Open Source Practitioner, bullish on kindness. erlend.sh – about me @roomy.space – make space
Open Source Practitioner, bullish on kindness. erlend.sh – about me @roomy.space – make space
The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time.
The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time.
Erlend Sogge Heggen (@erlend.sh)
This post is emblematic of the lacking utilities for basic sense-making and truth-seeking in mainstream social media. 🧵 tl;dr: we need edits & edit-notifications to facilitate self-corrections.
Commitment-pool route graphs for finance and mutual aid
This paper develops a bounded operationalization framework for selected financial and mutual-aid institutions. It models Commitment Pooling Protocol (CPP) as a
Grassroots Economics — Community-Powered Economies
Empowering communities across the World with community currencies, ecosystem restoration, and commitment pooling since 2010.
Circling Back
Reflections on Sarafu, xDai, Gnosis, Circles UBI, Circles v2, and a shared movement toward community-governed commons.
Grassroots Economics — Community-Powered Economies
Empowering communities across the World with community currencies, ecosystem restoration, and commitment pooling since 2010.
Proto-Social Infrastructure and Stewardship of Commitment Pooling
This paper examines Commitment Pooling as a commons-based resource coordination framework. The Commitment Pooling protocol establishes rules for the exchange of resources, emphasizing reciprocity and mutual support. The infrastructure, blending proto-social systems like rotational labor with modern technologies such as blockchain, enables a transition from extractive to cooperative models. Central to this framework is stewardship, ensuring responsible governance and long-term sustainability of the commons. By integrating protocol, infrastructure, and stewardship, Commitment Pooling provides a flexible, scalable model for fostering cooperative, resilient economies and addressing contemporary challenges in resource management.
Grassroots Economics — Community-Powered Economies
Empowering communities across the World with community currencies, ecosystem restoration, and commitment pooling since 2010.
Will Ruddick on "Commitment Pooling" to Build Economic Commons | David Bollier
Grassroots Economics — Community-Powered Economies
Empowering communities across the World with community currencies, ecosystem restoration, and commitment pooling since 2010.
Money, Money, Money - Writing software, in a rich (wo)man's world by Russell Keith-Magee
Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.com
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.
What-if: crates.io paid subscription for commercial use
In @nikomatsakis' 2020 blog post, he calls for a shift in focus "from adoption to investment. (...) for Rust to really thrive, we need to see more people paid for their work on Rust teams. I wanna accept that call-to-action and propose one such opportunity for investment. tl;dr: The online service Crates.io could start charging commercial users a nominal fee, collected purely through opt-in payment; no paywalls or licensing changes. How crates.io could turn a profit without hurtin' anybody ...
Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.com
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.
Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.com
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.
Manifesto - TypeSafe AI
TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access.
Introducing System One Models and Jev - TypeSafe AI Blog
TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access.
Webinar Recording: Making Effective Third Spaces (Sarah Stein Lubrano)
Offering a “third space” — somewhere that is neither work nor home where people can encounter others — is already central to many bookstores’ missions. But what steps can you take to create a third space that is as impactful as possible? What determines whether a third space is effective in promoting social good? And how do you overcome the difficulties of making a social space for book people — many of whom are introverts? Sarah Stein Lubrano, author of Don’t Talk About Politics, will answer these questions with booksellers in mind. Drawing from social and political theory, cognitive psychology, and contemporary activism, Lubrano studies how third spaces can help strengthen a weakening public sphere and revitalize community. (In conversation with Philomena Polefrone, Associate Director of American Booksellers for Free Expression.)
A Wild chat with Sarah Stein Lubrano on getting people to change
How do we change people’s minds about what’s happening to the world...before it's too late?
Going beyond open data – increasing transparency and trust in language models with OLMoTrace | Ai2
Ai2, a non-profit research institute founded by Paul Allen, is committed to breakthrough AI to solve the world’s biggest problems.
How a Georgia Tech team used the open Olmo stack to trace social reasoning | Ai2
A Georgia Tech team used Ai2’s fully open Olmo stack to trace social reasoning back to the training data that shaped it, finding that dialogue-rich, interpersonal writing had an outsized influence on the capability.
We don’t just need electric cars, we need fewer cars - Greenpeace International
Ever since the first production car rolled off the assembly line more than 100 years ago, our love affair with automobiles has grown and grown.
Reducing car dependence: benefits, strategies, unintended consequences, and future directions of post-car urban transitions
This paper presents the state of the art of post-car urban transitions. It begins with an overview of the impact of automobility on planetary and human well-being. The benefits of post-car cities a...
Shifting the Level of Selection in Science
Criteria for recognizing and rewarding scientists primarily focus on individual contributions. This creates a conflict between what is best for scientists’ careers and what is best for science. In this article, we show how the theory of multilevel selection provides conceptual tools for modifying incentives to better align individual and collective interests. A core principle is the need to account for indirect effects by shifting the level at which selection operates from individuals to the groups in which individuals are embedded. This principle is used in several fields to improve collective outcomes, including animal husbandry, team sports, and professional organizations. Shifting the level of selection has the potential to ameliorate several problems in contemporary science, including accounting for scientists’ diverse contributions to knowledge generation, reducing individual-level competition, and promoting specialization and team science. We discuss the difficulties associated with shifting the level of selection and outline directions for future development in this domain.
Super chickens, givers, and collective intelligence: the importance of collaboration, teamwork, and mentorship in science
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David Sloan Wilson: "Chickens, Cooperation and a Pro-social World" - The Great Simplification
On this episode, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson joins Nate
Shifting the Level of Selection in Science
Criteria for recognizing and rewarding scientists primarily focus on individual contributions. This creates a conflict between what is best for scientists’ careers and what is best for science. In this article, we show how the theory of multilevel selection provides conceptual tools for modifying incentives to better align individual and collective interests. A core principle is the need to account for indirect effects by shifting the level at which selection operates from individuals to the groups in which individuals are embedded. This principle is used in several fields to improve collective outcomes, including animal husbandry, team sports, and professional organizations. Shifting the level of selection has the potential to ameliorate several problems in contemporary science, including accounting for scientists’ diverse contributions to knowledge generation, reducing individual-level competition, and promoting specialization and team science. We discuss the difficulties associated with shifting the level of selection and outline directions for future development in this domain.