb 16 conversation with Liam Imaginary blog post from a User: "Thoughts after a year in Colabora" Since people are asking me; 'What's Colabora like?', I thought I'd set out what it looks like to me, as an ordinary member. Most simply, I experience a messaging feed as my key interface. I can swipe between different feed streams. Each stream kind of feels like a place: my home, my groups, the world. I'm in Colabora because I hope to increasingly experience combinations of: work that is meaningful, congenial colleagues, viable rewards, acceptable autonomy/constraint balance, high productivity, work that feels like life, minimal system-imposed bullshit. At Home, my feed consists only of messages and sources I have elected to see. Then I can jump into a Group I'm connected to (Groups tend to have a few sub-channels, too), or I go out into the World to look for something new.
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