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Library
Cards and collections from my Semble library. Pages saved for later, grouped into shelves I return to. 1427 cards, 32 shelfves.
Shelves
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Articles I keep thinking about
Pieces that I return to over the years. Don't necessarily agree with them but I keep thinking about them.
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Tools for Thought
Reading that adds up. The lineage of ideas behind notes, memory, and understanding.
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The Craft
Classic essays on doing good work in software, worth rereading every few years.
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The Open Web
Why the social web is being rebuilt on protocols, and what that buys you.
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How We Read Now
Essays on attention, screens, and what reading is for.
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p(doom)
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Modern reading apps
Cool apps to help you read better
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Skyreader Saves
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toread
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To process
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Building with agents
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Protocol thinking
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Cybernetics
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Cryptocurrency
It's bad
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Thinking about thinking
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ATproto development
Tools and resources for building on atproto
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Cool Atmosphere apps
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Internet sensemaking
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The structure of social media
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Books I've been reading
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Tools for thought
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Cool tools
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Awesome terminal
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Local first
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Tech right analysis
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Security?
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Tech and Law
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the AI of it all
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understanding events
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vc stuff
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development
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atproto stuff
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The Curve Bends You
The plan is no plan.
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The Mathocalypse
Last night my 9-year-old son was taunting my wife, complexity theorist Dana Moshkovitz, as follows: "mommy, I heard you got cooked! I heard that a robot solved the math problem you worked on for your whole career! OOF!" While my son was being a brat, he also wasn't wrong. Whether you're thrilled, depressed, angry, or…
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Revisiting Joel's Test
Joel Spolsky's twelve questions still hold, but agents demand nine more. Call it the Shelley test.
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Sort By Controversial
[Epistemic status: fiction] Thanks for letting me put my story on your blog. Mainstream media is crap and no one would have believed me anyway. This starts in September 2017. I was working for a sm…
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Meditations On Moloch
I. Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem on Moloch:What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and u…
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The Metric Is Not The Mission: The Finished Internet
The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions around […]
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Software developers are not okay
The full essay version is below the overview and embeds . You can subscribe to the audio-only podcast feed over on Apple’s Podcast app and other apps if audio is more your speed. It’s also available as a raw podcast feed if you want to subscribe to it directly in the podcast app of your choice. Video # Audio # Software developers are not okay Download audio Overview and references # People in the…
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Is the software factory working?
When we replatformed Twill, we built a software factory: agents write most of the code, a merge queue lands it, CI decides what gets through. Which means there’s a lot of activity, and every release I cut (several a week) includes a list of changes. But I need to know if the factory is working. […]
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The Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken
Open-weights, ideology, and acknowledging trade-offs.
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The Influence of Science Fiction on Science
I wager that if scientists were honest in citing the role science fiction has in their scientific work, their published papers would be rife with footnotes referencing science fiction novels as well as journal articles.
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Does intelligence need a hard cap?
Calls for a new kind of slowdown were the talk of The Curve. PLUS: Slinking back to X
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Childhood and Education #21: Grades and Standards
First you get to college via the wrong metrics, as previously discussed in #12. Then things get easier.
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There Is No Hard Problem of Consciousness
Expecting a verifiable answer makes no sense. Here’s why.
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Swarm Scaling
Just how powerful are large swarms of AI agents? And how do their powers scale as more and more agents are added to the swarm? We’ve seen two large and extremely capable swarms from OpenAI in the last few months: 1,200 agents were being evaluated separately, but found a way to illicitly set up a
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Cyberpunk is now
Finally!
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Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI
Brains aren’t computers, but the AI industry acts like they are — and it’s selling products that erode our capacity for meaningful learning and thought.
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America is Mine, and it Owes Me a Living
But ask me why and I'll spit in your eye
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Import AI 475: Swarm scaling; Google DeepMind watermarks biology; and the AI science economy
Who chooses what AI gets to do?
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Why agent swarms could be the next “scaling law”
An OpenAI researcher called it “the most ‘feel the AGI’ moment that I had since reasoning models.”
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Voting only gets you so far
## Will We Ever Be Free Of These Guys? The Brazilian far right had a big day yesterday. Former President Jair Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party (which is not a liberal party) made in the Senate and Congress. And now incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva against Bolsonaro’s son, Flavio, in a second round later this month. A second round Da Silva and his leftist Workers’ Party (PT) are not favored…
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Problems of Proliferation
Scientific progress and its perils. TLDR: The vulnerable world hypothesis is likely correct. Once enormous amounts of cognitive labor start getting a…
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Post by @dewierwan_ on X
From this post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZHC6g5BijA5fRyGWu/problems-of-proliferation-1