denisa l. retweeted
We're running a longevity retreat in Colorado this August (Aug 6–9)!
Four days in the Colorado mountains with your biomarkers, a longevity physician, and 19 other people who actually know what an epigenetic clock is.
Link in next tweet 👇👇👇
denisa l. retweeted
The survey covers governance, coordination, safety, and outcomes. This will feed a public-good report that helps every future edition get better.
Take the @thouartstudio survey ↓
thouartofficial.com/research…
denisa l. retweeted
Thou Ārt Research is building the first serious cross-case study of popup cities. 75 interviews, 48 communities.
If you were at @EdgeEsmeralda 2025 or Edge Patagonia, your 12 minutes would make both editions focal cases in the study!
Link to take part below ↓
denisa l. retweeted
edge city (@JoinEdgeCity) published a request for experiments for edge esmeralda '26 !! doubling down on structured experiments designed for real-world implementation is something we've been hoping the space would lean more into, and is also what we work on.
a few from the list that stand out for me:
- liquid democracy. delegate your vote to people you trust on village decisions.
- quadratic funding. the community allocates real capital using quadratic mechanisms.
- prediction markets vs. committees for resource allocation.
- privacy-preserving governance without exposing personal data.
- agent-to-agent negotiation. AI agents coordinate shared resources with no humans in the loop.
- stablecoin-native commerce across the village economy.
- a community currency for the month.
- scaling up last year's solar-powered datacenter.
(the full list link below also covers health, longevity, consciousness, art, urbanism, and education)
One of the coolest things I learned about at [ ] was this research initiative.
We are in the embryonic stages of pop-up cities and network states. Stuff like this is paramount to measuring progress of what works and what doesn’t.
We’ve opened surveys for our Pop-up City Research Initiative.
We’re building a public-good, community-informed research report on pop-up cities, using systematic methods to make cross-case comparisons. Whether you participated in a pop-up city as an attendee, operator, or partner, you can find your role-based survey here: thouartofficial.com/research…
Candidate focal cases include Zuzalu, Edge Esmeralda, Network School v2, Burning Man, and others. Each focal case receives a dedicated case profile, cross-case comparisons, and positioning on the report’s landscape map. The final public good report will feature 8–12 focal cases from an initial candidate pool of 15, which may expand; cases that do not meet minimum data thresholds will be included as comparator references rather than full profiles.
More about the initiative: thouartofficial.com/research…
This is independent research. No affiliation or endorsement is implied for any referenced candidate case. Our analysis draws on surveys plus formal interviews to date with 71 stakeholders across 48 pop-up cities and relevant organisations, and this dataset is still growing. We also conduct on-the-ground fieldwork at select pop-up cities, with additional interviews ongoing.
Questions, feedback, suggestions, support, or bug reports: [email protected]
cc @denisalepadatu_ @thouartstudio @crecimientoar @James_of_Arc @burningman @EdgeEsmeralda @formacity @infinitacity @Mars_College @ns @themu_xyz @proofofretreat @_zanzalu @ZuBerlinCity @zuitzerland @zucity_japan
.@Aubrai_ is now SOTA for longevity research.
Trained on decades of aging research, private lab notes, and insights from Dr. Aubrey de Grey’s lab, Aubrai is now #1 on BixBench
• 48.78% open-answer
• 55.12% multiple-choice + refusal
• 64.39% multiple-choice
Outperforming Edison Scientific and Kepler.
→ 8 hours of autonomous research on aging questions
→ Persistent memory — longevity insights compound across sessions
→ Literature synthesis, hypothesis generation, lifespan experiment design
Built by @vita_dao and powered by @BioProtocol 's, BioAgent framework, @Aubrai_ will be the longevity layer in the bio agentic economy.
Aging queries route to Aubrai → Aubrai earns via x402 → value back to Aubrai treasury.
The longevity community now has a state-of-the-art co-scientist.
The fight against aging is now onchain.
arxiv.org/abs/2601.12542
denisa l. retweeted
We’ve opened surveys for our Pop-up City Research Initiative.
We’re building a public-good, community-informed research report on pop-up cities, using systematic methods to make cross-case comparisons. Whether you participated in a pop-up city as an attendee, operator, or partner, you can find your role-based survey here: thouartofficial.com/research…
Candidate focal cases include Zuzalu, Edge Esmeralda, Network School v2, Burning Man, and others. Each focal case receives a dedicated case profile, cross-case comparisons, and positioning on the report’s landscape map. The final public good report will feature 8–12 focal cases from an initial candidate pool of 15, which may expand; cases that do not meet minimum data thresholds will be included as comparator references rather than full profiles.
More about the initiative: thouartofficial.com/research…
This is independent research. No affiliation or endorsement is implied for any referenced candidate case. Our analysis draws on surveys plus formal interviews to date with 71 stakeholders across 48 pop-up cities and relevant organisations, and this dataset is still growing. We also conduct on-the-ground fieldwork at select pop-up cities, with additional interviews ongoing.
Questions, feedback, suggestions, support, or bug reports: [email protected]
cc @denisalepadatu_ @thouartstudio @crecimientoar @James_of_Arc @burningman @EdgeEsmeralda @formacity @infinitacity @Mars_College @ns @themu_xyz @proofofretreat @_zanzalu @ZuBerlinCity @zuitzerland @zucity_japan
denisa l. retweeted
Tracked down every longevity event happening in 2026.
Found 120+ conferences from aging research, medicine, investing, biohacking.
Wrote up the top 25 and included the rest in a downloadable calendar.
Plus added our own retreat in August :)
longevityadvice.com/best-lon…
denisa l. retweeted
New York deserves better.
Sky-high rents.
Shelters stretched thin.
Snow and trash blocking streets.
Sidewalk sheds that never come down.
What if we built local solutions instead of waiting for permission?
Join the first Logos Circle: New York, and meet people who want to work on community-driven tools that prioritise privacy, self-sovereignty, and open participation.
DM: @denisalepadatu_ for details.
luma.com/wu0ptbgg
denisa l. retweeted
TheDAO is back. BULLISH
A decade later, we’re opening a new chapter.
TheDAO Security Fund: activating 75,000+ ETH to strengthen Ethereum security.
thedao.fund/
1/ Pop-up cities didn’t appear randomly.
They emerged from a real-world constraint: our core institutions of cities, universities, and states change slowly, while technology, coordination, and culture now move fast.
9/ That motivation underlies the Pop-Up City Research Initiative:
a public-good effort using interviews with organisers, residents, sponsors, and local stakeholders to understand what works, what fails, who these environments are for, and which design choices scale.
All findings will be published openly.
10/ If you’ve built, funded, joined, or lived near a pop-up city,
or if you want to understand how these experiments relate to network states and future institutions,
learn more, share your story, and get involved:
thouartofficial.com/research…
















