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Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath just delivered the brutal truth parents and educators need to face: “Even in schools, it doesn’t matter what the size of the screen is… and it doesn’t matter who bought it… All of these things are going to hurt learning, which in turn are going to hurt our kids’ cognitive development.” His core warning: Gen Z is the first modern generation to be less cognitively capable than their parents — despite more years in school. Attention, memory, literacy, numeracy, executive function, even general IQ — all declining. The culprit isn’t school itself. It’s the widespread introduction of screens and digital tools for learning. Across 80 countries, once tech floods classrooms, performance drops sharply. Kids using computers ~5 hours/day for schoolwork score over 2/3 of a standard deviation lower than those who rarely touch tech. US NAEP data mirrors it: states adopt 1:1 devices → scores plateau, then fall. The biological reality: Humans evolved to learn deeply from other humans, not screens. Screens circumvent the natural mechanisms of attention, memory consolidation, and deep processing. When the tool fails to deliver, we don’t remove it — we redefine success to fit the tool (e.g., SAT reading comprehension reduced to skimming short sentences instead of deep passages). That’s not progress. That’s surrender. The cost is a generation losing cognitive sharpness at the exact moment the world needs them sharpest. Parents, teachers, policymakers: How much longer do we let screens dictate what “learning” looks like?

Our partners Owen Nowhere. Creators Jaclyn Demas and Christopher Jammal are reimagining how animated stories come to life. Here's an early glimpse at Owen's character rig and animation moves as production rolls forward. Grassroots storytelling is here. And it looks like this.

🔥 BUTERIN: GOING MAINSTREAM IS HURTING ETHEREUM Vitalik Buterin warned Ethereum compromised decentralization and privacy to chase mainstream adoption. He said reversing this will be a priority in 2026.

The Artefact Has Awakened! A new world is being born from the ruins of the Singularity. From Neal Stephenson (@nealstephenson), the visionary behind Snow Crash, Wētā Workshop, and @Lamina1official comes a new kind of mythos: Artefact. The Vision: Built by a team of worldbuilders and immersive architects, Artefact is more than a game. It’s a living, evolving worldbuilding experiment, where fans, not studios, drive the creation of new IP. Each day reveals new lore drops, clues, and artefacts that collectively shape the storyworld’s next phase. Post-Spike Era: The Spike (the fizzled Singularity) tore apart the old internet and ended the reign of AI megasystems. Humanity splintered into factions and phyles, each finding its own way to survive under fractured skies. Then the thumb drives appeared. Encrypted relics carrying fragments of forgotten code along with a signal from a hidden rebel. The Mint Schedule: Your journey begins here: - November 11 – Mint opens for Lamina1 & Early Access Pass holders in the Artefact Space - November 12 – Expands to Linea token holders - November 13 – Opens to the public For a limited time each wallet can claim one free thumb drive, with Lamina1 covering all gas and fees. The Experience When the Artefact experience opens, you start as a scavenger in the Outskirts, a lone explorer piecing together what remains of the world after the Spike. Your Rig is your lifeline, a patchwork shelter of old processors and drives barely running on scraps of energy. Plug in your thumb drive. Begin the loop: 1. Decryption – Unlock the messages within your Artefact. 2. Exploration – Traverse the wasteland, uncover lore, form alliances, and discover other phyles. 3. Maintenance – Keep your Rig alive through daily rituals and intention. Your choices will shape how your three Artefacts stabilize and determine which Phyle you’ll ultimately join. A Collaborative IP: This is the flagship project for Lamina1’s Spaces, experiments in fandom-driven IP creation. The world of Artefact will grow across formats, film, television, books, and interactive stories, but the community will always be at its core. A Living Mythos: Every thumb drive is a seed of rebellion. Every decryption, a spark in the dark. The artefacts are out there. The signal has returned. Plug in. Rebuild. Resist. Link to follow 👇🏼

For 30+ years @Lamina1official Co-Founder Neal Stephenson has been articulating both the potential and the poison of the technology in our hands today. - Snow Crash imagined the Metaverse (1992) - Diamond Age put an aristocrat's #AI tutor in the hands of a young working-class girl (1995) - Cryptonomicon foresaw the rise of digital currency and information warfare (1999) Since, nearly 15 other books (Anathem, Seveneves, Reamde) contemplate the collision of advanced tech, humanity, and political power. Now, #Artefact begs the question--how will humans navigate the great accelerator and oppressor that is AI? Except this time, you play a part. This time, you own a piece of the epic battle unfolding between humanity and centralized AI systems. Not everyone will. Your ticket: 11.11. But first, the Spike: lamina1.com/space/artefact/p… #Web3 #scifi #gaming #Blockchain #Linea #technology

Today, @Lamina1official released the beta version of Spaces, showcased by our original IP #Artefact from my co-founder Neal Stephenson & the legendary @WetaWorkshop. Finally, fans can be real stakeholders in the crafting of a new franchise. This is just the start. Spaces, with the contributions of other projects in the ecosystem, will eventually be a full-stop decentralized media platform available to creators who demand greater ownership, autonomy, and an alternative path to making/releasing their creative projects and growing the value of their IP in direct collab with fans. The Lamina1 protocol is also evolving in utility. I know the market is garbage. God knows we made a lot of mistakes. But you just keep going because the promise of decentralization is freedom from corporate control and suppression. The tale of Artefact, should you take your place among the rebellion, is both a cautionary tale about centralized AI and a blueprint for human resistance. It breathes. The outcome is ours to determine. Dive into early lore here: lamina1.com/space/artefact See podcast with @nealstephenson , @ethereumJoseph @WetaWorkshop and myself here: teapawt.org/lineabuild/status/1984…

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Careful what you wish for tech bros... "Exactly what transpired during the event now known as the Spike remains the subject of considerable debate. Most scholars agree that it represented a fizzled singularity—a runaway escalation in which one of the AI megapowers (known colloquially as Bigs) began consuming resources at an exponential rate. This provoked immediate countermeasures from rival Bigs, each responding at machine speed, far beyond human comprehension... " #Artefact @Lamina1official #AI lamina1.com/spaces-artefact

I’m thrilled to share I’m Executive Producer on Artefact - the flagship on-chain playable narrative IP from @Lamina1official Spaces. A world crafted by @nealstephenson × @WetaWorkshop, built with @ethereumJoseph, @Consensys, and @LineaBuild. Until now, the on-chain economy has produced speculative IP. This marks the cusp of a new era - where great storytelling lives and evolves on-chain. We will do daily drops of lore/canon up to the launch. Step in here: lamina1.com/spaces-artefact

The minds behind Snow Crash and The Lord of the Rings are back… not to tell a story, but build one. #Artefact is a new experiment in IP about AI, humanity, and what comes after the machines. Launching on @LineaBuild and @Lamina1official. Early access → lamina1.com/spaces-artefact

Last August, we asked ourselves: what if worlds were built with communities, not just delivered to them? Today, that experiment comes online as Artefact: from Neal Stephenson, Wētā Workshop, and Lamina1. 🎥 Sign up for early access on L1 and Linea at → lamina1.com/spaces-artefact

#HSCLifeRules by Joseph Lubin (@ethereumJoseph), Co-Founder of @ethereum & Founder of @Consensys Lubin sees IP evolving from legal lock-in to cultural buy-in. As AI and abundance reshape creative economies, he believes open content and social consensus will matter more than copyright law. The NFT space is already showing how reputation can replace restriction. This insight came from the “Media 3.0: Storytelling On-Chain” panel with Neal Stephenson (@nealstephenson) and moderator Rebecca Barkin (@rebebarkin), hosted by @Lamina1official. #HackSeasonsConference #HSC25 #HSCLifeRulesByJosephLubin

Such a fantastic, rare kind of conversation for a crypto conference! Loved the hype for Artefact! 🎬🎮 And so proud to work with these two absolute legends daily to make the world a more equitable and vibrant place for creators and fans to develop and discover IP. @Lamina1official @Consensys #hackseasons #TOKEN2049

Two visionaries. One conversation. A glimpse into the future of storytelling on-chain! On October 2nd at Hack Seasons Conference Singapore, Rebecca Barkin (@rebeccabarkin), Co-founder & CEO at @Lamina1official, will host the Fireside Chat: “Joe Lubin & Neal Stephenson Present Media 3.0: Storytelling On-Chain.” Register free: luma.com/hack_sg Rebecca will guide this historic dialogue between two pioneers, exploring how blockchain is reshaping media, creativity, and the stories that define our culture.

This just in via @Cointelegraph: Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 joins Linea to bring decentralized media to Ethereum. The next era of storytelling, built for creators and owned by communities, is here. Find out more about the groundbreaking partnership at: cointelegraph.com/news/lamin…