#bmorehistoric unconference at Baltimore Museum of Industry is awesome!

just found out about this ... installing now!

"...sensible living with risky systems means keeping the controversies alive, listening to the public, and recognizing the essentially political nature of risk assessment. Ultimately, the issue is not risk, but power; the power to impose risks on the many for the benefit of the few." -Charles Perrow

Fresh posters; you know what that means. THINGS ARE IN THE WORKS. (I don't put them up unless there's a reason.) Sign up for my email list for first notice of what's up. Or keep your eyes on the streets, pull a tab, and take the ride. It's gonna be a wild year! eepurl.com/gl5B5D

actually useful guidance for networking when you're trying to make something new happen.

"If someone is trying to figure out what to do with their life, and they’re meeting with 1-2 interesting strangers per day, then ... I’m inclined to bet on them"

usefulfictions.substack.com/p/how-to-inc...

Just experienced Lennox Mutual by @candlehouse.bsky.social for the first time...really cool over-the-phone immersive experience. I will be signing-up again!

www.candlehousecollective.com/tickets/lenn...

The progenitor of the "king" idea also created a flawed, strange, but very interesting networking OS called Urbit. This is an awesome critique from of Urbit from a few years ago that strikes directly at the fascism of today.

distributedweb.care/posts/who-ow...

Inspired by ‪‪@grantslatton.bsky.social‬ 's musings, I've been experimenting with using an LLM to manage narrative states using a memory graph:

grantslatton.com/llm-memory

"...LLMs don’t get better over time the way a human would. The lack of continual learning is a huge huge problem. The LLM baseline at many tasks might be higher than an average human's. But there’s no way to give a model high level feedback."

www.dwarkesh.com/p/timelines-...

Entropy drives history

Two good examples of "outside the headset" metaverse computing that use the environment as a computational plane (a truly mixed reality):

dynamicland.org
folk.computer

thank you @dynamicland.org @folkcomputer.bsky.social!

Lately I've been experimenting with the "Reasoning Without Observation" agent prompting technique- lets language models plan reasoning steps before calling tools by providing Mad Libs-like blanks to fill...makes toolchains faster and more robust. arxiv.org/abs/2305.18323