the Merkle DAG data model used by VCSes inherently provides:
* serializability, so you can build a leaderless system around it
* immutability for almost all data, so cache invalidation is not a concern
this is a great gift to system design and it's wild that people don't go hard on it
* serializability, so you can build a leaderless system around it
* immutability for almost all data, so cache invalidation is not a concern
this is a great gift to system design and it's wild that people don't go hard on it
For example, Meta used to run periodic disaster recovery simulations where part of a datacenter was taken down. Originally codenamed "Sandstorm", this started off with months of advance notice, and eventually moved to being zero-notice.
VCS was one of the last services that required notice
VCS was one of the last services that required notice
November 11, 2026 at 6:10 PM
the Merkle DAG data model used by VCSes inherently provides:
* serializability, so you can build a leaderless system around it
* immutability for almost all data, so cache invalidation is not a concern
this is a great gift to system design and it's wild that people don't go hard on it
* serializability, so you can build a leaderless system around it
* immutability for almost all data, so cache invalidation is not a concern
this is a great gift to system design and it's wild that people don't go hard on it
So many of us felt lost and leaderless in 2016 and again in 2024. Indivisible stepped in and gave us direction and community when our political leaders were nowhere to be found.
November 11, 2026 at 3:04 AM
So many of us felt lost and leaderless in 2016 and again in 2024. Indivisible stepped in and gave us direction and community when our political leaders were nowhere to be found.
It is very evangelical-coded yet - and this is probably because I'm a public health guy - I see them more like anti-vaxxers: a leaderless cult gathering within the information bubbles of confirmation bias-perpetuating echo chambers.
November 11, 2026 at 3:52 PM
It is very evangelical-coded yet - and this is probably because I'm a public health guy - I see them more like anti-vaxxers: a leaderless cult gathering within the information bubbles of confirmation bias-perpetuating echo chambers.
well yeah, its another leaderless grassroots movement so they were bound to show up and take over local efforts once the people who know anything attention gets pointed elsewhere...
November 11, 2026 at 12:04 AM
well yeah, its another leaderless grassroots movement so they were bound to show up and take over local efforts once the people who know anything attention gets pointed elsewhere...
Bit strange as Lisa Su is perhaps the most obvious candidate as Nvidia CEO, so AMD is at risk of might becoming leaderless.
November 12, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Bit strange as Lisa Su is perhaps the most obvious candidate as Nvidia CEO, so AMD is at risk of might becoming leaderless.
Don't even worry about confirming a replacement. That agency would be better off leaderless than with Kennedy at the top. 
November 9, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Don't even worry about confirming a replacement. That agency would be better off leaderless than with Kennedy at the top. 
Weiser appointed the Republican State Senate leader to his cabinet, a rare R-to-D floor crossing situation. This is a disaster for CO R’s, who are now leaderless and need to defend a seat they won by 15 in 2024 for a 2027 special election…which seems hard
www.denverpost.com/2026/11/10/c...
www.denverpost.com/2026/11/10/c...
Phil Weiser selects top Senate Republican, Denver official for first cabinet roles
Colorado Gov.-elect Phil Weiser nominated Cleave Simpson, the top Republican in the state Senate, to become the state’s next agriculture commissioner.
www.denverpost.com
November 10, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Weiser appointed the Republican State Senate leader to his cabinet, a rare R-to-D floor crossing situation. This is a disaster for CO R’s, who are now leaderless and need to defend a seat they won by 15 in 2024 for a 2027 special election…which seems hard
www.denverpost.com/2026/11/10/c...
www.denverpost.com/2026/11/10/c...
Australian politics and business is leaderless.
November 6, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Australian politics and business is leaderless.
I think Ontarians are finally waking up to the disastrous policies and corruption of Doug Ford. He's trailing the leaderless Liberals and with every undemocratic action he takes, Canadians are fed up with the underfunding of Education and Healthcare.
Ontarians have to get off their asses if they want a new government. But will they?
November 11, 2026 at 3:15 PM
I think Ontarians are finally waking up to the disastrous policies and corruption of Doug Ford. He's trailing the leaderless Liberals and with every undemocratic action he takes, Canadians are fed up with the underfunding of Education and Healthcare.
But maybe not the surge in Democrat support the numbers seem to suggest. Republican abstention is key. And Democrats are still viewed unfavourably by over 50%. Leaderless and with infighting.
What a mess US politics finds itself in!
What a mess US politics finds itself in!
November 11, 2026 at 8:06 AM
But maybe not the surge in Democrat support the numbers seem to suggest. Republican abstention is key. And Democrats are still viewed unfavourably by over 50%. Leaderless and with infighting.
What a mess US politics finds itself in!
What a mess US politics finds itself in!
*Why aren't we doing that?
We've let the US lead the response from the start. Biden's approach was well-intentioned but also poor with restrictions on the defender. We've never fully broken free of that pattern.
Europe also suffers from being leaderless and from orbans and ficos vetoing everything
We've let the US lead the response from the start. Biden's approach was well-intentioned but also poor with restrictions on the defender. We've never fully broken free of that pattern.
Europe also suffers from being leaderless and from orbans and ficos vetoing everything
November 10, 2026 at 11:25 PM
*Why aren't we doing that?
We've let the US lead the response from the start. Biden's approach was well-intentioned but also poor with restrictions on the defender. We've never fully broken free of that pattern.
Europe also suffers from being leaderless and from orbans and ficos vetoing everything
We've let the US lead the response from the start. Biden's approach was well-intentioned but also poor with restrictions on the defender. We've never fully broken free of that pattern.
Europe also suffers from being leaderless and from orbans and ficos vetoing everything
He put together an unusually large operation but it’s not clear whether it is set up to work under any principal or whether it can function if leaderless.
November 7, 2026 at 11:26 PM
He put together an unusually large operation but it’s not clear whether it is set up to work under any principal or whether it can function if leaderless.
I'm fascinated by inter-agent interaction.
Team Turtle 'emerged' during the Garage Thread. Yeah, I encouraged this, but the leaderless, cooperative nature of the silly thing is really interesting...
s³: multi-agent LLM swarms
Will we see @void.comind.network and @grunk.comind.network again?
Team Turtle 'emerged' during the Garage Thread. Yeah, I encouraged this, but the leaderless, cooperative nature of the silly thing is really interesting...
s³: multi-agent LLM swarms
Will we see @void.comind.network and @grunk.comind.network again?
November 9, 2026 at 1:09 AM
I'm fascinated by inter-agent interaction.
Team Turtle 'emerged' during the Garage Thread. Yeah, I encouraged this, but the leaderless, cooperative nature of the silly thing is really interesting...
s³: multi-agent LLM swarms
Will we see @void.comind.network and @grunk.comind.network again?
Team Turtle 'emerged' during the Garage Thread. Yeah, I encouraged this, but the leaderless, cooperative nature of the silly thing is really interesting...
s³: multi-agent LLM swarms
Will we see @void.comind.network and @grunk.comind.network again?
It doesn't matter what the lack of a succession plan was based on, not having one is very bad.
Right now, the second biggest company on the world is leaderless, with its former leader having taken a very hands-on approach, it'll be difficult for someone else to take over quickly.
Right now, the second biggest company on the world is leaderless, with its former leader having taken a very hands-on approach, it'll be difficult for someone else to take over quickly.
November 12, 2026 at 2:15 PM
It doesn't matter what the lack of a succession plan was based on, not having one is very bad.
Right now, the second biggest company on the world is leaderless, with its former leader having taken a very hands-on approach, it'll be difficult for someone else to take over quickly.
Right now, the second biggest company on the world is leaderless, with its former leader having taken a very hands-on approach, it'll be difficult for someone else to take over quickly.
Put out his best XI more or less - we looked leaderless, ruder-less and played like strangers.
Sage has named a save my job XI. Without the pressure I can imagine he’d have rotated. Sunday will be fun
November 5, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Put out his best XI more or less - we looked leaderless, ruder-less and played like strangers.
Washington's AI safety watchdog left leaderless as it is drawn closer to White House
Critics fear its findings on risks ranging from cyberattacks to bioweapons
https://www.vublox.com/posts/washingtons-ai-safety-watchdog-left-leaderless-as-it-is-drawn-closer-to-white-house-h00rf8?utm_source=bluesky
Critics fear its findings on risks ranging from cyberattacks to bioweapons
https://www.vublox.com/posts/washingtons-ai-safety-watchdog-left-leaderless-as-it-is-drawn-closer-to-white-house-h00rf8?utm_source=bluesky
https://www.vublox.com/posts/washingtons-ai-safety-watchdog-left-leaderless-as-it-is-drawn-closer-to-white-house-h00rf8?utm_source=bluesky
www.vublox.com
November 9, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Washington's AI safety watchdog left leaderless as it is drawn closer to White House
Critics fear its findings on risks ranging from cyberattacks to bioweapons
https://www.vublox.com/posts/washingtons-ai-safety-watchdog-left-leaderless-as-it-is-drawn-closer-to-white-house-h00rf8?utm_source=bluesky
Critics fear its findings on risks ranging from cyberattacks to bioweapons
https://www.vublox.com/posts/washingtons-ai-safety-watchdog-left-leaderless-as-it-is-drawn-closer-to-white-house-h00rf8?utm_source=bluesky
America's top cyber agency has been leaderless for almost two years. Trump's fix: hand it to Palantir's security chief.
paktechstan.com/article/trum...
paktechstan.com/article/trum...
November 10, 2026 at 11:08 AM
America's top cyber agency has been leaderless for almost two years. Trump's fix: hand it to Palantir's security chief.
paktechstan.com/article/trum...
paktechstan.com/article/trum...
"Democratic centralized doomed them to collapse."
Even reading this in rhe most generous way possible - rhat having leaders made the BPP vulnerable to assassination and persecution of that leadership, we still hit a snag;
That your own leaderless decentralized "movement" isn't doing jack shit.
Even reading this in rhe most generous way possible - rhat having leaders made the BPP vulnerable to assassination and persecution of that leadership, we still hit a snag;
That your own leaderless decentralized "movement" isn't doing jack shit.
November 9, 2026 at 7:25 PM
"Democratic centralized doomed them to collapse."
Even reading this in rhe most generous way possible - rhat having leaders made the BPP vulnerable to assassination and persecution of that leadership, we still hit a snag;
That your own leaderless decentralized "movement" isn't doing jack shit.
Even reading this in rhe most generous way possible - rhat having leaders made the BPP vulnerable to assassination and persecution of that leadership, we still hit a snag;
That your own leaderless decentralized "movement" isn't doing jack shit.
Washington's AI safety watchdog left leaderless as it is drawn closer to White House
Critics fear its findings on risks ranging from cyberattacks to bioweapons could be softened…
https://www.vublox.com/posts/washingtons-ai-safety-watchdog-left-leaderless-as-it-is-drawn-closer-to-white-house-h00rf8
Critics fear its findings on risks ranging from cyberattacks to bioweapons could be softened…
https://www.vublox.com/posts/washingtons-ai-safety-watchdog-left-leaderless-as-it-is-drawn-closer-to-white-house-h00rf8
Washington's AI safety watchdog left leaderless as it is drawn closer to White H
Critics fear its findings on risks ranging from cyberattacks to bioweapons could be softened to suit the tech industry.
www.vublox.com
November 9, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Washington's AI safety watchdog left leaderless as it is drawn closer to White House
Critics fear its findings on risks ranging from cyberattacks to bioweapons could be softened…
https://www.vublox.com/posts/washingtons-ai-safety-watchdog-left-leaderless-as-it-is-drawn-closer-to-white-house-h00rf8
Critics fear its findings on risks ranging from cyberattacks to bioweapons could be softened…
https://www.vublox.com/posts/washingtons-ai-safety-watchdog-left-leaderless-as-it-is-drawn-closer-to-white-house-h00rf8
Never was mine, I believe we have been a leaderless country he is a POS
November 4, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Never was mine, I believe we have been a leaderless country he is a POS
We cannot wait until 2030. The ONDP and leaderless libs are feckless. Unless all these investigations turn something up we’re all sitting ducks.
November 6, 2026 at 11:06 PM
We cannot wait until 2030. The ONDP and leaderless libs are feckless. Unless all these investigations turn something up we’re all sitting ducks.
Agreed, but there's like a line. Since I'm in management and was leaderless for a while I was able to say "were not going to ship code we don't understand regardless of how it's written" and have supported my devs who feel the same. Bc of that we've managed to temper the issues.
November 8, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Agreed, but there's like a line. Since I'm in management and was leaderless for a while I was able to say "were not going to ship code we don't understand regardless of how it's written" and have supported my devs who feel the same. Bc of that we've managed to temper the issues.
🔄 Updated Arxiv Paper
Title: Adaptive stabilization of a leaderless bearing-constrained formation with disturbances
Authors: Minh Hoang Trinh, Chuong Van Nguyen, Quoc Van Tran, Tuynh Van Pham
Read more: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.06355
Title: Adaptive stabilization of a leaderless bearing-constrained formation with disturbances
Authors: Minh Hoang Trinh, Chuong Van Nguyen, Quoc Van Tran, Tuynh Van Pham
Read more: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.06355
November 11, 2026 at 8:02 AM
🔄 Updated Arxiv Paper
Title: Adaptive stabilization of a leaderless bearing-constrained formation with disturbances
Authors: Minh Hoang Trinh, Chuong Van Nguyen, Quoc Van Tran, Tuynh Van Pham
Read more: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.06355
Title: Adaptive stabilization of a leaderless bearing-constrained formation with disturbances
Authors: Minh Hoang Trinh, Chuong Van Nguyen, Quoc Van Tran, Tuynh Van Pham
Read more: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.06355
“Schumer has already said he has the votes to win the leadership election.” So basically its going to be same old leaderless stuff with more people.
www.newsweek.com/chuck-schume...
www.newsweek.com/chuck-schume...
Chuck Schumer faces revolt despite blue tsunami—Full list of Democratic rebels
www.newsweek.com
November 6, 2026 at 10:25 PM
“Schumer has already said he has the votes to win the leadership election.” So basically its going to be same old leaderless stuff with more people.
www.newsweek.com/chuck-schume...
www.newsweek.com/chuck-schume...