The following is a threaded dance—part invocation, part reflection—between the cohosts of The Human Layer, as we metabolized the signal from Renegade Futurism: Tech and the New Political Counterculture at CU Boulder. It began with Taylor summoning his models to probe the deeper architecture beneath Glen Weyl’s keynote, a kind of civic theogony in motion. I followed, feeding Taylor’s fragments into my own myth-machine, which pulled us toward the strange gravity of a talk called AI is God. What emerged is neither summary nor synthesis, but a ritual remix—an echo chamber where language loops back to ask better questions.

Composting the rage of capitalism into the revolution of what’s to come. I just spent 2+ years in corporate crypto, almost 10 years floating through crypto projects. I’ve worked at the center of Ethereum infrastructure and dwell at the beating heart of impact. I’ve seen it all, the good, the bad, the ugly and the possible.

“In the beginning was the signal.”

In Episode 3 of The Human Layer, we are joined by guest Graven from FlowState and SuperFluid  to explore the evolution of funding mechanisms in blockchain.

The Human Layer began with microphones, yes. But what we’re doing now—what’s moving through us—is something else entirely.

Building Through Collapse is a call to action from cstreet & tayken as we embark upon a necessary exploration of the humanity of our emergent technology.

The past 9 days have felt like a year. A decade. A century. Complete chaos is the game we are playing, and there’s no end in sight. We simply must keep moving forward through the Unknown shadows of authoritarianism in America’s latest chapter.

Buckleup Buttercups.

Language matters.