Society is crumbling with every freedom taken from us.
The Museum of Civil Liberties is a reminder of what we’ve lost and a call to reclaim it.
Enter the museum: https://t.co/C4Vd9oBLfY
"By 2050, 27% of all federal spending, 9% of GDP, will be going to pay just the interest of the debt.
Not the debt. The interest.
The government is now spending more to service its past than to fund its future."
- @jarradhope_
There’s a story from Václav Havel about a greengrocer living under communism.
Each day, he places a sign in his shop window: “Workers of the world, unite.”
He doesn’t believe it.
He barely thinks about it.
He puts it there because everyone else does.
Because refusing would cost him.
The sign tells the system what it wants to hear:
“I am obedient. I am safe. I will not disturb the lie.”
Havel understood that regimes are not always held together by belief. But by millions of small performances of compliance.
The same is true now.
But our signs don’t look like communist slogans in shop windows.
They look like pretending the economy is healthy while families cannot afford homes.
Pretending platforms connect us while they atomise and surveil us.
Pretending politics offers choice.
Pretending institutions will save us, even as they prove time and again that they do not keep their promises.
To stop putting up the sign is to stop lending your obedience to the lie.
But refusal is not enough. We must build.
Parallel economies, education, mutual aid, communication.
Parallel systems of trust, coordination, and exchange.
This is the work of the parallel society.
Not escape. Not despair. Not waiting for permission.
But a refusal to live within the lie, and a commitment to build what comes next.
Stop putting up the sign.
Logos Testnet v0.1 is live.
A convergence milestone: Logos modules now run together as a unified stack for the first time.
The initial release is a proving ground for integration and backend validation.
Start experimenting at the new Logos Builder Hub.
https://t.co/LijWPxEM9O
You have a unique chance today to be one of the first ones to run a @Logos_network node!
Come over to the Node Station at https://t.co/GbPDNcaM9y and give it a try on one of these cool Logos branded RPs ( 3D printed by our superstar @vpavlin ) 😉
A/V installation about Quinta do Mocho’s systematic evictions + reminder from SAD (Porto-based support network for domestic abuse survivors, working closely with Logos Circle Porto)
Among many worthy blockchain applications beyond crypto @Logos_network Parallel Society Festival
Events like Parallel Society Festival by @Logos_network remind us why we build.
A community that cares deeply about privacy, security, sovereignty, and open technology.
Thanks to everyone who came by the Keycard booth to talk self-custody 🔐
Metadata isn’t a side effect of the internet. It’s a business model.
“The industrial-scale global data broker market, which monetises structured consumer data including behavioural metadata, was valued at nearly $278 billion in 2024 and is projected to grow substantially, illustrating the scale of commercial data collection.”