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Journey to a distributed PDS: OAuth and deeper thoughts on why this experiment exists...
willdot.leaflet.pubMay 19, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Written? Kitten!
The Internet's best write-reward system! Write one hundred words, get an image of a kitten!

About Pckt Notes & Writers Block - Brookie’s Blog
I'm feeling bad at writing lately. I think that's okay sometimes, not everything has to be perfect... And it's not really perfection that I'm seeking, but it ca...

I pulled ~90,000 Reddit posts about what makes writing "sound like AI" to determine the biggest AI-slop giveaways (Part 2)
674 votes, 228 comments. The majority of people can instantly tell when writing is generated by AI. For those who don't intend to get into the weeds…
Announcing: Navigating the AI Shift
Image credit: Joe Groove For a lot of people, AI started out as a net negative. You’re reviewing documents someone couldn’t be bothered to write themselves. You’re having your tim…


The Chowder is Warm! AI & Creativity
The Chowder is Warm! AI & Creativity
Writing With and Beyond AI: Fieldnotes from Computer-Mediated Poetry
Apr 10, 2026, 12:15 pm - Large language models can make writing mind-numbingly efficient — but the point of writing with AI should be to write what we couldn’t have written alone (without generating bland, derivative “slop”).

Write plain text files | Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.

I was going to go for a walk, but @rude1.blacksky.team nerd-sniped me into writing this, instead. I'm not upset, though. It turns out collective governance questions are a great lens for grounding/scrupling how we might do on-protocol collective governance.
User Intents as Living Data — A Descriptive Meta-Framework
leaflet.pubNotation is not a way of writing thoughts down — it is a technology that determines which thoughts are available to be had. Starting from Iverson's 1979 Turing Award lecture, this collection gathers the argument's ancestors, elaborations, and its opponents: Nielsen and Matuschak on media as cognitive infrastructure, Bret Victor's case against symbol manipulation, and empirical work on representation as a cognitive tool. Open to contributions.

The Technological Turn in Mathematics
J Notation as a Tool of Thought

Prof. Judy Fan: Cognitive Tools for Making the Invisible Visible
Media for Thinking the Unthinkable
Kill Math
Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of mathematics