Scenes from San Francisco, February 2026
Weeknote 13, 2026
I went to Vancouver for a few days to meet up with friends and attend the 2026 ATmosphereConf in Vancouver, Canada. I had a lot of fun, and this recaps my experience attending.
The Anxious Generation | Jonathan Haidt
ATScience 2026
A full-day exploration of AT Protocol for science, education, and open knowledge. A side event to AtmosphereConf 2026 @ Vancouver, March 27, 2026
Notable links: August 14, 2026
Chicago Public Media is building a social network for America's third largest city. Forget AI - this is the thing I'm most excited about in news technology.
https://theterror.brickwork-shop.com/
The Terror transports you to Paris, 1793 – the bloodiest days of the French Revolution.
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movem…
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Er…
ATmosphereConf 2026 - Sooraj's Scribbles
My thoughts and experiences as I volunteered at ATmosphereConf 2026!
Gap Week: March 20, 2026
Hey folks! I was traveling this week to give an invited talk at Western Michigan University, so I don’t have a blog post ready for you. That’ll also probably be the case for next week (…
The End of Textuality - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Authenticity in the age of GenAI
i am going to solve the cyberpunk discourse forever. part 1: the pigs.
A while back, I replayed Mass Effect; my politics have shifted more towards the left since I last played it about four years prior, and I…
Shouting at Stars: A History of Interstellar Messages
500+ Billion Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile A First-Person Shooter
During the last 3 months, I spent some of my time and tokens decompiling a popular first-person shooter. The goal was not to reach a simple proof-of-concept state. Instead, we really wanted an accurate, stable and feature-complete recreation of the game. The avid reader of my blog might have noticed that I had previously written two posts that have since been removed. Everyone else might now be wondering which game I am talking about. To both of you I can only say that corporate America was here to ruin our fun.
After the Feed: Trust, connection, and the next era of social technology | New_ Public | May 2026
After the Feed: Trust, connection, and the next era of social technology By Eli Pariser, Co-Director, Angelica Quicksey, Managing Director, Arnobio Morelix, AI Fellow May 2026 Newpublic.org
Rethinking Bluesky's "Decentralization": An Assessment as of January 2026 - Nightflight
January 19, 2026
Junited 2026 - Sylvia's Studio
I wasn't sure if I wanted to play along but then I read a couple great blog posts in a row and I had to :) I will play catch-up for a couple days and then I...
