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Library
Cards and collections from my Semble library. Pages saved for later, grouped into shelves I return to. 1438 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
- 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
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Awesome terminal
- Collection 8 cards
Local first
- Collection 5 cards
Tech right analysis
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Security?
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Tech and Law
- Collection 153 cards
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
Recently filed
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Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed
Hint: it's not benchmark scores.
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Is ubiquitous A.I. writing "inevitable"?
On a weird few weeks of A.I.-writing scandals
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A quote from Daniel Stenberg
The challenge with AI in open source security has transitioned from an AI slop tsunami into more of a ... plain security report tsunami. Less slop but lots of reports. …
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Weird Machines HQ
The expression "weird machines" was first used in the RSS 2009 talk. It referred to state-of-the-art exploitation as finding and programming an execution model (a machine, such as a virtual automaton) within the target via crafted inputs. It was soon extended to other methods of reliably or probabilistically influencing the target's state. A compressed version of that original talk was given at the Chaos Computing Congress 27c3 [slides], [video].
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Vulnerability Research Is Cooked
For the last two years, technologists have ominously predicted that AI coding agents will be responsible for a deluge of security vulnerabilities. They were right! Just, not for the reasons they thought.
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A Local-First Task Framework
Industrial research lab working on digital tools for creativity and productivity.
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Post Mortem: axios npm supply chain compromise · Issue #10636 · axios/axios
Post Mortem: axios npm supply chain compromise Date: March 31, 2026 Author: Jason Saayman Status: Remediation in progress On March 31, 2026, two malicious versions of axios (1.14.1 and 0.30.4) were...
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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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Gas Town: from Clown Show to v1.0
TL;DR: Gas Town and Beads have both released version 1.0.0 today. Enjoy!
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Conductor - Run a team of coding agents on your Mac
Create parallel Codex + Claude Code agents in isolated workspaces. See at a glance what they're working on, then review and merge their changes.
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Meet the new Cursor · Cursor
Cursor 3 is a unified workspace for building software with agents.
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Large language models are cultural technologies. What might that mean?
Four different perspectives
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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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conputer dipshit (@davidcrespo.bsky.social)
they probably spent 4 hours on this beautiful paragraph
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Proof of Work - The Marshmallow Test got a response. Now the real test begins.
After my critique of Bluesky's 2026 Report resonated across the Atmosphere, the company's new interim CEO reached out. We talked about what went wrong, what collaboration should look like, and why private data is the next test of whether the words match the work.
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ascorbic/cirrus
A single-user ATProto PDS that runs on a Cloudflare Worker
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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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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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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 …
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it's my following and i want it my way! - matt's not blog
a late response to the social graph talk from last week