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13 October 2025

12 October 2025

11 October 2025

  • 11:3411:34, 11 October 2025 diff hist +7,795 N Monetary CommonsCreated page with " '''= proposal for a public trust fund paying a personal dividend 'to each'''' URL = https://monetarycommons.com =Policy= A proposal by Yanis Varoufakis: "Imagine a trust fund for everyone paying a personal dividend to each. Now imagine a common, a public digital platform, let’s call it a Monetary Commons, that harnesses our collective capacity to create the money needed to fund this personal dividend for all. The idea of a personal or basic income is not new, o..." current
  • 10:5410:54, 11 October 2025 diff hist +2,460 N Media PanicCreated page with " =Description= Frank Furedi: "Kirsten Drotner has used the term media panic – that is a panic about the media -to highlight the recurrent tendency for change and innovation of the media to incite anxiety and fear[iii] . Such reactions were a response to the expansion of both publishing and the reading public in the 18th century. The expansion of the media and its commercialization created an environment where competing views and opinions helped foster a climate where..." current
  • 10:4810:48, 11 October 2025 diff hist +777 N Living-Infrastructure Field KitCreated page with " = in Los Angeles. =Description= John Thackara: "Living infrastructure is the practice of bringing together built, natural, and social systems in ways that help people and places thrive. Stormwater harvesting and storage – in small to very large cisterns or tanks, at homes, schools, and industrial and commercial facilities – can significantly increase local water supplies, and reduce flooding and pollution. Water conservation, reuse, and infiltration are also al..." current
  • 10:4410:44, 11 October 2025 diff hist +633 N Probiotic CitiesCreated page with "'''= "microbiome-integrated design for healthy urban ecosystems"'''. =Description= By Jake M. Robinson, et al. "Combining microbiome science and biointegrated design offers opportunities to help address the intertwined challenges of urban ecosystem degradation and human disease. Biointegrated materials have the potential to combat superbugs and remediate pollution while inoculating landscape materials with microbiota can promote human immunoregulation and biodiverse..." current
  • 10:3810:38, 11 October 2025 diff hist +892 N Eden XCreated page with " '''= "agentic AI as an assistant to the natural farmer".''' URL = https://edenx.pt/about John Thackara: "Agentic AI represents a fundamental shift towards decentralised community-based models. In Portugal, EdenX is a digital platform that rehearses more than human modes of dialogue about rivers, their constituents and their rights. On the monitors of the installation present at the Nova Sintra Water Reservoir, conversations are presented between groups of people..." current
  • 06:1706:17, 11 October 2025 diff hist +1,275 N Bibliography for Monetary ReformCreated page with " =Bibliography= Excerpted from a compilation by Michel Foata-Prestavoine: Aglietta, M., & Orléan, A. (1982). La violence de la monnaie. Presses Universitaires de France. Blanc, J. (2011). Les monnaies complémentaires. Un outil pour la transition ? Éditions Yves Michel. Douthwaite, R. (1999). The Ecology of Money. Schumacher Briefings / Green Books. Graeber, D. (2011). Debt: The First 5000 Years. Melville House. Lietaer, B. (2001). The Future of Money. Century...." current
  • 05:5305:53, 11 October 2025 diff hist +1,256 N Heliodependent Societal CyclesCreated page with " =More information= '''* Article: Space weather and revolutions: chizevsky's heliobiological claim scrutinized. Suitbert Ertel. Institute fur Psychologie, January 1996''' URL = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283674647_Space_weather_and_revolutions_chizevsky's_heliobiological_claim_scrutinized =Description= "Chizhevski's 1921 claim of a relationship between solar activity and revolutionary mass behavior is scrutinized. A Master Index of Violence-from-belo..." current
  • 05:4905:49, 11 October 2025 diff hist +3,742 N Rurality 2.0Created page with " =Discussion= ==“Rurality 2.0: The Seed of Megalopolis Resilience== (translated from the French) Frédéric Bosqué: Our big cities give the illusion of being indestructible, but in reality, they are fragile—like giants with feet of clay. A megalopolis depends on constant supplies from the outside. If those flows are interrupted, the city comes to a standstill. The recent pandemic made this clear: it only takes a few days of disruption for supermarket shelves to..." current
  • 05:4405:44, 11 October 2025 diff hist +3,143 N Social NoumenaCreated page with " =Description= Synthesis by DeepSeek, based on the work by O.G. Rose: “Based on the writings and video transcripts of O.G. Rose (a collaborative pen name for Daniel and T.K.), the concept of "social noumena" is a philosophical idea that extends Immanuel Kant’s distinction between noumena (things as they are in themselves, beyond perception) and phenomena (things as they appear to us) into the social and interpersonal realm. =Characteristics= Key Aspects of Socia..."
  • 05:3105:31, 11 October 2025 diff hist +27 Towards an Archipelago of Regenerative PlacesNo edit summary current
  • 05:2305:23, 11 October 2025 diff hist +6,042 N Two Invisible Hands of Adam SmithCreated page with " =Discussion= O.G. Rose: "In Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, the emphasis is on a “high order” coordination that spreads ethics and empathy, whereas in The Wealth of Nations, Smith is using the same metaphor to describe what we more commonly today understand “the invisible hand” to be describing: ‘As every individual, therefore, endeavors as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestic industry, and so to direct that industry th..." current
  • 05:2005:20, 11 October 2025 diff hist +1,117 N HikikomorismCreated page with " =Description= O.G. Rose: "“Hikikomorism” refers to the growing trend of people who rarely leave their apartments or homes, except maybe here and there for food and basic necessities (which can increasingly be delivered). The social phenomenon was first noted in Japan, mostly with young men who basically gave up on society, family, and career. Japan is notoriously a “shame culture,” and those who fail to excel in school and work can be made to feel absolutely..." current
  • 05:0105:01, 11 October 2025 diff hist −1 Towards an Archipelago of Regenerative Places→‎=More information
  • 04:5804:58, 11 October 2025 diff hist +12,943 N Towards an Archipelago of Regenerative PlacesCreated page with " =Text= Michel Bauwens, October 2025: Towards an Archipelago of Regenerative Places? What does the third-place in Court-Saint-Etienne represent? What is the context that makes this project something which is not only anchored in a specific place, but also transcends it? The context is indeed a kind of general crisis of the societal model that is the product of Western modernity, and which has been adopted worldwide. But this model has reached its limits, and its 'in..."
  • 03:4603:46, 11 October 2025 diff hist +318 N Brett Scott on Resisting the Cashless SocietyCreated page with " Video via https://www.asomo.co/p/why-you-should-resist-cashless-society "In a cashless society you’re permanently fused to Big Finance and Big Tech with no way to escape. In this video I give 10 reasons for why that’s a bad way to arrange our economy and our society." Category:Webcasts Category:Money " current
  • 03:3903:39, 11 October 2025 diff hist +1,990 N UniswapCreated page with " =Description= Blockchain for Good: "Uniswap is a protocol with two functions: a DEX* (Decentralized Exchange) and an AMM (Automated Market Maker). A DEX allows users to exchange their crypto-assets for other crypto-assets, for example exchange CICs for Sarafus. To do this, Uniswap relies on “liquidity providers” who deposit crypto-assets in reserves, being remunerated for this through transaction fees levied on traders, those who exchange crypto-assets (their amo..." current
  • 03:3803:38, 11 October 2025 diff hist +4,569 Sarafu Community Crypto-Currencies in Kenya→‎Case Study current
  • 03:3303:33, 11 October 2025 diff hist +4,553 Sarafu Community Crypto-Currencies in Kenya→‎Characteristics
  • 03:3203:32, 11 October 2025 diff hist +24 Tokenomic AutomatonsNo edit summary current
  • 03:2903:29, 11 October 2025 diff hist +4,655 N Crypto-Economic Aspects of the Sarafu Kenyan-Based Grassroots Economics ProjectCreated page with " =Discussion= ==Crypto-Economic Aspects of the Sarafu Kenyan-Based Grassroots Economics Project== Excerpted from an interview with Blockchain for Good. Will Ruddick: "While Grassroots’ technology is built on a blockchain, it is important to note that the people using the CICs do not know that they are using this technology. Indeed, the user interface has been designed to be easy to learn. The wallet used by Grassroots Economics is a custodial wallet, meaning th..." current
  • 03:2903:29, 11 October 2025 diff hist +6,179 N Community Inclusion CurrenciesCreated page with " =Description= Will Ruddick: "The CICs represent a form of reappropriation by the communities of their medium of exchange. Indeed, some Kenyan villages are completely deprived of monetary instruments during periods of economic crisis. This is due to the colonial implementation of money, which has left many of these communities completely deprived of money during these times. To solve this problem, we have developed electronic vouchers collateralized on goods and servic..." current

10 October 2025

  • 13:3613:36, 10 October 2025 diff hist +783 N Benjamin Studebaker, Michel Bauwens and O.G. Rose on the Revolutionary Subject in the Current TransitionCreated page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSm6hTytv_M =Description= Hosted by Tim Adalin of Voicecraft: "What are the prospects of social and political revolution? How can we understand revolutionary subjectivity today? Who, what, when, and where is the revolutionary subject? Inspired by a Philosophy Portal conversation between Cadell Last and Michel Bauwens, this dialogue welcomes political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, philosopher O.G. Rose, and Commons / Civilisat..." current
  • 09:0409:04, 10 October 2025 diff hist +1,093 N Data Science as Machinic NeoplatonismCreated page with " '''* Dialogue with Tim Jackson about Dan McQuillan's Critique of Data Science as "Machinic Platonism"''' Video via https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-participatory-platonism =Description= Matthew Segal: "Timothy Jackson and I discussed Dan McQuillan’s article “Data Science as Machinic Neoplatonism” (2018). McQuillan should be praised for his prescience in acknowledging the dangerous potentials of algorithmic discrimination and the evasion o..." current
  • 09:0009:00, 10 October 2025 diff hist +20 Vitalik Buterin on Mitigating AINo edit summary current
  • 08:5708:57, 10 October 2025 diff hist +1,382 N Civilizational White HolesCreated page with " =Description= Will Ruddick: "In Buddhist tradition, a Bodhisattva is one who attains awakening but chooses to remain … to assist all beings in reaching liberation. In this cosmic-evolutionary light, the Bodhisattva is like a conscious agent at the event horizon … hovering between black hole collapse and white hole emergence. They carry the memory of the past (black hole) and seed the conditions for awakening (white hole). The Bodhisattva enters the black holes..." current
  • 08:5608:56, 10 October 2025 diff hist +1,506 N White HolesCreated page with " * see also: Civilizational White Holes =Description= Will Ruddick explains: "Across the curvature of spacetime, there are regions where the known laws of physics bend toward mystery. Black holes: the endpoints of stellar collapse, where information compresses beyond the limits of imagination. But what if this isn’t the end? What if on the other side of that collapse, something new begins? Physicists have long speculated about white holes.. the time-reversed..." current
  • 08:5408:54, 10 October 2025 diff hist +746 Commitment Pooling→‎Characteristics current
  • 08:0308:03, 10 October 2025 diff hist +817 N Tokenomic AutomatonsCreated page with " =Description= Will Ruddick: "Overly automated token contracts that try to manage value and behavior by formula instead of stewardship. They move numbers without reading context, often creating overload, artificial complexity and centralization rather than emergent, relational coordination. Simple, human protocols create clarity; over-engineered tokenomics create fog. Demurrage on a voucher, much like bonding curves, proved too automated for how communities actually c..."
  • 07:4807:48, 10 October 2025 diff hist +505 Category:P2P Cycles→‎Key Articles current
  • 07:4707:47, 10 October 2025 diff hist +1,599 N Kuznets CycleCreated page with " '''= The Kuznets 'Swing' is a 15-20 year hypothized economic cycle''' =Description= From the Wikipedia: "The Kuznets swing (or Kuznets cycle) is a claimed medium-range economic wave with a period of 15–25 years identified in 1930 by Simon Kuznets. Kuznets connected these waves with demographic processes, in particular with immigrant inflows/outflows and the changes in construction intensity that they caused, that is why he denoted them as "demographic" or "building..." current

9 October 2025

8 October 2025

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