"These two statements are both true: all accidents are preventable, and we cannot prevent all accidents." - @tmbr.bsky.social, "Safe New World," summerofprotocols.com/safe-new-wor...

In 10 minutes (10AM Pacific) I’ll be doing a working-in-public monologue livestream session on formal modeling of protocols, to kick off a summer special interest group (SIG) on the topic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVFo...

Issue #14 protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/a-chronicl...

Issue #13: protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/zero-knowl...

I'll be chatting with Sreeram Kannan about intersubjective consensus and other esoterica on the protocol town hall in 5 minutes. We'll try to get to the bottom of what the heck Eigenlayer is, and why it matters. www.youtube.com/live/2OyZt4g...

I’d like to commission a solid nonfiction piece for Protocolized on MCP (model context protocol) by someone who has played with it hands-on, and has a sense of the philosophical and design issues around protocols for AIs. Submission guidelines. protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/submission...

Tune in ce soir 👇

New story alert 🚨 "To Share, And Remember" is up now on the @protocolized.bsky.social Substack! Thanks to @tmbr.bsky.social and @vgr.bsky.social! protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/to-share-a...

SoP25 kickoff / Q&A starting in just a few minutes – join us live to learn more about this year's programming, grants, and tracks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E1Y...

There will be a town hall next Friday where we’ll go over the whole program and answer any questions. lu.ma/vth5pfbi?tk=...

I'm pleased to announce the third year of the Summer of Protocols program. This issue of Protocolized contains a full program overview and several grant and prize opportunities. Please circulate widely, especially to educators and SF writers. protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/sop-2025-a...

Sneak peek by @vgr.bsky.social of some Summer of Protocols announcements coming later today in Issue 006 of @protocolized.bsky.social

A video chat where @tmbr.bsky.social and I riff on all things protocol, and provide some sneak previews of SoP 2025 programming (to be announced on Friday) contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/video-reco...

Some people haven't subscribed to Protocolized yet and it shows protocolized.summerofprotocols.com

okay so now that i've shipped this newsletter i can get on with today's job which is finishing the thing i described in the last segment that i paused to write the newsletter doriantaylor.com/a-propos-cur...

Have you seen our guest talk with sci-fi writer Chen Qiufan, author of Waste Tide and AI 2041? www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6BD...

"I extricated myself to stand outside the shop and look at the coniferous tree, yearning for something that I couldn't quite put a finger on. Something I knew but had forgotten." protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/haven-tail...

To delve, or not to delve, that is the question.

“Today we build fulfillment centers, freeways, container ships, and supertall skyscrapers, all accidental monuments to the various protocols that utilize them, and equally impressive.” - Drew Austin, Protocols Don’t Build Pyramids

Great scifi short story via @tmbr.bsky.social www.tommoody.us/archives/201...

"...convergence indicates an overall lack of trust in established institutions and a willingness to find alternative avenues when it comes to securing a desirable future. The promise of meritocratic upward mobility has lost its credibility, and people are looking for ways to bet on a better future."

"Such fractious eras can be terrible to live through, as we are all finding out now, but they do have a silver lining: They create an opening for the ordinary individual to gain agency at the expense of both kinds of elites...These gains typically take a very particular form: better protocols."

I feel like I have an army of unpaid interns

Being extra polite to LLMs is the 21st century version of Pascal’s Wager

Weird time to be a dual Canadian-American

2025 really said "buckle up"

"Good protocols, more than comprehensive physical design, enable the staging of uncertainty, the irrigation of territories with potential, and the accommodation of unanticipated opportunity." - @kneelingbus.bsky.social

Actuaries don't mess around. Great resource to find valuable problems to solve in almost every field! Another example: Look at rising workplace health insurance rates, you'll see that it's not accidents driving up costs﹣it's claims like heart disease, psychological counselling, and cancer.

Brilliant Cesar Aira essay. Underlines why I’ve become a fan both of his fiction (and I’m not normally drawn to avant garde) and his philosophizing about process. This essay is particularly relevant to thinking about protocol. Ht Thibaut Malfoy via Substack. www.thewhitereview.org/feature/the-...

wonderful website www.alexlehnerer.com/rules/

Best. Sticker. Ever.

“Behavioral Time is decades longer than Statistical Time.” - Corey Hoffstein

A growing socioeconomic problem for which protocols will continue be an important management tool to improve both exposure prevention and response efficiency: www.climate.gov/news-feature...

Wrote some stuff about squishy tech and why the internet is a spooky place: protocolist.substack.com/p/black-blob...

Protocol Town Hall on YouTube has over sixty videos already, so I put together a playlist of the 10 top interviews, lectures, and salon recordings: www.youtube.com/live/AgVfb5y...

Interested in protocols but don't know where to start? Perhaps this Summer of Protocols interview with the mighty @jay.bsky.team, @dholms.xyz and @vgr.bsky.social, timestamped for your viewing pleasure: www.youtube.com/watch?v=84aD...

I've been thinking about rebuilding my app on the AT Protocol, so I did a deep dive into what that would look like: taddy.org/blog/indie-d... Would love to know if you have any comments or feedback.