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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 03/10/2026

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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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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I like that you are my primary source of cricket news :)

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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I appreciate this quote! Reminds me of this @sfiscience.bsky.social podcast episode, which spoke of how conflict is fractal (in military context and other), and how suppressing small conflicts cause larger ones to arise: complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/39

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Fractal Conflicts & Swing Voters with Eddie Lee | COMPLEXITY

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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

And I say that in reference to a handoff between parts, more than people, in the internal family system (IFS) sense. Obviously autistic vs artistic is a false dichotomy, and very much not mutually exclusive <3

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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 · 10/05/2026

"a <time period> for <some nouns> that are <smthng more verb-like>, rather than <smthg more noun-like>" is my favourite jam, pls put it on repeat forever <3

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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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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Omg the kinematic of this. How do they work 😦 It's like if I tried animating the run-cycle of a dog and just said "fuck it, I'll pose this majestic deer here and no one will even notice"

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Plurality Institute @pluralityinstitute.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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Register for the Global Expo 2026 on May 20. Join technologists, civil society, and peacebuilders exploring intentional tech design for trust and collaboration.

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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

That this would even be left out... That feels representative of some erosion in sensitivity to something... Maybe I'm wrong, but if someone were at church 100 years ago, would it even feel right to that historic person to claim they spent 2h "with friends"?

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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I'm feeling a strange lack of "community" in this graph... I'd call it "friends", but it feels like a slightly different class in subtle quality... Like being friends with a collective, and that collective regularly swaps people in and out, at a faster rate than traditional friend group churn...

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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 · 24/04/2026

Oof. This sounds so rough. It makes me think of how I was so lost in grade school, bc I had all these feelings that I had neither words to say, nor anyone who seemed interested to think in my way. And my parents told me I was always "overthinking" or "over-complicating"... I felt so alone, in retro

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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Thanks so much for helping me understand...! Is it ok if I bookmark this and come back when I'm more actively thinking around this? Would be grateful to know if the ways I'm feeling hopeful about, if they also feel hopeful to you 😊

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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I have been lucky to speak with ppl of very different perceptual experience lately, ppl who have more "noise" in their personal experience (e.g. voices, etc) that leads to social punishment that isolates them, but they still have internal wisdom to sense and share (in the proper format) 🙏🏻

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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Aw hey, really interested in the idea of "conversational media" that doesn't yet exist, if you'd like a thinking partner. I'm really interested in the essential of comms lately, esp non-linguistic. Been working often around participation via "valence"... Away vs toward feelings in attention

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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

And do you have a sense of whether it's "words pulled inside" or "words pushed from outside"? or is that not the right frame? (More curious how you might express it or understand it as attraction vs repulsion? And from/where to?

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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Thx! Well hey, at least for my interests, "how it feels" is "how it works" :) Like do you feel it online too? Or does written word kinda suppress it. Like is it just IRL realtime?

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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I wish you weren't feeling so lost, Sophie... But thanks for saying it aloud. I did a little reading, but is it ok if I ask a few questions about how SM works for you? Happy to do so in public or DMs or nowhere at all (if you don't feel like talking about 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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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

(My financial relationship with them is over, but they're friends now. It's notable that they supported me when they got value from my work, even when they could have just taken it, when most ppl just view my outputs as a gift to the commons.)

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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

From being in circles with Nico and Yuting, I read these messages as being about peer support/alignment on what's in the commons between the building. I am not a traditional collaborator myself, and I recognise that they don't act like a normal "company" hawking wares.

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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?

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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Percussion generally is very much of the streetscape, can be quite accessible or professional at the other end, and of service to formal and informal festivals :)

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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Nice! Any particular areas of focus or optimism? I liked the salsa point. I think Afro-Brazilian drumming (samba, maracatu, etc) is similar in some cities like Toronto -- ppl join the big messy anarchic ones then hive off as they take it more seriously, like a flywheel. Lots of cross-cultural travel

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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

But then, like we can do when lagging in space, perhaps we can have time elastically recoil to bring us back to the front row, back to the hiking troupe, back to the perpetually cresting wave of the present reactive moment, that can somehow hold us all.

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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

‪> Maybe there's something about how consecutive parts of a linear narrative divide people and/or bring them into alignment, which is part of a narrative when doing pro-life work (assembly/destruction of living structure in the right ways, in a Christopher Alexander sense)‬

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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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