✦ Marginalia

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"social"

hey, u up?

"right in the browser "

test from Safari MacOS!

"Bold meets fresh in Wendy's® new The Mint Condition, available now for a limited time at participating U.S. Wendy's restaurants. Built with ten fresh, never frozen square beef patties*, four slices of American cheese, smoky barbecue sauce, creamy mayonnaise, red onion chutney and mint leaves between two split sweet potato halves, this sandwich brings sweet, savory and fresh together in one seriously stacked bite."

If only this were a real sandwich.

"Annotations"

The annotations section of my webpage demo.

"Context Constitution"

Letta's guiding philosophy on how to help artificial intelligence attain a sense of persistent identity.

"Erin Kissane, noted kelp enthusiast"

Evergreen annotation

"It’s great that we can generate all kinds of things now with AI, but it means that the rest of the aspects of science have to catch up: verification, validation, and assessing what ideas actually move the subject forward and which ones are dead ends or red herrings. That’s not something we know how to do at scale. For each individual paper, we can have a debate among scientists and get to a consensus in a few years. But when we’re generating a thousand of these every day, this doesn’t work."

"What comes next requires the protocol design community, which has made genuine progress in articulating rights and building architectures that protect individual autonomy, to recognize that the governance of shared resources cannot be derived from the intellectual traditions it currently works within, and to draw instead on fundamentally different ones: not just the technical architecture that brings shared resources into being, but the institutional arrangements that manage them, the collective-action mechanisms that sustain them, and the design principles, drawn from commons governance, organizational cybernetics, and cooperative design, that can help ensure they serve the communities that depend on them rather than the actors best positioned to capture them. This is the work that no protocol specification has yet attempted to describe."

"he's being a bad bad bad boy"

yep

For example, when a picture is fed into a facial recognition system, it picks out some key features on the face, such as the distance between the eyes, the shape of the nose, or the curve of the jaw. These measurements get translated into a mathematical representation, known as a “faceprint,” which is then compared with faceprints stored in the system’s database to find a match.

"Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the central nervous system of space operations. Its most mature applications lie in satellite data-processing and Earth observation, where AI filters vast datasets, identifies anomalies and prioritises responses. Autonomous systems enhance orbital prediction, optimise manoeuvres and improve risk assessment."

Whatever we can do, we can do better with AI?

"The First Jewish–Roman War (66–73/74 CE) was the first of three major Jewish rebellions against the Roman Empire. Fought in the province of Judaea, it was bloodily supressed and resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple. After the client kingdom of Judaea was annexed as a Roman province in 6 CE, tensions grew due to harsh governance and social, ethnic, and religious divisions. Open revolt erupted after the Roman governor Gessius Florus looted the temple in Jerusalem and killed many civilians. Early rebel successes included the defeat of Cestius Gallus at Bethoron, but Roman forces under Vespasian and later his son Titus reconquered the province. Jerusalem fell in 70 CE after a devastating siege, and the last resistance ended with the fall of Masada. The war profoundly reshaped Jewish history and religion, accelerated the separation between early Christianity and Judaism, strengthened the Flavian dynasty, and set the stage for the later catastrophic Bar Kokhba revolt. (Full article...)"

"The AT Protocol (Authenticated Transfer Protocol"

I like the AT Protocol

"Our Bluesky account is now hosted on margin.cafe ☕"

"“If the work can be broken down into little replicable units that people can slot into, then you don’t need to see workers as people with expertise, with careers, with relationships. They are just providers of content or annotations or labeling or, in big scare quotes, ​‘intelligence.’”"

How do we make sure modular research doesn't result in gigification/over-automation of research?

"A country of geniuses in a datacenter could divide their efforts among software design, cyber operations, R&D for physical technologies, relationship building, and statecraft. It is clear that, if for some reason it chose to do so, this country would have a fairly good shot at taking over the world (either militarily or in terms of influence and control) and imposing its will on everyone else—or doing any number of other things that the rest of the world doesn’t want and can’t stop."

I'm often struck by how wild and sci-fi this shit it. Like this stuff was all just fiction a few years ago, and it seems decently plausible nowadays.

"We could summarize this as a “country of geniuses in a datacenter.”"

I still like Dario's description of ASI.

"Roomy"

I bet roomy is about to get more popular with the discord policies

"Yes! We have shortcuts!! Highlighted it for you: margin.at/scanash.com/..."

"Feed"

It's a feed

"How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes"

I know some of these words

"How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes"

"Highlight text on any page using the browser"

Good job

neat

"The infrastructure for collaboration still exists. What’s missing is the culture and incentives to use it."

"You can now edit your display name and avatar using Margin, independent from Bluesky records! 🪞"

That's pretty cool!

"If you want to make sense of a complex world, you've got to have an internal system that is equally complex."

Interesting implications for collective intelligence systems

"Egypt started the final strongly and took a 1–0 lead"

wow

"Egypt started the final strongly and took"

"The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations final was an association football match to determine the winner of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations,"

"Write on the margins of the internet. Powered by the AT Protocol."

tes

"spoiler"

spoiler

"test"

test

"what"

what

water

"One factor in estimating when water appeared on Earth is that water is continually being lost to space."

no way

"Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula H2O. It is a transparent, tasteless, odorless,[c] and nearly colorless chemical substance."

i dont trust

"Submit a New Add-on"

"Submit a New Add-on"

let's do it.

"Will we pick our job today?"

for sure

"I’m surprised there isn’t a PDS implementation in Python yet"

yes there is buddy

"The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible."

"According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly."

How does it fly then?

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