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Keep AI Out of Your (Obsidian) Vault
Everyone is using Obsidian for AI, or wants to use it to become more productive. But I think it's a dead end.

How the head of Obsidian went from superfan to CEO
Steph “kepano” Ango on how software can be a superpower and why you don’t need AI to supercharge your life.

Obsidian AI Second Brain: The Free Self-Organizing Plugin | Agrici Daniel
claude-obsidian turns Obsidian into a self-organizing AI second brain. 15 skills, v1.9 Compound Vault, plain Markdown you own. MIT licensed, zero manual filing.

Obsidian — Your AI second brain isn’t memory — and here’s the architecture that actually is
There is a story being told everywhere right now, and it is not quite a lie, but it has stopped being honest. The story goes: install…

I Gave Pi Access to Obsidian And I'm Not Looking Back
Alex Komoroske (Common Tools)
claude-obsidian
Self-organizing AI second brain for Obsidian + Claude Code. Drop any source and Claude reads, links, and files it into one connected knowledge graph of plain Markdown you own. AI note-taking, personal knowledge management (PKM), and an open-source Notion alternative. Based on Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern.
Episode 5: Metaphors for AI, with Shannon Vallor
This week, Adam talks with Shannon Vallor, a philosopher of AI, about the metaphors we use to talk about AI and ourselves. They also dunk on libertarians and San Francisco billboards, and consider what kind of hope we can have for the future of technology.Messages: • Support the show at patreon.com/DreamingAgainstTheMachine • Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram • Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts! • Check out other great podcasts from Multitude like Wow if TrueAbout the show:Dreaming Against the Machine is a podcast about envisioning a realistic and hopeful future. Each week, the show’s host, journalist and astrophysicist Dr. Adam Becker, will have an earnest (and entertaining!) conversation with a guest about possible futures, seen through the lenses of history, science, and culture. In a world where tech oligarchs and their power fantasies are driving visions of the future, Dreaming Against the Machine aims to take back the terms of the public conversation about what our world can and should be.

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: The Path To AGI, Deceptive AIs, Building a Virtual Cell
Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we’ve ever built
Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we’ve ever built
capability based tensor network - Obsidian Publish
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The emerging skillset of wielding coding agents — Beyang Liu, Sourcegraph / Amp
The Geopolitics of AI Infrastructure - Dylan Patel, SemiAnalysis
AI Isn't as Powerful as We Think | Hannah Fry