I went ahead and created a pol.is conversation about this, pls contribute! pol.is/7bdiwbvh2d You can contribute by voting on statements and/or adding your own statements. First time using it, hope it helps surface useful insight!

Much of SF lost power last night. Waymos blocked intersections across the city, even though they are Wayless than 1% of cars on the roads. They accumulated at their failure points--intersections with no green lights, in busy areas, and shut down traffic there.

Feel like this deserves more attention. Big tech, with its centralized control of markets and information, is actually similar to the centralized socialist planner that Hayek rejected so vehemently? (from the excellent summit.sfu.ca/item/39967)

It would be awesome to use a collective deliberation tool like polis for making sense of atproto ecosystem-wide discussions like sign in branding / terminology. Bsky threads are not the appropriate format. plus many more voice can contribute meaningfully.

I'm really surprised he didn't mention the Enclosure Movement: this process of privatizing public goods goes WAY back to the the Middle Ages, when nobles took land that had been community property for centuries--land on which everyone relied to avoid starvation--& seized it as private property.

2026 is gonna be the atmosyear

we just launched the oakland collaborative syllabus! a living, evolving guide to the media of this place also experimenting with a version on protocol (thanks @ronentk.me) and would love to collaborate with other folks interested in participatory local archiving tools semble.so/profile/oakl...

Agreed, and at the same time I feel we have barely scratched the surface on the power of movements: there is something important in what my friend Ida wrote here idajosefiina.com/services-1

Added "Why we fear AI" by @hagenblix.bsky.social to my picks of 2025! semble.so/profile/rone...

I read some great books and essays in 2025. Here are some of my highlights. I love that Semble makes it so easy to share these reading lists! @cosmik.network semble.so/profile/rang...

Thankfully it is a parody www.abby.com/stop-firing-...

The tech industry is so awful I can't tell if this is parody. nurtureos.ai

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

Let's go!!

'Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.' (Toynbee)

Interesting Euro-AI opportunity next-frontier.ai/home

With Roundabout, our new local community app, we’re reimagining a lot of familiar surfaces and features of “social media.” Here’s how Roundabout is different: Let’s dive in! 🧵

Adding @ranganaut.bsky.social 's excellent piece on Hyperproblems to our "Picks of 2025 💎" Semble list! "Hyperproblems are scientific challenges whose scale, complexity, ... and interdependence overwhelm traditional research, requiring new forms of collective intelligence." semble.so/url?id=https...

Really enjoyed this piece by @anil.recoil.org , & great to see more recognition of the potential of ATProto for science! @atproto.science anil.recoil.org/notes/princi...

Idea for Semble x Leaflet: - make a Semble collection of your favorite things from this year - make a Leaflet post (doc or canvas) and add those links + some extra commentary or reflection! Hopefully soon we can even make it possible to link to Semble collections & cards directly :)

Found this great essay by @ntnsndr.in through @wesleyfinck.org 's "2025 gems list"! 💎 semble.so/url?id=https...

It was really fun to reflect back on my top picks of the year, I would love to see what you all enjoyed too :)

Our friends at @eurosky.social have been working on something cool: they're launching eurosky.social accounts that will be hosted on European cloud and governed by European law. Register your account now: www.eurosky.social/register

Agreed! Really excellent. "The argument about whether large language models can 'do science' has the structure of a trap... The better question is whether LLMs can be usefully integrated in the processes by which scientific knowledge gets made, validated, and disseminated."

This is awesome. @yvonnezlam.bsky.social @hypervisible.blacksky.app “[LLMs] did not arrive as disruptors. They arrived as intensifiers. LLMs function as an accelerant for the existing optimization machine, making the logic run faster rather than challenging its foundations.”

David Reynolds' bio of John Brown was by far the most mind opening book I've read in a while. Hauntingly relevant. Check out the final lines, written in 2005. "W. E. B. Du Bois's startling pronouncement thunders through American history. Indeed, 'John Brown was right.'"

And then there’s the story about Alex Karp’s not-at-all-weird interview (for lack of a better word) with Oswald Mosley’s grandson for a senior position at Palantir.

TIL xAI is a public benefit coorporation... source - summit.sfu.ca/item/39967

Quick update on some new features and happenings from the past week! 🧵

finally landed it! Tap is your all-in-one sync tool for the Atmosphere: webhooks, backfill, filtering, signaling collections, no cbor/msts/signatures/cursors. this thing's got it all! give it a go and let me know what you think & if you run into any issues docs.bsky.app/blog/introdu...

If this proposal becomes reality, international conferences in the US will become a thing of the past.

New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/

Polling: "Do you think the rich have too much political power in the U.S.?" Yes: 80% No: 8% Independent voters are 81%/6% on this; even Trump voters are 68%/18%. Maybe a political party could lead on this issue. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

I, for one, welcome our noble colleagues' willingness to absorb all the AI-generated content for the rest of the preprint servers.

Lab Note on our new *mentions* feature! We'd love to hear if folks are finding this useful so far — and ideas for other things that should be mentionable. For example @tangled.org repos and @cosmik.network Semble collections could be very cool to support!

to sincere post a bit: the ability to receive important timely updates like this one, from regional govt and institutions like this over an open protocol (vs closed/proprietary platforms) is a huge part of why I work on AT

#atprotoidea someone should make @pdsls.dev but it's a @notion.com clone. lexicon schemas are just databases with their set of columns and types.

"the benchmark exposes significant gaps between current Video-LMs and human reasoning... Extensive experiments across ... Video-LMs ... reveal that existing models struggle to "show what they know" and vice versa, especially in fine-grained hand-object interactions" arxiv.org/abs/2512.05513

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“ “The real question is not 'Why is Bluesky so left-coded,' the real question is 'Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them'" “

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

jobs.ashbyhq.com/astera/a52dd... 👀

"At minimum, ranking algorithms with this much economic consequence should be auditable. We audit financial markets. We should audit attention markets too."

when will "Venture Post Capital" be a thing

Today, we're opening up Seams Alpha (seams.so), a social web annotation built in the Atmosphere. We're hoping it helps with collective sense-making. This is just the start, there's still lots to do! We'd love if you tried it with us.

Awesome collection! Added a bunch of items to my list :) Collaborative collections around these topics will be 🔥