“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
@tmbr.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/timberss
“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
I'd join. Also recommend Searching for Safety by Wildavsky, and A Short History of Occupational Health by HK Abrams
30.07.2025 18:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"These two statements are both true: all accidents are preventable, and we cannot prevent all accidents."
- @tmbr.bsky.social, "Safe New World," summerofprotocols.com/safe-new-wor...
In 10 minutes (10AM Pacific) I’ll be doing a working-in-public monologue livestream session on formal modeling of protocols, to kick off a summer special interest group (SIG) on the topic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVFo...
Issue #14 protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/a-chronicl...
22.04.2025 19:36 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Issue #13:
protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/zero-knowl...
I'll be chatting with Sreeram Kannan about intersubjective consensus and other esoterica on the protocol town hall in 5 minutes. We'll try to get to the bottom of what the heck Eigenlayer is, and why it matters. www.youtube.com/live/2OyZt4g...
16.04.2025 16:58 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I’d like to commission a solid nonfiction piece for Protocolized on MCP (model context protocol) by someone who has played with it hands-on, and has a sense of the philosophical and design issues around protocols for AIs.
Submission guidelines.
protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/submission...
Tune in ce soir 👇
02.04.2025 19:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New story alert 🚨
"To Share, And Remember" is up now on the @protocolized.bsky.social Substack!
Thanks to @tmbr.bsky.social and @vgr.bsky.social!
protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/to-share-a...
SoP25 kickoff / Q&A starting in just a few minutes – join us live to learn more about this year's programming, grants, and tracks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E1Y...
21.03.2025 14:51 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0There will be a town hall next Friday where we’ll go over the whole program and answer any questions.
lu.ma/vth5pfbi?tk=...
I'm pleased to announce the third year of the Summer of Protocols program. This issue of Protocolized contains a full program overview and several grant and prize opportunities. Please circulate widely, especially to educators and SF writers.
protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/sop-2025-a...
Sneak peek by @vgr.bsky.social of some Summer of Protocols announcements coming later today in Issue 006 of @protocolized.bsky.social
14.03.2025 18:13 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A video chat where @tmbr.bsky.social and I riff on all things protocol, and provide some sneak previews of SoP 2025 programming (to be announced on Friday) contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/video-reco...
13.03.2025 02:56 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Some people haven't subscribed to Protocolized yet and it shows
protocolized.summerofprotocols.com
okay so now that i've shipped this newsletter i can get on with today's job which is finishing the thing i described in the last segment that i paused to write the newsletter
doriantaylor.com/a-propos-cur...
Have you seen our guest talk with sci-fi writer Chen Qiufan, author of Waste Tide and AI 2041?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6BD...
When I was landscaping we limited the playing field to RVs
22.02.2025 14:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"I extricated myself to stand outside the shop and look at the coniferous tree, yearning for something that I couldn't quite put a finger on. Something I knew but had forgotten."
protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/haven-tail...
To delve, or not to delve, that is the question.
10.02.2025 11:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Today we build fulfillment centers, freeways, container ships, and supertall skyscrapers, all accidental monuments to the various protocols that utilize them, and equally impressive.”
- Drew Austin, Protocols Don’t Build Pyramids
Great scifi short story via @tmbr.bsky.social
www.tommoody.us/archives/201...
"...convergence indicates an overall lack of trust in established institutions and a willingness to find alternative avenues when it comes to securing a desirable future. The promise of meritocratic upward mobility has lost its credibility, and people are looking for ways to bet on a better future."
08.02.2025 20:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"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."
08.02.2025 20:37 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0zing
05.02.2025 19:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I feel like I have an army of unpaid interns
05.02.2025 19:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Being extra polite to LLMs is the 21st century version of Pascal’s Wager
05.02.2025 18:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0people are chugging maple syrup in the streets
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