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Seeing lots of electric motorcycles/scooters in Nairobi. Let's goooo.

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bioengineered my teeth

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We’re heartbroken by the loss of Mikeal Rogers, a key figure in the Node.js ecosystem and a force behind what makes this community what it is. To help preserve his legacy, we’ve opened a GitHub repo for stories, photos, and memories: github.com/nodejs/mikeal 💚 Thank you, Mikeal. hubs.la/Q03t0DVL0

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networks mean action at a distance

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Freeman Dyson: “You can't possibly get a good technology going without an enormous number of failures. It's a universal rule. If you look at bicycles, there were thousands of weird models built and tried before they found the one that really worked.” www.wired.com/1998/02/dyson/

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Well well well… WASM garbage collection is newly baseline web-platform-dx.github.io/web-features...

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I heard @coeq.bsky.social frame this as: evolution emerges wherever there are fundamental tradeoffs. It can’t just be one, it can’t just be the other, it can’t settle into static equilibrium, so it keeps changing.

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“Bateson suggested that all evolution is driven by the double bind, whenever circumstances change: If any environment becomes toxic to any species, that species will die out unless it transforms into another species, in which case, the species becomes extinct anyway.”

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Very excited to share our Trends in Ecology and Evolution review paper on #punctuated_evolution: a pattern of long-term stability interrupted by dramatic changes. A thread on the origins of rapid change, from large #extinctions to socio-technological #disruption. 🌍🧬🛠 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

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ActivityPub federation was a Get Out of Antitrust Free card. Also would have made them the largest fed (by an order of magnitude) in what then seemed like the most legitimate contender to fill the Twitter void. Now neither of those threats seem imminent. So.

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trello is kind of a perfect product

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we've rolled out some small changes to the DID PLC directory which make it possible to register new key types as verificationMethod entries, for non-atproto use cases. (this does not impact the PLC rotation key mechanism itself; that is still limited to P-256 and K-256) have fun building on PLC!

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ooh hyphacoop.github.io/dasl-testing/

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Sometimes I keep thinking about how improbable our timeline is In a way it doesn't feel like the Cold War could have ended peacefully and yet it did

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I love the way this book vaguely feels like it was written for grade school students at the same time that it’s a universal reference point for the most intelligent people I know

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i accidentally a whole semantic web. is this dangerous?

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How can we build a general theory of mutualistic communities? After five years, we finally completed a new Neutral Theory of Cooperation that is fully solved analytically and displays remarkable properties @jordipinero.bsky.social @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2506.09737

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this is a cool project! in addition to automating offsite repo+blob backups, it has a web UI for registering PLC recovery keys (which you keep in a p/w manager, not remote service), and doing the adversarial PLC recovery process (eg, if your "old" PDS is unavailable) solid step for own-your-data

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Favorite new trick with Cursor/Zed: - Create a `log.md` in your project dir - Log stream-of-consciousness thoughts as you work on your project - Add it to the editor's LLM context Now the LLM shares your headspace.

Seeing lots of electric motorcycles/scooters in Nairobi. Let's goooo.

bioengineered my teeth

networks mean action at a distance

Freeman Dyson: “You can't possibly get a good technology going without an enormous number of failures. It's a universal rule. If you look at bicycles, there were thousands of weird models built and tried before they found the one that really worked.” www.wired.com/1998/02/dyson/

Well well well… WASM garbage collection is newly baseline web-platform-dx.github.io/web-features...

I heard @coeq.bsky.social frame this as: evolution emerges wherever there are fundamental tradeoffs. It can’t just be one, it can’t just be the other, it can’t settle into static equilibrium, so it keeps changing.

“Bateson suggested that all evolution is driven by the double bind, whenever circumstances change: If any environment becomes toxic to any species, that species will die out unless it transforms into another species, in which case, the species becomes extinct anyway.”

ActivityPub federation was a Get Out of Antitrust Free card. Also would have made them the largest fed (by an order of magnitude) in what then seemed like the most legitimate contender to fill the Twitter void. Now neither of those threats seem imminent. So.

trello is kind of a perfect product

we've rolled out some small changes to the DID PLC directory which make it possible to register new key types as verificationMethod entries, for non-atproto use cases. (this does not impact the PLC rotation key mechanism itself; that is still limited to P-256 and K-256) have fun building on PLC!

ooh hyphacoop.github.io/dasl-testing/

Sometimes I keep thinking about how improbable our timeline is In a way it doesn't feel like the Cold War could have ended peacefully and yet it did

I love the way this book vaguely feels like it was written for grade school students at the same time that it’s a universal reference point for the most intelligent people I know

i accidentally a whole semantic web. is this dangerous?

How can we build a general theory of mutualistic communities? After five years, we finally completed a new Neutral Theory of Cooperation that is fully solved analytically and displays remarkable properties @jordipinero.bsky.social @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2506.09737

this is a cool project! in addition to automating offsite repo+blob backups, it has a web UI for registering PLC recovery keys (which you keep in a p/w manager, not remote service), and doing the adversarial PLC recovery process (eg, if your "old" PDS is unavailable) solid step for own-your-data

Favorite new trick with Cursor/Zed: - Create a `log.md` in your project dir - Log stream-of-consciousness thoughts as you work on your project - Add it to the editor's LLM context Now the LLM shares your headspace.

opinions are highly inelastic

2025 vibes: “your disbelief is my opportunity”

llms really are electric bicycles for the mind