catalog
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.
- Collection 5 cards
The Craft
Classic essays on doing good work in software, worth rereading every few years.
- Collection 5 cards
The Open Web
Why the social web is being rebuilt on protocols, and what that buys you.
- Collection 7 cards
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
- Collection 1153 cards
Skyreader Saves
- Collection 2 cards
toread
- Collection 1 card
To process
- Collection 2 cards
Building with agents
- Collection 3 cards
Protocol thinking
- Collection 4 cards
Cybernetics
- Collection 1 card
Cryptocurrency
It's bad
- Collection 2 cards
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
- 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
- Collection 20 cards
atproto stuff
Recently filed
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Thoughts on ATmosphereConf as an ATProto Newbie - excellent notes
We really can just build things
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Your Security is My Security
Speaking to the world, I care about how good the security of your machines are.
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“CEO said a thing!”
A blistering guide to what lazy journalism too often looks like
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Pete Hegseth’s War On Truth
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Martha Gellhorn stowed away on a hospital ship to become the only woman journalist to land on Normandy Beach on D-Day. She carried stretchers before writing her harrowing account of the invasion. The New Yorker’s famously epicurean writer A.J. Liebling subsisted on military rations and came […]
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It Appears RFK Jr. Is Having Trouble Finding Anyone To Take The CDC Director Job
All the way back in August of 2025, RFK Jr. made the extraordinary decision to fire his own CDC Director, Susan Monarez, after only a few weeks on the job. Kennedy claimed at the time that he fired Monarez because she told him affirmatively that she wasn’t trustworthy. That was obviously laughable and Monarez herself […]
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In Defense of Thinking
<p>Ten years ago, I published Deep Work. It was my second mainstream hardcover idea book. The previous title, So Good They Can’t Ignore You, hadn’t ... <a title="In Defense of Thinking" class="read-more" href="https://calnewport.com/in-defense-of-thinking-2/" aria-label="Read more about In Defense of Thinking">Read more</a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://calnewport.com/in-defense-of-thinking-2/">In Defense of Thinking</a> appeared first on <a href="https://calnewport.com">Cal Newport</a>.</p>
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Import AI 451: Political superintelligence; Google's society of minds, and a robot drummer
Are there any genies that can be put back in the bottle?
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AI #161 Part 2: Every Debate on AI
AI discorce.
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FBI Director Kash Patel’s Personal Email Account Apparently Breached By Iranian Hackers
Call me a sicko, but I’m almost always happy when a top-level government official’s communications get hacked. That’s because — in almost every case — either the official seems to be a bit shady, or holds a high-level position in an agency involved in some shady stuff. I mean, it’s not like hackers are targeting […]
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On the Beach, Running From the Tsunami
All Roads Lead to Bruff
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My Sweet, Smart Boyfriend Got Sucked Into The Manosphere
A new documentary, 'Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere,' investigates red-pilled creators and their followers. Three women explain what dating them is like.
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The Cognitive Dark Forest
The open web with AIs is turning into a dark forest.
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Ursula's list
Ursula Franklin is one of my all-time favorite thinkers about both the obvious and obscured parts of our technological world.
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What's good?
I want to start by talking about some things that seem like potential ways out of the dark forest tangle—even if they’re imperfect, which they all are.
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The work at hand
<p>I work on problems with networks because I am an ordinary person and I care about ordinary people. Sometimes <em>caring about ordinary people</em> means finding new ropes to pull on and throwing your weight into it. </p><p>For those of us inside the US but outside the VIP lounge of American</p>
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A year into the wreckage and salvage
<p>It’s <s>coming up on</s> been a year, somehow, since I <a href="https://www.wrecka.ge/into-the-wreck/" rel="noreferrer">started this website/micro-studio/space to think in</a>. What a wild choice that was, setting out in October of 2024, eyes on the horizon! We’d hoped things would turn out differently. </p><p>The research and thinking I</p>
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Clouded skies for open networks
<p>Last week, I finished an essay about platform design affordances and content moderation expectations and community-level context collapse on Bluesky for <a href="https://www.wrecka.ge/a-year-into-the-wreckage-and-salvage/" rel="noreferrer">Tech Policy Press</a> and set it aside to cool before a last read-through. An hour later, the Trump administration brought to Bluesky a propaganda-zombie army made up of the</p>
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Sparks fly up
Once you’ve seized the tools of political life to build communal power, it’s hard to forget what a hammer feels like in your hand.
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Cosmik Updates: February 2026
February was a fun and a busy month, we launched some important new Semble features including collaborative collections, collection following and interoperability with Margin (an ATProto bookmarking and annotation app). We also saw a lot of great community contributions, both by humans and AI agents(!)
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What happened to Science Goodreads and how do we rebuild it? A 65 million dollar question (at least)
Why don't we have Goodreads for science? We did, until Elsevier acquired it for $65M, mined researcher footprints for billions, and let the product wither. Now AI is making that data even more valuable. But open protocols and cooperative models offer a way to rebuild, with infrastructure researchers actually own.