Ashlee Vance

For the past two years, some folks in Texas have been creating a new hardware city out in the middle of nowhere. It's called Proto-Town, and it's both weird and wonderful. There are startups and people living in trailers right next to their machines. They've never let the media visit. But we managed to get our cameras in there. Come see m.youtube.com/watch?v=qIob2-…

@DrStarson @CJHandmer

@ashleevance You can not paywall @CJHandmer

to paywall or not paywall. that is the question . . . . . it's a 5,000-word story

@youwillmakemaps that's legally binding

@ashleevance $1m unlock

@alexmmmack That's next week

@ashleevance For a second I thought you profiled Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg...

@baouws Good luck!

@ashleevance i'll try to learn how to read by then ty for the heads up

Tomorrow we run a giant story on this guy. And you will want to read it.

Elective amputations to keep up with the robots? Oh, why not, let's go there. In this episode, we get into the next era of humans as technology makes it possible for us to have robotic prosthetics. Connor Glass from Phantom Neuro is the guest. And he comes with some very weird and wonderful ideas. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 03:17 The Neuralink alternative 16:22 The two-button problem killing prosthetics 21:47 Why every cyborg demo lies a little 27:00 Who actually pays for a cyborg arm? 31:19 From Tulsa kid to Hopkins surgeon to startup 35:00 The DARPA bet behind every BCI 43:17 Will we choose to amputate? 49:26 Cyborg soldiers and racing China 1:04:05 20 BCI startups, one big problem 1:12:14 AI vs BCI, and what makes us human

This collection by @ashleevance is full of delightful surprises. I would not have expected anarchist manifestos or odes to drinking from the Silicon Valley insider who reports on techno-capitalism and produced a Netflix documentary about Bryan Johnson, respectively. Calls to mind Whitman: Do I contradict myself? Very well I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes. As an aside - grateful to Ashlee, who is “kind of a big deal” as the kids say, for being a guest on our little newsletter and for being a mensch to work with. open.substack.com/pub/matterread…

@AdamDraper Oh thx man!

@ashleevance Hey Ashlee. Thanks for telling these stories.

The era of cyborgs is upon us. Maybe. On the latest podcast, we talk with Connor Glass from Phantom Neuro, which made the robotic prosthetic below possible. Full episode here - corememory.com/p/the-cyborgs-…

@BradleyJohnsen Oh dude. Amazing!

@ashleevance update: can confirm.

The merch has arrived

@belpoque @benspringwater Wild isn't it?

Big shoutout to @ashleevance for the rec via @benspringwater. Appreciate the find.

Pandora's Vox by Humdog a.k.a Carmen Hermosillo. Eerily prescient piece of writing on the nature of Internet communities written in 1994(!) gist.github.com/kolber/2131643

@theclosedroom It's pretty good

@ashleevance i genuinely can't stop laughing at the 360 flip off ! 🤣🤣

@InsiderPresider this one is more about making drugs to cure brain disease.

@ashleevance this brain recovery stuff is wild but honestly i wonder if we are just delaying the inevitable for patients

Doctors and scientists were convinced that the brain decays quickly when someone dies. But some researchers at Yale proved that everyone was wrong. They brought brains back many hours after death. This is the spectacular story of Bexorg. youtube.com/watch?v=IzUuvl…

“Good morning. Your payment was declined for the 3rd time and this is your final reminder to update the credit card on file.”

Can proudly say I've now been through two "Silicon Valley It School" collapses covered by the national press wsj.com/us-news/educat…

@TrentSiggard Correct

@ashleevance So that 100k was for one episode- not for a year of full releases? I guess I wasn’t following along closely enough…

Got another massive pod coming. Who wants to unlock it now? :)

@IHateUrContent @tschwarz

@tschwarz @ashleevance Stfu, maybe hes about to show us some feet. I don't need you ruining this for me.

@Kenny___Rose @business i would like to film this

Last week we sat down with @business and gave them a tour of our NEO manufacturing facility, the most vertically integrated humanoid factory in America. Read more: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…