I keep finding media that predicted how science would strangle itself, from 2008, 1979, 1824... The Paper Trail (part of my writing at the Distressed Scientists Department) digs into these: what they got right, what holds true now, and what we can learn. Enjoy

POV you’re making a movie with your best friends

POV part 2 you're making a movie with your best friends x.com/donaldjewkes/s…

The starving artist has been replaced by the college influencer wannabe. The death of attention spans kills depth and nuance at the same time it creates a deep craving for it and you get cinematic imitations, weightless, effervescent. Nothing is original is heavy anymore.

I made it onto a niche internet list of essays you should read I wonder if this is how Paul Graham feels

Ozempic will make hundreds billions in China this decade and next and for decades after 5-min drone delivery, robotaxis, and XiaoHongShu brainrot promote inactivity and button-clicking What used to be a starving nation is now one of excess comforts and luxury People underrate

introducing Waves, camera glasses for creators. record in stealth. livestream all day. pre-order now.

a16z and sutter hill ventures in completely different ways. a16z realized that everyone was undervaluing startups and massively overbid (10x what others were offering) for early rounds, got them twitter, instagram, coinbase, github, anduril, abnb, slack. round sizes went up

Bring back single-purpose hardware. Bring back retro, bring back dumb. Bring back friction. Phones that can't browse. Handheld consoles just for games. Vintage cameras. Apps exist because hardware was too expensive. Now hardware is cheaper. What products do people love?

Akira Kurosawa watch party, v1 @ Roxie SF Saturday, August 9th DM and I'll add you to the gc

Macrowave, our native macOS & iOS app that makes it easy and fun to share system audio with friends to listen to music together will be available for everyone on August 7th. apps.apple.com/app/macrowave/…

Great piece by Cristóbal Valenzuela on why AI can't replace artists More relevant now than ever with all the recent AI video model releases

I believe we are witnessing the most radical transformation of media, entertainment, and art in human history. AI research is accelerating toward a convergence point where the distance between thought and creation will collapse entirely. I wanted to share some thoughts in an

video recording the process so i'm not cheating man this was scary, glad im doing it tho brand concept, 60 min day 2

Wanted to love Dia browser but its AI search is so bad and inconsistent - chat is unreliable, and sometimes I just want to search google and they force chat as the default ChatGPT is more reliable for questions and Arc is a cleaner UI for browse

i remade tiny-tpu to support both inference and training! we successfully tested our architecture on the classic XOR problem. here's what i learned throughout the process:👇

looking for something that feels genuinely inventive. maybe that's in AI research? maybe in bio or something in physics? whatever is the modern equivalent of bell labs. i'd love for someone to take a bet on me so i could work on something like this. honestly don't even know

life update: I'm retiring from launch videos I made my first a year ago, my last got 33 million views all with a team of friends who'd never made a film before here's the story of Waves