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Education by Mission Command This week, I'm considering the way creative organizations should lead when acceleration really begins to hit.

Education by Mission Command - a meditation 🧘‍♀️ on managing creative education during rapid acceleration #education #command

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Capturing the Wisdom of the Crowd This week, I'm wrapping my head around "Gambling"... I'm sorry, "Prediction Markets." And why I am very concerned about their use in our democracy.

Capturing the Wisdom of the Crowd
- the terrifying rise of prediction markets

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Authenticity Arms Race This week, I'm considering that we might need a human-only internet, and what that means for the verification business.

After watching 30 minutes of fake movie meme ai video, I feel this is even more relevant. #ai #fake #authenticity

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I never thought I could... I'm trying something new this week. With students, the counter to "never thought I could" is to hold the line.

A little more personal reflection on teaching this week … never thought I could... paragraph.com/@nyewarburto...

What problem do humanoid robots solve? This week I'm asking about all these back-flipping humanoid robots on my feeds. Do we need them?

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This is *by far* one of my favorite books of the last several years. (Sorry to rank it as a categorical metric!)

The guy “sees” systems, play, decentralization and yo-yos. Love it. #booksky #games

Training Little Brains to Play Games This week I'm training agents, and documenting the phases of intelligence they seem to go through. It's gettin' wild.

Training Little Brains to Play Games
- My first week with Reinforcement Learning agents #ai #gamedev

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My predictions for 2026 It's a new year, and I'm focusing on three things. Here are my 2026 predictions.

My predictions for 2026 paragraph.com/@nyewarburto... #agents #opensource #edge Happy New Year!

A Book of Essays This week I published a book! And I'm reflecting on my weekly blog practice.

A Book of Essays - I’ve published 28 of my essays into a book and a manuscript collectible. Celebrating one year of weekly essays from the Digital Lab. #ai #happynewyear #writersky

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A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide [Harrell, Cyd] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide

Love having the downtime to actually read and think. Leaning hard into #civictech with ai. Just feels like the best path.

Arduino and the Fight for the Edge This week I am playing with the Arduino Uno Q, and wondering about AI on the edge.

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#ai #edge #arduino

Innovation is Flawed This week, I'm not trying to innovate, and considering that sometimes you just need to make it work.

Stop innovating. Just use what works…

#writersky #essay #development

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The Resistance is Reading This week I am picking up a book, as an act of rebellion against algorithms.

Fighting algorithms by #reading
Join the resistance

#writersky
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Impeller Studios today thanked players worldwide for making In The Black one of the most discussed simulations of Steam Next Fest 2025 and marked the occasion with the release of the official In The B... Impeller Studios today thanked players worldwide for making In The Black one of the most discussed simulations of Steam Next Fest 2025 and marked the occasion with the release of the official In Th…

The upcoming Early Access release is planned for Q4 2025 – Q1 2026 and will feature:

* Expanded tutorials and onboarding systems
*New missions, ships, and weapons
*Full PvP combat
*Continued UI, balance, and performance refinements
*Head- and eye-tracking integration

Should Robots look like Us? This week I'm paying attention to that "gut reaction" when I see robots walking around, and thinking maybe we should be considering what it means.

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The Ghost of Napster This week I am endeavoring to untangle the crisis of AI copyright, and compare it to what happened to the music industry when peer to peer sharing suddenly arrived.

The Ghost of Napster
Unpacking #copyright and #ai with a little history …

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Projects with Purpose This week I'm thinking about making more projects, and using them to teach the building of things that matter.

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LEGO to Protocol: Part I I think the meme of "the LEGO system" powers everything. This is a special two-parter while I am on vacation!

My latest two parter on LEGO and network protocols …

#LEGO #protocol
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Saving for College Once Felt Essential. Some Parents Are Rethinking Their Plans.

I just don’t think most people who work in higher education realize how cooked we are.

Quality of Code AI can now write code faster than most humans, and suddenly everyone with a ChatGPT account thinks they're a "vibe" programmer. What does it mean to create "Quality Code?"

Everyone’s vibe coding, but what makes good software? My latest scribble… #ai #coding

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Inventor of HyperCard - just think what this guy influenced

Evolving OpenAI’s Structure An update from the OpenAI board on transitioning its for-profit entity to a Public Benefit Corporation, reinforcing its mission-driven structure under nonprofit oversight while enabling greater impact...

Compromise? openai.com/index/evolvi...

Godlike Tools, Creative Stagnation We're trapped in a loop of recycled ideas. Will we have the courage to break out?

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American Panopticon The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.

What can an American authoritarian, or his private-sector accomplices, do with all the government’s data, both alone and combined with data from the private sector?

@cwarzel.bsky.social and I asked government officials, and the answer is terrifying. Gift link:

Universal Basic Compute Universal Basic Compute proposes that advanced computing power should be accessible to everyone as a fundamental right, not just tech giants.

My latest essay considers a universal basic compute for education. #writersky #ai #depin #education paragraph.com/@nyewarburto...

Reframing Crisis as Opportunity Even when all looks lost, life continues to find a way. When old systems collapse, new possibilities emerge. When old paths become blocked, humans find different routes. When crises hit, innovation ...

Thinking about the relationship between creativity and crisis. It’s my way of dealing with what’s going on #writersky #optimism

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Making Crypto Not-Suck To truly transform from niche interest to mainstream utility, the blockchain ecosystem must evolve beyond its self-referential culture and demonstrate real value for the everyday people who use the in...

Frustration fueled my latest essay. The blockchain has an image problem #blockchain

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Here comes Reinforcement Learning Reinforcement Learning (RL) teaches AI to improve through millions of trial and error attempts at warp speed. Trust me, it’s going to be a very big deal.

Wrapping my brain around reinforcement learning #essay #education #ai mirror.xyz/nyewarburton...

Bear_Rabbit_Robot: Mapping AI's Latent Space No matter how complex the system for searching might become, art will always be driven by your instinct to find the next great idea.

My latest essay on visual tooling for latent space. #ai #latentspace #writersky mirror.xyz/nyewarburton...