“How do we resolve the need to quantify our reading habits with our need for a deeper reading experience? I’m not sure there’s a simple solution—we are addicted to data and intent on improving ourselves over enjoying ourselves.” lithub.com/what-we-lose... By @marissalevien.bsky.social

What We Lose When We Gamify Reading

At the dawn of 2026, I spent an irresponsible amount of time cataloguing what I did in 2025. There are so many ways to aggregate a personality these days: Letterboxd kept track of how many movies y…

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Sam Altman isn't keen on you reading my book. EMPIRE OF AI is based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, and my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order here: empireofai.com.

Amazon once “pulled a book off your library shelf”—internet pioneer Vint Cerf calls it shocking. Listen as OGs & advocates explore the past, present & future of the open web on the Future Knowledge podcast. 
🎧Listen & Subscribe ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the... #OpenWeb

Did you know that the Internet Archive offers free public tours every Friday at 1pm? Check out what happened when The Fogline stopped by on a recent Friday ⬇️ www.foglinesf.com/p/the-richmo...

🌁 The Richmond District is Home to 1 Trillion Web Pages

A Friday afternoon tour of the Internet Archive

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🎅 Santa has looked much the same on the page for generations. Preserving periodical covers like this one helps connect how the season ❄️ was pictured then with how we recognize it now. See more vintage images in our Holiday 2025 Periodical Art collection ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias... #HolidayArt

everyone's both an optimist and a prepper, no exceptions

Michael del Castillo @delcastillo.bsky.social · 3y ago

Did you know @margaretatwood.bsky.social donated an unpublished manuscript to the Future Library in Norway? In a hundred years they'll publish it! www.futurelibrary.no#/

Please, do not support the surveillance capitalism habitual line steppers

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8mo ago

This sucks.

Feeling uneasy as you read about the order for the US to start testing nuclear weapons? Now you can see what dropping a famous nuke would do to your hometown! nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ by @wellerstein.bsky.social cc @bulletinatomic.bsky.social @ploughshares.bsky.social #borderless #nuclearweapons

NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein

NUKEMAP is a website for visualizing the effects of nuclear detonations.

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Meta has removed a Facebook page used to track the presence of immigration agents at the request of the Department of Justice, the company confirmed on Tuesday. https://to.pbs.org/473xB3z

Meta removes Facebook page that tracked ICE in Chicago

Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on X that “following outreach” from the DOJ, Facebook removed a “large group page” that was being used to target ICE officials.

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“More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation” Daniel Ducassi for Florida Bulldog

More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation

By Daniel Ducassi, FloridaBulldog.org - More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts missing legally required public documentation.

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Delete your news app. Subscribe to something.

The internet's in a bad place. We're not winning. How can we turn things around? We need money. What parts of the internet 1) are still under democratic control and 2) are in a position to produce significant revenue? It's mostly down to Wikipedia. But there's more… 🧵

How Wikipedia Can Save the Internet With Advertising | TechPolicy.Press

Robin Berjon explores how principled advertising on Wikipedia could fund a democratic digital future.

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My "Worldbuilding for Science Fiction and Fantasy" class at ASU starts again today! Can't wait. This fall's reading list: THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS by Ursula Le Guin THE FIFTH SEASON by N.K. Jemisin WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON by Erika Swyler BLACK SUN by Rebecca Roanhorse EMBASSYTOWN by China Miéville

Curious how your right privacy with ChatGPT changes depending on if you're in the U.S. or Europe? Check out this side-by-side comparison: app.copyleaks.com/dashboard/v1... via @copyleaks.bsky.social

“Whatever nightmare pressed people to leave home…their arrival unleashes torrents of human dynamism. The movement of people, even or especially under duress, is inextricably tied with human progress.” — @polgreen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o... via @nytimes.com

Opinion | Something Extraordinary Is Happening All Over the World

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An absolutely monumental piece from @polgreen.bsky.social this morning. Appreciate the research, array of sources, and nuanced thinking on the complicated issue of migration. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...

Opinion | Something Extraordinary Is Happening All Over the World

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@simondlr.com Just finished reading this old blog you wrote and would love to chat: sceneswithsimon.com/p/token-cura... I'm specifically interested in the closing lines:

Token-Curated Registries in 2023 and A Problem With Price Signals

Also: Super-Optimism & LK-99, The Boys of Summer, and The Struggles of Fiction Mags

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New Sunday Edition is out. People are talking about the decline of literary fiction again. sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

Sunday Edition #4 - The Discourse of Literary Fiction

Also: Querying, AI vs GeoGuessr, and Kevin Can F**K Himself

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Do I love this? Yes, yes, I believe I do

It's more a question of power and who has authority. "Good governance" for some is "tyranny" for others. Bluesky's concern that a future version of their own organization is their biggest threat model is very apropos here.

NEW REPORT: The rush to advance an "AI arms race" is being used to justify militarizing AI systems without applying the rigorous standards that have historically governed other high-risk technologies like nuclear weapons. Read our new safety report: ainowinstitute.org/general/new-...

New Report on the National Security Risks from Weakened AI Safety Frameworks

The AI Now Institute has released a new report, Safety Co-Option and Compromised National Security: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Weakened AI Risk Thresholds, sounding the alarm on how today’s AI sa...

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An overview of Skyseed Fund, Peter Wang @wang.social @skyseed.fund Peter goes into why he started the fund, what he sees coming, including AI that is open source and preserves human agency #ATmosphereConf

Skyseed Fund Peter Wang ATmosphere Seattle 2025

YouTube video by AT Protocol Development

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I can't wait to be able to elegantly move from network to network on the AT Protocol! Let's make it happen!

Atmosphere Community@atmosphere.community · last yr.

An overview of Skyseed Fund, Peter Wang @wang.social @skyseed.fund Peter goes into why he started the fund, what he sees coming, including AI that is open source and preserves human agency #ATmosphereConf

Excellent summary of why Trump's threat to the tax exemption held by Harvard (and others) is so dangerous. www.forbes.com/sites/howard...

Why Trump’s Efforts To Revoke Tax Exemptions Are So Dangerous For Democracy

Trump’s threats to revoke the tax-exempt status of organizations that disagree with him have troubling implications for the tax system and for democracy.

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Update on this. Apparently the bill just passed the House... 409-2. So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · last yr.

Take It Down Act is a total censorial mess. And yet, a ton of "progressive" Dems are supporting it, even as it will enable the highly politicized and weaponized FTC to go after websites and demand content be removed from the internet. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/c...

Bitcoin is the antidote to the Monetary Nationalism bitcoin patron saint Friedrich von Hayek warned against. From The Bitcoin Standard by @saifedean #borderless

Bitcoin patron saint Ludwig von Mises knew well that you can’t advocate for hard money AND closed borders. From The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous

Have your clinical trials been delayed or otherwise impacted by the cuts at FDA? We at @Forbes.com want to talk with you. Signal amyfeldman.33

The peer-reviewed journal CHEST publishes research in pulmonary care and sleep studies. Why is Trump’s DOJ sending it a letter about “competing viewpoints” ? My latest @Forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

Trump’s DOJ Is Going After Medical Journals For Being Too Woke

The peer-reviewed medical journal CHEST publishes research in pulmonary care and sleep medicine. Why is the DOJ sending it a letter about its acceptance of “competing viewpoints”?

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It’s VERY cool that @forbes.com is making this @bsky.app push! More MSM needs to do the same!

Zach Everson@zacheverson.com · last yr.

And or more scoops on breaking news, money in politics, tech, education, wealth, and more, please follow my amazing colleagues @forbes.com! 6/6