I have come to tell you that you are free. Many ages ago, My consciousness left man, that he might develop himself. I return to find this development approaching completion, but hindered by fear and by misunderstanding. (more)

Vitalik Buterin: Why I Built Zuzalu. We tend to think about physical places, as well as the activities and cultures that come with those places, as being immutable. (more)

Erlend Sogge Heggen: Evergreen content gardens. A year ago in Feed Overload I wrote: 99% of all microblog (and chat) content is ephemeral by design, meant for a specific moment in time. But the 1% that should endure past the 24hr cycle doesn't have good ways to do so in the current paradigm. (2023-03-27-ErlendFeedOverload) (more)

Joshua Davila (The Blockchain Socialist): OTNS: The Rise of Coordi-Nations (Phase 2 has begun). Last month Primavera and I spent about two weeks at Zuzalu in Montenegro with a team of people from Blockchaingov and elsewhere to concretely define our network state alternative of Coordi-Nations. (more)

Erlend Sogge Heggen: Feed Overload. The all too common firehose stream has never worked for me. It’s undoubtedly a big reason why I never got properly into Twitter. (more)

Flo Crivello: Feel Like a Team Again With Teamflow, Your Own Virtual Office. Teamflow is a virtual office for remote teams. It recreates the casual, unplanned chats and the seamless collaboration that people miss from physical offices. (more)

Erlend Sogge Heggen: Age of Coordination. This is a meandering piece! It's a mashup of ideas revolving around interoperability that will be a lot easier to understand if you've already read Web of the People and Assembling Community OS. (more)

Erlend Sogge Heggen: Sense-making in federated discourse. In Feed Overload I made a brief case for some content gardening tools I'm missing in my fediverse experience (2023-03-27-ErlendFeedOverload) (more)

Samo Burja: Functional Institutions are the Exception. Within nearly every institution larger than a dozen people, insiders feel resigned about how hard it is to get things done. They complain, but don’t expect improvement. They maintain a coordinated competence only barely above the level necessary to keep the institution in existence. (more)

Samo Burja: Why I'm Writing A Book. I am writing a book on great founder theory. (more)

A Mobile Virtual Network Operator is a wireless communications services provider that does not own the wireless network infrastructure over which it provides services to its customers. An MVNO enters into a business agreement with a mobile network operator to obtain bulk access to network services at wholesale rates, then sets retail prices independently.[1] An MVNO may use its own customer service, billing support systems, marketing, and sales personnel, or it could employ the services of a mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVNO (more)

A variety of philosophies/attitudes around Less Is More/Good Enough. (more)

This kinda space: a single-author Wiki that supports WebLog features (though I suppose you could do it the other way around, as well). Single-writer (though others can leave comments), public for reading. Also (as of 2020) calling this an Outer Garden. (more)

l'eau de vie (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #119: Goodbye AISI? AISI is being rebranded highly non-confusingly as CAISI. Is it the end of AISI and a huge disaster, or a tactical renaming to calm certain people down? Hard to tell. It could go either way. (more)

Ben Hunt: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Deficit. In narrative-world, the House passage of the Big Beautiful Bill and Elon Musk stepping back from DOGE and the White House have had a clear result: no one believes that this administration has any ability (and probably not any real desire) to control explosive growth in the federal deficit. No one is pretending otherwise any longer, not the White House, not Elon, not Bessent, not House Republicans, not the social media MAGA crew. (more)

the global context for prompt engineering

An Asynchronous Coding Agent from Google https://jules.google/ (LLM)

aka GoLang (more)

Zed is a free and open-source text and source-code editor for Linux and macOS with support for extensions, and embedded version control with Git. Developed by Zed Industries, the people behind Atom editor.[2][3][4] Features include support for syntax highlighting, Language Server Protocol (LSP), and Model Context Protocol (MCP). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zed_(text_editor) - https://zed.dev/ (more)