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I meant that what you're trying to do at Blacksky is aligned with us since @yutingjiang.com and I have been working on polis and civic tech in general for a long time and we're bringing this to atproto so it makes sense to collaborate instead of reinventing the wheel separately.
I'll email you!
There is a misunderstanding, we are not in a position to give grants, we have limited funding, only Yuting and I are full-time on Agora.
We could only sponsor @patcon.bsky.social in the past because the work was aligned with our immediate product needs.
Topic clustering is also interesting to bring in the analysis.
In general there is a lot to do in both active and passive broad listening.
Anyway, DM me, I'd love to help you bring collective intelligence and sensemaking to Blacksky
We're exploring a tiered deliberation process where a Polis conversation can be seeded through a ranking vote, or where a ranking process prioritizes consensus statements identified in a prior polis-like discussion.
More ("Plan/Collect/Analyze"): www.dds.xyz
Recently we started adding rank-voting as well powered by @tournesol.app 's solidago.tournesol.app
Currently the app is centralized but verifiable as auth is based on DID and UCAN.xyz, but we're working on migrating this to atproto and creating public API / frontend SDK for integrated flows. Would be happy to work with you to make this happen.
This algorithm powers @agoracitizen.network which is a modern redesign of pol.is. Agora Citizen Network already supports ZK login.
Hi Rudy,
With our small EU grants, we've sponsored @patcon.bsky.social a year ago to create a community rewrite of the core polis algorithm in python: github.com/polis-commun...
Since then, we've started improving upon it.
Anyone in Paris in the atproto community?
Is there any place on the internet where people actually discuss tech stacks, and other nerdy dev discussions? Everywhere is "Mythos", "AI", "GPT" blablabla. Getting tired of this.
I spend ten years telling people that S3 is not a filesystem and then AWS goes and makes me a liar
aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/la...
So, if you wanna access your S3 over NFS, I guess you can do that now
Interested
1/6 Et si le plus grand obstacle à la résolution de la crise climatique, ce n'était pas le charbon, ni les lobbys, ni même le déni, mais la façon dont circule l'information ? 👇
The future is not something we predict. It’s something we co-create! 🖖
I just published a personal write-up sharing reflections from an event we co-organized in Paris with friends from @radxchange.bsky.social.
whtwnd.com/yutingjiang....
5/7 Notre système démocratique est défaillant, et cette faillite est parfaitement incarnée par nos modes de scrutin archaïques, comme le rappelait @science4all.org lundi 👉 bsky.app/profile/scie...
4/7 On y oublie l'autre démocratie, celle des gens qui ne font pas de la politique un métier, qui sont massivement d'accord sur des sujets structurants et qui ne se résument pas aux profils que les algorithmes ciblent, façonnent, et auxquels les politiques s'adressent désormais quasi exclusivement.
apenwarr.ca/log/20260316
This is why good teams right now are a few real seniors augmented with AI. Because a defining trait of seniority is knowing exactly where and when you can cut corners and when you need extra trust.
Of course this is not very sustainable...
Just added the 12th chapter to my Agentic Engineering Patterns guide, but it's the first one in the sequence: I figured it was time to try and answer the obvious question, "What is agentic engineering?" simonwillison.net/guides/agent...
Web of Vouch, with different forms of credentials and proofs, similar to the stillborn "Web5" idea. Yes having flexibility is good, but for Bluesky specifically the final UI is very much product-led. Depends on what users want for specific use-cases. The technology under the hood enables it already.
It's decentralized. Anybody can independently become a verifier. For example the New York Times account verified certain individual accounts. And you can know who the verifier is. That's the difference with Twitter (besides the cryptographic verifiability).
No, Twitter had a centralized model. With AT Protocol, it is a decentralized trust registry where organizations and individuals can vouch for one another.
Launching 𝗩𝗢𝗫𝗜𝗧 𝗘𝗨: a new European initiative to develop deliberative tools that help communities build consensus across Europe and beyond. I’m proud that our little startup
@agoracitizen.network stands alongside institutional teams!
I'm not talking about LLM though. It needs a paradigm breakthrough.
Crazy times....
One day when AI will learn by itself how to code, it will reinvent languages and frameworks from scratch and all our work will go to garbage. One day the new generation of agents will be vibe coding apps themselves in seconds based on our context.
The new version of Kitty terminal is so good! Adds so many features I've been wanting, especially in modern terminal-based coding agents era sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/change...
This is … actually great? I signed in via Element X on iOS.
Atproto really nailed verification mechanisms
6/6 @phinifa.bsky.social , co-autrice du papier, en a parlé lors d'un Tournesol Talk hier à écouter absolument 👉 tournesol.app/entities/yt:...
Le papier 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sur pourquoi et comment il faudrait modifier ces algorithmes 👉 tournesol.app/entities/yt:...
I'm more bullish for agents using ucan.xyz to authenticate than crypto directly. I wouldn't trust an agent to handle my bank account. But I can trust them to do some actions that are ultimately potentially being charged, so long as I am monitoring it.
Ucan is very simple and powerful.