Hacking State

37 - Jessica Solce: Forging A Country

A Maverick Director on Documenting Nayib Bukele's Re-Election.
Director & Producer Jessica Solce joins me to discuss Forging A Country, her latest film documenting Nayib Bukele's 2024 re-election in El Salvador.
We cover why Western liberalism's playbook is insufficient for El Salvador's problems, her approach to documentaries with ideological implications, reflections on her opus, Death Athletic, film and propaganda, streaming platform politics, filming over long timelines, accessing high profile documentary subjects, and discovering a film's aesthetics.
 
 
 
My AI For Government Affairs Startup https://lawgiver.ai
 
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36 - Eric Kaufmann: Breaking Taboos to Win the Culture War

Eric Kaufmann is a professor of politics and Director of the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham. He is also Adjunct Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
We talk about his new book "The Third Awokening" and cover: how quasi-religious left-wing liberalism bears more responsibility for Wokeness than “radical neo-Marxist” Theory, the weaponization humanistic psychotherapy and trauma, “Be kind” as an ideology, the simple emotional structure behind it: minorities good, majorities bad—the making sacred of historically marginalized race, gender, and sexual minorities as a structure of taboos, conservatives' failure to win culture, his defense of negative liberty, Wokeness as a meme, Gen Z’s shift to the right, comparing the free speech climate of the US, the UK, and Canada, and the coming intensification of cultural politics.
 
My startup: https://lawgiver.ai
 
 
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35 - Ben McCormick: Getting to Know Kinode

Kinode is a decentralized operating system, peer-to-peer app framework, and node network designed to simplify the development and deployment of decentralized applications.
Ben McCormick, a lead developer at Kinode, joins me to discuss the birth of Kinode, the need for backend tools in crypto, choosing Web Assembly for peer-to-peer computing, breaking out of the Feudal structure of Web 2.0 and creating coordination power outside Big Tech oligopolies, how to popularize permission-less infrastructure, getting started developing on the network, and the grand vision that is Kinode.
 
 The Kinode Book: https://book.kinode.org/
Discord: https://discord.gg/mYDj74NkfP
Kinode on X: https://x.com/kinode 
Dartfrog: https://kinode.org/blog/hello-dartfrog 
 
 
My startup: https://lawgiver.ai
 
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34 - Charles Haywood: Political Action, Foundationalism, Advice for Ambitious Young Men

Charles Haywood is the Maximum Leader of The Worthy House, publisher of over 600 book reviews, and creator of a framework for the renewal of society called Foundationalism.
We talk about how buying machinery from a defunct hair products manufacturer made him tremendously wealthy, The Worthy House and refining his politics by writing hundreds of book reviews, the (im)possibility of political action today, Foundationalism, right wing "elites", the meaning of left wing violence, why Europe is over, the fertility crisis as an existential threat to civilization, and advice for ambitious young men.
 
The Worthy House
X: https://x.com/TheWorthyHouse
Site: https://theworthyhouse.com/ Foundationalist
Manifesto: https://theworthyhouse.com/2021/06/17/the-foundationalist-manifesto-the-politics-of-future-past/
 
 
WAITLIST for my AI Legislative Startup, Lawgiver: https://lawgiver.ai
 
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33 - Nina Power: Defamation and Free Speech in the Internet Age

I speak with Nina Power about her harrowing defamation suit court battle, the narrowing window of free expression in the West, novel problems of anonymity, pseudonymity, and identity presented by the internet, the antagonism of the philosopher and the city, and the need for cultural tools to push back against authoritarian overreaches in free expression.
Nina Power on Substack: https://ninapower.substack.com/
Read the court judgement yourself: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Miller-and-Power-v-Turner-08.11.23.pdf
 
 
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31 - Nick Simmons: Octu Ventures + Urbit, Building the Pillars of a Digital Civilization

Nick Simmons is Cofounder and member of Octu Ventures, a member-driven venture DAO investing in teams building on Urbit.
Urbit comprises a decentralized network of personal servers, a unique digital ID system, and a decentralized peer-to-peer networking protocol. Altogether, these constitute load-bearing pillars of a truly digital civilization.
We talk about the Urbit stack, Octu's thesis behind a member-driven venture DAO, Urbit as a new coordination technology, the importance of persistent digital identities that are not real names, encoding offline social technology in digital online network technology, the robustness and fault-tolerance of the Urbit network, and building the load-bearing pillars of a digital civilization.
 
Find Nick on Urbit: ~simfur-ritwed
Octu: https://octu.ventures/
Hydra Ventures: https://www.hydraventures.xyz/
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly: https://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants/dp/B00476WM36/ref=sr_1_1
 
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30 - Alexander Pacheco: Building a Network of 150

Alexander Pacheco is the founder of social media platform, 150. Based on Dunbar’s Limit, 150’s innovative social network leverages insights from network science to create a small-town feel that elides many of the downsides that come with incumbent social media giants.
Alexander walks us through using anthropology and human nature to shape the network topology of 150 to more closely reflect the way we socialize and build connections in real life, how trust in networks is where the real value lies, the formula for high-quality consensus-building, and why bi-directional, exclusive networks are the optimal structure for building effective, high-trust communities.
 
Get 150:
https://150.earth/
https://twitter.com/150_inc
 
Alexander Pacheco
https://alexpacheco.substack.com/
https://twitter.com/alexandercurves
 
 
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29 - Kevin Dolan (Bennett's Phylactery): Rebooting Natalism for the 21st Century

I’m joined by cofounder and organizer of the 2023 Natal Conference in Austin, TX, Kevin Dolan.
We talk about the conception of a conference to promote having more babies, the various religious and techno-optimist factions of the Natalist Movement, environmental detriments to fertility, how we’re radically undervaluing motherhood, thought-terminating technical solutions to the fertility crisis, surrogacy, expanding freedom of association as the key to self-replicating communities, like-minded community as a solution for the alienation of motherhood, and setting sights on Natal Conference 2024.
 
“It’s not about stopping the rain, it’s about building a boat.” - Kevin Dolan
Find out about the Natal Conference: https://www.natalism.org/
Follow Kevin on X: https://X.com/extradeadjcb
 
 
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28 - Charles Rosenbauer and Olli Payne: Finding the Keys to Our Possible Futures

I am joined by Charles Rosenbauer and Olli Payne of Possibilia Magazine. Possibilia is an ambitious literary magazine showcasing realistic, optimistic science fiction. They’re bringing positive visions of the future in digital and in print—replete with short stories, nonfiction companion pieces, and illustration.
 
We talk about the constraints of keeping sci-fi optimistic and realistic, working with writers to meet these constraints, future-adjacent technologies, how private information (cryptography) beats raw compute power, SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE, optimism as a positive telos for humanity, e/acc’s death drive, the Principle of Explosion, generative art as the catalyst for up-skilling artists, stories as social technology, magic lamps, new futurism aesthetics, and the challenges of running a magazine bridging art and technology.
 
https://www.possibiliamag.com/
https://twitter.com/bzogrammer
https://twitter.com/OlliPayne
 
 
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27 - Lomez: Keeper of the Press

I speak with father of the Passage Prize and Keeper of the Passage Press, Lomez.
Passage Prize started as an open call for literary and artistic submissions to find untapped talent from the Twitter anon sphere. It quickly exceeded its initial ambitions, drawing artists both obscure and famous to claim their spot in the coveted limited run print edition book, and a share of the $20,000 prize. From the success of the Passage Prize contest, the Passage Publishing company was born.
Lomez and I speak about the origins of the Passage Prize, the hole in the market for right-of-center artists to share their work, the dearth of vitality in conservative art, surprises from the first submissions, how they selected for quality, the gap in publishing that Passage Press is aiming to fill, its relationship with Man's World and Mystery Grove Publishing, and his vision for the future of the Passage Press.
 
Buy book(s): https://passage.press/
Passage Press on X: https://x.com/PassagePress
Lomez on X: https://x.com/L0m3z
 
 
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