On the Concept of the Political in AI-Generated Art – Open Assembly

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The Together Project

What if we could actually see the acknowledgement graph that connects humans and communities in a hidden economic web?

eightyeightthirtyone

Building a graph of the Internet, one button at a time

Opinion | The Age of Interdisciplinary Slop

The corporate jargon of change masks the decimation of intellectual life.

Capitalism Tech Stack Map — A Cross-Civilization Infographic (D3 Force)

Art or tool?

The Internet spaces I tend to inhabit have more polarisation than at many other recent times, and little explication of the worldviews that lead to different premises for discussion, that in turn...

Anthropic on Twitter / X

New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models.Of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible—thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with.We found a strikingly similar divide inside Claude. pic.twitter.com/aLUPBifxth— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) July 6, 2026

The shape of a knowledge worker

In a recent post, I threw around the term 'cognitive exponent' a bunch. Today I'd like to talk about a thing that might help us frame our investigation of what puts someone on the right side of that exponential graph.

The Crooked Timber of AI

The philosophical perils of conflating discoveries and inventions, and how to overcome them

intellectual carcinization

climbing the mountain from different angles

Socialized Proof of Work — Open Indie

There’s an increasing obsession with “humanness” these days: Humanness in the age of AI Worldcoin: a solution in search of its problem (...

Reticulum Network

For the better part of a generation, we have been taught to visualize the digital world through the lens of hierarchy. The mental maps we carry are dominated by a single, misleading image: The Cloud.

We need to talk about the social graph - Philip Sheldrake

Concepts are the fundamental building blocks of thinking, of designing. While there are plenty of things in the mix when it comes to contemplating system design, if the primary concepts remain unchallenged and unchanged from what came before, then the outcome will likely look very familiar.