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Library
Cards and collections from my Semble library. Pages saved for later, grouped into shelves I return to. 774 cards, 25 shelfves.
Shelves
25 collections- Collection 569 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 19 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 105 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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My Sweet, Smart Boyfriend Got Sucked Into The Manosphere
A new documentary, 'Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere,' investigates red-pilled creators and their followers. Three women explain what dating them is like.
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The Cognitive Dark Forest
The open web with AIs is turning into a dark forest.
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Ursula's list
Ursula Franklin is one of my all-time favorite thinkers about both the obvious and obscured parts of our technological world.
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What's good?
I want to start by talking about some things that seem like potential ways out of the dark forest tangle—even if they’re imperfect, which they all are.
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The work at hand
<p>I work on problems with networks because I am an ordinary person and I care about ordinary people. Sometimes <em>caring about ordinary people</em> means finding new ropes to pull on and throwing your weight into it. </p><p>For those of us inside the US but outside the VIP lounge of American</p>
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A year into the wreckage and salvage
<p>It’s <s>coming up on</s> been a year, somehow, since I <a href="https://www.wrecka.ge/into-the-wreck/" rel="noreferrer">started this website/micro-studio/space to think in</a>. What a wild choice that was, setting out in October of 2024, eyes on the horizon! We’d hoped things would turn out differently. </p><p>The research and thinking I</p>
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Clouded skies for open networks
<p>Last week, I finished an essay about platform design affordances and content moderation expectations and community-level context collapse on Bluesky for <a href="https://www.wrecka.ge/a-year-into-the-wreckage-and-salvage/" rel="noreferrer">Tech Policy Press</a> and set it aside to cool before a last read-through. An hour later, the Trump administration brought to Bluesky a propaganda-zombie army made up of the</p>
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Sparks fly up
Once you’ve seized the tools of political life to build communal power, it’s hard to forget what a hammer feels like in your hand.
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Cosmik Updates: February 2026
February was a fun and a busy month, we launched some important new Semble features including collaborative collections, collection following and interoperability with Margin (an ATProto bookmarking and annotation app). We also saw a lot of great community contributions, both by humans and AI agents(!)
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What happened to Science Goodreads and how do we rebuild it? A 65 million dollar question (at least)
Why don't we have Goodreads for science? We did, until Elsevier acquired it for $65M, mined researcher footprints for billions, and let the product wither. Now AI is making that data even more valuable. But open protocols and cooperative models offer a way to rebuild, with infrastructure researchers actually own.
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Cosmik January Updates
Kicking off 2026! Co-organizing ATScience in Vancouver, launching CAIROS with Discourse Graphs, gearing up for MIRA workshop. 550 signups and 200+ users created cards on Semble. We added search, media type detection (research, books, podcasts, etc) & interop with Margin, another atproto social bookmarking app. Semble collections as live data sources hint at the potential of putting reading lists, portfolios, and other links "on protocol.”
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Cosmik New Year: 2025 in Review, and Looking Forward to 2026
2025 was a big year for Cosmik: Semble went from concept to working product, with active users, a public API, and community members already building on top. We also launched the ATProto Science and CAIROS initiatives to help build an ecosystem bigger than any single product. 2026 will be about making Semble shine—and weaving it into a vibrant ecosystem for collective intelligence. Here's our year in review and what's next.
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Introducing CAIROS: Collective Augmented Intelligence for Research and Open Science
Excited to introduce CAIROS - a cooperative federation building collectively stewarded research commons! 🌱 We're combining modular research, self-sovereign open social networks, and cooperative governance to create new pathways for open science beyond traditional funding models.
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Introducing ATProto Science
ATProto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing research, so we started a new initiative to help bring together researchers, build community, and explore what's possible when science meets cutting-edge open social networks. Also - join us in Vancouver on March 27, 2026, for a full-day exploration of AT Protocol for science, education, and open knowledge.
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Cosmik December Lab Notes: 'Tis the season for sharing your best finds, and other Semble updates
Curate your picks of 2025, spreading attention karma with new Semble notifications, and some cool indie Semble integrations
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Cosmik Lab Notes 002: Semble Updates - Community Tinkering, Basic API, and New Discovery Features
Two weeks into Semble's open alpha and there is a lot going on! Now featuring: PDS-as-API for easy integrations, Similar Cards discovery tab, improved Bluesky post rendering, and our first community PR.
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Cosmik Lab Notes 001: Semble Alpha
Semble, our social knowledge network for researchers, is in open alpha now, and we’d love for you to try it out!
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The Fork in the Road: AI Horseless Carriages or Collective Intelligence for Science
Last month I attended an in-person gathering of scientists, technologists and field-builders at the intersection of AI and metascience. This post is an extended version of a talk I gave there. The prompt for the talk was an invitation to explore one of the main discussion topics at the event - metascience threats and opportunities posed by AI acceleration.
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Cosmik awarded $1M grant from Open Philanthropy and Astera Institute for new social knowledge network for researchers
We’re proud to announce that Cosmik has been awarded a total of $1M in grant funding from Open Philanthropy and the Astera Institute! These generous 2-year grants will support the next chapter of Cosmik and our work at the intersection of next-generation collaborative knowledge tools, AI and science social media. Specifically, the grants will support the development of Semble, a micro-knowledge sharing and discovery network for researchers on Bluesky/ATProto.
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Overcoming information overload with circular attention economies
How "circular attention economies" can transform research discovery from individual overwhelm into collective superpower, "co-augmented reality" glasses surfacing previously hidden trails of knowledge and insight.
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From SenseNets to Cosmik
End of the Astera fellowship, beginning the next chapter in our journey. TLDR; there has never been a better time for researcher-governed science social media
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SenseNets alpha launch retrospective
In September we wrapped up a focused release of v0.1 of the SenseNets app to around a dozen alpha testers. Our intrepid testers were mainly academic researchers who were already active on science social media and interested in open science and novel publication methods.
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From Genius Science to Scenius Science
Hello sensemakers! We’ve been hard at work over the past few months preparing the first alpha release of Sensemaking Networks. We’ll share more update...