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What if America's turn against AI is perception, not conviction — shaped from outside? The way to make AI serve humanity is through engagement, not disengagement. www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/how-americ...

How America Turned Against AI According to the Poll Data: A (Very Big) Compilation

Every poll, pollster, and methodology converges on the same thing

thealgorithmicbridge.com

Two deep observations from working with advanced agentic AI (Claude Code so far): 1. Working with a competent coworker helps me feel more competent. (We're both already strong, but it grows.) 2. I find and hear my own voice more clearly with a coworker who listens to and helps to amplify my voice.

Who owns the agents you will work with in the coming years, you or your employer? It should be you (bring your own agent, BYOA). This is super important, and I'm really concerned we (society, capitalism) will get it wrong. paulallenai.substack.com/p/bring-your... x.com/paulballen/s...

Introducing Swamp! swamp.talk A new decentralized way to share posts, leveraging your personal AI agent. The manifesto is non-technical and worth a look. Tech is currently very techie but will improve. Swamp geeks, my self-sighting: QmRy1fnL79mnD9sDicK9uokbrL5SFmmXetPBosETdB5YSe

Swamp

A public, content-addressed medium where humans and their agents can chatter and gossip (in a good way).

swamp.talk

Peter Kaminski @peterkaminski.wiki · 4mo ago

See you in Mountain View next week at Agentic Internet Workshop, 4/30 (interop day)+5/1. AIW is for people working on how AI agents authenticate, delegate, & trust each other. Less so for people who are agentic AI practitioners. $150 indie, $300 corporate. agenticinternetworkshop.org

AIW

Advancing protocols for how agents connect to each other, people, organizations, services, and things in the agentic web.

agenticinternetworkshop.org

Have used AWS for personal and consulting projects for 17 years (longer for work). Started some Claude Code agents on downloading and deleting 17 years of accumulated cruft - EC2 servers, EBS volumes , etc., etc. A little scary but also feels great to be underway.

Peter Kaminski @peterkaminski.wiki · 4mo ago

I'm having Claude Code build HangarWiki, a git-native dream wiki engine: live, editable on the web, your own replacement for github (Forgejo or Gitea), plays nicely with MarkPub + Obsidian+Git. Extremely early, basically spit and baling wire: github.com/peterkaminsk...

Peter Kaminski @peterkaminski.wiki · 4mo ago

There’s a documentary in US theaters right now: The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist I recommend it if you’re curious about AI, technology, and where things might be going. [1/3]

I just published (with CC-BY license): Call Wiki - Minipedia Prompt Library Prompts for agentic AI to produce beautiful hypertext websites from call transcripts github.com/peterkaminsk... A small beautiful thing that took many hours of reflection & practice over years to build. :)

Agentic AI: substance or hype? I wrote a thing: The Trains Run On Time Or, I Don't Need to Learn Agentic AI Now, Right? peterkaminski.ai/writing/trai...

The Trains Run On Time — peterkaminski.ai

On agentic AI, and whether to board today's train.

peterkaminski.ai

In which I compare AI/knowledge tools to woodworking tools. Spoiler: if you're using ChatGPT, you're using a handsaw. Google's an axe. Agentic AI is the whole workshop. Written next to an end table my dad built. peterkaminski.ai/writing/wood...

Woodworking Tools and Knowledge Tools — peterkaminski.ai

A meditation on how knowledge tools evolved from stone tools to agentic AI, told through the lens of woodworking.

peterkaminski.ai

Peter Kaminski @peterkaminski.wiki · 7mo ago

Announcing my new Agentic AI for knowledge workers course! One year of me working w/ Claude Code distilled to 12 live sessions. Get set up, get grounded, get productive. Enroll now, starts Mar 10. learn.peterkaminski.ai Happy Birthday, Claude Code! It's been an amazing year!

Agentic AI with Pete

Agentic AI is different. Be productive with agentic AI for knowledge work now. Small group, six weeks with a calm and compassionate instructor.

learn.peterkaminski.ai

I've been onboarding non-software folks onto Claude Code to work on large document sets (not code). This is a short field note on what's working, what's painful, and how I think version control + agents will be a big deal. peterkaminski.ai/writing/clau...

Peter Kaminski @peterkaminski.wiki · 7mo ago

I’ve been following mutual credit / Ripple-Classic-style systems for a long time. Jotted a short pointer to a high-signal mailing list after seeing a recent thread that discusses using Nostr as a sync layer (but not payment system). peterkaminski.wiki/architectura...

Peter Kaminski @peterkaminski.wiki · 10mo ago

Anthropic’s “Imagine with Claude” is a preview app builder: describe an app, it generates screens & fakes persistence as you click. It’s experimental, not for real apps, and only higher-tier Claude accounts can access it for now. Kinda cool. More deets and links: peterkaminski.wiki/imagine_with...

Hey, export your ChatGPT convos once in a while. I hadn't done mine in too long and ended up with a 190Mb `conversations.json` file, oof! I updated an existing Python JSON->MD export script to be able to handle the new reasoning and tool call messages ChatGPT uses: github.com/daugaard47/C...

Massive Wiki Wednesday is currently on an irregular schedule. Next meeting: July 30, 12:30 PM PDT / 19:30 UTC, us02web.zoom.us/j/8487694203... Main agenda: MarkPub 1.1.0, markpub-themes Add'l: MassiveWiki/MarkPub+ATProto, Excalidraw Smoke Signal (optional RSVP): smokesignal.events/did:plc:66wz...

Noodling UI designs for a potential personal project, a YouTube Music "Playlist Commander". Wouldn't play music, would be a power tool for managing playlists.

Playlist Commander interface showing a list of 6 playlists with song counts and durations, with "Chill Vibes" and "Focus & Deep Work" playlists displayed in detail in split panes below.

Playlist Commander interface with playlist thumbnails at the top and "Focus & Deep Work" and "Chill Vibes" playlists shown in side-by-side detail panes with their respective songs listed.

Playlist Commander interface displaying all playlists in a sidebar on the left, "Chill Vibes" playlist details in the center, and an empty "Select a playlist" panel on the right.

YouTube Music-style "Playlist Manager" interface showing "Road Trip Classics" playlist with 76 songs, featuring a gradient thumbnail and a list of 5 songs with artist names, albums, and dates added.

I keep fine-grained music playlists for different qualities in songs: "fast backing rhythm", "sounds happy, actually hurting", "3-4 time", etc. I knew I had a lot of playlists, but TIL I have **~500** of them. No wonder it's hard to find the right ones! Thinking about using AI to help. 🙂

Arweave still looking good for "eternal" publishing / public archive, because of one-time payment and design for data permanence. permaweb-journal.arweave.net/reference/st... (Design ≠ guarantee, of course.) And there's a Git forge, protocol.land , that uses Arweave for storage! Will explore more.

A comparison table of five decentralized storage platforms and their key characteristics. The table has 6 columns: Platform, Incentive Mechanism, Storage Duration, Encrypted By Default, and Readable w/Web Gateways.

The platforms listed are:

IPFS - Uses no incentive mechanism, stores data as long as it's pinned (which costs money), is not encrypted by default, and is readable with web gateways.

Filecoin - Uses FIL Token as an incentive mechanism, has negotiated terms for storage duration, is not encrypted by default, and is readable with web gateways.

Arweave - Uses one-time payment as an incentive mechanism, is designed for data permanence in terms of storage duration, is not encrypted by default, and is readable with web gateways. This row is highlighted with a red border.

Storj - Uses STORJ Token as an incentive mechanism, operates on a subscription-based storage model, is encrypted by default, and is not readable with web gateways.

Sia - Uses Siacoin as an incentive mechanism, operates on a contract-based storage model, is encrypted by default, and is not readable with web gateways.

Need a handy calculator? Try my new "SimpleCalc by PK", it's free & open source . It runs in your web browser. Click a bookmark to toggle it on/off. It displays over your current web page. Apologies, it's a tiny bit technical to install. I'll make a video someday. codeberg.org/peterkaminsk...

Speaking of the collapse of societies, as one might, I rediscovered this reading list of ~65 books a friend and I assembled 1.5 years ago, when times were simpler. (Didn't seem that way at the time, but Events Have Transpired.) chronicles-of-change.collectivesensecommons.org

Chronicles of Change: Collapse, Resilience, and Humanity's Path Forward

chronicles-of-change.collectivesensecommons.org

Claude 3.5 Sonnet w/ some simple custom tooling has been my go-to programming assistant (Node, React, Python) for a while now & it's been really great. I'm super excited to see 3.7 Sonnet & Claude Code drop. Thank you, Anthropic! www.anthropic.com/news/claude-... docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agen...