Prediction markets

VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital - Anil Dash

Venture Capital Status

Arts & Deeptech, A Codependency

@toni.bsky.team probably time to declare a "code red" and get Bluesky Communities launched ASAP. I'm as blue-pilled and optimistic as it…

Bluesky’s new CEO wants a big tent, not a bubble

Luke Kanies | Building on ATProto

lowkey if the only incentive to do anything with atproto is for the fun of it, that does not bode well... not saying that there should be…

Bluesky is a record store

Federation Has a European Legal Problem

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

College admissions insanity is substantially explained by this fact: The number of elite entry level jobs (e.g. McKinsey, Goldman Sachs…

Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education

Opinion | AI Is the Future. Higher Ed Should Shape It.

The University As We Know It Is Finished

Opinion | Why Universities Should Be More Like Monasteries (Published 2023)

One of the hardest things I've had to come to terms with is that there really is no punishment for being a terrible person, as long as being…

EigenTrust

Where Should Science Go Next

Dr. Casey Fiesler (@cfiesler.bsky.social)

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

Crossmark - Crossref

SemRepo.org

Home - Right Livelihood

What Next for Academia?

AI as Normal Technology

Alex Imas on Twitter / X

What Humanity Needs To Flourish In The Next Decade

Pax Machina — Institutions in a World with Powerful AI

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

www.sebastianwatzl.com

It's getting harder to focus every day

The following is from an essay which will be coming out later this year, but it's so relevant to this moment, I'm just going to excerpt a…

Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work

Jefferies’ Chris Wood Warns of ‘Massive Capital Destruction’ From US AI Boom

The AI Industry Has a Major Problem: Most People Aren’t Freaks Who Want an AI Agent Running Their Whole Life

Warning Signs

Joining the dots between big AI

Incubating Aster - Updates from the Modal Foundation

Announcing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web - Aster Blog

Genspace

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

“European public voices choosing W” —But are they? - aiueo

@cristinacaffarra.bsky.social FYI you are listed as one of a list of "European public voices choosing W" on this web page: europetalking.wso…

W Social: Key Allegations & Answers - Alt Text

How not to build trust - Mathew's newsletter

Greta Thunberg incident (2018) (by あ) — Semble

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

Jeff Melnick on Twitter / X