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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. opencaesar.io/events/Open-Sy…

"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. humane-intelligence.org/post/our-new-m…

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.

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…

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: linkedin.com/events/7419477… openmbee.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OP…

"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. blog.block.science/engineering-fo…

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. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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. zenodo.org/records/151223…

Modeling cybernetic systems requires state spaces beyond vector fields. This paper formalizes block diagrams using category theory to represent Generalized Dynamical Systems. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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? blog.block.science/an-algorithm-i…

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. bit.ly/4pC7KXQ

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. 📃 bit.ly/49iBsw9

@mZargham @opscientia @kelsiemvn @metagov_project 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

@mZargham @opscientia @kelsiemvn ⚠️ 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: bit.ly/4cOL0ic

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