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Library
Cards and collections from my Semble library. Pages saved for later, grouped into shelves I return to. 1428 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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Interpreting Pangram
Yesterday David Sacks wrote a tweet and within a few minutes people did, what they usually do, and they asked Pangram if it was AI. And Pangram said it’s entirely AI generated . To which David replied that these AI detectors are bogus . Now Pangram has a pretty low false positive rate, but if you have ever used an LLM as a writing assitant, you will have probably noticed that it claims your…
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Canada is cosying up to Europe
What can they give each other?
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The Bad Guy With An AI Named Claude
A lot of bad guys try to use Claude to do bad things.
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The Accelerationist Case for Frontier Pacing
Slow AI is smooth AI, smooth AI is fast AI
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Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob
A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
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The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents
A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities
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We are all Product Engineers now
Agents are eating the software development lifecycle from the bottom up — code generation already gone, review and ops following fast. What remains is figuring out what people actually want, which can't be automated or scaled. That job is called product engineering, it pays $240k, and nobody's training for it.
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We Must Pace The Frontier
Dario Amodei has a new essay that finally says the thing: We Must Pace the Frontier, naming his call after the Pacing the Frontier letter lab employees signed in July.
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Why good non-techie user documentation is vital for a wider embrace of the ATmosphere - Debbie's Blatherings - by Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Plus tips on writing good user documentation
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After the Deluge: What Future for Climate Fiction?
Even in a world remade, the past defines the present.
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P(doom)
This week some flavor of “AI is going to kill us all” went viral. In particular one where an employee put his personal probability of that happening above 10%. Which made me go to the Wikipedia page of P(doom) and I realized that Dario Amodei’s apparent probability of something bad happening seems to be between 10-25%. And well, Dario then wrote about pacing the frontier . And…
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GPT-6-Astra Can Do Ambitious Things
Astra is an excellent model.
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How should social science think about AI?
Big structures and large processes are back, baby
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Our Eukaryotic Moment
Counterprogramming premature ontological closure in conceptualizing AI
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#784: The absurdity of the apocalypse
Plus: repayment avoidance, the death of “hello,” and a Cinderella story for the algorithmic era
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Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part I: Operational Art
This week, at long last, we begin our long-delayed but always expected something that we blog for: the Hearts of Iron IV Teaching Paradox series! This has been a long requested series that I put off for a long time because I wasn’t entirely sure how I wanted to tackle it. But my thoughts here … <a href="https://acoup.blog/2026/09/11/teaching-paradox-hearts-of-iron-iv-part-i-operational-art/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part I: Operational Art</span> <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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Countering misuse of AI: September 2026
Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse.
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Gradual Disempowerment
Gradual Disempowerment
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Jacob Coxon Warns of Human Extinction and Triggers a Preference Cascade
CEOs of major AI labs, and employees of major AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic, often say they plan to build superintelligence soon, as in within a few years create AIs that are superior to humans at essentially all cognitive tasks.
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Superintelligence is a Fairy Tale. But Chasing It Can Still Cause Harm.
<p>Yesterday, multiple Anthropic employees casually announced online that they thought the types of AI they’re building could kill billions of people. Not in some distant ... <a title="Superintelligence is a Fairy Tale. But Chasing It Can Still Cause Harm." class="read-more" href="https://calnewport.com/superintelligence-is-a-fairy-tale-but-chasing-it-can-still-cause-harm/" aria-label="Read more about Superintelligence is a Fairy Tale. But Chasing It Can Still Cause Harm.">Read more</a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://calnewport.com/superintelligence-is-a-fairy-tale-but-chasing-it-can-still-cause-harm/">Superintelligence is a Fairy Tale. But Chasing It Can Still Cause Harm.</a> appeared first on <a href="https://calnewport.com">Cal Newport</a>.</p>
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Misleading Metaphors and Real Risks
What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency
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Rediscovering The Spark
The last few years have been hard as someone who is not only very much engaged with technologies, their applications, damages and affordances as well as their politics. We’ve been moving through hype cycle after hype cycle with increasing promises at increasing speeds. Which is somewhat natural of course: Being built not around something material, […]