Rings Network

"The Communication Layer of web3
A decentralized peer-to-peer network in browsers. A solution package targeting the next-gen Internet including dWeb, anonymous traffic, etc."

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Becoming a Coordination Failure Response Swarm

"Mutualization emerged as the core function. What are the patterns other groups have already figured out? What are the unmet needs of the space between all of us? Shared grants, shared volunteer capacity, shared onboarding, shared knowledge, shared tools. This active sharing of resources and intelligence across the network isn’t just implicit in our convening language — it’s a core function of what we’re building.

Knowledge preservation surfaced as urgent. Organizations entering hibernation risk losing institutional memory. OpenCivics can serve as a knowledge preservation and transfer hub — capturing oral histories and documentation before it’s lost. Funding exists for this kind of work.

Embodied democracy matters. Enlivening civic participation means more than governance process. It means physical community assets becoming sites of democratic practice — people doing democracy by happenstance, through shared activities and shared infrastructure.

The alliance landscape is richer than we name. From Citizens Infra to the Collaborative Technology Alliance to Open Machine’s work on diverse intelligence and cognitive security — there’s a dense web of adjacent communities that deserves mapping and intentional relating, even as we maintain a conservative posture on formalizing new commitments."

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The Participatory Self: Spiritual Individuation in an Age of Disconnection

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To understand the participatory self, we must first trace the long arc that produced our present estrangement. As the philosopher Charles Taylor has shown, the modern self did not simply “appear”; it emerged through an arduous historical labor.

It is widely accepted that our ancient ancestors inhabited what Taylor calls a “porous self”—an archaic state in which the boundary between the “I” and the world was thin, permeable, and structurally unguarded. Meaning was not sealed inside the skull; it shimmered in forests, storms, ancestors, and stars.

While this fostered an intimate participation with nature, it also left individuals vulnerable to formidable social pressures and the perceived whims of a spirit-saturated cosmos.

Through what Taylor names the “inward turn,” Western consciousness gradually built the “buffered self”. By “buffered,” he means a self that erects psychological boundaries, treating the external world as separate and objective rather than participatory and alive. The enchanted cosmos receded; interiority intensified. Meaning migrated inward, becoming something generated solely by the human mind rather than encountered in the world."

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Stop Hacking Your Body: The Real Spiritual Revolution Is Not Optimization—It Is Arrival

"But what if the most advanced spiritual move you can make today is not “upgrading” your biology, but fully inhabiting it? What if the “Word becoming flesh” is not a closed chapter, but an ongoing event—an invitation for your very cells to participate as a living prayer?

We often treat spirituality as a cognitive or emotional state—a refined state of consciousness or a heart-centered feeling. But a truly embodied spirituality recognizes the body, instincts, heart, mind, and consciousness as equal partners in a sacred marriage—a full-spectrum participation of your being in both presence and becoming."

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(1) Slovenia Faces Political Uncertainty: Far-Right Gains Ground After Election Deadlock

"The Freedom Movement's announcement signals that far-right leader Janez Janša might be building his own majority composed of right-wing and self-declared anti-establishment parties. The likelihood of this scenario has grown since Zoran Stevanović, leader of the Resnica party, was confirmed National Assembly speaker earlier this month, drawing criticism from progressive political circles."

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Greek court awards 300,000 Euros for death after AstraZeneca Covid vaccination

"Greek court awards 300,000 Euros for death after AstraZeneca Covid vaccination
REBEKAH BARNETT
APR 24, 2026
The Greek government must pay €300,000 to the family of a woman who died after her AstraZeneca Covid vaccination in a landmark court decision acknowledging the unfairness of coercing citizens into entering a death lottery for the purported public good."

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(PDF) Postdigital Citizen Science

"Citizen science is a collaborative approach that involves the general public in the development and dissemination of knowledge. In the twenty-first century, citizen science has experienced a huge expansion in activity, leading to different understandings, approaches, classifications, and taxonomies."

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Immaterial Constitution: The Post-Snowden Maintenance of the Internet - Harry Halpin - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology (Philosophy Documentation Center)X

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Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology
ONLINE FIRST
published on December 4, 2025
Harry Halpin
https://doi.org/10.5840/techne20251113219
Immaterial Constitution
The Post-Snowden Maintenance of the Internet

The question of whether rights can be enforced by code underlies the maintenance of Internet protocols by the IETF in the wake of the Snowden revelations of NSA mass surveillance. Arguments over the expectations of users for access and privacy between the respective inventors of the Web and the Internet laid the ground for a new conception of net rights founded upon the extended mind thesis. A number of legislative initiatives attempted to form a “Magna Carta” for the Web to enforce these nascent net rights such as the right to private communication, but these efforts uniformly failed. Yet the repair and maintenance of the technical standards of the Internet itself by the IETF produced a new kind of immanent constitution for the Internet based upon the use of cryptography to defend these rights.

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The Anti-Palantir Manifesto

"16. Building new forms of social organization with each other is vital to survival. The traditional mediascape of politics and entertainment exists to distract us from building networked solidarity and distributed autonomous organizations across borders. The hierarchical state is as relevant to us as the medieval church and kings were to the formation of the joint-stock corporation and the labor union."

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