Scoiattolo
@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
Sr. Tech PM building tools and distributed research networks for drug safety; Occasional Data Witch; 🚴🏻🏃🏻⛷️ Former goatherd & Data Ethics @HHI_Signal. Director of Human Alignment and Sin Eater, @skywatch.blue
Communities and Commons in the Atmosphere
Collection
Updated 7mo
COVID-19 history
AI
Unsorted interesting articles/papers
Climate change (unsorted)
US media
Reputations, biases, past controversies. Ranked 64th out of 180 countries for 2026 in the RSF’s Press Freedom Index. (Collection mostly intended for a friend who’s neither in nor from the US.)
2025 Reading List
US media: The New York Times
For context, I’m a former NYT and WaPo subscriber who wishes the former would do better and has given up on the latter
the future of search
Reddit - Cautionary Tales
VC issues
Common Knowledge Futures
atmosphere
The Worst Magazine In America
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
The day that CBS News became literally ‘fake news’ for America | Will Bunch
The End of CBS News
What Liberal Media? Axios Thinks Being Neutral Means Kissing Trump’s Ass
US media: The Washington Post (by あ) — Semble
No Opinion — The New York Times: Boycott, Divest, Unsubscribe
The New York Times neglects accountability after letters call out its anti-trans coverage
New York Times Sign On Letter | GLAAD
The New York Times helped fuel an anti-trans panic in 2022. Will 2023 be any better?
Lessons From a Heated Media Rivalry
The New York Times Responds to Criticism of Anti-Trans Bias by Silencing Its Own Reporters
Custom Feeds Are Not Communities — A Design Theory of Feeds and Commons - Nightflight
Community Spaces on AT Protocol - at:// pizza thoughts
Building for Organizers - The People Layer
A New Paradigm for Scientific Publishing, Peer Review, and Impact Assessment
Nova Scotia’s Experiment in Research That Solves Real Problems
datasetpapers — a public research experiment
Helpful reminder from Elsevier that they have the "legal power" to do what they want with your journals. You have the collective power to…
Andreas De Block on Twitter / X
Timothee Mickus
Fauci speaks out about the pandemic, global health—and his own record
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and the Rise of Italian Fascism: A Cross-City Quantitative and Historical Text Qualitative Analysis
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little…
This Activist Group Tapped Into Partisan COVID Politics To Make Big Trouble For Anthony Fauci And The NIH
domleca/llm-wiki
The borrowed mind
Karpathy's LLM Wiki: The Complete Guide to His Idea File
AI is probably not a bubble
Cory Doctorow Predicts the AI Bubble Will Burst | The Tyee
Open Minis — Your Private On-Device AI Agent
Male-like ornamentation in female hummingbirds results from social harassment rather than sexual selection
VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital - Anil Dash
Venture Capital Status
Arts & Deeptech, A Codependency
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of…
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott
Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better by Kim Scott
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security by Scott Galloway
Reddit API controversy
Removing sexually explicit content from r/all
atproto-aware concept search engine
Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse | The Walrus
It was a huge honor to present the opening keynote address at #SIGIR2026 and to talk about the need for IR to resist uncritical adoption of…
We’re — slowly, yes, but surely — building an open, decentralized search index with atproto
What’s the Difference Between Search and Recommendation? | TechPolicy.Press
TJ (@tunji.dev)
Semble Setup Guide - Cosmik Labs
What is the Atmosphere? · Leaflet Lab Notes