Ronen Tamari

@ronentk.me

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Researcher & entrepreneur | Co-founder @cosmik.network | Building @semble.so | collective sensemaking | https://ronentk.me/ | Ecosystem building @atproto.science @cairos.network | Prev- Open Science Fellow @asterainstitute.bsky.social

Screenshot of a Twitter/X post by Kanjun (verified, July 21, 2026) stating "I love this — two thoughts:" followed by: 1) "Don't build things you don't want to see in the world" and 2) "Sensory hijacking is a human rights violation we don't yet recognize." The post elaborates that much modern technology is designed to capture attention and dull our connection to aliveness and humanity. It quotes Andrew McLuhan (@amicusadastra) saying "stop making sense-dulling technologies," followed by a 1964 quote from Marshall McLuhan: "Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left." The post has 1 reply and 19 likes.

Post from Semble of a card saved from Margin to a regular collection and open collection on Semble.

Infographic titled "We need public IR platforms!" with two main sections. Left side states "In the social media landscape, decentralization has emerged as a dominant strategy to safeguard against capture" with thumbnails of three decentralized platforms (ActivityPub, AT Protocol, and another system). Right side reads "But beyond technological decentralization, we need decentralization and democratization of our social infrastructure for governance and moderation," featuring an example of a Tech Policy Press podcast episode titled "The Whiteness of Mastodon." Bottom text emphasizes "But we also need a fundamental transformation in how we approach and conduct IR research."

Or more concisely:

Infographic advocating for public information retrieval (IR) platforms, highlighting the need for both technological decentralization (with examples of ActivityPub and AT Protocol) and democratization of social infrastructure governance, along with a fundamental transformation in how IR research is conducted.

Screenshot layout showing "Well... the social impact of AI is not always bad" as a headline, with a BBC article titled "How sheer luck made this tiny Caribbean island millions from its web address" featuring an aerial photo of a turquoise Caribbean beach. Adjacent text discusses Anguilla's 2024 revenue of 105.5m Eastern Caribbean dollars from .ai domain sales (23% of total revenues), with projections to reach 132m dollars in 2025 and 138m in 2026, and notes that increased revenues are expected to fund infrastructure improvements and healthcare access.

Pie chart showing the matter composition of the Universe: Dark matter ~82%, Ordinary matter ~18%.

One of the most important elements of Highlander pedagogy is the recognition that the best teachers of poor and working people are the people themselves. Rather than bringing in "experts" as resource people, Highlander brings people together, developing a circle of learners who share the same problems. Together people share their experiences, analyze their problems and learn how to work toward basic changes in society. The goal is not reform or adjustment to an unjust society but the transformation of society. It is an education for action. It is dangerous education; and although much emphasis is on forming strategies to confront the system without being destroyed, people are encouraged to push the boundaries, to be creative in solving problems.

artifice
noun
ar·ti·fice ˈär-tə-fəs
Synonyms of artifice

Simple Definition
A Simple Definition is available from our Learner's Dictionary to help you understand the meaning faster.
1
a
: clever or artful skill : ingenuity
… believing that characters had to be created from within rather than with artifice.
—Garson Kanin
b
: an ingenious device or expedient
2
a
: an artful stratagem : trick
… revising the state's constitution through a series of legal stratagems and artifices …
—W. Haywood Burns
b
: false or insincere behavior
social artifice

Semble book page for Harari's 'Sapiens' showing a connection Ronen Tamari made opposing it to the article 'Harari vs. Henrich

"Semble feed showing two connections by Ronen Tamari: 'Harari vs. Henrich' marked as opposing 'Sapiens' and supporting 'The Secret of Our Success.'"

Is there a threshold across which Whitehead’s principle flips or reverses? “Civilization advances,” Whitehead claimed, “by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.” But what if there is a tipping point? Past a certain threshold, either of quantity or quality, does civilization degrade by extending the number of important operations humans can perform without thinking about them? Or at the very least, do we get a very different sort of civilization than the one we have known? We may soon learn the answer to these questions because the adoption of AI often amounts to the automation of our thinking and the creation of a vast realm of non-conscious action in the world that arises from the externalized storehouses of our personal and collective memory.

11:46 AMClaude responded: A man stands at a small table, working on an HP laptop, while a large wall-mounted screen displays a dark-themed web app called "RRGI Discovery AppView – Lens …A man stands at a small table, working on an HP laptop, while a large wall-mounted screen displays a dark-themed web app called "RRGI Discovery AppView – Lens Viewer," showing a node-and-link graph with labeled boxes (e.g., "Resilient Data Reserve," "Core-Satellite Model," "Test Narrative Corpus") connected by dotted lines, along with a legend for nodes and relations.

Book cover of Freedom in a Rocking Boat by Geoffrey Vickers

A ranked list table with three columns — Rank, Label, and Value — showing 20 entries. The top entry (#1) is "Age & ID Verification" with a value of 112. Other notable entries include "ATmosphere Authentication" (#3, 58), several AI-themed categories such as "AI* hallucinations/AI slop" (#4, 53), "AI* psychosis/therapy/companions/sycophancy" (#7, 41), and "AI* data centers/environmental concerns" (#8, 41). Entry #9 is "About Bluesky & Atmosphere" (40), and #19 is "RDM for ATProto Open Science" (23).

2026/04/28
From Social Networks to Sensemaking Networks
Presenter: Ronen Tamari, Cosmik Network
What would social media look like if it were designed for sensemaking rather than engagement? We're exploring this question with Semble, a platform where researchers curate shareable collections, create knowledge trails that others can build on, and discover relevant work through their network's collective attention. Built on the AT Protocol, the open social networking protocol behind Bluesky, Semble offers researchers data portability and an open API designed for extension. We'll discuss how Semble enables new kinds of research tooling, from living semantic citation graphs to collaborative review and annotation. We'll also share how ATProto's open data layer creates unique opportunities for studying and designing epistemic infrastructure — from observing how knowledge trails form across a network to experimenting with platform affordances that support collective sensemaking.

A conference room slide at AtmosphereConf Vancouver (March 28, 2026) displaying a presentation slide titled "Groundings" featuring quotes from Walter Rodney, described as "a lightning rod for working class Black Power." Three quotes are shown, culminating in the bolded phrase: "The Black intellectual must leave the campus and go to where the people are." A circular stippled portrait illustration appears on the right side of the slide. In the foreground, a stream.place banner advertises "Open Source Livestreaming on the ATProtocol."