Marking myself as aware that valhalla didnt work out and happy to be part of nova

There’s a story from Václav Havel about a greengrocer living under communism. Each day, he places a sign in his shop window: “Workers of the world, unite.” He doesn’t believe it. He barely thinks about it. He puts it there because everyone else does. Because refusing would cost him. The sign tells the system what it wants to hear: “I am obedient. I am safe. I will not disturb the lie.” Havel understood that regimes are not always held together by belief. But by millions of small performances of compliance. The same is true now. But our signs don’t look like communist slogans in shop windows. They look like pretending the economy is healthy while families cannot afford homes. Pretending platforms connect us while they atomise and surveil us. Pretending politics offers choice. Pretending institutions will save us, even as they prove time and again that they do not keep their promises. To stop putting up the sign is to stop lending your obedience to the lie. But refusal is not enough. We must build. Parallel economies, education, mutual aid, communication. Parallel systems of trust, coordination, and exchange. This is the work of the parallel society. Not escape. Not despair. Not waiting for permission. But a refusal to live within the lie, and a commitment to build what comes next. Stop putting up the sign.

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Testnet v0.1 | Logos Dev Club | March 25, 2026 x.com/i/broadcasts/1mxPaLwln…

I am too deep in the AI Agent rabbit hole. But I promise to bridge it with @Logos_network, privacy, local-first and all the stuff we care about Finally submitted for @EthPrague Your AI Agent Works for OpenAI. I am LMAO fixing it. * LMAO = Logos Module for Agent Orchestration

He has the solutions

This is a culmination of my work with Jimmy so far:) @Logos_network Blockchian LEZ (Logos Execution Zone) program implementing Multisig wallet. While working on that we realized we need a bit more magic in LEZ, so we also built a SPEL - Smart Program Engine for Logos

ps. logos. co

if you're around Portugal next week, pop by Parallel Society, a privacy and hacktivism conference happening on March 6 & 7th in Lisbon: with Logos, Nym, Tor, Status and others. Second day is a music and art festival with DJs like Apparat and Gilles Peterson: ps.logos.co/ (DM me for a free ticket 👀)

If you understand Linux, you understand Logos. Here’s how Logos fits together as a private-by-design operating system: microkernel, networking, and pluggable storage, messaging, and blockchain modules. press.logos.co/article/logos…

If you can identify a block proposer, you can: ✵ Censor ✵ Coerce ✵ And infer their stake Logos addresses this with private elections and anonymous broadcasting. press.logos.co/article/why-p…

Name a better way to achieve neutrality and censorship resistance i'll wait

Credible neutrality requires validator privacy by architecture. Cryptarchia consensus Blend broadcasting = 300x improvement in proposer anonymity. Private Proof-of-Stake hides both your identity and your stake.

because there is a better way

I’m not sold on this. I think building a more intellectually/philosophically global community is good. I think traveling more and exposing yourself to other cultures is very good. I don’t even disagree with having a second passport as a security strategy. But I also believe in building hyperlocal community, on helping to protect and support your neighbors through the collapse, on helping to build a better society where you are instead of building a network state or something silly like that. It just seems like jumping ship is the predominant model. Every man for himself. Neocolonialism with tech aesthetics. We gotta start over from scratch with a new state, in Greenland or South Africa or South America or some military base. I’ve talked about my issues, at length, with the network state model. Reading @VitalikButerin ‘s blog on network states made me realize not only that my critique needed work (his critique is far better) but that network tribes, similar to what @Logos_network is doing, are a solid answer to this. One that’s much more focused on building off of local communities while still maintaining a privacy, security and small-l libertarian focus. One thing that @balajis is right about is that the current model is dying. I just disagree with his prescription, though I do agree with his enthusiasm for building what’s next.

Everyone and their dog is now talking about Network State, Cyberstates, Parallel Societies, Hubs, Zones, Communities and all the other forms of people coming together. The latest piece on this is from @VitalikButerin - Let a thousands societies bloom. And it's a good one! I think he hits on some crucial points - * We need to be free to experiment. * It is not that hard to start a Hub. * Diversity/plurality is great and it should be "cheap" to exit and switch communities. * People are in the state of "low agency" and we cannot expect everyone to be an active participant . Thisaligns really well with what we are trying to build with @Logos_network Circles. First, build a tribe - find something that brings people together and build trust. Hopefully, that leads to creation of "hubs", which can then grow into zones (I am just using the terminology from the article here). Václav Havel proposes this as a post-democratic model in The Power of the Powerless (which I've been quoting lately) and @jarradhope_ specifically analyzes the tech stack needed for these experiments in Farewell to Westphalia. For me, there are a few thoughts/questions that always arise when I start thinking about the topic: 1. The combination of endless rules and social media as an outlet for frustration is a major reason people don't "get off their butts and actually create these alternative cultures and environments" (to quote Vitalik) - people are frustrated, but instead of going and doing something meaningful, they just scroll and argue with other anons online - not everybody, but majority - me included 2. Finding the "aligning topic" and/or "winnable issue" - as we call it in Circles - is not easy. We (engineers, builders) are prone to solving everything with pure tech and overestimating our ability to execute and underestimating the complexity of making "a change in society" 3. People often say "capitalism failed" or "see where liberalism got us", but I am not so sure we actually know, because we have been progressively tightening our boundaries and space for experimentation for a very long time and, we are quite far from liberal democracy right now (in my personal opinion) 4. Many of these experiments will fail, and failure is not something we are expected to allow - you are not supposed to "fail" at school, you are not supposed to fail at work, or you get fired. Many people with potentially interesting ideas will just not engage because of the risk of failure Anyway, we must experiment and we must find the ways to experiment. Ad-hoc communities, parallel institutions, and tribes were always part of our society until we allowed everything to be focused around the "individual" and broke them down. We need community to live a healthy and happy life - the saying "it takes a village to do XYZ" exists for a reason. We are not resilient enough individually to go through life - we need the belonging and support of other truly aligned individuals. What kinds of communities, parallel societies, hubs do you want to be part of?

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They said a true Privacy Super App could never exist. We just shipped it. Status Desktop v2.36 is live. And here’s what’s new 🔍 Built-in private browser 🤯Full range of Emoji reactions finally here 💾 Improved on-device backups (chats communities) &more Less app-hopping. Fewer digital traces. More control. Update your Status Desktop Now status.app/blog/status-v2-36…