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.
@ameensol Someone built a private chain, messaging and storage stack where no ip is revealed instead. Also got rid of RPCs and the browser fingerprinting.
I am too deep in the AI Agent rabbit hole. But I promise to bridge it with @Logos_network, privacy, local-first and all the stuff we care about
Finally submitted for @EthPrague
Your AI Agent Works for OpenAI. I am LMAO fixing it.
* LMAO = Logos Module for Agent Orchestration
This is a culmination of my work with Jimmy so far:)
@Logos_network Blockchian LEZ (Logos Execution Zone) program implementing Multisig wallet.
While working on that we realized we need a bit more magic in LEZ, so we also built a SPEL - Smart Program Engine for Logos
This is a culmination of my work with Jimmy so far:)
@Logos_network Blockchian LEZ (Logos Execution Zone) program implementing Multisig wallet.
While working on that we realized we need a bit more magic in LEZ, so we also built a SPEL - Smart Program Engine for Logos
if you're around Portugal next week, pop by Parallel Society, a privacy and hacktivism conference happening on March 6 & 7th in Lisbon: with Logos, Nym, Tor, Status and others. Second day is a music and art festival with DJs like Apparat and Gilles Peterson:
https://t.co/11wTmwWgRq
(DM me for a free ticket 👀)
If you understand Linux, you understand Logos.
Here’s how Logos fits together as a private-by-design operating system: microkernel, networking, and pluggable storage, messaging, and blockchain modules.
https://t.co/UrULLE2Hy3
If you can identify a block proposer, you can:
✵ Censor
✵ Coerce
✵ And infer their stake
Logos addresses this with private elections and anonymous broadcasting.
https://t.co/ViwK3NKesF
Credible neutrality requires validator privacy by architecture.
Cryptarchia consensus + Blend broadcasting = 300x improvement in proposer anonymity.
Private Proof-of-Stake hides both your identity and your stake.
Credible neutrality requires validator privacy by architecture.
Cryptarchia consensus + Blend broadcasting = 300x improvement in proposer anonymity.
Private Proof-of-Stake hides both your identity and your stake.