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• 08:46, 9 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Constitution for the Commons - Netherlands (Created page with " URL = https://constitutievoordecommons.nl/ =Description= Translated from the Dutch: “What is the Constitution for the Commons? * A Protective Barrier The Constitution for the Commons is a protective barrier against violations of our right to autonomous self-organization. And it is a breeding ground for stronger Commons. It provides the Commons with protection, potential, and space to develop, acting as a critical friend to challenge and keep them aware of the...")
• 08:43, 9 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Private Countries (Created page with " =History= Raymond Craib: “Meanwhile, moneyed tech titans in Northern California have proposed building a new city on thousands of acres they surreptitiously bought over the previous decade in Solano County. El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele is planning a Bitcoin City on the slopes of a volcano while his government profits from the imprisonment of people illegally deported from the United States. Argentina is currently presided over by Javier Milei, a chain saw...")
• 08:22, 9 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Urbit (Created page with " =Status= ==The Rise and Fall of Urbit== Adina Glickstein: "Yarvin’s stated aim for Urbit was to create a decentralized network where each user owns all his data: a private virtual machine, protected from surveillance and attention economy ad-tech. The network’s address space—its virtual real estate—is divided into a federated hierarchy of “planets,” “stars,” and “galaxies,” each unique according to a 28-bit identifier connected to the Ethereum bl...")
• 08:20, 9 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Ecological Futures (Created page with " '''* Book: Chew, Sing C. Ecological Futures: What History Can Teach Us. Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.''' URL = =Description= The final volume in Chew’s trilogy shifts focus to contemporary and future ecological challenges, drawing lessons from historical patterns of environmental degradation. Chew analyzes modern industrialization, climate change, and resource depletion through the lens of past civilizational collapses, arguing that humanity’s survival depends on...")
• 08:18, 9 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page World Ecological Degradation (Created page with " '''* Book: Chew, Sing C. World Ecological Degradation: Accumulation, Urbanization, and Deforestation, 3000 B.C.–A.D. 2000. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.''' URL = =Description= The first volume of Chew’s trilogy examines the long-term environmental consequences of human economic and urban development. Focusing on deforestation, soil depletion, and urbanization from ancient civilizations to the modern era, Chew argues that ecological degradation is not a recent pheno...")
• 08:09, 9 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page New Languages (Created page with " '''* Book: Carpenter, Edmund, and Marshall McLuhan. The New Languages. MIT Press, 1973 (originally Explorations in Communication).''' URL = =Description= Co-authored by anthropologist Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan, The New Languages investigates how emerging media technologies—such as television, computers, and electronic communication—create entirely new forms of language and expression. The book blends anthropology and media theory, arguing that these...")
• 08:08, 9 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Media and Formal Cause (Created page with " '''* Book: McLuhan, Marshall, and Eric McLuhan. Media and Formal Cause. Gingko Press, 2011.''' URL = =Description= Published posthumously, Media and Formal Cause explores the Aristotelian concept of formal causation in relation to media theory. The McLuhans argue that media function as formal causes, structuring human perception and cognition in ways that transcend content. The book examines how different media environments—from oral traditions to digital networks...")
• 08:06, 9 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Laws of Media (Created page with " '''* Book: McLuhan, Marshall, and Eric McLuhan. Laws of Media: The New Science. University of Toronto Press, 1988.''' URL = =Description= "Laws of Media refines and expands Marshall McLuhan’s earlier media theories, introducing the "tetrad" as a framework for analyzing technological and media effects. The tetrad consists of four key questions: What does a medium enhance? What does it retrieve from the past? What does it reverse into when pushed to its limits? And...")
• 07:56, 9 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Cooperative Labor for Wheat vs for Rice (Created page with " =Discussion= Tomas Pueyo explains : "Rice nourishes families on half the land that wheat requires. Which means population density in rice areas can be twice as high as in wheat areas, or four times with double cropping. A hectare of land can feed 1.5 families with wheat and 6 with rice. Yet rice paddies also require a lot of work—twice as much as wheat. And that work is almost year-round: preparing paddies, raising seedlings in nurseries, transplanting every si...")
• 07:51, 9 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Summa Technologiae (Created page with " '''* Book: Stanisław Lem. Summa Technologiae.''' URL = https://existentialtech.antikythera.org/ =Description= Bogna Konior: "On the surface, the book is merely symptomatic of all the intellectual excitements of the 1960s, bringing together the natural sciences and the emerging field of cybernetics within an overarching framework of two evolutions — natural and technological — paralleling each other, overlapping and diverging. Though Lem described Summa as "a dr...")
• 07:46, 9 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Computing (Created page with " =Discussion= ==the evolution of computation as a symbiosis of human and machine== Nathan Gardels: “Across the sciences, we are coming to understand the self-organizing principle of “computation” as the building block of all forms of budding intelligence, from primitive cells to generative AI. This process involves learning from the environment, assembling information and arranging it by sharing functional instructions through “copying and pasting” code, so...")
• 07:43, 9 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Reachy Mini (Created page with " '''= "is an open-source desktop AI robot designed for research, education, and creative projects. This compact Reachy Mini features 6 degrees of freedom with Python programming and full community support."''' URL = https://reachy-mini.com/ =More information= * Product Hacking Category:P2P Hardware ")
• 07:37, 9 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Mushroom at the End of the World (Created page with " '''* Book: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. The Mushroom at the End of the World. 2021''' URL = ''"a study of communities of mushroom pickers in the Pacific Northwest, Yunnan China and Kyoto Prefecture, Japan ; a dizzying account of capitalist modernity. a study of “the possibility of life in capitalist ruins”.'' =Excerpts= Selected and with commentary by Adam Tooze: "What follows are a series of quotations and short excepts from the book with brief commentary from me....")
• 11:44, 8 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Popular Pharmacy Project - Santiago de Chile (Created page with " '''= The Pharmacies of the People, (in Recoleta, Santiago de Chile)''' =Description= Martin Arboleda: "Presently, in the Chilean neighborhood of Recoleta, there is a network of popular pharmacies where one can acquire medicines at a low cost outside the oligopoly circuit of big pharmaceutical companies. According to Daniel Jadue, the mayor that designed and implemented this project, the Popular Pharmacy not only has practical consequences by expanding access to aff...")
• 11:40, 8 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page On Planning and Popular Power (Created page with " '''* Book: GOBERNAR LA UTOPÍA: Sobre la planificación y el poder popular [GOVERNING UTOPIA: On planning and popular power], published in 2021 at Caja Negra Editora. Martin Arboleda''' URL = https://www.critup.net/translations/trajectories-of-a-radical-idea/ =Contents= Martin Arboleda: “The different chapters that make up my book aim to consider the problem of democratic planning from the perspective of its conditions of possibility, by which I mean the dynamic...")
• 11:34, 8 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Stefan Meretz on the Planning Dimensions in Commonism (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLvggB6z2_k =Description= Excerpt from the transcript: “At its core, commonism is a generalization of the commons—the idea that any resource can be made common. But for a resource to truly function as a common, it must meet two key conditions: * It must be commonly available (accessible to the community). * It must be collectively managed by that community. Yet a common is not just a resource—it’s also the entir...")
• 11:25, 8 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Stack as an Integrative Model of Global Capitalism (Created page with " '''* Article: The Stack as an Integrative Model of Global Capitalism. By Lukáš Likavčan and Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle. TripleC, issue.no## 2 (2022)''' URL = https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1343 =Description= "This article investigates recent transformations in global capitalism’s political economy as it relates to the evolution of globally integrated production and exchange apparatuses, such as platforms, enabled through technological advan...")
• 11:23, 8 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Ecocerts (Created page with " =Description= What are Ecocerts? "Ecocerts are environmental hypercerts that standardize the measurement and representation of environmental impact. Within this standardized framework, environmental work and its associated impacts are clearly defined and quantified. A core principle of ecocerts is non-duplication: if the impact of environmental work is represented in one ecocert, it cannot be included in or overlap with any other hypercert. This ensures that envir...")
• 11:20, 8 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Homoploutia (Created page with " =Discussion= ==The 'Managerial Revolution' was overblown, instead <this> happened:== Branko Milanovic: "That capitalism changed in the twentieth century with the advent of what many called a new “managerial” class. The rise of managers –-people who neither own the means of production not are simple laborers, but manage the means of production for capitalists lazily playing golf in Florida—was announced by James Burnham classic in 1941, and then further deve...")
• 11:18, 8 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Psychozoic Era (Created page with " =Description= DeepSeek: “The Psychozoic Era (from Greek psyche meaning "mind" and zoic meaning "life") is a proposed geological epoch or era emphasizing the transformative role of human consciousness and activity in shaping Earth's ecosystems, climate, and geology. The concept parallels other suggested Anthropocene terminologies but places greater emphasis on the cognitive and cultural dimensions of human influence rather than just its physical impacts. The term "P...")
• 11:16, 8 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Just War Theory (Created page with " =Description= Brian Klaas: “The problem of ethics in combat has preoccupied thinkers for as long as humans have been killing one another in systematic combat. There is evidence of early incarnations of just war principles as far back as ancient Egypt, though it was largely assumed that the Pharaoh’s fighting would, by definition, be just. Ancient Hindu texts prohibit the use of barbed or poisonous weapons and specifically outlaw the use of violence against those...")
• 11:06, 8 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Decentralised Technologies for Self-Infrastructuring Resilience (Created page with " '''* PhD Thesis: Bailey, Kelsie (2025). Decentralised Technologies: ‘Self-Infrastructuring’ Resilience. RMIT University. Thesis.''' [https://doi.org/10.25439/rmt.29614595 doi] URL = https://research-repository.rmit.edu.au/articles/thesis/Decentralised_Technologies_Self-Infrastructuring_Resilience/29614595?file=56438489 =Description= “This thesis focuses on how groups of people build, use, and experience infrastructure in the digital era by investigating the re...")
• 09:21, 4 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Satoshi Nakamoto Meme Coin Project (Created page with " == SatoshiMeme ($SATOSHI): A Memetic Reinterpretation of Satoshi Nakamoto's Philosophy == ==== An Academic Analysis of Blockchain Cultural Experimentation and Decentralization Discourse ==== <img src="https://i.ibb.co/bjNXnxFv/Satoshi-Code.jpg" width=800><br><br> '''Project Overview''' <br>'''SatoshiMeme ($SATOSHI)''' is a cultural cryptocurrency project that reinterprets and disseminates Satoshi Nakamoto's original Bitcoin philosophy through contemporary meme culture....")
• 05:31, 5 July 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Civilizational Self-Criticism (Created page with " =Discussion= ==The Western Tradition of Self-Criticism== Historical examples by Marian Tupy: " the West’s tendency to question itself, empathise with its enemies, and confront its own imperfections is not a recent phenomenon. It is age-old and unique. It may even be one of the main sources of Western strength. Far from undermining Western civilisation, this introspective tradition—evident in the works of Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Virgil, Tacitus, a...")
• 10:33, 4 July 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Imaginal (Created page with " =Description= Michael Martin: "An imaginal realm is not simply “an invented world,” a work of fiction; and both Blake and Tolkien believed the worlds of their works to be as real as any other. On the other hand, every world, including that we take to be “reality,” is a product of invention. The question is: Who is doing the inventing? It is not a welcome realization, is it? As Rilke so wisely observes, “already the knowing animals are aware / that we are not...")
• 10:13, 4 July 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Theory of Motivation (Created page with " '''* Book: Abraham Maslow. A theory of human motivation (1943)''' URL = =Description= Cadell Last: "The main lessons from Maslowian humanist psychology is that there exists within humanity a common drive for an unbounded process of self-actualization, but more crucially, there also exists necessary material and social preconditions which must be met as a baseline of existence if an individual is to maintain and stabilize a sociocreative state of self-actualization....")
• 10:47, 3 July 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Symbiotic Age (Created page with " =Description= Richard Flyer: "WHAT IS THE SYMBIOTIC AGE, AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT NOW? The Symbiotic Age is an emerging era based on what I call a Relational Worldview—a way of seeing life that emphasizes our deep interconnection with each other, the Earth, and the Divine. It calls us to realign human culture with the sacred order of creation through Divine Love, which is rooted in the Christian understanding of Love revealed in Jesus. We stand at a crossroads. The...")
• 10:44, 3 July 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Symbiotic Culture (Created page with "= "a way of living that realigns our personal lives, communities, and systems with the relational wisdom woven into creation." [https://richardflyer.substack.com/p/the-symbiotic-age-has-begunwhat-if] =Description= Richard Flyer explains: "WHAT IS THE FOUNDATION OF SYMBIOTIC CULTURE? At a time when worldviews seem irreconcilably divided, Symbiotic Culture is grounded in something that transcends ideology: a relational worldview capable of bridging difference and reco...")
• 09:16, 3 July 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Milankovitch Cycles (Created page with " '''= "a 405,000 year fluctuation in the Earth’s orbital eccentricity. This means that the Earth’s orbit gets more and less circular over that period, affecting the extremes of climate."''' [https://cyclesresearchinstitute.wordpress.com/2020/04/03/405000-year-cycle-in-earth-eccentricity-found-in-215-million-years-of-climate/] =More information= * study: https://www.pnas.org/content/115/24/6153 Category:P2P Cycles ")
• 09:06, 3 July 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Cycles (Created page with " =Definition= Cycles Research Institute: "Cycles may be defined as any phenomena repeating after fairly regular time intervals. Generally cycles are found in anything to which numerical measurements may be assigned at intervals in time. Edward Dewey of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles said that every field studied had been found to have cycles. The cause of cycles is generally that some restorative force exists whenever any system is displaced from its equil...")
• 09:04, 3 July 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Cycles Research Institute (Created page with "'''= " the true nature and origin of cycles, to solve the mystery of recurrent rhythm observed in natural and the social sciences".''' URL = https://cyclesresearchinstitute.org/ =Discussion= ==Cycles Defined== CRI: "Cycles may be defined as any phenomena repeating after fairly regular time intervals. Generally cycles are found in anything to which numerical measurements may be assigned at intervals in time. Edward Dewey of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles...")
• 07:38, 3 July 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Michel Bauwens on his Experience with the SMART Labour Mutual in Belgium (Created page with "Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ4mmYMB3AM Michel Bauwens responds to questions, in French. Category:Labor Category:P2P_Solidarity Category:Webcasts")
• 06:55, 2 July 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Revisiting the Difference Between Mutual Aid and Charity (Created page with "'''* Zine: Mutual Aid, the Commons, and the Revolutionary Abolition of Capitalism: Revisiting the Difference Between Mutual Aid and Charity, 2025''' URL = https://nl.crimethinc.com/zines/mutual-aid-the-commons-and-the-revolutionary-abolition-of-capitalism [https://nl.crimethinc.com/2025/06/06/mutual-aid-the-commons-and-the-revolutionary-abolition-of-capitalism-revisiting-the-difference-between-mutual-aid-and-charity full text] =Description= "Much has been made of the...")
• 06:43, 2 July 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page George Por on Cultivation of Hybrid Human-Machine Wisdom (Created page with " Video via https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/h-21 Interview with George Por, and his "theory of change for a reimagined human being in an age of collaborative planet-scale intelligence." Conversation hosted by Michael Garfield. Category:Webcasts Category:Intelligence ")
• 06:07, 1 July 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page AI as a Commons (Created page with "=Source= * AI Commnons Lab event, in Mol, Belgium. See: From Data Ownership to Democratic AI URL = https://portal.dembrane.com/en-US/c4561bfe-460c-4e97-8b8c-f3df18c809bb/report The text below is an english language summary translation of the transcript here at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_bDN65DB98 =Text= ==Opening Remarks by Koen Wynands== [Translated from Dutch to English] Koen Wynands: Okay, good evening, everyone! I’m not sure if you can all hear...")
• 05:14, 1 July 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Chronobiology (Created page with "=Description= From the Wikipedia: "Chronobiology is a field of biology that examines timing processes, including periodic (cyclic) phenomena in living organisms, such as their adaptation to solar- and lunar-related rhythms.[1] These cycles are known as biological rhythms. Chronobiology comes from the ancient Greek χρόνος (chrónos, meaning "time"), and biology, which pertains to the study, or science, of life. The related terms chronomics and chronome have been u...")
• 04:57, 1 July 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Brain Hemisphere Theory (Created page with "=Discussion= Jonathan Rowson: "Polycrisis refers to the world system of systems beginning to malfunction, with escalating risks due to emerging properties in the whole being significantly more dangerous than the sum of its parts; polycrisis was chosen by The Financial Times as the word to describe 2022, it has become a buzzword in Davos circles, and is growing in popularity among academics, philanthropists and journalists. Polycrisis already has some theoretical sophi...")
• 04:47, 1 July 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page ICANN Keyholder Ceremony (Created page with " =Description= James Ball: "There is a strange mix of accents – predominantly American, but smatterings of Swedish, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese can be heard around the room, as men and women (but mostly men) chat over pepperoni pizza and 75-cent vending machine soda. In the corner, an Asteroids arcade machine blares out tinny music and flashing lights. It might be a fairly typical office scene, were it not for the extraordinary security procedures that everyone...")
• 04:43, 1 July 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Domain Name System (Created page with " =Characteristics= ==The International Keyholder System== James Ball: "There is a strange mix of accents – predominantly American, but smatterings of Swedish, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese can be heard around the room, as men and women (but mostly men) chat over pepperoni pizza and 75-cent vending machine soda. In the corner, an Asteroids arcade machine blares out tinny music and flashing lights. It might be a fairly typical office scene, were it not for the ext...")
• 08:40, 30 June 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page AI for Deliberation (Created page with " '''= "The goal of AI4Deliberation is to research, create, and pilot open-source AI-powered tools that facilitate mass deliberation to strengthen participatory democracy. This includes promoting and protecting a civic space where an active and independent civil society and citizens are provided with the enabling conditions and tools to become more engaged."''' [https://commonslab.be/kalender/2025/5/15/open-commons-forum-2-commons-amp-zorg-zorg-als-gemeengoed-c796x] C...")
• 08:33, 30 June 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page From Data Ownership to Democratic AI (Created page with "=Source= '''A Critical Q&A on the AI Commons Lab that took place in the AI Commnons Lab, of Mol, Belgium. The document below was produced with the assistance of Dembrane, an AI-driven participation tool for group discussions and focus groups,''' URL = https://portal.dembrane.com/en-US/c4561bfe-460c-4e97-8b8c-f3df18c809bb/report =Text= Introduction: '''A meeting took place in Mol centered around the idea of an AI Commons Lab, focusing on themes like data ownership,...")
• 08:02, 30 June 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Open Weights (Created page with " =Description= OSI: "Open Weights refer to the final weights and biases of a trained neural network. These values, once locked in, determine how the model interprets input data and generates outputs. When AI developers share these parameters under an OSI Approved License, they empower others to fine-tune, adapt, or deploy the model for their own projects. However, Open Weights differ significantly from Open Source AI because they do not include: # Training code –...")
• 07:55, 30 June 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Open Source AI (Created page with "'''= " A movement advocating for transparent, modifiable, and democratically governed artificial intelligence systems, rooted in the ethos of digital commons."''' =Characteristics= ==Model Openness== Releases include weights (open-weight), training data, and code (e.g., Mistral AI, LLaMA 2). Contrasts with "open API" models (e.g., OpenAI) that hide core infrastructure. ==Governance== Hybrid licenses (e.g., CreativeML Open RAIL-M) impose ethical use clauses. Com...")
• 07:42, 30 June 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Mistral AI (Created page with "'''= French 'Open Source AI project, i.e. based on Open Weights''' URL = https://mistral.ai/about =Description= "We are Mistral AI, a pioneering French artificial intelligence startup founded in April 2023 by three visionary researchers: Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, and Timothée Lacroix. United by their shared academic roots at École Polytechnique and experiences at Google DeepMind and Meta, they envisioned a different, audacious approach to artificial int...")
• 11:58, 27 June 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Earth Regeneration Fund (Created page with " '''= example of Bioregional Flow Funding''' URL = https://www.bioregionalearth.org/fund/earth-regeneration-fund =Description= Syd Harvey Griffith: "The Earth Regeneration Fund is a funding initiative and a collaborative platform bringing bioregional leaders together to tell a new story about how humanity can live in harmony with the planet. Six real-world bioregional contexts launched the fund in September, 2024 – Barichara, Cascadia, Forests of the NE, Grea...")
• 11:56, 27 June 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Bioregional Flow Funding (Created page with "'''= "a trust-based, decentralized funding model that removes institutional bottlenecks and allows financial resources to flow directly to bioregional organizing teams – coalitions of local leaders".''' [https://www.bioregionalearth.org/blog/flow-funding] =Description= Syd Harvey Griffith: "Bioregional Flow Funding is a model that shifts financial resource decision-making into the hands of those who know their ecosystems and communities best. It's about trusting lo...")
• 04:55, 27 June 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Regenerative System (Created page with "= " A system that restores ecosystems, builds social equity, and enhances systemic resilience by working with natural and social feedbacks." [https://ageoftransformation.org/introducing-the-planetary-intelligence-bulletin/] Category:Complexity Category:Regenerative_Approaches")
• 04:50, 27 June 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Degenerative System (Created page with "'''= "An extractive, polluting, and inequitable system that undermines ecological integrity and human well-being over time."''' [https://ageoftransformation.org/introducing-the-planetary-intelligence-bulletin/] Category:Regenerative_Approaches")
• 04:49, 27 June 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Feedback Loop (Created page with " '''= "A process where a change in one part of a system either amplifies (positive feedback) or dampens (negative feedback) changes elsewhere in the system."''' [https://ageoftransformation.org/introducing-the-planetary-intelligence-bulletin/] Category:Complexity ")
• 11:34, 26 June 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Kinship Realism (Created page with " =Discussion= Charles Small. * Why do voting maps of Scotland resemble the country’s Iron Age kingdoms? " I first noticed the pattern when reading Jim Wilson’s work mapping the genetic landscape of the British Isles. His team found, by looking at Scots with ancestry from different regions, that the country is still genetically divided along the borders of the old kingdoms of Pictland, Strathclyde and others. Wilson’s genetic map looks strikingly similar to Scotl...")