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Library
Cards and collections from my Semble library. Pages saved for later, grouped into shelves I return to. 1431 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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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying For It
This is the third part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. In the last part, we looked at the various ways pre-modern armies might mobilize their armies, a process that mainly consisted of recruiting and equipping soldiers. … <a href="https://acoup.blog/2026/06/26/collections-pre-modern-armies-for-worldbuilders-part-iii-paying-for-it/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying For It</span> <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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The Winning Variant
A short documentary about A/B testing, algorithmic optimization, and the small act of ignoring both. In 2009, a Google designer quit over forty-one shades of blue. The machine was making his decisions — and it was often right. About what it means to make something by hand in a world that can tell you, with a number, exactly what would have worked better.
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Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 (@peterwildeford) on X
Great to see @tristanharris talking on his podcast about recursive self-improvement. Here's how his guest, Tim Fist, puts it -- "Over the last few months we've had all three of the leading US AI labs say that having the option for a global slowdown or pause in AI development is
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Make AI Boring Again (xpost)
On the ethics of engagement, the problem with purity politics, and a world worth fighting for Crossposted from here.   I am a contrarian who likes to argue and complain a lot. Because of this, I have never been inclined to block people who argue with me or complain about my work, or even lash […]
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The Value of Getting Closer to the Work
Scaling The core problem of scaling a team is that not everyone can know everything. Scaling is the work of systematizing that – so that things are understandable, knowable. It’s turning “tribal knowledge” into documentation, automation, and process. It used to be that only the automation was for the machine, but now documentation is machine […]
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Slow down to speed up: so much has changed in 6 months’ time
An overview of what’s changed in engineering during the last six months, how various tech companies are changing how they work, and why slowing down could be a sensible strategy
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The Permission Machine
When Elon Musk calls to imprison the government, it turns out not to matter very much. But when thousands of accounts repeat each other, it matters enormously.
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What the Anthropic fight says about AI regulation
Fables of the deconstruction of American power
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Heterosexuality Strikes Back
If we want to save heterosexuality, we must save it from heterosexualism.
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Battle Of The Straights
We ain't talking about Hormuz, baby.
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Adversarial Communication
<p>“AI” turns every conversation into a fight, because fighting is what they are good at.</p>
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The Coming Loop
Loops, harnesses, and why even loop skeptics may end up with them.
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ε/δ Thinking
We live in a world shaped by, and highly conducive to, discrete or 0/1 thinking. But not so long ago, we lived in a world shaped by, and highly conducive to, a…
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Search, Discovery, Pills, and Portals
Solving the distribution crisis in marketing
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Why Are LLMs Smart?
A popular way to explain how current LLMs work is to say that “all” they do is predict the next most likely word in a sentence.
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From AGI to ASI
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2606.12683: From AGI to ASI
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A Camera, Not an Engine II
Further thoughts on photography in latent space, now with agents!
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What does it mean for AI to be democratic?
Some pushback on a specific fuzzy idea with some ominous implications
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Import AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASI
How religious are beliefs in the singularity?
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GLM-5.2 Is The New Best Open Model
GLM-5.2 arrived last week.