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My Weekend With the Martians | Ruby Sutton

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At the Assembly, a conference of Urbit denizens, Ruby Sutton discovers a community of eccentrics who dare to dream of a different internet.

22 SEP 22 I spent the morning in the air conditioning, trying to focus on booting my comet. Eventually I got to a clean white home screen, which told me it was sunny and 80 degrees in Miami. The Assembly was just getting started. The information we’d been sent promised that you could lift weights that morning at Muscle Beach, and that everything would be free. I put on my yellow sunglasses. My GPS took me down a boulevard studded with palm trees to Muscle Beach, an outdoor gymnasium with a view of the ocean. There was a woman holding a plank in the air, but she wasn’t my target. Instead I turn

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