In this wide-ranging conversation, Brian Eno and Evgeny Morozov draw on a number of recent high-profile political events to discuss the ...
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Open-source atproto services and resilient community infrastruture to launch your next app
It was a governmental policy decision that prevented portability and choice, in the ideological name of market competition -- if a regulation about portability had existed, about reducing the ways in which companies could innovate to develop their moats, then that would have reduced our choice of social networks.
A verifiable credential is a specific way to express a set of claims
made by an issuer, such as a driver's license or an education certificate. This
specification describes the extensible data model for verifiable credentials,
how they can be secured from tampering, and a three-party ecosystem for
the exchange of these credentials that is composed of issuers, holders,
and verifiers. This document also covers a variety of security, privacy,
internationalization, and accessibility considerations f...
A tool and ecosystem for collaborative knowledge synthesis
In a hyperconnected age, I want software to help us find harmony between staying connected and staying focused.
Research in AI using Large-Language Models (LLMs) is rapidly evolving, and the comparison of their performance with human reasoning has become a key concern. Prior studies have indicated that LLMs and humans share similar biases, such as dismissing logically valid...
Democratization of user research makes it possible for anyone to study users. Assessment, training, coaching, and helpful resources set people and teams up to succeed.
Zooko's triangle is a trilemma of three properties that some people consider desirable for names of participants in a network protocol:[1]
Human-meaningful: Meaningful and memorable (low-entropy) names are provided to the users.
Secure: The amount of damage a malicious entity can inflict on the system should be as low as possible.
Decentralized: Names correctly resolve to their respective entities without the use of a central authority or service.
Cloud computing has been extremely successful, but it lost the values that drove personal computing. We can solve this by evolving forward.
WeatherWool Merino Jacquard Anorak is suitable for a huge variety of outdoor activities - hunting, skiing, survival, social settings. All WeatherWool is 100% made in USA 100% American Materials. WeatherWool is frequently seen on TV History Channel MOUNTAIN MEN, ALONE Mike Horstman, Callie, Amos, JP Quinonez Benji Hill
Blacksky Algorithms turns one. Announcing blacksky.cash for private payments and blacksky.tech for one-click server hosting on AT Protocol. Launching 2026.
So far, I have argued that there is a dissonance between, on the one hand, CS’s founding myths, curricula, and self-image, and, on the other hand, the modern production of knowledge in computer science.
Boundaries and Purpose Trilogy Conclusions
Society runs on software but software building tools are buckling under the demand. In this report, Nadia Eghbal addresses the challenges.
A review of decentralized social media ecosystems published by Twitter's bluesky team on the 21st January 2021
In case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve got a real thing about portable social networks. And I’m not the only one. At a recent meetup in San Francisco a bunch of the Web’s finest minds got together to tackle this issue. You can track the progress (and contribute) on the microformats wiki.
The Web is about distribution, not centralisation.
Even if this proposal goes through, XSLT could still be used server-side. You could use libraries that support XSLT versions more recent than 1.0, even! Thus, XML could still be turned into HTML, just not in the client via native support, though JS or WASM polyfills, or even add-on extensions, would still be an option. Is that good or bad? Like everything else in our field, the answer is “it depends”.
PDF | Purpose – To present sociocybernetic models of observers in interaction with the aim of encouraging reflection on what is good practice in human... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
Tool 14 - Download here Aim of the tool Create a structural analysis of the causes and effects of an issue or problem. When to use it? Problem tree analysis is very useful in planning processes. It fits well in the Shared Language stage of MSPs. What is a Problem Tree? Problem tree analysis (also called…
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In a complex world facing many challenges, multipolar traps emerge when self-interests conflict with collective well-being, leading to detrimental outcomes. To break free, we need to prioritize collaboration, long-term thinking, and shared goals, working across sectors and nations.
When the messenger becomes part of the message, we owe it to ourselves to understand the full picture.
A Bounded Context or a team that works in it is free if changes in other Bounded Contexts do not influence its success or failure. There is, therefore, no organizational or technical link of any kind between these teams.
tl;dr: Online workshops rarely work well, and we keep on doing them because they would be too expensive/infeasible to do in-person. This is the
A free and instant virtual whiteboarding with online collaboration. No signup required. Works on all devices: mobile, tablets, and desktop.
Jordan R. Beauregard, The Strategic Intelligence Implications of Circular Causality, American Intelligence Journal, Vol. 37, No. 1, Intelligence Community Leadership: The Next Generation (2020), pp. 98-106
Authenticated Transfer (AT) is a collection of protocol components
that together provide a generic framework for interoperable social
web applications, using global aggregations of interlinked, self-
certifying data records.
s a set of values or principles, a product mindset is often described as putting user-centricity at the forefront of work, with decisions and agile development being driven by an understanding of users’ needs, behaviours, and pain points. However, in reality, it’s still all too common for teams to use user-centred approaches, but without truly thinking and acting in ways that question the effect decisions have beyond their immediate delivery focus
“The absolute epitome of AI slop,” then “change AI to Research,” from Gemini Nano Banana.
A major innovation of the languages was to use RDF and XML for a basis, and to use RDF namespaces to organize and assist with the integration of arbitrarily many different and incompatible ontologies.
Jordan R. Beauregard, The Strategic Intelligence Implications of Circular Causality, American Intelligence Journal, Vol. 37, No. 1, Intelligence Community Leadership: The Next Generation (2020), pp. 98-106
Chapter
7
is about feedback, circular causality, and system dynamics modeling. Circular causality due to positive or negative feedback is a major cause of complexity. When the causality between variables is not linear but...
In a new paper in Science Advances, SFI External Professor Marcus Hamilton and colleagues present a new model showing the trade-offs between the cost and utility of new tools in small-scale societies.
Context: By proposing to regard objects as “tokens for eigenbehavior,” von Foerster’s seminal paper opposes the intuitive subject-object dualism of traditional philosophy, which considers objects to be instances of an external world Problem: We argue that this proposal has two implications, one for epistemology and one for the demarcation between the natural sciences and the humanities. Method: Our arguments are based on insights gained in computational models and from reviewing the contribution...
Top-down hierarchies are typically characterised by command-and-control systems of authority that often create harmful stress and internal competition for advancement within organisations. The perv...
My thesis is essentially that people lose resolution as the pool of resources under their control increases: as the pile gets bigger, they just round off at bigger orders of magnitude. When individuals are in control of vast quantities of resources, even the smartest, most well-meaning person will make what are effectively targeting errors.
Why? Because in nature, causes and effects often form circuits, not one-way streets
Critical AI literacy is crucial for our world, as AI applications rapidly spread across society. In this project, we educate students, education professionals, and the public on how uncritical AI adoption causes harm and what steps can minimize it.
On this page are some resources for Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.