Wesley Finck

@wesleyfinck.org

co-founding @cosmik.network building @semble.so writing notes.wesleyfinck.org

Wesley Finck's collection followings

epistemic infrastructure

Explores a variety of topics around epistemological tools, especially the web, with the aim to discuss epistemic closure in two ways: 1/ the complete understanding of a subject 2/ the entrapment of the user

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/567075/god-human-animal-machine-by-meghan-ogieblyn/ social preview image

God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O'Gieblyn: 9780525562719 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

https://www.forethought.org/research/design-sketches-collective-epistemics social preview image

AI Tools for Trust: Community Notes, Rhetoric Detection & More

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-02924-y social preview image

Can generative artificial intelligence be considered a cognitive subject? An analytic analysis

What Libraries Actually Do – Libraries as Epistemic Institutions

https://harmoniousdiscourse.substack.com/p/epistemic-infrastructure-building social preview image

Epistemic Infrastructure: Building Shared Truth in an Era of Disaggregation

Building Epistemically Healthier Platforms

10 cards · 5d

https://www.anthropic.com/ social preview image

Home \ Anthropic

https://tensorx.ai/pricing/ social preview image

AI Inference Pricing, EU Hosted, Per Token | TensorX

Open Models Inference for Coding · Umans AI

umans-ai/umans-open-stack

https://paperclip.ing/ social preview image

Paperclip – The app people use to manage AI agents for work

talat - the local transcription app for meetings, dictation, and recordings

148 cards · 7h

tool watchlist

Kinopio

https://getgrist.com/ social preview image

Spreadsheet Software to End Data Chaos | Grist

iroh

Zedra — Remote control for AI coding agents

https://readwise.io/read social preview image

Readwise Reader: The first read-it-later app built for power readers.

Quiche Industries

19 cards · 16d

Why ATScience is important to RENCI

Things that show why ATScience is important to RENCI

https://articles.continuousfoundation.org/articles/towards-modular-science social preview image

Towards Modular Open Science

Science discussions of retracted articles on Bluesky: public...

https://oxa.dev/articles/oxa-on-at-proto social preview image

Scientific Documents as First-Class Objects on AT Protocol

https://chive.leaflet.pub/3mgb7bfqhts24 social preview image

Chive's knowledge graph - Chive

4 cards · 16d

AI & Agents

Agents, context engineering, and how these systems think

Popmelt — Design copilots for AI agents

https://claude.com/plugins/superpowers social preview image

Superpowers Plugin | Claude by Anthropic

https://cocore.dev/ social preview image

co/core — an AI cooperative

https://timkellogg.me/blog/2026/04/14/forgetting social preview image

How to forget

Something Big Is Happening

pguso/ai-agents-from-scratch

15 cards · 4d

future interfaces

https://youtu.be/m8uUUUsMD3Y social preview image

Introducing the Codex Micro

MercuryOS

The case against conversational interfaces

How AIs See Our World

Television

Inanimate

14 cards · 9d

Ethics and etiquette of informal peer review

Serendipitous finds about people discussing the ethics and etiquette of conducting informal peer review Generated from a Zotero collection. Will tidy up later

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.252165 social preview image

Why the Stockholm Declaration will never work

https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-04-2025-0270 social preview image

The associations of social media attention, visibility, disinformation and retraction initiators with time to retraction: a Cox regression analysis

Does this mean that Psych Science should retract the Cuddy et al. p-curve paper on power posing in which the authors declare "no conflict of…

Consider seniority of authors when criticizing published work?

British Educational Research Association: - receive complaint from me about a dodgy special issue - investigate, agree it’s dodgy - take all…

78 cards · 1mo

prosocial media

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44260-025-00061-z social preview image

The case against efficiency: friction in social media

https://eurosky.tech/news/eurosky-sprind-bridgeu/ social preview image

Eurosky is collaborating with SPRIND to test a non-toxic algorithm for the first time - Eurosky

https://notes.erlend.sh/3mq4fuwm7b22s social preview image

Mu for democracy - Erlend’s notes

social-protocols/jabble

https://www.greenearth.social/ social preview image

GreenEarth Social | Jonathan Stray | Substack

Bloom

6 cards · 23d

Note taking apps

Notes, Outliners, Markdown Editors, PKMs, Memexs, Second Brains, Commonplace books, and more

Heaper — Your files deserve their story

https://notesnook.com/ social preview image

Notesnook | Open source & zero knowledge private note taking app

https://www.craft.do/ social preview image

Craft — Productivity App for Notes, Tasks, and Docs

https://helixnotes.com/ social preview image

HelixNotes | Local Markdown Notes

deepnote/deepnote

Home - Polynote

25 cards · 1mo

Open science funding

https://blog.openalex.org/linking-the-worlds-research-to-the-code-it-runs-on/ social preview image

Linking the world's research to the code it runs on - OpenAlex blog

Landing — Open Journals Collective

Hundreds of free open access journals to receive significant financial support! @ojcollective.bsky.social, which launched in January, has…

Astera Partnering with the National Science Foundation to Support Open Science

https://platform.rndcatalyst.com/ social preview image

Catalyze

https://doi.org/10.58875/GZJH2422 social preview image

Who Will Keep Research Data Infrastructure Open and Running?

19 cards · 18d

Cellosophy

Exploring the origins of intelligence and agency, starting with unicellular organisms such as bacteria, choanoflagellates and other protists.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/105971230601400207 social preview image

Principles of Minimal Cognition: Casting Cognition as Sensorimotor Coordination

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-physical-life-force-turns-biologys-wheels-20260420/ social preview image

What Physical ‘Life Force’ Turns Biology’s Wheels? | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/for-the-first-time-a-cell-built-from-scratch-grows-and-divides-20260701/ social preview image

For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides | Quanta Magazine

www.science.org

https://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/fulltext/S0966-842X(26)00090-9?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0966842X26000909%3Fshowall%3Dtrue social preview image

Cognition without brains? Learning and memory in microorganisms

Learning Outside the Brain: Integrating Cognitive Science and Systems Biology

26 cards · 12d

Design Engineering Knowledge

Great articles and other media on design engineering

The Making of Cursor's Icons

Performance

React handbook

Teaching agents product design at Vercel

Every blend mode explained · Sketch Blog

web.dev

34 cards · 10d

Fix the internet, save democracy

The internet has evolved into a state that is actively hostile towards global democracy. A thesis is emerging that to save global democracy, you must fix the internet.

https://indiewebispunk.net/ social preview image

The IndieWeb Is Punk Manifesto

https://berjon.com/rt/ social preview image

The Retweeting Class

https://ftw.fund/report.html social preview image

Funding The Web: From Cartel to Covenant

Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aei2409?utm_source=sfmc social preview image

The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy

5 cards · 1d

⁂ What's an Atmosphere?

Helpful links for newcomers to the Atmosphere

https://lab.leaflet.pub/3mrq6ma5dgs2x?utm_source=bluesky social preview image

What is the Atmosphere? - Leaflet Lab Notes

Your identity isn't your username

https://gui.do/post/atproto-series-01-you-dont-own-your-network/ social preview image

Who actually owns your network?

https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/ social preview image

There Are No Instances in atproto — overreacted

Here’s @rude1.blacksky.team, Founder and CEO of @blackskyweb.xyz and Excellence Award Winner of the #OpenSocialAwards. Blacksky is a beacon…

The Everything Account

14 cards · 26d

Semble Atmosphere Interop

https://chrisshank.leaflet.pub/3mrsrec7zc226 social preview image

The disconnect between web pages and the social filesystem. - Chris's Corner

You can now easily save articles to @semble.so or @margin.at Just click the share icon and choose a collection!

ATMentions: a web component that pulls how the ATmosphere reacted to any page. Bluesky, @margin.at , @semble.so , @frontpage.fyi , standard.…

Infoenon (@infoenon.com)

https://blog.euphonos.studio/3mnfgoajlps2v social preview image

Sill's new view - Euphonos

U&A Links (by dietrich) — Semble

15 cards · 25d

narrative, creative reading, interpretation, interpretability

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-brian-eno.html social preview image

Opinion | A Breath of Fresh Air With Brian Eno

Deep research requires a slower pace than tech industry work

voidnetwork.gr

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3800645.3813069 social preview image

Sensibilities as Knowledge in Design Research

Biblical hermeneutics

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/17950-when-men-stop-believing-in-god-it-isn-t-that-they social preview image

A quote by Umberto Eco

16 cards · 11d

ATproto Browser Extensions

Mostly Firefox and Chrome extensions (and js bookmarklets). If you find/create browser extensions for Firefox, Chrome, or indie, please add to this collection! GitHub repos for works in progress, and ideas for extensions that don't exist yet welcome and encouraged.

https://firefox.mustardnotes.com/ social preview image

Mustard-Notes – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

https://chrome.mustardnotes.com/ social preview image

Mustard - Chrome Web Store

victoriamdo/bsky-to-witch

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/supersky-bluesky-composer/gphabokfnkkbohdahjogjgbngfafccli social preview image

Supersky: Bluesky Composer - Chrome Web Store

Local PDS - Storing your data on your machine

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/skysquare/ielmbfphbanncakgmcfkbcaoibbfdlfo social preview image

Skysquare - Chrome Web Store

49 cards · 14d

AI research, critical perspectives, agent design, digital humanities. How AI systems work, their embedded values, and the thinking around building agentic systems.

Language models are multiverse generators