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Where the Stones Hold

Beneath the southern arches of London Bridge, two men were up to their ankles in mud on the Thames bank. One was finishing up digging a hole, while the other held onto a captive. The poor wretch was dazed, gagged and clothed in prison rags....

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Haikus to Fly By

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A Never-Ending Stream of Haikus

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Methods, Madness, Monsters and Magic in New Nature

The Protocol Symposium is officially kicking off today, with five workshops that will run in parallel for the next two days, covering decentralized robotics, stigmergic security, book publishing, protocol art, and protocol kits for business...

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Securing Stigmergic Systems

On 21 July 2026, OpenAI and the open-source AI model repository Hugging Face jointly disclosed that an unreleased OpenAI model configured with reduced safeguards for evaluation purposes had participated in a coordinated attack on Hugging Fa...

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The Ductus of Protocol Fiction

In Edgar Allan Poe’s story The Pit and the Pendulum, the narrator faints after being sentenced to death for a nameless crime. Upon waking, he finds himself in a completely dark room. “The blackness of eternal night encompassed me,” he repor...

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  • Protocolized

    Protocolized is a new digital magazine that publishes sci-fi, articles, and thought-provoking essays about the world's (mostly) invisible infrastructure.

  • Matthew McDowell-Sweet

    in motion - building subset.network | hq: msweet.net

  • Venkatesh Rao

    Delving. Writing the Contraptions newsletter. Contributor to Protocolized Previously: ribbonfarm.com More: venkateshrao.com

  • Sachin

    Infrastructure ethnography

  • rafa

    CEO, NPC Inc. <> rafael.fyi

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  • Timber

    knuckledragger

  • Spencer Nitkey

    Stories in Apex, Asimov Press, Nature, Lightspeed, The Adroit Journal, and many others.

  • Patrick Nast

    better not to begin. once begun,

  • Kannen

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  • Randy Lubin

    Startups & Game Design: http://leveragedplay.com (foresight games) – http://diegeticgames.com (consumer games) – http://storysynth.org (online games platform)

  • Jason Collins

    Jason Collins is a freelance writer and editor with a background in magazine writing. His work spans science fiction, essays, blogs, and features, bringing curiosity, sharp editing, and a storyteller's mind to every piece.

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