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Solarpunkification 2026 at San Francisco's Historic Mabuhay Gardens (themab.org)

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[–] chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Anyone have knowledge of this that would ease my skepticism?

I am very possibly being a fuddy duddy, but San Francisco starts me on edge and seeing AI art and talks like this leave a very co-opting taste in my mouth.

POST-CAPITALIST PROTOCOLS

Hacking the financial system for life on Earth. Join Jeff Emmett and Richard Ng to decode MycoFi and IndigiDAO—economic structures inspired by mycelial networks. Then, watch Ron Turetzky demonstrate the “Post-Capitalist Vending Machine,” using cryptographic smart contracts to facilitate sustainable, collective ownership.

Which also lead me to this demo video.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm at friend of friend of friend level with one of the organizers.

Pretty much anything in the SF area has an effort to shunt cryptocureencies into it whether or not it makes any sense. This feels like one of those things

[–] SlowBurn@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hard to get a solid sense with a lot of projects, until you meet the actual people involved and get a clearer sense of where their focus and values are, and how well they've worked out the things they're talking about. Also, smart contracts ≠ cryptocurrency, though it's an understandably unsavory association. :-)

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, Ethereum kind of tied the two together in my mind.

IMHO smart contracts are generally high-risk due to their adjudication system being code rather than people