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excited to share Guided by Voyces, a weekly exploration of music & the art of becoming
rooted in my struggle w/ a stutter, GbV uses music, storytelling, & convos w/ artists to explore the space between who we are & who we present - and all the art within
guidedbyvoyces.substack.com/…
We just published a replicable protocol for patronage on MUSIC x. Use it to find your patrons, build worlds, and tip this enshittified reality on its head.
musicx.substack.com/p/patron…
onwards toward that merger of spirit 🌻
This is our 11th and final (for now 😉) edition of No Signal.
Just before clock strikes twelve, we find solace in knowing that there is still (and always) time for a signal to be found if you are looking in the right places.
Here are a few words from our inimitable publisher, @maceagon, who shepherded us so well through these eleven stories of Kernel Fellows.
after the first 10 No Signal pieces, a reflection + recap
thank you to everyone who's taken part, & for giving me reason to plumb the depths of active inference, AI/legal ethics, prosocial gaming, runtime environments...
may it contribute to all of your learning journeys 🙏🏼
"How is it that we can learn together... to do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, to the right degree?"
Learning is Kernel's mettā emphasis on No Signal's "first ten" (including @Skeletor_Space, @alanahlam, @PhilippZentner, @polats, @jakub_smekal and @akxsha).
The series focuses on the learning journey, an intentional departure from most web3 media. We stretch through the what and toward the why: How did you come to be working on this thing to which you are so remarkably dedicated?
Invariably, the answer illuminates No Signal's throughline: each fellow arrived to web3 after seeing extant systems fail their people, fail to achieve signal.
These first ten features cross four continents and myriad disciplines – from gaming to DeFi, reinforcement learning to social cameras, decentralized runtime environments to "wikipedia meets github for lawyers."
These are the people whose stories we are grateful to tell.
first @folk__gg artifact was 9k-word essay & onchain cover challenging copyright's writ to transform even folk canon into personal wealth
our goal: transform Bob Dylans unused estate into an arts retreat
we're live @Artizen to fund more such experiments
artizen.fund/index/p/folk?se…
MacEagon Voyce retweeted
confirmed lightning talks for kernel salon in nyc
> end-to-end verifiable TEEs (@canvas_xyz)
> AI-native memory models (@vintrotweets)
> microIPOs & new asset classes (@aadams)
> an agent-based discovery protocol (@indexnetwork_)
a few spots left, join us in soho tomorrow at 5pm!
almost exactly two years since we ran our first experiment, FOLK persists, as ever
we're tracing ancient folk relationships to embed them into a new commons & cultural flow
join us in forking the folk 🌻
We are live on @artizen.
Want to support the folk fork. Join us as we fork the folk and reintroduce new methods of frictionless cooperation through culture.
tinyurl.com/56xkzfty
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This is a tale of two Stanford researchers – @jakub_smekal (KB7) & @InferenceActive (KB5) – exploring one of the most encompassing frameworks in artificial intelligence.
Karl Friston's active inference framework describes how all organisms minimize "free energy" - the difference between expected states and sensed reality.
“We sample the world to ensure our predictions become a self-fulfilling prophecy,” Friston once wrote.
Active Inference sits in dialogue with other AI paradigms like reinforcement learning and predictive processing.
Daniel and Jakub have co-authored several research papers on the subject, including Generalized Notation Notation (GNN), a standardized text-based language that bridges theory and implementation across different sciences and disciplines.
Jakub's phD has grown from active inference into deep state space models (SSMs).
“A lot of my work is the minimization of uncertainty,” Jakub told us, before musing, “I guess that's the game that everyone (in AI) playing.”
From cells to AI models to societies, we’re all deepening our relationship to surprise. Prepare yourself for the unexpected.
thoroughly enjoyed my conversation with Nitesh -- on AI, consciousness, the law, accessibility, and the myriad threads that connect them
"I'm really passionate about making [the law] clear to everyone who wants to engage with the laws that guide our life,” Nitesh Daryanani (KB11) told us.
“I think it's almost forgotten the extent to which law impacts everything we do.”
That’s the driving force behind Lexon: “Wikipedia meets GitHub for lawyers,” as Nitesh describes his project.
Using knowledge graphs and crypto primitives, Nitesh (a Berkeley trained lawyer and "pragmatic litigator") and technical co-founder John Spry are building a platform to house a living, collaborative, and decentralized legal corpus.
looking at the design of new financial tools that seek to democratize access and level the playing field -- w/ @kavehtehrani
“I believe in people’s ability to control their own destiny, and not be sold as products.”
Originally from Iran, Kaveh Tehrani (KB11) spent much of his life in Canada. He studied math and finance at McGill University in Montreal, and has a Master’s in financial engineering from UC Berkeley.
“The global equity market is massive,” Kaveh wrote in a recent blog post, “but access to it is deeply uneven, even more so if you are not in a developed country.”
“Perpetual single stock futures on crypto rails,” Kaveh wrote, “would allow anyone to gain exposure to equity returns without having to open a brokerage account at low fees.”
Perpetual single stock futures are crypto-native derivatives that track individual stock prices, allowing anyone to trade exposure to stocks without actually owning the shares or needing traditional brokerage accounts – or needing to live in designated jurisdictions. “They (can) be available to anyone with a crypto wallet.”
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alanah lam · founding designer, perma
chronology﹏continuity﹏connectivity
"i’m privy to the existence of so much digital noise that lends itself to feeling a little bit crazy,” @alanahlam (KB7) told Kernel.
“it’s a bit like you don't know what's real."
@perdotma – “modern day correspondence art meets social platform” – is a riposte to that problem.
it’s venture studio cum product lab @futureprimitive's first consumer app: a social camera with “no feeds, no followers, just photos.”
the physical complement to Perma is @findcheckpoint, “portable photo booths that could be portals into the network.” 10,000 photos are taken weekly in 30 booths spread across New York, LA, and Vancouver.
presence is pushing Checkpoints to the fore of FP's attention. alanah says, “if we really want to make things better for people in real life and [connect them], then we need to be more in real life [and not] just deployed as an app."
enjoy this exploration with alanah on "pointing to the original," greater presence, and the future of primitives.
Thoroughly enjoyed my convo w/ John on the importance of location verification.
It led me down some rabbit holes with GIS, AIS, EAS, & other acronyms I’m grateful to know more about than I did.
“Because once we know where we are, we can decide where to go next.”
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John Hoopes 📍 Founder, Astral
Identity, Time, Action, Location
“If I look at my phone and look back at the last 10 apps I've used, half of them are location-based,” John Hoopes (KB0) told Kernel. On-chain, location is largely unaccounted for, and neglecting it constitutes a fundamental limitation.
Proof of Location (PoL) systems offer signed, structured claims that describe place, time, and identity. Teams like Flashbots are exploring ‘co-location incentives’ and ‘geographic decentralization’ for the next era of research in cryptosystems, and extensive research into locations role in crypto has long been ongoing.
@AstralProtocol employs various location proof strategies – network-based systems like FOAM, nearfield approaches using NFC chips or Bluetooth, social strategies through peer attestation, and authority-based verification like event check-ins – allowing their location proofs to gain durability.
Please enjoy this session with @johnx25bd on ‘location’, and the crypto-native contexts where, exactly, we might find meaning next.
I performed in champagne vineyards & pressoirs last weekend and learned that what we now call the world's most prestigious wine was once considered deeply flawed.
Guided by Voyces 004 is an ode to our irregularities -- exactly the bits that make us rare
guidedbyvoyces.substack.com/…
Guided by Voyces 003 is about love, the interdependent art of becoming, & devouring the flesh of others to discover what exists in our own
In focus is Brazil -- via cultural anthropophagy & Carolina, my main guide in my own ongoing act of becoming
guidedbyvoyces.substack.com/…
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Earlier this year I sat down with crypto mag @DecentialMedia for a longform convo about @MintedMovie — from working with Dan Deacon on the score to telling the stories of incredible artists like @beeple, @justinaversano, @CallMeLatasha, @KinaMatahari & more.
“It's not an NFT explainer,” Bruckman told me recently. “It does that in the process, but at a much bigger level [it’s about] how artists can lead the way for how technologies are used. How can artists make a living without selling out or without compromising their values? Fundamentally, that's what the film is about.”
Big thanks to @maceagon for the thoughtful feature 🙏
Guided by Voyces 002 is all about the mask, the mensch, the menace: Moon Man.
Who is your Moon Man? How do they show up in your lives? In your art? In your heart? In the shadowed cobwebs of your hidden selves & the clarion prose of your lucid mind…
substack.com/home/post/p-172…
MacEagon Voyce retweeted
UPDATE: KB11 apps extended to 8/31.
We've already received incredible apps from people exploring crypto & beyond.
Kernel is about researching & producing in good company, with clarity & excellence.
On Sept 19, we begin with ~50 fellows.
We'd love to learn your @Kernel0x.
