State of the RBE mid-2026 update

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Since our last update, 3 very encouraging developments have happened, and i'd like them noted here, besides my X account, and my yearly status updates.

First of all, Moneyless Society is no longer active, and has become a mutual aid project in Appalachia, which removes them from the ecosystem completely.

Secondly, as seen below, Peter Joseph's recently launched Integral Collective project has already gone on hiatus, after only 5 meetings, zero code, despite imagining dozens of modules, all of which were needed for project to work, and while still deciding what counts as consensus.

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And the Accessist International will now merge with the Center for Cybernomics Research, to form a new purely academic entity called the Cybernetic Economics Network, which will become just another spark in INDEP's constellation of heterodox economic planning groups.

So unless anything changes, it seems the ultimate fate of Fresco's legacy will soon be death by inactivity(TVP, TZM, Integral, and the rest), while the other half has become indistinguishable sediment in the anti-capitalist left(Moneyless Society, Accessist International).

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