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.@teoliphant has been building AI/ML tech, companies and OSS ecosystems for 20+ years. His vision for modular distributed AI-enabled world aligns with mine.
This weekend I went through his whitepaper ownyourintelligence.ai/ and made the example executable mzargham.github.io/vendor-fr…
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Big thanks to all who backed Symproof in the Ethereum Security QF round on @Giveth. Special thanks to @thedaofund @quantstamp @wintermute_t.
Funds raised go toward Tier 1 items making the tool more usable for external Ethereum security researchers.
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Most security thinking stops at the protocol. Our colleague @kelsiemvn's new book picks it up from there: in distributed systems, security is irreducibly sociotechnical — norms, coalitions, and crisis coordination are critical infrastructure.
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Join Dr. Nabben for a live conversation about the book tomorrow (April 29) at 5 pm EDT, hosted by @metagov_project.
Register: luma.com/axkn6hgs
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Dr. Nabben is also crowdfunding open-access research on a problem every security org will face: how do you keep incentive structures (bug bounties, disclosure norms) coordinated when AI-driven adversaries automate exploit discovery?
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From last week’s Open Systems Development Forum at @NASAJPL: Dr. Michael Zargham (@mZargham) presents on open-source software ecosystems to the model-based systems engineering community.
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"Making AI more accountable, responsible, and fair isn't just a technical problem—it's an institutional one."
@mZargham is joining Humane Intelligence's Advisory Group to help advance evidence-based AI governance.
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Spotted at @incose_org IW 2026: BlockScience CEO and Chief Engineer, @mZargham, with INCOSE IW 2026 keynote speaker, BlockScience advisor, and founder of the Calm Tech Institute @caseorganic.
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Tomorrow at 2pm PT at JPL: @mZargham joins an outstanding lineup including @NASAJPL, @JAXA_en, and @MHI_Group at the Open Systems Development Forum on operationalizing MBSE.
Tune in (registration required): opencaesar.io/events/Open-Sy…
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Tomorrow—@mZargham gives a talk on open source software and systems engineering, representing @NumFOCUS at the @incose_org IW 2026 OpenMBEE session. 1:05 PM PT, in Torrance, California.
Come listen in person or online:
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"Legitimacy" is not a monolithic virtue—it's a multi-dimensional trade-off space.
We decompose it into Liberty, Equality, and Agency curves to evaluate governance designs before deployment.
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How do you maintain data governance across organizational boundaries without coercive control?
We argue that data mesh architecture enables data supply chains that co-regulate to preserve autonomy and accountability.
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To re-engineer an organization, you have to understand how it works. Our method for functional decomposition maps regulatory pressures against constitutive infrastructure to close gaps between intentions and outcomes.
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Policies tell you what should happen. Protocols constrain what can happen. We wrote a book chapter on engineering institutions through Lyapunov stability—operationalizable guarantees, not just good intentions.
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Modeling cybernetic systems requires state spaces beyond vector fields. This paper formalizes block diagrams using category theory to represent Generalized Dynamical Systems.
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Algorithms aren't neutral truth-tellers—they're perspectives shaped by design choices, just like cameras. What is the apparatus leaving out? Whose choices shaped it?
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Proud to support @NumFOCUS & the open-source scientific computing ecosystem; crucial for data science and scientific computing projects.
NumFOCUS is a non-profit that supports open-source projects used in research, data science, and scientific computing.
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Revisiting The Santa Protocol 🎅 after the holidays changes how it reads.
Santa is not the claim. He is the worked example.
Once you recognize the institutional architecture, you start seeing it everywhere.
Low-stakes entry. Serious implications.
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Prefigurative Self-Infrastructuring Knowledge Networks
@mZargham on encoding patterns to drive institutional & structural change + demo of tooling & #blockchain infrastructure enabling vast plurality for organizations & individuals.
Watch: bit.ly/4aogPgf @opscientia
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⚠️ With LLM infrastructure, there is an urgent need to better understand the political dimensions of the design trade-off between ease of use & degrees of freedom for people using the technology.
Work with @metagov_project:
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Underpinning the transparent, secure & collaborative nature of our tooling are blockchain infrastructures e.g. @ethereum @ceramic @DeSciLabs that enable a vast #plurality of organizations & individuals to act, interact & organize.
Demo 21:17 bit.ly/49rzM01
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