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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)
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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
- Collection 4 cards
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
- Collection 9 cards
Internet sensemaking
- Collection 5 cards
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
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A taxonomy of ATmosphere applications
Last week I spent an energizing, educational, occasionally infuriating week in Vancouver around the ATmosphereConf, a community event gathering developers, investors, data scientists, the odd academic
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Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model
Interpretability research from Anthropic on emotion concepts
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Atmosphere sync: Tap, Hydrant, roll-your-own? - microcosm
A rough framework for deciding how to keep up with atproto data
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If This Then AT: Automation on Protocol
IFTTA is an automation platform built on ATProtocol at Graze Social. It started as a hack-day idea and became a working system for event processing on protocol.
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Graze Social and the IETF
Graze Social sponsored my first in-person IETF meeting in Montreal last November. This post is about what it was like to be there and why standards participation matters for small companies.
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Habermas's Bastards
The Rogue Philosophers of Right Wing Authoritarianism
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The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House
Welcome to the era of sprawling, idiosyncratic tooling.
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Why aren't smart people happier?
A new way to think about brainpower.
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Free Speech Experts: Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Panic Is As Old As Democracy Itself
We’ve been saying for years now that Jonathan Haidt’s crusade against social media and kids is a moral panic dressed up in academic robes, and that the evidence simply does not support the sweeping claims he’s been making. A new piece in the Wall Street Journal by Jacob Mchangama and Jeff Kosseff drives that point […]
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Claude Dispatch and the Power of Interfaces
We often lack the tools for the job, even if the AI is capable enough
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Infinite midwit
OR: if we were playing by Settlers of Catan rules, I'd be dead already
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The Joy of AtmosphereConf · augment
A blog by Anuj Ahooja
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The Marshmallow Test - Bluesky signals it's willing to eat its young
At AtmosphereConf, Bluesky celebrated its community, then signaled it's willing to eat them alive. No context. No acknowledgment. I was in the room.
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A list of other catastrophes that are probably fake
Adding to this over time
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The lump of cognition fallacy
The extended mind as the advance of civilization
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A short summary of my argument that using ChatGPT isn't bad for the environment
To share with anyone still worried
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AI can obviously create new knowledge
But maybe not new concepts
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Movie Review: The AI Doc
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist is a brilliant piece of work.
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A Season of Learning
There’s a concept in computer science called explore vs. exploit. Exploitation means using what you know to get reliable returns; exploration means trying new things at the cost of those returns. Most algorithms skew too hard toward exploit. Humans have also been known to do this – including me. The known path is comfortable. My […]
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Art or tool?
The Internet spaces I tend to inhabit have more polarisation than at many other recent times, and little explication of the worldviews that lead to different premises for discussion, that in turn lead to the polarisation and disagreement. Taking a … <a href="https://www.sicpers.info/2026/03/art-or-tool/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism
"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.