2025 was a big year for Cosmik: Semble went from concept to working product, with active users, a public API, and community members already building on top. We also launched the ATProto Science and CAIROS initiatives to help build an ecosystem bigger than any single product. 2026 will be about making Semble shine—and weaving it into a vibrant ecosystem for collective intelligence. Here's our year in review and what's next.

Crypto is full of smart people doing brave things in public. Starting projects, shipping too soon, shutting them down, trying again. And somehow, all they get is a like. Maybe a tip. Then the feed moves on. We think those moments deserve more. More pause. More presence. More “hey, I saw that and it meant something.” Giftr exists to celebrate the moments that matter. The ones in between “they deserve a little love” and “I guess a tip will have to do.” We make it simple to show...

Let's Peeling thoroughly about Quotien & Neynar. I've been in a dilemma lately: does creativity count as a quotient? Or does it count as a neynar?

Twenty Twenty....It Doesn’t Matter new year’s eve and the streets are loud without me lights spill out of bars like they forgot to invite someone music thumps through walls meant for everyone else walking past laughing mouths counting down counting drinks counting each other no one looks long enough to notice i’m here or maybe they do and decide i’m just part of the cold i move through shoulders through noise through smoke and glitter like i’m already gone a ghost with hands in his pockets wa...

For years now, there has existed a 'pro-ET intervention' crowd who are very vocal, influential, and to a large extent dominant within significant sections of New Age, fringe, and UFO/UAP communities. This—not as small as you might imagine—slice of society was dramatically portrayed in the film Independence Day, where a bunch of abductees, contactees, and ‘awakening starseed’ types got together, and got blasted by the city sized alien craft. Today (and in the real world,) the influence of this...

I've been sitting on this for a week. Thinking. Reflecting. Asking my reptile brain amygdala (thanks fight/flight response!) to take a break so that my frontal cortex could chime in with some empathy and connected mammalian ideas. I've slept on it – several times. I suggest you do the same. And then we must resolve "to be" in the time we have remaining before "not to be" comes for all of us. Our society will not recover or improve without us.The video evidence is no more or less disputable th...

Today was a travel day again—this time a vacation within the vacation. We made our way to the beaches of Goa, and the shift in energy was immediate. The last few days had been full in the best way, but still busy: movement, people, transitions, noise. Today marked the moment where things finally softened. The bags were set down. The pace slowed. There’s space now to actually rest. Proper R&R.