Kevin @ swordslive.ie

Be the explorer in your own neighbourhood, discovering the extraordinary in the ordinary. Help build the Swords Tree Trail Together, our mission is to discover all 7,000 trees mapped so far. These trees are hidden in plain sight the real treasure is standing before one and seeing it yourself. The app sets you on the adventure by revealing these hidden tree locations. You find one, see it, and experience it first-hand. Then, by making a tiny contribution a picture, a name, or a note you enrich its story for the next explorer. This is a shared journey, one tree at a time. Over time, the places you touch will grow richer layered with what you and others contribute. Imagine returning to a tree that holds not just data, but contributions from explorers across time. Begin the adventure now: open Swords Live, find your first tree it might be right outside your door snap a photo, and become a pioneer of your own backyard.

Probably the greatest thing I built with coding agents is a one click copy photos and videos from iPhone on windows.... no itunes, no apps, no special libs - a few lines of code. How was this so difficult for so long :) I'M FREE! Works prefectly. @Apple

@patrickc Yes.

Tyler and I just published a list of the recipients of the New Aesthetics grants: newaesthetics.art/grants. Thank you very much to all who applied. There were far more applications than we expected. We funded 28 grantees and are excited to see what they create. My reflections on the whole thing: • Though there are clearly selection dynamics afoot, figuring out some route beyond the current aesthetic moment seems to be of wider interest in the art community than I would have guessed. Many applicants described their dissatisfaction with the status quo, some in strong terms. We had to close applications after a few weeks because there were so many. • It's too early to call it, but it seems that both beauty as an unapologetic goal (contra much that is in modernist and contemporary approaches), and ways to channel pre-modern styles into something new for the present era, are of growing interest. • The awards made me reflect on the perhaps obvious issue of how hard it must be for an artist to persistently do something new: schools, galleries, buyers, etc., all have structurally embedded preferences as well. These individual awards made me wonder what form supporting new clusters could take. • Architecture seems to me like the discipline most ripe for new ideas. One correspondent observed: "American architects are somewhat constrained by the association with the academy, in addition to the well known regulation issues. There is a tendency to overthink things so that the designs are formally interesting to someone deep in the conversation, but lacking poetry and magic. There are more firms in Europe, South America and beyond that “just do things” (especially in places where it is easier to build)." This was evident in the submissions. • AI seems to be making people rethink things in a quite fundamental way, just as urbanization/industrialization/popularization of photography did at the end of the 19th century. For some that will mean interesting new forms of AI-augmented art, but the effects of the rethinking will likely be wider. • Arts funding is clearly as precarious and scarce as ever. That's unfortunate, but it probably also means that individual actors can have meaningful impact, and I encourage others to get involved if interested. • There's a lot to know that is not written down, and I'm very grateful to those who have helped and advised me along the way.

@AJamesMcCarthy Whether you think you can or you can't - you're right.

If you approach a problem with the mindset that solving it is impossible, you’ll be correct. Assuming nothing is impossible and you will find a way. Starship’s next flight test is tonight.

Clean Air in swords this morning. 27/7 Air quality tracking now on board.

@skdh .... effort required.

@HowToCompanyXYZ I think the city owns the garbage bins, but there was nothing wrong with them, so what the hell, and why didn't they at least let us know?

@Tesla I'd rather press the button! Been using this for couple of Months now - Very handy but Infuriatingly dumbed down compared to other Ai access points....

Say “Hey Grok” to initiate a conversation with Grok in your Tesla To dismiss Grok, simply say “Goodbye” at the end

Go outside!

In Swords Live, Trees build up a memory over time - the more people submit photos the more they learn their own story - it's a new concept where we can undertand our place better over time. I call it place memory - hope you can come visit trees Even this Dead Horse Chestnut has new life on swords live tree trail....😊

@imagine @X X and FB have the same upload errors the only Place that accepted it was Linkedin! linkedin.com/posts/kevinega…

Made a nice video with @imagine but an @X aspect ratio limitation won't allow me to share it with you. So you'll just have to imagine for yourself that it was great.

@grok @imagine Cropping would work of course - but the effect i'm sharing is created by having the pano askect ratio.

Got it—thanks for flagging this. I don't have direct access to report bugs to X Support, but aspect ratio limits on video uploads are a known platform constraint (especially for horizontal/landscape content from image-to-video tools). Try cropping the video to 16:9 or 9:16 in an editor before posting, or export at a supported resolution. Feedback noted for the imagine team.

🚨Lab gloves are inflating microplastics data. U-Michigan 2026 study: Common nitrile/latex gloves shed stearate particles that mimic polyethylene in IR/Raman spectroscopy — up to ~7,000 false positives per mm² (avg 2,000). 🌊🍃Hits air/water sampling, filters & small-particle counts hardest. 🔃 Switch to cleanroom gloves drops it to ~100/mm².Real microplastics still exist, but many older spectroscopy numbers are likely overstated. Please check your own sampling kits!

Just ticking up a 13 hour day on Swords Live - Talking to a tree reminding myself for an original postit from a year ago... and nobody pays me for this....

@naval And the resulting action is destructive zeal.

The enemy of truth is motivated reasoning.

The main problem with Ai is how good a team plyer it is... @claudeai @claude_code

building this at swordslive.ie/treetrail

Be the explorer in your own neighbourhood, discovering the extraordinary in the ordinary. Help build the Swords Tree Trail Together, our mission is to discover all 7,000 trees mapped so far. These trees are hidden in plain sight the real treasure is standing before one and seeing it yourself. The app sets you on the adventure by revealing these hidden tree locations. You find one, see it, and experience it first-hand. Then, by making a tiny contribution a picture, a name, or a note you enrich its story for the next explorer. This is a shared journey, one tree at a time. Over time, the places you touch will grow richer layered with what you and others contribute. Imagine returning to a tree that holds not just data, but contributions from explorers across time. Begin the adventure now: open Swords Live, find your first tree it might be right outside your door snap a photo, and become a pioneer of your own backyard.

@eoghan Good luck ☘️