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Protocolized is hosting a live town hall on cosmopolises, nation-states, and metropolises as part of their Protocol Symposium outreach, with applications due August 22 for both the Foundations Workshop and School components running September 12-19. The initiative aims to teach participants the technological and social literacies needed to understand protocol design while convening technical researchers to develop a formal, mathematizable theory of protocols.

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