The Future is not what you think. People trained on self driving cars or notions from the 1950s are ill-prepared to see what's actually growing behind the scenes, out of public view.

Excited to be attending the Foundations for the Digital Commons today in Portland ME! I'll try to liveblog highlights here :)

NumFOCUS Names Rachel Kerestes as Executive Director After an extensive nationwide search involving the Administrative Board, Technical Steering Committee, and Advisory Council, the NumFOCUS…

After a nationwide search involving the Administrative Board, Technical Steering Committee, & Advisory Council, the NumFOCUS Board of Directors is pleased to name Rachel Kerestes (@kerestes.bsky.social) as the organization's new Executive Director. Learn more at numfocus.medium.com/f53646b81767

This is exactly what I’m trying to work through via my experiences in multi-agent control systems engineering — but intersecting it with institutional economics. An exploration of that intersection here: zenodo.org/records/1512...

“Break it into blocks and do science.”

Principles, agents, and the chain of accountability in AI systems - The AI Fundamentalists Dr. Michael Zargham provides a systems engineering perspective on AI agents, emphasizing accountability structures and the relationship between principals who deploy agents and the agents themselves. ...

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NumFOCUS Executive Director Search Update: Job listing is Open [Source] We’re happy to announce that we’ll be working with Perrett Laver (PL). PL has made hires at the executive director level in the open…

NumFOCUS is seeking our next Executive Director. We're looking for a strategic leader with a passion for open source and a commitment to equity. Learn more at bit.ly/42lraGZ

Nice drawing; can we just smudge the pink region on the Y axis — a subcohort defined by being more imaginative?

A screenshot of the first page of an academic figure with a list of authors and a high-level schematic figure describing Cocoa, an interactive system for co-planning and co-execution with AI agents.

🤔Giving complex tasks to AI agents is easy—getting them to do exactly what you want isn’t. How can human-AI collaboration give us more reliable & steerable agents?

🍫Introducing Cocoa, our new interaction paradigm for balancing human & AI agency in complex human-AI workflows. 🧵

Not everything can be reduced do a sound-byte (bite?). The brevity/clarity of a pithy summary may improve transmission but decisions and resultant outcomes are sensitive to the loss of nuance. Normalize complex but well reasoned and carefully laid out takes!

I recently came across an artist that proclaimed themselves “The only folk punk band not afraid to call themselves a folk punk band.” This brought me so much joy.

I love folk punk music.

But how do you feel about Whiffle-Tennis?

I can enjoy Bluesky properly now that @incompleterules.bsky.social is here.

“Who is”

Damn where is the edit button.

So whose in Austin?

I just finished teaching a class (remote at CMU) and I’m due for a celebratory beverage. My usual cohorts have not arrived yet.

In human societies, if bad actors don’t incur costs for bad actions, then it can’t help but degenerate into an inhumane space.

The lack of a robust “I’m a human” ID protocol in the internet is what’s created our current dystopian hellscape. I’m hopeful that LLMs will actually force a change.

Open protocols are the new antitrust because network effects are the new vertical integration

Nit pick. Stigmergy (phenomenon) is ancient/natural, and the term was coined c. 1959.

Sources of entropy

Lazy Saturday messing around with digital circuits in front of the fire in preparation for Cyborg Camp.

Agree. The important part about the approach is how the human operating team continues to evolve the detection schemes over time based on the evolution of the attackers strategies.

@paul.bsky.social post preview broke:

Before gitcoin became a DAO we worked on Sybil detection algorithms, and helped train the community data science team that took over. posts from that era: medium.com/block-science/operationa...