will be interesting to see what this generation's henry dargers and templeOS guys can accomplish with AI augmentation

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Big Transaction Engine Protocol Upgrade Coming Soon: 1. Data Storage (Notes can pay to store bounded arbitrary data) 2. Atomic Swaps (New lock types) 3. Smaller Addresses (Pay2PubkeyHash, better UX) 4. Segregated Witness (Basic Programmability, Basic Privacy, smaller onchain

Avalon's third seminar will be October 17-19th, focusing on the parallels between Nietzsche and Zhuangzi, whose statements and perspectives share an uncanny resemblance. ~12 participants will read both authors and discuss together over the weekend at Avalon House in SF

There used to be a fountain at the center of the Civic Center Plaza in SF. It was removed in 2003 because: > It's become an intolerable situation, and we don't have additional resources to continually clean it," said Alex Mamak, a spokesman for the Department of Public Works.

Adam Messinger Sf city govt is overstaffed by probably 5x And their favorite targets are non-violent but non-compliant tax paying citizens. Put the wrong window on your house or hang a swing in a park and you are screwed. But deal deadly drugs and we don’t seem to have the resources to

Announcing four new books for 2026; two from Not a Cult and two from Network Press. This constellation of work, while distinct, overlaps in some compelling ways.

announcing human directed futures, an invitational summit about ai and civilizational stability. nov 14 - 16, san francisco. apply to attend below.

All institutions are held in idle regency until a live player rises ranks and takes their helm

Excited to present at Human Directed Futures, a new SF AI summit for optimistic humanists from across AI, manufacturing, logistics, crypto, the arts and more. Naturally, I'll be presenting on my favorite topic: "AI slop: the only way out is through". See you there!

Zero-knowledge slop-accelerationist medievalist Palladian garage-fab nuclear-powered Sanskrit-translating surgical-robot autonomous-VC meshnets on a moon-computer. Starts tomorrow. Apply.

Spent the weekend at the inaugural Human Directed Futures summit, gave a talk on the state of AI in manufacturing, had interesting discussions about datacenter buildout blockers, applications of supercomputing beyond LLMs, and the mounting negative cultural reaction to generative models

I am a firm believer that we must make the cornerstones of civilization transparent and verifiable.

It is honestly alarming to me that stuff like this, the idea that we ought to significantly delay curing cancer exclusively to give human researchers the personal gratification of finding it without AI, is being taken seriously at conferences

GLP-1s are the first of many trillion-dollar enhancement drugs that will begin as medical treatments

DSA Supervisor Jackie Fielder is back on her bullshit. She wants to ban all R&D in the Mission, and it looks like she's going to get away with it bc the rest of the BoS isn't paying attention. Sorry this has to be a thread, but it's fucking insane and you need to know details.