LATENT COMMUNITIES: There is enormous interest in building new movements today. But you don’t have to start anew if you want to change the world. Communities lie on a spectrum in terms of their origins: either they have been created to achieve a goal, or they appear to have been created almost by default; no purpose, they just exist. Who can harness the latent power of those default communities? What power do they have?

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WARMLORE: On the internet, we are part of swarms: networks of people, bots, and content, coordinated through algorithmic feedback loops. Swarms are harbingers of misinformation, heralds of mutual aid, and representatives of the public will. But this is not our grandparents’ crowd. Swarms are networked tempests of humans and information. Most importantly, they can act collectively without explicit protocols; they are minimally protocolized entities.

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https://netblocks.org/

See in real time where (and in some cases, why) internet access is being restricted.

In this document, we will discuss the topic of skill in core multiplayer matchmaking, its implementation, and how we have observed positive results from the fine tuning of skill in the matchmaking algorithm used by Call of Duty.

https://www.activision.com/cdn/research/CallofDuty_Matchmaking_Series_2.pdf

He argues that an opaque interface requires a certain amount of trust, but once established, allows you to just delegate tasks to the agent without micro-managing. This async nature also lends itself to longer-running tasks - which means agents doing more work for you.

https://blog.langchain.dev/ux-for-agents-part-1-chat-2/

fun read:

https://blog.kashevko.com/we-created-a-fake-delivery-company-3/

Morph Files…

https://x.com/JungleSilicon/status/1819093354111816087

What a hell of a talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-dPDsLTrTE&t=404s

NETWORKED OFFLINE: "We have no choice but to take social media offline if we wish to engage in healthy social lives. Social media, online, will continue to lose relevance for us. Social media, offline, will gain mass appeal. The future of social media is offline and full of immersive art exhibits and live AR experiences. Most of it will take place in speakeasies and pop-ups. This return to private life will be spiritually rewarding for so many of us who were once slaves to the algorithm."

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The problem, as illustrated by the vibes of Venmo and Github, is that the base medium sets the message of the medium. When messages ride smart financial pipes, the resulting sociology takes on a decidedly economic character. When they ride code-commit pipes, they take on decidedly engineering vibes. I don’t know if that’s good or bad. But I do know it will have consequences.

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The best spokesperson for any endeavor is not the one who has the most polish, the longest tenure, or the "right" credentials. It’s the person who holds the secret knowledge upon which the enterprise is built, the person who can not only describe the idea but, in the face of inevitable opposition, fight for it and win.

Founders need to take their narrative as seriously as they take the rockets or robots. They would never outsource their product — and when it comes to convincing others to support the mission, the story is the product. Outsourcing comms is as bad as outsourcing code.

https://www.rostra.co/