Category: captitulate
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Chones Hackathon 2026
A special kind of collaboration emerges when small communities work together. The Chones community captured this during a recent hackathon in July 2026, which comprised several members working across two key topic spaces. Teams worked on a private, censorship-resistant, and governable community-organizing platform called Pacto, built by community member daopunk. The hackathon also served as…
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An Attention Thesis for Today
How many of us still use Facebook groups, even though we hate Meta? Our friends are there, IRL and URL. Culture makes tech sticky, and tech makes culture accessible. Some of us are still angry about the Zora update of 2024, but that was just the beginning. If one of a kind art can be…
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Solving the Turnip Puzzle: Part 5
Culture Capital, Curation and Trust Part 5 of an ongoing series. Part 1 focused on the AI race. Part 2 focused on capital allocation in VC systems. Part 3 reconnected the loops between workers, creators and capital across generations. Part 4 brings it back to Chones, with the hidden track, the well and the bucket.…
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On Legibility, Part 2
I like experimenting on myself and my friends, when they consent. (Thank you fellow lab rats in lab coats!) Engagement games, operator error as signal, collective decision making, token velocity, agent workflows, playing cards~ When someone believes in a tool, whether AI, crypto, cloud, or containers, it feels like trying to eat a piece of…