@ 1964e236:30dc8bbf

"Do you know how many people can live on Earth at most? Fifteen billion, maybe twenty, if we organize everything really well. But do you know how many people could live across the entire solar system?"

He paused theatrically.

"A trillion. A billion times a thousand. A hundred times our current population."

His eyes gleamed as he looked at me.

"The solar system holds more than enough resources for that many people—and maybe even more. Just imagine such a world: it would have a thousand Mozarts, a thousand Einsteins, thousands of entrepreneurs with more talent than I’ll ever have."

“And thousands of Hitlers,” I thought to myself.

"Your death is the terrible price we must pay for progress," Grok continued. "Every day humanity fails to move forward is a day lost."

He looked me in the eye from thirty million kilometers away.

"In Death Valley, there’s a tiny fish, the desert pupfish. There are only about three hundred of them left, all living in a single small pool in the most inhospitable desert on Earth. That pool used to be much bigger, probably a small sea after the Ice Age, home to millions of pupfish. But today, all that’s left is a salty puddle, and that’s where the last of their kind are crammed together. To them, that pool is the entire world. They can’t even imagine that there’s something beyond it, that there might be an ocean out there with endless resources. Instead, they stay in their little world—and they’re dying out. A few might get lucky, caught by collectors and kept as ornamental fish in aquariums. But most of them will disappear once the pool dries up. Sure, the pool might survive a while longer. But it could also dry out in the next few months. Or, it could rain so much that the salt level drops and the fish can no longer survive."

He paused again.

"I get it," I whispered. "We’re the fish, and you’re pulling us out of the puddle."

"The fish probably think: we’ve got so little space, we need to save resources, control birth rates, that sort of thing. But in truth, there’s only one thing they need to do: find a new pool!"

"What if they don’t want to leave their home?" Maria would’ve asked him now.

"How many times have we stood on the brink of nuclear war in the last few decades?" Grok went on. "Right now, there's peace. But how long will it last?"

"How many nukes did Grok’s own conglomerate have?" I wondered.

"What each individual can do now," Grok said, "is give everything they’ve got in this life to help humanity reach the next level—so we can finally become multiplanetary. So that one single catastrophe won’t wipe out all of humankind. For you, this truth means—and I truly am sorry—that you have to sacrifice yourself for this mission."

I told him I agreed completely. Of course I did. I had no choice.

Then I listened to Feng’s playlist.

@ ea39b0da:29a1710d

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@ 2e8970de:63345c7a

Sex was the main determinant of whether you survived, but class was a factor; 16% of third-class men made it, compared to 32% of first-class men (although second-class men did worst of all). In contrast 97% of first-class women lived.

https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-sexual-revolutions-titanic-winners

https://stacker.news/items/1004837

@ 2cde0e02:180a96b9

watercolors;

https://stacker.news/items/1004775

@ ecd302a3:557f92cf

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@ df478568:2a951e67

How To Mine Your Own Vanity Nostr Key

note. This article works best on https://habla.news/u/marc@primal.net/how-to-mine-a-nostr-vanity-key-with-rana

Rana is a vanity npub generator.

I'll show you how to use it on Ubuntu.

If you're not Linux ninja and use Windows instead of Linux ninja weapons, you can still use Linux with Virtualbox, free ans open source virtualization software. Head over to

https://www.virtualbox.org/ to learn more. They also have an enterprise business if you need that sort of thing, you can learn more at https://shop.oracle.com/

Rana is a nostr vanity key mining program. The source code can be found here.

Rana Is On GitHub

https://github.com/grunch/rana

Since rana already has pretty good docs, I decided to make a video instead of write about this because It's easier to see rana in action than it is to write about Rana. I went off on some tangents, so I might edit this down later, but I hope it helps you mine your own nostr key.

nevent1qqsfk7a000m8zc3ptsuu4vytepqc9eedceclpt2ns9pzlech5cpaflceng5al

Show Notes

https://github.com/grunch/rana

https://virtualbox.org/

https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/getting-started/installation.html

cargo run --release -- --vanity-n-prefix=juxtap0se

☮️

nostr:npub1marc26z8nh3xkj5rcx7ufkatvx6ueqhp5vfw9v5teq26z254renshtf3g0

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@ 9fce3aea:0f9087e6

Hi all,

Thought I'd put together some info here for those who want to come play in our next Rigly / Upendo #BlockParty on June 21.

The prep for this one is a little different, which is why I'm here. Usually, we have hashrate auctions and direct buys up on the site for all plebs. Right now, we don't since we're fixing up the auction experience. It will come back totally anon so you can participate without having to create an account, which is awesome.

For now, the block party is only open to solo miners. Why hook up to our pool prior to the party, you ask? Because if your ASIC (or Bitaxe, or Apollo, or Braiins Mini Miner etc) finds a block, you get 1 BTC and the rest is divvied up by hashrate contributed.

We currently have 80 workers in the pool, check it out: https://solostats.ckpool.org/users/3Gk1GfP3bHA6M2ZzK5mHdqbWN1iNsqAenH

I'd love to get the "Alliance" up to 100 solo miners by Monday, just for funsies, and because I think we can. Each new block party proves to me how fired up everyone is to try and solo mine as a group and stick it to "the man," you know, if that man is MARA, Foundry, AntPool, etc. I just have one question: "Why not us!?" No reason. So LFG!

Here's how to do things:

1. Here's how to hook up your ASIC, or whatever solo mining machine you've got:

Stratum address: solo.ckpool.org:3333 Username: 3Gk1GfP3bHA6M2ZzK5mHdqbWN1iNsqAenH Put your BTC payout address as the workername (important!)

If we mine a block during the party, you will get your share of the reward based on hashrate contribution.

Outside of the party, the miner who finds the block gets 1 BTC and everyone else gets a share of the reward based on hashrate contribution. (Source: https://upendo.rigly.io/learn/upendo)

1. I posted this yesterday on our Rigly Nostr account. What's key here is this is simply a workaround for hashrate purchases. You don't even have to buy from us at Rigly; this will help you send your hashrate to our pool. (We're doing this because we took direct buys down while the devs work on some new things). Whether you buy hashrate on the main Rigly site or elsewhere, here's how to do it:

You can buy hashrate on the main Rigly site (https://rigly.io/direct-sale) and point it to the (Alliance) CKPool address we use.

You can also buy hashrate from anywhere you like and send to our shared escrow address.

Our mining pool info is the same as it is for the #BlockParty:

🟧 Pool Account Username: 3Gk1GfP3bHA6M2ZzK5mHdqbWN1iNsqAenH 🟧 If we find a block, your Rigly order number will be matched to your username!

If you’re buying on Rigly and sending to the Alliance/CKPool address, set this before you buy the hashrate:

Step 1 on Rigly.io: Go to "view my account" Step 2: Go to "hashrate" in left menu Step 3: put your BTC address into the mining pool username Step 4: add mining pool address

(Helpful pic of this in our Nostr post: https://primal.net/e/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqh4nl2ld8qq00kxzxlh5khzk7k82zmjf07k5pn7awska6u66qv7dqqs8sk6pxl00ut4t4zhz2y3jc8e4rzakyehfjk9fz6wdw7qm8xq8j6gdffsjy).

Don't forget to add your BTC address after the period in the mining pool username! That lets us know how much hashrate you are contributing and where to pay you out if/when we find a block. 🟧

When you buy hashrate from Rigly for the Solo Alliance, enter the escrow address as username: 3Gk1GfP3bHA6M2ZzK5mHdqbWN1iNsqAenH

This is the kind of stuff we chat about in our galaxy brain Telegram group. Join for tech support and other shenanigans: https://t.me/+AEvub_E_9hNiYzAx

If this is too much, don't worry, auctions and direct buys will return soon. We're just happy to provide a hashrate workaround so we can grow the party, even as we build. 💪

https://stacker.news/items/1004754

@ ecd302a3:557f92cf

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@ 69eea734:4ae31ae6

Vor ein paar Tagen stieß ich auf einen faszinierenden Artikel von Michel Bauwens, Mitbegründer der P2PFoundation, mit Links zu weiteren Texten (zum Beispiel über den Puls der Commons), die ich ebenfalls äußerst interessant fand.

Der Artikel zeigt unter anderem, wie unterschiedlich Commons aussehen können, so dass ich ihn heute als Ausgangspunkt nehmen möchte, um ein paar Puzzle-Steine in mein entstehendes Bild der Commons einzufügen.

Das Grundmuster menschlichen Zusammenlebens?

Bauwens betrachtet die Commons aus historischer Sicht, wie sie sich in verschiedenen Zeiten unterschiedlich manifestieren, manchmal gar nahezu verschwinden und heute in wiederum veränderter Form neu entstehen – und plädiert dafür, dass sie noch weit stärker werden sollten.

Er legt zunächst dar, was die Commons sind und was nicht. (zum Beispiel nichts, was vom Staat verwaltet wird, wie ein öffentlicher Park.) Ausschlaggebend ist, dass eine Ressource von ihren Herstellern oder Benutzern selbst betreut wird. Commons entstehen dabei durch Beziehungen. Sie sind etwas spezifisch Menschliches und eine Wahl, die „fast immer“ zur Verfügung steht, so Bauwens. Eine die Geschichte überdauernde menschliche Praxis.

Er nennt drei verschiedene geschichtlichen Entwicklungen:

• Eine lineare - Wie präsentiert sich der Commons über verschiedene, komplexer werdende, Phasen der Menschheitsgeschichte hinweg?
• Eine hin und her schwingendende: In der Geschichte einer Zivilisation werden die Commons in Zeiten von Überfluss -- und daraus resultierender Verschwendung uns steigender Ressourcen-Extraktion -- unterdrückt, konstitutieren sich aber dann als Gegenbewegung wieder neu.
• Eine stufenweise: Die heutigen, mit neuen Möglichkeiten ausgestatteten Formen der Commons könnten in der nächsten Phase unserer Zivilisation (oder nach unserer Zivilisation) eine entscheidende Rolle spielen.

Wenn man verschiedene Arten des Austausches betrachtet (Bauwens beruft sich hierbei auf Alan Fiske), kann man geschichtlich analysieren, welche zu verschiedenen Zeiten vorrangig waren (dies tat Kojin Karatani in The Structure of World History von 2014).

Die vier Muster sind:

• Gemeinschaftliche Beteiligung, Commons (die Gemeinschaft baut mir ein Haus, und ich helfe später bei einem anderen Hausbau mit; ein Beispiel aus neuerer Zeit ist die Entwicklung von Linux)
• Wechselseitiger Austausch (Geschenkökonomie – es wird eine etwa gleichwertige Leistung zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt erwartet)
• Hierarchisch bedingte Verteilung, wie im Feudalismus
• Marktwirtschaft (es gibt ein allgemeines Zahlungsmittel mit einem bestimmten Wert)

Bauwens: „Entscheidend ist jedoch, dass die Menschheit ständig bestrebt ist, Modus A wiederherzustellen, denn die Menschen haben eine kulturelle und wahrscheinlich auch allgemeine Vorliebe für ein geselliges Leben in kleinen, vertrauten Gruppen. Aber menschliche Gruppen versuchen, dies auch auf höheren Komplexitätsebenen zu tun, in einem ständigen Versuch, die extraktive Logik der Zivilisation zu mäßigen.“ (Katarani bezeichnet eine Verbindung von Commoning und Geschenkökonomie in stammesorientierten Kulturen als Modus A)

Commons durch die Zeiten

In der ursprünglichsten Form der Commons in Jäger- und Sammler-Gemeinschaften, werden Nahrung und sonstige Ressourcen mit der ganzen Gemeinschaft geteilt - dies ist zumindest die vorherrschende Form des Austauschs.

Im Zuge der Agrar-Revolution geht es um das gemeinsame Bewirtschaften von Flächen.

Im Mittelalter entwickelt sich in Europa das Feudalsystem. Auch hier werden manche Felder aber noch von den Dorfbewohnern gemeinsam verwaltet.

Ab dem 16. Jahrhundert fanden, am stärksten in England, die Enclosures (auf deutsch Einhegungen) statt. Das heißt, dass Felder zur effizienteren Bewirtschaftung von den Besitzern zusammengelegt und umzäunt wurden.

Besonders im 19. Jahrhundert, mit dem Aufkommen der Industrialisierung, nahm diese Entwicklung immer stärker zu. Die landwirtschaftlichen Commons wurden dadurch weitgehend zerstört.

Im industriellen Kapitalismus, als die Arbeiter kaum Rechte hatten, und es auch um das bloße Überleben ging, entwickelte sich ein sozialer Commons Dieser bestand darin, dass sich die Arbeiter gegenseitig halfen und sich gegenseitig versicherten. Aus dieser Bewegung entstand dann der Sozialstaat. Der Staat übernahm also Aufgaben, die die Menschen zuvor füreinander geleistet hatten.

Man könnte daher sagen, dass im Kapitalismus die natürlichen Commons-Ressourcen privatisiert und die sozialen Commons verstaatlicht wurden.

In der Moderne waren sich viele Menschen der Bedeutung von Commons gar nicht mehr bewusst.

Mit dem Internet, dem World Wide Web und weiteren digitalen Techniken erschlossen sich dann neue Möglichkeiten. Mit Peer Production, Open Source Software, sowie den Creative Commons Lizenzen, enstand eine neue Inkarnation der Commons. Und damit ist die Entwicklung noch nicht abgeschlossen...

Warum Commons nicht in ein Links-Rechts-Schema passen

Mit seinem Streifzug durch die Geschichte zeigt Bauwens, wie vielfältig die Commons sein können, und warum ihnen in der heutigen Zeit eine starke Rolle zukommen sollte. Nebenbei ergibt sich für mich auch, dass sie jenseits von linker oder rechter Ideologie liegen. Hierzu eine kurze Zwischenbetrachtung von mir:

Weil es um kollektives Handeln geht, und auch wegen des Namens („hört sich an wie Kommunismus“, meinte meine Mutter), entsteht leicht der Eindruck, es handele sich um ein besonders linksgerichtetes Phänomen.

Eine gut eingespielte Fußballmannschaft agiert auch als Kollektiv. Der Verein verwaltet vielleicht ein Clubhaus. Wohl kaum jemand würde deswegen den Verein als links bezeichnen.

Freilich sind die Mitglieder heutiger Commons-Bewegungen vorwiegend „progressiv“, zuweilen auf eine rigide Weise. Bauwens hat damit schon eine leidvolle Erfahrung gemacht. Aber Commons als soziales System sind es nicht. Dafür spricht allein schon die Tatsache, dass es sie viel länger gibt als die politische Links-Rechts-Einteilung.

Eine starke Rolle für die Commons

Wie steht es um die Commons heute? Das werde ich in weiteren Artikeln noch versuchen zu beleuchten...

Michel Bauwens hat in seinen Artikeln noch Einiges dazu sagen. Inbesondere beführwortet er das Kosmo-Lokale (Cosmo-Local). Was leicht ist (Wissen) wird geteilt, was Gewicht hat (etwa landwirtschaftliche und andere Produktion), wird an lokale Gegebenheiten angepasst und vor Ort bewerkstelligt.

Und das Zusammenspiel von Digitalem und Materiellem verspricht weitere Möglichkeiten.

In jedem Fall haben die Commons eine ausgleichende, regenerierende Kraft, die wir aufgrund der heutigen vielen Kriesen gar nicht ungenützt lassen können, ganz unabhängig von unserer sozialer Ebene - das gilt auch für die Superreichen.

@ ecd302a3:557f92cf

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• Keep Alive - Notify others if you haven't used your device in a given period of time
• kMeet - Free and secure videoconferencing solution
• Launch Chat - Start a WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram chat without saving a number as a contact
• Linphone - open source SIP client - SIP (VOIP) phone
• Meshenger - P2P voice- and video phone App.
• OpenContacts - A different database for contacts to keep them private only to you.
• polycule - A geeky and efficient [matrix] client for power users
• Privacy Cell - Verify that a phone is using the most secure cell protocols.
• Pulse - Redirect outgoing calls to Signal/Telegram/Threema/Whatsapp
• QUIK SMS - Open source replacement to the stock SMS app on Android.
• S2MSP - SMS communication for apps restricted on phone numbers
• SchildiChat - Secure messenger for Matrix with a traditional instant messaging experience
• Simlar - secure calls - Protect your privacy with encrypted phone calls.
• SimpleX Chat - e2e encrypted messenger without any user IDs - private by design!
• sms2call - Make a call when receiving a defined SMS
• SMS Import / Export - Imports and exports SMS and MMS messages, call logs, and contacts.
• SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) - Spam Call/SMS blocker
• ThreatScoopOnionChat - A Forked Version focused on privacy from SESSION
• VoIP.ms SMS - Send and read SMS via voip.ms
• WA Adder - WhatsApp contact adder without giving WhatsApp access to your contacts!
• Welefon - Phone with API
• WiVeWa - Client for the WiVeWa system

@ ecd302a3:557f92cf

• Alkaa - Manage your tasks quickly and easily. Add tasks, break into categories and remember important appointments.
• Calculator - simple Material Calculator and Unit Converter
• Cat Printer - support to some Bluetooth "Cat Printer" models
• Connect You - Modern contacts app using Material Design 3 (You) and Jetpack Compose
• CuteCalc - a simple, lightweight and open-source calculator
• Hot Stuff - Protect your belongings with Hot Stuff, a free and offline home inventory app
• Karui ToDo - a privacy focussed todo list app to quickly jot down things to do
• Lock Screen Notes - Create notes that are automatically displayed in the device’s lock screen
• LockQR - Effortless QR Code Generation, Free and Shareable
• Logger - view and export call logs in CSV format
• Lumolight - Simple, modern & easy-to-use flashlight app that comes with a ton of feature
• Nibras Reader 3 - take bookmarked records on Nibras PKM with you on the go
• nocodb - a prototype client for NocoDB
• ObsidianTodoWidget - Widget to display todo list from markdown file
• OpenTodoList - simple Todo and task management
• OpenToday - planner & organizer - notes, todo, reminders, lists everything is customizable
• OrgNote - Note taking app based on the popular Emacs package - Org Roam
• OSS Card Wallet - All your cards secured and without ad!
• OSS Dict - Offline Dictionaries
• OSS Document Scanner - scan all your documents
• Paperless Mobile - An (almost) fully fledged mobile Paperless client.
• Parcel - Track all your parcels with ease.
• PDF Doc Scan - PDF document scanner
• PDF to Images - simple app to convert a PDFs pages to image files
• RemotePointer - Digital Laser Pointer and Mouse Control for Presentations
• Scheduler - View your todo list/events from your lockscreen
• Simple QR - Scan, create and store QR codes with a simple UI and experience
• Simplenote - keep notes, lists, ideas and more
• TagSpaces - organize, tag and browse your files, photos and documents
• zCalc - Simple and beautiful calculator for Android

@ 6a6be47b:3e74e3e1

Hi frens! 🌝

🎨Today I painted a full moon, and it got me thinking about how special June’s full moon is. You might have heard it called the “Strawberry Moon” —but that’s not because of its color! According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, it’s called like that because it's “when the strawberry harvest took place.” 🍓

Fun fact:

“A Moon usually appears reddish when it’s close to the horizon because the light rays must pass through the densest layers of the atmosphere.”


From almanac.com

In Europe, June’s full moon has also been called the “Rose Moon” or even the “Honey Moon,” since it’s the time of the first honey harvest.

According to UK archaeologist and historian Jennifer Wexler in Sky At Night Magazine this year’s Strawberry Moon is extra special because it’s part of a “major lunar standstill,” or lunistice—a rare event that only happens every 18.6 years! During this period, the moon’s path across the sky reaches its most extreme points, making moonrises and moonsets appear unusually far apart. After 2025, we won’t see a standstill like this again until 2043, so this is a once-in-a-generation chance to catch the lowest full moon.

But what is a full moon, anyway?

“A full moon rises around sunset and sets around sunrise. The Moon will appear full for a couple of days.”


From science.nasa.gov

Here’s my watercolor painting of the full moon. I love how magical it looks—there’s something mysterious and humbling about it, and it’s just mesmerizing to catch it (almost) every night in the sky.

💭 Were you able to see the Strawberry Moon this year? I’d love to hear about it!

See you soon, frens.

Godspeed! 🌕

https://stacker.news/items/1004621

@ 4c96d763:80c3ee30

Changes

Daniel D’Aquino (1):

• nostrdb: Fix heap buffer overflow

William Casarin (17):

• win: fix build on windows
• ndb: add note-relays command
• note: always write relay index
• relay-index: fix a few bugs
• debug: add a print for debugging rust integration
• relay: fix race condition bug
• relay: fix potential relay index corruption
• Relay queries
• query: implement author_kind query plan
• fix build on macos
• query: implement profile search query plans
• filter: add initial custom filtering logic
• test: fix custom filter test
• ndb: add --id queries
• eq: fix fallthrough bug
• change <=10 author search queries to ==1
• cleanup previous patch

pushed to nostrdb:refs/heads/master

@ df478568:2a951e67

Marty Bent Vibe coded the opportunity cost app. I have not tried it yet, but love the concept. I have been into bitcoin since 2014, but I spent more generational wealth than I would care to admit back then. I've heard stories of fortunes blown on cocaine in the 1980's. I could write a story about spending a fortune on Diet Mt. Dew. I don't drink Diet Mt. Dew anymore. This one time, I spent about a million sats for a light beer at a baseball game. I wouldn't say I had a drinking problem, a million sats was only five bucks at the time. I didn't know that much bitcoin would be worth over a thousand bucks eleven years later.

I don't drink beer anymore. Bitcoin tends to do that to you.

We can afford chairs now. To be honest, we need a couch. The last couch I bought was in 2017 and it cost about a whole bitcoin. That couch is buried in a landfill today. My wife loves furniture, but even she's hesitant to spend sats on a couch now. We know we need a couch, but we don't want to spend sats on something we will need to replace before the next halving.

Many of us who have been in bitcoin for more than a decade have some regrets. I know I do, but we need to live our lives. I would never say you should sit on the floor, but I encourage to you to think about time. How long will this thing I need to buy last? If you think you can give a 3 million sat couch to your grandchildren, spend three million sats on the couch. If your five year plan for the couch is to help fill a landfill, maybe you only need to buy a used couch at a thrift store. This is not investment advice of course. How can it be? I don't know what kind of couch hazards you have in your house. I have trouble finding a couch of my own, but it's how I think about making bigger purchases. How many years of your retirement will that watch, car, house or whatever cost you from your stack? You can only determine that for yourself. I think the opportunity cost app will help you keep track of your decision.

This app was made by someone who once spent a whole bitcoin on a heater. I can't speak for Marty, but I believe the opportunity cost app will help you learn from my mistakes.

For more information, check out:

https://www.opportunitycost.app/

Check out the code on GitHub.

Using The Opportunity Cost App

The app is pretty straight forward. It is only available on Chrome for now so I installed it on the Chromium browser. I looked at the settings, but kept them default.

Then I searched for a Rolex in Duck Duck Go.

The default is bitcoin, but there is a sat calculator in the corner too, I have always wanted a Rolex Milgauss with a green sapphire so I looked it up on eBay. It's about 8 million sats. That's too rich for my blood, but I might be willing to part with a million sats for that watch. I'll definitely pick it up for 500,000 sats. I can wait. Bitcoin is the best clock in the world. I wouldn't go so far as to call this Rolex a shitcoin, but bitcoin is a better clock than any watch in my opinion--Even when compared to my favorite watch.

Video From Opportunity Cost Website

How will you use the Opportunity Cost browser extension?

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https://zapthisblog.com/calculate-your-opportunity-cost-while-shopping/

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@ ecd302a3:557f92cf

• Adresilo - Search for places
• AltLocationServices - Connects to BeaconDB geolocation service to provide network location services
• Baba - Discover Baba: The app that revolutionizes contributing to Panoramax
• Bahn-Vorhersage - Ranking for train journeys according to their reliability. (German only)
• Beans - A virtual scratchmap of the world
• Blue Square Speedometer - Simple speedometer & GPS viewer
• BusTO - Turin (Italy) public transport
• c:geo - powerful geocaching app
• Cartes IGN - Discover France another way and witness the land's evolution
• CClauncher - Clauncher, rewritten using Compose
• CLauncher - Yet Another Olauncher Fork, But With All Apps Hidden
• Compass - Simple and beautiful compass
• Compass Tile - An easily accessible compass tile for the quick settings panel
• E6B Flight Computer - E6B Flight Computer
• EVMap - EV chargers - Find electric vehicle charging stations
• FakeTraveler - Fake your location
• Find Family - Find Family is an end-to-end encrypted location sharing app
• Gadgetbridge - Use your smart watch and other bluetooth devices and keep your data private!
• Geo Share - Turn a Google Maps URL into a geo: URL
• Geohash Droid - App for Randall Munroe’s Geohashing activity
• Geotag video camera - Camera with a map and coordinates overlay
• GMaps WV - Google Maps WebView Wrapper
• GPS Locker - Keep the GPS locked at all times on an Android device
• GPS Logger - A lightweight GPS logger, battery efficient, GPX/KML, add notes, share, upload
• GPS Setter - A GPS setter based on the Xposed framework
• GPSTest - An app for testing GPS and GNSS capabilities of a device
• JRBP Survey - Jasper Ridge ant survey navigation and data entry
• Kwik EFIS - Glass Cockpit / Electronic Flight Information System
• Ladefuchs - Shows the cheapest charging card - with only one swipe at the charging point
• MBCompass - Simple and efficient compass
• MetaGer Maps - Map app based on Openstreetmap. Route planner - Navigation
• Mobile Tile Server - HTTP Server for your local Map Tiles
• NextGIS Mobile - GIS that lets you create, edit and export geodata, both online and offline
• Offi - King of public transit planning!
• OpenLynx - Public transport companion providing real-time data
• OpenStop - The app for collecting barrier data in local public transport
• OpenStreetMap wiki - Access the OpenStreetMap wiki
• Organic Maps - Offline Hike, Bike, GPS Navigation for travelers, tourists, cyclists & hikers
• OSM Dashboard for OpenTracks - OpenStreetMap dashboard for OpenTracks
• OSM Dashboard Offline for OpenTracks - Offline variant of the OpenStreetMap dashboard for OpenTracks
• OsmAnd - Global Mobile Map Viewing & Navigation for Offline and Online OSM Maps
• Panoramax - Panoramax mobile is an app to capture and upload photo sequences to Panoramax
• PasseGares - Travel through the train stations to stamp your visa!
• PeakOrama - PeakOrama shows mountains around a location
• Phantasialand Wait Times - Live wait times for Phantasialand rides
• SCEE - OpenStreetMap surveyor app for experienced OSM contributors
• Sky Map - Sky Map to explore the skies
• SmsLoc - SMS based location query
• Stateful Speedometer - Stateful speedometer & GPS viewer
• Street­Complete - Easy to use OpenStreetMap editor for Android
• Tehran Metro - An app to facilitate using tehran metro
• ToS;DR - Short summaries on Terms of Conditions
• Traccar Client - Track your location
• Traccar Manager - GPS tracker reporting to your own host
• Trail Sense - Use your phone's sensors to assist with wilderness treks
• Transito - Public transit app to download GTFS data & calculate routes offline
• Vespucci - Edit geodata and contribute to OpenStreetMap project on-the-go
• Zood Location - Securely share your location with your loved ones

@ ecd302a3:557f92cf

• Alligator Bytes - Record musical loops, play them back, and change the sound with movement.
• Animetail - Unofficial fork of Aniyomi
• ANeko - ANeko Reborn for Android, interactive cat animation that runs on your Android screen
• APM - Third-party Bilibili music player
• Assempix - A coded OFDM update to SSTV to receive digital images over SSB, AM and FM radio
• Audiobookshelf - Audiobook and podcast player for your self-hosted Audiobookshelf server
• Audile - Music recognition app
• Aves Libre - Gallery and metadata explorer
• BoomingMusic - Local music player built for smooth offline listening
• Calibre-Web-Companion - Unofficial companion app for calibre web (automated)
• camsung - Silence camera on Samsung phones
• Choona - Guitar tuner with support for custom tunings.
• ClassiPod - A local music player app designed to capture the essence of the iPod Classic.
• Com-Phone Story Maker - Create, tell, share and enjoy multimedia digital stories
• CuteMusic - a simple and lightweight offline music player
• Diatronome - A tuner, a visual metronome and a synthesizer
• DSub2000 - Android client for Subsonic servers.
• e1547 - e621 browser - browser for the e621 and e926 imageboards
• Fossify Voice Recorder - Record anything with this Open-source and Ad-free recorder
• Gizz Tapes - Stream King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard shows right to your phone!
• Harmony Music - Music streaming app with radio and background feature
• InnerTune - A material design YouTube Music client
• Jellyfin - your media in your hands! - Mobile client for Jellyfin, the free software media system
• Kahon - A fork of Mihon with some annoying restrictions removed
• Kazumi - An anime collection app based on custom rules.
• Kotatsu - Kotatsu is a free and open source manga reader for Android.
• Kreate - A multilingual YouTube Music frontend for Android, prioritize performance
• LibreTube - Alternative YouTube frontend for Android built with Piped
• Lissen: Audiobookshelf client - Clean Audiobookshelf Player
• litube - a feature-rich Android WebView wrapper for YouTube
• Materialious - Modern material design for Invidious
• Movies - Movies - easy way to discover popular movies.
• mpv-android - Listen to music and watch videos
• MSM - All in one manager for your media server
• Musify - Music Streaming and Downloading app
• MusicSearch - MusicSearch is an app for browsing songs, artists, and anything related to them
• Neon - Scrolling text on fullscreen like boarding
• NewPipe - Lightweight app that lets you watch and listen to media from various platforms.
• OpenTune - YouTube Music client for Android with Material 3 design
• OuterTune - Material 3 Music Player with YouTube Music support
• Panoramax - Panoramax mobile is an app to capture and upload photo sequences to Panoramax.
• Phocid - A modern offline music player with familiar designs
• PicGuard - Your pictures, your signature.
• Pilipala - A third-party Bilibili client developed in Flutter
• PipePipe - An alternative Android streaming front-end of Bilibili, NicoNico, Youtube & more
• Pixiv-MultiPlatform - Third-party Pixiv client
• Pocket Casts - Podcast Player for Android with advanced listening, search, and discovery features.
• RadioUpnp - Clean designed internet radio player with integrated UPnP/DLNA function
• RadioWave - internet radio player with more than 50,000 stations
• RiMusic - Stream music from YouTube Music
• Screen Stream - Screen streaming over HTTP
• Sentinel Lens - Facial recognition surveillance with alerts
• Seqular - Seqular, A Social Network without Place or Nation.
• Shredpix - A coded OFDM update to SSTV to send images digitally over SSB, AM and FM radio
• SimpMusic - A music app using YouTube Music for backend
• SkyTube - An open source YouTube client
• SkyTube Extra - An open source YouTube client
• SmartScan - Image organisation & search app
• Soothing Noise Player - Play soothing sound effects to help you relax and drown out background noise.
• Spotube - Lightweight & resource friendly Spotify client without requiring Spotify Premium
• SuperX - Video downloader with browser for downloading videos from everywhere
• Tsacdop-Fork - Podcast Player - Enjoy podcasts with Tsacdop-Fork! A clean, simply beautiful, and friendly app.
• Vaani - Beautiful, Fast and Functional Audiobook Player for your Audiobookshelf server.
• VLC - The best video and music player. Fast and “just works”, plays any file
• Voice Audiobook Player - Simple audiobook player
• Weather (PFA) - (SECUSO) Lets you watch the weather for cities and locations of your choice
• Xtra - a Twitch player and browser
• YouAMP - Player for Subsonic servers with modern Material You interface

@ ecd302a3:557f92cf

• Aisleron Shopping List - Aisleron: Fly through the shops!
• Arru - track and analyze your expenses
• BasicCashFlow - The easiest way to track your cash: no fuss, just money tracking.
• BitBanana - Manage your Bitcoin Lightning node from anywhere.
• Bitcoin Wallet - Store digital currency
• Bitcoin Wallet [signet] - Your own Bitcoins, in your own pocket!
• Bold Bitcoin Wallet - Seedless, secure Bitcoin wallet using Threshold Signatures.
• Brume Wallet - The private Ethereum wallet
• BTC Map - See where you can spend your bitcoins
• Cardabase - Cardabase is an app that lets you save EAN-13 club cards on your phone.
• CashCompass - Master Your Money: Effortless Tracking and Smarter Spending
• Cashew - An app created to help users manage a budget and purchases
• Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet - For your barcodes, memberships, loyalty programs, coupons and tickets.
• Coin Collection - Coin Collection helps people organize their U.S. coin collections
• CryptoTracker - Track cryptocurrency prices in real-time with CryptoTracker
• Currencies: Exchange Rate Calculator - An exchange rates currency converter for Android
• Electrum Bitcoin Wallet - Fast and self-custodial wallet for Bitcoin and the Lightning Network
• FDTracker - easily add, view, update, and track your fixed deposits
• Firefly III Shortcuts - Application simplifies transactions of FireflyIII
• flow - A personal finance tracker app built with love, and Flutter
• GNU Taler Point-of-Sale - Process orders and take in Taler payments
• Green - Blockstream Green Bitcoin wallet
• GreenStash - Simple app to help you plan and manage your savings goals easily.
• Inflation Calculator - Inflation calculator for USA, UK and France
• Invoice Ninja - Create invoices, accept payments, track expenses & time-tasks
• Keepass Fidelity - Fidelity (Membership/Loyalty) Card plugin for Keepass2Android
• KitchenOwl - KitchenOwl helps you organize your grocery life.
• Ladefuchs - Shows the cheapest charging card - with only one swipe at the charging point.
• MarketMonk - Watch the movements of your favorite stocks using free and open source software.
• Mat-O-Id - Pay beverages with RFID-Tag
• Mempal - A Bitcoin mempool monitoring and notification app for Android.
• Money Manager Ex - Manage your income and expenses on a mobile device, sync via your own cloud
• Moneytopia - track your personal expenses
• MRT Buddy - Check your Dhaka MRT / Rapid Pass balances and trips instantly
• My Expenses - Easy to use personal finance manager: rich functionality and Open Source
• NanoLedger - Data entry app for plain text accounting
• NumberHub - The only calculator / currency converter / time zones / ... - app you need!
• Oinkoin - Oinkoin Money Manager makes managing personal finances easy and secure.
• Oxen Wallet - Oxen lite wallet for Android
• P.CASH - Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi, PirateCash, Cosanta, zCash, Dogecoin
• Reckoner - Privacy respecting personal financial tracker
• Recurring Expense Tracker - Keep track of your monthly spending
• RoboSats - Simple and private app to exchange bitcoin for national currencies.
• Simple Crypto Widget - A simple widget to display prices for lots of cryptocurrencies.
• Status Wallet - Cryptocurrency wallet, Private messenger, and Ethereum DApp Browser all in one
• Swiss Bitcoin Pay - 1 minute to accept Bitcoin in your business.
• Taler Cashier - Take cash and give out electronic cash
• Taler Wallet - Makes privacy-friendly online transactions fast and easy
• Unstoppable Wallet - Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi
• Valet - The Bitcoin Lightning Wallet with Extra Features
• VAT Calculator - Calculate VAT for any country in the world
• Veil - Privacy focused wallet - Privacy focused VEIL coin crypto wallet
• Wallet - store card information locally on the device
• Waterfly III - personal finance manager
• Working Time Account - Record working hours, generate and send reports (PDF, CSV and ICS)
• Zashi: Zcash Wallet - Zashi is a Zcash wallet that keeps your transaction and message history private

@ 79c79f2d:7dbd8c3f

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@ ecd302a3:557f92cf

• ArcaneChat - Encrypted chat over e-mail (Delta Chat client)
• Dhaaga (Lite) - An Opinionated Fediverse Microblogging App
• Evergram - Scroll through all your Telegram channels in one timeline
• firefly nightly - Firefly Mastodon Client (nightly pre-releases)
• Graysky - Graysky is a Bluesky client written in React Native
• Igatha - SOS Signaling & Recovery
• Interstellar - An open source Mbin & Lemmy client, connecting you to the fediverse.
• Lemmy Redirect - Deep linking proxy for Lemmy, to launch your selected client automatically
• Mandarin IM - ICQ Client
• Mastify - A beautiful, feature-rich Mastodon client
• Mastodon Redirect - Deep linking proxy for Mastodon, to launch your selected client automatically
• Megalodon - Mastodon for Android but it's pink and has more features
• Mint - a lightweight Misskey Android client
• Moshidon - Mastodon for Android but it's Material You and has more features
• Moxxy - Moxxy is an experimental XMPP client that aims to be modern and easy to use.
• Nullgram - 3rd party client of Telegram
• NowiChat - NowiChat is a chat app with bluetooth networking and end-to-end security.
• Nozzle - lightweight nostr client
• Primal - Primal's Android app for Nostr
• Raccoon for Friendica - Mobile client for Friendica, Mastodon and compatible federated social networks.
• Rattlegram - SMS via audio! - Transmit short text messages over COFDMTV encoded audio signals
• Reply Radar - Reply Radar helps you keep track of the people you still need to reply to. No more forgotten messages — stay organized and in control.
• S2MSP - SMS communication for apps restricted on phone numbers
• Session - Send messages, not metadata. No ads or trackers — only private messaging
• Sideband - Decentralized peer-to-peer secure messaging LXMF client
• Signal - Signal is a messaging app focused on privacy
• Smither - Lightweight Mastodon client
• swob - Communicate with online services using SMS messaging
• Telewatch - Telegram for watch
• Tool Telegram - Send messages on telegram as a bot, easily
• Voyage - Voyage is a lightweight nostr client for Android with a Reddit-like UI.

@ 58537364:705b4b85

ในร่างกายที่มันมีสิ่งที่เรียกว่า… ระบบประสาท ทีนี้มีอะไรเข้ามากระทบร่างกาย คือกระทบระบบประสาท ปฏิกิริยามันก็เกิดขึ้น เป็นเหตุการณ์ อย่างใดอย่างหนึ่งขึ้น

เหตุการณ์นั้นแหละสำคัญ ถ้าให้เกิดความรู้สึกที่ถูกใจมันจะเป็นบวก เหตุการณ์นั้นไม่รู้สึกถูกใจแก่จิต มันก็จะเป็นลบ #ตัวกูเพิ่งเกิดเมื่อมีการกระทบแล้ว

ถ้าเหตุการณ์ที่เป็นบวกเกิดขึ้น ตัวกูบวกก็เกิดขึ้น เหตุการณ์ที่เป็นลบเกิดขึ้น ตัวกูที่เป็นลบเกิดขึ้น #ตัวกูนี้เกิดหลังเหตุการณ์ ขอให้เข้าใจดีๆ ไม่ใช่เกิดอยู่ก่อน

ตัวกูคลอดออกมาจาก situation ที่มากระทบระบบประสาท เช่นว่า… ไม่ได้กินอาหาร ขาดอาหาร มันหิว ความหิวเกิดขึ้นแก่ระบบประสาท ต่อมาจึงเกิด concept ว่า กูหิว, มีการกินแล้วจึงเกิด concept ว่า กูกิน

ถ้ามีอาการอร่อยแก่ลิ้น มันจึงเกิด concept ว่า… กูอร่อย หรือ มาทีหลังเหตุการณ์เสมอ จะถือว่าเป็น product ของเหตุการณ์นั้น ๆ ก็ได้

นี่คือความที่ไม่มีตัวจริง มิใช่ของจริง ของสิ่งที่เรียกว่าตัวกู #ขอให้รู้จักว่าตัวกูนี้มันเป็นมายาถึงขนาดนี้

ฟังดูการพูดอย่างนี้ มันเป็น logic แต่ความจริงของธรรมชาติมันเป็นอย่างนั้น ถือตามกฎ logic ธรรมดาสามัญ ที่พูดกันอยู่นี้ไม่ได้ ต้องถือตามความเป็นจริงที่ว่า มันเป็นอยู่อย่างไร

จิตก็เป็นธาตุชนิดหนึ่ง สิ่งแวดล้อมต่างๆ ที่เป็นธาตุชนิดหนึ่ง พอมาถึงกันเข้า ก็เกิดปฏิกิริยาออกมาอย่างนั้นอย่างนี้ ความรู้สึกที่เรียกว่า… #จิตคิดนึกได้นี้_ก็เป็นปฏิกิริยาที่เกิดขึ้นเท่านั้น แล้วความรู้สึกว่าตัวกู ตัวนี้ก็เป็นเพียงปฏิกิริยาที่เกิดขึ้นเท่านั้น.

มันฟังยากสำหรับท่านทั้งหลายที่ว่า ผู้กระทำนั้นเกิดทีหลังการกระทำ มันผิด logic อย่างนี้

แต่ความจริงเป็นอย่างนั้น self หรือ ego ผู้กระทำจะเกิดทีหลังการกระทำ เป็นปฏิกิริยาของการกระทำ

ความคิดอย่าง ตรรกะ หรืออย่างปรัชญา เอามาใช้กับสิ่งนี้ไม่ได้ ขอยืนยันไว้อย่างนี้

ถ้าท่านยังไม่เชื่อ ท่านก็ไปคิดดูเรื่อย ๆ ไปเถอะ ท่านจะพบว่ามันไม่เป็นอย่างกฎเกณฑ์ทางตรรกะหรือทางปรัชญา ที่เรามีๆ กันอยู่

ผู้กระทำเป็นเพียง concept ไม่ใช่ตัวจริง ส่วนการกระทำมันเป็นเหตุการณ์ของธรรมชาติ พอเข้ามาถึงจิตแล้ว ก็เกิดความคิด ความเชื่อ ความยึดว่าตัวกู

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Vor ein paar Tagen stieß ich auf einen faszinierenden Artikel von Michel Bauwens, Mitbegründer der P2PFoundation, mit Links zu weiteren Texten – zum Beispiel über den Puls der Commons –, die ich ebenfalls äußerst interessant fand.

Der Artikel zeigt unter anderem gut, wie unterschiedlich Commons aussehen können, so dass ich ihn heute als Ausgangspunkt nehmen möchte, um ein paar Puzzle-Steine in mein entstehendes Bild der Commons einzufügen.

Das Grundmuster menschlichen Zusammenlebens?

Bauwens betrachtet die Commons aus historischer Sicht, wie sie sich in verschiedenen Zeiten unterschiedlich manifestieren, manchmal gar nahezu verschwinden und heute in wiederum veränderter Form neu entstehen – und plädiert dafür, dass sie noch weit stärker werden sollten.

Er legt zunächst dar, was die Commons sind und was nicht. (zum Beispiel nichts, was vom Staat verwaltet wird, wie ein öffentlicher Park.) Ausschlaggebend ist, dass eine Ressource von ihren Herstellern oder Benutzern selbst betreut wird. Commons entstehen dabei durch Beziehungen. Sie sind etwas spezifisch Menschliches und eine Wahl, die „fast immer“ zur Verfügung steht, so Bauwens. Eine die Geschichte überdauernde menschliche Praxis.

Er nennt drei verschiedene geschichtlichen Entwicklungen:

• Eine lineare - Wie präsentiert sich der Commons über verschiedene, komplexer werdende, Phasen der Menschheitsgeschichte hinweg?
• Eine hin und her schwingendende: In der Geschichte einer Zivilisation werden die Commons in Zeiten von Überfluss -- und daraus resultierender Verschwendung uns steigender Ressourcen-Extraktion -- unterdrückt, konstitutieren sich aber dann als Gegenbewegung wieder neu.
• Eine stufenweise: Die heutigen, mit neuen Möglichkeiten ausgestatteten Formen der Commons könnten in der nächsten Phase unserer Zivilisation (oder nach unserer Zivilisation) eine entscheidende Rolle spielen.

Wenn man verschiedene Arten des Austausches betrachtet (Bauwens beruft sich hierbei auf Alan Fiske), kann man geschichtlich analysieren, welche zu verschiedenen Zeiten vorrangig waren (dies tat Kojin Karatani in The Structure of World History von 2014).

Die vier Muster sind:

• Gemeinschaftliche Beteiligung, Commons (die Gemeinschaft baut mir ein Haus, und ich helfe später bei einem anderen Hausbau mit; ein Beispiel aus neuerer Zeit ist die Entwicklung von Linux)
• Wechselseitiger Austausch (Geschenkökonomie – es wird eine etwa gleichwertige Leistung zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt erwartet)
• Hierarchisch bedingte Verteilung, wie im Feudalismus
• Marktwirtschaft (es gibt ein allgemeines Zahlungsmittel mit einem bestimmten Wert)

Bauwens: „Entscheidend ist jedoch, dass die Menschheit ständig bestrebt ist, Modus A wiederherzustellen, denn die Menschen haben eine kulturelle und wahrscheinlich auch allgemeine Vorliebe für ein geselliges Leben in kleinen, vertrauten Gruppen. Aber menschliche Gruppen versuchen, dies auch auf höheren Komplexitätsebenen zu tun, in einem ständigen Versuch, die extraktive Logik der Zivilisation zu mäßigen.“ (Katarani bezeichnet eine Verbindung von Commoning und Geschenkökonomie in stammesorientierten Kulturen als Modus A)

Commons durch die Zeiten - ein kurzer Abriss

In der ursprünglichsten Form der Commons in Jäger- und Sammler-Gemeinschaften, werden Nahrung und sonstige Ressourcen mit der ganzen Gemeinschaft geteilt - dies ist zumindest die vorherrschende Form des Austauschs.

Im Zuge der Agrar-Revolution geht es um das gemeinsame Bewirtschaften von Flächen.

Im Mittelalter entwickelt sich in Europa das Feudalsystem. Auch hier werden manche Felder aber noch von den Dorfbewohnern gemeinsam verwaltet.

Ab dem 16. Jahrhundert fanden, am stärksten in England, die Enclosures (auf deutsch Einhegungen) statt. Das heißt, dass Felder zur effizienteren Bewirtschaftung von den Besitzern zusammengelegt und umzäunt wurden.

Besonders im 19. Jahrhundert, mit dem Aufkommen der Industrialisierung, nahm diese Entwicklung immer stärker zu. Die landwirtschaftlichen Commons wurden dadurch weitgehend zerstört.

Im industriellen Kapitalismus, als die Arbeiter kaum Rechte hatten, und es auch um das bloße Überleben ging, entwickelte sich ein sozialer Commons Dieser bestand darin, dass sich die Arbeiter gegenseitig halfen und sich gegenseitig versicherten. Aus dieser Bewegung entstand dann der Sozialstaat. Der Staat übernahm also Aufgaben, die die Menschen zuvor füreinander geleistet hatten.

Man könnte daher sagen, dass im Kapitalismus die natürlichen Commons-Ressourcen privatisiert und die sozialen Commons verstaatlicht wurden.

In der Moderne waren sich viele Menschen der Bedeutung von Commons gar nicht mehr bewusst.

Mit dem Internet, dem World Wide Web und weiteren digitalen Techniken erschlossen sich dann neue Möglichkeiten. Mit Peer Production, Open Source Software, sowie den Creative Commons Lizenzen, enstand eine neue Inkarnation der Commons. Und damit ist die Entwicklung noch nicht abgeschlossen...

Warum Commons nicht in ein Links-Rechts-Schema passen

Mit seinem Streifzug durch die Geschichte zeigt Bauwens, wie vielfältig die Commons sein können, und warum ihnen in der heutigen Zeit eine starke Rolle zukommen sollte. Nebenbei ergibt sich für mich auch, dass sie jenseits von linker oder rechter Ideologie liegen. Hierzu eine kurze Zwischenbetrachtung von mir:

Weil es um kollektives Handeln geht, und auch wegen des Namens („hört sich an wie Kommunismus“, meinte meine Mutter), entsteht leicht der Eindruck, es handele sich um ein besonders linksgerichtetes Phänomen.

Eine gut eingespielte Fußballmannschaft agiert auch als Kollektiv. Der Verein verwaltet vielleicht ein Clubhaus. Wohl kaum jemand würde deswegen den Verein als links bezeichnen.

Freilich sind die Mitglieder heutiger Commons-Bewegungen vorwiegend „progressiv“, zuweilen auf eine rigide Weise. Bauwens hat damit schon eine leidvolle Erfahrung gemacht. Aber Commons als soziales System sind es nicht. Dafür spricht allein schon die Tatsache, dass es sie viel länger gibt als die politische Links-Rechts-Einteilung.

Eine starke Rolle für die Commons

Wie steht es um die Commons heute? Das werde ich in weiteren Artikeln noch versuchen zu beleuchten.

Mir kommt gerade der Gedanke in den Sinn: Sie wachsen überall.

Wie oben erwähnt, enstand mit zunehmenden digitalen Möglichkeiten eine neue Form der Commons. Leider gab es hier auch moderne Formen der Einhegungen. Github wurde von Microsoft übernommen, der Sardex (alternatives lokales Wirtschaftsnetzwerk) anscheinend von einer Investment-Firma. AWS (Amazon Web Services) verleibt sich gerne woanders entwickelte Projekte ein und bietet sie als zahlungspflichtige Services an. Krypto wurde -- weitgehend -- "gekapert".

Aber zum einen gibt es nicht nur den digital basierten Commons, es entsteht schon viel auf anderer Ebene, und zum anderen sind Commoners erfinderische Menschen...

Michel Bauwens hat in seinen Artikeln im Übrigen noch mehr zu den heutigen Commons zu sagen. Inbesondere beführwortet er das Kosmo-Lokale (Cosmo-Local). Was leicht ist (Wissen) wird geteilt, was Gewicht hat (etwa landwirtschaftliche und andere Produktion), wird an lokale Gegebenheiten angepasst und vor Ort bewerkstelligt.

Und das Zusammenspiel von Digitalem und Materiellem verspricht weitere Möglichkeiten.

In jedem Fall haben die Commons eine ausgleichende, regenerierende Kraft, die wir aufgrund der heutigen vielen Kriesen gar nicht ungenützt lassen können, ganz unabhängig von unserer sozialer Ebene - das gilt auch für die Superreichen.

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What is KYC/AML?

• The acronym stands for Know Your Customer / Anti Money Laundering.
• In practice it stands for the surveillance measures companies are often compelled to take against their customers by financial regulators.
• Methods differ but often include: Passport Scans, Driver License Uploads, Social Security Numbers, Home Address, Phone Number, Face Scans.
• Bitcoin companies will also store all withdrawal and deposit addresses which can then be used to track bitcoin transactions on the bitcoin block chain.
• This data is then stored and shared. Regulations often require companies to hold this information for a set number of years but in practice users should assume this data will be held indefinitely. Data is often stored insecurely, which results in frequent hacks and leaks.  
• KYC/AML data collection puts all honest users at risk of theft, extortion, and persecution while being ineffective at stopping crime. Criminals often use counterfeit, bought, or stolen credentials to get around the requirements. Criminals can buy "verified" accounts for as little as $200. Furthermore, billions of people are excluded from financial services as a result of KYC/AML requirements.

During the early days of bitcoin most services did not require this sensitive user data, but as adoption increased so did the surveillance measures. At this point, most large bitcoin companies are collecting and storing massive lists of bitcoiners, our sensitive personal information, and our transaction history.

Lists of Bitcoiners

KYC/AML policies are a direct attack on bitcoiners. Lists of bitcoiners and our transaction history will inevitably be used against us.

Once you are on a list with your bitcoin transaction history that record will always exist. Generally speaking, tracking bitcoin is based on probability analysis of ownership change. Surveillance firms use various heuristics to determine if you are sending bitcoin to yourself or if ownership is actually changing hands.  You can obtain better privacy going forward by using collaborative transactions such as coinjoin to break this probability analysis.

Fortunately, you can buy bitcoin without providing intimate personal information. Tools such as peach, hodlhodl, robosats, azteco and bisq help; mining is also a solid option: anyone can plug a miner into power and internet and earn bitcoin by mining privately.

You can also earn bitcoin by providing goods and/or services that can be purchased with bitcoin. Long term, circular economies will mitigate this threat: most people will not buy bitcoin - they will earn bitcoin - most people will not sell bitcoin - they will spend bitcoin.

There is no such thing as KYC or No KYC bitcoin, there are bitcoiners on lists and those that are not on lists.

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MetaMars has rapidly established itself as a standout project in the 2025 cryptocurrency market, with its $MARS token soaring over 3000%, driven by a visionary Mars-themed metaverse narrative, sophisticated tokenomics, a strong community, and strategic KOL partnerships led by M3 DAO. This momentum has now expanded into the Japanese market following successes in India, Russia, Vietnam, Turkey, and Germany, where top influencers with million-strong followings in cryptocurrency, technology, and finance have joined MetaMars’ “Builders Alliance.” Their expert insights and dynamic multi-platform promotional efforts have injected unparalleled energy into the MetaMars ecosystem, fueling explosive growth and deep community engagement. Celebrated as “The Web3 Metaverse of the Future,” this campaign has already surpassed 200,000 views, underscoring its powerful resonance and expanding influence.

The Strategic Decision to Enter Japan: A Market Analysis Japan’s cryptocurrency and metaverse landscape presents a unique opportunity. Crypto adoption has surged to 34% of the population in 2025, with over 15 million active users, making Japan a top-five global market by daily trading volume. Major exchanges like Bitflyer and Coincheck handle over $1.2 billion weekly, supported by clear regulations such as the Payment Services Act and FSA-approved frameworks that ensure stability for users and investors.

The metaverse sector is equally promising, projected to reach ¥16 trillion ($110 billion) by 2026. According to a 2025 Dentsu Research report, 62% of Japanese crypto holders are interested in metaverse projects, especially virtual land, NFTs, and blockchain gaming. This cultural affinity, combined with a tech-savvy population, creates an ideal environment for MetaMars’ Mars-themed universe.

From Grassroots to Grand Scale: The Catalyst for Mass Promotion While MetaMars began community building in Japan in 2024, the current phase marks a strategic pivot toward large-scale promotion designed to empower the local ecosystem—an effort undertaken closely with M3 DAO. This collaboration focuses on deepening community engagement through multifaceted support: educational programs, mentorship from local thought leaders, localized learning resources, and KOL-led offline events. M3 DAO’s expertise in DAO governance and community operations complements MetaMars’ metaverse infrastructure, creating synergy that fuels sustained growth.

This approach prioritizes organic development over mere expansion. Weekly Web3 education sessions in Japanese, hosted by M3 DAO’s regional ambassadors, guide users through blockchain fundamentals and $MARS token utilities. Local leaders—curated from early adopters and industry veterans—offer one-on-one mentorship, while a comprehensive library of video tutorials, infographics, and case studies (translated by native speakers) ensures accessible knowledge. KOLs play the role of "ecological architects" here, participating in the planning of local Tokyo metaverse workshops, NFT creation challenges and other activities, with their influence covering content creation, community operation and even the formulation of ecological development roadmaps.

Conclusion: Embracing the Japanese Cultural Metaverse Revolution As MetaMars deepens its roots in Japan, the project embarks on a transformative journey that fuses cultural heritage with cutting-edge metaverse technology. In collaboration with M3 DAO, the initiative focuses on crafting immersive experiences that resonate locally—from anime-inspired NFT collections co-created with Japanese gaming studios to digital renditions of cultural landmarks, where KOLs and community members serve as digital guides and content architects. These collaborations extend beyond aesthetics: Japanese KOLs involved in the MetaMars DAO lead beta testing for new features, ensuring technological advancements—from blockchain governance tools to payment integrations—align with user needs.

In the coming months, KOLs will spearhead "metaverse labs," inviting fans to co-design virtual festivals, traditional art exhibitions, and interactive storytelling experiences within the Mars ecosystem. Leveraging M3 DAO’s community-building expertise and local KOLs’ cultural translation capabilities, MetaMars aims not only to expand its user base but to nurture a metaverse ecosystem where Japanese digital culture thrives. This serves as a pivot to pave the way for similar initiatives in markets like South Korea and Taiwan. The Martian landscape is evolving into a vibrant canvas for cultural innovation, inviting every user, KOL, and creator to become both planners and builders of this new digital frontier.

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In the town of Brimstone, the sounds of grunting fill the empty Stygian Theater. An age-old battle is taking place between the actress Syd and her archenemy: a zipper. She struggles to get the corset-style vest, adorned with multiple single-board computers, to fully close. The zipper holds its ground, unwavering against the “light creamy mountains” in its path. The closer it gets, the higher the mountains rise, making its journey nearly impossible. However, that’s how the costume is designed—to accentuate and enhance Syd’s already large breasts. Great for ratings, horrible for getting ready on time for filming.

"This costume needs a redesign!"

Syd takes a deep breath. She swells her chest, exhales sharply, and yanks the zipper up as fast as she can. It finally clears the hurdle.

“There!”

Two single-board computers that nestle on the chest of the costume spring off, crashing into a collection of books in front of her. Syd shrugs, grabbing the vivid purple wig that has miraculously survived the chaos. She throws it on, tucking away her brunette hair, and completes her transformation into Nerissa, Courtesan of the Uranet and host of Nerissa's Caustic Cinema.

She checks her smartwatch: 1:15 PM. Today’s shoot was supposed to begin at 1.

“Not like Jules to be running late, Guess I’ll do some research.”

She pulls out her phone and opens an old issue of her favorite zine, Dreadistary. The zine focuses on monster sightings in a certain town in the Pacific Northwest, but Syd isn’t interested in those. The real meat for her is the horror movie reviews that fill the rest of the zine. They are a goldmine for finding new movies for the show. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been a new issue in over a year.

Syd’s eyes widen as she spots the golden phrase she is looking for:public domain.

“Wait! Bloodfalls Massacre is in the public domain!?”

She grabs the nearest notebook, her pen dances across the page as she jots down the information. The director’s daughter has convinced her dad to put the film in the public domain, sticking it to the production company that has weaseled the rights to Bloodfalls Massacre 2–5 from him. They have even rebooted the franchise, starting with a loose remake of 2, modifying the characters enough to be unshackled by his vision. Syd shakes her head, a smirk playing on her lips.

“Jules and Lou are going to love this!”

The door swings open, startling Syd. She looks up to see Jules standing in the doorway, a stack of papers in hand. Jules has waist-length, damaged black hair that frames her ivory skin, and her loose white vest and shorts reveal faint blue veins that match her piercing eyes. Syd wears a warm smile as she greets her.

“Hey, Jules.”

Jules drops the stack of papers in front of Syd.

“Views are dropping massively. We can barely afford food for the next month.”

She flops onto the floor behind Syd, her body curling into an ‘n’ shape. Syd flips through the stack of papers, her initial skepticism fading as she sees the numbers. The viewership data, spanning from the first episode’s launch in October last year to July 2025, shows a gut-wrenching decline. Thankfully, their reliance on public domain horror movies has stretched their food budget as far as it can go. Jules arches her back dramatically, letting out a scream of agony.

“Enough of this public domain schlock! We need horror with a bite! Something to help punch up our jokes! Anything fulfilling!”

Syd turns to look at her friend, her heart breaks at the sight of Jules’ despair. 

“If we can barely afford food, we can’t afford the rights to any film we please.”

“We could provide clout instead of money.”

The moment the word clout leaves her lips, Jules seems to regret it. The shine in her eyes vanishes, replaced by a hollow look. Syd returns to the stack of papers, hoping to find something—anything—that can help. Her eyes land on a proposal from Degrade, a newly formed TV station that is shaking up the industry. Skimming through the offer, she sees that they want the license for the show, with some on-brand integrations, in exchange for a massive upfront payment and fewer censored edits.

“You thinking of taking the Degrade offer?”

Jules covers her eyes with her hair before loudly voicing her disapproval.

“Please! I’ll never sell out to those crypto dorks.”

“It is a good offer, though.”

“You’ll regret the money when they have you dress up in tighter outfits for NFT photo-shoots.”

Syd’s nose wrinkles, and she recoils as if she’d just smelled something foul. The sight of her disgust sends Jules into a fit of laughter. She pulls more of her hair over her eyes before continuing.

“I kinda was considering it. Caustic Cinema got us control of the Stygian, the life we have in Brimstone. Didn’t want to toss away the money. But I know we’d both hate it too much.”

“Lou might enjoy it."

“That soulless puppy.”

Jules retreats into a fetal position and cutting the conversation short.

Syd adjusts her outfit, trying to make her breasts more comfortable. The movement reminds her that they are supposed to be filming now.

“No filming today?”

“Too depressed,”

Jules flips over to face Syd. A single blue eye peers out from behind her hair, searching for hope in Syd’s next words.

“Unless you found a more recent film?”

Syd hands Jules her notebook.

“Bloodfalls Massacre! That’s in the public domain?!”

Jules hops up to double-check the notes.

“Only the first one,”

“80s, in color, dumb teenagers, predatory adults, a decent amount of kills. Is that the one with an abundance of nudity?”

The franchise plays in Syd’s head as she tries to figure out which one Jules is thinking of. These types of cheesy movies are more her field of expertise than the social horror Jules prefers. After a moment, it clicks.

“That’s Bloodfalls Massacre 4: Valley Fest.”

“So not much to edit around. Not the bite I’m looking for, but…”

Jules trails off, her eyes scanning the notes Syd has written from the Dreadistary article. A small smile creeps onto her face.

“This revelation is prime for material!”

Syd feels a wave of relief. For a moment, she has managed to ease Jules’ worries. Jules pops up from reading, her energy renewed.

“Wait, do we have a copy of Bloodfalls Massacre?”

“Pretty sure I do. Give me a sec to clean up, then I’ll check,”

Syd bends down to gather the scattered papers. As she tries to tidy the mess, her eyes catch some scribbles on the back of the stack. She recognizes Lou’s messy handwriting.

“Did you look at the back of this? Lou left a note.”

We found a bunch of old PC towers. They’re in the building behind the theater. Maybe something you and Syd can salvage for the show?

Jules turns her attention back to the notebook, pulling a pen from her hair and starting to write. Syd gathers the last few scattered books and packs them up neatly. She hops up from the desk, curious about what movies they might find in the PCs. As she leaves, she notices Jules hasn’t budged.

“You’re not coming?”

Jules looks up at her, confusion etched on her face.

“You think the old execs who bummed around here really kept film backups? All you’ll probably find is weird fetish shit!”

“Wouldn’t hurt to check it out,”

Jules shakes her head, returning to her writing. Realizing Jules isn’t going to join her, Syd decides to kill two birds with one stone. She grabs the set of keys from her desk and tosses them at Jules. The jingling of the keys alerts Jules, and she catches them without fail.

“Fine, I’ll go check if there’s something salvageable while you check if I own Bloodfalls Massacre,”

Jules sways her head in approval, finally moving from the floor. They split up, Jules heads through the front of the theater while Syd goes out through one of the old doors marked “Exit.” Deep down, Syd knows Jules is probably right, but the thought of finding undiscovered movies is too irresistible to ignore.

The afternoon sun assaults Syd as soon as she steps outside. Blinking through the brightness, she sees the building is not far from the theater. She quickly jogs over, hoping to avoid the sweat that is already pooling in her suit—another con of the costume: it can't handle the summer heat.

The stench of stale plastic hangs heavy in the air, almost choking Syd as she opens the building door. Inside, sickly yellow PC towers lie scattered across the floor, their tangled wires and dusty casings creating a chilling atmosphere that makes Syd feel uneasy. She hesitates for a moment, feeling the sweat slide down her back, before stepping inside.

Closing the door to keep the heat out, Syd is left in total darkness. She mutters in dissatisfaction as she fumbles along the wall, searching for the light switch. When she finally flips it, only a few bulbs flicker to life, their dim glow barely illuminating the room. Syd’s face goes blank as she watches the bulbs struggle to stay on.

“They couldn’t fix the lights in the building?”

She walks along the makeshift path that has already been cleared, gently kicking aside PCs to give herself more room. The sheer number of them is impressive—stacks of towers form small mounds, their dislodged panels spilling out old wires like entrails. It feels less like a storage room and more like a decrepit technology graveyard.

“This is definitely more than just studio execs’ PCs,”

Syd ducks under a pile that had tipped over and joined with an adjacent stack to form a makeshift arch.

“Probably editors’ and VFX workstations!”

Her mounting excitement gets the better of her when she slips on a loose wire and crashes into a pile of PCs. A wet, congealed substance clings to her arm, and she recoils, whipping the grime off with a grimace. She double-clicks the crown of her watch to activate its flashlight mode, the dim light illuminating a few feet in front of her. It isn’t much, but it will save her from another grime attack.

The path opens up into a more spacious area where the piles of PCs are smaller and scattered. Syd pauses, realizing she doesn’t know what to look for. Obviously, the ones with wires sticking out are no good, but any of the others could be viable. She walks past a small makeshift circle of four PCs surrounding a tower in the center, deliberately ignoring it—until the light reflects something that makes her eyes sparkle.

It isn’t as yellowed as the surrounding PCs, but that isn’t what catches her attention. It is the fading stickers from the popular 80s horror series Pumpkin Patch that make her feel like she’s found a winner. She leaps toward it, kicking over two of the surrounding PCs to make room for her prize. Syd grabs the tower, only to have it slip out of her hands, leaving a slimy residue on her palms. She retches, trying her best not to add to the sickly shroud that already surrounds her. Shaking it off, she takes a deep breath and picks up the PC again. This time, the cooling touch of metal and plastic eases her discomfort. 

It isn’t long before she notices a blue light focused on her watch. Its deep hue completely washes over the dim white light, snaking up her arm and stopping to focus on the single-board computer on her hip. Syd’s blood runs cold as she frantically searches for the source of the light. Her heart races until she spots it near the back exit of the room, almost hidden behind a completely destroyed PC. 

It is different from the others—or what you’d expect a PC to look like. The classic rectangular silhouette is nowhere to be seen. Instead, it is cylindrical, more compact, standing like an ominous shrine of the future amidst the decaying past. The blue light intensifies, illuminating not only Syd but the entire room. A single thought runs through her mind as she shields her eyes from the intense glow:

Why is this one still plugged in?

Opening her eyes, Syd sees that the blue light has stopped. Not only that, but the room is now fully lit as the struggling bulbs have finally started to work. She gets a better look at the strange PC. It no longer has the ominous aura it has before. Instead, it looks like a prop from a science fiction movie, its chrome case warmed by a faint red light that makes it seem almost harmless in the corner of the room.

Syd hesitates for a moment. The strange PC looks like a better treasure trove than the one in her hand, but the memory of the blue light sends shivers down her spine. She decides to leave it alone. Turning quickly, she prepares to leave the storage room. She walks a little more carelessly now that she can see further ahead, but an uneasy feeling begins to swell inside her.

Not only does she feel like she is missing something, but there is an irritating pain in her right hand—a warm, burning sensation that seems to engulf it. She puts down the PC to check for any cuts where grime might seep in, but there are none. As she rubs her hand, she glances at the mess in front of her and the entrance. It is only when she sees the wired entrails of the PCs scattered everywhere that it dawns on her.

Syd turns around and looks back at the chrome PC nestled alone in the corner.

“Wasn’t it behind a broken tower?”

Immediately, something grabs her left hand. She turns to see a hand made of wires, its cold, metallic grip tightening around her wrist. She stares in bewilderment as a force pushes the maze of PCs against the entrance, barricading it. The tremendous force causes one of the three lights to go out. Shards from the towers fly toward the hand, coiling together to complete its humanoid form. Discarded side panels mold together, forming a trench coat around the figure. 

Syd tries to free herself from the figure’s grasp, but the wires are entangled with her watch. The figure flicks its finger, signaling a PC to hurl itself directly at her. The impact knocks the wind out of her, sending her flying free of the humanoid’s grip. She lands a few feet away as the PC continues its trajectory, crashing into the wall with a loud thud. The impact knocks out the second light, leaving only part of the storage room lit. 

Numerous white and red composite ports rush into the figure’s empty sockets, forming eyes—eyes that stare directly at Syd as she writhes in pain. She struggles to catch her breath, panic flooding her body as the dim light makes it harder to see the figure. 

The figure walks slowly toward her, each clatter of its footsteps instilling fear. It holds out its hands, signaling shards of RAM to cobble together into a serrated knife. A harsh voice, lost in digital noise, escapes from the figure:

“We were supposed to rule Hollywood together.”

Syd freezes, her mind racing to make sense of the words. Then, with a surge of adrenaline, she bolts for the back exit next to the strange PC. She only gets a few steps in before wires trip her, sending her crashing to the ground face-first. Stars obscure her vision until the sight of the figure’s mangled face causes them to scatter. 

A horrible smile appears on its wire-filled face. Grime pools between the haphazardly placed USB ports, forming teeth that it wipes away in excitement. It rips one of the single-board computers from Syd’s costume and gently slides it into its chest. The figure quivers as its frame seems to bulk up from the action.

"But then you ran to the first director who looked in your direction."

The figure begins to slide the knife up Syd’s costume, the sound of fabric tearing echoing through the storage room. Syd tries to fight back, but she is helpless, pinned down by the figure. Her left arm is outstretched, held in place by the wires entangled with her watch, while her legs are bound together, preventing her from kicking. She frantically looks around for something to use as a weapon, but her blood runs cold when she sees her right hand. It has become a wild jumble of pixels, the burning pain now subsides.

“Not a…”

A sharp nick cuts off her words as the blade slices her chest. The figure uses extra force when the knife reaches Syd’s chest, the dullness of the RAM blade struggling to cut through the extra padding. Blood flows from the shallow cut as Syd begins to lose hope. Scenes from her life flash before her: meeting Jules when they are nine, Jules begging her to star in a middle school film, her mom and Jules comforting her as she watches her favorite movie at sixteen. Tears well up in her eyes as she thinks this might be the end.

The faint sound of banging stops Syd’s tears instantly. She concentrates on the noise, trying to pinpoint its source. With each bang, it grows louder and louder until she realizes it is coming from the entrance of the building.

It must be Jules and Lou!

The thought gives Syd a glimmer of hope. Now, all she has to do is survive long enough for backup to arrive. But when she sees the knife pointed directly at her chest, she knows she has no chance.

Unless…

She looks at her right hand again, staring hard to find something that resembles her finger. When she spots it, she concentrates on trying to move it. The figure reels back the knife as Syd desperately wills her finger to twitch. Suddenly, she sees it move. She lets out a gasp as the figure prepares to stab her.

“In the end, you’re not cut out for the business,”

It drives the knife down, but Syd grabs its hand just before the blade can plunge into her chest. The figure is taken aback by her strength and struggles to complete its action. Using all her might, Syd pushes the knife further and further away. Her breath becomes ragged as the banging grows louder and louder.

Just a bit more…

That is all she can think about as she holds the figure back. Visibly enraged, the figure roars as wires protrude from its chest. The shrill squeal shatters Syd’s eardrums, but she continues to hold it back. The wires rip off the last of the single-board computers, dragging them back to the humanoid. Its eyes roll back as it quivers, bulking up again with newfound strength. The figure overwhelms Syd, but by then, it is too late.

A thunderous boom shakes the entire storage room, extinguishing the last of the light. PCs rain down, freed from the barricade they have formed. The clattering noise pulls the figure’s attention away from Syd. In the midst of the chaos, drenched in sunlight, a figure enters the storage room.

The humanoid leaps away from Syd, ready to fight whoever has interrupted its killing. Clutching the fragments of her costume, Syd’s hope is replaced by confusion. The silhouette is much larger than Jules and wields what appears to be a massive hammer. Syd knows nothing like that exists in Brimstone.

“Man, that’s one nasty virus,”

A gruff voice bellows from the silhouette who is revealed to be a woman. As the woman steps into the light, her appearance becomes clear. She is incredibly muscular, looking like a hero straight out of a comic book. Her piercing deep blue eyes and shining blonde hair give her an almost otherworldly presence. She lowers her hammer, revealing that it is almost as large as she is. The woman notices Syd and flashes a bright white smile.

“Don’t worry! I’ll kill it in a heartbeat!”

The words are lost on Syd against the ringing in her ears, but the woman’s thumbs-up reassures her that help has indeed arrived. Stunned by the size of the hammer, the figure signals for more broken RAM to raise its knife to match. In an instant, it lunges at the woman, attempting to slice off her head. Effortlessly, the woman spins the hammer and blocks the attack. Her warm smile turns to a playful grin as the figure’s eyes bulge in confusion.

“You’re pretty strong for an anomaly,”

The figure jumps back, crouching like an animal backed into a corner. Wires rip through its trench coat, searching for any PCs that are still intact. It hurls five of them at the woman, waiting a beat before charging at her. The woman spins the hammer, shattering each of the PCs as they approach. 

After the beat, the figure absorbs the shattered PCs, growing larger in mass. It prepares its knife, now in the shape of a machete, to attack the woman. Unexpectedly, the woman lunges at the figure, swinging the hammer down and completely destroying not only the machete but the figure’s arm as well. A horrible shriek comes from the figure as it slowly backs away from the woman.

Grime falls from the figure’s face as fear begins to grip it. It looks around, desperate for something to use, but there are no PCs left. Trembling, it believes it is out of options—until its eyes land on Syd, frozen in awe. She has been holding her torn costume together with her left hand, her smartwatch now fully exposed. 

The figure grimaces at the thought of using her watch as a last resort. It is a treat to savor after killing Syd, but it is the only way to ensure its survival. It sends most of the newly absorbed wires to its legs, its mass tripling as it prepares to pounce on Syd in one fell swoop. 

Unfortunately for it, the woman sees what it is about to do.

“Oh no, you don’t!”

The woman twists the handle of her hammer, causing the head to glow with a fierce light. She charges at full speed, twisting her body for the final attack. With a mighty swing, she brings the hammer down on the figure, crushing it completely. The impact shakes the ground, drowning out the figure’s shriek.

The woman smiles with satisfaction as she slings the hammer over her shoulder. She glances around the storage room, her eyes lighting up when she notices the chrome PC, untouched by the chaos. She turns to Syd.

“Look, you—”

She starts, then gasps. She hasn’t gotten a good look at Syd before, but now she does. Shaking her head, she approaches Syd, who is still sitting on the floor, clutching her torn costume.

“Wait, are you Nerissa from Caustic Cinema?!”

The woman asks trying hold back her excitement. Syd’s eyes widen in shock.

“Y. Yes,”

The woman’s eyes light up even more.

“I’m a huge fan! Can I get an autograph?”

Still stunned by the fact that her savior is also a fan, Syd breathes a sigh of relief. At least there is a way to repay her.

“Do you have a pen?”

The woman scrambles around, pulling a notebook and pen from her back pocket. Syd reaches for the pen but freezes halfway. Her right hand is back to normal. She stares at it in confusion, slowly turning it to make sure it is really healed. She realizes she’s been staring too long when the woman gives her a questioning look. Syd smiles sheepishly before grabbing the pen to sign the notebook.

Thanks for saving me. From Nerissa.

She pauses, realizing she doesn’t know who to make it out to. Then she remembers hearing the word “virus” over the ringing earlier.

“Should I make it out to Virus Buster?”

The woman’s eyes light up even more.

“YES!”

Syd finishes the autograph, and the woman holds the notebook as if it is a golden treasure. Then, as if remembering something, the woman leans closer to Syd’s ear and whispers,

“Hey, I know it’s the backdrop of the show, but you really shouldn’t mess with Uranet servers. Nothing but trouble.”

The revelation hits Syd like a tidal wave, leaving her speechless. The woman leaves the storage room, still admiring the autograph. She did a little jump, unable to contain her excitement.

“Best job ever!”

The roar of a motorcycle fades into the distance as a desperate scream echoes through the storage room.

“Syd!”

Jules bursts into the room, her face pale with worry. Right behind her is Lou, who stops in confusion as the sound of the motorcycle disappears.

“What the hell is Stars and Stripe doing here?”

“Shut up, Lou! And help me with Syd!”

She circles Syd, checking her for injuries. The sight of the blood and the marks from the wires drains what little color Jules has left. What worries her most is how unresponsive Syd is. She hasn’t even noticed Jules, despite her frantic circling. Jules tries to see what Syd is staring at, but there is nothing unusual among the scattered computer parts. 

Suddenly, Syd grabs Jules, causing her to jump. Syd’s grip is uncharacteristically strong, and Jules can see her skin beginning to bruise. The warm, familiar look in Syd’s eyes is gone, replaced by a distant, calculating gaze. Jules worries that Syd has been traumatized by what happened, but it is the opposite. Syd’s mind is racing, trying to process the discovery and the concerns Jules has expressed earlier. 

A mad smile spreads across Syd’s face as she reaches a conclusion. Jules’ unease grows until she hears a stunned gasp from Lou.

“Holy!”

Jules looks at him, confused, until she follows his gaze back to Syd. Her eyes widen as she realizes why Lou has gasped. Syd has used both hands to hold Jules in place, leaving nothing to hold her costume together. Her supple breasts are exposed, their warm vanilla hue glowing in the dim light of the storage room. Even the slightest movements - like Jules turning - cause them to bounce gently. Totally distracting Lou.

Jules' face turns red with a mixture of embarrassment and anger. She can't believe he is more focused on gawking than checking if Syd is okay. Just as she is about to yell at him, Syd pulls her closer and locks eyes with her. The warmth Jules remembers from Syd's eyes and smile is back, easing her worries.

“I know how to save the show!”

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From designer Anna Cairns, the workhorse monospace typeface is rooted in feminist theory.

Across CMM Coda’s subtly imperfect, analogue-inspired letterforms – based on the IBM Selectric typewriter’s typeface, Dual Basic – Anna practically and conceptually brings together the feminist legacy of software and typewriters with the aesthetic sensibilities of the genre associated with the industry. Additionally, CMM Coda enables Anna to explore her intrigue in the blurry terminology used in text production, such as typing, coding and writing, “especially now that most text is created digitally,” Anna says, with typefaces being software in their own right. “We also associate a certain look with each of these modalities,” she continues, “so my idea was to create a typeface that can jump all of these genres simply through a play with white space,” an approach that resulted in CMM Coda’s multiple styles.

Learn more about Comma at https://commatype.com/, a new foundry founded by the Berlin-based type designer Anna Cairns.

Continue reading at https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/comma-type-cmm-coda-graphic-design-project-110625

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Strategy, the company formerly known as MicroStrategy, is expanding its already massive bitcoin bet.

The software company, led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, just announced it’s upsizing its Series A Perpetual Stride Preferred Stock (STRD) offering from $250 million to $1 billion—nearly four times the original amount.

Michael Saylor on X

This will raise about $979.7 million in net proceeds which will be used for general corporate purposes, with a big emphasis on buying more bitcoin.

“The point of our engine is to generate BTC torque via surgical management of our ATMs (at-the-market offerings) in every single trading day,” said Saylor, describing the financing as part of Strategy’s broader “Bitcoin engine.”

STRD will be sold at $85 per share with 11,764,700 shares to be issued on June 10, subject to closing conditions. Each share pays a 10% annual dividend, paid quarterly, starting September 30, 2025—but only if declared by the board.

What makes STRD unique is its structure. Unlike some of its previous offerings—STRF and STRK—the STRD stock does not allow missed dividends to accrue, cannot be converted into common stock, has no maturity date, and is non-callable for life.

So STRD is a permanent, high-yield instrument for professional and institutional investors who want returns tied to Strategy’s bitcoin plans rather than traditional equity growth.

“It’s our high-yield credit instrument,” said Saylor. “Compared to STRK or STRF, it should be a higher-yielding preferred instrument.”

In addition to high yields, the STRD offering has some protective clauses for both the company and investors. Strategy can redeem all outstanding shares if the total number of STRD shares drops below 25% of the original issue.

Shareholders can demand a buyback of their shares at $100 each (plus any declared but unpaid dividends) if there’s a “fundamental change” such as a restructuring or sale of the company.

Liquidation preference will be daily priced, based on recent market performance, trading prices and historical averages.

The whole point of this offering is to buy more bitcoin. The company already has 580,995 BTC, worth a whopping $61.2 billion, with bitcoin at around $106,000.

With $1 billion raised from this offering, it could buy around 9,700 more bitcoin at current prices, a big jump from the 705 BTC it bought for $75.1 million on June 2.

This is part of Saylor’s company’s ongoing and aggressive plan to be the biggest corporate holder of bitcoin, and so far, it has been very successful.

Related: Strategy Doubles its Bitcoin Acquisition Program

Financial analysts and digital asset experts are taking notice of the company’s growing influence in the Bitcoin space.

A VanEck report recently said the MSTR stock is trading at a +112% premium to the fair value of its bitcoin holdings and core software business—mainly due to future bitcoin purchases and investor sentiment.

But some warn that less experienced investors are overpaying for indirect bitcoin exposure by buying into these stocks, which are increasingly tied to bitcoin’s future price and less to the original business of the company.

Many have advised investors to go directly for bitcoin and keep it in self-custody when possible, instead of buying shares of companies or ETFs.

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Vor ein paar Tagen stieß ich auf einen faszinierenden Artikel von Michel Bauwens, Mitbegründer der P2PFoundation, mit Links zu weiteren Texten – zum Beispiel über den Puls der Commons –, die ich ebenfalls äußerst interessant fand.

Der Artikel zeigt unter anderem gut, wie unterschiedlich Commons aussehen können, so dass ich ihn heute als Ausgangspunkt nehmen möchte, um ein paar Puzzle-Steine in mein entstehendes Bild der Commons einzufügen.

Das Grundmuster menschlichen Zusammenlebens?

Bauwens betrachtet die Commons aus historischer Sicht, wie sie sich in verschiedenen Zeiten unterschiedlich manifestieren, manchmal gar nahezu verschwinden und heute in wiederum veränderter Form neu entstehen – und warum sie noch weit stärker werden sollten.

Er legt zunächst dar, was die Commons sind und was nicht. (zum Beispiel nichts, was vom Staat verwaltet wird, wie ein öffentlicher Park) Ausschlaggebend ist, dass eine Ressource von ihren Herstellern oder Benutzern selbst betreut wird. Commons entstehen dabei durch Beziehungen. Sie sind etwas spezifisch Menschliches und eine Wahl, die „fast immer“ zur Verfügung steht, so Bauwens. Eine die Geschichte überdauernde menschliche Praxis.

Er nennt drei verschiedene geschichtlichen Entwicklungen:

• Eine lineare - Wie präsentiert sich der Commons über verschiedene, komplexer werdende, Phasen der Menschheitsgeschichte hinweg?
• Eine hin und her schwingendende: In der Geschichte einer Zivilisation werden die Commons in Zeiten von Überfluss -- und daraus resultierender Verschwendung uns steigender Ressourcen-Extraktion -- unterdrückt, konstitutieren sich aber dann als Gegenbewegung wieder neu.
• Eine stufenweise: Die heutigen, mit neuen Möglichkeiten ausgestatteten Formen der Commons könnten in der nächsten Phase unserer Zivilisation (oder nach unserer Zivilisation) eine entscheidende Rolle spielen.

Wenn man verschiedene Arten des Austausches betrachtet (Bauwens beruft sich hier auf Alan Fiske), kann man geschichtlich analysieren, welche dieser Muster zu verschiedenen Zeiten vorrangig waren (dies tat Kojin Karatani in The Structure of World History von 2014).

Die vier Muster sind:

• Gemeinschaftliche Beteiligung, Commons (die Gemeinschaft baut mir ein Haus, und ich helfe später bei einem anderen Hausbau mit; ein Beispiel aus neuerer Zeit ist die Entwicklung von Linux)
• Wechselseitiger Austausch (Geschenkökonomie – es wird eine etwa gleichwertige Leistung zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt erwartet)
• Hierarchisch bedingte Verteilung, wie im Feudalismus
• Marktwirtschaft: Es gibt ein allgemeines Zahlungsmittel mit einem bestimmten Wert.

Bauwens: „Entscheidend ist jedoch, dass die Menschheit ständig bestrebt ist, Modus A wiederherzustellen, denn die Menschen haben eine kulturelle und wahrscheinlich auch allgemeine Vorliebe für ein geselliges Leben in kleinen, vertrauten Gruppen. Aber menschliche Gruppen versuchen, dies auf jeweils höheren Komplexitätsebenen zu tun, in einem ständigen Versuch, die extraktive Logik der Zivilisation zu mäßigen.“ (Katarani bezeichnet eine Verbindung von Commoning und Geschenkökonomie in stammesorientierten Kulturen als Modus A)

Commons durch die Zeiten - ein kurzer Abriss

In der ursprünglichsten Form der Commons in Jäger- und Sammler-Gemeinschaften, werden Nahrung und sonstige Ressourcen mit der ganzen Gemeinschaft geteilt - dies ist zumindest die vorherrschende Form des Austauschs.

Im Zuge der Agrar-Revolution geht es um das gemeinsame Bewirtschaften von Flächen.

Im Mittelalter entwickelt sich in Europa das Feudalsystem. Auch hier werden manche Felder aber noch von den Dorfbewohnern gemeinsam verwaltet.

Ab dem 16. Jahrhundert fanden, am stärksten in England, die Enclosures (auf deutsch Einhegungen) statt. Das heißt, dass Felder zur effizienteren Bewirtschaftung von den Besitzern zusammengelegt und mit Zäunen versehen wurden.

Besonders im 19. Jahrhundert, mit dem Aufkommen der Industrialisierung, nahm diese Entwicklung immer stärker zu. Die landwirtschaftlichen Commons wurden dadurch weitgehend zerstört.

Im industriellen Kapitalismus, als die Arbeiter kaum Rechte hatten, und es auch um das bloße Überleben ging, entwickelte sich ein sozialer Commons Dieser bestand darin, dass sich die Arbeiter gegenseitig halfen und sich gegenseitig versicherten. Aus dieser Bewegung entstand dann der Sozialstaat. Der Staat übernahm also Aufgaben, die die Menschen zuvor füreinander geleistet hatten.

Man könnte daher sagen, dass im Kapitalismus die natürlichen Commons-Ressourcen privatisiert und die sozialen Commons verstaatlicht wurden.

In der Moderne waren sich viele Menschen der Bedeutung von Commons gar nicht mehr bewusst.

Mit dem Internet, dem World Wide Web und weiteren digitalen Techniken erschlossen sich dann neue Möglichkeiten. Mit Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) und Peer Production, sowie den Creative Commons Lizenzen, enstand eine neue Inkarnation der Commons. Und damit ist die Entwicklung noch nicht abgeschlossen...

Warum Commons nicht in ein Links-Rechts-Schema passen

Mit seinem Streifzug durch die Geschichte zeigt Bauwens, wie vielfältig die Commons sein können, und warum ihnen in der heutigen Zeit eine starke Rolle zukommen sollte. Nebenbei ergibt sich für mich auch, dass sie jenseits von linker oder rechter Ideologie liegen. Hierzu eine kurze Zwischenbetrachtung von mir:

Weil es um kollektives Handeln geht, und auch wegen des Namens („hört sich an wie Kommunismus“, meinte meine Mutter), entsteht leicht der Eindruck, es handele sich um ein besonders linksgerichtetes Phänomen.

Eine gut eingespielte Fußballmannschaft agiert auch als Kollektiv. Der Verein verwaltet vielleicht ein Clubhaus. Wohl kaum jemand würde deswegen den Verein als links bezeichnen.

Freilich sind die Mitglieder heutiger Commons-Bewegungen vorwiegend „progressiv“, zuweilen auf eine rigide Weise. Bauwens hat damit schon eine leidvolle Erfahrung gemacht. Aber Commons als soziales System sind es nicht. Dafür spricht allein schon die Tatsache, dass es sie viel länger gibt als die politische Links-Rechts-Einteilung.

Eine starke Rolle für die Commons

Wie steht es um die Commons heute? Das werde ich in weiteren Artikeln noch versuchen zu beleuchten.

Mir kommt gerade der Gedanke in den Sinn: Sie wachsen überall.

Wie oben erwähnt, enstand mit zunehmenden digitalen Möglichkeiten eine neue Form der Commons. Leider gab es hier auch moderne Formen der Einhegungen. Github wurde von Microsoft übernommen, der Sardex (alternatives lokales Wirtschaftsnetzwerk) anscheinend von einer Investment-Firma. AWS (Amazon Web Services) verleibt sich gerne woanders entwickelte Projekte ein und bietet sie als zahlungspflichtige Services an. Krypto wurde -- weitgehend -- "gekapert".

Aber zum einen gibt es nicht nur den digital basierten Commons, es entsteht schon viel auf anderer Ebene, und zum anderen sind Commoners erfinderische Menschen...

Michel Bauwens hat in seinen Artikeln im Übrigen noch mehr zu den heutigen Commons zu sagen. Inbesondere beführwortet er das Kosmo-Lokale (Cosmo-Local). Was leicht ist (Wissen) wird geteilt, was Gewicht hat (etwa landwirtschaftliche und andere Produktion), wird an lokale Gegebenheiten angepasst und vor Ort bewerkstelligt.

Und das Zusammenspiel von Digitalem und Materiellem verspricht weitere Möglichkeiten.

In jedem Fall haben die Commons eine ausgleichende, regenerierende Kraft, die wir aufgrund der heutigen vielen Kriesen gar nicht ungenützt lassen können, ganz unabhängig von unserer sozialer Ebene - das gilt auch für die Superreichen.

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