Benjamin Woolley

@diabrowser Lovely. But isn't this the OS we've been waiting for?

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Maybe Turner understood reality best as “indistinct,” impressionistic—a living tension between permanence and change, object and feeling. Dive deeper into Turner’s shifting realities in my latest post: 🔗 historyofreality.substack.com/p/romance-and-…

Critics scorned Turner’s famous “Fighting Temeraire” for bending facts. Yet, as John Ruskin argued, Turner captured a reality far richer than mere accuracy—he evoked emotional truth beyond precise depiction.

J. M. W. Turner has turned 250! To celebrate, Yale is having an exhibition: 'Romance & Reality'. The last major exhibition in the US was in 1966. That one was called 'Imagination & Reality'. What's with all this reality? He's an artist!

Will it work? Or join other relics in the attic of technology? 'Am I a Real Human, or Sam Altman's Avatar?' on Reality Bites. historyofreality.substack.com/p/am-i-a-real-…

Behind the enterprise stands 'an exempted limited guarantee foundation company' based in the Cayman Islands. It promises to turn itself into a ‘Decentralized Autonomous Organization’ (DAO), a robotic company for deciding who's human. Not sinister at all.

On May Day @sama announced the US launch of the 'World'. It's Captcha on steroids, the ultimate test of whether or not you're a real human. Find an Orb, let it suck out your soul and turn it into your digital global 'proof of personhood'.👁️🙋🧵

I’m no economist (neither was Cardoso!)—so I’ve laid out the tale and the questions. 🌱💰 Full column here 👇 historyofreality.substack.com/p/real-value-r…

🧵1/ What gives money “real” value? Gold bars? Digital code? Social trust? Or is it a magic money tree that took root in the Amazon jungle?🌳✨