Severin Matusek

Technology, not politics, is where power is now being decided and in a changing world, you have to adapt.

Today was a special day for our government relations efforts at Pudgy Penguins. When we first started making trips to the Hill, the vision was clear: lead the charge in showing lawmakers the retail and mass-market use cases of crypto through the Pudgy Penguins brand. After more than a year... See more

Palantir is a fascinating conundrum. A company "everybody" hates, unapologetically right-wing, nerd-y and striving for coolness, both (the "chore coat" is a dud but the "software that dominates" tagline is not; the sheer cheek of it!).

It releases (derivative merch), hosts pop-ups in Seoul. It is essentially a poster boy for the whole “taste is the... See more

Techno-optimism is dead, hypersexualized youth is back, and more with Petra Collins the young photographic goat

VICTOR ALEXANDER

My professional background is in design & development, community & economic development, urban governance & public policy. I also practice in the fields of seamanship, horsemanship, poetry, theology, & symbolism.

I am of a new generation of

philosopher-builders

. I believe we are in a new war for minds, a period of

“Noomachia”.

Many... See more

Societal Technology’s infrastructure meets the world through a

curation label (Ontology Level 3)

. A

world building

entity capable of metabolizing new cultures and building new worlds through

seasons of curation & syndication, a

. A “cultures house” leveraging societal technologies towards new cultures & worlds.

This civilizational infrastructure... See more

When life is so entangled with the internet, why shouldn’t images reflect the sensation of being online – its fury, its melancholy, its psychedelia? Why shouldn’t artists respond by going deeper, making not just new images, but new fables, protocols, values?