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
Can a temporary village become the foundation for something lasting?
@FelixFritsch2 of @CommonsHubAT joins to discuss Valley of the Commons, a four-week pop-up village in the Austrian Alps taking concrete steps toward permanent settlement.
We get into the inspiration, vision, and philosophy behind building the commons in practice.
https://t.co/RUgqa0lwgV
Logos LAN is a hackspace where you can experiment with the private-by-default Logos stack, explore use cases, run a node, and build sovereign tools.
Learn. Test. Break things. Build what comes next.
Tuesday 16th June during @dappcon / @BerBlockWeek.
https://t.co/WEaAVO9U3N
The institutions can't save your community. They're the reason it suffers.
Join us to learn what it takes to coordinate locally, take back agency, and discover a new sense of meaning and belonging.
Circles. It is the way.
https://t.co/7eiQWOgLnI
Take a break from the tech during @BerBlockWeek.
Join us for a community cleanup in Görlitzer Park, followed by food, conversation, drinks, and music.
Meet others who care about local action:
https://t.co/UFHHS3EqF7
Tonight, at the Logos London circle, @McconeJohn will present an interactive workshop on "The Cultural Aspect of Producing Actual Governance From Records".
How a software protocol, computer architecture, and the culture of its living users, psychological and sociological architecture, interact to produce the final governance system.
Everyone is welcome to take part in the discussion.
RSVP: https://t.co/Sk9SWgpaFy
@alanvibe@beverleyturner This kills two birds with one stone.
It maintains their monopoly on teenagers' source of truth, while also allowing them to monitor and control adults' conversations.
There's a reason it's happening now.
The establishment is losing control.
Say no.
"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_
UK government national debt 1975-2026: (£billion):
1975
£59 billion
1980
£114 billion
1985
£169 billion
1990
£190 billion
1995
£384 billion
2000
£415 billion
2005
£573 billion
2008
£810 billion
2010
£1,220 billion
2015
£1,570 billion
2019
£1,800 billion
2021
£2,224 billion
2023
£2,619 billion
2026
£2,900 billion
An increase of almost £2.5 trillion in just 20 years. A tale of gross economic incompetence by successive UK governments to a point where interest payments on the national debt are now over £100 billion a year - funded by the taxpayer.
“When we write software, we’re making statements about the world we want to build.
And not just making statements… but directly instantiating those worlds into being.”
@lunar_mining took us to the edge of onchain privacy at Parallel Society, w/ a workshop on @DarkFiSquad tech.
We live in a perpetual case of "treat the symptoms, but not the disease."
And it's getting ridiculous.
This isn't just a UK problem. It's happening across many developed economies. But for those of us living here, paying our taxes, and watching our public services strain under the pressure, this is a conversation we need to have honestly.
More tax isn't fixing the deficit.
Spending and debt interest are rising faster than the extra revenue can be absorbed.
Here's the latest proof.
In April 2026, HMRC reported £87.3 billion in tax receipts, up £6.3 billion (8%) on the same month last year. Income Tax and NICs drove £4.4 billion of that increase, with VAT adding another £1.5 billion. For the full 2025/26 financial year, HMRC collected roughly £938.8 billion, up 9.3% year-on-year.
Yet in the very same month, public sector borrowing hit £24.3 billion (£4.9 billion higher than April 2025 and well above OBR forecasts). For the full year to March 2026, borrowing came in at £129 billion (4.2% of GDP). This is lower than the previous year, but still dramatically elevated.
The OBR's March 2026 forecast expects the deficit to fall from £133 billion this year to £59 billion by 2030/31, assuming receipts growth continues to outpace spending. These projections don't account for another financial crisis, pandemic, or major shock however.
For context: in 2019/20, the last pre-COVID year, the deficit sat between £55–62 billion (around 2.5% of GDP). We're still borrowing at more than double that level in "normal" times.
So why isn't the extra tax revenue closing the gap?
Because spending pressures are relentless: benefits, state pensions, the NHS, SEND support, and local government funding are all rising.
At the same time, debt interest has become an open wound. With gilt yields elevated and public sector net debt at ~94.2% of GDP, recent estimates suggest we're facing £15 billion+ in additional interest costs if yields remain high.
Worse still, a large chunk of the revenue growth isn't coming from healthy economic expansion. It's coming from frozen tax thresholds, employer NICs hike, and inflation-driven nominal growth. Meanwhile, underlying issues such as weak productivity, high economic inactivity, and the lingering scars of the pandemic and energy crisis continue to undermine the tax base.
The UK is stuck with a toxic combination: weak real growth + an unstable tax base + structural overspending.
When the pipes are Victorian-era old and broken, you can only patch them so many times. And yet, we're not having that dialogue. Why?
Join the next Logos Circle London on June 1st.
Let's discuss!
RSVP: https://t.co/Sk9SWgpIv6