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Bouvard on Layered Identity and Political Belonging

X / Twitter · Jan 13, 2026 · 1 min read

Days of reckoning and retribution across the board.

@slooperbia50068 I see a lot of variation in his public performances.

@slooperbia50068 One of us.

@slooperbia50068 So, he was identifying you and not declaring himself?

@slooperbia50068 Well, then he's one of us.

@slooperbia50068 I don't know who TroopAErs is, but sure.

@slooperbia50068 BSI?

@slooperbia50068 Oh. Well, that doesn't preclude the possibility of us's and thems at various levels.

@slooperbia50068 If there's a stack, there must be layers or levels.

@slooperbia50068 PSC?

@slooperbia50068 Layers are not temporal.

@slooperbia50068 A election is a level, and that always involves some kind of us vs. them.

@slooperbia50068 Bratton's book provides a series of layers: Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface, User.

@slooperbia50068 It doesn't follow it, but a layer, or part of it, can be organized in terms of oppositions.

@slooperbia50068 But PSC isn't a layer--it's the Stack, comprised of layers.

@slooperbia50068 I'd say it's organized by the layer as well as organizing the layer. Politics--the "City" layer, I suppose--relies upon oppositions. You could say it's a way of laying out and testing options produced at other levels.

@slooperbia50068 Those who want to increase the interoperability of the layers.

@slooperbia50068 Seems fine to me

@slooperbia50068 I would say yes, but mediated through the other layers.

@slooperbia50068 I don't know if the personal is being extended so much as being embedded.

@slooperbia50068 I'd say we're all embedded in the Cloud layer (but those layers can change and I think Bratton added one recently--don't remember what is was). Cloud seems to me the highest.

@slooperbia50068 They're interested in assets and data and assetizing data.

@slooperbia50068 I take no responsibility for that.

@slooperbia50068 You have a substack?

@slooperbia50068 Maybe resentment is a dispute over debt.

@slooperbia50068 I'm looking forward to it.

@slooperbia50068 He's out here--under his own name and as the center study account. And doing much else of value as well. What do you mean by semi interrogator?

@slooperbia50068 I haven’t seen him post in a long time.

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