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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.
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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
- Collection 1 card
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
- Collection 2 cards
Awesome terminal
- Collection 8 cards
Local first
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Tech right analysis
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Security?
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Tech and Law
- Collection 153 cards
the AI of it all
- Collection 5 cards
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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A Cascade of Conscientiousness
Launching FAI's new Physical Intelligence Project
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OpenAI’s math breakthrough played to AI’s strengths
I explain OpenAI’s math breakthrough more clearly than OpenAI did.
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AI #170: Lack of Executive Order
Last week ended on a cliffhanger of sorts.
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Choosing to Stay Human
If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:
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We May Be Entering A Second Axial Age
The transition from small hunter-gatherer societies into complex civilizations gave rise to the first Axial Age. Today, the planetary polycrisis of climate chaos, mass migration, increasing warfare and transformative AI represents a rupture of comparable magnitude.
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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
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Import AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity story
What AI-driven miracles will happen this year?
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RTMH: Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas on AI
His holiness has spoken, frequently about AI.
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AI Isn't Management. Try Explaining That to Matthew Prince
At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!
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Some ideas for what comes next, May 2026
Gemini Flash 3.5, Mythos, open-closed balance, America's open-source surge, emerging power struggles and more.
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Agents want flexible schemas
The NoSQL comeback nobody saw coming
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Suburbanasia
The environment younger Millennials and older Gen-Z grew up in withered away their ability to mitigate stress and handle disagreements. Is there any way to fix it?
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Commodity Intelligence
The seductiveness of “general intelligence” is rooted in a costly category error
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Planescape: Torment, Part 1: From the Tabletop…
This article tells part of the general story of Dungeons & Dragons on the tabletop and on computers, which includes the more specific one of the Infinity Engine games. My power fantasy when playing a role-playing game is to confront a villain, explain point by point why his master plan is flawed, and then get […]
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Many Act 2 Games are Afoot
Protocol Institute, Long Now Labs, Strange Rules art show, vgr_zirp update, World Machines, TensTorrent
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Graph Minds Notebook
A series about hive minds, Borgs, egregores, and other emergent beasts
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AI #169: New Knowledge
Even in a relatively quiet period, AI is out there creating new knowledge.
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Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention?
Let’s not skip the hard work of AI governance
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A history of the data center panic - part 1
Pre-ChatGPT and the creation of common wisdom
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AI, "Humanity", and Dr. Manhattan Syndrome
Public trust in AI is already deteriorating. Execs' rhetorical focus on capital-H Humanity over real people isn't helping. I call it Dr. Manhattan Syndrome—and the nuclear industry already showed us how it ends.