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Timber Stinson-Schroff retweeted
1/20
I spoke at the Protocol Symposium on "The Political Economy of Protocols" youtu.be/fqawzyiWXlc
Core claim: a protocol can't be separated from the contestable institutions, labor, funding, and legitimacy that shape it.
thread on framework + case studies 🧵
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1/ It’s time to share more about what we’ve been working on: @common_fabric is a social computing lab building a medium for software that revolves around people, not apps. commonfabric.com
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This weekend, I'm sharing new work on memory through my talk, Interior Computing, for the Bergen Assembly event on September 12.
I don't think the recording will be public, but I'll be giving a version of the talk again as part of the online Protocol Symposium on Friday, September 25. Sometime in-between now and then I'll publish it as an essay, too.
Besides being super interesting, this initiative is off to a roaring start!
Do you know someone incredible that can help us build @longnow Labs? We are looking for a part-time contractor to work directly with me on our first Lab: Protocols of the Long Now, which was launched earlier this year in collaboration with the Protocol Institute's @tmbr_ss + @vgr.
We have an exciting 2 years ahead and are looking for someone to support the operations and editorial aspects of the program. Please help spread the word!
longnow.org/people/careers/l…
Would love to connect with some experts at OpenAI or Anthropic and chat about cognitive ergonomics
youtube.com/watch?v=tqKKfaPR…
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Final sale of Jensen Huang's jacket: $960,000 at Sotheby's, just closed a minute ago.
Proceeds will go to fund our nonprofit support of early-stage founders, builders, and researchers, working to create a brighter future.
Thank you to Jensen and the Long Journey Ventures team for making this happen.
We emailed Jensen Huang to see if he would be interested in collaborating on a charity auction. He said YES!
Jensen offered his black leather jacket (and signed it) to fund grants & fellowships for young builders to take risks and find their higher calling.
We believe in the lore and magic that exists in the tech community.
50 hours left in the Jensen Jacket Auction. $80k, 27 bids at Sotheby's.
Working site for my book-in-progress: imagesofindirection.com/
Trent's series on technological political economy is the best. Software is an increasingly critical thread in the fabric of reality. This level of thinking is what we should expect from leaders in tech, politics, government and markets. We've seen the damage illiteracy can do.
When the going gets weird, the weird get going.
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Excited for our third annual protocol symposium in September, and the first under the aegis of the Protocol Institute. Talk and workshop abstracts due June 14th. Fully online, and this is the first time we’re doing an open call too (previous editions had all the programming out of the summer of protocols cohorts; this time anyone can apply).
protocolized.summerofprotoco…
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1 week left to submit!
The deadline is approaching to submit your concepts for the first cohort of Long Now Labs. From reimagining deep time to new methods for discerning truth, we want to hear from you!
Build the next generation of applied long-term thinking. Submissions close in one week, on June 5.
Apply here: na2.hubs.ly/H05P5tH0
Paging all time nerds, submit a crazy concept for a watch, clock or other timepiece... if it's excellent, we might help you make it a reality.
[Open call] Long Now Labs is looking for new concepts for marking, experiencing, or making sense of time. Submissions will be reviewed by our incredible panel of artists, philosophers, and technologists.
The winning 25 concepts will be included in a Long Now print book and digital anthology. The top 3 will be developed into working prototypes.
Submissions close in two weeks, deadline June 5. Read the full prompt and apply here: na2.hubs.ly/H05H-870
Not only the most important questions of *our* time, but one that future civilizations will also reckon with.
History rhymes. It's as simple as that.
[Call for submissions] Long Now Lab 001.2 is seeking an individual or team to investigate historical epistemic cycles — patterns of technological disruption that result in the breakdown of a society's shared ability to discern truth.
Through a series of events and convenings, along with content development and publishing, this Lab will analyze historical ruptures (e.g. papyrus, printing press, social media) to provide insight for navigating the current epistemic crisis brought on by synthetic intelligence and generative media content.
Submissions are open now through June 5. Read the full prompt and apply here: na2.hubs.ly/H05l3lF0
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How does one engage with the arduous and existential task of long-term thinking? How can we work on civilizational durability without dissolving into ambiguities?
We can’t predict the arc of history, nor can we create a checklist for an immortal civilization. As our partners at the Protocol Institute wrote eloquently on Substack: in order to build truly useful tools and frameworks for long-term thinking, we must practice:
- researching, to learn what has worked in the past
- prototyping, to improve upon existing protocols and create new ones
- entrepreneurship, to solve distribution so that what is learned and built actually reaches the people and institutions who need it
This is exactly what Long Now Labs seeks to do. Do you have a framework or tool that belongs in the future? Bring your vision to Long Now Labs. Submissions are open: na2.hubs.ly/H05krt50
Read the full post from @tmbr_ss and @denisehearn_ here: na2.hubs.ly/H05krpy0
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Exciting announcement + opportunity to collaborate with @longnow! Today we are launching Long Now Labs. Our inaugural Lab, Protocols of the Long Now, is a collaboration with the Protocol Institute. Read more + apply here: longnow.org/labs/001
