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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
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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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OpenAI’s ‘Red Lines’ Are Written In The NSA’s Dictionary—Where Words Mean What The NSA Wants Them To Mean
Within hours on Friday, the Pentagon blacklisted one AI company for refusing to drop its safety commitments on surveillance and autonomous weapons, then turned around and praised a competitor for signing a deal that supposedly preserved those exact same commitments. This confused some people. Why would the Pentagon seek to destroy one company over the […]
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The Pentagon’s bombshell deal with OpenAI, explained
Only Congress can put meaningful limits on government abuse of AI.
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#761: Not every brother is a bro
Plus: Oppressive praise, baby names and the American exodus
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In pursuit of Cognitive Solidarity
Guest post by Pip Sanderson, National Institute of Teaching (England)
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Anthropic and Alignment
Anthropic is in a standoff with the Department of War; while the company's concerns are legitimate, it position is intolerable and misaligned with reality.
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Import AI 447: The AGI economy; testing AIs with generated games; and agent ecologies
What might a superintelligence arcology be like?
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What Anthropic's fight with the Pentagon tells us about the politics of Silicon Valley
Trying to make sense of the conjuncture
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Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part I: Fighting Faufreluches
This week, time for something a bit silly: we’re going to think about the plausibility of the warfare in Frank Herbert’s Dune! In particular, I want to approach the question in two parts: first asking if the model of warfare among the Great Houses we’re introduced to in the first book of Dune (that is, … <a href="https://acoup.blog/2026/02/24/collections-warfare-in-dune-part-i-fighting-faufreluches/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part I: Fighting Faufreluches</span> <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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Who loses from the Anthropic fight? Maybe Elon Musk and Alex Karp.
Arbitrary state power can cut in many directions
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Permissioned Data Diary 1: To Encrypt or Not to Encrypt
The first in a series of posts about major design decisions along the way to a permissioned data protocol for atproto.
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Permissioned Data Diary 2: Buckets
The second in a series of posts building up a solution to permissioned data on atproto. We introduce buckets: a new protocol primitive for creating a shared social context.
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Folding context
Context windows, compression, and "folding the dough"
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Good vibes, bad vendors
AI coding works now. Here's how to think about it.
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beaker/archive-notice.md at master · beakerbrowser/beaker
An experimental peer-to-peer Web browser. Contribute to beakerbrowser/beaker development by creating an account on GitHub.
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The rules to make the rules
The rules to make the rules My journey to understand blockchain political systems continues. Protocols as legislation Blockchains make an effort to remove operational discretion from the nodes …
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pfrazee/infocivics: Information Civics paper
Information Civics paper. Contribute to pfrazee/infocivics development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Practical Decentralization
The point of decentralization is to guarantee the rights of individuals and communities on the Internet. Pulling that off is a balancing act between practicality and ideology.
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Chatty Community Gardens
Group chat is fertile soil for low-stakes ideation. With tending, seeds of thought can grow into structured, evergreen knowledge.
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Leaf 0.3 - The Server Behind Roomy
For the last couple months we've been iterating on Roomy with its brand-new architecture, and we're finally ready to talk in more detail about the not-so-secret sauce that will power Roomy moving forward.
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Digital Strategy for Organisations
Digital power is created through the interplay of mobilizing and organizing. Open Social protocols bridge the gap.
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Living Documents on the Feed
What could long-form writing sitting alongside posts look like?