Sarah Friend

@isthisanart

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NEW INSTITUTIONS SQUAD ENERGY NETWORKED SPIRITUALITY The definitive Other Internet book is finally here, documenting 6 years of research on the cultural economies of crypto. https://otherinternet.metalabel.com/other-internet-book?variantId=1 It collects nearly all our published essays, but there's much more: - 🆕 4 new mini essays from Toby, Sam, Laura, and Aaron about how OI evolved and worked behind the scenes, a beautiful introduction from the ever-wise @keikreutler, and an interview on the state of independent research with Nadia Asparouhova - 🤫 6 never-published rough-cut essays from our super secret internal learning processes - ⏳ 1 existential timeline, documenting the changing story of crypto over OI's existence Thank you for growing up with us. This book is for everyone who's been with us the whole way, for the day ones, for everyone who was ever in the squad, for our haters, and for the next generation of kids who play for keeps. The internet is over. Long live the other internet.

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saying "thank you" to the chatbot is Pascal's wager for AGI

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ya trust always has a context: something is trusted by someone about/to do something. the word "trustless" has been driving me crazy from the start 💀

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ah these are both great. I'll be teaching an intro to decentralized social in a few months, and I might include your post on this in the readings, if all good w you. I've been in agreement that the word "decentralization" is almost meaningless, at least without further explanations, for some time ... but I still find myself encountering it regularly in the wild (as in this upcoming curriculum "Dweb for creators" lol)

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wow I didn't know this about the Quakers, but that's extremely interesting - will have to read more about it! Have always felt a bit connected to them because of the name (Friend) haha

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questions for and about decentralized alternatives to big tech originally wrote this in early 2024 for a book chapter but publication has been indefinitely stalled, so dropping it on the blog https://blog.isthisa.com/decentralization-and-its-discontents/

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“lifeforms” by sarah friend (@isthisanart) “lifeforms are NFT-based entities. Like any living thing, lifeforms need regular care in order to thrive. If not properly looked after, lifeforms die. A lifeform that has died will no longer appear in wallets, is not transferable, and cannot be brought back to life in any way. How do you care for a lifeform? Within 90 days of receiving it, you must give it away.”

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AI agents HATE this one weird trick for coming up with new art ideas ... wait. pray. do nothing. wake up suddenly in the middle of the night knowing

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🚨How to Die a Good Death with Sarah Friend While at Devcon 2024 I spoke to @isthisanart, artist and software developer. She was a research fellow at Summer of Protocols studying the death of protocols and published a paper on "Good Death". FULL EPISODE BELOW

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I'm on the jury for this fellowship with metagov, applications currently open for artists and researchers interested in experimenting with governance 🪺 Due Jan 20 https://metagov.org/join/jobs/governable-space-makers-fellowship

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there's a lot one could say about this, but I'm only gonna comment on one part here. As an artist my business is beauty, and while it is very very tempting to think beauty aligns with the good, it's actually amoral. It has its own axis https://mnovendstern.com/TechBrother

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I haven't! and I'm a beginner, 我才八個月前開始 haha - I just write the characters on grid paper, my handwriting is not pretty I'm doing it mostly for the mnemonic value

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I've been learning Chinese and this maps startlingly onto my experience w 漢字. My hypothesis has been that it's related to the same neurological phenomenon that makes the memory palace effective, aka memory is spatial and moving the hand is enough to trigger it https://x.com/prmshra/status/1862532036394983596?t=-2S2nmKPANzHcrDrdF3JKA&s=19

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"Protocol art relies heavily on technical literacy and, as a result, is often perceived as hermetic. The blockchain is not a distribution channel for images but rather the material of the art itself." h/t @isthisanart https://worldcomputersculpture.garden/essay

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someone stole my umbrella tn in the network state. bearish

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languages are a kind of role-based access for cities

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I'm compiling a reader for my students - this looks good, but was thinking more bite-size

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favourite texts about mechanism design, good for introducing an audience to the field? or alternatively, protocols or projects that make good case studies?

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