Our Story - Club of Rome | The Fifth Element

"The concept of The Fifth Element emanates the determination to safeguard Life. It has dreams that are built on life-inspired learning, drawing equally from indigenous science and cutting-edge research. People of all ages and backgrounds are invited to collaborate to learn how to approach humanity’s existential concerns in their own unique ways as learners and teachers, citizens and experts. 

The Fifth Element aims to shift focus from stakeholders to people as human beings, from teaching to learning, from colonial mindsets to self-organisation, from scarcity, competition, and dispossession, to abundance, collaboration and emergence. It aims to foster new meanings and dissonance rather than being limited to problem and solution – oriented mindsets. "

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German Police Investigate Author Over Posts Criticizing Netanyahu

"German Police Investigate Author Over Posts Criticizing Netanyahu
The raid on Jürgen Todenhöfer’s home underscores the shrinking space for free expression in Germany."

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When One Company Owns Your Memory - Decentralization Research Center

" a user-owned, secure, interoperable preference layer. Instead of letting platforms infer who you are from your history of clicks and watch time, HCP asks you to say what you want in natural language, then share only the parts you choose, with granular scopes, revocation, and auditability. Your preferences become legible, portable, and enforceable across all assistants, which lowers the cost of switching agents and counters the current boundary of proprietary memory (i.e., OpenAI owning your memory for GPT-6 implementation). As put in the paper, a Human Context Protocol “is not merely a technical convenience but a necessary foundation for AI systems that are genuinely personal, interoperable, and aligned with diverse human values.”"

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"ETHICAL & PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF AGI ARCHITECTURES
RECURSIVE AGI SELF-IMPROVEMENT
OPEN SOURCE AND DECENTRALIZED AGI DEVELOPMENT
EVOLVING STANDARDS OF BENEFIT FOR AGI
IMPACT OF GLOBAL STRUCTURES ON AGI DEVELOPMENT
AGI OWNERSHIP AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORKS FOR AGI
SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF AGI DEPLOYMENT
ALIGNING AGI WITH LONG-TERM HUMAN VALUES
MULTI-AGENT AGI SYSTEM INTERACTIONS
CULTURAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON AGI DEVELOPMENT"

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Introducing The Posemesh: Spatial Computing’s Foundational Layer | Auki

"Auki is making the physical world accessible to AI by building the real world web: away for robots and digital devices like smart glasses and phones to browse, navigate, and search physical locations.

70% of the world economy is still tied to physical locations and labor, so making the physical world accessible to AI represents a 3X increase in the TAM of AI in general. Auki's goal is to become the decentralized nervous system of AI in the physical world, providing collaborative spatial reasoning for the next 100bn devices on Earth and beyond."

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Home-2025 - Blockchain for Good

"The Blockchain for Good est une association de loi 1901 à but non lucratif dont l’objet est de créer des ponts entre l’écosystème des blockchains et les acteurs d’un développement dit durable. Depuis 2018, elle réunit chercheurs et société civile dans une démarche de science ouverte et participative à travers trois moyens d’action. (1) Collecter des données à propos de projets à impact construits sur des blockchains à travers un annuaire mondial, (2) Analyser ces projets par domaine d’activité à travers des rapports d’acculturation, (3) partager, échanger et débattre à travers des événements originaux."

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Blockchain for Good

"Blockchain for Good Alliance (BGA), we harness the transformative power of blockchain technology to tackle some of the most critical challenges facing societies and the world at large today.

As a dynamic and collaborative hub, BGA unites a diverse network of stakeholders to drive innovation and implement blockchain-based solutions that contribute to social good."

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The Lamp Magazine | Against Human Resources

"Choosing the H.R. path over the union path had consequences for American workers. It gave white-collar employees the advantage. A study in 2017 found that only twenty percent of workplace discrimination lawsuits were filed by blue-collar workers; the rest were by professionals, managers, salesmen, and other office workers. Female supervision also made impossible many of the things that, for men, had made the workday bearable: banter with the lads, obviously, but also competitiveness, which to an H.R. lady looks too much like conflict and carries the risk of hurting the loser’s self-esteem. Unions never would have gone for the “bring your whole self to work” ethos that H.R. has wielded so effectively on behalf of left-wing identity groups.

Above all, the replacement of unions by H.R. departments was a humiliating experience for workers. In 1985, the Ford plant in Dagenham, England, embarked on a “hearts and minds” program intended to woo the British union officials into being less antagonistic. One day a union man walked into the head office and saw a shop steward “with a magazine and a pair of scissors and he was cutting out pictures. ‘What the fuck are you doing?’ the union man asked. It was a confidence-building exercise, the steward answered sheepishly. ‘I am going back to the plant, and I’m going to tell your members what you’re doing,’ the union man said. ‘Pack it up and get a bit of dignity inside you.’”"

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Et si on parlait éthique ? - by Blog Alter'Coop

"Ce texte propose une présentation générale de l’éthique à travers un parcours étymologique, historique et conceptuel. "

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China and the economics of socialism - by Charles McKelvey

"A reconceptualization of Marx’s project, taking into account the experiences of the countries that have been striving to convert Marxist principles into reality during the last 108 years, has been occurring in political praxis from the beginning, with exceptional leaders like Lenin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel, and Xi Jinping playing a central role, reflecting on the possibilities for and limitations on socialist construction in their respective nations. This evolution of the meaning of socialism has gone largely unnoticed in Western public discourse, except for a tendency to bash socialist projects in the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba by exaggerating and taking out of context their limitations."

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