How carbon-backed CBDCs will come to be| escapekey.substack.com
The Bank for International Settlements’ innovation projects look like financial infrastructure.| The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
In 2025, three US policy shifts quietly transformed government into an adaptive governance engine.| The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
How the BIS is Building a Planetary Control System| The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Cross the Fabian Society’s In Tandem, ‘Positive Money’, and the BIS Innovation Hub’s Project Rosalind and what do you get?| The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Central Bank Digital Currencies aren’t just money going digital.| The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Stargate, Palantir, and the road to algorithmic authoritarianism| The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
We previously discussed how six technical rails — Identity, Conformity, Data, Audit, Finance, and Procurement — operationalise adaptive management at planetary scale. Each rail performs a specific function in a cybernetic control loop: setting standards, monitoring performance, evaluating compliance, adjusting behavior through consequences, defining participants, and propagating requirements through networks.| The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
The six rails frequently discussed on this substack represent the operational implementation of three foundational frameworks originally developed to understand and manipulate complex systems: General Systems Theory, Input-Output Analysis, and Cybernetics| The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
The following training manual was reportedly left in a photocopier at an undisclosed international institution.| The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Starting in 2024, the European Union will implement a new regulation requiring nearly all products sold| data.europa.eu
The CBAM will initially apply to imports of certain goods and selected precursors whose production is carbon intensive and at most significant risk of carbon leakage: cement, iron and steel, aluminium, fertilisers, electricity and hydrogen.| Taxation and Customs Union
The planetary boundaries framework highlights the rising risks from human pressure on nine critical global processes that regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth| www.stockholmresilience.org