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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
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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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Opus 4.7 Part 3: Model Welfare
It is thanks to Anthropic that we get to have this discussion in the first place.
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Repositories Are Human/Agent Knowledge Factories
We argue that source repositories are no longer just containers for human-authored code — they are containers and generators of knowledge supporting the interaction of humans with AI agents. Taking this perspective demands that we rethink how we structure projects, write documentation, and more broadly how we rethink the entire software development process. We draw […]
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Announcing: Navigating the AI Shift
For a lot of people, AI started out as a net negative. You’re reviewing documents someone couldn’t be bothered to write themselves. You’re having your time wasted by PRs generated by someone who never tried to understand the problem. The efficiency gains everyone keeps talking about haven’t really shown up in your week – but […]
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AI as a Fascist Artifact
(This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy. I added some shots of the slides I used as a structure for the text which […]
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Opus 4.7 Part 2: Capabilities and Reactions
Claude Opus 4.7 raises a lot of key model welfare related concerns.
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The Kids Are (Mostly) Alright: New Pew Study Deflates The Social Media Panic
A couple weeks back, Jonathan Haidt published another entry in his ongoing campaign to convince the world that social media is inherently ruining kids’ lives. This one was a victory lap titled “Seven Lines of Evidence Against Social Media,” treating recent developments — including the social media addiction verdicts against Meta that most people are […]
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Palantir's Manifesto Is as Subtle as a MAGA Hat
Palantir's 22-point manifesto is nonsense, writes Dave Karpf. But it at least it is short enough to be clarifying, he says.
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Contra Benn Jordan, data center (and all) sub-audible infrasound issues are fake
One of the most popular videos made about data centers ever is a complete moment-by-moment disaster
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Agents are actors
Multi-agent is just actor model
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Deep Future
AI-driven scenario planning
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Worlding Raga: 4 - Who Worlds?
So far we’ve been discussing Worlding as an art . One that an individual creator can engage in on their own. As Venkat suggested , we are already living in an…
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#766: An AI company you can wear without socks
Plus: Wedding Brain, news hustlers, the importance of talking to strangers and the best restaurant bread in America
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Writing Liveness
The message of the medium of generated text is liveness
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Caduceus City
The appearance of a thoroughly protocolized environment is, almost, the perfect cover for dark practices.
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Have Your Factory Call My Factory
In this installment of our Obliquities editorial column, we argue that the social kernels circulating in intelligence media are the equivalent of industrial intermediates flowing between factories.
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Theorizing Protocolization II: Atomic Protocol Questions
Solving real coordination problems to discover the formal laws of protocols.
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Last-Mile Optimism
Reducing Waste. Eliminating Fraud. Promoting Civic Responsibility. At least that’s what the city bureaucrats said.
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Strangeness, Legibility, Hardness
An update from our Protocol Fiction special interest group
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A Government Guide to Open Protocols
Public sector teams must go beyond the in-house or off-the-shelf dichotomy to take advantage of open protocols, which offer a unique way to manage both software costs and geopolitical exposure
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The Faithful Channel
A translator maintaining a shadow bridge between superpowers discovers something she cannot unsee.
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The Fabric and the Brain
Articulating agent ecologies with high-personality planetary computation
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The Flesh Perfected Is the Flesh Possessed
The longest single rail line, connecting Lisbon to Laos, is the setting for a bio-thriller in Sachin Benny’s new world-building series
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A Primordial Computing Soup
Fostering AI art scenius, creating an open planetary network of robots
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What corporate thrillers tell us about the '90s economy
PLUS: Has Forum Brain crossed the gender divide?