RT @Swingtrader: Brilliant article by @profplum99 - I don’t think this could have been articulated anyway possibly better. t.co/Up…

🇨🇴 Colombian President Gustavo Petro reciprocates Trump’s tariffs with 50% tariffs on all US goods entering his country. Full statement: Trump, I don’t like traveling to the U.S. much, it’s a bit boring, but I confess there are some merits. I like going to the black neighborhoods in Washington. There, I saw an entire struggle in the U.S. capital between black people and Latinos with barricades, which seemed silly to me because they should unite. I confess that I like Walt Whitman, Paul Simon, Noam Chomsky, and Miller. I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who share my blood, are memorable in U.S. history, and I follow them. They were killed by fascists in the U.S. for being labor leaders, executed in the electric chair, much like the fascists in my own country. I don’t like your oil, Trump, it will destroy humanity due to greed. Maybe one day, along with a glass of whisky, which I accept despite my gastritis, we can talk openly about this, but it’s difficult because you consider me an inferior race, and I am not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know anyone stubborn, it’s me, period. You can try with your economic strength and arrogance to carry out a coup like you did with Allende. But I will die by my law; I resisted torture, and I resist you. I don’t want slaveholders beside Colombia, we’ve had many, and we’ve freed ourselves. What I want beside Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can’t accompany me, I will go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world, and you didn’t understand it. This is the land of yellow butterflies, the beauty of Remedios, but also of Colonel Aureliano Buendía, of whom I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my town, which is before yours in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, mountains, the Caribbean Sea, and freedom. You don’t like our freedom, that’s fine. I don’t shake hands with white slaveholders. I shake hands with libertarian whites, heirs of Lincoln, and with the black and white farmers of the U.S., in front of whose tombs I wept and prayed in a battlefield after walking the mountains of Tuscany and surviving COVID. They are the U.S., and before them, I kneel, not before anyone else. Kill me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia, stop looking north now, look to the world. Our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the civilization of that time, from the Roman Latinos of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood carries the resistance of black people made slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory in America, before Washington, before all of America, and there I take shelter in its African songs. My land is of goldsmithing from the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the world’s first artists in Chiribiquete. You will never dominate us. The warrior who once rode our land, shouting freedom, is Bolívar. Our peoples are somewhat fearful, somewhat shy, naïve, and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us by force. Two hundred heroes from all over Latin America rest in Bocas del Toro, now Panama, before Colombia, whom you killed. I raise a flag, and as Gaitán said, even if I remain alone, it will still fly with Latin American dignity, which is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, immigrant in the U.S. Your blockade does not scare me because Colombia, in addition to being the land of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it, and it will offer you its sweetness. COLOMBIA, FROM TODAY ON, OPENS UP TO THE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS. WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE, AND HUMANITY. I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on our human labor’s products entering the U.S., I will do the same. Let our people sow maize, which was discovered in Colombia, and feed the world.

AI is about to change everything & Astera is on a mission to rebuild the machinery of science for a radically different future. We’re hiring a visionary team to help leverage our $2.5B endowment to make science better, faster, cheaper & more widely shared. The future is open 🧵

And here are two more (kando & emergence)!... Check out darksoil.studio/p2p-shipyard… tooling for building and deploying decentralized Holochain based applications on both desktop AND mobile. #holochain

Emotional to be sharing this finally. It's so incredibly special to me. It's a piece that muses on reincarnation, extra-dimensional perspectives, and the interconnectedness of lives. The music is 'Back to body' by Bethany Ley, also released today.💕(1/?)

Love, applied through wisdom, yields the only form of power worth having.

We need your help! Bloom is growing faster than our small team can support. Please forward this to all contacts you think would enjoy volunteering to support the path-forging work Local Blooms worldwide are doing to build healthy place-based communities.

One week left to submit a grant application for our second grant round on @gitcoin's @alloprotocol! We're giving away $40k to civic innovators! Are you working on tools or frameworks that help the public work better together? We'd love to see you apply! opencivics.co/grants

Grief is a portal to right action. Sometimes if you don't know what or how to do, it is because your hands are already full. Letting go of what is loved and lost can will make space to hold that which is calling for your care.

If you haven’t already applied to become a member of @OpenCivics, now is a great time to get involved! This year we’ll be: - Distributing another $25k in Grants via @gitcoin @alloprotocol - Running Collaborative Protocols Research Initiative - Hosting summits & more!

We are building the social spaces we want to live in 🏡 Our team is driven by a vision to enable even non-technical users to make meaningful contributions to the social spaces they inhabit.

BREAKING: 97% of migratory fish species now face extinction 🧵

What did OpenCivics accomplish in 2023? What are we building in 2024? To find out, read our 2023 Retrospective and 2024 Vision & Strategic Roadmap. #decentralizedcivics #web3 #civics #innovation #retrospective #futures #strategy #vision #deciv #solarpunk #consortium

Holochain is not reinventing the wheel, but crafting a bicycle in a world of wagons. Each component, like the Distributed Hash Table finds its roots in established tech, creating a #decentralized data transfer system akin to #peertopeer file sharing. #web3 bit.ly/strange-new-contrapti…

If you're somewhat new to spirituality you might not have learned how to spot fellow practitioners who outwardly love God or the Dharma, but secretly see religion as an instrument of political power, rather than a living prayer to the divine. On the left, it's often yogis and Buddhists who understand we are all one until it's time to play identity politics, and who are compassionate to all beings - except the scapegoat of the moment. On the right, it's often Christians who value Christendom more than the living Word, who hate and fear the wayward people that Jesus loved the most, and who seek a life of ease rather than the burden of the cross. In both cases, it's people who would rather sacrifice their beliefs for political expedience than withstand the true pain and loneliness of integrity. You can see it - in their self-hatred, their tortured relationship to control and social influence, and in the absence of nuance with which they conceive of the Other. There are so, so many of these people. Most of us are, until we learn a better way. It's a product of the default, unconscious mode of being. Most of us don't realize this about ourselves, until we are tested by a crisis that demands we choose between our desire for power and our commitment to truth. And when this happens, if someone gives in, it becomes a truly mindfucking, heartbreaking thing to see from the outside. Friends that you loved and looked up to suddenly grow dark and begin to indulge their worst instincts, in the name of compassion and liberation. You watch them become brutal and cruel to those that disagree or dare to speak up against them. They burn their own practice down, and sometimes, they commit the heinous act of dividing and breaking their own relationships. All to avoid facing their own weakness, with honesty and humility. There used to be a poster on this website, with whom I was very close, that did precisely this even as he loudly decried it in others. He didn't see it in himself. He thought he was an exception. I think most do. It's now so common in 21st century America to see people destroy their essential relationships in the name of politics that it's practically banal to talk about it in the abstract. But in each particular situation, it is a fresh grief, something beautiful and irreplaceable senselessly burned to the ground. There are some bonds that are fundamental to a person's well-being, once they are established. You might even call them sacred. These include the bonds of family, marriage and sangha/faith community. It should be a major, life-changing event when these bonds break. It's a profound rift, the pain of which remains long after anger has cooled. Do not do this without time, careful thought, prayer and consultation with people who are important to you. Be extremely careful about letting anyone into your confidence who has. If you have done this, and the grief of it still stalks you, there's only one thing you can do: have the courage to own your part of it and do what you can to make amends. You may not be able to save the relationship, but if you are humble and learn from your mistake, you might get a chance to create a bond with someone new. In spirituality, we often talk about the need for vulnerability, but we don't often talk about the dangers of it, or when it's wise to allow it. There are times you need to guard your heart, and we are in one of them now. We're surrounded by perennially frustrated ideologues, carnivorous status strivers, and surface-skimming saints who are secretly, desperately looking for someone to be cruel to. It's madness to be vulnerable with someone caught in these cycles. Keep your heart and mind on your practice, on compassion and service, on the divine, and let everything else fall away. Those who remain, who are also turned toward the sacred - those are the ones capable of true connection. Of true, enduring love. No law, election or revolution can ever take the place of that.

After years of trying, I finally understand @holochain thank you @bierlingm ⚡️ this level of innovation is so advanced that Blockchain feels like IBM. It pushes decentralisation, privacy and scalability to a whole new level. 2050 technology

A very cool example of why our Consortium model works well with @gitcoin's quadratic funding platform... @OurBloomNetwork is already working with @OgallalaLife on watershed care. Funding both projects is a force multiplier because of the synergistic relationship between them.

At the end of 2014 I’ve quit my postdoc in theoretical physics in order to develop DAO tooling. After two-years work with @yao on Backfeed, an early attempt at a DAO platform, I’ve started to collaborate with some friends on a modular governance system for DAOs, (1/9)