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Fantastic interview. Short, sweet, to the point, and packed with info.

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Oct 8Liked by Gabriel

I look forward to reading this one....

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I love this on so many levels, Gabe. Starting with Silverpill's name--not blue, not red, not black or white but a silver lining promising that there's sun behind them thar clouds. Reminds me of Kathleen Devanney's post today: https://devanneykathleen.substack.com/p/crunch-time.

Next, that silverpill is reclaiming the word 'federal,' something I also do in my book. Lower-case federal is a hub that serves the sovereignty of its parts, the opposite of hierarchical centralization. As you know, that's the basis of my economic system.

And then the Mitra symbol with the Islamic Rub el Hizb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub_el_Hizb. So different than the six-pointed Star of David with two interlocking pyramids of control and hierarchy, the theocracy of the Davidic line and the ruling archons with whom they intermarried, bringing their system of coinage and taxation.

The Rub el Hizb is like the infinity symbol and intertwines (or intertwingles, as a friend says ;-) It's a marriage of horizontal relationships on different planes. And it divides the Quran into quarters and then 60 making 240, all falling into the system of dozenals or base-12. I still wonder whether this was the original Arabic numbering since eleven and twelve are unique words and not X-teens, and because it makes so much more sense. I think of my fractal commonwealths as fitting into the dozenals system (there's another fancy word for it that Mathew told me) by starting with the hamlet of >3000 people and including the peripheral hamlets to make 9 at >27,000, then adding the 12 surrounding those to make 21 at >600,000 + the original >3000, with each commonwealth unique to that central hamlet. The purpose of the commonwealth is to protect the sovereignty of its member hamlets, much like the Fediverse.

And I haven't even gone into how much I love the content that these words and symbology aptly represent. This is a magnificent undertaking and it really gives me heart.

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Lots to dig in there! Thank you!

That crunch time post really speaks to me.

It explains why I've been feeling so behind recently. Taking the time to focus on my situation has made it noticeably harder to keep up on things I would feel comfort from feeling more on top of. Ironically I've had to rip off many mental band-aids in this journey

I've never even approached understanding deeper meanings to geometry as a whole but I'll admit I can see why it would have a big impact on things. I've actually gotten some flak for my logo, which was designed as interlocking shields. I've never liked super simple logos but I've absolutely underestimated the potential in seemingly simple patterns!

I think it's so important that people focus on that way of thinking about decentralization without having a "one-size-fits-all" mentality. Very often I see even in these technical discussions there's a push for everyone to use all the same tools, which is hilarious given the potentially infinite possibilities!

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