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hot take: whoever decided that MM/DD/YYYY is somehow better than DD/MM/YYYY has a twisted, sick, and deeply illogical mind.

@justalexoki A cornerstone of happiness for me is discipline, it’s a great sprout from where happiness grows.

people who are genuinely happy, how did you do it?

Someone should build a dashboard that predicts how many compute resources durable workflows will save.

A progression of templates. Great showcase of Shopify's integration capabilities. Not much innovation but an over-simplification.

Writers of such publications merely expose their own inability to take responsibility for their health, which is the ultimate driver of the greater good, and not doing so is a disrespect to the same community (family etc.). Classical pseudo-intellects that have given up or refuse to take responsibility. Bryan Johansson merely exposes such.

Yes, the goal of @paradigm and many other VCs is to suck as much value as possible from the Ethereum and broader ecosystem, while also adding value to the ecosystem in the service of maximizing their own gains. Paradigm is particular good at this. Subgoals include progressing the systems of the world towards rigorous decentralization, credibly neutrality, censorship resistance, and intrinsic privacy/confidentiality to the extent that such a world is more profitable -- and healthy in other ways -- for themselves and their investors. As @fede_intern indicated, it is not news that Paradigm has been working to "own" Ethereum for years.  That said, I don't believe there is reason for concern, and consider this kind of behavior natural and inevitable. And the gold rush of corpo-chains is validating for the traditional economy and signals our mainstreaming.  Yes, I would prefer that Mallesh and Dankrad would focus their talent and energies fully on Ethereum. But both probably do need a fresh context to energize them, and since both are pure researchers, I expect they will continue to write papers and contribute broadly, as they indicated they would. We need VCs for now because they represent a comfortable bridge for the world's capital to flow into our ecosystem. Very soon better, fairer, more broadly accessible onchain investment platforms with healthy tokenomics will mature sufficiently so that VCs will have no choice but to set up shop on these platforms, if they want to stay in the game. In bringing progressive decentralization to everything -- even up through layers of identity, reputation and governance -- we are on the precipice of totally changing the way the world works. Ethereum will win -- already has won -- its niche: rigorously decentralized, credibly neutral digital asset settlement ledger infrastructure.  It will establish itself as the world ledger, and then ethos/philosophy and economics will enable it to expand "up the stack" to become the world computer, as more apps get built and protocolized and tokenized.  Corpo-chains will be important infrastructure built on top of neutral permissionless chains, just as SQL, No SQL, graph and vector DBs and many other kinds of database connect commercial endeavors to the internet and web. Next generation databases will validate, be verifiable, will be tamper-proof, will maintain an inspectable log of their history and they will all speak token -- the language of the decentralized economy. When all of this matures, the world will finally have a secure global information infrastructure. Best wishes to Dankrad and Mallesh. They will always be friends and teammates.

@LefterisJP You simply highlighting a wallet:ux error nothing else. Wallets have access to the necessary infrastructure to mitigate such issues completely. Som nodes will be dependent on decisions stuck in delicate infrastructure.

AWS is down and then the internet stops working. But the blockchain, it never goe ... wait a minute. Scratch that. This sector is a joke. Everyone preaching decentralization and censorship resistance but in reality ... it's all 100% reliant on the cloud.

@trendingbitcoin From a central bank’s perspective, there is some rationale for excluding assets that could undermine their commitment to conservative values. However, her language is utterly disgraceful and an astonishingly unsophisticated way to express the principles of central banks.

🇪🇺 European Central Bank President says #Bitcoin will not be included in any EU central bank reserves. "Reserves have to be liquid, reserves have to be secure, they have to be safe, and they should not be plagued by money laundering or other criminal activities." 👀

@nosilverv Appreciate this post quite a lot.

Extraordinary video. Too many extraordinary things to count. Most won't understand

@earthcurated @CrispeThe

Post a picture YOU took. Just a pic. No description.

@IterIntellectus I sense nosesprays will become a dominant accessory.

oxytocin nasal sprays are sold as the "love hormone" hack but meta-analyses show near-zero effect (d ≈ 0.08) the spray barely reaches the brain real bonding is built through touch and time, not pharmaceuticals

Ngl; this is quite impressive, staggering amount of work, components and examples.

@FarzaTV Clippy just got legs!

built an ai cursor that lives on my screen as a buddy + recommends me new stuff as i use my computer.

@shotgannoe @levelsio My ophthalmologist used to tell me eyes don’t have muscles and can’t be trained, clearly emphasizing on past tense here. She also sells glasses.

@levelsio I'm pretty sure I've read a few people's experiences about how they forced themselves to look into the distance and how it improved their vision. Makes a lot of sense if you understand that your eye contains a lot of muscles

I'd go further and say actually regular glasses too I never got glasses or lenses or Lasik and eye doctor says my eyes are fine Even though if I do wear some friend's glasses everything is crispy 4K But wearing those would make my eyes lazy and actually make my vision worse

Sprinting humbles you before it builds your aura of longevity.

The fact that this is called "Chat Control" is mind-blowing to me. It shows that the concept of control and its inherent dangers of misuse are simply not part of the equation for the people pushing such dystopian initiatives.

Reason I go listen to danish duo Bremer McCoy tonight (at Silent Green:Berlin), maximum neural activation.

i am once again begging you to start using app blockers

@mspringut Blow my mind once, I’m amazed; blow it twice, I’m forever changed! 👏👋

Hello, new followers. We make sculptures with robots…and we’re making entire buildings soon.

@culturaltutor 👏👏 strong progression. Always appreciated your content, a breath of fresh air as it arrives.

I’ve made a short film. Look at the things around you: doors, bins, staircases, furniture, railings, doorhandles, windows. Do you like how they look, or not? Modern design has become boring, but it doesn’t have to be this way. The word “beautiful” is overused. We don’t need “beautiful” lamps, bus stops, and water fountains – we just need lamps, bus stops, and water fountains that are interesting, that actually mean something. Or, at the very least, not boring. Because the aesthetics of architecture and urban design aren’t just a bonus; they totally change how we think, feel, and behave. Boring environments make us more stressed and less productive; they erode our sense of community; they make us sadder, less trusting, and lonelier. A boring world is one where we spend even more time online and where our addictions are even harder to battle. The Problem There is global, widespread dissatisfaction with how the world looks. In this film, and the series it will lead to, we want to investigate that feeling and give it a voice. The point isn’t that we should return to the past or get rid of modernism. It’s about learning from the past in order to improve the present, and about giving the public what they very clearly want, which isn’t the eradication of modernism but the co-existence of modernism AND traditionalism. Just look where tourists go, where they take their photos, and that tells you everything you need to know about what most people find interesting or beautiful. And look at where people go on holiday. It’s always to cities filled with old architecture and design, with churches and mosques and palaces, with charming little alleyways and stone staircases and wrought-iron railings. Of the world’s fifty most visited buildings, only four were made in the 20th century, and they’re all museums or memorials. There’s a reason why posts about this go viral online all the time. Regardless of why the change happened, it is clearly the case that we no longer make things how we used to. People are rightly confused by the fact that old lamp posts (to take the example we focus on in the film) are usually so pretty, while modern ones are usually so boring. Some people say this is just an example of survivorship bias… and they’re mostly correct. But that’s the whole point! Saying old buildings are usually prettier than modern buildings is not to say that architecture used to be better, or that the past was better. It is simply to say that certain kinds of buildings, because they have been preserved, are good examples of what people like most. In which case... shouldn't we try to design at least some buildings in a way that we know people like? A Unifying Cause Everybody, from all sides of the political spectrum and all backgrounds, stands to benefit from a world that is designed more thoughtfully and imaginatively. The world could be such a colourful, meaningful, and thrilling place! So this isn’t about left versus right or conservatism versus progressivism; it’s about making our world a more interesting and meaningful place to live in. This should be a unifying cause, because everybody loses out when our homes and cities are badly designed. I want this film to unite people who think they’re on opposite sides, and to create a consensus that we need to change our approach to how we design our buildings and the objects – benches, bus stops, bins, lamp posts, aircon units – that fill our cities. The Importance of Details We are incredibly rich and have a sprawling choice of shows to stream, phones to buy, or shoes to wear… but everything feels more and more generic all the time. If you want to understand a society, don’t listen to what it says about itself – look at what it creates. You can learn everything about the Victorians – the good and the bad – just by looking at their lamp posts. And what do the ordinary details of the modern world say about us? That we are technologically advanced, very efficient… and care more about making money, about making things as quickly and cheaply as possible, than making our world an enjoyable place to actually live in. It’s important to learn about why and how things have changed, but that’s for another time. The first step is establishing that the public aren’t happy with modern architecture and design, and that something needs to be done. But what we need isn’t a total revival of so-called ‘traditionalism’; the truth is that traditionalism and modernism can (and should) co-exist. The trouble right now is that we only have one, and that people are tired of it. The Power of Noticing But this film (and the series it will, all being well, lead to) is about more than the specific argument it presents. Above all it’s about a way of seeing the world around us, a way of noticing and thinking. “How you do anything is how you do everything.” That is probably true, and it also applies to whole societies, not just individuals; a single doorbell implies everything else about the whole socio-economic and political system that gave rise to its creation. And, beyond being merely “useful”, the ability to notice details makes the world a richer place to live in, and life a richer thing to lead. This is what the film is about, more than anything: the power and joy of noticing. A Bigger Project This short film is just the beginning. We want to make a full series about the history of art and architecture, both for their own sake and also to see what we can learn about life in the twenty-first century and how to improve it. To keep updated you can join our email list over at our website, linked in the reply below. Final Words You can watch the film here on X, or over on YouTube, also linked in the reply below. So… this is where the dream begins, the dream of a new series and the dream of a more charming, more interesting, more meaningful modern world. Spread the word.