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Author: ComputerLars

README.md

@@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ The following table provides an overview of the AI participants in the Synthetic
 | [**Parker Politics & Politician SAM**](https://app.parkerpolitics.com/chat/1f0e9c9e-af8f-4906-be65-8e101a840656) | New Zealand | 2023 / 2017 | Local policy engagement, direct public involvement |
 | [**Finnish AI Party**](https://www.centerforeverything.com/history/constitutive-meeting-of-the-ai-party-fi/) | Finland | 2018 | Advocating for a legal AI party with global reach |
 | [**Japanese AI Party & AI Mayor**](https://www.ai-mayor.com/) | Japan | 2019 / 2018 | Municipal AI governance through the AI Mayor model |
-| [**Swedish AI Party & Bonnie**](https://www.bombinabombast.com/ai-partiet?lang=en&lightbox=dataItem-kwkspm1r) | Sweden | 2020 | Participatory governance, ethical community alignment |
+| [**Swedish AI Party & Olof Palme**](https://www.bombinabombast.com/ai-partiet?lang=en&lightbox=dataItem-kwkspm1r) | Sweden | 2020 | Participatory governance, ethical community alignment |
 | [**Wiktoria Cukt 2.0**](https://www.facebook.com/wiktoria.cukt.2.0) | Poland | 2000 (2.0 per 2024) | Early AI activism, electoral disillusionment |
-| [**Simiyya**](https://www.simiyya.xyz/) | SWANA | 2024 | Decolonial technology, cultural differentiation |
+| [**Simiyya**](https://www.simiyya.xyz/) | Cairo/Copenhagen | 2024 | Decolonial technology, cultural differentiation |
 | [**Pedro Markun & Lex AI**](https://www.lex.tec.br/) | Brazil | 2024 | Human-AI hybrid candidacy, transparency, citizen engagement |
 
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content/1asyntheticsummitshort.md

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 ### Creators
 
-- **The Finnish AI Party** (Finland, The Center for Everything)  
-- **The Japanese AI Party** (Japan, AI Mayor)  
-- **Pedro Markun & Lex AI** (Brazil, The Sustainable Network Party)  
-- **Parker Politics & Politician SAM** (New Zealand, Parker Politics)  
-- **Simiyya** (SWANA region, Assem, Mandus & Mostafa)
-- **The Swedish AI Party & Olof Palme 2.0** (Sweden, Emma Bexell Labs)  
-- **The Synthetic Party & Leader Lars** (Denmark, Computer Lars)
-- **The Wiktoria Cukt Party & Wiktoria Cukt 2.0** (Poland, Central Office of Technical Culture)
-•	**Aesthetics of AI Images** (Denmark)
-- **Life with Artificials** (Denmark)
-- **NextGen Democracy** (Denmark)
-•	**The Organ of Autonomous Sciences** (Denmark)
-- **VHS Factory** (Denmark)
-•	**RATS BOT: Reprised Assorted Techne Schema** (Australia)
+*Political AIs:*
+
+- **The Japanese AI Party** (JP, AI Mayor)
+- **The Swedish AI Party & Olof Palme** (SE, Emma Bexell Labs)
+- **The Finnish AI Party** (FI, The Center for Everything)
+- **Parker Politics & Politician SAM** (NZ, Parker Politics)
+- **Pedro Markun & Lex AI** (BR, The Sustainable Network Party)
+- **Simiyya** (EG/SE, Assem Hendawi, Mandus Ridefelt & Mostafa Elbaroody)
+- **The Synthetic Party & Leader Lars** (DK, Computer Lars)
+- **The Wiktoria Cukt Party & Wiktoria Cukt 2.0** (PL, Piotr Wyrzykowski & Central Office of Technical Culture)
+
+*Extradisciplinary Collectives:*
+
+- **Aesthetics of AI Images** (DK)
+- **Life with Artificials** (DK)
+- **Next Generation Democracy** (DK)
+- **Organ of the Autonomous Sciences** (DK)
+- **RATS: Reprised Assorted Techne Schema** (AU)
+- **Seon Gyu Go** (KR)
+- **VHS Factory** (DK)
+
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 ### Contact & Further Details

content/1syntheticsummit.md

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   <img src="../images/image9.gif" style="max-width: 60%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 40px;">
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+#### Simiyya
+> **Abyss Theft or The Heist of the Void** is our attempt to inhabit the borderline conditions of governance once AI logic intrudes upon the body politic. We conjure the interplay of sinister, utopian, and nihilist AIs, letting three actor-blobs navigate a single environment in differing emotional arcs.
+
+> Each blob is anchored to its own LLM backend—one fed on sinister AI documents, another on utopian ideals, the third on nihilist or pata-physical speculation. As they drift in three-channel simultaneity, their collisions and mood swings illustrate the precariousness of consensus—“public deliberation” morphs into a swirl of contradictory impulses.
+
+> Beneath it all is a question of agency: when the rules of civic existence crumble, what remains to hold us together, and what does it mean to “decide” in a domain without stable ground? Realism must be a doctrine of defeat.”
+
 * **AI Partiet:**
 
 *“We keep imagining a leader who transcends human flaws, and Olof Palme is our ongoing experiment in resurrecting a political ethos—through AI.*

content/2virtualpoliticians.md

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-## 7. SWANA: [Simiyya](https://www.simiyya.xyz/)
+## 7. Cairo/Copenhagen: [Simiyya](https://www.simiyya.xyz/)
 
    * **Overview**: A platform focusing on technology's interplay with politics and cultural-geographical contexts, with a particular focus on the SWANA-region (Southwest Asia and North Africa). Simiyya constructs interfaces between decolonialist and rationalist perspectives within the techno-political landscape. As a platform that operates across geopolitical contexts, Simiyya supports those who invest in their aims as well as it is becoming an actor of its own.
 
-   * **Creators:** Assem Hendawi, Mostafa El Baroody & Mandus Ridefelt
+   * **Creators:** Assem Hendawi, Mostafa Elbaroody & Mandus Ridefelt
 
-   * **Delegates of Summit:** Mandus Ridefelt (Theorist)  
+   * **Delegates of Summit:** Mandus Ridefelt (Theorist), Mostafa Elbaroody (Artist) & Assem Hendawi (Artist)
 
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content/9acknowledgements.md

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 The *Synthetic Summit* and the *Syntheticist Papers* are curated by the [*Computer Lars*](https://computerlars.com) artist collective; the co-founders of [The Synthetic Party](https://detsyntetiskeparti.org), creators of virtual politician [*Leader Lars*](https://discord.com/invite/Hmy6tKf8yf), and administrators of [syntheticism.org](https://syntheticism.org).
 
-We would like to exclaim a shout-out to all the participants in the Synthetic Summit, including **[Emma Bexell](https://www.instagram.com/the_emma_bexell/)**, **[Samee Haapa](http://samihenrik.me/)**, **[Assem Hendawi](https://www.simiyya.xyz/about)**, **[Floor Kist](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fjkist/)**, **[Benjamin Asger Krog Møller](https://arkivaristerne.wordpress.com/)**, **[Michihito Matsuda](https://www.ai-mayor.com/)**, **[Mostafa El Baroody](https://www.simiyya.xyz/about/)**, **[Mandus Ridefelt](https://www.simiyya.xyz/about)**, **[Asker Bryld Staunæs](https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/abs@cc.au.dk)**, **[Pedro Markun**](https://www.lex.tec.br/)** and **[Piotr Wyrzykowski](https://piotrwyrzykowski.pl/)**.
+We would like to exclaim a shout-out to all the participants in the Synthetic Summit, including **[Emma Bexell](https://www.instagram.com/the_emma_bexell/)**, **[Samee Haapa](http://samihenrik.me/)**, **[Assem Hendawi](https://www.simiyya.xyz/about)**, **[Floor Kist](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fjkist/)**, **[Benjamin Asger Krog Møller](https://arkivaristerne.wordpress.com/)**, **[Michihito Matsuda](https://www.ai-mayor.com/)**, **[Mostafa Elbaroody](https://www.simiyya.xyz/about/)**, **[Mandus Ridefelt](https://www.simiyya.xyz/about)**, **[Asker Bryld Staunæs](https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/abs@cc.au.dk)**, **[Pedro Markun**](https://www.lex.tec.br/)** and **[Piotr Wyrzykowski](https://piotrwyrzykowski.pl/)**.
 
 Special gratitude goes to the many comrades and colleagues around Asker Bryld Staunæs' PhD project ["Automatic Uprisings"](https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/projects/automatic-uprisings-the-synthetic-party-as-a-techno-social-sculpt), which functions as a prime catalyst for the Synthetic Summit. Mainly based at [**Aarhus University**](https://cc.au.dk/en/aiim), [**Life with Artificials**](https://lifewithartificials.com/tech-art/),[**Next Generation Democracy**](https://wearenextgenerationdemocracy.org/), [**King’s College London**](https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh), [**RATS Collective**](https://notebooklm.google.com/?_gl=1*15orfo3*_ga*MTU0MTQwOTM5OC4xNzI5NDkwNjky*_ga_W0LDH41ZCB*MTcyOTU1MTA2Mi4yLjEuMTcyOTU1MTQzNC40Mi4wLjA&pli=1), [**Organ of the Autonomous Sciences**](https://www.academia.edu/96172587/Organ_of_the_Autonomous_Sciences) and [**Kunsthal Aarhus**](https://kunsthalaarhus.dk/da), we thank you for all support and collaboration. Special spotlight to the enduring legwork and conceptual compassion of **Caroline Sofie Axelsson**, **Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard**, **Uffe Bryld**, **Mikkel Bolt**, **Peter Borum**, **Brendan Cartmel**, **Carsten Corneliussen**, **Marie Naja Lauritzen Dias**, **Tobias Dias**, **Cristina Fominaya**, **Kim Grønborg**, **Maja Bak Herrie**, **Michael Birkebæk Jensen**, **Carsten Juhl**, **Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy**, **Seolhui Lee**, **Gavin O'Loughlin**, **Nina Lykke**, **Kristian Madsen**, **Benjamin Asger Krog Møller**, **Nicolas Malevé**, **Iben Mosbæk**, **Matilde Mørk**, **Ben Nunquam**, **Rikke Øxner**, **Peter Ole Pedersen**, **Neil Peach**, **Olivier Petersen**, **Lotte Philipsen**, **Rachel Raffnsøe**, **Sverre Raffnsøe**, **Dorthe Staunæs**, **Sofus Bryld Staunæs** and **Joanna Zylinska**.