"Web3 as ‘self-infrastructuring’: The challenge is how"

"The term ‘Web3’ refers to the practices of participating in digital infrastructures through the ability to read, write and coordinate digital assets. Web3 is hailed as an alternative to the failings of big tech, offering a participatory mode of digital self-organizing and shared ownership of digital infrastructure through software-encoded governance rules and participatory practices. Yet, very few analytical frameworks have been presented in academic literature by which to approach Web3. This piece draws on the theoretical lens of infrastructure studies to offer an analytical framework to approach the emergent field of Web3 as an exploration in ‘how to infrastructure’ through prefigurative self-infrastructuring. Drawing on qualitative examples from digital ethnographic methods, I demonstrate how the origins of Web3 reveal the intentions of its creators as a political tool of prefiguration, yet its practices reveal the inherent tension of expressing these ideals in coherent technical and institutional infrastructure. Thus, I argue that one of the fundamental challenges Web3 is negotiating through technical and governance experiments is ‘how to self-infrastructure?’." by Kelsie Nabben

➡️ #Web3 promises a participatory mode of digital self-organizing and shared ownership of infrastructure. But how to 'self-infrastructure'?👉In this new commentary @kelsiemvn explores the challenges drawing on #infrastructurestudies and #digitalethnography https://t.co/vWWafbfH0I pic.twitter.com/3AaDCuY6F8

— Big Data & Society (@BigDataSoc) February 27, 2023

"Web3 is an ambitious desire for broad-scale, self-made societal improvement where local actions lead to global change. Yet, the subliminal but underlying tension behind Web3 enthusiasm is how to reconcile broad social and political aspirations to self-infrastructure with the practicalities of infrastructuring everyday institutional technologies that facilitate people's lives in a more decentralized manner. The risk of prefiguration is that rather than offering an escape from digital surveillance, technological infrastructures will just offer another competing institutional system with its own power asymmetries. Thus, the question begging Web3 is not just ‘what is good governance?’ but ‘what is good infrastructure, and how do we build and govern it through the everyday activities of self-infrastructuring?’. It is how this infrastructural tension plays out in practice that requires further empirical inquiry." 

 Nabben, K. (2023). Web3 as ‘self-infrastructuring’: The challenge is how. Big Data & Society, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231159002

That

tree barks

rose thorns

sun rises

lotus opens 

no force, no reason, 

complete simply see

nature nurtures, 

freely fragrant, 

no metaphor all needed direct sense

know pre

Tense no

pretense, no reason, 

she a simple beauty

scene;

seen sensed loved

amongst (or) a

part The Lit From Within 

never reaching never seeking never chasing

beyond desire beyond need a simple overflowing excuse

wild growth wild grace wild space she a torrential

Forest fire, licking flames and burning husks

unquenched white briny crests, 

depths down treasured chests

trenchant cleansing lunar cycles

blood and dirt and created seeded 

welcomes, flowing rising tidal floating

unexplored depths, a shared azure

ocean never re

fuses any River;

I Am All So, That,

We all already are, That,

We ever Be eternally, 

Us

One Whole, 

A Total Creature

of creation

That Ocean One Ocean 

never refuses never rejects never closes in on

Nature's silent flowing next arrival,

and so It Is

The Infinite Cycle 

The Endless Circle 

Nature, whole, complete, 

us, we, all ready

are. 

Mount Vesuvius, Venus.

I once knew a woman who was sun

rise and all heated east and briny mist and 

trenchant creamy crests and subtle depths

and this woman, lit from within, 

created a cauldron between us

with core character steaming

changing, magma porous, litmus

 test

and I love her and I hate her and

I love her and I do not like her 

and I miss her,

and you can be a listening man and a

venting man and a vulnerable man and

an on point repeating man,

and walk away from her recurring timed bombed

barbed wire danger and still want her hair trigger

explosions to mix with her volcanic wild fluids 

her white hot flowing steaming heat

with no hesitations, walls or separations.

Because love is never 

so tepidly stale nor stagnant,

nor ever so cut and dried and set

as rocked solid. 

4 Billion and Hedera #FutureNow is Exponentially Evolving

Ashton Addison speaks with Leemon Baird,

Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Hedera Hashgraph, 

on now processing over 4 Billion transactions, 

Dell joining the Hedera Governing Council, 

the growth of DeFi on HBAR, 

ESG initiatives and their roadmap for 2023.

"Pay Attention, Be Astonished, Tell About It"

Finally Finality

Fie Nil 

Dis Gust Zero

She listens and glistens now aging fine wine

Thank God, she is Trusted

Bottled Up A Dark Red Heavy Cellared 

A cork popped, she free bubbled Up, a sweet wine inn waiting? 

Fine Feline Her Fur incurs feeling The Need Four Speed

swallow know spillage swallow speeds flapping wings 

slot machines racing slot machines dumping cash 

next ripe receptive maid on? a pillage a pill age? 

a horned hell mutt Vie King? ("woof woof" barks Queen Minions!) 

a tiny toed town run about? 

a Tan Dom bike built Four Two? 

a fresh lake side lily 

cherry plucked two mumma perfection? 

Somatic Patterns Passed On To 

A Kirk lass, a young Christian Lord, 

The White Horizontal Picket Fence 

The Harbored Ka Ching Matri Monial Cruise 

The Gathered Fakirs and Fare Wellers

Steep Steeple Mourn Mounting 

A Yard Mare On Heat 

Met Buy Next Pony

Swords sabre disabled 

that you should confuse your bride with another, 

Marias River Trans Acting a She as a He

gossiping groping 

roping In The Next Needy 

Noose, Neck Tired, Waste Coat, 

Bobbing Buoys more salty ropes, 

tiny tinny lake side gala floats? 

Undiscerning Indiscriminate Insecure Sugar Daddy Sort

A Wound Up Wound of a Deep Patterned Gold Digger, 

Dig, Dug, Use, Dump, Shrug? 

Next Clock Struck One, Two, Three, Four More... 

Like a clock, a spring, a second hand tik tok 

swipe right left right out connect four Come Trouble

Just Spin Those Dice! 

boing boing boing a Polish 

pony rides pouncing 

A Lost Lonely Loose Peg Seeking Square whole 

A Blaming wild wife, a Hussy Banned? 

a mother smashing walls wildly fisting The Pain

an oceanic ancient tired rising 

an abandoned father wound takes root takes time

anger unhinged unanchored double barreled 

anger revenge rat-a-tat-tat venomously spat 

An Angel Lost 

Energy thrown needy seedy and greedy 

right around Town

Trees Uprooted dead hollow wood

Indiscriminate Machine Gun Fellatio

"Rat-a-tat-tat

leak leak a leaky easily holed hull 

drip drip drip Dear Liza Dear Liza 

all walls and nails and sharp barb splinters 

using consuming 

hammered heads and 

Flee A Flea Bitten Cur's Cur 

Fie, Final Fornication

Drug Addled Choices 

Alcohol Free Health & Wellness Menu For Parents

 

 

Humans.ai and Hedera: Evolving Partnership to Explore Innovative Synergies

Deep-tech startup Humans.ai is making waves in the artificial intelligence sector with its most recent partnership with the United Arab Emirates-based consultancy group Deca4 bringing its AI NFT technology to the mainstream by launching them on the Hedera #hellofuture public distributed network.

“Hedera is a Distributed Ledger (DLT). It is not a blockchain, and the entire core of Hedera is the Hashgraph algorithm founded by the CTO of the company, Dr Leemon Baird. He is the innovator behind the Hashgraph consensus. The advantage it gives us is low cost and finality. You can achieve transaction finality in seconds. The most important differentiation I will say in Hedera is the governance which I don’t think any other network has. The network itself is governed by global companies, including Google, IBM, and Nomura. They play a key role in governing the network. That is a major differentiation that gives stability to the network”, explains Vignesh Raja.

This is a summary of what Hedera is and its major innovations. 

If you compare Hedera with other major chains like Ethereum, for example, which is slow and has fluctuating gas fees, you can notice some notable differences. 

For one, at Hedera, you have fixed costs. 

You can predict your gas fees which is excellent from a business perspective.

The Hashgraph consensus, the centrepiece of the Hedera ecosystem, enables high levels of security, fast transaction speeds and low bandwidth consumption.

“Our protocol is designed in such a way that the finality of the transactions happens in seconds. 

Why do you need that? 

For example, I am doing a payment use case or a use case around betting. These are the use cases that need immediate acknowledgment that the transaction happened. So, this is something that our consensus algorithm brings. In terms of security, our protocol is highly secure because it leverages ABFT (Asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant), which is proven to deliver the highest levels of security. On the fee structure, you will see transaction fees are designed to be very low because it’s 0.001 USD. It’s always affixed to the dollar on the backend. This is a plus for businesses because they don’t have to worry about gas fees increasing. These I think are the major differentiators that Hedera is bringing to the blockchain space.” Vignesh Raja

The future holds unlimited tech synergies between Humans.ai and Hedera

“I see a lot of synergies, to be frank. Firstly, we are very much focused on media, entertainment and sports. We got a lot of projects with creators. That is some synergy you guys are doing, especially around AI and the synthetics you are developing. So, these are really exciting things. We think your tools deployed on Hedera will eventually help creators do a lot of innovations and create a lot of new content. This is the area where I believe there are a lot of synergies between Humans.ai and Hedera”, said Vignesh Raja.

A partnership that brings AI NFTs into the mainstream

“As I said before, one of the key reasons why Humans is releasing its AI NFTs on Hedera is the lower transaction costs compared to other chains. That’s why Humans.ai is taking Hedera as one of its partners, to make it fast, secure and easy to transfer. That I think is very good. It’s easy for developers to start developing an application on us. Also, I think we are very niche in what we are trying to do — we are creating a global governing body, and we have all the top tech companies lining our network. So, I think there are a lot of synergies for Humans.ai to work with us”

added Hedera’s Business Development Director.

The first step towards blockchain interoperability

“I think what’s happening, from what I understand from your guys, who are working on interoperability integration using Metamask, basically, you are trying to bring technology that supports Hedera. Most importantly, technology that is open source. I think that’s going to be key because you are creating something interoperable like Polygon to Hedera, and you can switch between the two. And the tools you guys are developing are amazing because they help the entire ecosystem by unlocking a lot of advantages. This is certainly the way to go. 

Tomorrow is not just about bringing things on the blockchain. We are passed that. We need to focus on how to transfer assets or your NFTs between different chains. That is the way to go.” Vignesh Raja

Giving the AI tools of the future to the community

“You see, most of the tools that you guys are developing for us are going to be open-sourced. So, you are giving directly to the Hedera community, which is amazing. Humans.ai helps enrich the Hedera community with its technology. The tools you are building, the integrations that you are doing, and the fact that you are open-sourcing your tech empowers the community and helps unlock innovation channels. That’s how a community should be built. As I previously said, we are trying to bring in a lot of content creators in an ecosystem tailored to suit their needs. I believe your technology will make a big difference in this sense.” 

Vignesh Raja

The partnership between Humans.ai and Hedera will unlock new business momentum in the Web 3 sector

“I see a lot of business opportunities. We’re still at a very early stage. But I think there are great opportunities, especially in the sector we are focusing on. As I said, content creators, sports people, sports teams, the movie industry, and the gaming industry present a lot of synergy for you guys, either in terms of creating synthetics for sports, the media entertainment industry, or using your synthetic voices and avatars to work with celebrities for example in advertising.”

“I see a lot of synergies between you guys and the foundation, synergies that will generate multiple use cases. I represent the foundation which is the grant-giving entity of the Hedera network. Our focus is to bridge the gap between people with tools and content creators inside our ecosystem. You are already providing tools for us That’s why I believe there are a lot of opportunities between Humans.ai and Hedera.”  ~ Vignesh Raja

Interoperability will soon become an industry standard

“Eventually, I think that will happen, but certain things are going to be exclusive to the Hedera network. Sooner or later, I think this is bound to happen. 

The more we collaborate with other chains and other companies, the closer we become to achieving broad interoperability at some point. There is no single company that leads this innovation. 

We collaborate. 

We work very closely with other chains. 

We do the bridges and the technical aspects. 

You create an ecosystem by bringing partners together, not by competing with each other. 

It’s a give-and-take relationship. 

One major advantage of Hedera is that the broader crypto ecosystem is ready to work with us.” 

Vignesh Raja

True Nature of Viveka Simply Chooses & Creates, Flowing Effortlessly From Moment To Moment

Happy Birthday to My Earliest, Greatest, Most Loved Life Teacher. 

Thank You RAS. 

"Pay Attention. Be Astonished. Tell About It"

#ssy #viveka #atmavidya

Govinda

 Happy Birthday, Life Lover

Heart@Home Govinda  

Kirtan, Cinema & The Best Tasty Dish

One of the reasons it’s so easy to influence or control how people feel is because as a society we have been programmed to live primarily in our emotional body. The emotional body is all about extreme highs and lows, which essentially means addiction to cheap dopamine, chaos and drama.

To get out of this karmic cycle of constantly being triggered, having your emotions played with, your feelings hurt, your nervous system overwhelmed and dysregulated, it’s imperative to develop the spiritual faculties of heart, intuition and basic intellect as well as a grounded self awareness.

This level of self awareness, inner peace and a nuanced inner discernment guides you to turn off TV, music or social media that doesn’t resonate, to stop listening to, watching or reading things that disturb your connection to divine energy and to literally walk away from relationships or places that do not align with your own authentic frequency. Tune into your own pure channel, listen to your unadulterated intuition and Then Trust It. Totally, Wholly and Fully.

 

Refuse to be manipulated, refuse to be suckered in by shonky "special" sales shysters and refuse to be sold something you already are. Sometimes you simply need to play The Fool, To Fool The Fool, Who Thinks They Are Fooling You.

 

Listening? Got it? Awesome!

 

Enjoy Being You; wholly, totally, unapologetically, especially today, Life Lovers. 

"Pay Attention, Be Astonished, Tell About It"

when dawn mist

(momentarily) 

hides The Heart,

simply, smile, slowly re

Turn Re

Treat Re

Stoke The Fire of Self

let it be, 

as senses ever subtle, 

a finely nuanced flow continues

next of Now, know Rush, No Rush

as Keats so Clearly Stated

surrendered Self 

True Natured

Transformations, arrival comes

torrent fast, 

as 

Conditioned Minions Cease 

Their Dirge Dam Walls

Their Exponential extrapolating 

A Try Hard Reaching,

masking tape facades and fuels of fancy

lights of complex cold spaghetti, bound

coagulated strands of post traumatic growth

stop dumb door shuts and golden gormless diggers

lush loser drunks winning like Bukowski 

to escape the raw reality;

run run run away threw match stick

jealousies and gelatinous cesspits 

swamp suctions sears and New Years

bouncing Sir Cuss ponies

"Line Up, Line Up Next Rider Routed"

know cracked tales, a whipping good, 

know make up, 

afront core weakness, 

foundations sandy unstable values 

seeking more same 

same of serially

conditioned Boxes,

manipulation easy felt

for patterns pricey go dog go, 

for now and for ever

no reason ever

(at all) 

may you Be wholly 

content; Please

Choose (More of)

whatever creates

Your Happy, 

Your Joy, 

Your Freedom, 

first. 

Energy In Motion, Pure & Simple

 "From Love Not For Love"

Thank you to those lead learners who simply know ~ atma vidya ~ kriya yoga ~ Shen & Sally

Yes, Vedanta!

This is not a popular topic because most of us are wanting shortcuts. Unfortunately like all valuable things in life, freedom is earned by simple priorities, discerning choices and diligent work. To make the changes necessary for self-inquiry, constant vigilance and a devotional attitude are required. Personal Liberation (Inner Freedom) is a gargantuan task that can only be undertaken by the purified and highly motivated mind. To Pay Attention, To Be Aware, To Make a Conscious Choice is merely The Beginning to realizing There Is No Choice. There Is No Path. This is The Truth of YOU and always has been. 

 

Everyone has these 10 basic qualifications, they are not limited or special or hidden or exclusive, but more often than not, once they are revealed by a qualified lead learner who already actively lives by these qualities, we need to further consciously cultivate these qualities in order for self-knowledge to ‘stick’. 

For Our Own Unadulterated True Nature.

Are You Authentically Self Loving or Still Pretentious? 

Liberation, Totality & Wholeness is EVERYONES

Birth rite, There Is NO Choice In That Matter. 

Once We Get Out Of Our Own Way.

Once We Surrender To Who We Have Always Been.

Once We Embody and Live Our Own True Nature.

It Depends If You Are Ready to 

Listen to and Receive

The Unadulterated Signal of 

Your Own True Nature. 

Subtle, Nuanced, Wholeness and Totality.

Tune In To The True You, 

Get Real.

10 Basic Qualifications For Freedom

👇👇👇👇

The Simplest 

Most Common & Ordinary Thing On Earth. 

Yes, Vedanta.

👆👆👆👆

It only takes 5 minutes.

Have a Read, Go On,

Be Daring, Rise Strong. 

The Pathless Path.

 Let It Be

Whatever will Be,

Will Be,

The Ultimate Surrender is To

The True Nature Of Self

Beyond any pre conceptions, inherited conditioning or external expectations. 

Relax, No Thing Is Under Control, 

Pay Attention, In Silence

Be Astonished, With More Awe, 

Tell About It, Share Graciously & Generously

With Those Who ATF Matter

Be

Completely Unadulterated, 

Be

Totally Unmanifested, 

Be

Wholly alive & aligned, innocently mischievous and kind

Never force or expect or manifest from deficit

they are all gross forms of 

manipulation from not enough

manipulation from a leaky deficit

manipulation from a needy lack

Wholeness, completeness, totality is 100%

Unmanifested

It Is What It Is and 

It Already Is. 

You are The Happiness

You are The Bliss

You are The Pure and Simple Unadulterated Innocence

From Love NOT For Love

Now Lived Experience, all and not at all, The All

One Creature In Creation, encompassing all, 360 degrees full circle

No Thing Excluded No Thing Above or Below No Thing Elevated or Elite or Ascended

Knave, Scoundrel, Rogue and Rascal, all included, 

Every Angel is Terrible, all included, 

The Devil Wears Prada, all included, 

all god's creatures great and small, all included, 

So Pontificating Princesses and Hobby Horse Heroes

dismount, 

come down, hear, 

and simply silently listen to The Sounds of Shared Silence. 

All Answers flow from This 

Deep Still Universal

Space of Grace. 

From Wholeness NOT 

a dis integrated fractured 

ego.

Welcome Back

Let It Be,

wherever I close my eyes, 

Is

Home. 

From Love Not For Love

 

From Love, Not For Love. Devoted, Aligned, 

Kind and Surrendered To Life's Beauty.

From Love, Not For Love. Love IS the fuel of the universe. The body and energy and power that creates the flow so Trust The Subtle Strength, The Quiet Thunder of Undivided, non negated Love. It is palpable, authentic, unafraid and ever so kind in it's surrendered passion. For Life. All of it, Love IS fierce, fully single, on point, repeating, light without division, object or desire. Once love is returned to, simple not easy, stripped bare of conditions or terms of service It may then Be shared, gifted, with and to an energetic equal. Love is unique to each soul, we learn another By relating, not love. I came to love you. Not teach, advise, heal or fix you, Love does all that. And more. Love leads By following, imperfectly messy, insanely vulnerable. Beautifully Human. Love multiplies by paying attention, listening acutely and choosing discerning tender and appropriate actions. Love shape shifts and refuses to be boxed, labelled, pinned down or defined. Love grows with challenge and setting sacred containers, aka kind soft boundaries, Love says No to anything that insults the soul, violates the body or harms the heart. And yet it is power, full and so warrior fierce it can buckle knees and sees grown adults easily, readily weep at and in its simple radiant dark beauty. Love is whole and has no opposite. It is as undivided sky. Clouds may cross it, but sky remains, infinite vast and beyond comprehension without and end. Love never dies and is omnipresent, manifesting in our darkest crags and crevices patiently calling us deeper to release the bliss. Love is sensitive to sensuality, it respects the elements and embraces alchemy. It is fire, earth, wind and water and all the forms these wonders create. Love is Truth in Nature, inner and outer and how we all enter life. Innocent, pure unconditioned. Love is quiet as it roars, love is silent in its intense volume. Love dances to the still point and the end of time, with or without bells on. Love laughs with itself first with someone it takes seriously. If I Love You, I will state it openly, clearly, directly and without pretence, affliction or agenda. Love gives subtle gifts continuously and if we are open to receive we feel this alignment. Love is the bodies temple, Love is consciousness, love is all and all is love. Love is a safe deep place to land and come completely undone, to release ones inner child and vent like a storm, knowing the anchor will always remain and hold firm ground. Love is simple, on point and repeats. Like a light house. Love never switches off although it may be out of sight, momentarily, do not fret, or worry or fear, for it comes again, soon. Love after the dark, in that next light serves up more, creating subtle tidal waves of slowly heated tangible sensual energy. Love, never the same one twice, spontaneous felt within, no reason ever, it simply is Love cannot diminish as we catch it from those who already have it, like candles and a flame. Love is ultimately simple, a momentous gift shared, initially choice less, then a choice with no reason, as two imperfect people doing their best to bring out and support the best in each other. The challenge is being simple, challenge is not in the love. I Love life, I accept life and then we may relate to share love as life in full acceptance of that love.  by Tony Searl

 

Love Is Life in Community #ssy #popupyoga #corevalues

Naturally. This Is The Next Perfect Wave, Arriving NOW. Empowering learners for the age of artificial intelligence

As AI proceeds educators & society in general face a new reality: what will we teach & how will we teach when artificial agents, now readily present in our daily lives, exceed our cognitive capacity in a growing number of domains? Empowering learners https://t.co/MUTsXpYuES

— Tony Searl (@TonySearl) February 9, 2023

"This special issue represents front line research on dramatic advances over the past several decades. Many AI researchers have seen trends rise and seen the field enter a number of “AI winters” where research funding and progress slow down. The constellation of trends, including computing advancements, scope and quality of data, and advances in algorithms, suggests that the short term future is one of continued advancement. As AI proceeds, however, educators and society in general face a new reality: what will we teach and how will we teach when artificial agents, now readily present in our daily lives, exceed our cognitive capacity in a growing number of domains?"

 

"PAY ATTENTION : BE ASTONISHED : TELL ABOUT IT"

Understanding & Building Fresh Creative Foundations. 

A Shared World For The Next Evolving Century. 

Simple. Common. Ordinary. Everywhere. Truly Global. 

This is One World; Trusted, self-disciplined, life long learning. 

Leading & Choosing Their Own Wealth Creation. 

On Every Continent. 

Especially Africa and Asia. For The Next 100 years. At Least. 

Where The Greatest Untapped Human Learning Resources Currently Reside.

Decentralized, Dedicated, aBFT security, scalability #ESG.

Directed Acyclic Graphs, exponential, consensus timestamps, 

Permissionless, Carbon Negative, Trusted Transparency.  

Lead By Passionate, Intrinsically Motivated Young Learners. 

(Many of Whom Are Just Starting High School. Globally.) 

"Pay Attention, Be Astonished, Tell About It" #futurenow

 

One example of several thousand global projects already created or being created on @Hedera

Staking is simply investing for compounding wealth over time. 

An absolute beginners guide made easy. 

Due diligence and Do Your Own Research, please. This is not investment advice. 

(But you are already being left behind and loony not to at least learn... For Your Self.)

BIG NEWS! 🎉

You can now stake $HBAR with your @Ledger device on HashPack.

Staking only works on new Ledger accounts. Existing accounts are unable to stake their funds, simply create a new account and transfer your assets over.

Read our guide below:https://t.co/9QtZOrpqYo

— HashPack Wallet (@HashPackApp) February 4, 2023

10 companies building innovative real-world use cases on #Hedera:

Read Below! 🧵👇 pic.twitter.com/WKIrLmo7OB

— acoer (@acoerco) February 6, 2023

Pay Attention.

"PAY ATTENTION, BE ASTONISHED, TELL ABOUT IT" - Mary Oliver

The way to become wise is to commit to finding the truth even when it hurts your feelings or makes you uncomfortable. Your body will scream at you when you don't walk away from bad energy, bullshit, weird vibes, and sneaky shit, when you seek validation from those who invalidate your feelings, when you disrespect yourself to respect others, and when someone uses your body to fuck their pain away.

Most insecure people won’t find inner wisdom because they seek external validation, the insecure hide behind a dis integrated ego requiring a controlling security, an overwhelming desire for comfort and not personal growth and accountability and they seek ego massage and herd confirmation over truth.

Suffering and stress is a dis-eased choice due to forgetting, or not knowing, who we truly are. Insecure people often project (and protect) their insecurity by forcefully telling others they are wrong or who to be or they are afraid of anything outside their limited lived experience and narrow perspectives.

Fear and insecurity don’t control us by dominating our emotions. They control by convincing the insecure that a projecting ego and/or a win at all costs competing comfort is more important than true happiness or knowing the Real Self. Instead, get still and settle your spirit. Cease the rapid forceful ego projecting and reaching. Stop taking things so personally and get out of your own way.

Peace is the posture for clarity to come, for visions of personal growth to birth, and for solutions to be revealed. Our real nature, our whole unsullied, unadulterated consciousness is one of pure joy. What you may have accumulated along the way are terms & conditions that are not really you. You may have grown up in a highly competitive, perfectionist or emotionally dysregulated home where mere survival and self expression was challenging. This family of origin inherited "love" as attachment now becomes your unconscious default in adult relationships. These are the unhelpful inter generational patterns to unlearn and then expand consciousness in a return to wholeness.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the labels and definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once empowered, embodied, wholly universal and unique. Spiritual progress means unmasking yourself. Personal authenticity, to live by your core values with nuanced depth and subtle growth means to re integrate the facade of the artificial ego and begin to live as your own True Nature. Be YOU, Be unique, every one else is already taken.

We always have a discerning conscious choice of peace, joy and happiness, (over stress, worry and projection) once we wholly surrender to and know the True Nature of Self. 

Surround yourself only with people who are going to support and lift you higher as the deep inner peace we already are. We begin to feel more joy, as it is our natural state of being, when the fractured, dominant and projecting insecure ego is re integrated. This is what it means to "do the inner reflective work" and come wholly home to One Self. These are the teachings of  atma vidya, self knowledge, to Know The True Self as Your Own True Nature. 

Brain Damage, Neuron Loss, Lower Resilience and Psychological Stress With Even Low To Modest Alcohol Consumption

To be clear, I am not opposed to healthy adults having a few drinks a week but I think @ChrisWillx statement is very true. Telling people what to do one way or the other is simply wrong. Do what you like but know what you’re doing…

— Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. (@hubermanlab) August 23, 2022

What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health 

Dr. Huberman Lab Podcast #86

 "In this episode, I discuss the physiological effects that drinking alcohol has on the brain and body at different levels of consumption and over time."

Half of liver disease deaths are caused by alcohol, and alcohol-associated brain damage and liver disease is increasing, particularly among older women and young people of both sexes aged 18 to 35. 

Research has shown an important association between alcohol consumption and breast cancer—for each 10 grams of alcohol consumed (less than 1 standard drink) on an average daily basis, a woman’s chance of developing postmenopausal breast cancer increases by around 9 percent. Individuals who carry certain gene variants associated with alcohol-related flushing (e.g., the ALDH2-2 variant) are at an elevated risk of esophageal cancer from alcohol consumption. 

Recent research has also shown that even low to moderate alcohol consumption over even a short time span, considerably increases the risk of liver disease, cardiovascular diseases, depression, anxiety, mood disorders and other mental health diseases, stomach bleeding, as well as cancers of the oral cavity, esophagus, larynx, pharynx, liver, colon, and rectum. 

People who drink even low to moderate amounts of alcohol regularly may develop chronic problems managing conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, pain, and sleep disorders. People who drink moderate to high levels of alcohol are likely to have more relationship, financial and work related problems as well as a higher incident of engaging in unsafe, predatory or non consensual sexual behaviors, putting themselves and others at risk for sexually transmitted infections and unintentional pregnancies. Recent medical and brain research is rapidly shifting towards showing that what was once considered a safe or healthy level of alcohol consumption, may no longer be the case. More scientific studies are showing results that support the findings mentioned by Dr Huberman in the video/podcast above. 

"Dr. Andrew Huberman directs the Huberman Lab at Stanford School of Medicine. 

We research how the brain works, how it can change through experience and how to repair brain circuits damaged by injury or disease." 

A consistent effect of alcohol is that, even low to modest consumption disrupts the hypothalamic-adrenal axis and predisposes to more stress (lower stress threshold). No judgement on drinking here… but it makes people less resilient overall.

— Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. (@hubermanlab) August 4, 2022

It has to do with altered Cortisol:ACTH ratios. Basically alcohol makes people more (psychologically) wobbly when not drinking.

— Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. (@hubermanlab) August 4, 2022

Average drink (beer, wine, shot of liquor) in Japan: 7g alcohol, USA: 10g; Russia: 24g. 10-20g/week probably safe for most healthy adults, but no clear benefits post consumption. >20g/week is where negative health effects start to emerge, including neuron loss over time. #science

— Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. (@hubermanlab) August 6, 2022

Alas, any purported health benefits of alcohol are non-existent. Most healthy adults can probably have 1-2 drinks per week (20 grams of alcohol) without harm but consuming none is far healthier. Full episode of the HLP on health impact of alcohol: https://t.co/TphgkozQyg pic.twitter.com/Rzkw0SjnR3

— Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. (@hubermanlab) August 27, 2022

The 3 major changes that even low-to-moderate alcohol consumption cause to your brain, body & psychology over time. Full episode at https://t.co/TphgkozQyg pic.twitter.com/aiuPILq3Vw

— Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. (@hubermanlab) August 26, 2022

New Huberman Lab Podcast Out Now: WHAT ALCOHOL DOES TO YOUR BODY, BRAIN & HEALTH
• How Alcohol Impacts Cells
• Hangovers (& How to Reduce Them)
• Alcoholism, Binge & Habit Drinking
• Maximum Amount to Safely Drink
• Leaky Gut, Cancer, Fertilityhttps://t.co/Z8xpZ5lr9c

— Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. (@hubermanlab) August 22, 2022

Hedera is Bringing Trust Back To The Internet as A Growing Global Community

Zenobia’s Substack: Hedera Weekly News Wrap Up - Feb 3, 2023 https://t.co/V4Yd0cdomN

"Happy Friday #HBARbarians. It’s never a dull week in Hedera-land. I hope you tuned in for the podcast episode this week with Hedera Governing Council Independent Board Member Monique Morrow, recapping her experience representing Hedera in Davos.

For those interested in how to improve supply chain sustainability & efficiency using distributed ledger technology, we have a great webinar coming up for you on February 15th, with Justin Atwell, Developer Advocate at Swirlds Labs, and Hania Othman, Director of Sustainable Impact at the HBAR Foundation.

And related to this week’s news, is anyone watching HBO’s Last of Us (given the skyhigh ratings, a better question might be, is anyone not?). If so, you’ll love the story below about Liithos (building on Hedera, of course), which is headed by Sony PlayStation veteran Michael Mumbauer, an executive on The Last of Us. Which post-apocalyptic world do you prefer?

VentureBeat - Liithos partners with TikTok star Michael Le to market Web3 game Ashfall

Ashfall, an innovative narrative series linked to an upcoming video game title from AAA gaming studio Liithos has launched exclusively on TikTok. It is the first project from Liithos, a studio built by talent from titles including The Last of Us, Days Gone, and Uncharted. . The Ashfall narrative series will run every Sunday for five weeks to introduce fans to the lore of the upcoming Ashfall game. The narrative serves as the start of a fully actualized vision from Liithos, where all of the benefits of decentralization, social gaming, and narrative-led content collide. The narrative series is supported by partners including Web3 marketplace Coinzoom, and the HBAR Foundation, as the studio’s debut game will be built on the low-cost sustainable Hedera network.

Reuters - Not Just Another Big Law firm

This article in Reuters explores DLA Piper, a well-known law firm built on being progressive and embracing change. Unlike many others within the legal sector, DLA Piper focuses on new technologies to offer more revolutionary and modern-day solutions, going beyond the traditional law firm offering. An example of this is how the firm launched TOKO in 2020, to create a new solution for security tokens, to merge the firm’s regulatory diligence with Hedera’s market-leading distributed ledger technology. With TOKO, asset owners can tokenize them and raise funds quickly and securely.

The Fintech Times - World Economic Forum Davos 2023: Key Takeaways

This piece published in The Fintech Times outlines the key takeaways from WEF Davos 2023. Most notably, it spotlights quotes from Nilmini Rubin, Chief of Staff and Head of Global Policy at Hedera. Nilmini highlights how industry leaders, Web3 organizations, and regulators can work together to rebuild trust in the crypto industry. She stated that: “We must work together to remind people of the benefits of distributed ledger technology – and one key way to do this is by offering tangible, impactful case studies. The current bear market has created a valuable opportunity for the bigger players in the blockchain and crypto industries. Organizations in this space should cooperate with regulators to ensure that all policy decisions balance innovation and the protection of end-users.”

AMB Crypto - Hedera’s [HBAR] latest report highlights growth in these areas

This week, the Hedera 2022 community report was published displaying the results of the network’s performance. According to the update, Hedera achieved approximately 530 million transactions during the year while reaching a speed of 18.98 transactions per second. In addition, the network brought its community together through a number of events and issued 195 grants targeting the expansion of its ecosystem. Overall, Hedera’s findings portray the positive state of the network despite the ongoing market challenges.

Gamers Grade - TikTok Comic, Ashfall from Michael Le, John Garvin, and Michael Mumbauer

Gamers Grade also covered the newly released Ashfall narrative series this week, highlighting how it stars Michael Le, a TikTok influencer with 52 million followers. The article goes into detail about the plot of the upcoming Ashfall game, which will take place in the climate-change ravaged Pacific Northwest where Seattle has been submrged beneath the ocean for hundreds of years. Following the launch of the narrative series, Ashfall is also set to launch a comic created by John Garvin, Paul Pelletier, and Brett Booth, who have collective experience creating artwork for Marvel, DC, Ex Machina, and Gunslinger.

99.5 Jamz - LG Art Lab Announces Collaboration with Sculptor Barry X Ball for New Series of NFTs and Physical Sculptures Debuting at Frieze Los Angeles 2023

Earlier this week, Hedera Governing Council member LG announced the advancement of its LG Art Lab platform through the launch of new artworks. This includes 4 NFTs and a 24-karat gold-plated sculpture by Brooklyn-based sculptor, Barry X Ball, to be released laterthis month. Both Barry X Ball and LG are committed to using new, sustainable technologies for creative endeavors, making Hedera the perfect fit to mint NFTs on. LG continues to be involved in a number of Web3-related initiatives since the initial release of its NFT platform. Last month, it added Hedera-based Blade Wallet to its NFT platform and focused on royalties.

LinkedIn - Avery Dennison Smartrac

This video posted on LinkedIn by Avery Dennison Smartrac calls attention to how the lack of integrity, risk of double counting, and inaccurate supply chain data has created mistrust in traditional carbon accounting and decarbonization practices. Avery Dennison’ product, atma.io, the world’s leading, connected product cloud, helps brands build trust and transparency to combat these issues, in partnership with Hedera. The technology helps to reduce and remove emissions to meet net-zero targets, for organizations operating at any scale.

CryptoFlies - LG Launches New NFT Series on Its LG Art Platform

In an article examining the expansion of Barry X Ball’s artwork on LG Art Lab, CryptoFlies outlined how each of the four animated NFTs made by the brooklyn artist will depict four metal variations – black steel, gold, copper, and silver – while immersing viewers in hyper-Baroque complex forms in a 39 second animation. The work utilizes LG’s OLED TV’s accuracy in presenting images, colors, and fine details. An on-site presentation of the NFTs is set to take place on February 16th in Frieze Los Angeles during a VIP preview day.

— Zenobia Godschalk (@zenobiaZAG) February 3, 2023

 

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