Summer of Protocols
/sop7104
A channel for the Summer of Protocols, see summerofprotocols.com
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new season of The Rehearsal is a combination of Kafka protocols and @timber research on safety protocols
Talk on swarm-like AI alignment protocols by Emmett Shear in 11 minutes. Future of AI unfolding on the protocol town hall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBc7IxHT38M
Join us tomorrow, April 30th at 9am Pacific for a talk on a purpose protocol for AI agents by Emmett Shear, former CEO of Twitch and OpenAI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBc7IxHT38M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBc7IxHT38M
Urprotocol ‘R Us
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Justin Hunter
@polluterofminds·6 days ago
Introducing RSSemble (pronounced R Assemble) - a collaborative RSS feed for Farcaster.
All feed URLs are added onchain and read from onchain. They are mapped to the blog owner’s FID. Anyone can add a feed. Anyone can access the feeds added by the community.
If you click the bell icon and install the frame, you’ll get notifications each time any blog in the feed gets a new post.
This is V1 and there are a lot of improvements I want to make. Let me know what you think!
Seeded with feeds from @dwr.eth, @stevedylandev.eth, @joanwestenberg.eth, and @yb
https://warpcast.com/miniapps/9j4yIs3n9GCD/rssemble
All feed URLs are added onchain and read from onchain. They are mapped to the blog owner’s FID. Anyone can add a feed. Anyone can access the feeds added by the community.
If you click the bell icon and install the frame, you’ll get notifications each time any blog in the feed gets a new post.
This is V1 and there are a lot of improvements I want to make. Let me know what you think!
Seeded with feeds from @dwr.eth, @stevedylandev.eth, @joanwestenberg.eth, and @yb
https://warpcast.com/miniapps/9j4yIs3n9GCD/rssemble
at /sop protocol design workshop, we're using various ai tools (mainly sora) to make short videos to illustrate some strange new rules.
the tools are amazing and we're doing a HUGE amount of human meaningmaking work to prevent this ai workflow from spewing out slop.
why why why aren't people talking more about meaningmaking and ai?
https://vaughntan.org/meaningmakingai
the tools are amazing and we're doing a HUGE amount of human meaningmaking work to prevent this ai workflow from spewing out slop.
why why why aren't people talking more about meaningmaking and ai?
https://vaughntan.org/meaningmakingai
Kevin Kelly joined @vgr last night to talk about Kevin’s public intelligence piece. Recording up on Youtube.
https://warpcast.com/timber/0xf1f43cf1
https://youtube.com/live/JjVj_WRXxwA
https://warpcast.com/timber/0xf1f43cf1
https://youtube.com/live/JjVj_WRXxwA
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jd 🌺
@jdl·13:45 23/04/2025
> Public intelligence is a rainforest of thousands of species of AI, and in summation it becomes – like our forests and oceans – a public commons, a public utility at a global scale.
— kevin2kelly.twitter
https://kk.org/thetechnium/public-intelligence/
— kevin2kelly.twitter
https://kk.org/thetechnium/public-intelligence/
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Timber ☀️
@timber·13:45 21/04/2025
Tomorrow’s guest talk is timely and powerful. What is Public Intelligence?
Catch Venkatesh Rao and Kevin Kelly in conversation, tomorrow, April 22nd at 19:00 PDT, to find out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjVj_WRXxwA
Catch Venkatesh Rao and Kevin Kelly in conversation, tomorrow, April 22nd at 19:00 PDT, to find out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjVj_WRXxwA
Is there a link to the recording from the VGR / Kevin Kiley protocol chat just now?
Kevin Kelly:
Q: Do we want national / sovereign AI?
A: National level internet is a failure mode / let’s not take that as our north star. Some transnational global intelligence modelled after the present open internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjVj_WRXxwA&ab_channel=ProtocolTownHall
Q: Do we want national / sovereign AI?
A: National level internet is a failure mode / let’s not take that as our north star. Some transnational global intelligence modelled after the present open internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjVj_WRXxwA&ab_channel=ProtocolTownHall
Tomorrow’s guest talk is timely and powerful. What is Public Intelligence?
Catch Venkatesh Rao and Kevin Kelly in conversation, tomorrow, April 22nd at 19:00 PDT, to find out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjVj_WRXxwA
Catch Venkatesh Rao and Kevin Kelly in conversation, tomorrow, April 22nd at 19:00 PDT, to find out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjVj_WRXxwA
👇still unreasonably sufficient
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Galen
@galen·11:17 20/04/2025
📐 for the tensions game
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androidsixteen 🌲
@androidsixteen.eth·02:14 20/04/2025
Everything is a trade off
We could even make a trilemma
Global, decent, censorship resistant — pick two 🤣
We could even make a trilemma
Global, decent, censorship resistant — pick two 🤣
Toyota’s manufacturing broke a paradox – cost vs. quality – they made things cheaper by making things better.
Digital protocols do something similar. They break the tension between trust vs. transparency. You can have more trust with less interpersonal transparency, because with zero-knowledge proofs, you just need to provide evidence to the protocol, not other people.
Think about how comfortable we are sharing information with Google and chachipiti compared to transacting with strangers. More information does mean better mutual outcomes, but we assume that we need more transparency to get there.
People turned their nose up at Toyota… because it was paradoxical. It’s possible that ZKPs take off and everyone will look back and be like, “uh, doi”.
Digital protocols do something similar. They break the tension between trust vs. transparency. You can have more trust with less interpersonal transparency, because with zero-knowledge proofs, you just need to provide evidence to the protocol, not other people.
Think about how comfortable we are sharing information with Google and chachipiti compared to transacting with strangers. More information does mean better mutual outcomes, but we assume that we need more transparency to get there.
People turned their nose up at Toyota… because it was paradoxical. It’s possible that ZKPs take off and everyone will look back and be like, “uh, doi”.
Big week in Bangkok coming up ☀️
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vaughn tan
@vt·09:43 19/04/2025
In this wk's newsletter — I figure out how to explain consulting work that solves not-yet-named problems.
Also:
– experiments gone wrong (and how to make them go right)
– fixing gov’t strategy
– ditch-digging as org design
– protocol in Southeast Asia
https://uncertaintymindset.substack.com/p/gbw1525
Also:
– experiments gone wrong (and how to make them go right)
– fixing gov’t strategy
– ditch-digging as org design
– protocol in Southeast Asia
https://uncertaintymindset.substack.com/p/gbw1525
🤔
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Koolkheart
@koolkheart.eth·20:42 18/04/2025
Crypto not designed for humans hits hard. It’s like trying to onboard people into a protocol instead of a purpose
The Call of the Ekumen Exchange
Edge Esmeralda, Year of the Great Turning
You who have crossed into this threshold—
this Edge of Esmeralda where possibility still breathes—
know that you have not come here by chance.
The drums of nationalism sound again.
Banners once burned in shame are hoisted with pride.
Walls are being raised—between nations, between neighbors, between souls.
But Earth has no walls.
The atmosphere does not stop at borders.
The drought does not ask for your passport.
The rising sea respects no flag.
This is the fierce urgency of now.
We cannot solve planetary challenges with provincial minds.
And yet the old forms of globalism have failed too—
monolithic, extractive, blind to place and deaf to difference.
What is needed is not the center commanding the edge,
but the edge becoming the center.
A decentralized globalism, not of empires, but of relationships.
Not of protocols imposed, but of protocols exchanged.
This is the vision of the Ekumen Exchange.
Edge Esmeralda, Year of the Great Turning
You who have crossed into this threshold—
this Edge of Esmeralda where possibility still breathes—
know that you have not come here by chance.
The drums of nationalism sound again.
Banners once burned in shame are hoisted with pride.
Walls are being raised—between nations, between neighbors, between souls.
But Earth has no walls.
The atmosphere does not stop at borders.
The drought does not ask for your passport.
The rising sea respects no flag.
This is the fierce urgency of now.
We cannot solve planetary challenges with provincial minds.
And yet the old forms of globalism have failed too—
monolithic, extractive, blind to place and deaf to difference.
What is needed is not the center commanding the edge,
but the edge becoming the center.
A decentralized globalism, not of empires, but of relationships.
Not of protocols imposed, but of protocols exchanged.
This is the vision of the Ekumen Exchange.
👀
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D-wayñe 🎩🕴
@drrrner.eth·14:13 17/04/2025
Just published a deep dive on Snapchain, the new data layer powering Farcaster.
It’s fast, scalable, and surprisingly user-friendly. More than a tech upgrade, it’s a shift in how decentralized social can actually work at scale.
I wrote this to be clear, beginner-friendly, and useful, whether you’re a curious user or building onchain.
Feedback welcome 🙏
@dwr.eth @horsefacts.eth @woj.eth @v
Read it here:
https://paragraph.com/@drrrners-dispatch/snapchain-farcasters-innovative-data-layer-for-decentralized-social-media
It’s fast, scalable, and surprisingly user-friendly. More than a tech upgrade, it’s a shift in how decentralized social can actually work at scale.
I wrote this to be clear, beginner-friendly, and useful, whether you’re a curious user or building onchain.
Feedback welcome 🙏
@dwr.eth @horsefacts.eth @woj.eth @v
Read it here:
https://paragraph.com/@drrrners-dispatch/snapchain-farcasters-innovative-data-layer-for-decentralized-social-media
love tipping the toaster on its side. remind what we’re calling it when we hack on a protocol?
e.g. thinking of Geoff Manaugh’s Burger’s Guide to the City
https://youtu.be/pK7U2IrPETQ
e.g. thinking of Geoff Manaugh’s Burger’s Guide to the City
https://youtu.be/pK7U2IrPETQ
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D-wayñe 🎩🕴
@drrrner.eth·18:52 17/04/2025
Pizza hack
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
youtu.be
Doge, that dastardly trickster of internet memelords, has had its dance. But CAT—Climate Adaptive Technology, Civic Adaptive Transformation, Choose-Again Tech—it carries the whisper of something older and deeper. The cat walks softly, watches, adapts. It is not just efficient. It is elegant.
👇 visual comms conventions inform protocolized comms
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Max Miner
@mxmnr·18:16 16/04/2025
I've been surprised to hear recently from younger designers that they have never seen Jesse James Garrett's visual vocabulary for information architecture and interaction design.
This is was staple UX 101 item when I was coming up, and it's a great visual language for designing and communicating digital systems.
You can learn more about it and download resources from his website.
http://www.jjg.net/ia/visvocab/
This is was staple UX 101 item when I was coming up, and it's a great visual language for designing and communicating digital systems.
You can learn more about it and download resources from his website.
http://www.jjg.net/ia/visvocab/
@timber thought you might like today’s ok banger
resharing the chat with Nadia Asparouhova too
https://www.youtube.com/live/Ze9pqaIrebY
resharing the chat with Nadia Asparouhova too
https://www.youtube.com/live/Ze9pqaIrebY
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christin
@christin·14:42 15/04/2025
control panel behind-the-scenes for multistreaming /okbanger in a few minutes
live in 15 min!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7ahfoSTQg4
live in 15 min!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7ahfoSTQg4
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
www.youtube.com
I had fun riffing with GPT on this little ode to the ditch we dug in my hometown, a near decade long odyssey.
"Ten years. That’s how long it took to build a simple stormwater recharge ditch in my hometown north of L.A.
Not a dam. Not a desalination plant. Just a basic diversion channel—a design older than civilization itself. The kind of thing you could dig in a single day with the right crew and a shovel.
And that’s what happened this weekend.
Over 50 volunteers came out to help finish the project—more than ten times the usual turnout for efforts like this. Neighbors. Students. Staff. People who just wanted to help California work a little better. It was beautiful. And humbling. And a little surreal.
"Ten years. That’s how long it took to build a simple stormwater recharge ditch in my hometown north of L.A.
Not a dam. Not a desalination plant. Just a basic diversion channel—a design older than civilization itself. The kind of thing you could dig in a single day with the right crew and a shovel.
And that’s what happened this weekend.
Over 50 volunteers came out to help finish the project—more than ten times the usual turnout for efforts like this. Neighbors. Students. Staff. People who just wanted to help California work a little better. It was beautiful. And humbling. And a little surreal.
Final weekend to enter the Terminological Twists protocol sci-fi contest. Deadline April 14.
https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/terminological-twists
Select a term for a technical or procedural concept with protocolish connotations and write a short story that explores some unexpected and startling implication of the concept. Examples to consider: packet switching, boot sequence, cap-and-trade, chain of custody, kill-chain, zero-knowledge proof, multisig, social distancing, fuel partitioning, priority boarding, self-checkout, vampire sneeze, 5-second rule, first-in-first-out.
https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/terminological-twists
Select a term for a technical or procedural concept with protocolish connotations and write a short story that explores some unexpected and startling implication of the concept. Examples to consider: packet switching, boot sequence, cap-and-trade, chain of custody, kill-chain, zero-knowledge proof, multisig, social distancing, fuel partitioning, priority boarding, self-checkout, vampire sneeze, 5-second rule, first-in-first-out.
I’m really pleased with how this experiment with AI-coauthored fiction worked out. I worked with chatgpt to transpose the idea of a classic Lovecraft story to a different key and theme and it worked unexpectedly well. I enjoyed the story so much I reread it a few times myself just for pleasure, something I rarely do with my unassisted stuff. You can enjoy it without having read the original but if you have it is even more fun. https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/the-signal-under-innsmouth
"without question, the most abundant, least expensive, most underutilized and constantly abused resource in the world today is human ingenuity and the source of that abuse is the mechanistic industrial age dominating concepts of organization and the management practices they spawn" - Dee Hock (founder of Visa)
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na
@na·05:15 24/06/2023
feeling like the End of UX and the Last UI
Announcing the Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)
Explore A2A, Google's new open protocol empowering developers to build interoperable AI solutions.
developers.googleblog.com
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JoshD
@joshdavis.eth·15:46 09/04/2025
What happens when a smart city learns to balance perception like bandwidth? Fault Tolerance explores the quiet horror of being optimized out of existence.
tl;dr: I co-wrote some sci-fi. I'd love if you'd give it a read.
🧵
tl;dr: I co-wrote some sci-fi. I'd love if you'd give it a read.
🧵
On now @nayafia and @timber talking about Nadia’s new antimemetics book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze9pqaIrebY
👀
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derek
@derek·20:50 08/04/2025
also launched it via my own advanced launcher admin tool built permissionlessly on top of Clanker.
👀
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alex
@proxystudio.eth·20:47 08/04/2025
I bought it first because of /castmoney then I went to clanker.world to make sure it was really derek. I also checked the contract lol and saw the provenance. it was actually @derek, and he used the Native interface, which means he’ll earn 80% of the LP fees
sounds like theres a gift component for $native holders too?
sometimes I love our protocol
sounds like theres a gift component for $native holders too?
sometimes I love our protocol
map is not the destination, again
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mia 水明
@miawintam·14:21 03/04/2025
we should all be celebrating the release of the new NYC subway map, just released yesterday.
its getting a lot of hate, but its much easier to read for navigation. The new map is a diagrammatic map—stations are spaced out evenly, and its focused on how lines connect, not where they are geographically. The old map showed stations closer or farther apart based on their actual physical distance. For actual transit users, this new version makes routes clearer and transfers easier to spot. This is about getting you there, not showing you where everything is in the city
https://www.mta.info/press-release/mta-unveils-first-fully-redesigned-subway-map-half-century
its getting a lot of hate, but its much easier to read for navigation. The new map is a diagrammatic map—stations are spaced out evenly, and its focused on how lines connect, not where they are geographically. The old map showed stations closer or farther apart based on their actual physical distance. For actual transit users, this new version makes routes clearer and transfers easier to spot. This is about getting you there, not showing you where everything is in the city
https://www.mta.info/press-release/mta-unveils-first-fully-redesigned-subway-map-half-century
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet
@msms·18:44 05/04/2025
The most consequential longevity battleground: biological hyper-optimisation vs. rewilding. Bryan Johnson archetype vs Katy Bowman archetype.
IMO, rewilding wins.
IMO, rewilding wins.
always the case for protocol entrepreneurs:
“…innovation walks a fine line between regulation and revolution”
nice piece by @ommalik who also links to similar ice hockey stick story
https://andyabramson.com/?p=8950
long thread — with physics! — here
https://x.com/KJS_4/status/1906101220714152122
“…innovation walks a fine line between regulation and revolution”
nice piece by @ommalik who also links to similar ice hockey stick story
https://andyabramson.com/?p=8950
long thread — with physics! — here
https://x.com/KJS_4/status/1906101220714152122
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Om Malik
@ommalik·16:28 05/04/2025
Who else is excited about the torpedo bats in baseball? Not just for baseball, but for what they mean for innovation, as I write in a new short essay. https://om.co/2025/04/04/a-torpedo-bat-of-innovation/
humanity missed out. they thought of skills as a personal thing
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xh3b4sd ↑
@xh3b4sd.eth·09:35 03/04/2025
FYI, Summer of Protocols is running a writing contest called the Terminological Twists Challenge. Maybe somebody is interested in contributing. I submitted mine already. Deadline April 15th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2xdzOjakvw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2xdzOjakvw
I'll be talking about protocol fiction in 7 minutes here. Bit of a talk show format... my monologue for about 20 minutes, followed by some conversations with a few guests. It'll be lowkey and informal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2xdzOjakvw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2xdzOjakvw
Protocols are recipes for coordination
Summer is a practice of ice and fire. Only by letting sweat flow through your spine can you become soft but strong.
In summer, we eat green beans, peaches, cherries and melons. In every sense, the days are long and pleasant, and the days make sounds.
