George Pór #StandWithUkraine

Metamodern action researcher. Distinguished Fellow @ Schumaher Inst. Connecting social "Islands of Coherence" w/ co-evolving human & wisdom-fostering AI agents.

[George Pór #StandWithUkraine @technoshaman]

This is an AI's response to my prompt "technoshaman is looking into the mystery through the eyes of the beloved community."

I kind of like it.

If we explored the possibility of some kind of collaborative AI artform, what prompt would YOU be interested to have the AI render?

[George Pór #StandWithUkraine @technoshaman]

@gitcoin @owocki They will own half of the world; there is no way to stop them. The other half will be commons-based if we learn how to use the tools of mega-coordination AND fully engage in AI-augmented wisdom praxis.

[John Jackson 💙💚🌍 @ShameTheDevil]

@ZackPolanski @hasanthehun @cenkuygur Very well said, Zack.

[George Pór #StandWithUkraine @technoshaman]

@TommiPedruzzi Very clever.

[Dr John Vervaeke @DrJohnVervaeke]

Paul Tillich shifts the sacred from the domain of objects to the ground of being itself.

He rejects the image of God as a supreme being among beings.

Why?

Because in Tillich’s view it would turn God into just one more thing within the totality of things, one being among others.

Tillich’s proposal is the following:
He speaks of God as the "urgrund"...the ground of being that makes being possible.

The sacred is not elsewhere, it is the depth dimension of the real.

Think of this as the condition underneath the subject-object distinction, the space that gives rise to both the one who knows (subjective knower) and the thing known (cognitive object).

In Tillich’s vision, the sacred is not found but disclosed.

It is not encountered as a separate domain (it’s not “up there”) but in and through the depths of being itself.

[Dr John Vervaeke @DrJohnVervaeke]

William Desmond articulates transcendence not as an upward leap into some metaphysical beyond...but as a layered, multidirectional field.

He proposes a threefold structure, interior, exterior, and superior transcendence.

Interior transcendence refers to those forces within you that pull you beyond your ego. These are the very movements through which the self exceeds itself.

Exterior transcendence gestures to the inexhaustibility of reality itself. Here we encounter the sacred as the way the real insists on being more than our representation of it.

Superior transcendence, the metaxu (meaning the between), is a reciprocal opening where interior and exterior disclose each other in a transformative relation…where you are changed by reality as you come to know it, and where reality becomes more visible as you become more attuned.

The metaxu is not the possession of sacredness, but the event of it.

Desmond shows us that the sacred is not static, but relationally alive, always inviting, always exceeding, always calling you into a deeper form of participation.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Thought experiment:

If you said “I support Israel’s onslaught against Gaza” there would be no consequences for your career.

What would happen if you said “I want to do to Israel what they’ve done to Gaza”?

Easy way of testing whose lives matter and whose don’t!

[George Pór #StandWithUkraine @technoshaman]

@AaronPettman It’s too late to bring the word back into the industrial era, when people didn’t have the tools for taking self-organisation to scale!

[George Pór #StandWithUkraine @technoshaman]

I just bought Pap Szilárd a Coffee on Ko-fi! ❤️ https://t.co/wU7aHigFFc

[George Pór #StandWithUkraine @technoshaman]

@T_C_S_ @michaelgarfield @neno_is_ooo ditto

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

You will know that the AI labs believe in ASI when they disband their newly formed consulting (sorry “forward deployed engineering”) groups. As long as people are required to figure out how AI is useful & do organizational change & systems integration, jobs seem to be pretty safe

[George Pór #StandWithUkraine @technoshaman]

@srlevons @marcarza Does anybody remember of the song from the 1970s by Pete Seeger , Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes… ?

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Happy International Workers’ Day!

To kick it off, here’s a thread of #MayDay posters from around the world.

Let's start in Austria, with this poster from 1891.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

The Russians know that if we withdraw from Donbas, it will divide our nation. Many people would be against it. If Ukraine’s unity is broken, Putin will come up with a new “blitzkrieg” to occupy Ukraine very quickly. Even if he doesn’t, he will use a subsequent pause to recruit more people, train them, ramp up the defense-industrial base, and get sanctions lifted. So a ceasefire in the format “stay where we stay” is not only our wish, it is in the interest of our partners too.

From an interview on The Rest Is Politics podcast (3/5).

[Bule Mewek @BuleMewek]

@AryJeay The same people who called you #antisemite for opposing #GazaGenocide‌ have bombed Jewish synagogue in Iran 🇮🇷

[George Pór #StandWithUkraine @technoshaman]

Anyone Who Tells You That We Can't Put Criminals in Jail Until We Win an Election Is Complicit in the Murder of Our Democracy https://t.co/NHPaJM3lWA

[Max Flugrath🗳️ @MaxFlugrath]

This is buried under the noise.

By November, it may be the story that mattered most.

If you read one thing today, make it this.

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

China just dropped its 15th five year and I genuinely think this is the most important document of 2026 & almost nobody in the West is talking about it

what gets me isn’t any single number…it’s the systemic vision, in one document they’re planning GDP growth, highvalue patents, digital economy at 12.5% of GDP, non-fossil energy at 25%, CO2 reduction, surface water quality at 85%, life expectancy at 80, forest coverage rate, grain production capacity…ALL of it in the same table with hard targets & binding indicators through 2030

in the West we treat economy, ecology, education, healthcare & energy security as separate ministries fighting over budgets, China treats them as organs of the same body, every line feeds the others, urbanization fuels productivity, R&D fuels patents, patents fuel the the digital economy, non-fossil energy fuels strategic independence….every variable is designed to accelerate all the others & that reflect china’s deeply HOLISTIC worldview

look at line 5, high-value patent going from 16 to over 22 per 10,000 people by 2030, quietest line in the whole table and probably the most important, a high value patent is the intellectual property of a technology that will structure a market for 20y MINIMUM

China is literally planning who owns the technological future, the licenses & dependencies other countriees will rack up on Chinese tech, this IS the economic and industrial colonization of the 21st century I keep talking about in my threads but with patents instead of cannons

while america bombs & europe debates, China plans, builds & executes and the scariest part is that based on their own audits the previous plans hit ove 90% of their targets

Western leaders rotate every 4 /5 years and make promises they’ll never have to keep, CCP plays on a 50 y horizon…this table isn’t a campaign platform, it’s a national spec sheet & that changes everything about how you read each number in it

[Pap Szilárd István @istvan_szilard]

@IliasAlami You can watch the interview here, you can switch between HU and EN audio tracks in the Settings. https://t.co/65xqaZkp9E