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“Look for the Helpers” - Fred Rogers youtu.be/-LGHtc_D328

@mnolangray @aaron_lubeck @sp6runderrated When avg age of first time homebuyers is hitting 40 years old, maybe that is the point

@aaron_lubeck @sp6runderrated If a price-income ratio three is your floor for affordability, there literally is not a single affordable major city in the US. Not even Detroit or St. Louis (both ~3.5) where they will literally give you a house.

not to be a jerk but Sacramento is not inexpensive. It costs way too much. Sacramento should not be substantially more expensive than the national average. I know he knows this but CA's housing problems hit basically every metro level.

@ModernDad You actually want a second trigger to communicate duress

My wife calls me, panicked. The call is from her number, and her voice is unmistakable- that’s my wife. ‘Babe, our son is hurt. He got in a bike wreck. I’m at the emergency room but they won’t take our insurance and I need cash to get him help. Please send me 3000 dollars as soon as you can, he’s really not doing well.’ Me- ‘Wow, that’s scary. Tell me our passphrase and then I’ll send the money.’ Her (it) - ‘What? What passphrase? This is your wife, our son is hurt. Send the money now!!’ Me- ‘I’ll call you back. I don’t believe that this is my wife. If it is, I’m sorry, but we discussed this.’ The number? Spoofed. Easy to do and there’s no way to tell if a phone number is being spoofed aside from hanging up and calling back to confirm. The voice? AI generated. Easily done. A few seconds of audio is all it takes to create a realistic audio deepfake. What can you do? 1) Create a family safe word or passphrase. Ours is definitely not ‘Keep Going’ although we considered it. Discuss the passphrase far away from phones or any recording device. This is as analog as possible. Don’t forget that the trigger for the passphrase is just as important as the phrase itself. So instead of asking ‘what’s the safe word?’ have a separate triggering question. For example, you could say ‘I’m eating banana cream pie’ and this would trigger your spouse to respond ‘purple velvet pillows’ if that’s the safe word. Make it fun, silly, and easy to remember. And DON’T WRITE IT DOWN. 2) Cognitive security is an essential skill in 2026. Assume every image and video you see online is fake until proven otherwise. Expect scams and spammers, and be pleasantly surprised when it’s not. 3) Figure out a backup communication option with people who you absolutely need to be able to reach. Don’t just rely on a phone number for communication. Have redundant, ideally encrypted methods of communication with family. What did I miss? I think (hope) Nikita is wrong on the timeframe- agentic bots like Claude bot are impressive but not quite ready to flood the phone lines in just 90 days. But I think it’s going to be a huge problem by the end of the year. I already get dozens of increasingly realistic spam calls and texts daily- it’s only going to get more annoying. Have a plan to keep your family and your finances safe!

@michaelcurzi @YorkTheWest The series is very good too

unfathomably cool - accurately described by @YorkTheWest as 'Jim Henson's Avatar'. Watched a 1 hr making of, & it is the image of a type of filmmaking so magical we may never see it again. all practical everything, life sized puppets on wires, astounding matte backdrops

@tamarawinter - House - Best in Show - The Fabulous Baron Munchausen - Hunt for the Wilderpeople - Marcel The Shell with Shoes On - Häxan - The Holy Mountain, then Endless Poetry - Being There - Paprika - Serial Mom - The Court Jester - Bedknobs and Broomsticks - Auntie Mame - The Fall

@tamarawinter More obscure recommendations: - A Matter of Life and Death - The Red Shoes - Tales of Hoffman - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Fantastic Planet - La Belle et la Bête - The Girl Can’t Help It - King of Hearts - Latcho Drom - Black Orpheus - Howard’s End (anything Merchant Ivory)

Developing a film curriculum for myself (I like movies, but I’m trying to make a serious study of the medium). Is there anything I *definitely* have to include? Interested in the classics, but I’m most curious about films people personally find exceptional.

So saddened by the sudden passing of @Halikaarn1an. He was an incredible man, so full of energy, knowledge, and good cheer. He was a great friend.

@esrtweet It also points in the direction software dev should go. Used properly, and with the right scaffolding, AI can turn formal verification into something that is finally practical and worth doing. That in turn will mean all the action is spec writing. Coding will be automatic.

We are on the cusp of a profound change in the field of mathematics. Vibe proving is here. Aristotle from @HarmonicMath just proved Erdos Problem #124 in @leanprover, all by itself. This problem has been open for nearly 30 years since conjectured in the paper “Complete sequences of sets of integer powers” in the journal Acta Arithmetica. Boris Alexeev ran this problem using a beta version of Aristotle, recently updated to have stronger reasoning ability and a natural language interface. Mathematical superintelligence is getting closer by the minute, and I’m confident it will change and dramatically accelerate progress in mathematics and all dependent fields.

@DavidZagaynov I host rooftop bbqs during fleet week that result in next gen maritime logistics companies

I’m excited to be a scout for 9D VC. We invest in contrarian ideas at the earliest stages or something like that. I don’t really know but they gave me money to yolo. Hmu with what you’re working on

May we launch a thousand more

In under 48 hours, we'll gather in SF to start asking questions about the institutions of the Datacenter Age. humandirectedfutures.org Some recent additions to our slate of speakers from across AI models, energy, compute, economics and society:

@mattparlmer you could just tell me I have too much stuff in my home next time you’re over

Massive improvement tbh

The Datacenter Stability Paradox is staring us in the face and we're launching an invitational summit to tackle it. The datacenters we rely on to run AI models (and buoy US GDP) are among the most complex technological assemblies ever produced by civilization. /1

are we going to reach prosperity before the old world shakes itself apart? or does ai threaten further civilizational stagnation? what structures are necessary and desirable, and how might existing ones change (or warp?) let's talk about it.

@mattparlmer Oh no I set my portfolio short vol and the mandate of heaven depends on delivering me returns despite my decisions!

Jerome Powell please print $5 trillion American dollars asap my economy is on life support thank you for your attention to this matter

Probably nothing haha

@rodarmor there’s a newish place in Jackson Square selling multiple varieties

has anyone else been seeing an uptick of pâté en croûte content across all media channels

@micsolana Make demiglace from it!

drinking homemade bone broth, learning about sourdough starters

@CookingWong @divalbanerjee You forgot to ask for a perpetual license like CNN lmfao

@divalbanerjee HI MY NAME IS COOKING WONG I HOPE YOU ARE PROSPERING AND WELL. DID YOU TAKE THIS VIDEO? I AM WITH MY FAMILY GROUPCHAT AND WOULD LIKE TO SHOW MOM.

Did the El Segundo refinery just blow up??

@david_perell Takes like that may signal some naïveté. SF is a much flatter hierarchy than NYC and shorter path to decision makers. The openness means people hit levels they wouldn’t otherwise see in elsewhere. It’s friendlier in SF relative to other places (they all have their “things”).

Went out drinking in New York with a friend from San Francisco last month. The bar was crowded and drinks were flowing when he said: “The people here are so nice and non-transactional, which is very different from SF.” The difference, he thinks, is that New York is a multi-industry town while San Francisco is dominated by one industry: tech. That matters because people are more likely to stay on their guard in one-industry towns. In San Francisco, if you meet somebody, you probably know the company they work for or somebody they work with, and at the very least, there’s a decent chance you’ll cross paths in the future. New York is different. It’s home to a bunch of different industries, so there are a bunch of different status hierarchies: fashion, finance, theater, advertising, media, real estate, and so many more. The status ladders are parallel, not stacked, which relaxes people. His theory: The more distance there is in the average social connection, the less transactional people are and the more comfortable they are letting loose.