The Studio Slowcore team is pleased to announce the official revival of the /slowcore-hq channel after a long hibernation. In keeping with the announcement in our other channel, /gift-economics, the studio (stewarded by myself, @trigs.eth, and @y0b) will be experimenting to build a hybrid gift economy + business endeavor to sustain both channels. More details in our studio's launch announcement linked below. A few initiatives we're considering for /slowcore-hq: - Recognize contributors with Slothy Awards - Continue weekly rituals of "not-doing" and Slowcore Quotes of the Day - Expand our Slowcore Manifesto (aka "What Is Slowcore?") - Host themed discussions based on writings by our fellow slowcasters, e.g. "In Praise of Going Slow" by @tombeck.eth - Build a slowcore lexicon and knowledge base for collective concept stewardship (e.g., a slowcore lexicon, slowcore-friendly patterns in place-making, etc.) - Maintain digital gardens catering to the snailblazers and the slowpilled - Facilitate slowcore-friendly URL-to-IRL meetups Other ideas are welcome! Note: All pending memberships from many moons ago have now been approved. Our apologies for the ridiculously long wait while the owner dealt with a death in the family and the future of channels was uncertain enough that we put the channel into hibernation for many months. We were delighted to see that many casters just kept right on casting here to keep the channel alive during the time the mods were unable to tend to it. Your efforts are appreciated. 💜 🐢 If you appreciate our work and wish to contribute financially, gifts of crypto are accepted at the studio's multisig: slowcore.eth. We will route them toward retro-rewards for the gift labor done to bootstrap our channels. Gifts can also help free up more time for us to steward the channels responsibly in the future. Please do not gift any funds that are needed for your own support. https://farcaster.xyz/danicaswanson/0xa76d9edf (https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x24453ebe8d78de52f6d253cf26fec18ab34b041f/2?referrer=tombeck.eth)

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Finally learning the difference between patience and procrastination

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a helpful reminder https://youtu.be/ihoW0D7MKaY?si=0XICWd8V-d1HAsYf

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It's been quieter than usual in the /slowcore-hq and /gift-economics channels lately, but Studio Slowcore is alive and well! We're just keeping a low profile as we revamp our processes to align with our recent course-correction toward "form-context fit." That said, we're happy about the shift and we're so excited to share what we've been working on behind the scenes. Soon!

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Slowcore Quote of the Day "It is time for a sustained, higher-profile, delineated Slow Business movement. One that supports and encourages efforts to pull those good things highlighted by Slow movements to the forefront of our operations." ~ Sharon Woodhouse From "There's No Business Like Slow Business" (2022)

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Studio Slowcore has reserved a space in the Dark Forest, i.e., the Dark Forest Operating System -- a private social media app. We're looking forward to giving the beta a spin. Slowly, of course. 🐌 Slowcore + groupcore = ?!? 🤓 👀

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In response to Chris's question, here are some thoughts on creating slowcore-friendly spaces for long-form online discussions. Call me a boomer, but for my purposes I still haven't found anything that measures up to the design of old-school phpBB forums. For ongoing, slow-paced, text-centric, long-form convos, and community-building centered around shared interests, I think they're excellent. I don't have the tech chops to handle setup + maintenance alone, but I've been a co-founder of a well-loved and active phpBB forum before, with me handling the community migration/moderation duties and my colleague handling the back end. Unfortunately that forum came to an unceremonious end for reasons beyond my control. But if some cypherpunks I trust were to say: "We'll build you any kind of space you'd like for Studio Slowcore to migrate your group chat to a new home. We'll handle hosting and tech support, and we'll work closely with you for business continuity planning and minimizing the risks of single points of failure." Assuming we had sufficient revenues to sustain it, then I'd say "Great. Let's go with a phpBB forum." See the first link for an example I found on the phpBB showcase page. https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ That being said, @adam- recently shared a GitHub page with some screenshots from Campfire (see the second link), and the design looks promising enough that @trigs.eth and I seriously considered it for our studio. https://github.com/antiwork/smallbets/blob/master/campfire-mods.md

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I prefer doing quiet things at the weekends now Less noise if possible More reflecting It’s not always possible But at least I can aim for this…

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I still think about this article a lot - and the idea that the soul moves at walking speed, therefore modernity eats away at them by sheer demand for constant speed. https://www.noemamag.com/traveling-at-the-speed-of-the-soul/

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The trend points to a renaissance of slow media 🦥 "the next $100M+ companies will engineer density, trust, and time well spent. they’ll build containers for meaning, then use AI to keep them organized, not optimized."

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the slow web movement is (slowly) gaining steam.

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Feel like this too with Farcaster I always come here in the evenings a bit tired But by the end of it I’m inspired and happy to have connected with people here “>we have real ownership + shared upside >when i’m on fc i find myself inspired, laughing, curious, sometimes even in awe >i have met farcasters irl and consider many to be friends, as a whole this place does care about one another” - @eriks

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my second week at kb 11, and these are the strings i'm pulling at (or perhaps they're pulling at me): https://plume-sole-79b.notion.site/week-2-update-kb11-284962004287803980dac85a98778367?source=copy_link "I will never, ever, return to that state of time poverty ever again. I do not care how much precarity defaulting on the payments to the world of capitalism brings; I want time. I like to be with my family. I want time to spend in my homeplaces. I want time to eat ripe fruit with such slow reverence it looks downright sexual. Time. I want time." Time is the only true scarcity. We can only spend it. We can bill for it, but we're so much happier when we give it away. Time. I want time. 💚

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Slowcore Quote of the Day: Henrik Karlsson on sustained attention "...good art... is about crafting patterns of information that, if you feed them sustained attention, will begin to structure your consciousness in interesting ways. Art is guided meditation. The point isn’t the words, but what happens to your mind when you attend to those words (or images, or sounds)." https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/attention

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Fellow sloth people of /slowcore-hq, do you have any recommendations for @downshift.eth? Studio Slowcore has been (slowly) pulling together a list of favorite slow-web readings and other resources for the slowcore-inclined. In the meantime, we'd love to hear other suggestions for those interested in finding their way to the slow web and slow social.

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