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2026 smells like life and death

@nachkari 200 min

The older I get, the more I realise that the moments I felt closest to God were never on the summit. They were in the valley. Cold, broken, asking for help. That's where He meets us.

@farhatchristina My mom thought I worked at bitcoin but your dads interpretation is way better

TIL for 3+ years my dad has been telling people I sell USBs for a living. A USB saleswoman. I work at Databricks.

There's a fruit fly walking around right now that was never born. @eonsys just released a video where they took a real fly's connectome — the wiring diagram of its brain — and simulated it. Dropped it into a virtual body. It started walking. Grooming. Feeding. Doing what flies do. Nobody taught it to walk. No training data, no gradient descent toward fly-like behavior. This is the opposite of how AI works. They rebuilt the mind from the inside, neuron by neuron, and behavior just... emerged. It's the first time a biological organism has been recreated not by modeling what it does, but by modeling what it is. A human brain is 6 OOM more neurons. That's a scaling problem, something we've gotten very good at solving. So what happens when we have a working copy of the human mind?

.@stewartbrand once asked: “Why haven’t we seen an image of the whole earth?” Without knowing it at the time, this question became the foundation of his life’s work. What came from it? - The Whole Earth Catalog - “We are as gods and might as well get good at it” - The Long Now Foundation (and clock) - and so much more Recently I pondered a similar question: “Why haven’t we solved The Hard Problem of Consciousness?” Just as Stewart devoted his life to the whole earth and the long now, I want to devote this next chapter of my life to answering to The Consciousness Question in various forms. Through foundational spaces, tools, and treatises, I think we have a shot understanding why this question is so hard to answer, and in that pursuit, we may find some other fun stuff too. But I can’t go on this journey alone - we will need to team up with likeminded travelers, each on their own journey, pursuing aligned paths. Through these collaborative relationships, we may be able to create a Collective Consciousness and Scenius around The Hard Problem. I have a feeling that’s a good place to start, and the end doesn’t even enter my consciousness rn. If this resonates and you’d like to contribute to this project, please reach out - I’d love to connect with you! sb.longnow.org/SB_homepage/Wh…

@NaithanJones And both will be VC funded

At the end of life, we reach for the same truth: to tell others we love them. Everything else is immaterial, to be and to love is enough.

5 million humanoid robots working 24/7 can build Manhattan in ~6 months. now just imagine what the world looks like when we have 10 billion of them by 2045. now imagine the year 2100.

@2irl4u I voted for Pol Pot

@mahdiofalltime Why did you vote for Trump

The vice episode on scopolamine recalibrated my world view. A free will stripper, from a few specks of dust blown into one’s face?? Then it was effectively buried. No one dug deeper. A mid 2010s documentary relic. Jeff had multiple plants of the stuff.

public Polymarket US apis + sdks are live 😛 access here - poly.market/dev-portal docs, python, and typescript sdks - poly.market/us-docs

@deathdrive I’ve seen this it’s amazing

@mahdiofalltime pharmaicy.store

Who is working on digital psychedelics?

Future of work: air traffic controllers, for everything

@Lin_DAO_ Where is it

@mahdiofalltime i saw an app that makes you hallucinate

@johnpalmer V1, I’ll be 6’8” soon

In a world where AI democratizes intelligence and looksmaxxing commoditizes beauty, the only true advantage left is being tall.

cultural take: the triumphant return of good natured frat boy recessioncore doses-and-mimosas dartypop — The autonomous zoomer I’m Shmacked scene — arrives soon. You can hear the thumping footsteps of dubstep revivalism in the wind already if you strain.

hedge funds: “we ran 10,000 simulations.” VCs: “the founder has great energy and he plays chess.”