My Weekend With the Martians | Ruby Sutton

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

saved by

• Michael Akilian
• Marley Xiong

related reading

• Urbit Assembly: If We’re All Here, Who’s Watching The Internet? – ZORA ZINEzine.zora.co
• Among the Reality Entrepreneurs | The Point Magazinethepointmag.com
• The Twenty-One Second God - Lightspeed Magazinelightspeedmagazine.com
• Child’s Play, by Sam Krissharpers.org
• Every Bay Area House Party - by Scott Alexanderastralcodexten.substack.com
• Every Bay Area House Partyastralcodexten.com
• Kernel | A Guide to Options at the End of the Worldkernelmag.io
• An Age of Hyperabundance | Laura Prestonnplusonemag.com
• Every Bay Area House Party - by Scott Alexanderastralcodexten.com
• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Personpalladiummag.com
• Tropical Premisesvice.com
• The Foothills Of Bay Area House Partyastralcodexten.com