Solid crew. Learned a lot attending workshops led by these fine folks while at @ns 🤝

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"balaji’s playbook is cloud first, land last: build the community online, then find a country that wants it. the last step is the hard one. but this time, what took two years of paperwork in malaysia took a few hours in kazakhstan. governments rarely move at a startup's pace, but this one has done it before. in 1997, it moved its capital from almaty to a provincial city on the steppe and rebuilt it as astana" form follows function https://bjrnste.substack.com/p/why-is-balaji-betting-on-the-steppe

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🔴 LIVE NOW: "GM Farcaster ep398 Monday October 26, 2026" on GM Farcaster live @ns ☀️☕ Watch live with @nounishprof, @adrienne, and @balajis.eth:

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This is techno-optimistic imo what other art (on the timeline or not) reflects the @ns culture?

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I'm intrigued by the Singapore analogy. And believe we have a long way to go with art and culture in web3/farcaster/ns So I got Gemni to do a little research on the history of art and culture in Singapore. The turning point was a report called 'Global City for the Arts' - "It argued that Singapore had achieved material success but lacked soul, proposing that culture was essential for civic maturity and international prestige." (see link in reply) History rhymes. Web3 built the economic engine, but we’ve barely started on the culture. Time to build the soul?

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Slowjamastan congressional member of the 13th State. I was working on a Nounwerk State in Mafra, Portugal 🇵🇹 for a time but their permitting process and varied levels of government made it Sisyphusian task. I was reminded of it today searching through my photo gallery looking for Marfa content.

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How startup society’s and states decide what to preserve of the culture and art that is created is worth considering. “The numbers are staggering. In 2025, we are generating about 463 exabytes of data every day. Even preserving just one percent would be a colossal undertaking. Clearly not everything can be saved. So, the question becomes: What is worth remembering? Security alone isn’t enough. We need metadata—information that establishes provenance, integrity, and the placement of content. Only then does digital memory become selective, legible, meaningful. Of course, selection entails an ethical responsibility. Who decides what remains and what is lost? Historians? Cultural institutions? Algorithms? Likely a mixture of all three. But we cannot abdicate discernment. Memory is not a neutral warehouse; it is a civilizational choice."

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Thinking about startup societies and the cultural layer. We tend towards being engineering heavy, but states are formed by emotion as much as system design. How are we designing for art and culture? What does the cultural layer of an emergent network state look like? And in very immediate terms how do we make it an attractive place for artists to hang out?

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Welcome Farcaster to @ns. A bit of advice for the uninitiated.

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So… is the NS app the new super app or is Fascarter the new super app? 🫩

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improvements and change are necessary but hard be kind, treat others right, earn crypto, teach others crypto... sounds mostly good to me

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Enjoyed this chat -- @balajis.eth started interviewing @vitalik.eth but it switched mid way and Vitalik became the interviewer. Especially enjoyed their discussion of ai and writing and Vitalik's method of prompting to learn. They also covered "bunker mode," the Ethereum roadmap, and network states. It's now a stand alone interview so you don't have to wade through the live stream to find it. https://youtu.be/hcgEdt4FGhI

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Two visions of the coming post-post-WWII world order:

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Top of mind at the @ns Conference: cryptography, AI, formal verification, mathematics, social networks and all the ways they are beginning to intersect and converge

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Network State Conference 2026: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nLPOg2wi-o

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