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Stephen Reid
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Founder of Dandelion @dandelion.events · Writing a book on Technological Metamodernism · Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪 https://stephenreid.net
Cosmo-localism is the topic of the latest chapter of Technological Metamodernism technologicalmetamodernism.substack.com/p/cosmo-loca...
Cosmo-localism
Chapter 6, part 3 of Technological Metamodernism
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February 12, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Retrotopia
Retrotopia
FORWARD TO THE PAST The year is 2065. Decades ago, the…
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February 11, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Apashe & Alina Pash - Kyiv
Apashe & Alina Pash - Kyiv
This project was filmed in Ukraine during the war. The choir was recorded on a calm day, between nights of air raids and shelling. As I’m writing t...
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February 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Ireland Makes a Program Offering Basic Income for Artists Permanent
Ireland Makes a Program Offering Basic Income for Artists Permanent
After a successful three-year pilot, the country will continue to provide 2,000 artists with $1,500 per month
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February 8, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Jhanas Are Human, Not Buddhist
Jhanas Are Human, Not Buddhist
Christian mystics and Sufi masters found the same states. So did I.
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February 8, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Weavers by Aukai & Awarë [ Official Visualizer ]
Weavers by Aukai & Awarë [ Official Visualizer ]
Weavers feat. Awarë from Aukai's album Apricity. Aukai https://www.aukaimusic.com https://www.instagram.com/aukaimusic Spotify: https://open.spo...
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February 8, 2026 at 11:00 AM
slides from a presentation I just gave to Life Itself lifeitself.org docs.google.com/presentation...
Technological Metamodernism, 6th Feb 2026
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February 6, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading
Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading
It's easier than ever to share ideas, yet some of the m…
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January 29, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Balance of power
Balance of power
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January 29, 2026 at 8:00 AM
just published my latest newsletter 🙈 stephenreid.substack.com/p/in-corresp...
In Correspondence #55
Plurality, ATProto and The Adolescence of Technology
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January 28, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Atmospheric Computing
Atmospheric Computing
Cloud computing has been extremely successful, but it lost the values that drove personal computing. We can solve this by evolving forward.
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January 28, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Trust Fund
Trust Fund
A Trust Fund for Everyone Paying a Dividend to Each within a Monetary Commons
monetarycommons.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
ActivityPub Over ATProto
ActivityPub Over ATProto
Thought experiment: how hard would it be to implement ActivityPub over ATProto? The answer might surprise you!
berjon.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
A Regenerative Accelerationist Manifesto
A Regenerative Accelerationist Manifesto
Navigating the Technocapitalist Endgame
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January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Open Social
Open Social
The protocol is the API.
overreacted.io
January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
The context is smarter than you.
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January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox
A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox
When writing in public, there is a common idea that you should make it accessible. This is a left over from mass media.
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January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
On agency
On agency
Or, how to handle being sentenced to freedom, and handle it effectively, and authentically, and responsibly
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January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us
First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us
You are always internalizing the culture around you. Even when you wish you didn’t. So you better surround yourself with something you want inside—...
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January 28, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Scraping training data for your mind
Scraping training data for your mind
In a world of information abundance, how do you find good influences?
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January 28, 2026 at 2:00 PM
ATproto: The Enshittification Killswitch That Enables Resonant Computing
ATproto: The Enshittification Killswitch That Enables Resonant Computing
Disclosure: I’m on the board of Bluesky, which was inspired by my “Protocols, Not Platforms” paper. But this post isn’t about Bluesky the app. It’s...
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January 27, 2026 at 10:00 PM
A Software Library with No Code
A Software Library with No Code
Do we still need libraries of 3rd party code when AI agents are this good?
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January 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The Adolescence of Technology
The Adolescence of Technology
Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI
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January 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM
my slides on Technological Metamodernism for the meetup tomorrow at Berghs in Stockholm: docs.google.com/presentation...

event link: dandelion.events/e/d2oba
Technological Metamodernism meetup, 28th Jan 2026
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January 27, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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January 26, 2026 at 12:49 PM