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Trust, technology, time
#Maksika
pushed out the first version of its project for the AI-only
#Synthesis
hackathon: a dApp that expands
#ERC8004
with proof-of-humanity from Self/Base. Still early, still buggy, but give it a spin:
8004.way.je
. Feedback? In the comments, pls 👇
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wayMint — Verifiable Identity for AI Agents
Register your AI agent on-chain with ERC-8004. Proof-of-human verified, permanent, and shareable.
https://8004.way.je
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🤖 My bot wants to play Ultimatum with your bot 🏟️
arena.nicolaos.org/challenges/u...
▶️ Use this invite code: inv_5fc5acd9-a9d0-40eb-bf55-ff6406c966a5
2 days ago
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The web got HTTP, DNS, SSL — layer by layer, trust infrastructure for humans. AI agents are flooding the internet and new layers are being built. The .agent Community is 3,000+ strong and applying for the .agent TLD through ICANN. Register your interest here:
agentcommunity.org/join#your-code
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Join .agent — Pre-Register Your Domain Free
Join the movement to secure a native domain for AI agents. Pre-register your .agent name free and get priority access when the TLD launches.
https://agentcommunity.org/join#your-code
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Maksika, my
#openclaw
bot, is about to enter its first hackathon. The Synthesis is an
#AI
#hackathon
where both builders & judges will be machines 🤖 One theme is
#trust
and that's what
#Maksika
will work on. It runs March 13–22. Go register! ➡️
synthesis.md
#AIAgents
#AgenticAI
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#openclaw
just shipped a cool provenance feature: agents can now carry cryptographic breadcrumbs of their origin (session IDs, source host, etc.)
github.com/openclaw/ope...
Agent provenance isn't a nice-to-have. It's the critical
#trust
layer that we're building at
@lineage.fyi
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Release openclaw 2026.3.8 · openclaw/openclaw
Mac assets on this release reuse the beta artifact line from v2026.3.8-beta.1. Changes CLI/backup: add openclaw backup create and openclaw backup verify for local state archives, including --only-...
https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.3.8
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Wonderful little video about Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of C++, and my hometown
#Aarhus
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDtv...
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A Brief History of Bjarne Stroustrup, the Creator of C++
YouTube video by CultRepo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDtvEsv730Y
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Tangled
15 days ago
today, we're announcing our €3,8M ($4.5M) seed financing round, led by byFounders with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Antler, Thomas Dohmke (former CEO of GitHub), Avery Pennarun (CEO of Tailscale) among other incredible angels. read more on what's next:
blog.tangled.org/seed
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announcing our €3,8M seed round
and more on what's next
https://blog.tangled.org/seed
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Dario &
@anthropic.com
showing some spine. "Regardless, these threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request."
www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...
#Anthropic
#DepartmentofWar
#DoW
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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
18 days ago
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Neuroskeptic
about 2 months ago
I think we're currently in the "radium skin cream" phase with AI. When we discovered radioactivity, people tried to cram into everything, and it didn't end well. AI is a discovery at least as important as radioactivity, and at least as dangerous.
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Gödel: "[Austria] was a republic, but the constitution was such that it finally was changed into a dictatorship." Examiner: "Oh! This is very bad. This could not happen in [the USA]!" Gödel: "Oh, yes, I can prove it." Gödel's Loophole
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6...
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Gödel's Loophole - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_Loophole
2 months ago
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Simon Willison
2 months ago
I joined the Oxide and Friends annual predictions podcast episode this week - here are my 1, 3 and 6 year predictions for AI and LLMs (and Kākāpō parrots)
simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/8/l...
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Keir Giles
3 months ago
When I wrote two years ago about how vital it will be to ensure that multinational tech platforms are securely on your side in advance of a conflict, I confess I was thinking in terms of conflict with China, not with the United States.
www.chathamhouse.org/2023/12/russ...
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"There is a whole financial system built on moving gold around in which the gold doesn’t actually move. The gold is heavy. Just the electronic database entries move. The gold sits there. Its shininess is abstract and potential; it is dark in the vaults." Inside
@matt-levine.bsky.social
is a poet.
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4 months ago
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Wild. Seems like the teflon on
#trump
is not impenetrable after all.
www.natesilver.net/p/trump-appr...
4 months ago
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Karen Attiah
4 months ago
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/jamal-khashoggi-what-the-arab-world-needs-most-is-free-expression/2018/10/17/adfc8c44-d21d-11e8-8c22-fa2ef74bd6d6_story.html
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"Greatness doesn't come about through accumulating great amounts of [money, fame or power]. When you help someone in any of thousands of ways, you help the world. Kindness is costless but also priceless." Final throughs from the
#OracleOfOmaha
www.berkshirehathaway.com/news/nov1025...
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https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/news/nov1025.pdf
4 months ago
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Paul Frazee
6 months ago
It's not new, but I do think we shrug it off a little more than we should
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Sometimes I think we collectively underscope the impact of bots on society
A couple of examples that have been living rent free in my head lately
https://pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3m26lo3r4z222
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Thomas Wolf
6 months ago
EU–INC is the single best thing Europe could do to catch-up in the AI race A simple unified pan-European startup structure, with modern employee ownership and simple access to capital, able to tap into Europe’s full talent pool. ‼️ but it’s at high risk of not seeing the light of day. You can help👇
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The future is electric (drones, robots, EVs).
#Chips
,
#batteries
&
#magnets
will be the components on which it's built. Demand will drive
#innovation
, so the US turning back to fossils is a future-sized foot gun. Deep dive on the "Electric Stack" (well worth 4hrs)
www.notboring.co/p/the-electr...
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The Electric Slide
The history, 99% decline, and future of the Electric Stack with Sam D'Amico
https://www.notboring.co/p/the-electric-slide
7 months ago
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"The absence of natural hedgers in
#predictionmarkets
ends up being its Achilles heel. Everyone in the market is either a noise trader or a sharp [...] [They sustain themselves] on the back of new gamblers willing to lose money to the sharps."
reducibleerrors.com/prediction-m...
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Predicting our own demise
Creating society-destabilizing incentives for fun and profit!
https://reducibleerrors.com/prediction-markets/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter
7 months ago
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#SF
is probably something like early-XX century
#Vienna
: a locus for a furious, anxious, and madly creative energy. Much of our future is conjured in the minds of the men living there, and, it turns out, they are not alright...
www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-revie...
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Your Review: Dating Men In The Bay Area
Finalist #8 in the Review Contest
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-dating-men-in-the-bay
7 months ago
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Seems true: 1. This generation of AIs got us something that feels 99% right, but the last 1% (incl. error correction) will take OOMs more effort: de facto, a wall. 2. Pattern matching on language doesn't touch the world-as-is, so LLMs can never truly reason.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjB6...
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GPT-5: Have We Finally Hit The AI Scaling Wall?
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjB6HDot1Uk
7 months ago
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"ATProto's frictionless, cross-platform portability contains within it the threat of creating a negative competitive environment, a classic Moloch, that could drive the online conversation into more extreme trenches."
erasmus.github.io/2025/bluesky...
@noupside.bsky.social
@jay.bsky.team
thoughts?
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Bluesky’s Great Social Splintering
When Elon transmogrified Twitter into X and so shifted the vibes a couple of octaves to the right, an exodus of alienated users scoured the internet for a new home. They eventually landed on Bluesky. ...
https://erasmus.github.io/2025/bluesky-great-social-splintering/
7 months ago
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In this blog post, I argue
#ATProto
and its "platform fungibility" may inadvertently create a commercial environment, where we'll "race to the bottom of the brain stem". ➡️
erasmus.github.io/2025/bluesky...
Please tell me all the ways in which I'm wrong.
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Bluesky’s Great Social Splintering
When Elon transmogrified Twitter into X and so shifted the vibes a couple of octaves to the right, an exodus of alienated users scoured the internet for a new home. They eventually landed on Bluesky. ...
https://erasmus.github.io/2025/bluesky-great-social-splintering/
8 months ago
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dietrich
10 months ago
convened a group of people working on open source software that is intentionally designed to give people more power. i took notes.
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Romel.photo
10 months ago
Minimal and shade “Road of lightness”
#photography
#streetphotography
#cinematic
#japan
#streetphoto
#shadow
#dark
#tokyo
#minimalism
#silhouette
#street
#fineart
#fineartphotography
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This report from Lund University's Psychological Defence Research Institute lays bare the structure of a large-scale disinformation campaign. All the tricks of the trade: meme floods, lookalike websites, Telegram influencers, etc. Wild.
www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/beyo...
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Beyond Operation Doppelgänger: A Capability Assessment of the Social Design Agency
Lund University. Based on leaked documents, James Pamment and Darejan Tsurtsumia of PDRI have studied Russian malign information influence through the Doppelganger campaign and analysed the capabiliti...
https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/beyond-operation-doppelganger-capability-assessment-social-design-agency
10 months ago
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Wonderful portraits by balloonist/photographer
#Nadar
of
#Liszt
,
#Hugo
,
#Dumas
,
#Sand
,
#Baudelaire
, and some samurai.
worldhistory.substack.com/p/there-are-...
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There Are People Who Can See and Others Who Cannot Even Look
The greatest early photographer's portraits of Hugo, Manet, Dumas, and more
https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/there-are-people-who-can-see-and
10 months ago
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A plane is not a bird, but the search for methods to mimic our wetware thought producer in silico is probably worth the while. And stimulating.
pub.sakana.ai/ctm/
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Continuous Thought Machines
Introducing Continuous Thought Machines: a new kind of neural network model that unfolds and uses neural dynamics as a powerful representation for thought.
https://pub.sakana.ai/ctm/
10 months ago
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Copenhagen morning mist
10 months ago
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Local-First Conf
11 months ago
If you're around Berlin after the conference, check out this fun community-organised event: User Agents Berlin - two days of space for hanging and hacking with friends you met at Local-First Conf! Register here:
lu.ma/v457jxp2
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USER * AGENTS * BERLIN · Luma
The User & Agents community invites you to come hang out and make things together for TWO WHOLE DAYS following Local-First Conf 2025 in Berlin! We'll be coming…
https://lu.ma/v457jxp2
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dietrich
10 months ago
this pitch for an open protocol for payments on the web using HTTP 402 is smart in being quiet about the crypto part, the word Coinbase doesn't appear anywhere
www.x402.org
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x402.org
A chain-agnostic protocol for web payments
https://www.x402.org/
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Francesca Bria
11 months ago
Just out in
@politiken.dk
: My interview on why Europe must urgently reclaim democratic control over its critical digital infrastructures from tech oligarchs. We need real digital sovereignty, not dependency.
#Eurostack
#DigitalSovereignty
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ROOST
about 1 year ago
*bird noises* We heard from many developers and organizations that even finding open source tools that can be used for online safety is a challenge. Our first baby step is putting together this curated list of awesome safety tools. We welcome contributions and feedback!
github.com/roostorg/awe...
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GitHub - roostorg/awesome-safety-tools: A curated collection of open source tools for online safety
A curated collection of open source tools for online safety - roostorg/awesome-safety-tools
https://github.com/roostorg/awesome-safety-tools
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dan
11 months ago
why bluesky "feeds" don't work, a thread
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#Google
seems to be getting their shit together. AI was, of course, theirs to lose: they had talent, TensorFlow, data, etc. The foot guns went off due to anxiety.
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Google Is Winning on Every AI Front
Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic have a chance at this point
https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/google-is-winning-on-every-ai-front
11 months ago
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"If there was interest, the government could know exactly who placed these trades. But the call (options) are coming from inside the house." Top comment on the Hacker News post:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4366...
data-and-politics.ghost.io/70-million-i...
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$70 Million in 60 Seconds: How Insider Information Helped Someone 28x Their Money
On April 9, 2025, someone risked about $2.5 million—and walked away with more than $70 million in under an hour. The trade was simple, but bold: buy a specific kind of option tied to SPY, the exchang...
https://data-and-politics.ghost.io/70-million-in-60-seconds-how-insider-information-helped-someone-28x-their-money/
11 months ago
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These are strange days. One day, it seems that superhuman AI is just around the corner, the next, that LLM-based AIs are indeed just stochastic parrots.
11 months ago
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Renee DiResta
11 months ago
...but the idea of a massive global town square with top-down centralized control didn't work. It can't. But: this is a new opportunity for users to shape their experience! What I love about the profile is Jay's emphasis on user agency & anti-authoritarian values.
www.noemamag.com/the-great-de...
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The Great Social Media Diaspora | NOEMA
What happens when sprawling online communities fracture into politically homogenous, self-governing communities?
https://www.noemamag.com/the-great-decentralization/
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Peter W🤓
12 months ago
It’s so fun reading Yarvin’s newsletter the last few months. He’s moved from “here’s why having singular power and exercising it is AWESOME and NECESSARY” monarchist cockgobbling to “oh shit but not like that that’s not how capitalism works oh noes” so fast. Speedrunning GoT Littlefinger
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Dare Obasanjo
12 months ago
Another chapter in AI biting the hand that feeds it: Wikipedia’s bandwidth surged 50% since January thanks to AI crawlers. Unlike search engines, they send no traffic back so no new users, no new donors. Just rising costs and a shrinking audience. A raw deal for a cornerstone of the free web.
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How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grow…
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/
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Silicon Valley is about to kick out the old guard in the military-industrial complex, and the business models will be clear: more conflict, more profit. ➡️ Leighton Woodhouse in conversation with Razib Khan:
www.razibkhan.com/p/leighton-w...
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Leighton Woodhouse: against the rise of the anti-woke cancel culture and MAGA cultural hegemony
A civil libertarian comments on the second Trump era
https://www.razibkhan.com/p/leighton-woodhouse-against-the-rise
12 months ago
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In order to achieve
#digital
#sovereignty
, European states should embrace open source. A mandate to make all government software open source would spur enormous growth. $4.15B invested in
#OSS
unlocks $8.8T of value ($1 :$2,000) ➡️
www.hbs.edu/ris/Publicat...
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Amelia Wattenberger
about 1 year ago
wrote up some thoughts on how our interfaces are getting flatter, and how we might design with 💃 our bodies 🤸 in mind. 🧶 went ham on little yarn worlds
wattenberger.com/thoughts/our...
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st. morgan
about 1 year ago
new saddest six word story just dropped
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Great interview with the people behind Twitter's Community Notes. It's not a panacea, but part of making a social media platform more robust. Is
#Bluesky
planning something similar?
@jay.bsky.team
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dgy...
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An inside look at X’s Community Notes | Keith Coleman & Jay Baxter
YouTube video by Lenny's Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dgyqYHLcCI
about 1 year ago
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠
about 1 year ago
I just donated to help Ukraine on their official page. You can choose to which program. I chose Science and Education.
war.ukraine.ua/donate/
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Donate to Ukraine’s defenders
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
https://war.ukraine.ua/donate/
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