Dom

open-sourcing a 3D gen toolkit for Claude Code input image → environment, meshes, physics, lighting, & audio

It’s amusing and sad how the only vestigial public intellectualism left is the NYC millennial art-cultural commentary class reduced entirely to trying to coinage farm in “thinkpieces” that feature no thought at all, just a description of a recognizable phenomenon and trialing out words to describe it, designed to hopefully go viral enough that other people use the term enough to get you on wikipedia—uniquely able to exploit one’s position as a media millennial to ensure you get the credit as opposed to anyone else engaged in the natural neologism factory of hanging out and slinging slang online. They’re sesperate to relive Doctorow’s enshittification and K-hole’s normcore, feigning relevance by words they used first accidentally finding uptake in the memetic discourse, just so the word can placed in their bio as a pulitzer-level career achievement, with their credit prepended on each use in their professional network—like below—while embarrassing everyone else who used it without realizing there was someone cataloguing and career farming every use of it despite the person not actually contributing anything beyond the coinage itself—whatever happened to developing a distinct body of thought, idiosyncratic perspective and pointed stances in great debates over a long spanning career? This is what you are supposed to be chasing with coinage-clout; actually new ideas, developed in argument, not just making a career practice out of trialing out various portmanteaus to see if any get used later, basically a patent troll for language.

i just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting

This is it. Everything learned spending millions on longevity. From: Your Immortal Unc and Auntie. To: Our Immortal nieces and nephews. 0. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug. 1. Be in your bed for 8 hours 2. Same bedtime every night, any time before midnight 3. Don’t eat right before bed 4. Calm foods for dinner 5. No screens 1 hour before bed 6. Avoid added sugar (be aware it’s in everything) 7. Avoid all things in an American convenience store 8. Avoid fried foods 9. Shoes off at the door 10. Eat whole foods, particularly veggies fruits nuts legumes berries 11. Walk a little after meals or air squats 12. Get your heart rate high routinely 13. Lift heavy things 14. Stretch daily 15. Water pik, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night 16. Make an effort to drink water 17. Get sunlight when you wake up (UV is low) 18. Protect skin in midday sun 19. Stand up straight 20. See at least one friend once a week 21. Avoid plastic where you can (in all things) 22. Circulate air in rooms 23. When stressed, breathe, learn to calm your body 24. Go to the dentist 25. Avoid sitting for long times 26. Protect your hearing, the world is too loud 27. Alcohol is bad for you 28. Finish coffee before noon 29. Avoid bright lights after sunset 30. If obese, look into a GLP 31. Sleep in a cold room 32. Texting while driving is dangerous 33. Turn off all notifications 34. Limit social media use 35. Don’t smoke anything 36. If you struggle to sleep, read a physical book before bed 37. 1 hour before bed have a calm wind down routine: bath, read, light walk, listen to music 38. The body is a clock and loves routine. Have a daily morning and evening schedule. 39. Avoid long distance travel where you can 40. Baby steps first: incorporate new things slowly 41. Do less… most things don’t work. Bonus points if you get your blood checked. Start here, it will change your life.

A reminder. As with food, we spent most of our history deprived of information and craving it; now we have way too much of it to function and manage its entropy and toxicity.

Never understood networking honesty. You reveal that you think friendship is instrumental, and that relationships are something you do to get ahead

networking as activity is mostly cope. e.g. the conference circuit, the warm intros, the moving to sf discussions or whatever, oh & the “grabbing coffee” economy.. all of this is overwhelmingly negative selection esp with vc (lol). the ppl worth knowing are usually too busy doing the thing to be farmable, & the ppl available to be networked w/ are available cuz they have literally nothing better going on. do the work, then publish it loudly enough that the right ppl can find you w/o you having to chase. one way broadcast > two way schmoozing. this is why x matters a ton now more than ever before.