wassimulacrum
@wassimulacrum.bsky.social
sapphirepunk not sifrpunk
janitor @0xsalon.bsky.social
latest writings: https://wassimalsindi.substack.com
web: https://wassim.xyz
janitor @0xsalon.bsky.social
latest writings: https://wassimalsindi.substack.com
web: https://wassim.xyz
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wassimulacrum
@wassimulacrum.bsky.social
· Jan 22
Hi. A note about this portal, subscribers, and support
Hi, I’m Wassim.
open.substack.com
Hi. A note about this portal, subscribers, and support.
I’m going to use this new subs-tacky place to develop and seek commentary on work-in-progress writing: the research-oriented “scholarly” variety as well as more creative and speculative works.
open.substack.com/pub/wassimal...
I’m going to use this new subs-tacky place to develop and seek commentary on work-in-progress writing: the research-oriented “scholarly” variety as well as more creative and speculative works.
open.substack.com/pub/wassimal...
open swords software
For those thinking about the role of tech companies in Gaza, a quick thread on IBM, Thomas Watson, & the Holocaust.
+some surprises below for those of you that think you know how the story ended...
Watson ran IBM during WWII & thru a subsidiary sold the IBM punch card system to the Nazi regime.
+some surprises below for those of you that think you know how the story ended...
Watson ran IBM during WWII & thru a subsidiary sold the IBM punch card system to the Nazi regime.
June 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
open swords software
the Kittlerian Jihad
It's not regulators curving tech in a less harmful/damaging direction or big tech prioritising conscientiousness over profit that'll shape the technological future of society but rather it's public backlash that's going to be key. the tides are turning www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
May 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
the Kittlerian Jihad
just dropped on the 'sztac
Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance Pt. 3
free to read:
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance Pt. 3
free to read:
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance III
Far from transcending the flaws of human governance, blockchain networks have mirrored the very structures they sought to dismantle. Have we learned anything?
wassimalsindi.substack.com
April 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
just dropped on the 'sztac
Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance Pt. 3
free to read:
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance Pt. 3
free to read:
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/inside-the...
they asked me to bring props to the event today
April 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
they asked me to bring props to the event today
we do a lil' in conversation with Inte Gloerich this evening. from 18h30 tonight at Au JUS in Brussels
April 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
we do a lil' in conversation with Inte Gloerich this evening. from 18h30 tonight at Au JUS in Brussels
just dropped, on the sztac and free to read:
"Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance, Part Two"
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/inside-the...
"Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance, Part Two"
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance II
Far from transcending the flaws of human governance, blockchain networks have mirrored the very structures they sought to dismantle. Have we learned anything?
wassimalsindi.substack.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
just dropped, on the sztac and free to read:
"Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance, Part Two"
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/inside-the...
"Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance, Part Two"
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/inside-the...
as part of my current "speculative economies" residency at au JUS in Brussels, @maxhaiven.bsky.social will be visiting 28/29 Apr. We'll be launching his new anticapitalist boardgame and going into conversation on gamification, fascism, and the endless Crusade.
Read: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/radi...
Read: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/radi...
Radical Gaming
A new left-wing board game puts players in the role of maniacal plutocrats trying to take over the world. Its creator explains how it responds to the wider phenomenon of ‘gamified capitalism’.
tribunemag.co.uk
April 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
as part of my current "speculative economies" residency at au JUS in Brussels, @maxhaiven.bsky.social will be visiting 28/29 Apr. We'll be launching his new anticapitalist boardgame and going into conversation on gamification, fascism, and the endless Crusade.
Read: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/radi...
Read: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/radi...
just dropped on the 'sztac, free to read:
"Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance, Pt 1"
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Far from transcending the flaws of human governance, blockchain networks have mirrored the very structures they sought to dismantle. Have we learned anything?
"Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance, Pt 1"
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Far from transcending the flaws of human governance, blockchain networks have mirrored the very structures they sought to dismantle. Have we learned anything?
April 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
just dropped on the 'sztac, free to read:
"Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance, Pt 1"
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Far from transcending the flaws of human governance, blockchain networks have mirrored the very structures they sought to dismantle. Have we learned anything?
"Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance, Pt 1"
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Far from transcending the flaws of human governance, blockchain networks have mirrored the very structures they sought to dismantle. Have we learned anything?
Reposted by wassimulacrum
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...
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/radi...
April 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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...
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/radi...
"Experiments in Utopia", Sunday 27th April at @barbicancentre.bsky.social in London
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
More Than Human Togetherness | Barbican
Join us at this Experiments in Utopia talk to consider how contemporary technology can catalyse collectivity and hack the system of individuality.
www.barbican.org.uk
April 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"Experiments in Utopia", Sunday 27th April at @barbicancentre.bsky.social in London
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
now up on the 'sztac, free to read
Speculative Fiction Buffer Overflow: LoLaMos
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/preview-lo...
Speculative Fiction Buffer Overflow: LoLaMos
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/preview-lo...
Speculative Fiction Buffer Overflow: LoLaMos
Shall I compare thee to a voltage spike? Thou art more transient, though less liable to surge.
wassimalsindi.substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
now up on the 'sztac, free to read
Speculative Fiction Buffer Overflow: LoLaMos
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/preview-lo...
Speculative Fiction Buffer Overflow: LoLaMos
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/preview-lo...
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...
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
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...
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...
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
save the date: Sunday 27th April for a very special event on "Utopian Experiments" at the Barbican in London
just dropped, on the 'sztac:
Scenes from a Memorypool II: flashfictions orbiting the @0xsalon.bsky.social 2022 theatre production The Black Hole of Money
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
just dropped, on the 'sztac:
Scenes from a Memorypool II: flashfictions orbiting the @0xsalon.bsky.social 2022 theatre production The Black Hole of Money
Scenes from a Memorypool II: flashfictions orbiting the @0xsalon.bsky.social 2022 theatre production The Black Hole of Money
Saturday 5th April in Istanbul
March 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Saturday 5th April in Istanbul
Changed my mind: I am starting a Knightwork State. It's called CAMELOT, and I'm the King of it. Become my serf and I will bestow upon you everlasting chain mail, longevity pills, and tax exemption. Phase 1 EXCALIBUR launch event will take place in Brussels next month. Devs Vult!
March 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Changed my mind: I am starting a Knightwork State. It's called CAMELOT, and I'm the King of it. Become my serf and I will bestow upon you everlasting chain mail, longevity pills, and tax exemption. Phase 1 EXCALIBUR launch event will take place in Brussels next month. Devs Vult!
Neo-Santayana: those who delete history, are guaranteed to repeat the worst parts of it
March 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Neo-Santayana: those who delete history, are guaranteed to repeat the worst parts of it
"mom, can we have ontological fragility of all-male panels?"
"we have ontological fragility of all-male panels at home"
"we have ontological fragility of all-male panels at home"
March 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
"mom, can we have ontological fragility of all-male panels?"
"we have ontological fragility of all-male panels at home"
"we have ontological fragility of all-male panels at home"
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...
Read the text and @0xsalon.bsky.social backstory here: wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/no-unhallo...
March 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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...
Read the text and @0xsalon.bsky.social backstory here: wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/no-unhallo...
got a very weird poem coming out later today in a very weird journal. encoded within it is an original scientific hypothesis, which I have refrained from publishing...for reasons. for one day only, cryptographic poetics goes holotropic noetics. "inspired" by this book:
March 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
got a very weird poem coming out later today in a very weird journal. encoded within it is an original scientific hypothesis, which I have refrained from publishing...for reasons. for one day only, cryptographic poetics goes holotropic noetics. "inspired" by this book:
now up on the 'sztac:
archival flashfictions, around the world of @0xsalon.bsky.social play "The Black Hole of Money".
Written using Ursula Le Guin's "Steering the Craft" exercises, which we went through at a @trustsupport.bsky.social group in '23.
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/scenes-fro...
archival flashfictions, around the world of @0xsalon.bsky.social play "The Black Hole of Money".
Written using Ursula Le Guin's "Steering the Craft" exercises, which we went through at a @trustsupport.bsky.social group in '23.
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/scenes-fro...
March 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
now up on the 'sztac:
archival flashfictions, around the world of @0xsalon.bsky.social play "The Black Hole of Money".
Written using Ursula Le Guin's "Steering the Craft" exercises, which we went through at a @trustsupport.bsky.social group in '23.
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/scenes-fro...
archival flashfictions, around the world of @0xsalon.bsky.social play "The Black Hole of Money".
Written using Ursula Le Guin's "Steering the Craft" exercises, which we went through at a @trustsupport.bsky.social group in '23.
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/scenes-fro...
Reposted by wassimulacrum
okay you just pipped me lol, I wrote Prophet Motives & Knightwork States spring'23 and it came out in July of that year.
folklore.mirror.xyz/nQ30ZabiOnn4...
folklore.mirror.xyz/nQ30ZabiOnn4...
March 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
okay you just pipped me lol, I wrote Prophet Motives & Knightwork States spring'23 and it came out in July of that year.
folklore.mirror.xyz/nQ30ZabiOnn4...
folklore.mirror.xyz/nQ30ZabiOnn4...
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
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 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM