Fartcoin Maximalist @NeutralStable

I really enjoyed this interview with Steve Bartlett. He asked me the single most interesting question I've ever been asked. Here, we talk about Mamaw and Usha, and how I wish they'd met.

Andrew Surabian @Surabees

15 hours ago

Powerful.

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The thing that winds me up is how Elon has a trillion because he’s set up a system where he forcibly takes 40% of what hard working people produce, leverages it up as debt, spends it ineffectively and does dumb things to win the votes of millions of people who’ve become dependent on his handouts.

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@sriramk Open source and copyright nees reform that protects American entrepreneurs against lawless Chinese and thieves of all kinds

@NickJRishwain Tons of legal ai

The bottom isn’t in until I tweet “Ben Cowen was right.”

I’m making a TV show! Here’s why: When I was moving to New York, I told my leasing agent that I wanted a place with charm and character. She told me that if that’s what I want, I need to look for apartments built before World War II. “So you’re saying we’ve basically built nothing with charm and character in the past 80 years?” “That’s right.” This is happening all over the world. The same boring and generic style has spread to the entire world. 150 years ago, new buildings in Shanghai looked nothing like the ones in Rome or Tokyo or San Francisco or Buenos Aires. The architecture of each place was as varied as the landscape itself. And it’s not just the sameness of the modern world that has me scratching my head, but also the carelessness behind so much of what’s built these days. We boast about the triumphs of technology and how advanced we are as a civilization, but why has our built environment regressed so much? Shouldn’t we use our wealth to make our streets more charming and delightful? There’s lots of talk about how we’ve polluted the natural world, but what about how we’ve polluted the man-made world? We’ve filled our streets with ugly railings, benches, lampposts, and clutter. We assume these things have to be boring, but they don’t. Good design can make everything, even bins and bus stops, charming. New things can be prettier than old things. The first step is believing it’s possible. Something has changed. We’ve taken a dramatic turn, and the majority of people prefer what we used to build to what we build today. Just look at where people take photos. In New York it’s the steps of brownstones in the West Village; in San Francisco it’s the old Victorian homes; in London there’s tourists galore in front of those iconic red phone booths which remain on the streets, even though they don’t work anymore, because they’re so nicely designed that people like having them there. All this is what inspired me to make a TV show. First: a pilot episode which now has 5.4 million views, 23,000 comments, and 379,000 likes. It also has 241,000 YouTube subscribers from that one video, which is just about unheard of for a new channel. And now: a full-on, six-episode series. But when I pitched Hollywood on the idea, they said cultural series of this sort don’t work: “The only kinds of documentaries that get funded are about sports, music, nature, or true crime.” Huh? How can that be? People are interested in culture. The problem is most culture documentaries are terrible. They fail in one of two ways: (1) people dumb down the ideas in patronizing ways, or (2) people use so much jargon and high-falutin language that it becomes boring and inaccessible. This is why I’m producing this work. It’ll be called The Modern World, and it’ll be a tour of art & architecture through the eyes of Sheehan Quirke, who goes by @culturaltutor. It’s our ambition to do for the man-made world what Planet Earth did for the natural world. To use cinematic imagery and simple language in a way that everybody can understand. And to be rigorous, but not in a way that feels like school or your know-it-all friend who never stops talking. The potential here is huge. Architecture impacts literally every person on earth. What we build shapes the moods of people and the spirit of our culture. We’ll film in six countries (the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States) to produce six 30-minute episodes which we hope to publish on a major streaming service. We’re currently in the fundraising stage, and production begins once we’ve raised the money. It’s our mission to help people see the world more clearly, and in turn, make the world a more charming and delightful place to live in.

The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor

4 weeks ago

I’m making a show about buildings. The concept is simple: do for the man-made world what Planet Earth did for the natural world. But, when I pitched the idea, the answer was that nobody would watch it. So I released a pilot episode on YouTube. It’s got 5.4 million views, 379k

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Never been more true

20 ADHD EXPERIENCES THAT FINALLY HAVE NAMES: 1. body doubling — you can't start alone, but with someone nearby, it happens 2. time blindness — there's no "later." only now, or not yet

@Kitsune_in_VA @grok what’s an example of an “elevated beach” as described in this post?

This hits

Tiago Forte @fortelabs

4 weeks ago

I think the main thing AI has taught me, through all the time savings it brings, is that I’m not a very interesting person Faced with a surplus of free time, I realize I don’t really have hobbies besides content consumption I’m forced to conclude that I don’t have very deep

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You're much more of a slave to the 1% that commit 50% of crimes than you are to the 1% that create 40% of the wealth.

Television Delivers People is a seminal 1973 short video work by artist Richard Serra and producer Carlota Fay Schoolman. Presented as a single-channel video with white text scrolling over a plain background, accompanied by light Muzak, it functions as a concise, powerful critique of broadcast television. The piece explicitly states that “Television delivers people to an advertiser,” framing TV not as entertainment or information but as a system that packages viewers as a product for corporate interests. It reveals how the medium subtly shapes behavior and maintains social control under the guise of harmless programming. In 1973, Serra and Schoolman used the very medium they were critiquing buying airtime to broadcast it turning television against itself. Their insight feels prophetic in our current media landscape: •. Attention economy: Platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and streaming services have perfected the art of “delivering people” to advertisers (and algorithms) at an unprecedented scale. •. Data harvesting: Modern media doesn’t just sell eyeballs — it collects detailed behavioral data to predict and influence actions. •. Polarization and control: Entertainment, news, and social feeds now blend seamlessly, often prioritizing engagement over substance, reinforcing the status quo or corporate and ideological agendas. The film remains a stark reminder to view media critically: Who truly benefits from your time and attention? In an era of infinite scrolling and personalized feeds, understanding Television Delivers People encourages us to reclaim agency over what consumes us making it essential viewing for navigating today’s hyper-mediated world.

if you run an ai lab, pls ensure your team has read this before putting any charts out into the world

Inspired by ancient Chinese practices like Qi Gong and Tai Chi, combined with modern Western lymphatic movement methods. I now practice this routine every day

@Jason PLEASE RUN @JeffBezos

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One of the most dangerous things about @spencerpratt is that if he wins he will clean up Los Angeles and show that it can be done in New York, Chicago, Seattle, etc. None of our cities have to be like this. As goes California, so goes the nation.