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They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXX [#](/creator/twitter::14349894/interactions)  - X Week XXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXXX +155% - X Year XXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::14349894/posts_active)  - X Week XX +20% - X Month XXX -XX% - X Months XXX +164% - X Year XXXXX -XXXX% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::14349894/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX -XXXX% - X Month XXXXXX +0.04% - X Months XXXXXX +2.10% - X Year XXXXXX +0.17% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::14349894/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) XXXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks) XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [ai](/topic/ai) 8.33%, [south korea](/topic/south-korea) 4.17%, [the first](/topic/the-first) 4.17%, [money](/topic/money) 4.17%, [finance](/topic/finance) 4.17%, [russia](/topic/russia) 4.17%, [theory](/topic/theory) 4.17%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 2.08%, [ukraine](/topic/ukraine) 2.08%, [propaganda](/topic/propaganda) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@lifesmyth](/creator/undefined) [@tiberiusb](/creator/undefined) [@nunetglobal](/creator/undefined) [@guanhua75](/creator/undefined) [@battleforeurope](/creator/undefined) [@wor](/creator/undefined) [@mfiorettien](/creator/undefined) [@holochain](/creator/undefined) [@soushi888](/creator/undefined) [@ogrosewriting](/creator/undefined) [@kapitaalicom](/creator/undefined) [@jembendell](/creator/undefined) [@web3privacy](/creator/undefined) [@microbitcoinorg](/creator/undefined) [@dilgreen](/creator/undefined) [@findingclaw3](/creator/undefined) [@szpak](/creator/undefined) [@kapitaali__com](/creator/undefined) [@ecojag](/creator/undefined) [@clinamenic](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [numogram (GNON)](/topic/numogram) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "If you still think the Ukrainian leadership didn't know what it was doing:" [X Link](https://x.com/mbauwens/status/2000910449173532972) 2025-12-16T12:46Z 20K followers, XXX engagements "Thanks to 4seas GCC Uncommons and perhaps other Chinese 'network nation' groups Chiang Mai has now a regular digitally-cultural life. Nearly every day there are events now: Sharing this from Seoul South Korea g. I participated in a very interesting conference closing the Year of Cooperatives organized by the Korean Cooperative Studies Association and other outfits and learned a lot. Tomorrow an interview with the Commons Foundation and X meetings. I discovered that Korea has a very active and quite popular (113 or XXX members or so) Karatani group just as Turkye. Then I will spend X days in" [X Link](https://x.com/mbauwens/status/2000953372627886212) 2025-12-16T15:37Z 20K followers, XX engagements "* "the fable of barters primacy". Will Ruddick (@wor ) reminds us of the liberating presence of David Graeber: (I was lucky enough to spend X days with David during our CSG deep dives) "My first introduction to Graeber began where so much of my confusion began: money and debt. Debt: The First 5000 Years illuminated. Debt he argued started as a promise between people and capitalism twisted that promise into a cudgel: debt is the perversion of a promise. He was the first to fully disproved for me the the fable of barters primacy and freed my imaginations - so that everyday acts of generosity" [X Link](https://x.com/mbauwens/status/1985515946036118027) 2025-11-04T01:14Z 20K followers, 1032 engagements "cc @nunet_global : " The third substrate still poorly theorised yet increasingly consequential is compute. As AI models cloud architectures and sensor networks become integral to economic coordination the provision of computational capacity begins to resemble a kind of infrastructural money. It is scarce rentable and required for nearly every type of economic calculation. " * On the role of 'compute' in the world order: Chor Pharn: "What mattered then was the physical infrastructure of mines mints guilds and caravan routes. What matters now is an assemblage of corridors commodities and" [X Link](https://x.com/mbauwens/status/1995721213885521990) 2025-12-02T05:06Z 20K followers, XXX engagements "I was just thinking about this dear @guanhua75 So as I heard from many in the national rural reconstruction movement they considered that Chinese farmers were happier until 1978. This is when a new phase began in China: using the surplus from agriculture to finance urbanization and industrialization. As I learned Xi Ping himself in his doctoral thesis he calculated there were 150m surplus farmers at the time. But starting in 2013 the big urbanization drive was beginnning to be halted and the real-estate speculative collapse engineered; part of the money that went into speculative real estate" [X Link](https://x.com/mbauwens/status/1997937476858765329) 2025-12-08T07:53Z 20K followers, XXX engagements "I have a question for you dear @battleforeurope in the article below you focus on the 'civilizational' hostility of the West with Russia but more on the U.S. which was the spear of Cold War hostility and molded European elites through Atlanticist training and cooptation. But now the U.S. wants a modus vivendi with Russia while European elites prefer to go under economically through de-industrialization rather than agree to a peaceful agreement. A four-year old would understand that it is in the strategic interest of Europe to have an agreement with Russia and benefit from its cheaper energy" [X Link](https://x.com/mbauwens/status/1999334977239200009) 2025-12-12T04:26Z 20K followers, XXX engagements "* Calzada (2025). The Political Economy of Web3 hashtag#Platformization: Innovation Systems Reaching the Moon Governing the Ghetto. "The article asks: How democratic are decentralized governance systems And under what institutional conditions can decentralization support social inclusion It situates Web3 within innovation systems theory stressing that technological change is shaped by institutional and political contexts."" [X Link](https://x.com/mbauwens/status/1999762233447141614) 2025-12-13T08:44Z 20K followers, XXX engagements "Bear with me for some context before I introduce Nick Lands' Numogram. X. My wife's family in Thailand is renting a next-door building to a Chinese evangelical Church probably less woke than it's US mother house and the first thing they asked is that we remove the spirit house. In my house we have a spirit house on the ground floor a cross blessed by the pope and a Maronite Bible on the 2nd floor along with an ancestor shrine for my parents and my wife's and Ganesh the Buddha and various enlightened Thai monks and former kings on the third floor. I am myself variously described as" [X Link](https://x.com/mbauwens/status/1999770463472623681) 2025-12-13T09:16Z 20K followers, XXX engagements "* Nick Land: Why AI capitalism and the invasion of demonic forces is one and the same thing "By Lands account the self-improving neural networks that have brought us Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT belong to the Whig tradition: They are technologies defined by decentralization self-organization and the Empty Summit. Already in 1994s Meltdown he praised the connectionist or antiformalist AI of neural nets over its top-down competitors. Todays AI he told me has reached a sort of eschatological moment of triumphant liberal technology. And it exploded because its developers embraced a" [X Link](https://x.com/mbauwens/status/1999774227134648810) 2025-12-13T09:31Z 20K followers, XXX engagements "Geoff Shullenberger continues: "In an earlier moment messianic proclamations about the digitally connected future were predominantly euphoric but in recent years they are often far gloomier not least among those promoting the technology. OpenAI founder Sam Altman summed up the prevailing mood when he infamously declared a few years back: I think that AI will probably most likely sort of lead to the end of the world. But in the meantime there will be great companies created with serious machine learning. On the other hand there are also investor Peter Thiels much-discussed recent lectures on" [X Link](https://x.com/mbauwens/status/1999774908939923735) 2025-12-13T09:34Z 20K followers, XX engagements "New items in the P2P Foundation wiki this week. Updates via * (Owen) Barfield and the Contraction of Consciousness * Commons-Based Property Regimes in German Farming Systems * Dataspaces in Europe * Equifinality * Exocapitalism * Gerhard Lenski's Ecological-Evolutionary Theory * Fractal Sovereignty * Hyperstition * Information Finance (InfoFi) * Mycelial Design Patterns for Web3 * Three Planetary Time Clocks" [X Link](https://x.com/mbauwens/status/1999829722168263087) 2025-12-13T13:12Z 20K followers, XX engagements "The breakdown of the post-WWII order continues apace: * Tariffs Deals and Multilateral Ideals: Can the World Trade Organization Survive Commentary from South Korea (I'm leaving Monday): " If bilateral deals become entrenched the WTO system is likely to experience progressive fragmentation. As members operate under increasingly divergent rules obligations and coordination mechanisms the multilateral system will struggle to function as a common rulebook. States traditionally sign multilateral agreements to secure consistency and transparency yet it is increasingly unlikelyat least for the" [X Link](https://x.com/mbauwens/status/1999858409517338871) 2025-12-13T15:06Z 20K followers, XXX engagements "Dear @jembendell : As you may know I spend a decade and a half working on commons politics advizing mayors and government leaders but ultimately with relatively little to show for it. At the time I believe red-green coalitions would be the ultimate vehicle as they seemed the most friendly to commons politics. But two issues arose: 1) these progressive parties are ultimately just as neoliberal as the other polarity in the spectrum and they do not understand the logic of the commons nor the logic of the contributory economy. 2) identitarian attitudes became hegemonic and they are profoundly" [X Link](https://x.com/mbauwens/status/2000128151989653673) 2025-12-14T08:58Z 20K followers, XX engagements "* " people dont seem to be joining cults anymore." "Philip Jenkins a historian of religion and author of a book on cults reports that compared to the 1970s the cult issue has vanished almost entirely.1 (Given that an increase in cults would be better for Jenkins book sales Im inclined to trust him on this one.) There is no comprehensive dataset on cult formation but Rogers Bacon analyzed cults that have been covered on a popular and long-running podcast and found that most of them started in the 60s 70s and 80s with a steep dropoff after 2002: Crimes and cults are definitely deviant and they" [X Link](https://x.com/mbauwens/status/2000146780508594574) 2025-12-14T10:12Z 20K followers, XXX engagements "* CULTURE IS STAGNATING: Creativity is just deviance : put to good use. It too seems to be decreasing. "I analyzed a bunch of data and found that all popular forms of art had become oligopolies: fewer and fewer of the artists and franchises own more and more of the market. Before 2000 for instance only about XX% of top-grossing movies were prequels sequels spinoffs etc. Now its 75%. The story is the same in TV music video games and booksall of them have been oligpol-ized. As Ted Gioia points out were still reading comic books about superheroes that were invented in the 1960s buying tickets to" [X Link](https://x.com/mbauwens/status/2000147348467699875) 2025-12-14T10:14Z 20K followers, XXX engagements "* Russia Blocks Snapchat and FaceTime as Digital Crackdown Expands to Encrypted Apps and Foreign Platforms "Russias online world keeps shrinking as the government trades global access for tighter control at home."" [X Link](https://x.com/mbauwens/status/2000149433426612468) 2025-12-14T10:22Z 20K followers, XXX engagements "* Data center demand for electricity is predicted to double by 2030" [X Link](https://x.com/mbauwens/status/2000152290452467946) 2025-12-14T10:34Z 20K followers, XXX engagements "* AI hyperscaling via" [X Link](https://x.com/mbauwens/status/2000152602772668727) 2025-12-14T10:35Z 20K followers, XX engagements "The Wikimedia Foundation has been pretty consistent in their choice for chairperson g:" [X Link](https://x.com/mbauwens/status/2000960384862498864) 2025-12-16T16:05Z 20K followers, XX engagements
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@mbauwens Michel Bauwens
Michel Bauwens posts on X about ai, south korea, the first, money the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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Social category influence countries XXXXX% finance XXXX% technology brands XXXX% cryptocurrencies XXXX% social networks XXXX% travel destinations XXXX%
Social topic influence ai 8.33%, south korea 4.17%, the first 4.17%, money 4.17%, finance 4.17%, russia 4.17%, theory 4.17%, if you 2.08%, ukraine 2.08%, propaganda XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @lifesmyth @tiberiusb @nunetglobal @guanhua75 @battleforeurope @wor @mfiorettien @holochain @soushi888 @ogrosewriting @kapitaalicom @jembendell @web3privacy @microbitcoinorg @dilgreen @findingclaw3 @szpak @kapitaali__com @ecojag @clinamenic
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Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"If you still think the Ukrainian leadership didn't know what it was doing:"
X Link 2025-12-16T12:46Z 20K followers, XXX engagements
"Thanks to 4seas GCC Uncommons and perhaps other Chinese 'network nation' groups Chiang Mai has now a regular digitally-cultural life. Nearly every day there are events now: Sharing this from Seoul South Korea g. I participated in a very interesting conference closing the Year of Cooperatives organized by the Korean Cooperative Studies Association and other outfits and learned a lot. Tomorrow an interview with the Commons Foundation and X meetings. I discovered that Korea has a very active and quite popular (113 or XXX members or so) Karatani group just as Turkye. Then I will spend X days in"
X Link 2025-12-16T15:37Z 20K followers, XX engagements
"* "the fable of barters primacy". Will Ruddick (@wor ) reminds us of the liberating presence of David Graeber: (I was lucky enough to spend X days with David during our CSG deep dives) "My first introduction to Graeber began where so much of my confusion began: money and debt. Debt: The First 5000 Years illuminated. Debt he argued started as a promise between people and capitalism twisted that promise into a cudgel: debt is the perversion of a promise. He was the first to fully disproved for me the the fable of barters primacy and freed my imaginations - so that everyday acts of generosity"
X Link 2025-11-04T01:14Z 20K followers, 1032 engagements
"cc @nunet_global : " The third substrate still poorly theorised yet increasingly consequential is compute. As AI models cloud architectures and sensor networks become integral to economic coordination the provision of computational capacity begins to resemble a kind of infrastructural money. It is scarce rentable and required for nearly every type of economic calculation. " * On the role of 'compute' in the world order: Chor Pharn: "What mattered then was the physical infrastructure of mines mints guilds and caravan routes. What matters now is an assemblage of corridors commodities and"
X Link 2025-12-02T05:06Z 20K followers, XXX engagements
"I was just thinking about this dear @guanhua75 So as I heard from many in the national rural reconstruction movement they considered that Chinese farmers were happier until 1978. This is when a new phase began in China: using the surplus from agriculture to finance urbanization and industrialization. As I learned Xi Ping himself in his doctoral thesis he calculated there were 150m surplus farmers at the time. But starting in 2013 the big urbanization drive was beginnning to be halted and the real-estate speculative collapse engineered; part of the money that went into speculative real estate"
X Link 2025-12-08T07:53Z 20K followers, XXX engagements
"I have a question for you dear @battleforeurope in the article below you focus on the 'civilizational' hostility of the West with Russia but more on the U.S. which was the spear of Cold War hostility and molded European elites through Atlanticist training and cooptation. But now the U.S. wants a modus vivendi with Russia while European elites prefer to go under economically through de-industrialization rather than agree to a peaceful agreement. A four-year old would understand that it is in the strategic interest of Europe to have an agreement with Russia and benefit from its cheaper energy"
X Link 2025-12-12T04:26Z 20K followers, XXX engagements
"* Calzada (2025). The Political Economy of Web3 hashtag#Platformization: Innovation Systems Reaching the Moon Governing the Ghetto. "The article asks: How democratic are decentralized governance systems And under what institutional conditions can decentralization support social inclusion It situates Web3 within innovation systems theory stressing that technological change is shaped by institutional and political contexts.""
X Link 2025-12-13T08:44Z 20K followers, XXX engagements
"Bear with me for some context before I introduce Nick Lands' Numogram. X. My wife's family in Thailand is renting a next-door building to a Chinese evangelical Church probably less woke than it's US mother house and the first thing they asked is that we remove the spirit house. In my house we have a spirit house on the ground floor a cross blessed by the pope and a Maronite Bible on the 2nd floor along with an ancestor shrine for my parents and my wife's and Ganesh the Buddha and various enlightened Thai monks and former kings on the third floor. I am myself variously described as"
X Link 2025-12-13T09:16Z 20K followers, XXX engagements
"* Nick Land: Why AI capitalism and the invasion of demonic forces is one and the same thing "By Lands account the self-improving neural networks that have brought us Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT belong to the Whig tradition: They are technologies defined by decentralization self-organization and the Empty Summit. Already in 1994s Meltdown he praised the connectionist or antiformalist AI of neural nets over its top-down competitors. Todays AI he told me has reached a sort of eschatological moment of triumphant liberal technology. And it exploded because its developers embraced a"
X Link 2025-12-13T09:31Z 20K followers, XXX engagements
"Geoff Shullenberger continues: "In an earlier moment messianic proclamations about the digitally connected future were predominantly euphoric but in recent years they are often far gloomier not least among those promoting the technology. OpenAI founder Sam Altman summed up the prevailing mood when he infamously declared a few years back: I think that AI will probably most likely sort of lead to the end of the world. But in the meantime there will be great companies created with serious machine learning. On the other hand there are also investor Peter Thiels much-discussed recent lectures on"
X Link 2025-12-13T09:34Z 20K followers, XX engagements
"New items in the P2P Foundation wiki this week. Updates via * (Owen) Barfield and the Contraction of Consciousness * Commons-Based Property Regimes in German Farming Systems * Dataspaces in Europe * Equifinality * Exocapitalism * Gerhard Lenski's Ecological-Evolutionary Theory * Fractal Sovereignty * Hyperstition * Information Finance (InfoFi) * Mycelial Design Patterns for Web3 * Three Planetary Time Clocks"
X Link 2025-12-13T13:12Z 20K followers, XX engagements
"The breakdown of the post-WWII order continues apace: * Tariffs Deals and Multilateral Ideals: Can the World Trade Organization Survive Commentary from South Korea (I'm leaving Monday): " If bilateral deals become entrenched the WTO system is likely to experience progressive fragmentation. As members operate under increasingly divergent rules obligations and coordination mechanisms the multilateral system will struggle to function as a common rulebook. States traditionally sign multilateral agreements to secure consistency and transparency yet it is increasingly unlikelyat least for the"
X Link 2025-12-13T15:06Z 20K followers, XXX engagements
"Dear @jembendell : As you may know I spend a decade and a half working on commons politics advizing mayors and government leaders but ultimately with relatively little to show for it. At the time I believe red-green coalitions would be the ultimate vehicle as they seemed the most friendly to commons politics. But two issues arose: 1) these progressive parties are ultimately just as neoliberal as the other polarity in the spectrum and they do not understand the logic of the commons nor the logic of the contributory economy. 2) identitarian attitudes became hegemonic and they are profoundly"
X Link 2025-12-14T08:58Z 20K followers, XX engagements
"* " people dont seem to be joining cults anymore." "Philip Jenkins a historian of religion and author of a book on cults reports that compared to the 1970s the cult issue has vanished almost entirely.1 (Given that an increase in cults would be better for Jenkins book sales Im inclined to trust him on this one.) There is no comprehensive dataset on cult formation but Rogers Bacon analyzed cults that have been covered on a popular and long-running podcast and found that most of them started in the 60s 70s and 80s with a steep dropoff after 2002: Crimes and cults are definitely deviant and they"
X Link 2025-12-14T10:12Z 20K followers, XXX engagements
"* CULTURE IS STAGNATING: Creativity is just deviance : put to good use. It too seems to be decreasing. "I analyzed a bunch of data and found that all popular forms of art had become oligopolies: fewer and fewer of the artists and franchises own more and more of the market. Before 2000 for instance only about XX% of top-grossing movies were prequels sequels spinoffs etc. Now its 75%. The story is the same in TV music video games and booksall of them have been oligpol-ized. As Ted Gioia points out were still reading comic books about superheroes that were invented in the 1960s buying tickets to"
X Link 2025-12-14T10:14Z 20K followers, XXX engagements
"* Russia Blocks Snapchat and FaceTime as Digital Crackdown Expands to Encrypted Apps and Foreign Platforms "Russias online world keeps shrinking as the government trades global access for tighter control at home.""
X Link 2025-12-14T10:22Z 20K followers, XXX engagements
"* Data center demand for electricity is predicted to double by 2030"
X Link 2025-12-14T10:34Z 20K followers, XXX engagements
"* AI hyperscaling via"
X Link 2025-12-14T10:35Z 20K followers, XX engagements
"The Wikimedia Foundation has been pretty consistent in their choice for chairperson g:"
X Link 2025-12-16T16:05Z 20K followers, XX engagements