Venkatesh Rao ☀️ @vgr
Showroom account. Writing @ribbonfarm. Running https://t.co/NRkXVMI8Bn ☀️ Also at https://t.co/2rmN6nMOdd venkateshrao.com Trantor Joined August 2007-
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Revisited old favorite topics from like 1996-2003 in light of Daniel Dennett’s passing. It’s been 2 decades since I last dabbled seriously in these matters, but fun nostalgia trip to old intellectual stomping grounds open.substack.com/pub/ribbonfarm…
I’ve signed a change dot org petition for the first time in my life, to protest cancelation of the show So Help Me Todd. chng.it/f4RRMTFpDL
If you’re considering coming to Edge Esmeralda, here’s one of many great reasons. See rest of thread for more details.
If you’re considering coming to Edge Esmeralda, here’s one of many great reasons. See rest of thread for more details.
ancient incense clocks were one of my favourite discoveries from this! you can mark the passage of hours with different scents -- a very different material relationship to time imagining past ways of being / protocols also helps us imagine future ways of being / protocols
read the essay, and others, at: summerofprotocols.com/control-and-co…
i participated in the first ever summer of protocols '23, getting to meet wonderful people and write an essay (2 of my favourite activities) the essay's out: on timekeeping protocols, the worldviews they've been coextensive with, and what this says about social protocols overall
Protocol Town Hall on now: @karakittel and @tobyshorin on Credit Cultures youtube.com/watch?v=Q56q9E…
Ping @varunsrin if this is you.
Today is the official release date for me and @JonathanSBlake's CHILDREN OF A MODEST STAR (on "planetary thinking" for an age of crises). Get it here sup.org/books/title/?i… and use STAR20 for 20% off!
Building hardware is really great and really hard. So many disciplines: RTL, verification, drivers, physical design, simulation, emulation, architecture, package, board design, power delivery, IT, …. Everything has to work. It’s never easy, power on always has surprises
Coming up in 15 minutes Protocol Town Hall by @0xstark on “Hardness” — the equivalent of “information” in coordination forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/josh-stark-a…
I’m in this book that just came out, put together by @ystrickler. First printing sold out in a week. So if you’re interested grab this second printing while it lasts. ribbonfarm.com/2024/04/16/the…
Book review, Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes ribbonfarm.com/2024/04/12/ist…
Our plan is to scale Farcaster to 1 million daily users. The network must handle 10,000 transactions per second while staying credibly decentralized. That's the same order of magnitude as Visa.
gave a talk on the history of ⚡️ and the spec process at my friend @vgr’s Summer of Protocols project today youtube.com/live/Te-q8oxW3…
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read the essay, and others, at: summerofprotocols.com/control-and-co…
i participated in the first ever summer of protocols '23, getting to meet wonderful people and write an essay (2 of my favourite activities) the essay's out: on timekeeping protocols, the worldviews they've been coextensive with, and what this says about social protocols overall
Today is the official release date for me and @JonathanSBlake's CHILDREN OF A MODEST STAR (on "planetary thinking" for an age of crises). Get it here sup.org/books/title/?i… and use STAR20 for 20% off!
Our new chip is working Great team @tenstorrent
Building hardware is really great and really hard. So many disciplines: RTL, verification, drivers, physical design, simulation, emulation, architecture, package, board design, power delivery, IT, …. Everything has to work. It’s never easy, power on always has surprises
Really loved these two page quote pages.
I’m in this book that just came out, put together by @ystrickler. First printing sold out in a week. So if you’re interested grab this second printing while it lasts. ribbonfarm.com/2024/04/16/the…
Thanks, Venkatesh Rao for a great recommendation: 'Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities' by Bettany Hughes ribbonfarm.com/2024/04/12/ist… via @ribbonfarm I've just bought the audio book, which is beautifully read by the author, the always wonderful @bettanyhughes 👏
Our plan is to scale Farcaster to 1 million daily users. The network must handle 10,000 transactions per second while staying credibly decentralized. That's the same order of magnitude as Visa.
gave a talk on the history of ⚡️ and the spec process at my friend @vgr’s Summer of Protocols project today youtube.com/live/Te-q8oxW3…
PREMIERE: The Summer of Protocols 🌅 This show's different -- more storytelling & different frontier exploration focused on protocols & why they're a top-tier concept for thinking about the world 🌐 w/ guests @TimBeiko / @vgr / @AppNahee / @tmbr_ss / @isthisanart_ Dive in 👇
@vgr a prominent bitcoiner just deactivated his account b/c they auto check-marked him
Standards in the construction/building management industries and a public registry to report impacts of the built environment on social-ecological systems: forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/environmenta…
A protocol for end-to-end encryption of ActivityPub direct messages: forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/pig-end-to-e…
A modification of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) protocol, to enable use by tradespeople: forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/work-breakdo…
An upgrade to the notion of a running process for the distributed Web: forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/salami-upgra…