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"Web3 as ‘self-infrastructuring’: The challenge is how"

"The term ‘Web3’ refers to the practices of participating in digital infrastructures through the ability to read, write and coordinate digital assets. Web3 is hailed as an alternative to the failings of big tech, offering a participatory mode of digital self-organizing and shared ownership of digital infrastructure through software-encoded governance rules and participatory practices. Yet, very few analytical frameworks have been presented in academic literature by which to approach Web3. This piece draws on the theoretical lens of infrastructure studies to offer an analytical framework to approach the emergent field of Web3 as an exploration in ‘how to infrastructure’ through prefigurative self-infrastructuring. Drawing on qualitative examples from digital ethnographic methods, I demonstrate how the origins of Web3 reveal the intentions of its creators as a political tool of prefiguration, yet its practices reveal the inherent tension of expressing these ideals in coherent techni...

That

tree barks rose thorns sun rises lotus opens  no force, no reason,  complete simply see nature nurtures,  freely fragrant,  no metaphor all needed direct sense know pre Tense no pretense, no reason,  she a simple beauty scene; seen sensed loved amongst (or) a part The Lit From Within  never reaching never seeking never chasing beyond desire beyond need a simple overflowing excuse wild growth wild grace wild space she a torrential Forest fire, licking flames and burning husks unquenched white briny crests,  depths down treasured chests trenchant cleansing lunar cycles blood and dirt and created seeded  welcomes, flowing rising tidal floating unexplored depths, a shared azure ocean never re fuses any River; I Am All So, That, We all already are, That, We ever Be eternally,  Us One Whole,  A Total Creature of creation That Ocean One Ocean  never refuses never rejects never closes in on Nature's silent flowing next arrival, and so It Is...

Mount Vesuvius, Venus.

I once knew a woman who was sun rise and all heated east and briny mist and  trenchant creamy crests and subtle depths and this woman, lit from within,  created a cauldron between us with core character steaming changing, magma porous, litmus  test and I love her and I hate her and I love her and I do not like her  and I miss her, and you can be a listening man and a venting man and a vulnerable man and an on point repeating man, and walk away from her recurring timed bombed barbed wire danger and still want her hair trigger explosions to mix with her volcanic wild fluids  her white hot flowing steaming heat with no hesitations, walls or separations. Because love is never  so tepidly stale nor stagnant, nor ever so cut and dried and set as rocked solid. 

4 Billion and Hedera #FutureNow is Exponentially Evolving

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Ashton Addison speaks with Leemon Baird, Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Hedera Hashgraph,   on now processing over 4 Billion transactions,   Dell joining the Hedera Governing Council,   the growth of DeFi on HBAR,   ESG initiatives and their roadmap for 2023.

"Pay Attention, Be Astonished, Tell About It"

Finally Finality Fie Nil  Dis Gust Zero She listens and glistens now aging fine wine Thank God, she is Trusted Bottled Up A Dark Red Heavy Cellared  A cork popped, she free bubbled Up, a sweet wine inn waiting?  Fine Feline Her Fur incurs feeling The Need Four Speed swallow know spillage swallow speeds flapping wings  slot machines racing slot machines dumping cash  next ripe receptive maid on? a pillage a pill age?  a horned hell mutt Vie King? ("woof woof" barks Queen Minions!)  a tiny toed town run about?  a Tan Dom bike built Four Two?  a fresh lake side lily  cherry plucked two mumma perfection?  Somatic Patterns Passed On To  A Kirk lass, a young Christian Lord,  The White Horizontal Picket Fence  The Harbored Ka Ching Matri Monial Cruise  The Gathered Fakirs and Fare Wellers Steep Steeple Mourn Mounting  A Yard Mare On Heat  Met Buy Next Pony Swords sabre disabled  that you should confuse yo...

Alcohol Free Health & Wellness Menu For Parents

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Humans.ai and Hedera: Evolving Partnership to Explore Innovative Synergies

Deep-tech startup Humans.ai is making waves in the artificial intelligence sector with its most recent partnership with the United Arab Emirates-based consultancy group Deca4 bringing its AI NFT technology to the mainstream by launching them on the Hedera  #hellofuture public distributed network. “Hedera is a Distributed Ledger (DLT). It is not a blockchain, and the entire core of Hedera is the Hashgraph algorithm founded by the CTO of the company, Dr Leemon Baird. He is the innovator behind the Hashgraph consensus. The advantage it gives us is low cost and finality. You can achieve transaction finality in seconds. The most important differentiation I will say in Hedera is the governance which I don’t think any other network has. The network itself is governed by global companies, including Google, IBM, and Nomura. They play a key role in governing the network. That is a major differentiation that gives stability to the network”, explains Vignesh Raja. This is a summary of what H...

True Nature of Viveka Simply Chooses & Creates, Flowing Effortlessly From Moment To Moment

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Happy Birthday to My Earliest, Greatest, Most Loved Life Teacher.  Thank You RAS.  "Pay Attention. Be Astonished. Tell About It" #ssy #viveka #atmavidya

Govinda

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 Happy Birthday, Life Lover Heart@Home Govinda   Kirtan, Cinema & The Best Tasty Dish One of the reasons it’s so easy to influence or control how people feel is because as a society we have been programmed to live primarily in our emotional body. The emotional body is all about extreme highs and lows, which essentially means addiction to cheap dopamine, chaos and drama. To get out of this karmic cycle of constantly being triggered, having your emotions played with,  your feelings hurt, your nervous system overwhelmed and dysregulated, it’s imperative to develop the  spiritual faculties of heart, intuition and basic intellect as well as a grounded self awareness. This level of self awareness, inner peace and a nuanced inner discernment guides you to turn off TV, music or social media that doesn’t resonate,  to stop listening to, watching or reading things that disturb your connection to divine energy and to literally walk away from relationships or place...

"Pay Attention, Be Astonished, Tell About It"

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when dawn mist (momentarily)  hides The Heart, simply, smile, slowly re Turn Re Treat Re Stoke The Fire of Self let it be,  as senses ever subtle,  a finely nuanced flow continues next of Now, know Rush, No Rush as Keats so Clearly Stated surrendered Self  True Natured Transformations, arrival comes torrent fast,  as  Conditioned Minions Cease  Their Dirge Dam Walls Their Exponential extrapolating  A Try Hard Reaching, masking tape facades and fuels of fancy lights of complex cold spaghetti, bound coagulated strands of post traumatic growth stop dumb door shuts and golden gormless diggers lush loser drunks winning like Bukowski  to escape the raw reality; run run run away threw match stick jealousies and gelatinous cesspits  swamp suctions sears and New Years bouncing Sir Cuss ponies "Line Up, Line Up Next Rider Routed" know cracked tales, a whipping good,  know make up,  afront core weakness,  foundations sandy unstable v...

Energy In Motion, Pure & Simple

 "From Love Not For Love" Thank you to those lead learners who simply know ~ atma vidya ~ kriya yoga ~ Shen & Sally

Yes, Vedanta!

This is not a popular topic because most of us are wanting shortcuts. Unfortunately like all valuable things in life, freedom is earned by simple priorities, discerning choices and diligent work.  To make the changes necessary for self-inquiry, constant vigilance and a devotional attitude are required. Personal Liberation (Inner  Freedom) is a gargantuan task that can only be undertaken by the purified and highly motivated mind. To Pay Attention, To Be Aware, To Make a Conscious Choice is merely The Beginning to realizing There Is No Choice. There Is No Path. This is The Truth of YOU and always has been.    Everyone has these 10 basic qualifications, they are not limited or special or hidden or exclusive, but more often than not, once they are revealed by a qualified lead learner who already actively lives by these qualities, we need to further consciously cultivate these qualities in order for self-knowledge to ‘stick’.   For Our Own Unadulterated True Nature. ...

The Pathless Path.

 Let It Be Whatever will Be, Will Be, The Ultimate Surrender is To The True Nature Of Self Beyond any pre conceptions, inherited conditioning or external expectations.  Relax, No Thing Is Under Control,  Pay Attention, In Silence Be Astonished, With More Awe,  Tell About It, Share Graciously & Generously With Those Who ATF Matter Be Completely Unadulterated,  Be Totally Unmanifested,  Be Wholly alive & aligned, innocently mischievous and kind Never force or expect or manifest from deficit they are all gross forms of  manipulation from not enough manipulation from a leaky deficit manipulation from a needy lack Wholeness, completeness, totality is 100% Unmanifested It Is What It Is and  It Already Is.  You are The Happiness You are The Bliss You are The Pure and Simple Unadulterated Innocence From Love NOT For Love Now Lived Experience, all and not at all, The All One Creature In Creation, encompassing all, 360 degrees full circle No Th...

From Love Not For Love

  From Love, Not For Love. Devoted, Aligned,  Kind and Surrendered To Life's Beauty. From Love, Not For Love. Love IS the fuel of the universe. The body and energy and power that creates the flow so Trust The Subtle Strength, The Quiet Thunder of Undivided, non negated Love. It is palpable, authentic, unafraid and ever so kind in it's surrendered passion. For Life. All of it, Love IS fierce, fully single, on point, repeating, light without division, object or desire. Once love is returned to, simple not easy, stripped bare of conditions or terms of service It may then Be shared, gifted, with and to an energetic equal. Love is unique to each soul, we learn another By relating, not love. I came to love you. Not teach, advise, heal or fix you, Love does all that. And more. Love leads By following, imperfectly messy, insanely vulnerable. Beautifully Human. Love multiplies by paying attention, listening acutely and choosing discerning tender and appropriate actions. Love shape shif...

Naturally. This Is The Next Perfect Wave, Arriving NOW. Empowering learners for the age of artificial intelligence

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As AI proceeds educators & society in general face a new reality: what will we teach & how will we teach when artificial agents, now readily present in our daily lives, exceed our cognitive capacity in a growing number of domains? Empowering learners https://t.co/MUTsXpYuES — Tony Searl (@TonySearl) February 9, 2023 "This special issue represents front line research on dramatic advances over the past several decades. Many AI researchers have seen trends rise and seen the field enter a number of “AI winters” where research funding and progress slow down. The constellation of trends, including computing advancements, scope and quality of data, and advances in algorithms, suggests that the short term future is one of continued advancement. As AI proceeds, however, educators and society in general face a new reality: what will we teach and how will we teach when artificial agents, now readily present in our daily lives, exceed our cognitive capacity in a growing number of dom...

Pay Attention.

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"PAY ATTENTION, BE ASTONISHED, TELL ABOUT IT" - Mary Oliver The way to become wise is to commit to finding the truth even when it hurts your feelings or makes you uncomfortable. Your body will scream at you when you don't walk away from bad energy, bullshit, weird vibes, and sneaky shit, when you seek validation from those who invalidate your feelings, when you disrespect yourself to respect others, and when someone uses your body to fuck their pain away. Most insecure people won’t find inner wisdom because they seek external validation, the insecure hide behind a dis integrated ego requiring a controlling security, an overwhelming desire for comfort and not personal growth and accountability and they seek ego massage and herd confirmation over truth. Suffering and stress is a dis-eased choice due to forgetting, or not knowing, who we truly are. Insecure people often project (and protect) their insecurity by forcefully telling others they are wrong or who to be or they ar...

Brain Damage, Neuron Loss, Lower Resilience and Psychological Stress With Even Low To Modest Alcohol Consumption

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To be clear, I am not opposed to healthy adults having a few drinks a week but I think @ChrisWillx statement is very true. Telling people what to do one way or the other is simply wrong. Do what you like but know what you’re doing… — Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. (@hubermanlab) August 23, 2022 What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health  Dr. Huberman Lab Podcast #86  "In this episode, I discuss the physiological effects that drinking alcohol has on the brain and body at different levels of consumption and over time." Half of liver disease deaths are caused by alcohol, and alcohol-associated brain damage and liver disease is increasing, particularly among older women and young people of both sexes aged 18 to 35.  Research has shown an important association between alcohol consumption and breast cancer—for each 10 grams of alcohol consumed (less than 1 standard drink) on an average daily basis, a woman’s chance of developing postmenopausal breast cancer increases by ar...

Hedera is Bringing Trust Back To The Internet as A Growing Global Community

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Zenobia’s Substack: Hedera Weekly News Wrap Up - Feb 3, 2023 https://t.co/V4Yd0cdomN "Happy Friday #HBARbarians. It’s never a dull week in Hedera-land. I hope you tuned in for the podcast episode this week with Hedera Governing Council Independent Board Member Monique Morrow, recapping her experience representing Hedera in Davos. For those interested in how to improve supply chain sustainability & efficiency using distributed ledger technology , we have a great webinar coming up for you on February 15th, with Justin Atwell, Developer Advocate at Swirlds Labs, and Hania Othman, Director of Sustainable Impact at the HBAR Foundation. And related to this week’s news, is anyone watching HBO’s Last of Us (given the skyhigh ratings, a better question might be, is anyone not?). If so, you’ll love the story below about Liithos (building on Hedera, of course), which is headed by Sony PlayStation veteran Michael Mumbauer, an executive on The Last of Us. Which post-apocalyptic world do...

Let It Be

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