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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
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toread
- Collection 1 card
To process
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Building with agents
- Collection 3 cards
Protocol thinking
- Collection 4 cards
Cybernetics
- Collection 1 card
Cryptocurrency
It's bad
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Thinking about thinking
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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
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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
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Is Bluesky dying?
An attempt to untangle a few different arguments around the future of Bluesky – if it has one
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The Last Days Of Social Media
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.
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Why it’s getting harder to measure AI performance
The most famous chart in AI might be obsolete soon.
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Birthright and Wrong
The Regime's Attack on the Constituton
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Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed
Hint: it's not benchmark scores.
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Can Agentic AI Coding Tools Finally End Copyright For Software While Re-Inventing Open Source?
Most of the discussions about the impact of the latest generative AI systems on copyright have centered on text, images and video. That’s no surprise, since writers, artists and film-makers feel very strongly about their creations, and members of the public can relate easily to the issues that AI raises for this kind of creativity. But there’s […]
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Is ubiquitous A.I. writing "inevitable"?
On a weird few weeks of A.I.-writing scandals
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Quoting Daniel Stenberg
<blockquote cite="https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116336957584445742"><p>The challenge with AI in open source security has transitioned from an AI slop tsunami into more of a ... plain security report tsunami. Less slop but lots of reports. Many of them really good.</p> <p>I'm spending hours per day on this now. It's intense.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">— <a href="https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116336957584445742">Daniel Stenberg</a>, lead developer of cURL</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/daniel-stenberg">daniel-stenberg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/curl">curl</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-security-research">ai-security-research</a></p>
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The cognitive impact of coding agents
<p>A fun thing about <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/2/lennys-podcast/">recording a podcast</a> with a professional like Lenny Rachitsky is that his team know how to slice the resulting video up into TikTok-sized short form vertical videos. Here's <a href="https://x.com/lennysan/status/2039845666680176703">one he shared on Twitter today</a> which ended up attracting over 1.1m views!</p> <p><video src="https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/cognitive-cost.mp4" poster="https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/cognitive-cost-poster.jpg" controls preload="none" playsinline style="display:block; max-width:400px; width:100%; height:auto; margin:0 auto" ><track src="https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/cognitive-cost.vtt" kind="captions" srclang="en" label="English"></video> </p> <p>That was 48 seconds. Our <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/2/lennys-podcast/">full conversation</a> lasted 1 hour 40 minutes.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-ethics">ai-ethics</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/coding-agents">coding-agents</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/agentic-engineering">agentic-engineering</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/podcast-appearances">podcast-appearances</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cognitive-debt">cognitive-debt</a></p>
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The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites
I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, and now every time a reactionary Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation. Here's the column: On Instagram, there’s an activist named Brian Patrick (@pano.dime) who has dedicated
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Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution
How muggles and sociopaths invade and undermine creative subcultures; and how to stop them.
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A Local-First Task Framework
Industrial research lab working on digital tools for creativity and productivity.
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A taxonomy of ATmosphere applications
Last week I spent an energizing, educational, occasionally infuriating week in Vancouver around the ATmosphereConf, a community event gathering developers, investors, data scientists, the odd academic
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Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model
Interpretability research from Anthropic on emotion concepts
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Atmosphere sync: Tap, Hydrant, roll-your-own? - microcosm
A rough framework for deciding how to keep up with atproto data
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If This Then AT: Automation on Protocol
IFTTA is an automation platform built on ATProtocol at Graze Social. It started as a hack-day idea and became a working system for event processing on protocol.
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Graze Social and the IETF
Graze Social sponsored my first in-person IETF meeting in Montreal last November. This post is about what it was like to be there and why standards participation matters for small companies.
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Habermas's Bastards
The Rogue Philosophers of Right Wing Authoritarianism
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The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House
Welcome to the era of sprawling, idiosyncratic tooling.
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Why aren't smart people happier?
A new way to think about brainpower.