Collection
Better conversations for a better world
Updated 2mo
Collection
Updated 2mo
atmosphere
Books
Communication Systems
Alternative communication systems with an emphasis on decentralization
Research taste
Unsorted interesting articles/papers
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 Search terms: A. G. Sulzberger, A.G. Sulzberger
Epistemic Crisis
Local-First
Minnesota 15
aka Minneapolis 15
rude1 '25 reading list
US media
Reputations, biases, past controversies, etc. 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.)
Common Knowledge Futures
AI
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation
informal review in the wild
Language: English
Do we actually know how to make cities safer for women?
British food was complex, multicultural and flavourful in the 18th century – despite what you might think
How The Heck Do Record Players Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
Male-like ornamentation in female hummingbirds results from social harassment rather than sexual selection
As I have said for years, the NYT is just Facebook. Same ratcheting effect pushing “moderates” right, same delegation of all editorial autho…
🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical…
Video: A Reader on What He Thinks We Get Wrong About Trump
NYT is explicitly using 2FA as a punishment to try to upsell existing subscribers.
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at…
Trump Told Supporters To “Cheat Like Hell.” The NY Times Went With “A Bit Tired Of Politics.”
The Verification Ladder: A Framework for Evaluating Video When You Can’t Tell What’s Real
Today · Standard Reader
atproto-comments
Semble Setup Guide - Cosmik Labs
What is the Atmosphere? · Leaflet Lab Notes
J-Type 101 — Secret Riso Club
Lost in Translation? A Designer’s Guide to Japanese Type – PRINT Magazine
AT Protocol apps (by あ) — Semble
atmosphere.community
Social context aggregation (by Wesley Finck) — Semble
ATProto, Activitypub and FOSS applications (by CN bug hrs) — Semble
Why Cosmik Network? (by Wesley Finck) — Semble
Science Must Decentralize
Coral Stack - Build Local-First. Encrypted. Effortless.
DIDComm
The CRDT Dictionary: A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types - Ian Duncan - Ian Duncan
TasteVal: Measuring the Experimental Research Taste of AI Systems Against Human Experts
Agentic Laboratories of the Future: Towards World Models for Scientific Discovery
Large language models eroding science understanding: an empirical study of ‘malignment’
Where’s the “intelligence explosion”?
as we get further into the end of days, I'm reminded about how much of research taste, values and judgment is bound up in the taste, values…
Chris Olah on Twitter / X
DHS Facial Recognition Software Used Against Minnesota 15 - UNICORN RIOT
Revealed: How undercover agents spied on anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota
The movement to defend the Minneapolis 15
Right-leaning groups say MN 15 prosecution violates free speech of anti-ICE activists
Trump’s Crackdown on Dissent Comes for Minnesota Anti-ICE Organizers
The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
The Rise of the Right-Wing Media Machine
Reimagining American public media: A key infrastructure for local journalism
America’s Right-Wing Propaganda Problem Might Be Terminal - Dame Magazine
Bad News, by Joseph Bernstein
'Shaken' CNN staffers say they fear what Paramount takeover would mean for newsroom
Local News and National Politics
Daemon
Anathem
Starship Troopers
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
Gnomon
Stranger in a Strange Land
Carl T. Bergstrom (@carlbergstrom.com)
Do Drunk Mice Sire Weird-Looking Offspring? – Quentin André
Curious about the competing interests statesments for @i4replication.bsky.social’s @pnas.org paper. 1) funding for i4r comes heavily from an…
Dan Singleton 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Twitter / X
Is the map of global bat distribution in this paper (Nov 2025, ‘Sustainability’ journal) AI nonsense? Comments from experts on LinkedIn are…
Trans Journalists Association Stylebook and Coverage Guide
AlignmentJournal on Twitter / X
I’ve been quiet on social media lately, but today I’m launching Audit Clinical Evidence (ACE), an initiative I’ve been developing over the…
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…
Wikimedia: Rogue OpenAI agents behind unauthorized Wikipedia edits
List of Wikipedia controversies
List of political editing incidents on Wikipedia
Deep-Research Agents Can Be Poisoned via User-Generated Content
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned
dialect.redlog.net
How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk (Published 2024)
How Do You Talk? — American Accent Quiz & US Dialect Map
Welcome | Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: English in North America
Melissa Lozada-Oliva - Like Totally Whatever
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