You’re not crazy. The internet does feel genuinely so awful right now, and for about a thousand and one reasons. But the path back to feeling like you have some control is to un-spin yourself from the Five Apps of the Apocalypse and reclaim the Internet as a set of tools you use to build something you can own & be proud of — or in most of our cases, be deeply ashamed of.
A truly beautiful essay proposing a return to independent publishing.
You don't need to do all three. You might not need to do any of them. But if Reddit matters to your audience—and increasingly, AI is making that decision for you—pick one approach and commit to it properly.
Wild Signal provides AI search optimization services that help brands earn citations in the digital landscape. They pair communications experts with geospatial tools to deliver strategic intelligence. via wildsignal.agency
Comprehensive Coverage 139 Skills - Extensive coverage across all major scientific domains 28+ Databases - Direct access to OpenAlex, PubMed, bioRxiv, ChEMBL, UniProt, COSMIC, and more 55+ Python Packages - RDKit, Scanpy, PyTorch Lightning, scikit-learn, BioServices, PennyLane, Qiskit, and others
GitHub repository with 139 scientific skills for Claude, enabling complex multi-step research workflows across biology, chemistry, medicine, and other scientific domains
Star Trek's unproduced 'Phase II' series from the 1970s included 19 episode scripts that were never filmed via kottke.org
The trouble with these calculations is that they mire us in epistemically tricky terrain. I’m bothered by how quickly the discussions of AI become utopian or apocalyptic. ... It also forces thinking to be obsessively short term. People start losing interest in problems of the next five or ten years, because superintelligence will have already changed everything. The big political and technological questions we need to discuss are only those that matter to the speed of AI development. Furthermore, we must sprint towards a post-superintelligence world even though we have no real idea what it will bring.
Dan Wang's 2025 annual review letter.
Stay up to date with email notifications of new posts.
Discussion