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Sachin
@sach #5072
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anon casting about Trump is the most cowardly thing I've seen on here
vibe coding indicates the existence of vibe cyber attacking
cypto is cypherpunk unless god forbid there is a little pressure from a strongman leader and everyone starts acting like a looney tunes coyote chasing a bag
come back of 70s style indie movies winning Oscars - both Anora and Brutalist which won the big awards are relatively small budget films with few special effects, small crew, relatively unknown directors
too bad that LLMs are delusional cause that’s something people would never be
yale has published a study proving that you were right about everything all along (althought academia is woke this study is right)
kind of skittish about taking work calls at coffee shops now, especially if I'm mentioning anything crypto or AI
Based on my visit to a tailor who seemed to have an unusually high demand for people taking in the waist of their pants
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Timber ☀️
@timber·21:55 21/02/2025
Issue 003, the premiere sci-fi story of the (re)launched magazine, is out now. Written by the talented @sach
https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/haven-tailors
https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/haven-tailors
anyone wrote or read any good fiction that has zk proofs as a sub plot? researching for a story
The covid memory hole phenomenon needs to be studied more. For example I recently learnt that Bryan Johnson had covid and lost 15% of his lung capacity but its not something anyone asks him about nor does he have a "blueprint" for gaining lung capacity back even though that might actually be one thing that can extend life meaningfully. I've read a couple of studies about effect of traumatic events on memory in individuals but yet to read something on mass traumatic events and memory.
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Simon de la Rouviere
@simondlr·15:18 21/02/2025
Can't believe we fumbled covid dining sheds so badly. The diversity of style, the takeover of the pavements, the reclamation of the streets. Felt so joyfully human.
Yes, they weren't perfect. Unsafe, nor as hygienic, and noisy to neighbours. But just to go straight back to boring rivers of cars. Booooo
Yes, they weren't perfect. Unsafe, nor as hygienic, and noisy to neighbours. But just to go straight back to boring rivers of cars. Booooo
have you tried saying something with integrity instead of calling things based?
haven't played video games in a long time but thinking of giving civ 7 a try, anyone here playing it right now?
going to start calling this phenom nostalgia for terrible times
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Sachin
@sach·18:31 19/02/2025
influencer meme coins make older forms of influencer grifting like selling fake degrees or wellness products look rather benevolent
influencer meme coins make older forms of influencer grifting like selling fake degrees or wellness products look rather benevolent
its 2028, DOGE has banned any kind of strategy work unless its done by Elon, there is a new movement by consultants - strategy work is real work
revisiting some rationalist blogs I used to read and noticing how all of them are chock-full of fantasy math and logic to arrive at "people have irrational attachments but they should be more autistic like me"
me eating a pint of icecream
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July
@july·05:08 18/02/2025
Do things your 5yo self would be unbelievably stoked on
Reddit feels like a place that’s simultaneously stuck in 2016 and 2020 forever but everyone on there thinks it’s cutting edge. It’s like the deep state of social networks
time to stop buying eggs and instead get some ozempic
I assume trad finance guys are making the same meme but the other way around, stablecoins as institutions invading crypto
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Giuliano Giacaglia
@giu·03:22 13/02/2025
Watching To Live and Die in LA and there is this scene of William Dafoe printing counterfeit notes to a synthy 80s soundtrack and I wondered – how do you make a slick contemporary movie about crime anymore cause its all just phishing scams and securities fraud now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDqpVsP9GS0
zirp is over. time for findom era.
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Sachin
@sach·16:38 12/02/2025
feels like there is a financial blitzkrieg happening all over the world not just the US
feels like there is a financial blitzkrieg happening all over the world not just the US
what are the best v2 frames to test out the new wallet ?
Even Jesus could not make his community of 12 work so idk if community is something you should design your life around
Wrote about some of my recent experiments in writing using LLMs https://summerlightning.substack.com/p/llm-friendly-zone
Been looking for a good suit and if anyone else is looking for one, here is my board https://www.are.na/sachin-benny-ug89ev3xzek/suits-ss25
Starting to think that I’m less averse to AI writing because English is only my adopted first language. Any psychological shocks with respect to tapping into a different consciousness already happened at the ages of 6-11. Thankfully I don’t remember any of it
I unironically want to just write airport books for people like me
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Sachin
@sach·18:12 07/02/2025
Buy my book for your next flight
Buy my book for your next flight
This is an amazing interview https://filmmakermagazine.com/127673-interview-conner-omalley-danny-scharar-jack-bensinger-rap-world/
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron·14:53 06/02/2025
what ur lock scren anon
Wrote an essay and then asked O3 mini to rewrite the essay as if someone who was the complete opposite of me wrote it https://summerlightning.substack.com/p/you-and-the-unknown
Farcaster frame where you have to pay $10 to know the weather
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keccers
@keccers.eth·17:37 05/02/2025
I believe this is the beginning of the end of the era when we could know the weather as a public good
https://x.com/ChrisVanHollen/status/1886977650909983175
https://x.com/ChrisVanHollen/status/1886977650909983175
I suspect few people here have been to San Antonio - it’s a funny place with big mythos around the Alamo and the missions (some of the oldest churches in North America) but also quite poor, with no other job prospects other than joining the military which has a big presence in the city, and very little public amenities - not even public parking, in fact it’s the only place in Texas where I’ve had to pay $15 an hour to park.
All to say I think it’s a good microcosm of where the US is going
All to say I think it’s a good microcosm of where the US is going
There is a really good menswear store in Vancouver and so this geopolitical event has affected me deeply
DeepSeek and NotebookLM is fun to use together to read history and research papers. There will be a lot of interesting rewrites and alternate point of view of history produced in the next couple of years because of this. It is the Rashomon era of history
know at least two people now who are likely to lose their jobs because of federal grants funding ending. Both work in agriculture. One works on providing training to farmers on new and existing FDA regulations.
2021: delusional year
2022: schizo year
2023: foundational
2024: liminal
2025: ……
2022: schizo year
2023: foundational
2024: liminal
2025: ……
DeepSeek is a victory for seed oil consumers
Longevity guys read the Myth of Sisyphus when they were kids and were like “that’s what I want to do for eternity “
is there a "History of the world through commons" book/resource/paper?
I’d like to think that cheaper AI models that can be trained by individuals will lead to a shift in writing that was similar to shift in music production when MIDI standard was introduced in the 80s. Probably wishful because a lot of my favorite sounds are from that era when bands like Kraftwerk and New Order were making their own synthesizers, but I think there is something there
Commons is dead long live the Commons https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-private-equity-fire-truck-roll
Dallas metro now has higher rents than Austin. The vibe shift was priced in
I want to wear a bolo tie to a wedding but it can’t one of the traditional ones (too much cosplay) and the only sleek modern one I could find was this $700 one from Lemaire. Considering making one. Paging @keccers.eth
I published a little book. Honestly it kind of slaps https://summerlightning.substack.com/p/thinking-about-leaving
Sometimes I wonder if there are monks who regret being enlightened and yearn to go back to experiencing the world through filters and stereotypes instead of being stuck in the present (sounds exhausting)
number one sign of a banana republic is elites pretending to be normal guys by wearing gold chains and playing video games
