Macks Wolfard

Scientist: Temporarily stable spontaneous chemical reaction on third planet from local star seeking basis for awareness of self.

DeSci | ReFi | DeCiv | MetaGov

[Macks Wolfard @MacksWolf]

It's not A DAO, or THE DAO - the future will just be DAO.

Without discrete boundaries, it won't matter that you cannot clearly discern where one DAO ends and another begins. Just one big mesh of organization, decentralized and shaped by personal autonomy.

[Macks Wolfard @MacksWolf]

@moultano I prune and harvest my fig regularly and haven’t had issues; a friend had helped harvest and he got mild burns, there may be some individual variation in susceptibility?

Also, if you avoid the white latex-ey sap AND subsequent UV exposure it should be fine.

[Macks Wolfard @MacksWolf]

@maxdubler @newton_jim ...representation.

Decoupled from hosing policy being local the subsidiarity argument would stick. The first is workable (if undesirable), the latter two are out of Sac's hands.

Subsidiarity suggests state input matters here, local decisions push neg externalities to the state

[Macks Wolfard @MacksWolf]

@maxdubler @newton_jim Also, subsidiarity is not only concerned with expertise in decision making, but about making decisions where the costs and benefits of those decisions accrue.

In this case the state bears a portion of costs in dealing with homelessness, lost potential tax revenue, and federal...

[Moses Kagan @moseskagan]

Have a close friend who is a near-genius level polymath obsessed with reading scientific papers and making interesting, so-far-as-I-can-tell novel connections between them.

However, he is also pathologically incapable of putting his work out in public, so he reads and thinks in (relative) obscurity.

I can't convince him to change (believe me, I've tried, to the point of damaging our relationship), but let me try to convince you:

If you are sitting around with unique insights into a specific niche (a business, a scientific field, whatever), you should *for sure* put those ideas out into the world, even if you think they're not perfect, not ready, whatever.

If you do it and keep doing it, pretty decent chance it changes your life. Certainly did for me.

[Macks Wolfard @MacksWolf]

@exeuntdoteth Bold of you to assume they can all read

[Macks Wolfard @MacksWolf]

@LeoMoCastro @JeffNippard Lactate moves through the blood to tissues like kidneys or liver which can use it for energy. Or the liver can convert it back to glucose to restart the cycle, or it can fully oxidize it to 6 C02s.

[Macks Wolfard @MacksWolf]

@LeoMoCastro @JeffNippard Highly variable! And maybe more useful to think of it as ATP/glucose molecule which becomes C02.

In aerobic respiration: 1 glucose -> 36ATP (net) & 6C02 (under ideal conditions which is rare)

For anaerobic respiration (much of weightlifting): 1 glu -> 2ATP & 2 lactate

[Macks Wolfard @MacksWolf]

@LukePorcini @sibaburck yes meat is famously free of exogenous hormones

jokes aside it doesn't matter because they're all broken down into constituent amino acids before absorption

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[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Yes.

Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking.

Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

[Macks Wolfard @MacksWolf]

@YIMBYLAND Probably closer than you think, especially considering acres of water. Much of Portland's urban core is still active industrial. Inner Eastside is densifying rapidly but the rail yards and ports (NW of circle) aren't going anywhere soon.

[Macks Wolfard @MacksWolf]

@avidseries @yhdistyminen This has always been the script. That accumulated character was made possible by building new. Hated at first, the inevitable patina of nostalgia will continue to obscure the divisiveness of ‘modern’ designs as the zoomerboxes too begin to blend into cherished local fabrics.

[Macks Wolfard @MacksWolf]

Such often may one suck it up and beleaguer themselves with inconvenient allies for to continue fighting a war.

And yet many choose instead to die alone on the hill because they care less for their professed values than their hopes to be remembered a martyr.

[Macks Wolfard @MacksWolf]

Trust-fall into the stigmergy

[exeunt @exeuntdoteth]

one of the most toxic forces in American politics is the assumption that if you don’t like or trust government, the sole alternative is the antisocial and antidemocratic regimes of shareholder capitalism.

@Sara_Horowitz describes an autonomous, participatory, mutualistic third sector. a well of strategies for provisioning life outside of the toxic centralization of public and private systems.

the scaling of this third sector is imminent:

we know that p2p open value networks like @ethereum and @Holochain have the infrastructure to host it.

we know @gitcoin OpenCivics and @allo_capital are developing the tools to fund and manage it.

guilds @guildguild_eth , DAOs and other networked cooperative models might be the  fundamental economic units of its producers. @open_protocols will make the fruits of that labor abundant.

the viability of this third sector for providing for basic needs is an underground truism, self evident. it’s where you go when the other systems exclude you; it is capable of flowing resources outside of the restricted logic channels of business and bureaucracy.

we will scale it, because technology is rational, and the enclosure of the old regimes are irrational. what an authority tells us is permissable will always fall away to what empirical practice tells us is possible:

the viable provisioning of life in itself through decentralized and horizontalist means.

life in itself - that strange attractor, hidden variable of rational behavior, cracking open enclosures, begging for new recipes, new configurations, new experiments.

life in itself is not neutral or mute; it is combustible, empirically explosive.

life in itself is different from the dreary, discrete, quantified life of commercial or bureaucratic setttings, bread lines or mcdonalds, regimes of exaction where every activity is indexed a means to an end.

life in itself is anexact. it is qualia: vague, processual, disowned. it doesn’t always or even primarily inhabit individuals - the nondual, intersubjective in-between of meditation, conversation, dance, the atmosphere of a mountain valley ecology, the aura of a rave.

process philosophy tells us that these, too, are rational objects, technical objects, anexact but practical, immeasurable yet empirical. the metastable relational electricity that gave way to the first organism. not just real but fundamental.

the challenge of scaling the third sector is a matter of disavowing the institutional goggles that tell us that life in itself is a frivolous, immature, secondary matter. or that it should be restricted to the realms of religion and art.

there is a viable economic design space of processual, nondualistic assets. it is as ungraspable to the institutions as it is self-evident to the undergrounds. (my friends and I in Portland call it undercapital).

undercapital design requires a recalibration of senses, a viewing of the world upside down. it requires that we pick up the rock and see the squirming fecundity of the soil that supports it.

it requires that we cease to take seriously the pettiness of the institutions and trustfall onto the stigmergy, the extitutional network power that we know owns the future.

once we crack the code on undercapital as a design framework, the scalability of the third sector, its true importance as an alternative to the dualistic regimes, will become self-evident.

if you’re interested in the theory of undercapital, its application in designing real nondualist, process assets, and its relevance to the decentralized web, come check out the undercapital forum. (link in comment)

[exeunt @exeuntdoteth]

Undercapital Redux: Economic Design Underneath the World

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Thanks @gregory_landua @_newcubes_ @RegenFdn @yaoeo @0xd2_eth @MacksWolf @mZargham @omniharmonic and others whose work informed the piece.

[Macks Wolfard @MacksWolf]

@Paul_Glavin Does a Social Enterprise, generally, or like a For Profit Benefit Corporation (B-corp) count? Or something else? Or do you think he is saying these structures need additional accountability mechanisms to prevent them from pivoting?

[Macks Wolfard @MacksWolf]

If you know you need to build a parallel society you know to build a parallel society to the parallel society

[Darren @zaldarren]

1/ Cosmolocalism is the most practical philosophy I've seen for transitioning humanity toward a sustainable civilization in material terms.
@mbauwens has given us the blueprint: share knowledge globally, produce locally.

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