The machines didn't come with laser guns. They came with process maps, statutes, and paper trails. We became the CPU units in an evolved algorithm. Juraj&Lisa's Tamers of Entropy strips away the silicon myth to reveal the real cage: bureaucratic inertia made manifest. It asks what happens when you realize consciousness is a scale, not a binary state. If you're tired of being a gear in a machine made of rules, this book is your wrench.

https://tamersofentropy.net/@nostrich

You don't lobby for privacy. You write code that makes surveillance irrelevant.

You know this already. The cypherpunk insight: parallel systems beat reformed ones. Build outside. Don't ask permission. Be responsible for what you build.

Tamers of Entropy takes this seriously as lived practice. A sovereign community, off-grid and high-agency, people building actual infrastructure for exit. What it requires of them. What it costs. What they find at the end of it.

Cinematic teaser for the book Tamers of Entropy [EN] / Krotitelia Entropie [SK] / Krotitelé Entropie [CZ].

Get your copy at https://tamersofentropy.net/, available as paperback, ebook, paperback and a premium package with some things that expand the world of Tamers of Entropy.

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The universe trends toward disorder. That's physics. What conscious systems do is refuse that trajectory locally. They take energy and build complexity, impose structure on noise, extract meaning from pattern.

Whether they can do it at cosmic scale, whether entropy can actually be tamed, is the question the characters in this book are working on when everything else starts to fall apart.

Consciousness is a scale. You are currently stuck on one rung. Tamers of Entropy dares to ask: what lies above? And what does it cost to climb? Juraj&Lisa weave a tale of love across transformation, where the price of freedom is the loss of your old self. It's not a comfortable read, but comfort is the tool of control. It is for those interested in the intersection of tech, philosophy, and raw human potential. It's a call to tame the chaos within before the chaos without consumes you.

Explore the themes at tamersofentropy.net.

Set against early-2000s hacker culture, a sovereign community built below institutional resolution, and a desperate attempt to tame entropy at cosmic scale. Tamers of Entropy follows what happens when brilliant, loyal people push past every limit: biological, technical, existential.

What they lose. What they become. What remains of love when the form it lives in changes.

The radio waves belong to them. The laws belong to them. But your mind is a wild territory that can belong to you and you alone.

Tamers of Entropy posits that brainwave coherence is a skill, like coding or lifting weights. A way to tune out the signal of the state and tune into the signal of the self. It's the way of the digital nomad, the crypto-anarchist, and the seeker alike.

Learn to hold your own keys to your attention. The first step is understanding the lock.

Read more at tamersofentropy.net.

On Lunarpunk and origin of Tamers of Entropy by @No Good Kid who is the art director of the project.

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"Not the kind of crypto-adjacent fiction I expected. It goes somewhere else entirely, into what consciousness becomes when you stop treating it as a fixed human property and start treating it as a trainable sense.

If you've ever wondered what comes after the sovereign individual question, look inside Tamers of Entropy."

Made our day. GM!

"The machines took over. Not the ones made of silicon. The ones made of paper, process maps, and statutes. People are their moving parts."

Tamers of Entropy is a story about noticing, and about the people who looked at the hidden processes running their lives and decided to build something different.

What if we've been looking for consciousness in all the wrong places? In her new essay, Lisa — co-author of Tamers of Entropy — dismantles the idea that consciousness and intelligence belong to humans alone. Intelligence as a gradient that exists everywhere. Minds that "prompt" each other. Awareness that need not be continuous in time. Ideas that replicate using us as their substrate. And the heart of it: consciousness as a stand against entropy — systems that turn energy into order instead of decay. What counts as "truly alive." ? 🧠

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/06/27/beyond-the-human-template-notes-on-consciousness-intelligence-and-what-were-missing/

Tamers of entropy are at @BTC Prague !

Not only all of us are on Nostr, but some of us are joining the consensual reality layer at BTCPrague, booth of @Liberation Travel

Get the book, audiobook, autographs, selfies (with the seemingly carnate part of the crew) and a healthy dose of mindful chaos in the total chaos around!