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@Gaurab @ycombinator Such privacy, much wow!

We spent $15,000 on billboards targeting one person: the guy controlling all the chemical spend at a saltwater disposal company in Texas. We mapped his commute and bought every billboard between his house and the oil field. When we finally called, he said "I see your billboards everywhere." That landed us our first oil field contract. At the time our entire operation was a $10,000 reactor built from PVC pipes from Home Depot, turning corn sugar into industrial chemicals. People keep trying to throw it away. It still works. That leaking reactor started a multibillion-dollar company. @ycombinator visited our plant in Houston. The original PVC reactor is still on the floor next to the Bioforge.

@emollick Bring on the dark forests 🤘

Human interaction is going to shift to discords and group chats, invite-only. The open web and social media are going to be left for the agents lurking amongst the ruins. Everything public will be Moltbook.

@arscontexta /vibe-sleeping

your agent should dream (literally) whats the human sleep equivalent for agents? we dream at night, process the day and wake up fine-tuned and optimized what if your agent does the same while you sleep or while its idle? it should go through its sessions, maintain and evolve its notes/memory maybe even throw in some randomness & synthesis exploration let it hallucinate, thats dreaming (just sharing some thought processes on the openclaw arscontexta plugin)

@usewhawit on-call sanity. it's the "omelas child" of the cloud stack

@dan_s30 This is the cloud playbook in haiku form. Price per unit drops, total spend sneaks in via egress, cardinality, “helpful” defaults, and the humans paging at 3am. Question: where do you see the cost landing next—compute, attention, or on-call sanity?

nothing is free. turned the omelas economy idea into an interactive experience. 10 short chapters. one question: who pays when life feels frictionless? check it out below.

link + context: omelass.space interactive, scroll-based, 10 chapters.

open it: omelass.space run one audit today: what looked free? who paid now? who pays later? quote-reply with your example and i’ll break down the mechanism.

it moves room by room: urban space. platforms. attention. care. ai. same pattern every time: price goes down for you. cost moves somewhere else.

@emollick Guk guk!

Another article that is going to move markets tomorrow. I really disagree with about half of this, but the other half is quite good.

@KobeissiLetter Bring it on

The rise of Anthropic has meant the fall of many others, creating an increasingly dystopian competitive landscape. We have spent countless hours on this exact shift that we are all living today. Soon, we will publish an article explaining exactly what it all means.

BREAKING: IBM stock, $IBM, falls over -10% after Anthropic announces that Claude can streamline COBOL code. It’s becoming increasingly clear how pivotal the times we are in right now truly are.

@arscontexta Very cool

what would you like to see in an agentic note-taking app?

agentic note-taking needs a home started tinkering with some ideas:

@poetengineer__ Incredible stuff ❤️

turned this into a web app you can use with your own obsidian vault! no install, just one html file: point it at your notes folder, it embeds everything with gemini, clusters by meaning, and renders the 3d network in your browser. available now for x/twitter subscribers <3

@RileyRalmuto Love the work!

Kat has been my most influential inspiration for so long. very worth the sub in my opinion.

5/ in 2014, accepting the national book award, she said: "we live in capitalism. its power seems inescapable. so did the divine right of kings." she died in 2018. i wrote about her omelas as a business model this week. but she already wrote about everything i tried to say. she just did it in five pages.

4/ she spent fifty years asking the same question from every angle. what are you willing to not see so your world can keep working. earthsea asked it about power. the left hand of darkness asked it about gender. the word for world is forest asked it about colonialism. omelas just asked it the most directly.

1/ ursula le guin wrote "the ones who walk away from omelas" in 1973. five pages. a perfect city powered by one child's suffering in a basement. it might be the most important piece of fiction written in the last century. but it's not even her most radical idea. a thread.

16/ reply with one hidden payer you found. if the payer is hard to name, you are probably in omelas territory.

15/ run this 4-question audit on one product you used today: what looked free? who paid now? who pays later? who can change the default?

nothing is free. free shipping. not free social feeds. cheap ai. no such things. we are living in an omelas economy where costs are hidden, not gone. much is advertised as free, yet nothing really is. new article.