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Library
Cards and collections from my Semble library. Pages saved for later, grouped into shelves I return to. 768 cards, 25 shelfves.
Shelves
25 collections- Collection 563 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 19 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 9 cards
Security?
- Collection 1 card
Tech and Law
- Collection 105 cards
the AI of it all
- Collection 5 cards
understanding events
- Collection 1 card
vc stuff
- Collection 12 cards
development
- Collection 19 cards
atproto stuff
Recently filed
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People prefer A.I. art because people prefer bad art
A Read Max re-run
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Our Future Is Being Devoured By Feral Thought Experiments
Here's a chance to start taking it back.
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AI #166: Google Sells Out
This was the week of GPT-5.5.
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Agent Memory Patterns
A short HOW TO guide for agent memory systems. Especially the difference between blocks, files and skills.
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GPT-5.5: Capabilities and Reactions
The system card for GPT-5.5 mostly told us what we expected.
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Who Asked For This?
<p>Last week, Elizabeth Lopatto published an insightful article in The Verge. It boasted an intriguing title: “Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want.” “Within ... <a title="Who Asked For This?" class="read-more" href="https://calnewport.com/who-asked-for-this/" aria-label="Read more about Who Asked For This?">Read more</a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://calnewport.com/who-asked-for-this/">Who Asked For This?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://calnewport.com">Cal Newport</a>.</p>
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GPT 5.5: The System Card
Last week, OpenAI announced GPT-5.5, including GPT-5.5-Pro.
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Our Uncertain Uncertainties
Even the experts inventing AI don’t know what will happen next.
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We Need Homes in the Delta Quadrant
Place is security, space is freedom. — Yi-Fu Tuan
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The Cloister Web: Reshaping the Political Maidan
The advent of the "Cloister Web," a conceptual space where individuals leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to cultivate novel ideas and commit them to a persistent public memory, heralds a profound shift in our intellectual and political landscapes.
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The Octotypic Mind
Carcinization, Cognitive Prosthetics, and the Shape of Intelligence After AI
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The Cosmos and the Model
Humboldt, the Romantics, and What AI Loses by Averaging
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The Lightening of Intent
Why Execution Got Cheap and Intent Got Live
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The Viscous Frontier
How to Move When the Machine Stops Pulling
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AI in World Machine Theory
The telos of AI is to create liveness at planetary scale
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The Divergence Machine II
Progress as a non-stationary argument
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AI #165: In Our Image
This was the week of Claude Opus 4.7.
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Modeling Software With Quint - Zicklag's Leaflets
I believe having good abstractions is key to writing good code. But as a coder, I often write code in an effort to find those abstractions…
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An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment
An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about Google's cloud priorities, enterprise agent platform, and Google’s integration advantage.
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Stop Begging Big Tech To Fix Your Social Media Experience. You Can Do It Yourself.
Disclaimer: This post talks about Bluesky and an offering from Bluesky and I am on the Bluesky board. Take everything I say with whatever size grains of salt you feel is appropriate. I’ve written a few times now about how I think that AI tools, used carefully and thoughtfully, represent our best chance at taking […]