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Decentralised Exile

Ava did not vanish. The system tried to make her irrelevant—politely, algorithmically. But Ava understood erasure as a tactic, not fate. She did not panic. She documented. When her payment systems faltered, she annotated the timestamps. When her invitations were withdrawn, she preserved the headers. When her access to institutional networks began to degrade, she mapped the patterns. It was not that the world had forgotten her. It was that it had been instructed to look away. --- She had publi...

System Breathes Alone A3S12 v.2

The draw in Dakar failed to load. The screen blinked once, then froze. The boy waiting for it didn’t say anything. He folded the slip of paper into his pocket and walked home. In Buenos Aires, PEG had lost seven percent over the week. Some vendors still accepted it out of habit or principle, but most hedged immediately. It had become a currency of uncertainty—still circulating, still alive, but not believed in. In a roadside school in Uganda, the Raspberry Pi node that once ran weekly lottery...

PEGGED SAGA – WRITING PROGRESS REPORT

Status Update The serialised publication of Act 3 is coming to a conclusion. Two more scenes to be released. The objective to release a fully edited draft version by September is on schedule. Narrative Progress Prologue:Finalized, anchoring Ava and Alias in emotional isolation and philosophical paradox.Act 1:Fully structured (15 scenes), 12 scenes complete.Team introduced in isolation; foundational themes established: irrevocability, lotteries, governance as risk.Act 2:Structure locked.Drafti...

Greg R. Fishbone – Poems to save the world, books to melt your mind

Books to melt your mind.Poems to save the world. Home Poems Poem of the Day:

Sharing the Receipts: 100 days of trump2.0

(Democracy vs Autocracy: my family's version)

A Message from Ava (1)

The Pegged Saga isn’t being published in a book format—at least not yet. It’s unfolding as a multimedia, asynchronous writing experiment: Part thriller Part philosophical testbed Part cultural prototype Scenes appear one by one, sometimes as drafts, sometimes fully formed—across platforms with distinct voices. On X, you might glimpse cryptic prophecy. On Nostr, a glitch fragment. On Paragraph, Ava speaks clearly. Each space offers a different lens into the same system. This format is intentio...

Operation Disrupt Activated A3S4 v.2

Steenberg stood at the far end, hands behind his back, watching a map projected across the glass wall. It pulsed with slow movements: smart contract deployments, liquidity clusters, API volatility, search data, wallet node heat signatures. The map was silent. It didn’t need sound. Behind him, four monitors displayed documents in various stages of redaction. One glowed orange. The analyst read quietly. “Twelve second-tier wallet clusters. Five bridges flagged in Asia, two offline already. Coor...

An Ecological Elegy: 100 Million Years of Magnolia Trees

A 200 year old White House magnolia, subjective time, and biotechnological mediums of interspecies connection

Maq 3 | Suspended Reason | Substack

Fragments from a manuscript in progress. Click to read Maq 3, by Suspended Reason, a Substack publication.

Amara's Irrevocable Lines v.1

[Secure Call Start – 00:00:04] ALIAS (voice only): You know why I’m contacting you. AMARA: I assumed. Still surprised you used a live link. ALIAS: We get one call. I listen. Then I decide. [00:00:16] AMARA: Fine. Let’s skip the posturing. You’ve read my filings. You know I believe in dynamic frameworks. DAOs that can evolve, amend, correct themselves. Otherwise we’re just reinventing tyranny—this time with prettier UX. [00:00:29] ALIAS: And yet you stayed silent when PacificDAO collapsed. AMA...

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Venture Notes, by Olive Capital | Rph Grc | Substack

Olive Capital's newsletter and podcast «Runway Series», exploring the frontiers of tech, innovation, venture capital at the intersection of web2 and crypto, web3. Editor-in-chief Raph Grieco. Click to read Venture Notes, by Olive Capital, by Rph Grc, a Substack publication.

Lottery and Entropy

The storm had passed. Morning light diffused softly through the mist that clung to the pine ridge. In The Hut, silence held. Ava sat at the edge of the long table, her hands wrapped around a porcelain cup gone lukewarm. Alias moved quietly, sketching in pencil on a torn page from an old ledger. He didn’t look up when he spoke. “Entropy is not chaos,” he said. “It’s cost.” Ava tilted her head. “Every system generates it. The moment you structure anything—an economy, a protocol, a law—you also ...