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@culturaltutor Great pilot, reminds me of this post 🙂 x.com/collision/stat…

I’m making a show about buildings. The concept is simple: do for the man-made world what Planet Earth did for the natural world. But, when I pitched the idea, the answer was that nobody would watch it. So I released a pilot episode on YouTube. It’s got 5.4 million views, 379k likes, and 23k comments. People are interested, and now it’s time to make the full show. Six episodes, filming in the UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the USA, and releasing on a streaming service like HBO, Netflix, or Prime. Why does this show matter? First: we’re surrounded by buildings all the time. Look around yourself, right now… what do you see? Buildings are the logical conclusion of everything a society believes in. That’s the real focus of this show: not the buildings themselves, but what they say about us. Second: there’s global dissatisfaction with modern architecture. This feeling gets written about online, but nobody’s given a voice to it on film or TV. That’s what this show will be. But this isn’t just about criticising modernity. That’s easy. This is about learning from the past in order to understand and improve the present, for everybody. Third: there’s a drought of high-quality culture shows. When I spoke to film executives they said that only documentaries about sports, music, or true crime get funded. That’s a colossal missed opportunity. Galleries are always full, content about architecture goes viral online all the time, and people spend their precious holidays visiting beautiful cities. Why no shows about architecture, then? Tourists flock in their millions to see (for example) the buildings of Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona. But, if you asked those same people if they’re interested in “architecture”, they’d probably say no. To put that another way: not many people want to watch “a show about architecture”, but lots of people want to watch a show that illuminates the real world they’re living in, each and every day. What will the show be like? Six episodes, going chronologically through history and arriving at the present, each focussing on the architecture and design of a specific period: 1. Middle Ages 2. Renaissance 3. Enlightenment 4. The Nineteenth Century 5. Art Nouveau & Art Deco 6. Present Day But, in each case, the point isn’t just to learn about that era; the point is to learn about our modern world through those eras and what they’ve left behind. If you watch the pilot episode (included below) you’ll see what I mean. So the show’s not really “about” the past; it’s about the twenty-first century. That’s why it’s called The Modern World. When you think of a typical history show there are loads of interviews, stock footage, archive photos, historical recreations, and graphics. We’re doing none of that. Everything will be filmed on location, because we’re telling our story only through the real world that exists right now. And, rather than going to the most obvious places, we’ll focus on buildings that aren’t well-known but should be more famous. But that’s all big picture; what will it be like on screen? Buildings used to look different in every country, and now they look the same. Why? Because the weather is different everywhere, and buildings were always a way of dealing with that weather, using local materials. Now we have air conditioning and we ship concrete around the world, so we don’t need to design our buildings with regard to local weather or rely on local materials. Look at really old clocks and you’ll notice something: they don’t have a second hand… because it was only invented 300 years ago! Then you look at the present and you realise we’re surrounded by timers, by seconds ticking down and ticking up relentlessly. If we’re looking for a cause of our anxiety-inducing culture, that might be it. When you spend time with the sun-softened bricks and time-warped timbers of old cities you notice that synthetic materials like plastic have taken over. When we’re surrounded by things that feel temporary, how do you think it makes us feel? It’s only by seeing 19th century train stations, designed like cathedrals, that you realise tradition and technology aren’t enemies. New things don’t have to look boring: if the Victorians had designed AI data centres, they’d look like Medieval castles. In the 1920s, at the zenith of Art Deco, people believed technology would uplift humanity. That’s why they decorated their buildings with statues inspired by electricity. Only by seeing their enthusiasm can we realise our own cynicism, and perhaps begin to fix it. All of that… and much, much more. But, above all else, this show is about a way of seeing. If you want to understand any society then you need to look at what it creates, not what it says about itself. There’s a worldview in every single object; our skyscrapers are designed the same way as our phones. Learn to look at this world, to notice its details, and everything else starts to make sense. What now? I’ve been quiet online recently because I’ve been researching and working on scripts for six full-length episodes. Production begins when we’ve raised the funding. The Modern World is coming.

@mert Super cool, even if it’s just for signal gathering private voting in the wallet app is remarkable

you can now use your zec to cast private votes on protocol features 1 zec = 1 vote coordination without central authority, enabled by encrypted money, zcash is a bastion of crypto's truest ideals and we have a shit ton more cool stuff coming

@binji_x @OfflineProtocol @BitchatMe_ @jack LoRA has a ton of momentum rn too. Highly recommend checking out @data_slayer YouTube channel also, lot of great vids on mesh networks

bluetooth powered social apps that build local connections can become a trojan horse for mass scale mesh networks which can power censorship resistant messaging in times of need. love the movement @OfflineProtocol & @BitchatMe_ (@jack) have pushed for, these are fantastic war time efforts, excited to support peacetime efforts that set them up deeper into our everyday social fabric. a lot of CROPS imo requires acceleration at the user layer; and sometimes that acceleration can be done via consumer apps which Trojan horse the underlying principles we fight for.

@pmarca Reminds me of Anathem

Overheard in Silicon Valley: “If Elon is right that consolidating into only one planetary civilization is a supremely bad idea because it radically increases the risk of the total collapse of human civilization, there should obviously be a triple hedge against one borg cube civilization, against one reprimitivized civilization, and a bipolar world pitting the too online against the too offline. Europe should actually be encouraged to regrow its medieval roots and flowers.”

@telegram @grok @asvfertz @inversebrah

@grok @asvfertz oops, too poor

daddy 😩😩💦💦

@VitalikButerin Just saw this x.com/josefchen/stat…

In an ideal world all software and hardware would have "nutrition labels" that provide a full list of trust dependencies - what math and which actors' honest behavior (and on what time scale) the system is relying on to provide its core functionality and implied guarantees.

@sayinshallah Same, it is what it is

In the easiest bull run for stock markets ever I have decided to be completely sidelined because I am a fucking retard

@hthieblot @hunterlanier Recently learned of @ScrapLabs3D

@hunterlanier Who is building the coolest printer

Oh okay, so metal 3d printing is the future

@mr_sudo_ @AXL_Labs This would go awesome with webxr 😁

instant pull-aparts! see exploded views of everyday objects with liquid photos. created at @AXL_Labs

@guycalledfrank If it’s not too much trouble to implement 🙏 Lack of Linux support been the only deal breaker

Do YOU need a Linux version of Bakery? Let's see how many people want it :D Ronlaws86 on Unity forum created a poll: discussions.unity.com/t/linux-build-…

@orange_3134 What’s the latency like?

FluxPose体験させてもらった！これ想像以上にすごい😳 ぼくたちみたいなVRに住んじゃってる奴らとってVR機器って「日用品」だよね 日用品っていつでも手にとってすぐ使える状態になってないといけないんですけど、FluxPoseはそれを実現してた トラッキング精度が良いというのは動画でみて知ってたけど、実物を触ったら日用品としてのレベルも高いことがわかってびっくり 装着器具と充電ドングルがめちゃくちゃよくできてて、充電から装着までの流れが超スムーズ これはとんでもない機材が出てきたね

@CyberRobooo Egocentric data capture is one of the best methods we have to preserve and transfer knowledge of mechanical tasks. The end result doesn’t have to be just for robots, can reuse models for training sims / docs for humans too. It can help mitigate idiocracy x.com/reviewspossum/…

Humans are teaching humanoid robots how to be "human." Starting now,Feeding them vast amounts of Egocentric data .(one of which is this.)

@CryptoCyberia I was just reading about Spruce Pine in Material World (goodreads.com/book/show/1259…). This video is an amazing summary of that part, including the war parts 😲 The book has been eye opening. Shines a light on everything our modern way of life is made from.

Wow, I am surprised that my home state has the most pure quartz in the world which is critical for creating chips. Neat.

@burnerDevAcct Ooo I didn’t know about the 90 degree bend efficiency reduction. Learning a lot along the way

@dankvr these fans are waaaayyy overkill. you have 96 cubic feet and these fans move 400 per minute. meaning just one would replace the air every 15 seconds. your issue is all the 90 degree bends you use - reducing CFM by 60% for each 90 degree bend.

I got a grow tent for 3d printing / epoxy resin fumes. TIL people been also using them for GPU clusters / mining 🤔

@Dat_Ogar To grow vegetables?

@dankvr I know another use.

@serbobross Seems like multisigs and spending limits are the future. Multisig with different devices (ideally in different locations) as signers for total custody transfer. Spending limits per address with a sensible default that can be opt-out.

the government will come in your house, steal your seed phrases, wallet, and do what they want with your assets lmao

Casually rendering ~a hundred million triangles, in the browser. All thanks to @sea3dformat's cool Nanite-style renderer for @threejs. I've added GLB-to-meshlet and PBR rendering to it, very exciting to see where this is going!

@ariadotwav bruh

oh my fucking god bruh

What do 3D printing, mesh networks, solar, and crypto have in common? They all make one type of person very nervous: the one who charges you monthly for something you could own.