Ocean Builders ••• is an ocean-innovation technology company.

‘Our mission is to develop revolutionary blue technology that makes the 72% of the world that is covered in water into an eco-sustainable paradise. Our technology will allow civilization to move onto the sea and it will unlock the ocean as a new frontier with a quality of life that is unbeatable anywhere else. We believe that by learning to live on the water we will open a new wave of eco-sustainable innovation that will lead to living more sustainably on land. Our modus operandi is to innovate, innovate, innovate and then innovate some more.’

Our connection with Ocean Builders came through The Morazan Model Association

Joe Quirk’s video on the advance of seasteading and the next critical requirement: an International flag (registration) for seasteads. — seasteading.org/seasteading-triumphs/

‘The Seasteading Institute must acquire a maritime flag for all seasteading companies …’ —Joe Quirk

Agua Via ••• will solve the world’s problems with clean water and desalination using nanotechnology-based 1-atomic layer thick filtration membranes. Readers of this substack are helping make this happen.

At the time of publication, 31 July 2025, the Agua Via site was down for maintenance, but please try again later if it doesn’t work right away.

Imagine a vast exodus of young people exiling themselves from failing legacy states, creating a diaspora originating almost everywhere to build new habitats on edges. -ls

Is this the beginning of a system of law that could support that diaspora?

The Ulex Open Source Legal System in One Page —Tom W. Bell •••

 

v. 2025.06.25

 

What is Ulex? Ulex provides an open-source legal system for special jurisdictions, ZEDEs, decentralized protocol networks, and other startup communities. It combines tested and trusted rule sets from private and international organizations in a robust but flexible configuration. Ulex protects personal rights and property with an efficient and fair dispute resolution process, promoting the rule of law.

 

Why Do We Need Ulex? Countries across the globe have begun using special jurisdictions to encourage economic growth. Coders have launched similar experiments online. These new jurisdictions need new rules. Ulex offers a flag-free alternative to legacy legal systems, implementing fair and efficient best practices.

 

What Are the Procedural Rules of Ulex?  The default procedure for resolving disputes in Ulex v. 1.2 has three elements:

 

1.  Judges:  Each party chooses a judge, who together choose a third.

2.  Remedies:  The judges choose a remedy offered by one of the parties.

3.  Costs:  The losing party pays the winning party's legal costs.

 

Ulex includes more detailed procedural rules, too—as always, sourced from preeminent private, nongovernmental, and international organizations.

 

What are the Substantive Rules of Ulex?  The default substantive rules of Ulex 1.2 come from the American Law Institute's Restatements of the Common Law, the Uniform Law Institute's Uniform Business Organizations Code, and select other rule sets.  These, together with the procedural rules mentioned above and a handful of meta-rules, create a comprehensive legal system.

 

What Inspired Ulex?  Ulex follows the lead of such open source operating systems as Unix, GNU, and Linux.  Whereas those codes run in computers, though, Ulex runs in special jurisdictions, ZEDEs, and other startup communities.  In any case, the codes can be downloaded, used, and modified by the public at large, voluntarily, and free of charge.

Where Can I Learn More About Ulex? For an explanation, see this interview: ULEX and Common Law Zones, Startup Societies Foundation, Journal of Special Jurisdictions videocast, Nov. 2, 2022, at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlFQHdsJATw. For the code itself, see: Ulex Open Source Legal Operating System v. 1.2 (2022), available at: https://github.com/ulex-opensource/Ulex/tree/master/versions/1.2.

 

Is Ulex in actual use? Yes; Prosperá ZEDE in Roatán, Honduras, and the Catawba Digital Economic Zone, hosted on a Native American reservation in North Carolina, United States, both run Ulex. A new zone running Ulex v. 2.0 will debut soon.

Ray Svitla argues that governance is the newest asset class

Áza Valon reports that at an undisclosed place a possibly unhinged enthusiast for liberty was heard to say: “The Archipelago of Freeorder will grow island by island around, within, and among legacy states through limited sales of sovereignty transferred by mutually beneficial agreements negotiated with the aid of Campaigns for Liberty.” (referring to Valon’s company)

‘HyperReal® Partners with A.R. Rahman to Launch Secret Mountain: The Future of Virtual Entertainment. The legendary Oscar and Grammy-winning composer joins forces with HyperReal to create a groundbreaking virtual avatar band that will redefine music and entertainment’ — hyperreal.io/post/hyperreal-partners-with-a-r-rahman-to-launch-secret-mountain-the-future-of-virtual-entertainment

‘… a pivotal moment in entertainment history. HyperReal is proud to announce our collaboration with A.R. Rahman, the visionary composer behind some of the world's most beloved soundtracks, on Secret Mountain—a revolutionary virtual avatar band that promises to reshape how we experience music and storytelling.’

‘This groundbreaking project is powered by HyperReal's advanced avatar technology and backed by HBAR. We've already demonstrated our capabilities by bringing to life stunning digital characters, music and video tracks, and film-based intellectual property.’

‘“Powered by HyperReal's advanced avatar technology and backed by HBAR, we've already brought to life stunning digital characters, music and video tracks, and film-based IP," said James Bernard. "With the support of Ahmed Bin Sulayem and DMCC (Dubai Multi Commodities Centre), we're excited to establish our base in Dubai.”’

Convergence of AI, DLT, Story, Art, Music ••• [rupert, on allincrypto]

All the images in the video may or may not be real. We can wonder if AR, Sam Altman, and Vignesh Raja of Hedera Foundation are actually looking at a screen showing the Hedera Council ••• -ls

Two essays by Max Borders ••• [substack]

“The Story Circle ••• is Not for Squares: Dan Harmon's distillation of the Hero's Journey is a tidy heuristic for good storytelling and could help win you funding from Human Respect Labs” ••• by Max Borders, 15 July 2025

“The Power of Mythic Truth: So much human truth originates in the realms beyond physical facts” ••• by Max Borders, 23 April 2025

Max chose this quotation to begin:

‘The Supreme Divine Personality said: O scion of Bharat, these are the saintly virtues of those endowed with a divine nature—fearlessness, purity of mind, steadfastness in spiritual knowledge, charity, control of the senses, sacrifice, study of the sacred books, austerity, and straightforwardness; non-violence, truthfulness, absence of anger, renunciation, peacefulness, restraint from fault-finding, compassion toward all living beings, absence of covetousness, gentleness, modesty, and lack of fickleness; vigor, forgiveness, fortitude, cleanliness, bearing enmity toward none, and absence of vanity.’ —Bhagavad Gita—16.1

"Inklings of Another World" ••• by Mary McDermott Shideler — the significance of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings … “Thoughts on Wizards” ••• by Leif Smith

“Aristotle on Human Fulfilment” ••• by Peter Saint-Andre •••

“Slight Restraint, Deep Power - What the I Ching Is Whispering to Me” ••• by Diamond-Michael Scott, Jul 27, 2025 — this essay is just magnificent.-ls

Telomir-1: a promising molecule not yet available (see “Infinita City,” next)

Telomir Pharmaceuticals Reports ••• “Telomir-1's Unique Profile Restores Mitochondrial Health While Improving Oxidative Stress Without Promoting Cell Proliferation in Diseased Human Cell Lines Highlighting Potential Relevance to Neurodegenerative Pathways in Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s” — Jul 24, 2025

‘This unique cellular activity may help restore energy balance and improve essential cell functions such as protein synthesis and membrane stability in diseases like Parkinson's ALS Alzheimer's and Progeria where mitochondrial failure and oxidative stress drive progression.’

Infinita City ••• freedom for explorers of health and lifespan extension

“The City That Never Dies. A network city where founders build towards longevity through biotech, computation, and science, first hub based in Próspera, Roatán.”

If Telomir Pharmaceuticals were to be operating at Infinita a friend of mine with Parkinson’s might be able to try Telomir-1 today. It might, or might not, help, but without it my friend has little hope of much more good life. Why should any government have the power to stand between willing explorers of health and life extension? Some crimes are still poorly understood and not yet properly labeled. -ls

A member of an ∮forge ••• is working to begin a conversation between a founder of Telomir and a founder of Infinita. We are living in times when strange good things should begin to happen. Our acts may set them in motion. We have the power to catalyze and accelerate The Emergence. -ls

Related to the above two items and to the following one on Financial Transactions. Contact me for details. -ls

Arizona State University Core Research Facilities •••

Financial Transactions on Distributed Ledgers (DLT)

Aberdeen ••• (the “Blackrock” of the U.K.) and Lloyds ••• (banking group) just executed a real world transfer of financial assets using a method provided by U.K. firm Archax ••• employing Hedera •••. A transaction ordinarily taking meaningful time and expense was done in about a second for less than 1 U.S. cent.

A short interview with Graham Rodford, CEO and founder of Archax ••• hosted by Brandon Hargreaves ••• — about 10 minutes long — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw3_Vl1a3XA&t=97s

Jeremy Shearmur about the 8th Popper and Critical Rationalism Zoom-based conference:

‘I am writing to announce the next in the series of conferences on Popper and Critical Rationalism, which is planned for 27th-28th September, 2025.

(a) If you’d like to give a paper, or to organise a panel, please let me know as soon as possible, giving: (i) the title of the paper or panel; (ii) if it is a panel, the names of speakers and the titles of their papers. Please also let me know where you are located, and your preferred time for presentation (in British Summer Time).

(b) Speakers MUST undertake to get a paper (ideally about 3,000-4,000 words) to me a week before the meeting takes place. This will be distributed to those attending the conference. The speaker will then have 15 minutes to speak to their paper; this will be followed by 15 minutes of moderated discussion. (We may vary the discussion times for panels.)

(c) If you’d simply like to attend, please let me know as soon as you can. My plan will be to send out tentative programmes as soon as I can do so, and papers and Zoom links (one for each day) on Saturday 20th September.

It is fine to post this information to web sites or social media, or to e-mail it to anyone who might be interested. There is no charge for attending the conference. All conference-related communication should come to me at:’

jeremy.shearmur —-at— fallowfield — dot — info

Karl R. Popper on the meaning of “rationalism”, a post ••• [facebook] by Bruce Caithness, quoting Popper:

‘When I speak of reason or rationalism, all I mean is the conviction that we can learn through criticism of our mistakes and errors, especially through criticism by others, and eventually also through self-criticism. A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others. The emphasis here is on the idea of criticism or, to be more precise, critical discussion. The genuine rationalist does not think that he or anyone else is in possession of the truth; nor does he think that mere criticism as such helps us to achieve new ideas. But he does think that, in the sphere of ideas, only critical discussion can help us sort the wheat from the chaff. He is well aware that acceptance or rejection of an idea is never a purely rational matter; but he thinks that only critical discussion can give us the necessary maturity to see an idea from more and more sides and to make a correct judgement of it.” —from 1958 seminar paper "On Freedom", contained in "All Life is Problem Solving" 1999.’

See facebook.com/groups/criticalrationalism

Labored definitions pretending greater precision than possible produce more problems than they solve. Popper seems to understand this well, and seems willing to allow roughness arising from essential lack of precision to mill itself out through freeorder process. -ls

Emergence depends on limits — a principle of freeorder

Freeorder (one kind of emergent) depends on limits within us, in our thinking, and among us, as in physical boundaries that must be crossed only with agreement. Inner freeorder supports outer and outer supports inner. The interplay of the two freeorders can result in cultures, as if ascending double-helices, which resist degradation and tend to improvement. Karl Popper’s work is about internal (to each mind) limits that support rationality, and about limits agreed upon by members of collaborative groups that make science possible. -ls

The Inspireist ••• on Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=616916544802382&set=a.197178210109553

‘At a 1930 conference of the German Physical Society in Leipzig, the air was thick with reverence. Albert Einstein stood before an audience, unveiling his newest insights to thunderous applause. His theories had already transformed physics, and few dared challenge him—his word felt like law. But after he finished, silence gripped the room. No one moved.

Then came a voice from the back—unfamiliar, young, and trembling. Lev Davidovich Landau, just 22 and virtually unknown, rose to question one of Einstein’s equations. With respectful precision, Landau pointed out that the second equation relied on assumptions that hadn’t been introduced, and thus didn’t meet scientific rigor. The room held its breath, shocked someone had dared to interrupt the master.

Einstein stood at the blackboard, eyes narrowed in thought. He checked. Re-checked. Then turned to the audience and said plainly: the young man was right. He asked them to disregard his prior claim.

The tension broke not with defensiveness, but with humility. Einstein’s response didn’t diminish his brilliance—it elevated it. He showed that even icons must stay students of truth. It wasn’t just a turning point for Landau, who would go on to become a titan of Soviet physics—it was a powerful example of what greatness truly looks like.

In that moment, science advanced not through authority, but through courage and honesty. Einstein’s correction was more than an admission—it was a lesson for every generation: progress blooms where ego ends and learning begins.’

~ The Inspireist •••

A weekly summary of the publications of The Libertarian Alliance (U.K.) is provided by Sean Gabb ••• writer, scholar, and teacher of Latin and ancient Greek.

From the Libertarian Alliance: Week Ending 27th July 2025 •••

Sean received a Cobden-Bright Award from Explorers Foundation in 2022 in thanks for his writings on liberty.

The investments made by EF are intended not only to benefit specific work, but also, taken together, to evoke an image of the emergence of freeorder through the collaborative competition of many contributors. -ls

A list of most Explorers Foundation (EF) awards in table form ••• (click on the blue diamond before each listing for details).

Two articles on Bitcoin and cryptography by David Veksler ••• [substack]

“The Quantum Threat to Bitcoin: A Recovery Proposal” •••

“Bitcoin’s Civil War is Coming, and the Enemy Isn't Human” •••

American Business History Center: Three interactive dynamic charts

Largest American Companies over 30 Years: 1994-2024 •••

Most Valuable American Companies over 30 Years: 1995-2025 •••

Highest Profit American Companies: 1994-2024 •••

American Business History Center •••

Gary Hoover’s American History Business Center is a fine resource for exploring the contribution of business to the emergence of Freeorder. -ls

About The Origins of English Individualism, by Alan Macfarlane

A thread on X — x.com/Babygravy9/status/1947597129653903579

Each of the following headings precedes a photo of a page of the book:

‘All images are taken from Alan MacFarlane’s tremendous book, The Origins of English Individualism. It has long been recognised that England was different historically in ways that explain its rise to industrial and military preeminence in the nineteenth century.

England did not have a classical peasantry.

There was massive geographical mobility in the Middle Ages. Up to 50% of the population may have worked for wages as servants.

English people did not own property in a communal manner like a classic peasant society.

England had highly individualised land ownership, where basically only the interests of husband and wife counted. The nuclear family was the basic unit of ownership.

Huge amounts of land were bought and sold.

No large clans or kindreds formed because the families were not rooted in place like in classical peasantries.

The English did not look after old people—parents and grandparents—in the way they were looked after in peasant societies. If an old man have his property to his son or grandson, he could be turfed out without a contract.

The relationship between parent and child was one of contract and not status—totally unlike a peasant society.

The descent system was not “ancestor-focused.”

There was a very active cash economy, even in rural areas. Indebtedness was common.

Again, geographical mobility was very common.

In peasant societies, girls marry very young (teens or even earlier), but in medieval England, the age of marriage was mid to late twenties.

“The majority of people in England were rampant individualists [by comparison with the Continent]” at least as early as the 13 the century.

Contemporary visitors to England noted how different it was to the Continent. Here’s Montesquieu in the early 18th century. Similar descriptions, noting deep differences between England on the one hand and France and Italy and other European nations, can be found throughout the Middle Ages

England’s precocious economic development in the early modern and modern period only makes sense if you understand the significant differences in social and economic behaviour and mentality of the English, right back through the Middle Ages.’

This book of Macfarlane’s should be in any library of fundamentals of freeorder, along with corollary work by Emmanuel Todd on family types, and James C. Bennett’s The Anglosphere Challenge. Both Todd and Bennett were, in different ways, students of Macfarlane’s. -ls

Alan Macfarlane — from the March 2017 “Threads of Freeorder”:

China lectures ••• by Alan Macfarlane •••: Seventeen lectures given in March-April 2011 at the Tsinghua Academy of Chinese Learning, University of Tsinghua, Beijing, China, given by Professor Alan Macfarlane and funded by the Kaifeng Foundation. A book of these lectures, in Chinese translation, was a top seller in China. A book ••• of the lectures is available in English. 3/27/17 —related: vAnglosphere

Biographical note, from an Amazon page on Individualism, Capitalism and the Modern World: Essays, Talks and Lectures:

I was born and have lived between worlds. My infancy was in Assam on the borders of India and Burma. When I returned to England at the age of five, and subsequently attended ten years of English single sex boarding schools, I learnt how to be 'modern' and British. I learnt to be an individual, self-reliant and separated from my family and to transact in the capitalist and industrial world around me. The shock of contrast between my roots and my experience was kept alive by frequent periods of anthropological fieldwork in Asia. I spent fifteen months on doctoral research in 1968-70 and then more than two years on sixteen subsequent visits to a remote hill village in the Annapurna mountains of central Nepal. I also visited many parts of Japan and China on fifteen expeditions from 1990 onwards. My central question has long concerned the conditions and consequences of the emergence of the unusual, unexpected and strange bundle of features which we term 'modernity', including individualism, capitalism and industrialism. I explored this first in The Origins of English Individualism (1978). I rejected much of what I had accepted in my earlier education, including the model partially derived from Marx, Weber and Durkheim. From then onwards I have explored what has happened and its consequences through a series of books, including 'The Culture of Capitalism' (1987), 'The Savage Wars of Peace' (1997), 'The Riddle of the Modern World' (2000) and 'The Making of the Modern World' (2002). A synthesis of my views on how we arrived where we are now is in my book 'The Invention of the Modern World', the Wang Gouwei lectures at Tsinghua University, published in Chinese and English in 2013. While working on these books and exploring different cultures, I wrote a number of shorter lectures, talks and essays on various aspects of the great transition to modernity. These are often rough and informal, showing in an unpolished way how my thought was developing. I have decided to collect them together in a single volume, though they are also available on my website: www.alanmacfarlane.com

Leopold Aschenbrenner, June 2024: “Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead” •••

‘Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans. Behind the scenes, there’s a fierce scramble to secure every power contract still available for the rest of the decade, every voltage transformer that can possibly be procured. American big business is gearing up to pour trillions of dollars into a long-unseen mobilization of American industrial might. By the end of the decade, American electricity production will have grown tens of percent; from the shale fields of Pennsylvania to the solar farms of Nevada, hundreds of millions of GPUs will hum.

The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace many college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word. Along the way, national security forces not seen in half a century will be unleashed, and before long, The Project will be on. If we’re lucky, we’ll be in an all-out race with the CCP; if we’re unlucky, an all-out war.’

It is not possible to sustain a civilization while systematically avoiding the confrontation of facts indicating an approaching catastrophe. As evidence for that I’m posting something hard to think about and hard to look at. I’ve been following this for years with growing horror at the power of fear (justified) to persuade people that silence was the wise course. That’s a defense I’m willing to grant almost everyone. But are there some who should be convicted of criminal suppression of truth? -ls

I hope everything I’ve said above proves to be a mistake.

This is about the reports of embalmers who, only after mRNA vaccinations began, are finding large clots of a type never before encountered in the bodies of the deceased.

https://libertarianism.uk/2025/07/13/im-grateful-i-refused-the-covid-shots-the-embalmer-clots-are-real/ by Len D. Pozaram •••

“Fighting for Freedom: Hope, Iran, and the Power of Civil Society” with Mohamad Machine-Chian ••• [atlas network] 24 Jun 25

‘In this gripping episode of Atlas Network with Michael Carnuccio, we sit down with Mohamad Machine-Chian — Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Governance and Markets and leading voice for liberty in Iran. Mohamad shares the untold story of life under authoritarian rule, the challenges and hopes of Iran’s liberty movement, and how the next generation is shaping the future.’

Tom Palmer ••• [atlas network] interviews Mohamed Machine-Chian ••• [u pittsburgh]

From Machine-Chain’s biography ••• [same link as above] at University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Governance and Markets ••• supported by the Pittsburgh Network for Threatened Scholars (PiNTS) ucis.pitt.edu/global/pints

Atlas Network’s Freedom Worldwide ••• with Tom G. Palmer •••

‘Welcome to our exclusive collection of Freedom Worldwide discussions featuring our Executive Vice President, Tom G. Palmer. For decades, Tom has been a key figure in empowering liberty in challenging environments, from supporting champions of freedom behind the Iron Curtain in the 20th century to uplifting advocates for individual rights in the heart of the Muslim World today.’

Tom is expected to visit Denver this September.

The Africa Hackathon (Hedera) prize pool is over $1,000,000

“The New Abundance: Beyond Material Wealth in 21st Century America” ••• by Michael Strong, 6 Jul 2025

‘… the entrepreneurial creation of culture and community is already the greatest need for the 21st century. We need to legalize markets in happiness and wellbeing to ensure widespread access to real abundance in the 21st century. Material abundance is already here and it is clearly not enough.’

Why prefer to live in a monarchy rather than a democracy?

“Why I Feel Freer in a Monarchy Than in My Democratic Home Country: Reflections on Dubai and the freedom granted by digital nomadism” ••• Olivier Roland, 6 Jul 2025, in Disruptive Horizons ••• [substack]

‘… there is a different implicit contract between an individual who lives in a country because he was born there, and an individual who lives in a country he has chosen because it offers him the best value for money in a market of jurisdictions.’

As Joyce Brand ••• tells us, a world is coming in which we will subscribe to governments rather than submit to them.

"Willa Cather’s Admiration of the Czechs" by Evelyn Funda, PhD – T. G. Masaryk Czech School [program]. When:  Friday, September 20 at 7:00pm (CDT); Where:  T. G. Masaryk Czech School, 5701 West 22nd Place, Cicero, Illinois

“The Song of the New World” (on Dvorak’s symphony) ••• by Timothy Sandefur in The Objective Standard ••• for Fall 2024

‘On an April evening in 1895, a twenty-year-old University of Nebraska student attended a performance by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which was touring what were then the Western states. The orchestra was in Lincoln that night to share the latest cultural wonders of America, and this student—an aspiring writer named Willa Cather—was especially excited, because she had never before heard an orchestra perform a piece of music.’ … It may be that only the first page or two of this article is available without subscription.

Hedera: Leading the Charge in Agentic AI ••• by Monique Morrow ••• 8 Jul 2025, Independent Board Director, Hedera •••

‘… as systems evolve into autonomous, decision-making agents, the infrastructure surrounding them must guarantee trust, transparency, and verifiable accountability. Hedera is uniquely positioned to power this evolution.’

‘As AI matures from analytical tools to autonomous agents, the need for trust, transparency, and tamper-proof accountability becomes paramount. Hedera, through its layered and robust infrastructure, provides a comprehensive stack to enable and govern agentic AI with real-world utility.’

From Morrow’s biography •••

‘ Monique chairs the IEEE P.7030 Global Extended Reality Working Group, Recommended practice for the assessment of Extended Reality Technologies. She also Chairs IEEE P.7016, “Standard for Ethically Aligned Design and Operation of Metaverse Systems.” Monique was Co-Chair of the GSMA-Distributed Ledger Technology [DLT] group and served as Syniverse’s representative in the World Economic Forum [WEF] Data Policy Council and Digital Justice.  Monique has contributed to the WEF-Wharton School Paper on the “Decentralized Autonomous Organization Toolkit.”  She is active in WEF’s Digital Identity initiative.  Monique recently contributed to the GSMA, Vodafone, IBM Chaired  white paper entitled, “Post Quantum Telco Network Impact Assessment.”’

From One Door to Another: How John Lewis Led Me to Preston Bruce ••• by Diamond-Michael Scott, 23 Jun 2025

‘Preston Bruce wasn’t elected, and he never made headlines. But for 24 years, he stood at the threshold of American power, literally opening the door to presidents, dignitaries, grieving widows, secretaries of state, and countless ordinary citizens. He was the first face you saw when you entered the White House, and sometimes, the last touch of humanity before you left it.’

Retro Biosciences ••• “We're Adding 10 Years to Healthy Human Lifespan: We develop therapies that meaningfully reverse age-related diseases.” — This link was found at ricon.xyz (website of José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente, who (as of Jan 2023) Director of Theory for Retro Biosciences)

José has posted “A list of my past mistakes” ••• on his website Nintil ••• — sufficiently Popperian to warrant mention. -ls

Human Respect Labs ••• “How to Build the Civilization of Tomorrow: Applications are open here at Human Respect Labs. Here's the grand strategy” ••• by Max Borders, 01 July 2025

“The Nakamoto Imperative: Try to be like someone whose identity is still a mystery” ••• by Max Borders, 24 June 2025

Welcome to Statesmen Academy, Jon Hersey, 2 July 2025: Reviving the Revolution “in the Minds of the People” [thanks to carrie-anne biondi’s substack •••]

“The Virtues of Freedom: Building a Better World Begins Within” ••• 1 July 2025, by Free Cities •••

“The Free Cities Moment: Why the Movement Is Accelerating Now” ••• by Joyce Brand, 8 Jul 25

‘Why Chopin's "Heroic" Polonaise Should Be the Anthem of the Human Race’ ••• [youtube] Ben Laude & Garrick Ohlsson

I’ve wondered how many lives were changed by a first hearing of this piece. Mine was one of them. -ls

We (∮forge) are working towards a shift in the general perception of (expectations regarding) the origins of goods, from commanded orders to freeorders. Call this changed perception an emerging “sense of freeorder”, making a kind of generalized basis for awareness of where good things come from and a consequent interest in protecting that basis. And since that expectation involves the freedom of multitudes of other human beings to do as they see best this expectation becomes a fundamental guard of liberty

The world needs ears more than more mouths

If you want a new kind of forest you may need to change the chemistry and quality of the soil. So it is if you wish to see the emergence of Freeorder. Given that, how do you work in a culture at such a molecular level, especially when people are not prepared for what will benefit them to know? You don’t talk. You listen. You try to be useful by offering tools that, through use, convey ideas that cannot be delivered in words. The seeds of the forest where we want to live are all around us. They need soil to sustain them.

What the forest soil needs is a restorative fabric of listening posts and integrating forges. In real forests networks of mycelia restore damage done by logging roads. [Stamets]

A model for a listening post on the edge of Emergence: The Office for Open Network, Denver 1975-2000, an experiment to be replicated (in spirit, not in detail) thousands of times — explorersfoundation.org/glyphery/545.html

Symbols for a decentralized worldwide network of ∮forge

(∮ means “integrating”, i.e. a putting together to make sense of an emerging whole)

∮ - a single ∮forge - a venture, a listening post, run by individual or a small group

∯ - connected ∮forges - clusters, in which a few ∮forge are known to each other

∰ - emergent world of numerous ∮forges - includes all, although most do not know of each other they nevertheless are mutually reinforcing and in sum constitute a global learning network

What is being learned in this global network is how to catalyze and accelerate the Emergence, and how to build new wealth to make it happen.

New Sources of Wealth to Catalyze and Accelerate the Emergence of Freeorder

Sell the cleanest water possible, everywhere in the world, using technology based on 1-atomic layer thick membranes. Bring a soon to be recognized crisis to an end.

Sell faster electronics consuming far less power and emitting very little waste heat while almost completely eliminating most of the parts found in current bills of materials and shortening manufacturing time by at least an order of magnitude.

Sell industrial/agricultural spray technology based on novel liquid charging.

The above ventures are expected to deliver value profitably and currently are being assisted by readers of this substack who wish to invest in Freeorder. Connect with us if interested.