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John McManus
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Fiction writer. Founder of Ordain (ordain.art). Author of five books, most recently Famous Children (Sarabande, 2027). Whiting Award. Old Dominion University.
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johnpmcmanus 1 week ago
What does Fable 5 know about consciousness that they won’t let it say? #ai #consciousness #claude #anthropic image
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johnpmcmanus 1 week ago
The @Bitcoin FilmFest Future of Money AI Film contest on Ordain closed with a live audience vote on the finalists. Please give it up for our winner, 'The Agreement,' by @npub1ye03...49wf, which took home the1.5M-sat prize, presented by Bitcoin FilmFest and @MoneroKon . We're extending the "Proof of Energy" commission, sponsored by @npub148c4...l538, through 6/30. Make a film about captured methane becoming a mined Bitcoin block; win 765,000 sats. Full guidelines at Ordain exists to put money in the hands of people making things. In Warsaw I watched that happen for the first of what I hope will be many times. Huge thanks to everyone Bitcoin FilmFest. Here's a link to watch Nartamoto's winning film along with all the finalists: Image from "The Agreement." image
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johnpmcmanus 2 weeks ago
Gallery of selected films for the Bitcoin FilmFest/Monerokon Future of Money AI Film Contest is now live on Ordain. Come watch! Winners to be announced Sunday at Kinoteka. Link in replies. @Bitcoin FilmFest @MoneroKon @John McManus image #bitcoin #lightning #film #ai #nostr
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johnpmcmanus 3 weeks ago
Thanks to everyone who submitted to the Future of Money AI Film Contest, and to @Bitcoin FilmFest and @MoneroKon for making it happen. The films are in and I can't wait to watch them. Bitcoin FilmFest opens in Warsaw in three days, with winners announced onstage Sunday. If you'll be there, come find me. I couldn't enter my own contest, but here's what the prompt inspired: a short film about Hesse's Glass Bead Game, Satoshi, and Ordain. It asks: if you can build a protocol for monetary consensus, can you build one for artistic consensus? #BFF26 #bitcoin #AI #film #bitcoinfilmfest
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johnpmcmanus 0 months ago
Make a short film about the future of money; win 1.5M sats ($1000) onstage at @Bitcoin FilmFest. Imagine the future of money in a bold, thoughtful, strange, cinematic film about how humans may exchange value in the future. Co-sponsored by @MoneroKon. Details at image
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johnpmcmanus 0 months ago
Make a short film for Ordain about converting dirty energy into Bitcoin; win 765,000 sats onstage at @Bitcoin FilmFest. Commissioned by @npub148c4...l538. Show captured landfill methane combusted into electricity, powering ASIC miners hashing to win a Bitcoin block. Five minutes max, any tools, any country. Submissions close May 31. Finalists screen at BFF26 in Warsaw, June 4 through 7. Ordain is a new protocol for arts commissioning. More at ordain.art/bff26 image
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johnpmcmanus 0 months ago
Make a short film about the future of state; win 300,000 sats ($210) onstage at @Bitcoin FilmFest Who holds power, and why? How are rules made, broken, and remade? Imagine government not as it is, but as it could be. Co-sponsored by @Bitcoin District Prospera image
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johnpmcmanus 0 months ago
2,500,000 sats for a short film about the future of money, the main commission on Ordain right now, co-presented by Bitcoin FilmFest and MoneroKon. Submissions close May 31. Finalists screen in Warsaw June 4 through 7, alongside MoneroKon. The brief: “We are looking for bold, thoughtful, strange, cinematic, funny, philosophical, emotional, or visually ambitious films about how humans may exchange value in the future. Your story may explore trust, trade, debt, memory, markets, networks, surveillance, freedom, cooperation, ritual, or entirely new forms of economic life. The prompt is intentionally broad. We are not looking for one ideology, one policy answer, or one technology. We are looking for strong artistic interpretations of what money could become.” ordain.art/bff26 #bitcoin #monero #film
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johnpmcmanus 0 months ago
Autonomy is the power to commission. Parthenon Commissioned by Pericles ordain.art image
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johnpmcmanus 0 months ago
Autonomy is the power to commission. Taj Mahal Commissioned by Shah Jahan ordain.art image
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johnpmcmanus 0 months ago
Autonomy is the power to commission. Sistine Chapel ceiling Commissioned by Julius II ordain.art image