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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 06/09/2026
Did a critique of network state stuff several years ago here: web3.lifeitself.org/notes/post-s...
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Web3 and Post-State Technocracy
In this episode we explore the aspirational transition from the existing US-led international order to a world in which blockchain technology and technocracy are the new foundations for global human g...
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Everton Zanella Alvarenga @everton137.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026
Okay, I created a Bluesky account. I’m not sure if I’ll be as active here as on @everton137.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy, but at least I can follow some people who aren’t part of the Fediverse. Let’s see how it goes. 🙂
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 21/08/2026
Shipped some cool explainers on Reason Commons A @flowershowapp.bsky.social site with cool html explainers reasoncommons.com/explainers reasoncommons.com/explainers/0...
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 10/08/2026
Like this is going to cut it ... #pauseai #ai You are using foxes to guard the henhouse. What happens if AI security monitoring itself goes rogue (by accident)
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 10/08/2026
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 10/08/2026
I mean woah ...
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 10/08/2026
This is wild. We need to #pauseai www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Dy... More at ailearnedtoday.com/ref/openai-a...
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Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident
YouTube video by Black Hat
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 10/08/2026
Working on a community updated edition of David Mckay's classic Renewable Energy Without the Hot Air withouthotair.org First round of updates are in ...
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 08/08/2026
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026
Make fascism socially unacceptable again. Leave X. #LeaveX #JohnOliver #fascim #FarRight #Disinformation #HateSpeech #Democracy
John Oliver saying: Make fascism socially unacceptable again. Leave X.

With a screen displaying Musk and the logos of X and Twitter.
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 06/08/2026
Fascinating and important. Thanks for sharing.
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 06/08/2026
Another example of #climatechange risks coming true 2 years ago read @bloomberg.com saying the Rhine was *nearly* impassable. This year it is. A single month of an impassable Rhine cuts German industrial production by 1%. These are real, massive impacts of #climatecrisis on day to day life.
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 05/08/2026
Mythos and Sol do serious hacking …
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 03/08/2026
Super simple fast sharing via command line with @flowershowapp.bsky.social fl myfile.md Use this a lot for sharing stuff like claude sessions etc Significantly faster than pasting into a google doc or pastebin 🎉 More on command line and how to install here flowershow.app/cli
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 26/07/2026
108 PRs in eight days, up from an average of 5-10 PRs total per week. I think I may have found something pretty cool! Loop engineering, using a combination of Obsidian and Claude's /loop function. Link to a sample repo to try it out in the blog post! brittany-ellich.offprint.app/a/3mrjj34puv...
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108 PRs in eight days: Accidentally discovering loop engineering
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Dara Kerr @darakerr.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Google's Sergey Brin throws $3M more into the fight against the CA billionaire tax. That brings his total known contributions to $48M. In this new filing, other techies donated too, incl crypto exec Chris Larsen and VCs John Doerr and Michael Moritz. Background: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 26/07/2026
What are thought and goal trees cool? More at 👉 ltp-issue-trees-rufuspollock.flowershow.me
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 25/07/2026
Great session yesterday with David Joseph on logical thinking process and thoughts trees! ltp-issue-trees-rufuspollock.flowershow.me
ltp-issue-trees-rufuspollock.flowershow.me
Logial Thinking Process (LTP) / Issue Tree App and Exploration - Issue Trees & Logical Thinking Process
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curious-reader.bsky.social @curious-reader.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Also our Predictive History mapping was not in vain. I’m also in the process of re engaging with lifeitself- @rufuspollock.com put you in the credits :) forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/the-story-...
forum.secondrenaissance.net
The Story of Predictive History
It does not surprise me that people are looking for frameworks and narratives to make sense of current global chaos. I would also not necessarily assert that the channel in question has “failed”. It d...
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 04/07/2026
Yes, exactly. Or in their loose form just a pattern: a framework in software is essentially a pattern that has become solidified plus a bit of tooling.
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 04/07/2026
Longer version: ailearnedtoday.com/posts/2026-0...
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Skills are to AI what libraries were to software
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 04/07/2026
Skills are to AI what libs/apps were to software.
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 03/07/2026
@offprint.app found a bug: if i set a subtitle but don't change anything else does not seem to register as change and no revise option and when i hit publish change does not show up.
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 03/07/2026
And fixed with a bit of html inspection: there are 4 csv files and i've cached them here with a README. github.com/datasets/car... Thank-you @propublica.org for the awesome work 🙏
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GitHub - datasets/carbon-capture-cant-solve-climate-change
Contribute to datasets/carbon-capture-cant-solve-climate-change development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 03/07/2026
Great piece from @propublica.org projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c... Would love to get the consolidated data as #opendata (they do have a good data listing but no consolidated files ...)
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 03/07/2026
This is super cool!
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Flowershow @flowershowapp.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🕸️ Just shipped: Knowledge Graph You can now visualize how your notes connect – just like #Obsidian's graph view, but on the web for your readers too. Live example: demo-docs.flowershow.app Learn more: flowershow.app/docs/referen... #pkms #obsidian #wiki #digitalgarden #markdown
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 03/07/2026
Check out metacrisis.info - does it resonate with you?
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Metacrisis - an Introduction - Metacrisis
In an era defined by global catastrophic risk, polycrisis describes a collection of escalating crises and their complex interactions. Metacrisis points to the common, foundational conditions that gene...
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signs-of-change.bsky.social @signs-of-change.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
#renaissancesignal Testing Renaissance's Bluesky bridge.
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 03/07/2026
At #SecondRenaissance #research circle today doing a review of our first three month sub-circle ... We've gone through form'in, storm'in, norm'in, perform'in ...
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 24/06/2026
Built an short animated demo of a tool for better discussion that I’ve wanted for a long time ltp-issue-trees-rufuspollock.flowershow.me/claim-tree-a... Part of a developing collaboration within Second Renaissance research community with David Joseph.
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 27/05/2026
So does that mean i can move between any one of those platforms and take my entire audience (followers) and credibility (likes) with me?
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Datahub.io @datahubio.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🚀Warning: the cost of DNA sequencing has collapsed In 2001, sequencing a human genome cost nearly $100 million. Today, it costs less than a round-trip flight across the U.S. 📷 Find out how to exploit this powerful technique: datahub.io/blog/the-evo...
DNA section with coins on it, symbolizing DNA sequencing costs.
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Datahub.io @datahubio.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Businesses don’t need more data - they need better data. ✅ Find instead of search – thousands of curated datasets, always updated ✅ Need custom #data? We source, clean & deliver exactly what you need 🔗 Discover more at datahub.io #OpenData #OpenSource
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 17/05/2026
@leavex.eu definitely weking on it
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 17/05/2026
If you like #markdown give @flowershowapp.bsky.social a try if you ever want to publish markdown blog, docs sites or just share a file quickly with a colleague. It’s awesome, open source and free. And I helped build it 🤗
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 17/05/2026
Yes and … Substack has become a social media platform with all the attendant platformnomics network effects and lock in If you just want a blog we’ve had ghost plus many others for ages. Agree not distributed but most people don’t care about that (or don’t realize they should care about it)
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 17/05/2026
Regeneration is a beautiful thing
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 30/03/2026
Someone pointed me at Terafab announce by Musk last week. I wanted to dig in and find some high quality evaluation ( Musk tends to overclaim/overpromise 😉) And it's hard going ... the best i found was a paywalled substack article. 👉 a deeper sensemaking need rufuspollock.com/logs/2026-03...
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2026-03-27 on the lack of good sensemaking infrastructure
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 27/03/2026
Impressed with @offprint.app - substack for the decentralized, bluesky world. And was a smooth experience signing up - now.offprint.app
now.offprint.app
now | Rufus Pollock | Offprint
What I'm thinking about now
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 27/03/2026
I really think AT protocol may have legs. This is super cool. atproto.com/docs
atproto.com
AT Protocol - AT Protocol
The AT Protocol is an open, decentralized, and high-performance network for building social applications.
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 26/03/2026
Launched @flowershowapp.bsky.social, the best way to publish #markdown docs, blogs, wikis and sites on ProductHunt producthunt.com/products/flo... Please take a look and upvote!
producthunt.com
Flowershow: Publish your markdown as a beautiful website – in seconds. | Product Hunt
Turn your Markdown into a beautiful website instantly. Publish docs, blogs, wikis, and knowledge bases in a fully hosted platform, without dealing with deployment or maintenance. No proprietary format...
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Flowershow @flowershowapp.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Turn your Obsidian vault into a blog — no coding needed. Write in Markdown, publish with @flowershowapp.bsky.social . 🎥 Watch tutorial: youtu.be/ZbQRlNm2dww 📚 Or read the docs: flowershow.app/blog/how-to-... #blog #markdown #obsidian #website #publish
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Publish a Blog from Obsidian with Flowershow
YouTube video by Flowershow
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Flowershow @flowershowapp.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Sometimes you finish writing a Markdown file and all you want is a URL. That’s why we built the Flowershow CLI: one command, file → web. No dashboard. No repo. No setup decisions. youtu.be/ou1bigOIlPk
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Flowreshow CLI: Publish Markdown right from Your Terminal
YouTube video by Flowershow
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 03/06/2025
We have think tanks for accelerating technology/science (which we are already pretty good at) with but what about for "accelerating" wisdom?
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 14/05/2025
Busy converting lifeitself.org/research over to its own #Flowershow (flowershow.app) powered site research.lifeitself.org
lifeitself.org
Research
We are a research collective exploring paths to a second renaissance and awakening societies 🌻. We produce reports, papers, methods and tools.
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 06/05/2025
rufuspollock.substack.com/p/truth-is-a...
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Truth is a mountain with no top: we can still sense up even if there is no summit
The relativist fallacy conflates no perspective being final with all perspectives being equal. However, we can retain a sense of truth and right(er) even if there is no absolute truth or right
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 06/05/2025
Check out the #SecondRenaissance white papers for an accessible introduction to what is happening right now in terms of #climatecrisis #xrisk with AI #populism and what is a credible path to a radically wiser future.
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Second Renaissance
Our current civilization is crumbling, leading to a period of crisis and potential rebirth – a
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Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock.com · 28/04/2025
@mssophiaparker.bsky.social looking for a way to connect to talk about emerging futures - this is Rufus from lifeitself.org and secondrenaissance.net
lifeitself.org
Life Itself
We’re committed to practical action for a radically wiser, weller world. We create hubs, start businesses, do research and engage in activism to pioneer a wiser culture.
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