This Saturday I’ll speak at Brotéria, in Lisbon, in the wonderful company of Erik Bordeleau, João Sarmento, Salomé Lopes Coelho, and Sonia D'Alto, in an event organised by Sara Castelo Branco. Come around to talk magic and technology. @derivativ.bsky.social @salomecoelho.bsky.social
Erik Bordeleau
@derivativ.bsky.social
Philosopher and fugitive planner Lisbon NOVA University www.thesphere.as Anarchiving.thesphere.as
"We were supposed to be replacing a broken system with something better. Instead we are swapping out one ponzi for another." rekt.news/libra-rugged/
Rekt - Libra - Rugged
DeFi / Crypto - A $4.5B meme coin implodes, leaving impeachment calls and class action lawsuits in its wake. Crime season continues as Argentina's President Milei turns LIBRA into a ponzinomics class ...
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Excellent article on multiple (pseudo) state-sponsored memecoins preceding the Argentinian rug pull. "Is this the future of national fundraising, or just the latest evolution of the classic Nigerian Prince email?" rekt.news/state-of-dec...
Rekt - State of Deception
DeFi / Crypto - In the latest episode of nations going crypto, Central African Republic's president launched a meme coin that touched almost $900M - almost a 3rd of CAR's GDP. AI and hosting can't agr...
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BOOK OUT NOW: Artists, Activists, and Worldbuilders on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: Conversations about Funding, Self-Organisation, and Reclaiming the Future Inte Gloerich in conversation with E. Bordeleau, R.Catlow, A. Launay, Y. Khalili, P. Rafferty, and S. Troncoso tinyurl.com/ajnmh4f
"What the Trump administration wants — is to keep everything moving fast. Muzzle velocity. If you’re always consumed by the next outrage, you can’t look closely at the last one. (...) The projection of strength obscures the reality of weakness. Don’t believe him." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
Opinion | Don’t Believe Him
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.
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AFTER PROTOCOLS, the last issue of Revue Espace art Actuel # 139 is out! Co-directed by @ncasemajor.bsky.social and myself, the bilingual issue (French-English) discuss all things related to art & blockchain. Enjoy! espaceartactuel.com/en/produit/1... Cover image: @isthisa.bsky.social
For the Digital Soul Protocol seminar at CircusNext in Paris, Lene Vollhardt and I made this short film around our encounter with Guy Carrara, the co-director of the famous Archaos Circus in Marseille. An ode to the power of trust and speculative generosity - Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Whp...
ARCHAOS – We Only Have The Memory Of The Future
YouTube video by The Sphere
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“You can get away with pretty much anything as long as you’re cute about it.” spikeartmagazine.com/articles/op-...
American Politics Becomes Its Own Meme | Spike Art Magazine
With a new coin in the realm, the men who industrialized attention bow down to their merchant king.
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If the state won’t secure my future, maybe a fortune in crypto will. (...) Everything you want to know about Trump, degens, cryptostatecraft and speculative communities by the ever excellent Andrea Leiter transformativeprivatelaw.com/who-gets-to-...
Who gets to bet on the future? - Transformative Private Law
Reading Time: 7 minutes
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