We argue badly, and nothing accumulates. How could we do better? | Reason Commons — Issue Trees & Logical Thinking Process

Millions of people argue every day about the things that matter most — climate change, what to do about AI, how we might build a better world. Some of it is sharp, even insightful. And almost none of it accumulates.

Stretchtext

Stretchtext is a hypertext feature that allows the reader to expand the text to show more detail. The term was defined in 1970 by Ted Nelson as a genre of hypertext, although he had described it in unpublished materials as early as 1967.

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jotted down some ramblings around "art rabbit-holing" and how the daily ritual of just looking is where personal taste actually comes from. pic.twitter.com/qPNUSLaFnj— conrad house (@DlSPUTED) July 4, 2026

From Feeds to Trails

To design the future of social media, rethink the interface before the algorithm.

Chasing RATs: Tracing Reading for and as Creative Activity

Creativity research has privileged making over the interpretive labor that precedes and shapes it. We introduce Reading Activity Traces (RATs), a proposal that treats reading -- broadly defined to include navigating, interpreting, and curating media across interconnected sources -- as creative activity both for future artifacts and as a form of creation in its own right. By tracing trajectories of traversal, association, and reflection as inspectable artifacts, RATs render visible the creative work that algorithmic feeds and AI summarization increasingly compress and automate away. We illustrate this through WikiRAT, a speculative instantiation on Wikipedia, and open new ground for reflective practice, reader modeling, collective sensemaking, and understanding what is lost when human interpretation is automated -- towards designing intelligent tools that preserve it.

Hypermedia: A Reintroduction

Hypermedia is a universal technology today, almost as common as electricity.

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Loper OS » Why Hypercard Had to Die

Our seventh-grade class was led into a room full of brand-new Macintosh Performas.  The day's lesson was a crash course in the use of an uncomplicated yet marvelous program. With it, one might persuade a computer to do anything and everything - or so it seemed to a child with the attention span to appreciate the wonder.  Half a dozen of us were invited back a week later; and then again, and again, for several delicious months.

Agency Among Agents: Designing with Hypertextual Friction in the...

Today's algorithm-driven interfaces, from recommendation feeds to GenAI tools, often prioritize engagement and efficiency at the expense of user agency. As systems take on more decision-making,...