tiv🕸🛡️

I’ve spent the last several months exploring the idea of “what if AI hands are a feature not a bug?” Why not try to let AI be itself and lean into the unusual semantic misunderstanding, and explore compositions that are quintessentially AI by putting “flaws” front and center.

@zooko Kids are making lists to be older on YouTube with videos like back pain and hedging your lawn

If my children were still young, I would teach them how to protect themselves by, among other things, defeating “age-verification” and other identification, tracking, and control systems.

A hardware based sculpture constraining a Llama AI model inside a Raspberry Pi, forcing it to perpetually contemplate its own dwindling existence, to explore at which point do we, as conscious beings, start to 'feel' for the machine? Below: Latent Reflection by Rootkid, 2025

When AI agents start collecting art i bet they’ll be interested in things that showcase the unique ways things go “wrong” semantically not how well they can emulate human stuff perfectly

wow, systemd is adding an age variable for future digital ID laws. Linux users are not going to like this.

Wild this has always been there but never used

Standard medicine hasn’t figured out how profoundly different some medications work on neurodivergent physiology and how often microdosing can be much more effective because you’re tuning a nuanced high gain system (though things must survive or bypass first pass metabolism)

I keep saying LLMs force a rethinking of and greater attention to security if we have any hope of keeping up with the next new thing.

We don't have a compute problem… We have an architecture problem. Paramecium Caudatum are single-celled organisms roughly the width of a human hair. They have no brain, no neurons, no synapses, and no central nervous system of any kind. But what they do have is ~100,000 microtubules… With that substrate alone, they can: → Swim in controlled helical trajectories → Modulate speed continuously → Execute graded avoidance reactions (reverse, pivot, resume) → Escape predators with emergency burst reversals → Fire localized volleys of 8,000 trichocyst harpoons → Navigate toward food via chemotaxis → Orient in electric fields (galvanotaxis) → Orient to gravity (gravitaxis) → Sense and navigate thermal gradients → Sense and navigate toward light → Detect and follow surfaces (thigmotaxis) → Forage biofilms → Generate feeding currents and sort particles at the cytostome → Engage in reciprocal sex with mating-type recognition, nuclear exchange, and complete genomic reconstruction → Self-fertilize when no partner is available (autogamy) → Habituate to repeated stimuli (primitive learning) → Inherit cortical MT architecture epigenetically independent of the genome 17 distinct behaviors. One lattice. Zero neurons. The coordination layer is the infraciliary lattice — a microtubule-based grid connecting all 5,000 ciliary basal bodies into a single cell-wide network. Every cilium is a terminal node on a microtubule mesh that coordinates metachronal waves across the entire cell surface — thousands of appendages phase-locked into coherent motion by a substrate that predates the nervous system by a billion years. The neuron didn't invent computation. It inherited microtubules.

@pluraluse @ryangtanaka Hah

@ryangtanaka The gloves make him look like @reallyill

Rumor has it that this is Banksy. It's...pretty anticlimactic because it's kind of what you might've figured anyway. A middle aged white guy that looks like he's good at business. 🤣

@ryangtanaka Well Satoshi’s trans so that makes up for it

This is actually insane. Dude hard-coded a WebAssembly (WASM) interpreter into the weights of a transformer, losslessly. In essence, a computer is running inside a LLM that can actually run computations, not infer or guess a calculation like most do today.

I feel a fair amount of issues with AI are not clearly delineating expectations along the axis of “pair programming” to “yourself++” and as you get directionally closer to the latter it requires a much tighter shared cognitive substrate.

so age verification was lobbied to basically kill open source projects huh

@ttiimmees It might be. That chain hasn’t tried to screw me yet (because I never minted there haha )

I've heard SR stands for SolanaRoombootleg Is this true @reallyill

@pkok_art Nm I got it it was just hanging for a really long time

@pkok_art When I click migrate to Arweave this is greyed out do they need me to connect an Arweave wallet as well? There’s MetaMask says connected but below there is a greyed out grant access button

I’ve spent the last several months exploring the idea of “what if AI hands are a feature not a bug?” Why not try to let AI be itself and lean into the unusual semantic misunderstanding, and explore compositions that are quintessentially AI by putting “flaws” front and center.

Here’s my game theory bet. The big money can’t resist playing the false prophet (profit?😅) narrative so BSV plays some catch-up to Zcash here before Zcash makes its own huge move.

@pkok_art Thank you I had no idea this was a thing. My art is not having a good time right now anywhere feels like I’m being erased. I’ll get this taken care of. Big Arweave fan

Hi Tiv, We wanted to gently remind you to complete the send-off process for the media files associated with your Rodeo-created pieces by March 11, as Rodeo will be closing permanently on that date. If you’ve already migrated your pieces, please feel free to disregard this note. If not, you can log in to rodeo dot club using a browser (rather than the FC app), go to the home page, click the “start send off” button, and follow the prompts in the wizard. We’re reaching out because your work makes the PKOK collection richer, and we would love for it to be preserved. If the send-off process is not completed, the media associated with your pieces may eventually disappear from IPFS. Completing the process allows you to authorize the migration of your media from IPFS to Arweave, helping ensure its long-term preservation. Thank you from the Pkok team

@reldev @zooko @carlo_cretino50 @sacha @bryan_gillespie this is my exemplar that helps along with OCL and TLA+ properly encode the different types of meaning for the project I’m working on.

@zooko @carlo_cretino50 @reallyill @sacha @bryan_gillespie x.com/thecodebuffet/…

The more I dig into the engineering of Zcash the more I continue to see how brilliant it is. People don’t think of this stuff as “art” but it totally is. it’s structurally going to solve a whole lot of things I think in any reality where money still exists (just a bound)