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Richard Barnes @ipv.sx · 02/07/2026

OK, I wrote up a whole blog post with some more detailed thoughts on this. Curious if anything here resonates with other folks. Thanks to @iame.li, @dholms.at, and @bnewbold.net for helpful pointers and discussions! pckt.blog/b/bits-of-en...

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All data should be permissioned data - Bits of Entropy

My post with vague complaints about the proposal that made for permissioned data got a bit of attention. Daniel was kind enough to take the time to chat with me...

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

was the transition as chaotic, wild west feeling though? How long between initial adoption and the security rails catching up?

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I'd be curious to hear from people who remember experiencing 2003-2009. What feels the same/different about this turn of the wheel? shumer.dev/something-bi...

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Something Big Is Happening

A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Verifiable Cities: Ethereum Foundation Open Call for Implementations Over the past few months the Use Case Lab has been working through surface-level chatter to identify domains where Ethereum can meaningfully address constraints in today's systems.

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

New phenomenon detected: mass inability to detect satire. Not sure if society is just collectively burnt out or bots.

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Compliance in the policy world is associated with restrictions, but in engineering the term refers to the property of a material to be flexible, the inverse of stiffness. Some interesting thoughts on how we can make flexibility a property of law itself papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Trust Without Intermediaries: A Programmable Risk Management Framework for the Future

As traditional and decentralized financial markets converge, the need for a trust architecture that preserves openness while ensuring security is paramount.&nbs

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

There's a bird in Palermo Soho that sings techno to you on sunny Sunday mornings

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Let it be known that @detien.bsky.social is now on bsky with the most slept on skeets. Give them a follow 🫡

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max @notplants.net · 05/04/2025

released a new version of lichen-markdown that adds an easy way to export a .zip of all of your markdown files and assets without using the terminal hoping to avoid data entrapment by big tech platforms as well as by small permacomputing cmses codeberg.org/ukrudt.net/l...

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v1.3.1 - ukrudt.net/lichen-markdown

this release fixes a small bug in the export .zip function

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

TIL that the concept/term "technoscience" was invented by none other than Harold Lasswell, the founding father of modern political psychology. (Lasswell pioneered many other key social scientific concepts, such as "the policy sciences" and "the garrison state.")

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Do I know anyone who's worked in freeing OSS with accompanying stranded IP in the public sector? Situation is: - originally incubated at a publicly funded institution - open-source code - ownership of everything beyond the code is unclear (e.g. trademark, data, governance, commercial usage rights)

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Atmosphere Community @atmosphere.community · 01/03/2025

We're pleased to share more info about the AT Protocol Community Fund. The fund exists to provide community & event support, fund grants, and support individuals and projects. It is fiscally hosted by the Raft Foundation, a 501c3. #ATCommunityFund

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Introducing the AT Protocol Community Fund

The AT Protocol Community Fund exists to provide community & event support, fund grants, and support individuals and projects. It is fiscally hosted by the Raft Foundation, a 501c3.

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Decentralize till it hurts, centralize till it works (protocolize it)

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Protocolized @protocolized.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

"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."

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Strange New Rules

Issue #1: A new magazine of stories, studies, and science

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Shimanami Kaido // Sea Bridge Expressway Day 1 🚲

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

git-merge. git-fork. Repeat. This is why experiments like www.edgecity.live are exciting to me. Still early days, but it's one way to increase the democratic bitrate in cities.

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · 18/11/2024

Earlier this year, we participated in the research and writing of this report on networked cooperative ecosystems. Thanks to V6A CoLab for inviting us! paragraph.xyz/@v6a/network...

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Networked Cooperative Ecosystems

New Labour Configurations & Opportunities for Mutualism. Since 2022, V6A Labs has conducted applied research and development in partnership with communities and organizations to facilitate ecosystem...

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

/1am Bangkok 🫡 x.com/trust_suppor...

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johan @johanm.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

I built a new tool! Semioscape.org -- it's a concept cartographer and way of probing Claude's ability to generate associations, creating a kind of mental lexicon. Someone described it as a "smart Obsidian"--give it a try!

Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

We're starting to get into weeds of our first in-house project at V6A and I'm realizing I've been grappling with an intense craving for legibility these last few weeks. I wonder how much we've fumbled by giving into this craving too soon. Falling into the trap of rationalism/logic-izing too fast

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

The Dispatches have dropped. Half an alternative vision to network states and half hyperstition, the research plays with what a localized, but globally networked world could look like. Each story focuses in on a theme, from nested bioregionalism to supermodular software and composable public policy.

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Dispatches from Cascadia

This 6-part work of speculative fiction, set in the year 2065 is told through the lens of a journalist reporting on the City of Vancouver, BC, three decades after its transition to protocolized govern...

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ȷď𝐛𝐛🌳 @jdbb.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

Chenoe’s case studies will change how you see every building you pass. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

Any NYC-based P2P/web3/open-source folks out here building in/for climate? v6acolab.org is working with Climate-KIC (Europe's largest mutli-stakeholder climate innovation partnership and accelerator) to bring part of the program to the US for the first time... 1/2

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Huge illegible opportunity space for protocol entrepreneurs with the right kind of X-Ray vision to see past limited formal models of entrepreneurship

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

What we’re looking for in the SoP 2024 program. Know anyone who fits? summerofprotocols.com/research/sop...

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 12/03/2024

Very excited to be bringing to life this vision of composable moderation we’ve been working towards since the start! We'll always provide a foundation of moderation in the app, but you'll be able to stack mod services soon like putting together lego blocks to build your own experience.

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

I'm looking for applied researchers with a penchant for muddling through complex problem spaces and a deep interest in co-operative ecosystems and networks. Get in touch if this is you!

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Work With Us — V6A Labs

WORK WITH US Cooperative Network Ecosystems — Applied Researcher (Contract) | Part-Time Posted — March 9th, 2024 Co-operatives offer the potential for...

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

Also adding a sneaky thanks to @wilkinson.graphics for sliding into the dms with some absolutely eagle-eyed design and copywriting advice 🙏🏾

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

I quite literally whipped up this application on my NJ transit commute home the night it was due -- So shoot your shot (a little earlier, preferably) with something you care deeply about! You might end up meeting some very cool people to mind-meld with :)

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Fission @handle.invalid · 12/03/2024

What's happening in Los Angeles? Well Causal Islands of course!! We are on the LA Luma community page (lu.ma/la). You can sign up directly for Causal Islands: LA Edition here 👇 lu.ma/causal-islands-la #futureofcomputing #conference #losangeles

Screencap of the Luma page for Los Angeles with the top post for Mar 23 Causal Islands Los Angeles

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

I've been in stealth mode with v6acolab.org for a while now, but the new website's finally up and I'd love some design/copy feedback! (as someone who's most comfortable sprinting around the interstices, summing up my work in a neat box is the bane of my existence)

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Denver is snowing today and 18 degrees on Friday. The plants are confused, non crypto people are confused and I'm over here trying to fit a ski jacket into my luggage while pulling out a sundress. Should be a good week.

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Do I know any experienced Rust devs here looking for some short term contract work? Bonus if you're familiar with Aries (www.hyperledger.org/projects/aries) and you'd be up to mentor 1-2 junior devs. Part of some work at linkedtrust.us. Dm me if you want to chat!

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LinkedTrust

Composing Credentials via LinkedClaims and Cryptographic Binding

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

If a social practice is made to be seen as unchangeable with a particular set of possibilities realisable only in a particular way, What does it take for an individual socialized into it to realize it's constructedness, it's immutability?

2. Social Practices Why start with practices? Let’s consider some examples of social practices to situate the discussion.

Practices: Timing of meals; cuisine; clothing styles; academic lectures.

Interconnected practices = structures: systems of food production & distribution, education, transportation, market exchange/wage labor.

Practices are a site of socially organized agency. More specifically, they produce, distribute, and organize, things taken to have value: artifacts, time, knowledge, status, health, security. They also distribute things of disvalue: toxic waste, menial work, vulnerability.

I call these (+ and -) resources or sometimes sources. Practices are, in some sense, “up to us,” so are a potential site for change. But in order to see how agents are situated in practices, we need more detail.

a. Practices provide a “stage setting” for action

Standardly, practices (such as promising) are defined by a set of rules that are prior to the behavior and states of mind

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 08/08/2023

I'll add that The Permanent is one of the most beautiful buildings I've ever seen in the city. Come just to stare at the ceiling in awe too :)

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

600+ native plants in the ground in Brooklyn this last month via @V6A_coLab. I can start to see a shift in what people see as viable, designed urban landscapes. We need to make sure these are also viable climate-wise...what works now isn't going to work 5, even 3 years from now.

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Emmanuel(arrakis sandrider variant) 🦉🇬🇭 @emmanuel.bsky.nyc · 02/07/2023

UPDATE: We're currently at 35 followers and now need 25 more people to follow the Bluesky StackExchange proposal site to help get it approved. Follow the Bluesky StackExchange site here: bit.ly/atproto_stackexchange

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 29/06/2023

Wrapping up incubation phase of Summer of Protocols. Next week, affiliate researchers join the program and we kick it up a notch. Now might be a good time to subscribe to newsletter. Next week’s issue will be a midpoint review/gear-shift. paragraph.xyz/@protocolized/protoco…

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Protocols of Transition

Issue 15 This week, we wrap up the Incubation phase of the Summer of Protocols. The initial drafts from each of the core researchers is being finished ...

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 21/06/2023

Do Not Disturb Mode Activated. @jzhao.xyz See you soon#dweb2023 @archive.org

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 16/06/2023

Coming out to DWeb? Check out the audio-visual storytelling session that T.B. Dinesh and I are hosting on Friday. Also looking into setting up some emergent sessions on protocols and more human alternatives to the network state. keep an eye out/reach out if interested :)

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DWeb Camp 2023: Documenting Our Stories: Audio-Visual St...

View more about this event at DWeb Camp 2023

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max @notplants.net · 03/06/2023

sharing a mini-project, I interviewed @glyph@merveilles.town and @cblgh@merveilles.town about their work, solidarity infrastructure, and various other things a website of hand-crafted html with the interviews is here: interviews.commoninternet.net

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Solidarity Infrastructure Interviews

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Robin @cashonlynocard.bsky.social · 27/05/2023

Check out the Repair Fund at our bike shop. It allows us to provide repairs for customers who need their bikes but don't have the budget. www.bikeplant.net/repair-fund

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M W @miroweart.bsky.social · 12/05/2023

Well I guess I should start skeeting How's it going! I'm Michael, a story artist primarily for live action who's looking to expand my career track into animation boarding as well. I'm currently building my expanded portfolio, but here's my current one: www.miroweart.com

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Michael Weston

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 25/04/2023

Come think about (& design) urban ecosystems with me! www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-for-…

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