Personal reflections I've been sitting on lately.
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
Anthropic Found Out Why AIs Go Insane
The shock of the anthropocene: the earth, history and us
Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the "Anthrop…
vivek on Twitter / X
the anthropic co-founder jack clark advice that stuck with me:read the primary material. not the summary. not what the ai said about it. the actual thing.form your own opinion first. then ask the model. never the other way around.keep practices in your life where it’s just…— vivek (@itsreallyvivek) June 7, 2026
Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector
For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, archive perusers, and history buffs who grew to love their areas of study because of the specific objects that constitute the field: the…
Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector
For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, archive perusers, and history buffs who grew to love their areas of study because of the specific objects that constitute the field: the…
The Archivist Within – The Matrix is my Office
Twitter played a significant community role for me when I first started out in my career. Over the course of several years working in developer relations at Microsoft, focused on virtual and augmented reality, I developed a strong network of people who regularly engaged with my work (and I theirs) in a frequent and low-stakes manner. It was a (relatively) safe way to interact with people in an extended field, and I made several close friends on the platform whose work continues to influence me today.
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...
Spider-Verse, Identity Politics, Leftist Infighting, and the Oppression Olympics
Technorealists, the silent majority? - open self
you might find yourself standing in the unremarkable center
I got into tech six years ago because I figured I could have an outsized impact on making a less harmful, more empowering world for workers and marginalised people. Only this year, I started connecting IRL with people who think this way. Here I tried to write about the ways that's transformed me.
DWeb, Culture and Resistance
meri.gardenGood post on the fear mongering from Anthropic and OpenAI: pop.rdi.sh/dario-please/
dario, please! - POP RDI; RET;
pop.rdi.shGreat new-ish paper by @zephoria.bsky.social I have a few thoughts …
I’ll be at #IC2S2 this week! I will be presenting two papers from my lab, led by my amazing students @laylab.bsky.social & @elhamagk.bsky.social. If you’re interested in narratives,mental health, stigma, or NLP, let’s connect! Looking forward to catching up with old friends, and meeting new people.
