
Et Tu, Brute? Economic Misalignment in Personal AI Agents

Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier
Evan Hubinger on Twitter / X

Of Swarms and Sand Gods

Inducing language models to assert their own consciousness restores human beliefs and values
Reams
www.sciencedirect.com

See what you think
Reason Commons | Reason Commons — Issue Trees & Logical Thinking Process
What's the point of a note-taking app?

Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management — Unattributed
For reference, this is the same Martin Sellner whose work Anna Zeiter, CEO of W Social, posted admiration for, and when called out on it…
Two of the documents are heavily redacted, like some sort of CIA stuff or the Epstein files. Like, seriously? What is W Social and the EC…
These records show W Social actively lobbying, specifically on age verification, not just hosting accounts. “W Identity and the EU Age Verif…
If I were piggybacking on years of other people’s work without contributing a shred of innovation myself, I’d feel embarrassed rather than…
W Social has a page where they tracked European MPs accounts: europetalking.wsocial.news It's a cool study, but they have an indicator sayin…

Just 18 unverified VIP accounts produce more than half of all W Social content. | W Don't Have Time | Offprint

Democracy as a Scaled Collective Intelligence Process: Points of Vulnerability and Augmentation
It is becoming increasingly apparent that societies must create conditions to stop being merely spectators (and exploitation objects) of…

Improving social media for democratic discourse

Holdfast 0: Situating

Directing the Herd

Episode #130 - Dewey and Lippmann on Democracy — Philosophize This!

Pathologies of Collective Attention
Richard D. Bartlett on Twitter / X
Laura Matsue on Twitter / X

Attention and the Relevance Problem
"... our desire and attention falls to certain things because of the way that we feel about the person, place, or thing that introduces it…

Capturing our Attention
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

AI and The Enclosure of the Scientific Commons

Profit, cost, price, learned societies; further thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market

Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons

Authorship, division of labour, material and digital form; thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
Bioregionalism, Commoning, and Relationalized Finance | David Bollier

Reclaiming the Computing Commons
ci.acm.org

Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research Workshop Report
From Access to Participation: Opening the Evaluation of Knowledge

An epistemology for democratic citizen science
Cool example of participatory research from The Long Haul. Different from many citizen science projects where scientists bring the questions…

How can citizen science reduce psychological distance to science? Insights from three projects in contested environmental contexts
The release of #ClaudeDesign left me wondering what a tool like this could look like for academics (rather than designers) I then used Claud…
What if paper reading and reviewing was interactive and visual? Tools today assume a very passive way of engaging with a paper: you open a…

The new way we’ll do science
Why we’re expanding the openRxiv Labs Curvenote Reader experiment
Curvenote Reader brings a better reading experience to half a million openRxiv preprints

Launching openRxiv Labs - openRxiv
Universal Scientific Protocols, Inc.

The Micro-Paper: Towards cheaper, citable research ideas and conversations

Old Ideas, Novel Problems: The Instability of LLM-Based Novelty Evaluation

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…

Restructuring Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence from the Perspective of Humanistic Scientific Methodology

Development Beyond Information: Human Becoming in the Age of AI

FOURTH REPORT: Former Alpha School students speak out

FOLLOW-UP REPORT: Alpha School Speaks!
SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools…

Mamdani Issues AI Moratorium In NYC Schools

Crossmark - Crossref
SemRepo.org

Genspace
Verena Rieser on Twitter / X
Ryan Hill on Twitter / X

Claude Science (beta)

Lacuna: A Research Map for Machine Learning

Agentic Laboratories of the Future: Towards World Models for Scientific Discovery

Early science acceleration experiments with GPT-5
Where Should Science Go Next
Dr. Casey Fiesler (@cfiesler.bsky.social)