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Event series, residency programme, creative studio, and epistemic skunkworks. https://0xsalon.pubpub.org
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just published, and better late than never we guess:

our 2024 year-in-review article
0xsalon.pubpub.org/pub/2024year...
2024 Year In Review
A janitorial perspective at the nadir of the year.
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Very pleased to write for Tribune about games and the radical imagination in a moment of gamified capitalism (and its fascist nightmares), w. words about Billionaires & Guillotines, the game I've made with @plutopress.bsky.social which you can help us crowdfund now.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/radi...
April 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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just dropped on the 'sztac:

Scenes from a Memorypool III, the last set of flashfictions orbiting @0xsalon.bsky.social 2022 theatrical project The Black Hole of Money. A few previews attached.

wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/scenes-fro...
April 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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save the date: Sunday 27th April for a very special event on "Utopian Experiments" at the Barbican in London
March 27, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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just dropped, on the 'sztac:

Scenes from a Memorypool II: flashfictions orbiting the @0xsalon.bsky.social 2022 theatre production The Black Hole of Money
March 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Saturday 5th April in Istanbul
March 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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CAMELOT has signed a Memorandum Of Understanding with @0xsalon.bsky.social, who will break ground next year. It's a piece of recently cleared, prime real estate on the Mediterranean. Our early adopters' TEMPLAR KNIGHT package will be purchaseable soon.

Signed,
Wassim Z. Alsindi
King/CEO of CAMELOT
March 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Succinct noetic poetics "No Unhallow'd Fire" published yesterday, on the vernal equinox in Drops & Buds journal.

Read the text and @0xsalon.bsky.social backstory here: wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/no-unhallo...
March 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
a black hole never forgets

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March 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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next up on the 'sztac: my previously-unreleased flashfics around the world the @0xsalon.bsky.social salon writers’ club created for our 2022 theatre production ‘The Black Hole of Money’. Eventually destined for a book collating my literary experiments in poetry, scripture, and narrative fiction.
March 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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ṣifrpunk, sufferpunk, sapphirepunk

wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/sifrpunk-m...
March 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Provocative talk on "sifpunk" culture, blockchains, cypherpunk and onchain desires by @wassimulacrum.bsky.social x @0xsalon.bsky.social
ṣifrpunk (صفربانك): Much Ado About Nothing?

Why, despite the desires within its community, Ethereum will probably never achieve its 'Cypherpunk' aspirations. But here's something it can be instead.

wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/sifrpunk-m...
March 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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ṣifrpunk (صفربانك): Much Ado About Nothing?

Why, despite the desires within its community, Ethereum will probably never achieve its 'Cypherpunk' aspirations. But here's something it can be instead.

wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/sifrpunk-m...
March 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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now up on the 'sztac

The Indifference Engine: a book that never was about the externalities of proof-of-work

wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/the-indiff...
The Indifference Engine: The Immaculate Misconception of Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work
Can it still be argued that Bitcoin is less than the sum of its parts?
wassimalsindi.substack.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
next event: Fau0x Salon counter-archival explorations at AVTO in Istanbul, early April
March 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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the first part of Axiomatic Realism is now unlocked. Have a read if you like:

wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/axiomatic-...
Axiomatic Realism I: on the Fence of the Pure Image
Forthcoming in Ars Scientia journal
wassimalsindi.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Now up on the 'sztac, the final part of "Axiomatic Realism". next few posts will be some curios on "The Indifference Engine" and "Sifrpunk" and then its time for the main event.

wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/axiomatic-...
Axiomatic Realism V: (In)conclusions
Forthcoming in Ars Scientia journal
wassimalsindi.substack.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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first real post on the 'sztac: Axiomatic Realism I: on the Fence of the Pure Image.

It's the first of several instalments of my WIP autoepistemological take on axioms, to be published by Ars Scientia later this year. Next part goes up soon.

open.substack.com/pub/wassimal...
Axiomatic Realism I: on the Fence of the Pure Image
Forthcoming in Ars Scientia journal
open.substack.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
in a fortnight, we'll use the FAU0X SALON card deck to facilitate a critical conversation at the 'Something Else Symposium' in Cairo, hosted by Darb 1718. If you're in town and want to join, let us know!

As a preview, here's our session at Bangkok CITYCITY Gallery:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2b9...
Wasim Z. Alsindi from 0xSalon - Card Game & Discussion: FAU0X SALON
YouTube video by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY
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February 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
just published, and better late than never we guess:

our 2024 year-in-review article
0xsalon.pubpub.org/pub/2024year...
2024 Year In Review
A janitorial perspective at the nadir of the year.
0xsalon.pubpub.org
January 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress highlights: Wassim Alsindi from 0xsalon provocation through the origins of acceleration, etymology of "cypherpunk", and sufferpunks.

watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lguu...

event: congress.web3privacy.info
Sifrpunk by Wassim Alsindi [0xSalon] x Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress
YouTube video by Web3Privacy Now
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January 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
next event: 24/02 Cybernetic Serendipity symposium @ ICA London

0xsalon.pubpub.org/pub/cybernet...
24/2/24 Cybernetic Serendipity symposium @ ICA London · 0xSalon
An event commemorating the seminal 1968 ICA exhibition of the same name
0xsalon.pubpub.org
February 12, 2024 at 11:32 PM
it comes as no surprise to us, that the CIA is monitoring our 2022 interactive web-based storytelling work THE IMMACULATE MISCONCEPTION via their Singaporean node
To New Entities: https://tonewentities.com
May 1, 2023 at 7:18 AM
up-only publishing
May 1, 2023 at 7:15 AM