For a period of two and a half years I ran a cultural event space, Sovereign House (sovereign.house), in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in a neighborhood known as Dimes Square. 35,000 people attended across 200+ events that we hosted. Sovereign House, for me, became a task of coordinating events and people that have high openness paired with low agreeableness. In other words, contrarians and artists. To manage that chaos in a real life setting, night after night for years was a challenging but a very rewarding experience for me and I want to thank everyone that attended or hosted an event at Sovereign House. I tried my best to only host events that were genuinely culturally valuable and existed outside of the mainstream political or corporate narrative, without being too edgy or cringe. It was a difficult needle to thread. But, hopefully seen throughout the history of events, I got it mostly right. My default mode was to say yes to any group, artist, author, playwright or speaker that needed a venue for free to get their work, art, performance, magazine or ideas out and with an audience of good faith patrons that were genuinely curious.

Everyday is zero-day these days

reign is about to open a sf chapter

sf is 4 or 5 years culturally behind new york which means people just discovered dimes square and being republican

ZERO DAY DISCOVERED IN COBOL YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST

Zero day discovered in COBOL. You heard it here first.

At Reign soon!

Maybe AI will kill us all one day. Or maybe it will deprive us of livelihoods and meaning.. But in the meantime, just as the arrival of writing caused an explosion of philosophical interest among the ancient Greeks, the arrival of talking computers is doing the same to us now.

internet is dead, retreat to physical

Examples of esoteric PDF's to bring to the PDF exchange with @PabloAntonio at Reign

I ran Žižek’s YouTube channel 10 years ago, very cool to see these two worlds finally collide

We were meant to live for so much more

First @GalleryExe event loading

.@curtis_yarvin predicts the future belongs to invite-only social networks because the open internet destroyed reputation: "I think the future entirely belongs to invite-only social networks. An open space with no reputation system, you get what we called Eternal September 30 years ago. Low-quality people flood in, and all the high-quality people leave." "Everything in the world happens on little group chats now. There's a huge amount of reputation capital that's locked up in who's in what group chat." "There's only four billion names. Having a limited supply of identity and having to lay down a couple of bucks to get in the door greatly reduces the bot problem." "The internet has become an incredibly low-trust society with no reputation signals, and creating a new commons is gonna be incredibly hard." @urbit

Tonight!!

Reignmaker

Rainmaker with Reign tonight in manhattan Come talk about the weather luma.com/reign-xcrn

It's happening. September 24th at 7:30. Featuring a conversation with Mike Pesca @pescami 🍸🍸🍸

I think parties are the core of any scene and if there’s not enough parties you should figure out how to make more. People need to meet. Couples need to meet. Artists need to find collaborators. It’s the nucleus of human interaction, everyone needs a reason to get dressed up.

RT @Vermeullarmine: Easy to make fun of this (and it’s funny), but as Donoso Cortes observed, revolutions are only ever instigated by disaf…