was the transition as chaotic, wild west feeling though? How long between initial adoption and the security rails catching up?

was the transition as chaotic, wild west feeling though? How long between initial adoption and the security rails catching up?

Something Big Is Happening A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

I'd be curious to hear from people who remember experiencing 2003-2009. What feels the same/different about this turn of the wheel?

shumer.dev/something-bi...

Verifiable Cities | Notion The Use Case Lab is an applied research initiative at the Ethereum Foundation focused on advancing under-explored, high-impact use cases for Ethereum through collaborative prototyping, pilots, and sta...

Over the next few months we’re inviting city and regional governments, as well as builders and organizations actively engaged in municipal innovation to submit expressions of interest.

Full Details → www.usecaselab.org/verifiable-c...

The brief outlines high-priority use cases across urban systems—including data privacy-preservation, service delivery, infrastructure funding, policy execution, and cross-agency coordination—focusing on narrowly scoped, real-world deployments with clear pathways to learning and wider adoption.

We're excited to announce Verifiable Cities: An Open Call for Implementations exploring how cryptographic primitives and the unique properties of public blockchains can advance civic and state capacity, without expanding state power or vendor control.

Verifiable Cities: Ethereum Foundation Open Call for Implementations

Over the past few months the Use Case Lab has been working through surface-level chatter to identify domains where Ethereum can meaningfully address constraints in today's systems.

New phenomenon detected: mass inability to detect satire.

Not sure if society is just collectively burnt out or bots.

Compliance in the policy world is associated with restrictions, but in engineering the term refers to the property of a material to be flexible, the inverse of stiffness. Some interesting thoughts on how we can make flexibility a property of law itself

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

There's a bird in Palermo Soho that sings techno to you on sunny Sunday mornings

Let it be known that @detien.bsky.social is now on bsky with the most slept on skeets.

Give them a follow 🫡

v1.3.1 - ukrudt.net/lichen-markdown this release fixes a small bug in the export .zip function

released a new version of lichen-markdown that adds an easy way to export a .zip of all of your markdown files and assets without using the terminal

hoping to avoid data entrapment by big tech platforms as well as by small permacomputing cmses

codeberg.org/ukrudt.net/l...

TIL that the concept/term "technoscience" was invented by none other than Harold Lasswell, the founding father of modern political psychology. (Lasswell pioneered many other key social scientific concepts, such as "the policy sciences" and "the garrison state.")

End goal is to transition the tech's governance and organizational model to ecosystem-run so looking for precedent + things to watch out for when we make our case for exiting.

Do I know anyone who's worked in freeing OSS with accompanying stranded IP in the public sector? Situation is:

- originally incubated at a publicly funded institution
- open-source code
- ownership of everything beyond the code is unclear (e.g. trademark, data, governance, commercial usage rights)

Introducing the AT Protocol Community Fund The AT Protocol Community Fund exists to provide community & event support, fund grants, and support individuals and projects. It is fiscally hosted by the Raft Foundation, a 501c3.

We're pleased to share more info about the AT Protocol Community Fund.

The fund exists to provide community & event support, fund grants, and support individuals and projects. It is fiscally hosted by the Raft Foundation, a 501c3.

#ATCommunityFund

Decentralize till it hurts, centralize till it works (protocolize it)

Strange New Rules Issue #1: A new magazine of stories, studies, and science

"Such fractious eras can be terrible to live through, as we are all finding out now, but they do have a silver lining: They create an opening for the ordinary individual to gain agency at the expense of both kinds of elites...These gains typically take a very particular form: better protocols."

Scavengers YouTube video by Charles Huettner

It's so good. Apparantly they were inspired by planet earth which post watch, definitely shows. Have you seen the original animation from 2019?

youtu.be/1TRzemJbUsw?...

Thanks Boris, happy (early) new year to you and Rachel! I unfortunately dont think or post on IG very linearly haha but will maybe be back in the Spring!

Probably a good thing? I can see them being replaced with things like farcaster, bsky and whatever else 2025 is about to bring us :)

indieweb.org/POSSE

Shimanami Kaido // Sea Bridge Expressway
Day 1 🚲

git-merge. git-fork. Repeat.

This is why experiments like www.edgecity.live are exciting to me. Still early days, but it's one way to increase the democratic bitrate in cities.

Networked Cooperative Ecosystems New Labour Configurations & Opportunities for Mutualism. Since 2022, V6A Labs has conducted applied research and development in partnership with communities and organizations to facilitate ecosystem...

Earlier this year, we participated in the research and writing of this report on networked cooperative ecosystems. Thanks to V6A CoLab for inviting us! paragraph.xyz/@v6a/network...

/1am Bangkok 🫡

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I built a new tool! Semioscape.org -- it's a concept cartographer and way of probing Claude's ability to generate associations, creating a kind of mental lexicon. Someone described it as a "smart Obsidian"--give it a try!

Man as a Rationalist Animal Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott, and also some stuff about fundamentalist christianity

From Lou Keep's Man as a Rationalist Animal

Man as a Rationalist Animal Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott, and also some stuff about fundamentalist christianity

From Lou Keep's Man as a Rationalist Animal