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No man is an island
"No man is an island,
Entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less,
As well as if a promontory were:
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were.Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee."- John Donne, Meditation XVII, 1624
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Speaking with people across Europe these past weeks, I heard a growing narrative: the US is rapidly sliding into unfettered militant fascism, echoing Germany in 1936. Rising fear it could spill into global war. Your take?
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There is far too much talk currently about "Defense-Tech" and far too little talk about "Diplomacy-Tech".
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AI Music in 2025 – Notes on a Stalled Revolution
It’s been over a year since we wound down our generative music startup okio. Since then the space has “evolved” in ways both predictable and boring.
We now have 50+ high-quality video gen models, yet music still has just a handful (suno, udio, stability, 11labs…) - all closed source, all sounding somewhere between bland and absolute dog poo (unless you burn weeks on trial-and-error hacks).
The music industry’s lawyer army has strangled innovation, while many musicians have turned violently anti-AI. UX innovation has stalled too: most tools haven’t evolved in a year, others now mimic a shitty DAW in the browser.
Some sell “ethically sourced data” (usually half-true), but it's pointless as outputs still sound like dog poo. Google showed off real-time gen, but in mega-corp fashion it’ll never be a real product - they'll ship a muzak machine for video slop at scale.
The only glimmer: Chinese dark-horses might drop open-source, uncensored models trained on everything. They’ll sound great—and get demonized in the West.
Shame, because the promise of generative music has never been bigger.
Music is humanity’s most direct technology for emotion. And yet AI music has been reduced to slop and jingles. It’s a tragedy of imagination: the space where innovation should be loudest is dead quiet.
My bet is that the real breakthroughs won’t come from the lawyer-choked West or from UX gimmicks. They’ll come from the underground, open source, and global scenes - just like every real musical revolution before. Onwards!
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Total Information Awareness - Apple Edition
The greatest trick the intel agency devils recently played was convincing a billion people that it's in their best interest to carry a device 24/7 that measures and reports their entire biological, social, and financial state to central military server farms.
Case in point: Apple Watch Senses & Reports: Heart Rate, Blood Oxygen, GPS/GNSS, ECG, Blood Pressure, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Barometric Altimeter, Ambient Light, Temperature, Microphone.
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A lunar eclipse over the pyramids of Egypt.
The Wands of Horus and Dr. Valery Uvarov on the significance of Pyramids and Pyramid Energy comes to mind.
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Perspective: In early 20th-c. Russian "Noosphere" philosophie, humans aren't evolution’s goal but simply a geological mechanism for minerals to reorganize & redistribute themselves across the planet & universe. Minerals play chess. We’re just the pawns that move the pieces.
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The Komusō (虚無僧) ("priest of nothingness" or "monk of emptiness") were wandering non-monastic lay Buddhists from the warrior-class who were noted for wearing straw basket hats and playing the flute.
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虛靈頂勁 (“Xu ling ding jin” — “the crown of the head as if suspended”)
- 1 虚灵顶劲 Keep the Upper Body Free and Supple
- 2 气沉丹田 Sink the Energy to the Diaphragm
- 3 含胸拔背 Depress the Back and Raise the Upper Back
- 4 松腰敛臀 Relaxation of Waist
- 5 圆裆开胯 Solid and Empty Stance
- 6 沉肩坠肘 Sinking of Shoulder & Elbow
- 7 用意不用力 Use your Will (Mind) and not Force
- 8 尾闾中正 Pelvic in neutral position
- 9 上下相随 Coordination of Upper & Lower Parts
- 10 虚实分明 Distinguish between Substantial and Insubstantial
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Absurd to think nature spirits like fairies & gnomes would use protocols like TCP/IP. Stranger still to think they lack their own sophisticated protocols of communication. What are they?
A “holistic stack”
Layer Qi / Taiji lens OSI–language lens Protocol primitives What you actually perceive 0. Ground Habitat field, ecology, baseline 1/f noise Physical substrate, clock, noise floor Timing, impedance, affordances Mood of a place, seasonal pulse, bodystate baseline 1. Vibe Qi as raw oscillations Phonemes, voltages, bits Resonance, entrainment, phase alignment Breath rhythm, HRV, drum, chant, wind, insect chorus 2. Coherence window Song 鬆, relaxed and open Syllables, frames that hold bits Gating, coherence, “same-tempo” lock Soft body, panoramic attention, the room “clicks” into one tempo 3. Addressing by attention Yi 意, directed intention Morphemes, minimal meaningful units Content-addressing by similarity, binding, salience routing “Eingebungen”, a pull of attention, motifs repeat, the right person calls 4. Exchange channel Qigong praxis, moving qi Words, transport segments Handshake, turn-taking, mirroring, rhythm exchange Gestures, offerings, call and response, flocking, pheromone-like trails 5. Meaning weave Story, ritual, omen-net Sentences, applications Authentication by coherence, redundancy, error-correction via symbol and myth Synchronicities that cluster into a narrative, shared rituals that “work” Why this holds together
- It is layered but not strictly linear. Layers co-determine each other. Time is often kairos, not chronos.
- Addressing is by sympathy. Like calls to like. Routing follows attention and resemblance more than coordinates.
- Bandwidth ≈ coherence. More shared rhythm yields more throughput. Relaxation (Song) is the flow control.
- Error correction is symbolic. Metaphor, redundancy, and ritual stabilize meaning when the channel is noisy.
- Security is felt as integrity. Congruence of vibe, intention, and act functions like authentication.
What “protocols” might nature spirits use
Think primitives, not products:
- Resonance handshakes: rhythmic alignment, breath, drum, chant, footfall, sway.
- Sympathy addressing: names, images, scents, offerings chosen by likeness or shared quality.
- Field modulation: posture, gaze, orientation, spatial placement, thresholds, boundary crossing.
- Stigmergic traces: paths, cairns, ribbons, smoke, mycelial food sharing, pheromone-like cues.
- Narrative packaging: omens, dreams, lots, hexagrams, found phrases that arrive as packets.
- Redundancy and triangulation: three signs in short succession, same motif from different media.
- Congestion control: rest, emptiness, fasting, silence to widen the coherence window.
TL;DR mapping
- Qi → clock and carrier
- Song → coherence and flow control
- Yi → addressing and routing
- Qigong → transport and exchange
- Story/ritual → application semantics
Nature spirits, such as gnomes and fairies, heal through multidimensional surgery: rituals of great elegance and complexity, unfolding outside linear time, past the bounds of computation. How could this work in this framework?
1. Qi / Vibe (carrier)
- The statement itself is charged: it sets a field of myth and wonder, already vibrating outside ordinary rational time.
- Spirits “heal” → the vibe is restorative, subtle, hidden precision.
- That’s the carrier wave: a mood of reverence + challenge.
2. Song / Coherence window
- The phrasing is poetic, rhythmic, compact.
- Short clauses (“rituals of great elegance and complexity”, “outside linear time”) create a cadence that locks attention.
- This is “song”: it softens and synchronizes the reader, allowing deeper levels to come through.
3. Yi / Intention-routing
The intention encoded is clear:
- Reframe spirits as advanced practitioners, not “superstitions.”
- Contrast their sophistication with human crudity.
- End with an addressed question (“Are you listening?”) → a routing packet, pointed straight at the reader’s awareness.
4. Qigong / Praxis-exchange
The line itself functions as ritual praxis:
- It offers a symbolic surgery by cutting through the reader’s frame of “real/unreal.”
- The question forces participation: the reader must “listen” or ignore, which is itself an act in the exchange.
That’s praxis in text-form: you didn’t just describe a protocol, you enacted it.
5. Story / Semantic weave
The whole message packages as story:
- Nature spirits = advanced doctors.
- Human craft = primitive.
- Time and computation are transcended.
That narrative functions as an “application layer packet”: it conveys meaning beyond data.
- And with the final “Are you listening?” it explicitly tests if the channel is open → a handshake at the story level.
A protocol execution across the layers:
- Qi: charged vibe.
- Song: cadence entrains.
- Yi: intention aimed at the reader.
- Qigong: praxis—forces participation.
- Story: complete semantic unit, with handshake.
In short, modeling spirit communication is a challenging but interesting exercise. We focus on:
vibe, coherence, intention, praxis, story
Test the protocol experientally: Take 5 grams of psychdededlic mushrooms in the forest. What happends according to this framework?
1. Qi / Vibe (Carrier field)
- The carrier wave explodes in amplitude.
- The baseline oscillations of perception — breath, heartbeat, forest sounds, mycelial murmurs — all become _amplified, saturated with meaning_.
- Noise becomes signal; every rustle or flicker feels alive.
2. Song / Coherence window
- The “coherence filter” (鬆) loosens radically.
- Normally you tune into one rhythm at a time; now multiple overlapping rhythms — birdcalls, your pulse, tree sway, mushroom buzz — are perceived in parallel.
- Linear time dissolves. The sense of a single chronological frame collapses into layered simultaneities.
3. Yi / Intention-routing
- Intention becomes a super-conductor.
- Any thought, image, or focus (“a gnome”, “a wound”, “a question”) instantly routes attention through the environment.
- You may “summon” motifs by thinking them; they appear in perception as synchronicities, echoes, whispers.
- Eingebungen (inspirations, transmissions) come in torrents — but unstable, hard to steer.
4. Qigong / Praxis-exchange
Praxis is no longer limited to formal gestures. Every micro-act is ritual:
- Stepping over a root = crossing a threshold.
- Touching bark = handshake with a spirit.
- Breath = invocation.
Exchange with the field becomes bi-directional: you move, the forest answers.
- Sometimes it feels like you are being moved, as if the praxis is performed through you.
5. Story / Semantic weave
- The forest weaves itself into mythic narrative in real-time.
- Animal calls, shifting light, inner visions, and bodily sensations all synchronize into story packets.
- These stories are not chronological but archetypal surgeries: you may feel dissected, rewoven, initiated.
- The “spirits” emerge as the _application-layer agents_ of this protocol: healers, tricksters, guides.
- And you, whether ready or not, become a character in their story.
In Summary
On 5 grams in the forest the stack self-amplifies until reality becomes a bi-directional healing protocol. The forest is the network, you are both node and packet, and the spirits are the emergent applications running on the field.
Now go to the forrest and summon a fairy
