Zargham
@mzargham.bsky.social
Field Cybernetician; CyberInfrastructure is Public Infrastructure; Founder and Chief Engineer @ BlockScience; Researcher @ Metagov.org
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Excited to be attending the Foundations for the Digital Commons today in Portland ME! I'll try to liveblog highlights here :)
October 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Excited to be attending the Foundations for the Digital Commons today in Portland ME! I'll try to liveblog highlights here :)
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After a nationwide search involving the Administrative Board, Technical Steering Committee, & Advisory Council, the NumFOCUS Board of Directors is pleased to name Rachel Kerestes (@kerestes.bsky.social) as the organization's new Executive Director. Learn more at numfocus.medium.com/f53646b81767
NumFOCUS Names Rachel Kerestes as Executive Director
After an extensive nationwide search involving the Administrative Board, Technical Steering Committee, and Advisory Council, the NumFOCUS…
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July 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
After a nationwide search involving the Administrative Board, Technical Steering Committee, & Advisory Council, the NumFOCUS Board of Directors is pleased to name Rachel Kerestes (@kerestes.bsky.social) as the organization's new Executive Director. Learn more at numfocus.medium.com/f53646b81767
“Break it into blocks and do science.”
May 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
“Break it into blocks and do science.”
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NumFOCUS is seeking our next Executive Director. We're looking for a strategic leader with a passion for open source and a commitment to equity. Learn more at bit.ly/42lraGZ
NumFOCUS Executive Director Search Update: Job listing is Open [Source]
We’re happy to announce that we’ll be working with Perrett Laver (PL). PL has made hires at the executive director level in the open…
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April 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
NumFOCUS is seeking our next Executive Director. We're looking for a strategic leader with a passion for open source and a commitment to equity. Learn more at bit.ly/42lraGZ
Nice drawing; can we just smudge the pink region on the Y axis — a subcohort defined by being more imaginative?
There is no “progressivism,” there are only spasmodic epochs of progress before the underlying forces get captured and domesticated or killed, with or without retention of the label
March 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Nice drawing; can we just smudge the pink region on the Y axis — a subcohort defined by being more imaginative?
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🤔Giving complex tasks to AI agents is easy—getting them to do exactly what you want isn’t. How can human-AI collaboration give us more reliable & steerable agents?
🍫Introducing Cocoa, our new interaction paradigm for balancing human & AI agency in complex human-AI workflows. 🧵
🍫Introducing Cocoa, our new interaction paradigm for balancing human & AI agency in complex human-AI workflows. 🧵
January 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🤔Giving complex tasks to AI agents is easy—getting them to do exactly what you want isn’t. How can human-AI collaboration give us more reliable & steerable agents?
🍫Introducing Cocoa, our new interaction paradigm for balancing human & AI agency in complex human-AI workflows. 🧵
🍫Introducing Cocoa, our new interaction paradigm for balancing human & AI agency in complex human-AI workflows. 🧵
I love folk punk music.
July 14, 2023 at 3:43 PM
I love folk punk music.
I can enjoy Bluesky properly now that @incompleterules.bsky.social is here.
April 26, 2023 at 4:12 PM
I can enjoy Bluesky properly now that @incompleterules.bsky.social is here.
So whose in Austin?
I just finished teaching a class (remote at CMU) and I’m due for a celebratory beverage. My usual cohorts have not arrived yet.
I just finished teaching a class (remote at CMU) and I’m due for a celebratory beverage. My usual cohorts have not arrived yet.
April 26, 2023 at 1:44 AM
So whose in Austin?
I just finished teaching a class (remote at CMU) and I’m due for a celebratory beverage. My usual cohorts have not arrived yet.
I just finished teaching a class (remote at CMU) and I’m due for a celebratory beverage. My usual cohorts have not arrived yet.
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In human societies, if bad actors don’t incur costs for bad actions, then it can’t help but degenerate into an inhumane space.
The lack of a robust “I’m a human” ID protocol in the internet is what’s created our current dystopian hellscape. I’m hopeful that LLMs will actually force a change.
The lack of a robust “I’m a human” ID protocol in the internet is what’s created our current dystopian hellscape. I’m hopeful that LLMs will actually force a change.
April 25, 2023 at 11:19 AM
In human societies, if bad actors don’t incur costs for bad actions, then it can’t help but degenerate into an inhumane space.
The lack of a robust “I’m a human” ID protocol in the internet is what’s created our current dystopian hellscape. I’m hopeful that LLMs will actually force a change.
The lack of a robust “I’m a human” ID protocol in the internet is what’s created our current dystopian hellscape. I’m hopeful that LLMs will actually force a change.
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Open protocols are the new antitrust because network effects are the new vertical integration
April 20, 2023 at 3:09 AM
Open protocols are the new antitrust because network effects are the new vertical integration
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Lazy Saturday messing around with digital circuits in front of the fire in preparation for Cyborg Camp.
February 11, 2023 at 5:13 PM
Lazy Saturday messing around with digital circuits in front of the fire in preparation for Cyborg Camp.
Shitpost therefore I am.
February 1, 2023 at 1:49 PM
Shitpost therefore I am.
I shitpost therefore I am.
January 31, 2023 at 9:06 PM
I shitpost therefore I am.
@case.bsky.social we should set up a call with @jay.bsky.social to review PRGD (Practical Regime for Governing Data) not to be confused with GDPR ;P
I think it could be useful for this app, especially given the legal work will be open sourced.
I think it could be useful for this app, especially given the legal work will be open sourced.
January 30, 2023 at 2:33 AM
@case.bsky.social we should set up a call with @jay.bsky.social to review PRGD (Practical Regime for Governing Data) not to be confused with GDPR ;P
I think it could be useful for this app, especially given the legal work will be open sourced.
I think it could be useful for this app, especially given the legal work will be open sourced.