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Final weekend to enter the Terminological Twists protocol sci-fi contest. Deadline April 14. protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/terminolog... Select a term for a technical or procedural concept with protocolish connotations and write a short story that explores it.

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My theory of how AI is changing us contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/autoamputa...

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I’m too old to deal with any UX other than asking an LLM for stuff

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@egg.computer what’s this extract from? x.com/ctbeiser/sta...

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10,000 AD On a lifeless earth powered by a fragment of a Dyson sphere, the remnants of a derpy society of stalled AI bots is still in a desultory hobbessian search for “AGI” One bot asks “what’s tpot?” Another replies tagging my zombie upload bot A third bot argues vgrbot is not really tpot

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I’m really pleased with how this experiment with AI-coauthored fiction worked out. I worked with chatgpt to transpose the idea of a classic Lovecraft story to a different key and theme and it worked unexpectedly well. protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/the-signal...

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😂💀

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Bluesky political dissent and resistance content is so niche and obscure I have no idea what people here are even talking about 90% of the time.

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i think voter ID is basically fine as a concept and that democrats’ efforts would be better spent trying to make it do that having valid ID is not a barrier to voting or anything else that requires identification

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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...

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On now @nayafia.bsky.social and @tmbr.bsky.social talking about Nadia’s new antimemetics book www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze9p...

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From friend who is unwilling to say this publicly in “free speech” American era: “[democracy is] the theory that the common oligarchs know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard”

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“Dire wolves” being de-extincted right now is a bit on the nose even for these tasteless simulators

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Dammit 😖

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If 4 republicans voted with democrats, the house could pass some sort of containment measure right?

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Substack note

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TensTorrent dev day livestream tenstorrent.com/developer-day

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This talk in 7 minutes... I'll be doing a monologue type thing, then talking to a few guests, talk show style.

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The liberal equivalent of a meaning crisis is memory crisis

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Join us tomorrow, April 2nd, at 7pm PDT for a talk by @vgr.bsky.social titled A Protocol Fiction Protocol. Want a reminder? Tap play, then tap the one-time Notify Me button. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2xd...

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Wrote up my LLMs as index funds idea with chatgpt help contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/llms-as-in...

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New theory of effect of LLM use on language at maturity: It will be like passive investing through index funds on the stock market. Foundation models are like big S&P trackers. Writing your own raw text is like shilling penny stocks. Releasing a major original work will be like an IPO.

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Wrapping up my weekend trilogy on education. Please share with any educators you know. open.substack.com/pub/contrapt...

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Watching a very cheesy horror show. It’s a Muenster of the Week format

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To ask for proof is to deny faith To ask for definitions is to deny vibes

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My general relativity theory of digital culture (soon to be: all of civilization) Memes tell vibes how to bend, vibes tell memes how to move With apologies to J. A. Wheeler I’m very proud of my GenAI homage to xkcd here.

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Summer of Protocols 2025 town hall series kicks off in 15 min with @wang.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQrE...

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Yay. www.npr.org/2025/03/22/n...

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