Severin Matusek

Put simply, a network state is an online community that materializes in the physical world with the goal of achieving meaningful collective action.

The "checks and balances" no longer come from Congress or the courts, but from the feed.

Maybe there isn’t much we can do about legislation or swaying big tech shareholder decisions, but there’s a lot of fun to be had on the feed. The feed is not safe, but posting has not been taken away from us yet.

We're all participants in a cognitive economy that trades in attention, belief, and behavior. Shape the feed, shape the future. What happens when everything becomes an attention-speculation machine?

The startup was called Tlon, a name I later learned came from a short story by Jorge Luis Borges. “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” tells of a secret society that conjures a new world by describing it.

A refusal of AI in creative work begins with a refusal of that product’s ideological packaging.