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"Standards make the world."
- David Lang
βThough we leave behind innumerable traces, it has become commonplace to forget the source, origins, or authenticity of the information we carry.β
- Kei Kreutler
βThe hero of a protocolized world has mastered a general set of technological patterns that undergird not just the internal realities of organizations across the entire planet but even the interstitial spaces between them.β
- Venkatesh Rao
Starting at 9am PDT (in 25 minutes):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBc7...
βThe average personβs awareness of protocols, in the built environment and elsewhere, likely suffers from adverse selection: the most visible protocols are the most dysfunctional ones.β
- Drew Austin, Protocols Donβt Build Pyramids
β...if we do not start with a strong conception of what we and the world ought to be, we risk succumbing to designs that reward short-term payoffs or are dictated by those who stand to profit from our attention.β
- Janna Tay
"Most life capable of meaningful interstellar travel is indistinguishable from technology."
- Kevin Kelly, 12 Assumptions for Extraterrestrial Life
In a world that increasingly comprises protocols, power follows knowledge, not ascriptive authority.
23.04.2025 14:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Starting in ~30 minutes (19:00 PDT)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjVj...
Issue #14 protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/a-chronicl...
22.04.2025 19:36 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Tomorrowβs guest talk is timely and powerful. What is Public Intelligence?
Catch @vgr.bsky.social and @kevinkelly.bsky.social in conversation, tomorrow, April 22nd at 19:00 PDT, to find out.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjVj...
βThe real world was full of larger structures, smaller structures...than the tiny portion comprising sentient creatures and their societies, and it required a profound myopia of scale and similarity to believe that everything beyond this shallow layer could be ignored.β
- Greg Egan, Diaspora
"I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days."
- Bill Dana
Issue #13:
protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/zero-knowl...
βA clash of doctrines is not a disaster β it is an opportunityβ¦In formal logic a contradiction is the signal of a defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.β
- Alfred North Whitehead
βYouβre telling me that seeing has a cost?β
βNo one wants to believe it, but yeah. Collective awareness is finite. Too much load, and the System starts dropping frames."
protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/fault-tole...
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βDesign is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.β
- Aza Raskin
βThe internet has let us build the early stages of a global, digital civilization. But today it is built on weak foundations... And most of it is owned by a handful of companies, controlled by a small group of people, who live in one country.β
- Josh Stark
"Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert."
- Hannah Arendt
βA historical look at protocols suggests that their purpose has always been to simplify coordination and communication. With enough time, protocols converge upon conformity. They do not liberate us, but rather seek to control us completely.β
- Nadia Asparouhova
"See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places."
- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
βTCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.β
- Jon Postel
Join us tomorrow, April 2nd, at 7pm PDT for a talk by @vgr.bsky.social titled A Protocol Fiction Protocol.
Want a reminder? Tap play, then tap the one-time Notify Me button.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2xd...
βGood protocols liberate in the same way disciplined habits and routines can liberate artists.β
- @saffron.bsky.social
βInstead of viewing natural and artificial memory on a spectrum of authenticity, itβs more useful to regard them as unprotocolized and protocolized approaches to memory.β
- @keikreutler.bsky.social
"Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths."
- Umberto Eco
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26.03.2025 16:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βBureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.β
- Joseph Schumpeter
