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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto)

@patcon.bsky.social
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& 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 in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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 · 08/09/2026
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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Nicolas Gimenez @nicobao.dev · 08/08/2026
I'm proud of where DDS is going :) Two days ago, we held our first DDS plenary open call. youtu.be/udoK32qOc7Q
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W3C DDS Community Group: August Plenary Open Call
YouTube video by Decentralized Deliberation Stack (DDS)
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⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org · 26/07/2026
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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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I think one thing we're all trying to do within #collectiveintelligence and #delibtech spaces, is to conceive of new tools for dead-reckoning under the new Overton horizon
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Boris @bmann.ca · 29/05/2026
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!)
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⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org · 29/05/2026
Dalai Lama & Pope Leo's words of wisdom carry wonderful weight in the Age of AI.💯 They inspire us to listen broadly & tend our #CivicAI garden with ⿻Plurality & 6⃣Pack of Care principles. Dig deeper via my topical talk at @osgaoxford.bsky.social.🙏 ▶️ civic.ai/outrage-to-o... #LLAP🖖
Audrey Tang (left), Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate, listens as Dr Bo-Jiun Jing (right), senior research fellow and programme manager in Taiwan Studies at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, discusses AI-related words of wisdom from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Pope Leo XIV during the Outrage to Overlap: Civic AI and 6-Pack of Care talk at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, in the U.K.
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"You rotate your head a little bit and you actually kind of see a tree with like different colors of roots. [laughs]" Vincent D Warmerdam interviewing Leland McInnes about EVoC, a new multiscale clustering algorithm that remixes UMAP, HDBSCAN and PLSCAN. www.youtube.com/live/ES4PPjK...
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
to all those I've ever failed (and hurt in that failing), I hope to see you on the other side of the little death
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Plurality Institute @pluralityinstitute.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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Dr. Tessa Fisher @tessafisher.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This is legitimately amazing and I hope they succeed. A democratically-owned-and-operated airline would be incredible, and help drive prices down.
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Spirit 2.0 — The Airline Owned by the People, for the People
Spirit Airlines collapsed. Before private equity locks it up, the people can own it. Join the Spirit 2.0 founding coalition. One member, one vote. Profits shared by all.
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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.
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⿻ 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" / 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
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Sideloading shouldn't require a 24-hour waiting period and a 9-step gauntlet. Google's 'advanced flow' is designed to fail. Keep Android Open! @keepandroidopen.bsky.social keepandroidopen.org
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Keep Android Open
Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
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heartpunk (sophie!!) @heartpunk.com · 14/04/2026
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!
hey!!!
im selectively mute and i just wanna say i really actually appreciate seeing you like struggling and managing bcz i often can't manage at all
it's just nice to see someone managing it!!!!
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE SUPERVISED
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Thx to @hypha.coop members for joining in a spontaneous guerrilla pilot of my #polislike "reaction canvas" app, from the audience of @jakehirschallen.bsky.social's @dxcsummit.bsky.social panel this past weekend :) cc @anaserrano.bsky.social polislike-partykit-reaction-canvas.patcon.partykit.dev
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 03/04/2026
I brought this up to @jay.bsky.team in Vancouver as well. While Bluesky can be read as a generic, public platform without community boundaries, it also has subsets of community that can be targeted for specific conversations. Instead of NDAs and Google Meets, you could gate a pol.is by DID.
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Brendan Arnold @brendanarnold.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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...
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#policyinnovation #collectiveintelligence #innovationinpractice #publicsectorinnovation | Policy Lab UK
Collective 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...
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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 :)
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 28/03/2026
Viktor Orban is waging cognitive warfare on a scale no one else has tried before. "Emotions are high because the stakes are high. If he succeeds, he will once again blaze a path that others will follow. And if he loses, an era comes to an end." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The First Post-Reality Political Campaign
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is waging cognitive warfare on a new scale.
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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?
A bee taking flight from a flower.
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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
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ORI Pitch Jam: Collective Cognition Realtime Deck
Collective 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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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
❤️❤️❤️❤️💯💯💯❤️💯 "I'm starting to realize that maybe real #democracy involves far more than deliberative process" -- @eleanorfinley.bsky.social speaking about social ecology on the @srslywrong.bsky.social podcast open.spotify.com/episode/5Mcz...
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359 – Hope is a Commitment (w/ Eleanor Finley)
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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 ❤️)
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
What might it mean to rewild human collectives? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewilding And with parallels to job market turmoil brought by #llms... what might our democratic #rewilding mean for the zookeepers of our world? The lion tamers? The bull fighters? #collectiveintelligence #democracy
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Rewilding - Wikipedia
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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...
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Sara Imari Walker @saraimari.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Currently hiring 1-2 postdocs to work on origins of life theory/experiment, assembly theory, life detection, with me and @leecronin.bsky.social, positions are mostly based at ASU but also some time could be spent at U. Glasgow, Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/176391 Please help us spread the word!
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
@saraimari.bsky.social You should def load your past tweets into bluesky so ppl can see you in this :))) mino.mobi/novelty/?han...
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novelty — mino.mobi
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
At last civic hacknight, was trying to sell a table of variously-technical attendees on ubiquity of learning in AI world (as an agent was live-writing the onboarding slide deck from my codebase) We're all about to become better at articulating our taste, a very core primitive: youtu.be/jg1WUOxY6Cg
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“The confidence I have in my taste and my ability to express what I feel.” - Rick Rubin Meme
YouTube video by CoderClub
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It's so disgusting that I can almost hear the countless hours this man has been talking to a sycophantic ChatGPT... thanks OpenAI
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JC R WHIT, Ph.D. @jc99whit.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This is how you create a new generation of terrorists, Friends.
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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Sounds like someone who should be in jail for war crimes.
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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 :)
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novelty — mino.mobi
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Yay Climate Fast's environmental voting record scores, presenting their work at @civictechto.bsky.social civic hacknight 🎉🎉 votingrecords.climatefast.ca guild.host/events/civic... #civictech
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Prateek Buch @prateekbuch.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I'm glad I saw this *after*I just flew back from Mumbai to London... Grateful for safe passage 🙏🏽
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
It feels wild knowing the rate at which SO MANY PEOPLE are building things in tech, things which will no longer have a purpose or profit model in maybe a year... 🤔
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
💖💖💖💖💖😭
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
What if biology & culture already have the largest goal state programmed at low level. What if "laughter" is pursuing a goal state that is larger & more far-reaching (in cosmological sense) than smthng that seems important, ie. diplomacy between states? youtube.com/shorts/rAsIQ...
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Cognitive Light Cone and the scaling of goals
YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
hey all -- @agoracitizen.network is looking for input on new interface changes, if anyone would like to provide feedback! re: www.agoracitizen.app/conversation... polislike user group discord: polislike.short.gy/discord
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Agora Citizen Network
Where citizens converge to exchange and debate ideas.
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I am eager to have a weather.gov or weather.gc.ca for human perspective maps. I'll be glad for the biggest challenges of our time -- biosphere collapse! culture wars! #democracy backslide! -- to be resolved by something boring, a la mcfunley.com/choose-borin...
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Choose Boring Technology
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
language as organism as we wait to see what comes out the other side... substack.com/profile/1987...
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patcon (@patcon)
I feel so inspired by @Defender’s video <3 https://youtu.be/imCad_0pWz0 This is re-enchanting "content" for me... I've been very focussed on the other edges in graphs: the neglected relationships bet...
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I feel so inspired by this <3 youtu.be/imCad_0pWz0 This is re-enchanting "information" for me... I've been very focussed on the edges in the graph, the relationships between people as the site of action.
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How to semantic search the internet
YouTube video by Omar
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
folks in Japan are crowd-writing a book that people thinking about #democracy and "regime change" might appreciate: github.com/digitaldemoc...
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GitHub - digitaldemocracy2030/broad-listening-book
Contribute to digitaldemocracy2030/broad-listening-book development by creating an account on GitHub.
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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I've been thinking about how to cross the participant perspective maps (shadows through "human perspective space") with the statements semantic maps (shadows through "statement meaning space")... This gives me food for thought: Votes flashing over time in meaning space! x.com/workflowsauc...
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Joshua 💫 on X: "@DefenderOfBasic @nomic_ai It’s the memeplex breathing" / X
@DefenderOfBasic @nomic_ai It’s the memeplex breathing
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Yuting Jiang 江雨婷 @yutingjiang.com · 13/02/2026
Excited to announce our next big step - build @agoracitizen.network on #ATProto! Thank you @bmann.ca and @pujaohlhaver.bsky.social for inspiring our work. @atprotocol.dev @atproto.com
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