Erik Bordeleau

Announcement of the conference at Brotéria, Lisbon, this Saturday, starting at 16h30.

This Saturday I’ll speak at Brotéria, in Lisbon, in the wonderful company of Erik Bordeleau, João Sarmento, Salomé Lopes Coelho, and Sonia D'Alto, in an event organised by Sara Castelo Branco. Come around to talk magic and technology. @derivativ.bsky.social @salomecoelho.bsky.social

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Rekt - Libra - Rugged DeFi / Crypto - A $4.5B meme coin implodes, leaving impeachment calls and class action lawsuits in its wake. Crime season continues as Argentina's President Milei turns LIBRA into a ponzinomics class ...

"We were supposed to be replacing a broken system with something better. Instead we are swapping out one ponzi for another."

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Rekt - State of Deception DeFi / Crypto - In the latest episode of nations going crypto, Central African Republic's president launched a meme coin that touched almost $900M - almost a 3rd of CAR's GDP. AI and hosting can't agr...

Excellent article on multiple (pseudo) state-sponsored memecoins preceding the Argentinian rug pull.

"Is this the future of national fundraising, or just the latest evolution of the classic Nigerian Prince email?"
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BOOK OUT NOW: Artists, Activists, and Worldbuilders on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: Conversations about Funding, Self-Organisation, and Reclaiming the Future

Inte Gloerich in conversation with E. Bordeleau, R.Catlow, A. Launay, Y. Khalili, P. Rafferty, and S. Troncoso tinyurl.com/ajnmh4f

Opinion | Don’t Believe Him Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

"What the Trump administration wants — is to keep everything moving fast. Muzzle velocity. If you’re always consumed by the next outrage, you can’t look closely at the last one. (...) The projection of strength obscures the reality of weakness. Don’t believe him."
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come on, not one DeepSeek-inflicted margin call?

AFTER PROTOCOLS, the last issue of Revue Espace art Actuel # 139 is out!

Co-directed by @ncasemajor.bsky.social and myself, the bilingual issue (French-English) discuss all things related to art & blockchain.
Enjoy!
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Cover image: @isthisa.bsky.social

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Sagan was a prophet.

ARCHAOS – We Only Have The Memory Of The Future YouTube video by The Sphere

For the Digital Soul Protocol seminar at CircusNext in Paris, Lene Vollhardt and I made this short film around our encounter with Guy Carrara, the co-director of the famous Archaos Circus in Marseille. An ode to the power of trust and speculative generosity - Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Whp...

American Politics Becomes Its Own Meme | Spike Art Magazine With a new coin in the realm, the men who industrialized attention bow down to their merchant king.

“You can get away with pretty much anything as long as you’re cute about it.” spikeartmagazine.com/articles/op-...

Who gets to bet on the future? - Transformative Private Law Reading Time: 7 minutes

If the state won’t secure my future, maybe a fortune in crypto will. (...) Everything you want to know about Trump, degens, cryptostatecraft and speculative communities by the ever excellent Andrea Leiter transformativeprivatelaw.com/who-gets-to-...

Such a great idea - add me in please!