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Library
Cards and collections from my Semble library. Pages saved for later, grouped into shelves I return to. 1433 cards, 32 shelfves.
Shelves
32 collections- Collection 3 cards
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
- 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
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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
- Collection 1 card
Cool tools
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Awesome terminal
- Collection 8 cards
Local first
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Tech right analysis
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Security?
- Collection 1 card
Tech and Law
- Collection 153 cards
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
Recently filed
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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.
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Agentic AI gets lost
On the failure of AI to develop world models
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Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake
This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.
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Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5: Capabilities
Only three days after the release of Claude Fable 5, Anthropic was forced by the United States Government to make it unavailable, when a jailbreak was brought to its attention, rather than the previous situation of ‘yes obviously experts can jailbreak anything if they care enough’ and ‘yes obviously you can ask Fable to fix your code.’
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The Goldilocks Principle in Fantasy Strategy
Although I’ve played way too many games for way too many hours over the way too many years I’ve been writing these histories, it’s safe to say that I haven’t spent more time with any one game than Heroes of Might and Magic II. Partly this was down to circumstance. Heroes II showed up on the […]
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This 1986 Japanese adventure game showing up on Steam in 2026 guarantees it makes my GOTY list—you've really got to play it
Relics doesn't belong in a museum: it belongs on your PC.
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There Are No Instances in atproto
Like RSS and Google Reader.
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Leviathan Waking
On Anthropic/USG, and a new era in AI governance
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The Once And Future Fable #3: Fix This Code
The mainstream media continues to sleep on the most important story in the world.
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State of the blog, mid-2026
About 3 years since I started writing weekly.
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FR#167 - Change
On coordination in a decentralised network, and the European Social Stack declaration.
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AI #173: AI Pauses
A lot of things are always happening.
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co/core — an AI cooperative
A design rationale for the cocore token market — what each mechanic does, why it's there, what we deliberately left out, and how the whole thing stays honest.
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Agentic coding and persistent returns to expertise
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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Comments are a basic web feature. So why aren’t they solved on ATProto yet?
Comments are about as old and basic as the social web gets, so I assumed ATProto would have them figured out. It doesn’t, not yet. Here is my take on why standard.site deferred comments on pu…
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Running local models is good now
Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months
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Matthew Butterick | Extinction-level capitalism
Matthew Butterick
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Report on the State of Reports About The Humanities
Of A Certain Kind of Report, At Least
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The MAGA power struggle that could decide the fate of Anthropic
It may not be easy for Anthropic to escape the Trump export ban.