modular research preprint server demo with meaningful social context
ATmentions
A call for broadening the altmetrics tent to democratize science outreach
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

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!
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

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

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

Arts & Deeptech, A Codependency
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
Where Should Science Go Next
Dr. Casey Fiesler (@cfiesler.bsky.social)
dmmulroy/anti-slop
fion.ac

2026 in LLMs (so far)
Yet another gem from @simonwillison.net that matches my own experience over the last ~3 months. There's no way I could've built my latest…

Deciduous: Many minds. One memory.

AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You

A Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI
Hazel Weakly (@hazelweakly.me)

Built on Shared Knowledge: What the World Wants from AI Wealth
All intelligence is collective intelligence

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

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

Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents

The Alien Space of Science: Sampling Coherent but Cognitively...

Humans are Missing from AI Coding Agent Research

Experimental Evidence on the Learning Impact of Generative AI
Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X
Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X

Large language models are not the problem

AI Is Not Conscious, But It Is Our Unconscious
fion.ac

AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class
Lauren Wilford on Twitter / X
A couple of trends I'm seeing across the industry. Which ones are you observing that I missed?
New from us: Anthropic just published scenarios for AI’s possible economic impacts, which range from minimal, to explosive GDP growth of 15…
Andrew Ho on Twitter / X
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
Incubating Aster - Updates from the Modal Foundation
Announcing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web - Aster Blog