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recent posts life with alacrity skip to primary navigation skip to content skip to footer life with alacrity design patterns for digital collaboration trust home about tweets posts search tags documents toggle search toggle menu recent posts about author blockchain decentralized identity architect internet cryptography pioneer co author tls security standard collaborative tools patterns follow website twitter github linkedin alacrity noun from the latin alacritas meaning promptitude similar in meaning to its synonyms velocity and celerity all three mean quickness in action or movement alacrity stresses promptness in response to a suggestion or command cheerful and eager willingness appropriate quickness and in general the beginning of fast movement life with alacrity is the personal blog of christopher allen covering topics of community decentralized identity collective choice online privacy and more popular articles include the path to self sovereign identity the dunbar number as a limit to group size dunbar world of warcraft and the community by the numbers series christopher is available for personal consulting engagements on decentralized digital trust online collaboration identity management digital assets smart contracts and human rights privacy please email if you are interested most recent post 2026 06 16 dispatches of a trust architect when intelligence becomes a permission after three decades of building internet infrastructure i ve learned that the most dangerous moment isn t when a system fails it s when it succeeds and then inverts its purpose this week confirmed that again anthropic abruptly disabled its frontier models fable 5 and mythos 5 for every customer to comply with a u s government national security order the immediate disruption was minor the models were only days old and anthropic s other models still run what matters is what it proved a government can reach in and switch off a frontier model for everyone overnight the off switch exists and now we know who controls it for years i ve been making a different argument and building a name for the alternative self sovereign computing and the design pattern i call exodus protocols the fable suspension is one more confirmation of why they matter i m not the first to warn that frontier ai companies have become part of the problem the sharpest version of that case belongs to ahmad osman an ai researcher and r localllama moderator who recently wrote the essay anthropic s war on opensource ai the anthropic framing is his he wrote his article arguing a general pattern not this specific event the recent suspension isn t even in it it is selling cognition as infrastructure once cognition becomes infrastructure anti competitive access control stops being a normal vendor dispute and becomes a social bottleneck claude is not your agent claude is anthropic s agent rented to you read after friday s suspension of fable it reads like a forecast the government pulling fable is that pattern arriving on schedule this isn t hypothetical a frontier model was pulled for everyone by government order and fable access already required 30 day retention of your data the next step writes itself an identity check to use a frontier model age gating technology but for thought and monitored sessions as the price of entry we have built that machinery before for other purposes now it ports cleanly to cognition ahmad s name for where that leads is hard to improve on a society where a few labs own the frontier and everyone else rents obedient wrappers is not advanced it is feudalism with gpus or as i say in my community draft of the architecture of autonomy we are human beings not digital serfs the pattern is older than ai this is where my own framing comes in because the shape is not new when i co authored tls 1 0 we already understood that technical protocols encode power relationships the coalition that stopped microsoft visa mastercard from owning the internet plugged that hole yet in every decade since we have closed one architecture that funneled rent and control toward a center certificate authorities platforms identity systems only to watch a larger one open in its place as i wrote in my article when technical standards meet geopolitical reality we build protocols for human autonomy and watched them become instruments of platform control permissioned ai is the biggest such hole yet it is the inversion i have spent years naming a right quietly rewritten as a revocable privilege the test is simple when a capability depends on someone s approval it is not a right it is permission the way out is the one that has always worked exit as i say in the exodus protocol without the ability to walk away consent collapses into coercion the answer to a permission regime is not to petition for kinder permissions it is to stop needing them own the model own the hardware own the keys local inference open weights and your own cryptographic control this is what self sovereign computing and exodus protocols have always been about ahmad arrives at the same place from the builder s side a gpu is a tiny declaration of independence none of this is inevitable we have routed around centralized control before and we can build the exit again self sovereign identity self sovereign computing and now self sovereign cognition that no one can revoke degrade or rent back to you own the stack a decade ago i helped write the principles of self sovereign identity we are revisiting them now for their tenth anniversary because the frontier has moved from who controls your identity to who controls your cognition the principle has not changed only the stakes own it or rent it all recent posts 2026 06 16 dispatches of a trust architect when intelligence becomes a permission 2026 06 09 musings of a trust architect on being the fifteenth standard 2026 06 02 an update on amira 2026 05 19 dispatches of a trust architect sanctuary and exodus 2026 04 26 dispatches of a trust architect ten years of self sovereign identity 2026 04 22 agency in ai 2026 03 18 dispatches of a trust architect fighting technology paternalism see all posts all recent social media posts 2024 11 30 social media november 2024 10 31 social media october 2024 09 30 social media september 2024 08 31 social media august 2024 07 31 social media july 2024 06 30 social media june 2024 05 31 social media may see all social media posts enter your search term life with alacrity blockchain decentralized identity architect internet cryptography pioneer co author tls security standard collaborative tools patterns about social media twitter github linkedin external links blockchain commons smartcustody feed official links email address home page tags category 2026 life with alacrity powered by jekyll minimal mistakes