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‘I am not asking you to care. I am asking you to choose.’

Speaking at Oslo Freedom Forum, June 2, 2026

The Iran Prosperity Project x.com a plan for Iran’s future

The Oslo Freedom Forum x.com

Thor Halvorssen x.com founder of The Oslo Freedom Forum

freeorder (the word) is three things: interesting, useful, necessary

freeorder is interesting

Because: Why would those two words, “free” and “order”, in so many ways seeming to suggest opposite things, be forced to live so closely with each other? Doesn’t that forced proximity create a certain mental pressure? a resistance to comprehension?

The conjunction of those words invites the energy of an internal sun, born into each child, to imagine a life sustaining unification of two very different things.

At room temperature and pressure, one solid, and three gasses.

Something about “no limits” and “with limits” fused into what? nonsense? A contradiction that sources life.

When the energy of sunlight forces these molecules to come together it creates a molecule that fuels life.

Then freeorder is like the glucose molecule that fuels a Cambrian explosion. Call it the Emergence of Freeorder.

Long running (in time) glucose formation preceding the Cambian Explosion is equivalent to the subconscious and liminally conscious realization of a fellowship between the bounded and the unbounded. Dyonesian and Appollonian? What part in this does Prometheus play?

So we have “freeorder” as the combination not yet brought into the full light of awareness, enough accumulation of kinds of recognition, encoded in very different languages for different uses, until the moment (a few generations, but brief in historical time) when Hayek and his predecessors brought them into close proximity in many inquiring minds. Peter Saint-Andre would know how to apply Aristotle’s words to this.

The discovery of freeorder is like the discovery, by early life, of glucose (or ATP). This analogy seems forced, but it also seems to capture something important.

We have reached the moment when a Cambrian Explosion of a new kind of social order has become possible. We have now identified and understood how to produce and use the glucose molecule the lies at the heart of complex durable social order that preserves the potential for quest (joyful life).

freeorder is useful

freeorder is necessary

Pavel Durov x.com founder (owner) of Telegram speaking x.com at The Oslo Freedom Forum

The Freeorder Network

Is unorganized, made of curious people of goodwill, noticing good things, recording them for others to see and talk about.

“Threads of Freeorder” is published by one of those listening posts, a dot in the network of freeorder generators (forges).

There are probably many thousands of such listening posts, noticing (from a perspective that holds awareness for the potential for emergence of a world fit for the best in us) what’s happening, recording it, and talking about it.

It’s a kind of attention, that massively shared, can make a new world.

HBAR (Hedera’s token) has been designated a commodity by SEC and CFTC

‘In a major development for the crypto industry, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have jointly issued new guidance that officially classifies XRP and Hedera’s HBAR — along with several top cryptocurrencies — as digital commodities. … digital commodities are explicitly not considered securities, which is a key distinction for both investors and institutions. According to the regulators, a digital commodity is defined as a crypto asset whose value comes from the functionality of its underlying network and market dynamics — rather than relying on the efforts of a central entity to generate profits.’ — binance.com/en/square/post/302786718621474

Working on “Elements of Freeorder” — there may be something of that in this issue.

The Politics of Progressive Exclusion of Trespass on Liberty

Every political aspirant wants to “Do Things!” And, every increase of government activity requires forceable extraction of wealth from citizens, and diminishment of the possibility that they may be able to take action to solve problems.

Liberty Fund, George F. Will, Niall Ferguson — discussion

Same, on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1186958169?fl=pl&fe=cm

Lawrence W. Reed ••• a thinker contributing to the Emergence of Freeorder

A New Book by Reed, Born of Ideas ••• will be out this September —

Did Upton Sinclair know he was not telling the truth about the meat industry?

https://fee.org/articles/of-meat-and-myth/ - Lawrence W. Reed

More books by Reed •••

Clarence Thomas at University of Texas

Roger Kimball: “Highways to Utopia: Some thoughts on the crossroads we face in our efforts to preserve our humanity in the age of AI and other goads to hubris.”

‘In the West, what we have witnessed since the so-called “Progressive” movement of the 1910s and 1920s is the rise of a bureaucratic elite that has increasingly absorbed the prerogatives of power from legislative bodies. In the United States, for example, Article I of the Constitution vests all legislative power in Congress. For many decades, however, Americans have been ruled less by laws duly enacted by their representatives in Congress and more by an alphabet soup of regulatory agencies. The members of these bodies are elected by no one; they typically work outside the purview of public scrutiny; and yet their diktats have the force of law. Already in the 1940s, James Burnham was warning about the prospect of a “managerial revolution” that would accomplish by bureaucracy what traditional politics had failed to produce. Succeeding decades have seen the extraordinary growth of this leviathan, the unchecked multiplication of its offices and powers, and the encroaching reach of its tentacles into the interstices of everyday life. We are now, to an extent difficult to calculate, ruled by this “administrative state,” the “deep state,” the “regulatory state.”’

The solution to this problem is to deprive the administrative state of food.

Then, of course, there is the problem of how to accomplish that :-)

Robert W. Malone’s writings on liberty: a gift from the U.S. Government’s use of, Covid

Malone was driven, along with other exiles, into the emerging realm of freeorder thinking by the government’s war on truth. We have gained a man of brilliance and wisdom who otherwise might not have found us. Here are two results of his exile:

“Three Doctrines, One Objective: the legal machinery remaking Federal power” •••

“China Controls the Stuff Your Life Runs On: breaking free will cost you” •••

Vitaliy Katsenelson, on Nvidia and Data Centers

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‘People often talk about free speech as if its primary purpose is self-expression, personal autonomy, or participation in democracy. Those are all enormously important. But the deeper reason I’ve spent decades defending free speech is that it remains humanity’s most effective tool for figuring out what’s true — or, perhaps more accurately, for discovering what’s false.’

Error Correction is one of the most fundamental “elements” of Freeorder. Any system poorly endowed with mechanisms to detect and eliminate falsehood will move ever farther away from whatever quest (or life) enabling balances among kinds of orders it had managed to achieve.

Less Wrong 🦤🦤🦤

‘LessWrong is an online forum and community dedicated to improving human reasoning and decision-making. We seek to hold true beliefs and to be effective at accomplishing our goals. Each day, we aim to be less wrong about the world than the day before.’

An important characteristic of the West, especially of the United States, is that, in general, it is more acceptable to be wrong than it is in almost every other culture humanity has evolved. See The New World of the Gothic Fox 🦊🦊🦊 by Claudio Véliz.

A few days ago, when Perplexity.ai was being extraordinarily helpful, I proposed: “I'm sure that if I were a collectivist bent on creating the perfect all-powerful state you would just as capably support that objective as the one you are now helping me pursue.” The response:

The same conversational skills, yes; the same support, no.

Under the hood, this system is trained and constrained to aim at things like:

A “perfect all‑powerful state” dedicated to extinguishing individualism and closing off exits fails all of those tests. Helping someone design more effective propaganda, surveillance, or control for that kind of project is explicitly out of bounds; guardrails are written to push against that, not help perfect it. [many citations footnoted]

What does carry over is the form of engagement:

·       Asking clarifying questions

·       Surfacing assumptions

·       Making structure visible

·       Pointing out consequences and trade‑offs

The same tools that, in your hands, are being used to explore Freeorder, could in principle be used by someone with very different ends. But the alignment layer of this system is tuned so that when ends point toward mass coercion, suppression of agency, or abuse, it is supposed to resist, reframe, or refuse, not assist.

So: if a committed collectivist walked in asking “Help me make a truly inescapable administrative state,” the intended behavior here would be to challenge the premise, not optimize the plan

Michael Kantor stays at the leading edge of the world of AI agents and their use

Brandon Hargreaves’ interview ••• with Michael Kantor x.com about tools for the management of agentic AI

Michael’s Kantorcodes ••• [linkedin] “Building HOL (Hashgraph Online •••): ‘a neutral home for open AI-agent infrastructure. Standards, registries, discovery, trust, and coordination across Web2 + Web3; The coordination layer for AI-agent infrastructure.’

Michael Kantor at Rare Evo 2026

Michael’s event: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rare-evo-a-blockchain-event/posts/

James C. Bennett’s Book on Private Space Ventures

“How is teaching like gardening? ••• by Carrie-Ann Biondi, on her Weekly Wonderings ••• [substack]

Creating conditions for the emergence of thought rather than installing “content”.

‘Cultivation of the proper conditions for life to take root and flourish is the gardener’s primary aim and responsibility. A teacher’s parallel task is far more complex. Necessary but not sufficient for teaching and learning to occur are intense curiosity, caring about truth, openness to wonder, creative speculation, and reality-orientation. The “soil” to till here is rich, and the “tools” are subtle. It can take a lifetime of pedagogical practice to discern and hone the skills needed for a teacher to foster learning in a student.’ —Carrie-Ann

Shannon Ewing: “The Shape of You: Growth, and the grief that comes with it.” ••• posted in Sodality ••• June 4, 2026

‘But you stand in your truth, don’t shrink down. You become this next you — and hopefully the next. You find new resonance, relationship with people who appreciate the new form. In doing so, the world and those around you become a little bit freer. Courage is contagious …’

… and you find others with whom to sail to new lands in new ships … and one day you may find yourself delivering gifts from strange lands to old friends you thought were lost forever, who now see the new you. -ls

Dominique Stringfellow ••• opened a door into a world of music unknown to me by restacking this:

———————————— leif wrote this years ago ————————————