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Library
Cards and collections from my Semble library. Pages saved for later, grouped into shelves I return to. 1434 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.
- Collection 20 cards
p(doom)
- Collection 9 cards
Modern reading apps
Cool apps to help you read better
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Skyreader Saves
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toread
- Collection 1 card
To process
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Building with agents
- Collection 3 cards
Protocol thinking
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Cybernetics
- Collection 1 card
Cryptocurrency
It's bad
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Thinking about thinking
- Collection 2 cards
ATproto development
Tools and resources for building on atproto
- Collection 20 cards
Cool Atmosphere apps
- Collection 9 cards
Internet sensemaking
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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
- Collection 10 cards
Security?
- Collection 1 card
Tech and Law
- Collection 153 cards
the AI of it all
- Collection 5 cards
understanding events
- Collection 1 card
vc stuff
- Collection 12 cards
development
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atproto stuff
Recently filed
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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.
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I Love the Computer
An exploration of how I became a massive geek.
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Conscious or Not
For as long as I remember, people have been arguing about whether machines could be intelligent or not.
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Cuck Internet Theory
a confession
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The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust
Trump and Big Tech have fused into a new kind of threat
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Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns
Where are your agents right now?
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The Once And Future Fable #2
On Friday evening the United States Government has forced Anthropic to take down all access to Fable and Mythos.
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#773: Regressing to the mean
Plus: slop wildlife, the post-American internet and AI for emotional labor
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Welcome to the AGI era of AI governance
It's a one-way door and we weren't ready for it.
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Formal methods and the future of programming
I’ve been telling people for the last 25 years that Jane Street as an organization was just not interested in formal methods.
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The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.
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The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about the protocols, federations, and quiet machinery underneath everything you actually use.
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American Government Takes Down Claude Fable
No good policy gets announced shortly after 5pm eastern on a Friday.
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Every Frame Perfect
How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product
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The Big Man
Elizabeth Maher's world-building series continues, reimagining American folklore from a protocolized perspective
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Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5: The System Card
First things first: Claude Fable 5 is the new best publicly available model.
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Academia: What Was "Digital Literacy"?
Short Shelf Lives Make For Bad Curricular Planning
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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight
This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, I thought I might try to lay out a more general sense of how military systems tend to map on to societies, both because such general historical frameworks are handy for thinking about the past, but…
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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIa: Mobilization without Administration
This is the second part (I, IIa) 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. While I hope this will be of great interest to the history nerds out there, I’ve opted to structure this specifically as a service for the worldbuilders out … <a href="https://acoup.blog/2026/06/12/collections-pre-modern-armies-for-worldbuilders-part-iia-mobilization-without-administration/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIa: Mobilization without Administration</span> <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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The world’s first trillionaire is a killer
Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering.
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Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology
Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI
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[AINews] Loopcraft: The Art of Stacking Loops
a quiet day lets us highlight a great concept from Peter Steinberger, Boris Cherny, and Andrej Karpathy