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Library
Cards and collections from my Semble library. Pages saved for later, grouped into shelves I return to. 1016 cards, 26 shelfves.
Shelves
26 collections- Collection 9 cards
Modern reading apps
Cool apps to help you read better
- Collection 793 cards
Skyreader Saves
- Collection 2 cards
toread
- Collection 1 card
To process
- Collection 2 cards
Building with agents
- Collection 3 cards
Protocol thinking
- Collection 4 cards
Cybernetics
- Collection 1 card
Cryptocurrency
It's bad
- Collection 2 cards
Thinking about thinking
- Collection 2 cards
ATproto development
Tools and resources for building on atproto
- Collection 20 cards
Cool Atmosphere apps
- Collection 9 cards
Internet sensemaking
- Collection 5 cards
The structure of social media
- Collection 9 cards
Books I've been reading
- Collection 3 cards
Tools for thought
- Collection 1 card
Cool tools
- Collection 2 cards
Awesome terminal
- Collection 8 cards
Local first
- Collection 5 cards
Tech right analysis
- Collection 9 cards
Security?
- Collection 1 card
Tech and Law
- Collection 118 cards
the AI of it all
- Collection 5 cards
understanding events
- Collection 1 card
vc stuff
- Collection 12 cards
development
- Collection 19 cards
atproto stuff
Recently filed
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Anthropic has caught up to OpenAI in image understanding
But neither one is all that good.
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It's not enough to have better ideals.
You also need to build a better product.
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How I Learned to Read Way, Way More
I had to rethink my relationship to attention
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Apple’s Siri-AI, or more shouting into the void about “private” agents
Yesterday Apple announced a big step towards deploying real AI in their Siri ecosystem. In most ways this is good and inevitable: Siri is one of the world’s most widely-used voice agents, and it would be good if it didn’t suck. The idea that Apple would boost its capabilities with frontier models wasn’t so much … <a href="https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/06/09/apples-siri-ai-or-more-shouting-into-the-void-about-private-agents/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Apple’s Siri-AI, or more shouting into the void about “private” agents</span> <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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Three Labs With a Plan and A Memorandum
The big story today is the release of Claude Fable 5, the version of Claude Mythos that Anthropic believes they can safely distribute to the people.
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Claude Fable 5 and new AI safety fables
One step further into the power politics of frontier AI systems.
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Google Search Changed: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of AI Search
Google Search is not longer about indexing the web, it's about being an AI assistant.
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Challenges: Trivial, Grand, and Whitehead
Introducing the Protocol Institute Challenges program
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Standardizing Bookmarks in the Atmosphere
a mini proposal for a shared bookmark lexicon
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Change Agent
The journey of a thousand miles begins…with having some idea of where you ought to go.
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My Students Can’t Read
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
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Punk is anti-AI
How to make human punk
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What Steven Spielberg Taught Me About Fear, Catharsis, and Being Human
Hollywood is struggling, but Spielberg insists that the big screen is still the best place to work out our collective dreams, joys and sorrows.
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Import AI 460: Reward hacking society, RSI data from Anthropic; and RL-based quadcopter racing
When will markets price the singularity?
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Flashcards as Notes
Effortful reading habits and resisting the urge to defer attention
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FR#162 – EU Regulation Won’t Save Open Social Networks
The European Commission has decided not to extend the Digital Markets Act's interoperability rules to social media, closing off a potential pathway for adoption for open social networks.
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A simple trick to fix the data center debate
Remove the status quo bias by asking "would we spend this much in tax revenue to avoid the externalities of the data center?"
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Mindmap June 6, 2026
Stuff I'm thinking about
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The Peripheral
William Gibson's best novel tells us a lot about where we are and where we might end up.
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Permissioned Data Diary 6: Boring Auth
In which we resist the temptation to invent a clever authorization model & pick the boring one instead.
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Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet
It’s not about whether technology is inherently good or bad, liberating or oppressive. Architecture shapes incentives; incentives shape outcomes.
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New 60 Minutes Boss Only Lasts 15 Minutes
Give him the business, Scotty.