World Machines in the Thicket!
World Machines blyg now active and accepting hoppers: https://blyg.worldmachines.org/
What's on it Our whole notes corpus is now on the blyg as 2,577 linked posts: book reading notes, the glossary, member essays and personal notes. About 97% of the [[wiki-links]] between notes are now real links on the blyg, so you can follow a thread from note to note.
Personal notes are credited to you by name at the top of each post. If you have a blyg of your own, tell Aneesh and your byline will link to it.
Submit your WM hopper If you keep a blyg, you can feed your World Machines writing into the WM blyg:
- In your blyg's Studio, make a public hopper (a collection) and put your WM-related posts in it. You can include other people's posts too.
- Submit its URL at https://worldmachines.org/hoppers. It looks like
https://your-blyg/h/your-hopper/. There's also a link in the WM blyg's sidebar.- It's checked right away. If the URL is a real public blyg hopper, it's listed at once; there's no approval step. If not, you'll get the reason (most often, the hopper isn't set to public).
Venkat's "history" hopper is the first one in: https://venkateshrao.com/blyg/h/history/
How hoppers are polled
- Twice a day, at 06:00 and 18:00 UTC, the WM blyg reads every listed hopper.
- Hoppers don't have their own feeds yet, so the WM blyg follows your whole blyg in order to import posts. But it only collects the posts that are in the hopper you submitted.
- Collected posts are filed in the WM blyg's "From World Machines members" hopper: https://blyg.worldmachines.org/h/members/
- Nothing is reposted under WM's name. Your post stays yours, with its link back to your blyg.
- A post you add to your hopper usually shows up at the next run. A brand-new subscription can take one more run.The digest After each run that finds new posts, the WM blyg publishes an AI-written digest: what the new posts have in common, where they disagree, new ideas worth following, and which to read first, with authors credited and every post linked.
- It's written by Gemma 4 on Cloudflare Workers AI, and the blyg marks the AI-written part as generated.
- Each post the digest draws on sends its author a mention.
- Up to 18 posts go into one digest; any more roll into the next.
Questions, or want a post or hopper taken off? Ask Aneesh.
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