wassimulacrum

a very simple sapphirepunk website:

sapphirepunk.com

open swords software

the Kittlerian Jihad

Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance III Far from transcending the flaws of human governance, blockchain networks have mirrored the very structures they sought to dismantle. Have we learned anything?

just dropped on the 'sztac

Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance Pt. 3

free to read:
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/inside-the...

they asked me to bring props to the event today

juxtaposing rw utopianism (aka golf futurism) with the final writings of Mark Fisher for the "Experiments in Utopia" event on Sunday. I don't usually talk about my Crusading in public* but they did specifically request I bring the chain mail. You should come if you're in London.

we do a lil' in conversation with Inte Gloerich this evening. from 18h30 tonight at Au JUS in Brussels

Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance II Far from transcending the flaws of human governance, blockchain networks have mirrored the very structures they sought to dismantle. Have we learned anything?

just dropped, on the sztac and free to read:

"Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance, Part Two"

wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Radical Gaming A new left-wing board game puts players in the role of maniacal plutocrats trying to take over the world. Its creator explains how it responds to the wider phenomenon of ‘gamified capitalism’.

as part of my current "speculative economies" residency at au JUS in Brussels, @maxhaiven.bsky.social will be visiting 28/29 Apr. We'll be launching his new anticapitalist boardgame and going into conversation on gamification, fascism, and the endless Crusade.

Read: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/radi...

just dropped on the 'sztac, free to read:

"Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance, Pt 1"
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Far from transcending the flaws of human governance, blockchain networks have mirrored the very structures they sought to dismantle. Have we learned anything?

Very pleased to write for Tribune about games and the radical imagination in a moment of gamified capitalism (and its fascist nightmares), w. words about Billionaires & Guillotines, the game I've made with @plutopress.bsky.social which you can help us crowdfund now.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/radi...

More Than Human Togetherness | Barbican Join us at this Experiments in Utopia talk to consider how contemporary technology can catalyse collectivity and hack the system of individuality.

"Experiments in Utopia", Sunday 27th April at @barbicancentre.bsky.social in London

www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Speculative Fiction Buffer Overflow: LoLaMos Shall I compare thee to a voltage spike? Thou art more transient, though less liable to surge.

now up on the 'sztac, free to read

Speculative Fiction Buffer Overflow: LoLaMos

wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/preview-lo...

just dropped on the 'sztac:

Scenes from a Memorypool III, the last set of flashfictions orbiting @0xsalon.bsky.social 2022 theatrical project The Black Hole of Money. A few previews attached.

wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/scenes-fro...

save the date: Sunday 27th April for a very special event on "Utopian Experiments" at the Barbican in London

cheerful stuff tbh

just dropped, on the 'sztac:

Scenes from a Memorypool II: flashfictions orbiting the @0xsalon.bsky.social 2022 theatre production The Black Hole of Money

Saturday 5th April in Istanbul

CAMELOT has signed a Memorandum Of Understanding with @0xsalon.bsky.social, who will break ground next year. It's a piece of recently cleared, prime real estate on the Mediterranean. Our early adopters' TEMPLAR KNIGHT package will be purchaseable soon.

Signed,
Wassim Z. Alsindi
King/CEO of CAMELOT

Changed my mind: I am starting a Knightwork State. It's called CAMELOT, and I'm the King of it. Become my serf and I will bestow upon you everlasting chain mail, longevity pills, and tax exemption. Phase 1 EXCALIBUR launch event will take place in Brussels next month. Devs Vult!

Neo-Santayana: those who delete history, are guaranteed to repeat the worst parts of it

"mom, can we have ontological fragility of all-male panels?"

"we have ontological fragility of all-male panels at home"

Succinct noetic poetics "No Unhallow'd Fire" published yesterday, on the vernal equinox in Drops & Buds journal.

Read the text and @0xsalon.bsky.social backstory here: wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/no-unhallo...

YouTube video by 0xSalon SWAN FAKE - An Improbable Radio Play

not even his debut if we count radio tbh, enter Mathistopheles:

youtu.be/ZStt0fyL7SE

yep co-writer and first time actor :)

YouTube video by 0xSalon THE BLACK HOLE OF MONEY Theatre Premiere presented by CLICK Festival (Helsingor, Denmark, 19/8/22)

we didn't get the funding, but if we did, there would have been an event in Berlin set in a karaoke bar where a time-travelling cowboy would tell jokes, recite poetry and sing songs with rewritten lyrics.

I guess you maybe haven't seen this monstrosity: youtu.be/RMP5Lb6Irdo

CRYPTOGRAPHIC POETICS RESEARCHERS' UNION - anon text collective

it is! even better if one invents a "collective-fiction" to claim responsibility for it 😈

0xsalon.pubpub.org/cpru

got a very weird poem coming out later today in a very weird journal. encoded within it is an original scientific hypothesis, which I have refrained from publishing...for reasons. for one day only, cryptographic poetics goes holotropic noetics. "inspired" by this book:

now up on the 'sztac:

archival flashfictions, around the world of @0xsalon.bsky.social play "The Black Hole of Money".

Written using Ursula Le Guin's "Steering the Craft" exercises, which we went through at a @trustsupport.bsky.social group in '23.

wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/scenes-fro...

okay you just pipped me lol, I wrote Prophet Motives & Knightwork States spring'23 and it came out in July of that year.

folklore.mirror.xyz/nQ30ZabiOnn4...