AI #176 Part 2: Plan B

This is part 2 of the weekly, broadly covering speculation, rhetoric and policy, along with alignment research.

Road to a book lexicon (Part 2) - Nick The Sick

The one where I actually define a lexicon

Road to a book lexicon (Part 1) - Nick The Sick

The article where I don't define a lexicon, and instead, complain about ISBNs

ATmosphere Report #147 - Year's end reflections - Connected Places

Some themes I'm watching for 2026: censorship resistance, the politics of interoperable spaces, and who gets to shape how atproto talks about itself.

Rating all the things | Tynan Is Typing | Tynan is afk til 10/19 ⁂ | Offprint

All existing proposals are wrong because they are all right

In Which A Book Lexicon is Born

Hi everyone, We recently held a sync to discuss creating a shared book lexicon for the Atmosphere Protocol. I’ve shared the full recording (thanks Ronen!) and notes from the meeting here: Fathom with some early notes here: https://app.notion.com/p/Book-Lexicon-Session-1-211b2b43aabb8007b098d063972ca58c (also do we have a ATProto version of Notion yet?) The book logging social scene is highly fragmented. Dozens of Goodreads alternatives are competing but not interoperating, leading to a lack of...

AI #177 Part 2: Wish You Were Here

As usual, part 2 of the weekly deals with speculative, regulatory, political and alignment questions.

Collapse — Oakland Public Library

Collapse — Dallett, Cassandra, — <p>COLLAPSE is a doomed love, temporary, free on bond, haunted by rage and regret, fueled by Hip-Hop beats, and clinging like the remains of the Ghost Ship fire--with the world burning around us, it is time and place, politics and anarchy, connection for the broken.</p><p>Poetry. California Interest.</p>

Libra Season: iPhone Modernism by Travis Diehl

The shock-of-the-new is back in literature, rebooted for screen time – and with it, the question: To what end should writing reflect our networked selves?

State of the Themes: June 2026

Updating Our Thematic Universe