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Join us today for a Civic Innovator Session with @exeuntdoteth on MetaCogsec: Cognitive Security for Nonsovereign Minds

When: Aug 4th, 5:00 PM PDT
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About this session:

When understanding the individual as socially embedded and prone to cycles of ego-transcendence and dissolution, the question of cognitive security becomes much less straightforward. Metacogsec argues that the counterculture intellectual movements of the 60’s and 70s - from psychedelics to media studies and cybernetics to chaos magick - have a lot to offer us as we square off against new forms of algorithmic control.

Whether you're an established network member or joining for the first time — your voice and perspective are valued.

We're thrilled to welcome @bbaue to the next OpenCivics Network Assembly, May 19th at 9am PST, for a Civic Innovator Session:

"Bioregional Carrying Capacities: Multicapital MRV"

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Bill is Senior Director of r3.0 (Redesign for Resilience & Regeneration) — a global common-good platform crowdsourcing open recommendations for the transformations humanity needs amid ecological & social collapse, toward a regenerative, distributive economy.

He's spent decades doing the patient, rigorous work of digging past greenwashing and impactwashing.
His insight: real sustainability requires respecting the carrying capacities of living systems — not merely improving incrementally against last year's numbers.

His work has shaped a generation of measurement, reporting, and accountability standards — anchoring impact in the real ecological, social, and economic limits of the systems we depend on, and fairly allocating responsibility across the actors who shape them.

His session proposes a framework for Bioregional Measurement, Reporting & Verification (MRV), grounded in the Carrying Capacities of Capitals — Natural, Social, Human, Financial, and beyond — within and across bioregions.

It draws on r3.0's Thresholds & Allocations approach to Context-Based Sustainability: grounding every claim of "sustainability" or "regeneration" in a credible relationship to systemic limits and a just allocation of responsibility for honoring them.

Why this matters for open civic innovation:

A participatory, vital, resilient civilization needs shared instruments for sensing what living systems can bear, and how responsibility is fairly distributed across the communities and bioregions that share them.

Bill's work sits at exactly that nerve: a credible substrate for bioregional coordination, aligned incentives, and the self-correcting feedback loops any open civic system needs to stay honest with itself over time.

Come ready to listen, question, and weave.

In Us We Trust.

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Becoming a Coordination Failure Response Swarm

OpenCivics Q2 2026 Strategy ~ what were building this quarter and how to participate

open.substack.com/pub/opencivics…

Let’s create a world worth believing in.

Do you feel like the world doesn’t make sense?

Like we’re stuck between stories?

Like authoritarianism and chaos are rising?

We need a counter-narrative, a new social contract where everyone belongs and thrives.

The new social contract starts with us.

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