A Critique of Pure Yglesias
Esotericism in One Piece: Navigating Magic, Symbolism and Spirituality
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Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution | Meaningness
How muggles and sociopaths invade and undermine creative subcultures; and how to stop them.
REVIEW: Aztecs, by Inga Clendinnen
Aztecs: An Interpretation, Inga Clendinnen (Cambridge University Press, 1991).
A New Legibility: Theo Ellin Ballew
A New Legibility: Interactive Essay by Theo Ellin Ballew.
Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: The Alchemy Lecture 2023
The Alchemy Lecture 2023
A monstrous primer on the works of H.P. Lovecraft
Your guide to the fantasy author’s nightmarish must-reads
informal review in the wild
prosocial media
Research taste
ATmosphere
Prosocial FLOSS
Semble - motivations
Attention
tools for thought
W Social
Carl T. Bergstrom (@carlbergstrom.com)
Do Drunk Mice Sire Weird-Looking Offspring? – Quentin André
Curious about the competing interests statesments for @i4replication.bsky.social’s @pnas.org paper. 1) funding for i4r comes heavily from an…
Dan Singleton 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Twitter / X
Is the map of global bat distribution in this paper (Nov 2025, ‘Sustainability’ journal) AI nonsense? Comments from experts on LinkedIn are…
Trans Journalists Association Stylebook and Coverage Guide
Improving social media for democratic discourse
BridgEU: new project to study how recommendation systems can reduce polarization | SynoSys
The case against efficiency: friction in social media
Eurosky is collaborating with SPRIND to test a non-toxic algorithm for the first time - Eurosky
Mu for democracy - Erlend’s notes
social-protocols/jabble
Placita
Explore the ATmosphere — internect.info
Postcard · Paste a post, get a clean image
PDS OS
trueberryless/awesome-atproto
SkyTrace
An Anti-LLM-as-AI stance against “Leftists for AI” — miftah
Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News
Humanity in Open Source
Open Source and Politics
AI will kill open source
Burnout in Open Source (by Erlend Sogge Heggen) — Semble
Old Ideas, Novel Problems: The Instability of LLM-Based Novelty Evaluation
TasteVal: Measuring the Experimental Research Taste of AI Systems Against Human Experts
Agentic Laboratories of the Future: Towards World Models for Scientific Discovery
Large language models eroding science understanding: an empirical study of ‘malignment’
Where’s the “intelligence explosion”?
as we get further into the end of days, I'm reminded about how much of research taste, values and judgment is bound up in the taste, values…
Reams
www.sciencedirect.com
See what you think
Reason Commons | Reason Commons — Issue Trees & Logical Thinking Process
What's the point of a note-taking app?
Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management — Unattributed
Where Should Science Go Next
Dr. Casey Fiesler (@cfiesler.bsky.social)
Richard D. Bartlett on Twitter / X
Laura Matsue on Twitter / X
Attention and the Relevance Problem
"... our desire and attention falls to certain things because of the way that we feel about the person, place, or thing that introduces it…
Capturing our Attention
www.sebastianwatzl.com
For reference, this is the same Martin Sellner whose work Anna Zeiter, CEO of W Social, posted admiration for, and when called out on it…
Two of the documents are heavily redacted, like some sort of CIA stuff or the Epstein files. Like, seriously? What is W Social and the EC…
These records show W Social actively lobbying, specifically on age verification, not just hosting accounts. “W Identity and the EU Age Verif…
If I were piggybacking on years of other people’s work without contributing a shred of innovation myself, I’d feel embarrassed rather than…
W Social has a page where they tracked European MPs accounts: europetalking.wsocial.news It's a cool study, but they have an indicator sayin…
Just 18 unverified VIP accounts produce more than half of all W Social content. | W Don't Have Time | Offprint