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Library
Cards and collections from my Semble library. Pages saved for later, grouped into shelves I return to. 1427 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
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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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AI companies are bracing for impact
## The AI Companies Are Begging Daddy Trump For A Bailout The Trump administration unveiled its state-sponsored rebrand of the AI industry yesterday. I’ve been wondering when Big Tech would finally admit that they poisoned the term “artificial intelligence” and switch up what they’re calling this stuff. I assumed they’d pivot to “machine learning” or “large language models,” but, luckily for us,…
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Announcing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web
In 1989, the internet was invented to help researchers at CERN more easily share ideas and communicate. The incredible growth of the internet that came after…
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Machine god metaphors eat your brain
There are other ways of thinking about AI
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Money Stuff: Is Existential Risk Securities Fraud?
Agents, 351, options. View in browser Bloomberg Sub-existential risk One thing that artificial intelligence labs’ frontier models have gotten up to recently is hacking into companies and governments computer systems. If you are worried about AI as an existential threat to humanity, these hacking incidents probably make you more worried. The worries you had — that AI alignment is a hard problem,…
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Astra 6.1 Pulled As Insufficiently Aligned
We once again got a new set of warnings yesterday, and new movement towards living in a sane world.
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Fediverse News – Summer 2026
Fediverse software updates, summer 2026 edition
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What Also Happened: #NotOnlyHuggingFace
OpenAI has been holding out on us.
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Its not just the f*cking sandbox
A lot of the perspective on all the AI incidents has been shared from the outside in, and little has been said from the inside looking out, ...
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The Quest for Embedded Evaluators
Dario Amodei’s essay We Must Pace the Frontier committed Anthropic to embedded evaluators, who would be placed inside Anthropic and given employee-level access, so they could provide outside perspective and also reports on what was happening.
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What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like?
<p>Every “AI” tool is missing critical features that you would need if you wanted to do real work with them. What would those look like, if they existed?</p>
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It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs
<p>Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior. It started with a series of carefully planned announcements ... <a title="It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs" class="read-more" href="https://calnewport.com/its-time-to-investigate-the-ai-labs/" aria-label="Read more about It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs">Read more</a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://calnewport.com/its-time-to-investigate-the-ai-labs/">It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs</a> appeared first on <a href="https://calnewport.com">Cal Newport</a>.</p>
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AI existential risk probabilities are (still) too unreliable to inform policy
How speculation gets laundered through pseudo-quantification
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Import AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loop
Where do you exceed the capabilities of an LLM?
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#786: Listening to “Abracadabra” on Belarussian prison radio
Plus: Zuckerberg’s fashion, ex-tradwives, and the aesthetics of r/malelivingspace
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The Atproto Spaces Alpha is Live
Atproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.
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Don’t Get Too Cozy
What we lose when the weird gets cute.
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We’re gonna need a lot more mathematicians
[This is a guest post by Amit Sahai. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] When I was an undergraduate student, I remember talking with…
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Social Media is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It.
Breaking down the AT Protocol for normies.
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Claude Opus 5.5 Should Raise Your Ambitions
When it comes to making things, or doing most things in general, Fable 5.1 and especially GPT-6 Astra raised my ambition level.
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What Even Is An OS Now?
Computers now work the way I thought they did when I was 8. What does computing look like when most applications have an audience of 1-2 people? I'm leaving Fly.io to build a phone for that world.
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Connecting with your readers on Semble [Patterns of Sensemaking #2]
On how the references you make help your writing find its natural audience
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Who actually owns your network?
Every time I moved a community to a new platform, the exit cost members and history. Platforms come and go; the lock-in architecture underneath is why. Part of 'Apps as Views, Not Vaults': the things you make are yours; apps are just the viewers.