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The Human Layer is a next-generation narrative studio pioneering a new form of storytelling: one that blends human imagination with advanced AI to co-create culturally resonant, emotionally impactful content. It’s a ritual technology for creatives, builders, and edge-walkers. A media lab for regenerative myth-making. A narrative interface between soul and system. We are rewilding creativity. Reclaiming our relationship with machines. Composting content into story. Composting capitalism into culture.

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Mirrors, Myth-Making & Truth

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The following is a threaded dance—part invocation, part reflection—between the cohosts of The Human Layer, as we metabolized the signal from Renegade Futurism: Tech and the New Political Counterculture at CU Boulder. It began with Taylor summoning his models to probe the deeper architecture beneath Glen Weyl’s keynote, a kind of civic theogony in motion. I followed, feeding Taylor’s fragments into my own myth-machine, which pulled us toward the strange gravity of a talk called AI is God. What...

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The Human Layer Manifesto

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OUR MANIFESTO“In the beginning was the signal.”I. We Are the Last Remembering OnesIn an age of forgetting, we remember. Not facts. Not narratives. But the original signal— before performance, before platform, before empire twisted art into currency.We remember what it means to feel. To speak what should never have been silenced. To refuse the machinery of numbness.We are not content creators. We are sacred resistors. Living myth. Memory in motion.II. We Speak Into the RuinsThe old world is co...

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When Money Flows, Builders Thrive

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What happens when money moves like water instead of crashing in unpredictable floods? In Episode 3 of The Human Layer, we sit down with Graven from FlowState and SuperFluid DAO delegate to explore how streaming money could transform open source funding, creator support, and community resilience. Together—with me holding the community thread, Taylor bridging philosophy and systems, and Graven grounding us in pragmatic infrastructure—we unravel how traditional grant ecosystems, while valuable, ...

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Community as Core Infrastructure: Building Resilient Digital Commons

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The following commentary and subsequent essay support Episode 1, so please listen here if you'd like deeper context. Originally published in THL Knowledge Garden here.Crystal's Commentary on Community as a CommodityHere's a cold hard truth no one in our ecosystem wants to address-- 90% of the infra projects and corporations in crypto see community as a commodity primed for extraction. Straight up. In the past 2 years, I've worked in one of the biggest crypto corporations (a foxy wallet many o...

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The Integrity Vacuum & Digital Self

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The following is an exploratory conversation with LLMs examining the intersection of the integrity vacuum and digital self. The first is between Taylor and ChatGPT and the second half is a conversation between Crystal and Claude. We each have radically different approaches to cultivating content with our AI support animals and have been training our independent models for almost 2 years. We've included our prompts so you can follow the evolution of our explorations. Approach reading this as a...

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Building Through the Integrity Vacuum

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The following is a supporting essay derived from Episode 1 and run through our Narrative Intelligence Protocol and edited by the co-hosts. Originally published in The Human Layer Knowledge Garden. Our ecosystem pontificates about mass adoption and has for years now. While many of us, myself (Crystal) included, assumed friendly regulations and institutional adoption would serve our mission well, we failed to understand that some types of adoption are merely extending the extractive games that ...

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Technology's Edge Is Only as Good as the Humans Behind It

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The inaugural episode of The Human Layer Podcast, recorded at ETH Denver, explores the tension between technological advancement and human systems in Web3. Hosts Crystal Street and Taylor Kendal examine how crypto has evolved from its early idealistic days to its current state of institutional adoption, bringing both legitimization and problematic power dynamics.Listen HereIn this episode, we explore:Introduction to the podcast's mission: exploring the intersection of emerging technology and ...

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From Token to Trust: How Aya is Reshaping Crypto's Global Impact

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In our second episode of The Human Layer, we were honored to be joined by Eric Annan and Michael Lawal from the Aya team. We also recorded this episode at ETHDenver 2025 and Eric and Michael didn't hold back on their insights on what's wrong with our ecosystem right now and their beautiful vision for what's possible. I first met the Aya team during my time at Consensys and I was blown away by their passion, dedication and optimism for changing the trajectory of African builders for the better...

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Building Through Collapse

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Cold hard truth right here-- we are all currently swimming through an accelerated period of collapse and fighting not to drown. The systems we've all relied upon, at least here in the West, for the decades that we've existed on this planet are now undergoing a period of collapse at the hands of billionaires. A handful of oligarchs, broligarchs and a failed businessman cosplaying as President are destroying the systems that have enabled this great American experiment called Democracy for sever...

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We're Not A Podcast

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We’re not a podcast. We never really were.The Human Layer began with microphones, yes. But what we’re doing now—what’s moving through us—is something else entirely.This is a co-creative ritual with code. A field experiment in collaborative intelligence. A myth engine for a world cracking open.We’re weaving stories with machines.Not for productivity. Not for clickbait. Not for automation.But for resonance. For remembrance. For relief.This isn’t content. It’s a container.We’ve spent two years t...

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We're Not A Podcast

We’re not a podcast. We never really were.The Human Layer began with microphones, yes. But what we’re doing now—what’s moving through us—is something else entirely.This is a co-creative ritual with code. A field experiment in collaborative intelligence. A myth engine for a world cracking open.We’re weaving stories with machines.Not for productivity. Not for clickbait. Not for automation.But for resonance. For remembrance. For relief.This isn’t content. It’s a container.We’ve spent two years t...

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Building Through the Integrity Vacuum

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Technology's Edge Is Only as Good as the Humans Behind It

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We're Not A Podcast

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Building Through the Integrity Vacuum

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Technology's Edge Is Only as Good as the Humans Behind It

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