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COSDS Update: What Our Volunteers Have Learned Since Week 3
In the five weeks since our Week 3 update, COSDS volunteers have moved from asking what Janus Facing Architecture (JFA) is to testing whether it holds up, and they have found the questions that will shape the code they write next.
Capital, Consensus, and Code: What the Institutionalization of Prediction Markets Means for Civic Infrastructure
Over the past four years, prediction markets transitioned from an offshore legal gray area into an institutionalized asset class backed by venture capital, sovereign political interest, and federal exchange licenses. While the rapid mainstreaming of platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi is widely tracked as a fintech story, it carries profound structural implications for network theory, information ecosystems, and democratic technology. As commercial platforms race to financia
The Helmsman
For a technology of such consequence, Kubernetes is remarkably little discussed outside the trade. It has no consumer face, no logo anyone would recognise, no charismatic founder-billionaire. It is plumbing. But plumbing is where the interesting economics usually hide, and the story of how a piece of infrastructure software escaped from Google, defeated better-funded rivals, and became a de facto standard is a case study in how technical architecture, corporate strategy and o
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