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Protocolized @protocolized.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 09/07/2025

"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...

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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...

Towards a Formal Theory of Protocols

Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

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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...

The Intersubjective Consensus Problem

Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

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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...

Thank you for your interest in writing for Protocolized. We publish three types of pieces: stories, studies, and science. Please review the guidelines before pitching – technical details and a button ...

How to write with us

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

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...

Issue #7: Ritual Data Transfer

To Share, And Remember

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Protocolized @protocolized.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

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...

SoP 2025 Town Hall

Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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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...

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Timber ☀️ @tmbr.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

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...

contraptions.venkateshrao.com

Video Recording: Protocols Preview 2025

Live video chat about Sumner of Protocoos 2025

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 06/03/2025

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...

doriantaylor.com

À Propos Current Events

A survey of one small aspect of the current (geo)political situation, and what I'm doing about it.

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Protocolized @protocolized.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

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...

Guest Talk with Chen Qiufan | Science Fiction as Protocol

Protocolized @protocolized.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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"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...

Issue #3: Are you the right fit for this virtuous city?

Haven Tailors

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Timber ☀️ @tmbr.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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

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Protocolized @protocolized.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

“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

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Timber ☀️ @tmbr.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

"...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."

transformativeprivatelaw.com

Who gets to bet on the future? - Transformative Private Law

Reading Time: 7 minutes

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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."

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

Strange New Rules

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Timber ☀️ @tmbr.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I feel like I have an army of unpaid interns

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Timber ☀️ @tmbr.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

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

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Timber ☀️ @tmbr.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Weird time to be a dual Canadian-American

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Timber ☀️ @tmbr.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

2025 really said "buckle up"

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Timber ☀️ @tmbr.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

"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

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Timber ☀️ @tmbr.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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.

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

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-...

thewhitereview.org

The New Writing - The White Review

The way I see it, the avant-garde emerged at a point when the professionalisation of artists had consumed itself and it became necessary to start again from scratch. Art had already been invented, and...

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Timber ☀️ @tmbr.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

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

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Timber ☀️ @tmbr.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

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...

climate.gov

2022 U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in historical context

The country experienced 18 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, tying for third place for the most disasters in a calendar year.

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Timber ☀️ @tmbr.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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

protocolist.substack.com

Black Blobs, not Black Boxes

Latour's Detour

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Timber ☀️ @tmbr.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

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...

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

YouTube

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Timber ☀️ @tmbr.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

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...

Guest Talk with Jay Graber | Q&A Hosted by Venkatesh Rao