Excited to be attending the Foundations for the Digital Commons today in Portland ME! I'll try to liveblog highlights here :)

After a nationwide search involving the Administrative Board, Technical Steering Committee, & Advisory Council, the NumFOCUS Board of Directors is pleased to name Rachel Kerestes (@kerestes.bsky.social) as the organization's new Executive Director. Learn more at numfocus.medium.com/f53646b81767

“Break it into blocks and do science.”

NumFOCUS is seeking our next Executive Director. We're looking for a strategic leader with a passion for open source and a commitment to equity. Learn more at bit.ly/42lraGZ

Nice drawing; can we just smudge the pink region on the Y axis — a subcohort defined by being more imaginative?

🤔Giving complex tasks to AI agents is easy—getting them to do exactly what you want isn’t. How can human-AI collaboration give us more reliable & steerable agents? 🍫Introducing Cocoa, our new interaction paradigm for balancing human & AI agency in complex human-AI workflows. 🧵

I love folk punk music.

I can enjoy Bluesky properly now that @incompleterules.bsky.social is here.

So whose in Austin? I just finished teaching a class (remote at CMU) and I’m due for a celebratory beverage. My usual cohorts have not arrived yet.

In human societies, if bad actors don’t incur costs for bad actions, then it can’t help but degenerate into an inhumane space. The lack of a robust “I’m a human” ID protocol in the internet is what’s created our current dystopian hellscape. I’m hopeful that LLMs will actually force a change.

Open protocols are the new antitrust because network effects are the new vertical integration

Sources of entropy

Lazy Saturday messing around with digital circuits in front of the fire in preparation for Cyborg Camp.

Just arrived

I am

Therefore I am

Shitpost therefore I am.

I shitpost therefore I am.

@case.bsky.social we should set up a call with @jay.bsky.social to review PRGD (Practical Regime for Governing Data) not to be confused with GDPR ;P I think it could be useful for this app, especially given the legal work will be open sourced.

I shitpost therefore I am.

Snow Day 2

Snow day!

Talk about a “timeline” — Paul replies to a series of posts and now my feed is literally ALL @paul.bsky.social replying to posts (without including those posts.)

I shitpost therefore I am.