modular research is happening already on social media (researchers are nanopublishing but just don't know it yet)
References mentioned in the talk at STAMINA lab at McGill University (April 28, 2026)
"nihilist neoliberalism - intensifies the dynamic of endless growth while doubling down on hierarchies of oppression that enable it" -- "AI, Decomputing and the Interregnum"
for libertarians like Von Mises, lack of introspection was a feature, not a bug. Introspection tends to make people interested in crazy ideas like socialism and justice
Interesting content about the AI slop phenomena
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Content relevant to MIRA workshop (Modular Interoperable Research Attribution - https://www.mira.science/)
Related to Big if True Science program (BiTS)
Projects practicing "cooperative business models where coordinating and sharing resources between individually-resource-constrained actors can produce economies of scale that can challenge incumbent capitalist monopolies" https://bsky.app/profile/meri.garden/post/3mbxswszmfc2s
examples of useful sensemaking happening on social media
AI eating the ecosystems that made it possible in the first place
Initiatives aimed at protecting against extractive data practices
In theorizing around AI capabilities
repeated pattern of larger companies buying another smaller startup and closing its services down.
discourse around claims that "cloud sovereignty will trickle down to everyone"
on the study of ignorance, particularly how and why it's created, spread, or maintained
On the need for more diverse knowledge creation and discovery interfaces beyond feeds
Traditional corporations can already be seen as a form of artificial intelligence, current AI amplifies this
on connecting personal tools for thought into collective networks
Building good products is crucial, but let's not underestimate the power of movements, especially in an age of cheap software
Critiques of the meta-crisis framework
Content related to the thesis of the book "The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World" by Iain McGilchrist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_His_Emissary)
Content I've especially enjoyed in 2025
How can we make it easier to follow account content across different formats and apps?
Tracking hypercapitalism trend of financializing everything
References shared during the December 2025 Scenius panel "Making Sense of Open-Source: Ideals, Reality, and What's on the Horizon" https://luma.com/z9ivf64k?tk=EdRp1q
approaches promoting epistemic diversity, challenges to big tech platform monocultures
"(rapidly) growing gap between on the technological and social complexity, and our "wisdom" i.e. our capacity to manage that complexity well." (https://lifeitself.org/blog/2020/06/22/bridging-the-wisdom-gap)
"Hyperproblems are scientific challenges whose scale, complexity, novelty and interdependence overwhelm traditional research models, requiring new forms of collective intelligence, modeling, coordination and communication." https://hyperproblems.com/3m5tkmhnof224
Why we need community stewarded research commons
(it can be argued that even the question itself is a trap - https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-widows) Tracking discussions around which aspects can be automated, under what circumstances and assumptions
"The risk is not machines thinking like people, but people thinking like machines"
GenAI slop content applied to science
Ideas for how we can use the Bluesky / ATProto for improving science discourse, publishing and communication