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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
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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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Permissioned Data Diary 2: Buckets
The second in a series of posts building up a solution to permissioned data on atproto. We introduce buckets: a new protocol primitive for creating a shared social context.
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Folding context
Context windows, compression, and "folding the dough"
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Good vibes, bad vendors
AI coding works now. Here's how to think about it.
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beaker/archive-notice.md at master · beakerbrowser/beaker
An experimental peer-to-peer Web browser. Contribute to beakerbrowser/beaker development by creating an account on GitHub.
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The rules to make the rules
The rules to make the rules My journey to understand blockchain political systems continues. Protocols as legislation Blockchains make an effort to remove operational discretion from the nodes …
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pfrazee/infocivics: Information Civics paper
Information Civics paper. Contribute to pfrazee/infocivics development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Practical Decentralization
The point of decentralization is to guarantee the rights of individuals and communities on the Internet. Pulling that off is a balancing act between practicality and ideology.
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Chatty Community Gardens
Group chat is fertile soil for low-stakes ideation. With tending, seeds of thought can grow into structured, evergreen knowledge.
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Leaf 0.3 - The Server Behind Roomy
For the last couple months we've been iterating on Roomy with its brand-new architecture, and we're finally ready to talk in more detail about the not-so-secret sauce that will power Roomy moving forward.
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Digital Strategy for Organisations
Digital power is created through the interplay of mobilizing and organizing. Open Social protocols bridge the gap.
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Living Documents on the Feed
What could long-form writing sitting alongside posts look like?
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Village-scale resilience
The end-of-the-world already happened, it's just not evenly distributed. But with every end is a new beginning.
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Chat is minimum-viable anything
Chat is the minimum-viable tool for online organizing. Without complete control over our means of communication, our ability to organize depends entirely on the goodwill of the very same hegemonic incumbents which we seek to surpass.
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Fraud Investigation is Believing Your Lying Eyes
The financial industry has paid tens of billions of dollars in tuition on fraud detection. Here are some observations for investigators with badges, press cards, or GoPros.
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The shallow impact of India’s AI summit
The US government still can’t think beyond “winning.” The rest of the world is still thinking too small
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Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world
By Ryan Lopopolo, Member of the Technical Staff
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A Sapphirepunk Manifesto
There is no security through insecurity.
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Mathematics in the Library of Babel
Mathematics isn't only about saying true things. It's about asking the right questions, being confused, stumbling about, getting distracted, being wrong, recognizing when you're wrong, being stuck. Mostly being stuck. It's about clinging to a giant edifice and feeling it out until you understand some tiny piece of it. It's about finding meaning in and intuition for the texture of an object which, at first, can only be apprehended by bashing your skull into it until it imprints on your forehead. Then trying to convey some of that insight to someone else, and watching as they find their own way to it. I started trying to get LLMs to do math in July 2020, through the game "AI Dungeon," one of the earliest applications powered by GPT-3. I first got GPT-3 to produce a correct proof (of Fermat's Little Theorem) in April 2022. At the time I did not think they would become useful for math research in the near term. This changed when the first reasoning models were released: on February 1, 2025, I wrote that the model o3-mini-high “clearly has passed the threshold of genuine usefulness” for research, while still making many, many mistakes. Since then, the models have improved, and ChatGPT 5.2 Pro (released in December 2025) can regularly provide reasonable proofs of lemmas that I would characterize as “involved but routine for experts,” though it still makes many errors. And I have been using Codex, OpenAI's coding/computer use agent, for scientific computing tasks I would not have considered attempting a few months ago. In public comments, I've tried to credit successes while pushing back against hype. I've talked a lot about "slop" papers on arXiv. I have worried that we are polluting the scientific commons with incorrect mathematics whose errors are enormously difficult to detect. I've tried to focus on the present. In this essay I'll talk about the future.
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How will OpenAI compete?
OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are leveraging their product and distribution. And a lot of the value and leverage will come from new experiences that haven’t been invented yet, and it can’t invent all of those itself. What’s the plan?
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The Median Voter Theorem is a Clarity Trap
What the Democratic party needs - what it demands - is bold, persistent experimentation
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Ultima IX
This article tells part of the story of the Ultima series. Years ago, [Origin Systems] released Strike Commander, a high-concept flight sim that, while very entertaining from a purely theoretical point of view, was so resource-demanding that no one in the country actually owned a machine that could play it. Later, in Ultima VIII, the […]
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A.I. Isn't People
How many Reddit posts does it take to learn to read?