Ray Svitla

@ray-svitla

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A passport is a blockchain without a chain. Just a fragile ledger of where you’ve been, and who still legally lets you in. I’m a Belarusian in exile with 10 new stamps and no country that can safely renew my identity. Montenegro was supposed to be a quick hop. Instead, it birthed a series: The Embassy That Doesn’t Exist Stateless doesn’t mean voiceless.

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almost two weeks off. one passport. 10 stamps. 6 interviews with the future of diplomacy bubble. 5 hotels. 3 days of workshops in Montenegro with @johnsmithtrust . 2 ordeal days negotiating with @turkishairlines bureaucracy in Istanbul Airport. welcome to my travel vlog. no pressure. just one exile Belarusian with a half-full passport and questionable optimism so, where to start?

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🌌 Don’t Panic. But do check this out. You’re invited to the Hitchhiker Guide to Wiki – a 24-hour decentralized hackathon celebrating the 30-year anniversary of the first Wiki Starts tonight. March 24. 9 p.m. GMT. Online, messy, brilliant. We’re building the Guide for the next 30 years. It’s part science fiction. Part open-source improv. Fully planetary. Featuring: – Ward Cunningham (created the first wiki) – Jeremy Ruston (creator of TiddlyWiki) – A new tech stack built by nerds & hitchhikers – Global decentralized studios (London, Lisbon, Istanbul, Argentina, Nigeria, Malawi, USA… and counting to 42 This isn’t just nostalgia. We’re building. A new prototype of the Guide is already in orbit—now it’s time to imagine how it evolves. Everything is being documented, improvised, and co-created. ➡️Register https://lu.ma/7nnl4zrq

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is this peak performance or peak procrastination?

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planning to be in Barcelona all next week—who should I meet? aso, looking for a place to stay for the week. promise to record a podcast with you in return🌝 /barcelona

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5/ or is this just a glitch in my head? anyway—are we still the main characters?

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4/ at this point, the real alpha isn’t speed>>>time travel is possible—if you know how to steal, remix, and weaponize the right fragments of internet homework. the right Discord leaks. the right GitHub repos the right wrong ideas will win because the alpha is curation

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2/ the "creator economy" is worth $50B–$250B AI startups raised $324M in 2023 to automate content TRANSLATION: we’re in the middle of an arms race. and the question is—are humans still the main characters?

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3/ this is NOT the end of creators this is the end of "content" as a finished product the next wave is modular creation - Ideas stack like LEGOs - posts mutate into prototypes - audiences become co-builders - that is why im so interested in /farcaster -like social protocols

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1/ AI trades faster than your thoughts meme stocks pump on pure, uncut vibes reality is algorithmic so what’s left? DUP—Deeply Unhinged Posting

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been in Madrid 2 weeks now. it grabs you fast—language, speed, ease. been in Lisbon 2 yrs, still can’t say much past "Obrigado"—’cause it bends to you Portugal felt like a port, a place to launch from. Spain wants you to stay slightly terrifying for a hitchhiker like me..

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5/ what’s the weirdest way you’ve ever studied someone? asking for a friend..

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4/ either way—stay tuned. and more importantly, stay evolving.

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2/ scanned the place with lidar. placed a cat sticker on his mirror. measured the entropy levels of his astronomically huge tv.

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3/ why? because podcasts should be immersive. or maybe i just have boundary issues.

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1/ spent three days in fried’s apartment, mapping his entire personality

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ugh, too bad the timing’s anything but European 🥲

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3/ transparency International and other NGOs are investigating large-scale fraud, particularly with the 800,000+ Georgian diaspora—significant, given only 3.8 million people live within Georgia. GD may have exploited residency data to vote on behalf of those unable to participate in person. this all reminds me why I live in Lisbon now and not in Minsk or Kyiv. And it’s why I wish my Georgian friends the resilience you show time and again many thank to Oniani Tamara for the review and additional facts for this post

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2/ transparent ballots paired with GD’s surveillance of voting boxes and booths created intense pressure, and vote secrecy was widely violated. nearly everyone who voted experienced this firsthand—a climate where privacy was simply disregarded. concerns also surround electronically-cast votes, which may lead to re-elections in certain precincts. With little confidence in Georgia’s courts, NGOs are already considering international appeals to uphold election integrity. HarrisX exit poll in Georgia raised major red flags: over 8% of votes don’t add up. in Marneuli, GD’s support polled at 40%, yet official results show it nearly doubled to 80%. that gap points to serious issues with vote counts

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1/ while the western world partied on Halloween, I was truly scared by something closer to homeland. the so-called "elections" in Georgia have turned into a chilling reminder. Georgian Dream (GD), a pro-Russian party, claims a 16% lead, yet every credible poll ahead of the vote showed a 10% advantage for the opposition. something here defies logic it all started making sense after yesterday’s session with John Smith Trust where observers reported proxy NGOs, state-aligned precinct monitors, and even criminal elements intimidating voters, particularly in minority regions reports reveal clear ballot manipulation, with evidence of ruling party proxies influencing voting sites. this, along with vote-buying and administrative abuse, appears to have powered GD’s “victory”

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