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.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/02/02/thoughts-on-xmtp/

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/

absolute great read.

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/08/21/plurality.html

TEXT-IMAGE COLLAPSE: The AI service that I’ve been using to summarise and query PDFs just added OCR support, making it possible to upload an image of a book or article and instantaneously interact with it as a textual object. This technical (but accessible) piece on OCR reveals how language is parsed inbetween pictorial and textual states, and elaborates some of the sociological implications of these processes. “If you are reading this online, it’s likely you can select this phrase from your browser, and copy-paste it into some other application. Moving text around digital spaces is engineered to appear seamless to us. However, the information captured by your computer when you make a keystroke has a very different structure from the pixel grid of light and dark your computer renders on the screen.”

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ARTISTIC SELF-EXPRESSION IS CONFORMITY! Adam Curtis, in conversation with Yancey Strickler in 2017: “Computers can see us as large groups, but they’re glum and only aggregate us to sell us stuff. In reality, the computers give great insight into the power of common identity between groups. No one’s using that. What’s sitting with the computers is a way of seeing new groups, new common identities between people.”

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UBIQUITOUS, ENDLESS: The meander, or self-avoiding line, winds its way through time. It traverses Ancient Greek pottery, Zapotec architecture, Imperial Chinese woodwork, and Navajo weaving. It animates surfaces, defines boundaries, fills space. Known variously as a Greek or Chinese key, fret, running dog, or Xicalcoliuhqui, it shows up today on tilework, coffee cups, and clothing — and in art. More than a decorative motif, the meander is metaphor and method, an unstudied artistic generator.

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I define consumer crypto as the adoption of blockchain-powered applications that serve billions of people in their everyday lives for personal use.

https://abs.xyz/blog/articles/what-is-consumer-crypto

this is kind of cool:

https://getdecode.dev/