User & Agents
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The downside of robot solutionism
The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.

Swamp: The right way to build with AI

Humans approve intent, machines prove conformance
The issue tracker that runs inside the loop.

vitals — paseo.cafe
depatchedmode/oughta
robot.wtf — Memory for agents in a wiki for humans
storage.googleapis.com

AI Science Fiction Versus Reality

Navier-Stokes lost in translation: Why Lean verification of AI...

When the Commons Appropriates a Large Language Model: How WikiVault Reshaped Korean Wikipedia

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

Can AI slop help us save the internet?
Malleable Software (by Boris) — Semble
darkshapes
AI* perception/usage (by あ) — Semble
All intelligence is collective intelligence (by Ronen Tamari) — Semble

A Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI

Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research

Sequential.work — Lexicons for comics on AT Protocol
lexicons.bio
Lexicon Community
Layers

Standard.site - One schema. Every platform.
atproto made simple: publishing lexicons - underreacted

ICE Is Being Sued For Refusing to Return Detainees’ Papers and Property
ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests

ICE is laying off agents hired during its rapid expansion after discovering discrepancies in their backgrounds

ICE Officers Admit To Arrest Quotas During Court Testimony

Read the Whistle-Blower’s Complaint Filed Amid ICE’s Hiring Surge

ICE Is Paying a Controversial AI Firm to Hide the Identities of Agents
Bee 🐝 (@sweetbee.vip)
Bee 🐝 (@sweetbee.vip)
kerpopule/hermes-jev-skills

Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces
Introducing Radial: Agent orchestration on the Atmosphere

miyo: Stop re-explaining yourself to every AI
LLM Wikis (by Gavi Schneider) — Semble

Buzz! 🐝
part of technocracy - a limit to its power - is a structural inability to be emotionally vulnerable
Technocracy References
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
Toward a Critical Technical Practice

Analog Resistance: Why Mechanical Simplicity Matters in an Increasingly Digital Cycling World
gandt.blogs.brynmawr.edu

Spatial programming without escape

An invitation into Droste's Lair

Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic | Retool

Issue 084: Spreadsheets
Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE)
Live Programming in Hostile Territory
Very sad to see Rick get driven off of Bluesky by sharing a report of using Claude Code to do something cool and useful. The absolute vitrio…

The Problem With AI Is Shitty Human Beings

Technology is Not Values Neutral: Ending the Reign of Nihilistic Design

Cyber-Marx

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

📏 When machines start calling the shots

Information Civics

Data Feminism
SmythOS
pguso/ai-agents-from-scratch

Agentation

Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
Cognitive Integrity Framework: Formal Foundations for Multiagent Security
Rowboat - Let AI build your agents for you
cars are bad for humans (by zafarali.me) — Semble
Poetic Computation (by Pouria) — Semble
Weird Wide Web 🐑 (by Sebastian) — Semble
up (by .✦ ݁˖ theresa maria ₊•) — Semble
Extreme Citizen Science (by Joel Chan) — Semble
Cool collections on Semble (by 𝕮) — Semble

AI as a Fascist Artifact
AI* influence on thinking/skills/writing (by あ) — Semble
AI* summaries/AI Overview (by あ) — Semble
AI* and search/research (by あ) — Semble
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social)
AI* and healthcare/medicine (by あ) — Semble