this rules!

this man is undefeated

Are you a builder who nerds or a nerd who builds?

“It was a cascade of whats”

“how’s default parenting going?” “well I’m making a gmail->zapier->llm->gcal monstrosity to parse the barrage of pre-school emails so I’d say we’re going strong”

Protocol Labs got through our first round of grant funding for private data transfer research. Excited to help support work on an important and difficult problem! https://research.protocol.ai/blog/2023/private-retrieval-grant-2023-roundup/

Art from Prague privacy last week

Aye this is cool https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/pathways-enable-open-source-ecosystems-pose

As a former grass cutter this moment always fascinated me bc it’s so clearly a shitty cut Like, my guy, what is this a lawn mohawk competition. Its the white house cmon now no excuse smh

Apply to the Funding the Commons Builder Residency!

Happy to announce a proof-of-concept for native Chromium support for @ipfs.tech, developed w/ our pals at Little Bear Labs. Read more about the architectural approach in this experimental work, and take a build for a test run: https://blog.ipfs.tech/2023-05-multigateway-chromium-client/

Most of my professional interests (regenerative public goods funding) are a middle ground between (1) math/physics and (2) politics/economics. That middle ground is most concentrated in (3) computer science, but the “water” or shared backdrop is (4) philosophical beliefs.

Come join the team from @networkgoods.io in Paris from July 15-16! Learn more + register here 👇 https://lu.ma/t96plcws

Emerging paradigms of Impact Evaluators from the Whitepaper for Generalized IEs: https://research.protocol.ai/publications/generalized-impact-evaluators/

Experimenting with Impact Evaluators & Builders Leaderboards for Protocol Labs. Check out a recent experiment we did leading up to the Filecoin Virtual Machine mainnet launch: https://filecoin.io/blog/posts/mapping-value-for-fvm-mainnet-space-warp-leaderboard-impact-evaluators/

We chose to join @bsky.app because it shares many of the same values and goals that the IPFS ecosystem has. Additionally, @bsky.app actively uses IPLD + content addressing. @jay.bsky.team even gave a talk at IPFS Camp 2022 that can be watched here:

What a time to be alive.

💡 Want to help shape the future of public goods funding? Funding The Commons is back and headed to Paris, July 15 & 16—right before ETHCC! ✔️ Apply to speak ✔️ Register to attend & learn more 👇 fundingthecommons.io

Filecoin Q1’23: - Active storage deals increased 75% QoQ - Storage capacity down 13% QoQ, but storage utilization up 105% - FIL fee rev increased 5% in Q1'23 (up 21% in USD), driven by a 14% QoQ increase in new storage deals https://messari.io/report/state-of-filecoin-q1-2023?referrer=all-research

hello, squirrel’d.