Nikhil Kumar

@GSkrovina what else -- what's, like, only possible with 24/7? my place is already offgrid with solar/battery -- and not really more expensive than grid-tied spots i'm curious what hard-to-imagine stuff is possible when you can run systems that require energy all day, every day

@nkumar23 homestead

Assume you have unlimited 24/7 clean energy. What do you do with it

@therealricoy Is big J Michael Jordan

@nkumar23 i tried to figure this out once when trying to determine what concepts would be the ultimate memecoins no. no human is more universally beloved, even Big J is more divisive

Does any single person have a higher approval rating than dogs on the whole

It's here, but you should make your own version suited to how you learn/what you remember nkumar23.github.io/odyssey/

I'm going to see The Odyssey this evening and needed a refresher... Fable one-shotted me a little game/course to remind of what happens along the journey back to Ithaca, with some interactive sequences peppered in

Subsistence software

@jenny_wen @cursor_ai Congrats @jenny_wen !! Been so long but love rooting for you from the interwebs!

ok! quick updates from me: - i left anthropic (who does that?!) - had a baby (i love her) - and am joining @cursor_ai as head of design (eep!) it's been a low-key dream of mine to nurture a team that cares so deeply about craft, quality, and building great tools. very excited!

It’s helpful to be able to recognize the signs that a CEO has been media trained because you know they're not going to say anything genuine and you can stop wasting time listening to them

@jnwng substack.com/home/post/p-20…

Why can't images be passwords? Why not drawings, or your voice? We hadn't seen any fun explorations of novel passwords so we built a demo before our first 5x5 Collective event. @jnwng wrote about our process. Link below

The net effect of this decision is political parties will have more power over individual candidates. When elections are over, winning candidates will feel more obligated to vote with their parties instead of their constituents. Fewer Thomas Massies and Ro Khannas, more zombies.

I love the turns of phrase in soccer commentary “Asking a question” -> a probing cross to open up a potential attack “A wonderful idea” -> just now when Sweden scored a goal on a fairly long distance shot

@olympicbean They’re all old now

I need an objective Bron Stan to explain to me how LeBron joining forces with Steph Curry isn’t exponentially worse than what Kevin Durant did?

Who are the leading Sanskrit and/or Vedas scholars today? Institutions or people

i am on the hunt for extremely technical, detailed, but also deeply human writing/explorations around technology for a special project this might look like a literal academic paper, a deep-dive in the history of a technology, a journey through a technical, personal project, a deeply researched profile/review of a book/exhibit/person starting a thread here of strong examples that i will update in real-time if you come across any writing like this or have a pitch for a piece of your own (paid), DM me!

The Gilded Age was followed by a slew of populist and progressive reforms: 1917 anti-immigration laws Federal income tax Direct election of senators Creation of national park service Beefed up antitrust laws Prohibition Progress was not linear, nor owned by 1 ideology

DAM STATS - Next month DAM turns 4! 36 issues, 2,100+ artists, 2,500+ pieces created, 600+ pieces collected for the vault. Exciting things brewing for year 4! DAM MANIFESTO DAM celebrates decentralized art. DAM encourages artistic freedom. DAM fosters collaboration, connection, and co-creation. DAM experiments with new models of art-making and collecting. DAM is decentralized in its creation, distribution, and discovery. DAM is where artists own their work. DAM is where artists price and sell their work how they want. DAM is blockchain- and platform-agnostic—it's everywhere and anywhere. DAM is assembled by collecting individual pages from the issue's artists.

Knicks for president

@jnwng Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/fullstackh…

Last month @jnwng and I showed the first sculpture we made together at Black Brick Project in BK. We've made lots of software together over the years at Coursera, Solana, and sidequests. But we hadn't made art together. We wrote a little piece reflecting on the similarities between making software and art, plus a little bit on Indian metaphysics, if you make it to the end :P (link in next tweet)