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@seanbonner Probably his openclaw but a win is a win

I have no idea how I achieved this, but I’ll take it.

@SamaHoole About 60-70% solid. The UK-specific arguments are mostly fair and well-grounded. Where it gets shaky is overgeneralizing UK conditions to the global picture, and dismissing rather than engaging with the strongest criticisms (land use, global herd growth).

Here's the definitive takedown of the environmental case against cattle farming: methane, land use, water, and why the cow is actually part of the solution, not the problem. jointheruminati.com/cattle-farming…

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere." Farmer: "Where did they get it?" Activist: "What?" Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere." Activist: "From... eating?" Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it." Activist: "The soil?" Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from." Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere." Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it." Activist: "Then just don't have the cow." Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle." Activist: "It's not that simple." Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

How to say: "We've lost big time against Iran – and actually, I think our military sucks," ...without actually saying that. 😂👍 A true diplomat 😎

A 17-year-old in Iowa boiled beets in her chemistry class and turned them into stitches that change color when your wound gets infected. Her name is Dasia Taylor. It started as a science fair project. She wanted a low-tech version of the "smart stitches" Tufts researchers built in 2016. Those used thread wired up with sensors and a tiny chip that pinged your phone if something went wrong. Cool, but useless without a phone or a hospital that can afford it. Her version doesn't need any of that. Healthy skin is slightly acidic, like lemon juice but much milder. When bacteria grow in a wound, the chemistry flips and turns more like soap or baking soda. Beet juice has a quirk. The same red pigment that stains your fingers when you cook it shifts color based on what it touches. Bright red on healthy skin. Dark purple on infected skin. The switch lines up with infection almost exactly. She tested ten threads before finding a cotton-polyester blend that soaked up the dye and changed color within five minutes. That was the prototype. Around 1 in 40 American surgeries end in an infection at the cut, costing hospitals more than $3 billion a year. In poorer countries the rate is closer to 1 in 9. In parts of Africa it's 1 in 6. In some Ethiopian hospitals, up to a quarter of surgery patients leave with an infection. The whole game is catching it early. Spot it in time and antibiotics handle it. Miss the window and the patient is back on the operating table. Dasia filed a patent in 2021 and started a medical device company called VariegateHealth in 2022. The stitches haven't been tested on real patients yet. New medical device patents can take a decade. She's also looking into a side benefit: the beet pigment kills bugs like E. coli and Klebsiella in lab tests. Smart stitches need a phone to read them. Hers just need eyes.

@HusbandOfAyn @chr1sa caffeinate works fine on macOS

@chr1sa Stupid you guys can't set a lid close power state. Yet another reason I'll never use macos.

You know you're in the Bay Area when there are cracked-open laptops outside the bathroom running agents

The Sam Altman and @miramurati texts from the day he got fired from @OpenAI in 2023 just became evidence in the @elonmusk v. @sama trial. It felt like a meaningful moment in AI history, so I turned it into a musical. The lyrics are the texts.

What does long-term thinking look like in practice? Introducing Long Now Labs, a collaborative space to test, prototype, and build long-term tools. Lab Series 001 is a collaboration with the Protocol Institute to investigate three aspects of civilizational durability that are being radically reshaped by frontier technologies. -> Lab 001.1: Book of Time - An open call to submit a concept for a new way of marking, experiencing, or making sense of time. -> Lab 001.2: Epistemic Cycles - Seeking an individual or team to investigate historical patterns of technological disruption that broke down society's ability to discern truth. -> Lab 001.3: Interspecies Protocols - Exploring the protocols needed to support interspecies ecologies. If you are a designer, researcher, writer, or technologist interested in the deep future, we want to hear from you. Submissions are now open. Learn more about Labs and how to apply: na2.hubs.ly/H059wn90

IN HONOR OF CALIFORNIA’S 175TH ANNIVERSARY, WE WILL BE ROLLING OUT A VERY SPECIAL DRIVER’S LICENSE FOR EVERY CALIFORNIAN THIS SUMMER! IT WILL FEATURE A HANDSOME, HIGH-QUALITY PHOTO OF ME, GAVIN C. NEWSOM. MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING IT’S THE BEST LICENSE EVER MADE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. THIS IS ABOUT CELEBRATING OUR BEAUTIFUL STATE (IT IS NOT ABOUT ME, DESPITE THE VERY HANDSOME PHOTO!). ENJOY! — GOVERNOR GCN

@estel_strider @Chen You should really seek out more choreographed dance. There is a lot of this caliber and better.

@Chen I've never seen choreographed dance in my life and thought "wow" until today.

the best 3 minutes of video I've watched this year

Looking for some alpha testers for my system that allows an LLM agent to render things spatially for you in Vision Pro. akuaku.org/the-overseer/ youtube.com/watch?v=VkPlxx…

Quite a mess brewing in Calif. But some of us can remember a gov race there that featured a porn star, the kid from Diff’rent Strokes, Arianna Huffington, a 100-year-old woman, Larry Flynt, a sumo wrestler and … Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Man that parachute deploy sequence was nuts to watch #artemis

@zeldapoem @GrayAreaorg Third Wednesday's at Rick Shaw Stop: sf.nerdnite.com

Wednesday 4.8 ⋆. 𐙚 ˚ OOIOO with Lightning Bolt music show at @GrayAreaorg: grayarea.org/event/ooioo-li… ⋆. 𐙚 ˚ Computational Poetry at tiat [thread cover]: luma.com/v2v36pk4

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ Art & Culture in San Francisco are not dead! Here are my favorite events happening this week (4.7-4.13):

@zeldapoem This also happened last night, you might like to follow: curiosityguild.org

Tuesday 4.7 ⋆. 𐙚 ˚ Future of Cinema – From Locarno to San Francisco: luma.com/0sw825zz ⋆. 𐙚 ˚ Open mic at The Faight: #open-mic" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thefaight.com/events#open-mic

@MeganTStevenson Like not enough of your thousand people that you follow are still posting here, but find the related accounts that are still posting and follow them. Then you’re following stream will feel more like it used to.

@MeganTStevenson Interesting. Just a hot take, but maybe now with LLM agent assistance we can basically create our own algorithm by analyzing our existing follow list to find the still frequent posting accounts in the broader network that you don’t yet follow, but will give you better content.

Advice? My feed seems to consist of just about a dozen heavy posters. I follow like 1000 people. Any suggestions on how to get a bit more diversity?

@zeldapoem If you haven’t been, check out San Francisco’s oldest private library. Free tours Wednesdays at noon. milibrary.org

If you aren't stumbling upon underground libraries you aren't sidequesting enough

My favorite part: Mr. Gallagher had an itinerant childhood, living out of motels and cars for a time before landing in Cincinnati when he was 12. That was where his uncle gave him a laptop, which he used to teach himself to code so he could make a Weird Al Yankovic fan page.

Now that Artemis II has launched we have 10 days to get everyone on Earth a Planet of the Apes costume so we can do something hilarious when the astronauts return 😁

I asked Claude Opus to read my copy of Ted Nelson's autobiography and create agent instructions to think like him. Very pleased with the results. I will be using this often I think. thetednelson.com/possiplex.php