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It was supposed to be an e/acc meetup, but then it became something so much bigger! Now, I need your help to amplify this message. After @levelsio announced eu/acc, and @andreasklinger made the first stream and organized the Discord, I wanted to honor all the effort put into it. So, the meetup’s first presentation was about eu/acc. I believe in what I said, that European Accelerationism is a branch of Effective Accelerationism. We want and strive to maximize technological progress, while recognizing that Europe needs to change some stuff and also catch up with the US rate of acceleration. By that, I referenced the two initiatives “EU Inc” and “EU SAFE”. Join the Discord server (link in reply) to work on these and many others. The initial meetup wasn’t with an AI or deep tech focus, on purpose. We did get attendees interested and working with AI, so our next one will be about this theme. But, the initial message that we wanted to spread was techno-optimism, and our goal was to enable and encourage networking. The other two presentations where given by @VladBogdan1 showcasing @geneziodev, an entirely new Function as a Service Platform, and @ENiKS_CZ presenting the opportunities that VR will bring to the world from his 12 years of experience working on the bleeding edge. We are also creating a local community to organize better and gather more grassroots support. But all pan-European acceleration communities should encourage a pro-European message and start thinking of themselves as part of a unified region. Because in the end, we all want the same thing: to see our civilization progress and move forward, not stuck in decades-old regulations and mentalities! You can find our Romanian community on Discord where we'll organize regular builder meetups and prepare for our next e(u)/acc event. Having an open-source decentralized movement is amazing! It’s a full moon tide that inspires and raises all boats at once. Meetups are awesome to enable the creation of new relationships between attendees, and we were lucky enough to have participants joining from outside Bucharest and Romania. We got help from the outside when organizing, with @ENiKS_CZ traveling from Prague with both AVP for people to demo, but also setup for us to record the presentations (which we will upload soon) and @synthjolt designing, printing, and bringing The Techno-Optimist Manifesto all the way from <somewhere_in_europe>. We also had an unexpected eu/acc T-shirt cameo by @imakecoolsites. A BIG thank you to everyone who helped enabled this, our real organizer @robertaevents, our network of friends @sporadica, @QuanticASI, @arthur_hyper88, @SealedVoid, our inspiration @levelsio, @andreasklinger, @DionysianAgent and @beffjezos. For this, the entire meetup experience was surreal for me and I hope we can replicate this in as many countries as possible. People in Europe are more optimistic about AI, more so than in the US, but our fragmented societies leave decision-making to centralized bureaucrats with zero understanding of how technology works and that is heavily influenced by decel corporate and political lobbies inland and from the US. We need to change that! We need to accelerate! 🚀 Love from Bucharest, Romania, Europe, Pale Blue Dot