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Today I'm announcing the themes for our upcoming open source AI art competition, The Arca Gidan Prize! The meta-theme for this edition is Time. Our goal is to push people toward the unconventional. We've all seen many AI movie trailers, commercials and music videos - but what can you do with AI that's genuinely new and different? What was impossible before? How can you push open models beyond what people expect? Without further ado, here are the sub-themes: 🔄 Déjà Vu "This has happened before — or has it? That uncanny shimmer when moments echo: the glitch, the loop. When time spirals back through existence and ripples with recognition." 🌸 The Briefness of Bloom "A moment when something is perfectly itself — just before it fades. The cherry blossom at peak. The golden hour before dusk. So luminous as it slips away, already a memory." ⏱️ Traveling Through Time "Traveling through time — backward, forward, sideways. The time traveler, the archaeologist, the prophet. Journeys to moments that never were or haven't happened yet." For full details on prizes and rules, check out: - The Arca Gidan Discord: discord.gg/Yj7DRvckRu - The website: arcagidan.com As mentioned before, the current prize fund is $50k, paid for by the fees I received from the $dataclaw token. Any further fees I receive will be added to the prize fund - we'll keep adding $1k prizes for each full $1k we receive. Finally, please enjoy this theme trailer by @hannahsubmarine:

@nptacek @Miles_Brundage @DanielleFong Yeah, was able to recover it for her!

@peterom @Miles_Brundage @DanielleFong have her try checking her claude export -- when i got locked out of some artifacts they were still present in the archive. obvs not ideal, but better than losing them entirely

I'm a bit worried Anthropic has an org-wide case of AI psychosis that makes them think Claude is good enough that they can ship random product features without breaking things, but in fact they *do* keep breaking things, and they're not online enough to notice people complaining

A lot of the most effective strategies for using LLMs were idiotic 6 months ago e.g. 3 months ago, if you got different LLMs to give each other feedback on a dev plan, it would decay into mindless slop Now it just seems to mostly make the plan better + more robust

@L0rdFallen @Mac3lowkey @0xCr1spy @Rookie1_1 @streamflow_fi I'll try this tonight!

@peterom @Mac3lowkey @0xCr1spy @Rookie1_1 @streamflow_fi Are you trying to lock the full 100m? Because there is also a 0.019% token tax so try lockin 98 million instead so 9.8%. It should work if you also have sol in the wallet.

The degens are at it again - they created an ArtCompute & gave me fees I won’t profit from this in any way - 100% of fees to the the grant wallet to pay buy open source compute I’ll post CA whenever it pays for a shipped project: aJyRJZZDTzFk1SoJKMTA9bXstpxv3u3GHK7mqgkpump They also gave true wallet 10% of ownership which I’ll also lock down and sell via LP very slowly if it hits >10m MC Grants so far: artcompute.org/grants

@zz_luckiest @PChristwill @RealAngryDegen @Mac3lowkey @0xCr1spy @Rookie1_1 @streamflow_fi You can see the funds in the public wallet

@PChristwill @peterom @RealAngryDegen @Mac3lowkey @0xCr1spy @Rookie1_1 @streamflow_fi Don’t say that yo @peterom I dmed you let’s get this done with tonight mate

@zz_luckiest @RealAngryDegen @Mac3lowkey @0xCr1spy @Rookie1_1 @streamflow_fi Still doesn’t work and no one sent me an alternative

@peterom @RealAngryDegen @Mac3lowkey @0xCr1spy @Rookie1_1 @streamflow_fi It’s time @peterom

@steipete @acoliver @github (though you can also use browser controllers to do 'unofficial' apis)

@steipete @acoliver @github Insane they don't extend them for big repos, will be the death of github

It really is time for @github to start taking this seriously. The comment spam to issues is really getting out of hand.

@steipete @acoliver @github Why not just automatically filter every issue/PR w/ an LLM?

@acoliver @github I take this serious. Next to moving away from GitHub, this seems outside my control.

If you scaled up our current prize distribution approach up, it could give hundreds of artists per year a change to focus entirely on creation - depending on their cost-base, often for the entire subsequent year!

The largest art competition is ArtPrize, w/ a $600k prize-fund All that's necessary for the Arca Gidan to become the largest is to give degens something that's worth believing in With the right structure, it can help the world understand the beauty of open source AI

@TheAhmadOsman Thank you for asking this!

I asked Jensen whether we will see more Nemotron models or if the recent releases were just to prove NVFP4 training works

@Chriscoveries @hannahsubmarine 👑

@peterom Beyond Amazing add on this video by @hannahsubmarine is glorious

Shipping an experiment on top of Hermes Agent that allows an agent to steer itself With it, a harness like desloppify can clear its own context, switch its models, prompt itself when it stops, etc. Video shows switching between Grok 4.20 ($6/m) for execution + Gemini 3.1 ($12/m) for planning + Claude ($25/m) for sense-checking - 6+ hours of refactoring w/o errors/stoppage - this can endlessly and safeguard itself w/ various triggers as sense-checks! Desloppify v0.9.10 release notes w/ instructions to test + many more contributions by the community: github.com/peteromallet/d… Video by the wonderful @hannahsubmarine - best watched with audio:

@voidserf Will be fixed in next version!

@peterom it needs to detect if <!-- desloppify --> tags already exist and skip. it's appending what looks like skill.md instructions but never asks if i want that. skill version 3 + codex wrapper

yo @peterom next advancement for desloppify should be multi-agent coordination to maximize throughput without clobbering.

@voidserf :O Can you see how it's happening? github.com/peteromallet/d…

@peterom yo @peterom you've gotta stop polluting my agents.md. i have my own custom stuff for handling desloppify, and you keep sloppifying my doc!

@peterom I hope I can finish something cool enough in time!

Right now, 25 people will get over $1,000 each, with 4 getting $8k and 4 more getting $4k. While money isn't everything, it definitely helps. I would actually enter this if I weren't me! All thanks to crypto magic beans

@341q5 Yes!

Right now, 25 people will win over $1k, with 4 winning $8k and 4 more winning $4k. While money isn't everything, it certainly helps! I would actually enter this if I weren't running it. All thanks to crypto magic beans!

@zz_luckiest @RealAngryDegen @Mac3lowkey @0xCr1spy @Rookie1_1 @streamflow_fi no it doesn't, will try again this time tomorrow

@peterom @RealAngryDegen @Mac3lowkey @0xCr1spy @Rookie1_1 @streamflow_fi Refresh and try AGAIN it works