Galen
@galen.bsky.social
Usually in Singapore, Taipei, Berlin or Toronto. | Here for 📸 🚴 🍕☕️
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Chickens as seed-pecking ASICs
September 27, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Chickens as seed-pecking ASICs
Tired: bicycle polo
Wired: bicycle Kok Boru
Wired: bicycle Kok Boru
September 6, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Tired: bicycle polo
Wired: bicycle Kok Boru
Wired: bicycle Kok Boru
Dispatches from the World Nomad Games
September 6, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Dispatches from the World Nomad Games
Reposted by Galen
Every day is a good day to remind folks: steppe nomadic pastoralists did not subsist off of eating their horses, but instead mostly off sheep - meat, but also lots of dairy and soup (frequently mutton mixed w/ traded/raided/gathered grains in a broth soup called shulen).
acoup.blog/2020/12/11/c...
acoup.blog/2020/12/11/c...
Collections: That Dothraki Horde, Part II: Subsistence on the Hoof
This series is now available in audio format. You can find the playlist here. This is the second part of a four part (I, II, III, IV) look at the Dothraki, the fictional horse-borne nomads of the A…
acoup.blog
August 30, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Every day is a good day to remind folks: steppe nomadic pastoralists did not subsist off of eating their horses, but instead mostly off sheep - meat, but also lots of dairy and soup (frequently mutton mixed w/ traded/raided/gathered grains in a broth soup called shulen).
acoup.blog/2020/12/11/c...
acoup.blog/2020/12/11/c...
Reposted by Galen
August 22, 2026 at 12:27 PM
The best analogy for a robust staking ecosystem is the skyline of a major city.
The NYC skyline represents trillions of dollars in assets, held across a diverse set of apartment owners, corporations, government bodies, and public companies.
The NYC skyline represents trillions of dollars in assets, held across a diverse set of apartment owners, corporations, government bodies, and public companies.
August 17, 2026 at 3:39 AM
The best analogy for a robust staking ecosystem is the skyline of a major city.
The NYC skyline represents trillions of dollars in assets, held across a diverse set of apartment owners, corporations, government bodies, and public companies.
The NYC skyline represents trillions of dollars in assets, held across a diverse set of apartment owners, corporations, government bodies, and public companies.
“ijooz but for danbing please”
August 16, 2026 at 7:56 AM
“ijooz but for danbing please”
CCRU = Cybernetic Currency Research Unit
August 11, 2026 at 6:55 AM
CCRU = Cybernetic Currency Research Unit
Clocking into my day job in the panopticon scriptorium.
Just in case you have time on your hands, and love the challenge of transcribing unreadable handwriting, and fancy contributing to completing the project of producing the collected works of Jeremy Bentham ....
@transcribe-bentham.bsky.social
@transcribe-bentham.bsky.social
'Transcribe Bentham began in 2010, and another 20,000 or so manuscript pages require transcription. We’d like to invite your readers to help us complete the project and to explore the writings and correspondence of a figure of enormous historical importance.' #Skystorians
August 10, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Clocking into my day job in the panopticon scriptorium.
Superlative Tokyo coworking space
August 7, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Superlative Tokyo coworking space
The Edo River summer fireworks festival
August 2, 2026 at 1:00 AM
The Edo River summer fireworks festival
The tragic Bali-fication of Tokyo
August 1, 2026 at 2:15 AM
The tragic Bali-fication of Tokyo
July 14, 2026 at 11:52 PM
“If one were to follow the etymology of Wiener’s coinage, it would be ‘cybernet-ics’, the word coming from the Ancient Greek for the person who steers a galley by giving orders to the oarsmen.”
July 14, 2026 at 5:54 AM
“If one were to follow the etymology of Wiener’s coinage, it would be ‘cybernet-ics’, the word coming from the Ancient Greek for the person who steers a galley by giving orders to the oarsmen.”
Read a history of Stafford Beer’s POSIWID this weekend / aka "the purpose of a system is what it does"
July 14, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Read a history of Stafford Beer’s POSIWID this weekend / aka "the purpose of a system is what it does"
The three countries currently qualified for the North American semi finals are the same countries that originally colonized it (France, Spain, England)
July 12, 2026 at 1:26 AM
The three countries currently qualified for the North American semi finals are the same countries that originally colonized it (France, Spain, England)
Dan Davies’ ‘The Unaccountability Machine’ is Adam Curtis for management consultants.
July 11, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Dan Davies’ ‘The Unaccountability Machine’ is Adam Curtis for management consultants.
“I have an uneasy feeling, for instance, that if the computer had been around at the time of Copernicus, nobody would have ever bothered with him, because the computers could have handled the Ptolemaic epicycles with perfect ease.“
July 11, 2026 at 11:30 AM
“I have an uneasy feeling, for instance, that if the computer had been around at the time of Copernicus, nobody would have ever bothered with him, because the computers could have handled the Ptolemaic epicycles with perfect ease.“
“A not-wholly-unfair analysis of academic publishing would be that it is an industry in which academics compete against one another for the privilege of providing free labour for a profitmaking company, which then sells the results back to them at monopoly prices.
July 11, 2026 at 5:44 AM
“A not-wholly-unfair analysis of academic publishing would be that it is an industry in which academics compete against one another for the privilege of providing free labour for a profitmaking company, which then sells the results back to them at monopoly prices.
Cybernetics and the art of bicycle repair
July 11, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Cybernetics and the art of bicycle repair