a talk from last spring's Vienna Digital Culture Festival just went online, on technocapital utopias and their reactionary shadows youtu.be/yQX-7LSqLaY?...

two-part preview of my Open Swords Software essay, soon published by Aksioma, are up on the 'sztac. Here's a bit about pirates: wassimalsindi.substack.com/i/183777694/...

the year, in review:

I've said it before, and I'll say it again

Just published: I have a collection of speculative fiction vignettes entitled "Love Language Models" in the first publication by Posthuman Press. Some clippings in this and following tweets.

I would pay any amount of money to watch "tech oligarchs in the Cairo airport terminal 1 passport queue"

thank you! if you're interested, sapphirepunk is also included in an upcoming text on Open Swords Software, published by @aksiomaorg.bsky.social : aksioma.org/are-you-a-so... and in this text by co-author Sasha Shilina : substack.com/home/post/p-...

Video of "Seizing the Means of Seduction" from the recent Cypherpunk Congress in Buenos Aires. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfbH...

I contributed "Open Swords Software" which charts the inversion of the technolibertarian dream into systems of enclosure.

a very simple sapphirepunk website: sapphirepunk.com

open swords software

the Kittlerian Jihad

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

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

just dropped, on the sztac and free to read: "Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance, Part Two" wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/inside-the...

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...

"Experiments in Utopia", Sunday 27th April at @barbicancentre.bsky.social in London www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

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

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

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...

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...

next up on the 'sztac: my previously-unreleased flashfics around the world the @0xsalon.bsky.social salon writers’ club created for our 2022 theatre production ‘The Black Hole of Money’. Eventually destined for a book collating my literary experiments in poetry, scripture, and narrative fiction.

ṣifrpunk, sufferpunk, sapphirepunk wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/sifrpunk-m...

Provocative talk on "sifpunk" culture, blockchains, cypherpunk and onchain desires by @wassimulacrum.bsky.social x @0xsalon.bsky.social

ṣifrpunk (صفربانك): Much Ado About Nothing? Why, despite the desires within its community, Ethereum will probably never achieve its 'Cypherpunk' aspirations. But here's something it can be instead. wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/sifrpunk-m...

the naughtiest of wordplays, drops tomorrow on the 'sztac

now up on the 'sztac The Indifference Engine: a book that never was about the externalities of proof-of-work wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/the-indiff...

next event: Fau0x Salon counter-archival explorations at AVTO in Istanbul, early April

the first part of Axiomatic Realism is now unlocked. Have a read if you like: wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/axiomatic-...

who do I know that lives in / knows stuff about Brussels? doing a residency there in spring.

Now up on the 'sztac, the final part of "Axiomatic Realism". next few posts will be some curios on "The Indifference Engine" and "Sifrpunk" and then its time for the main event. wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/axiomatic-...

from Axiomatic Realism IV: Subjective Epistemologies wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/axiomatic-...

got a little telegram channel going, for updates, unpaywalled articles etc. t.me/wassimulations

now up on the 'sztac open.substack.com/pub/wassimal...

today's article (u know where) : “Axiomatic Realism III: The Secret of Light” is about what happens when an overly idealistic researcher (guess who) innocently asks the wrong question and has to leave the academy. Image via Walter Russell, whose 1947 book gives this article its title.

just published on the 'zabztac, on counter-axiomatic manoeuvres by a Nobel laureate that I witnessed in the early days of grad school. Axiomatic Realism II: Hyperformalisation open.substack.com/pub/wassimal...

anyone else having problems posting here?

first real post on the 'sztac: Axiomatic Realism I: on the Fence of the Pure Image. It's the first of several instalments of my WIP autoepistemological take on axioms, to be published by Ars Scientia later this year. Next part goes up soon. open.substack.com/pub/wassimal...