Adam

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TIL the requirement that homes be built at least 21 meters apart in parts of the UK dates back to a 1902 regulation drafted by two men who determined this was closest they could be to each other before they could see the other’s nipples through their shirts

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I took a photo looking up at the cold night sky obscured by trees

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Dev life before Git control

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Gene Hackman was one of the best to ever do it. A long and eclectic career, with no shortage of memorable films in his canon. I could recommend you one of his film based on the mood you're in, and you'd probably like it. I'll take this moment to highlight Night Moves, one of my favourites, which I'd consider one of the best neo-noir films to come out of the 70s

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Seymour Cray, founder of the early super computer company, dug tunnels (by hand, for fun) under his Wisconsin home. He said "elves" visited him underground, whispering suggestions to complex computing problems.

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Cryptography doesn't scale trust, it scales the illusion that trust is something you don't have to worry about anymore and can offload to math. Those who blindly believe this are also the ones who are dumbfounded when they are rugged, because they bought into all these buzzwords telling them otherwise. Maybe the network is more secure, but people's brains aren't. As long as you can socially engineer people, it doesn't matter what cryptography does for the illusion of trust.

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While I'm not keen on returning to the Buzzfeed days of listicals run amok, their recent manifesto about what's wrong with the current state of the internet is full of perceptive observations like this one: https://www.buzzfeed.com/bfisland/manifesto

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+1 to this statement. In addition to onboarding some incredibly thoughtful casters such as @mazmhussain, @geoffgolberg also brings receipts to his claims around network manipulation. A serious, ongoing conversation around this is important to set Farcaster apart from others

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Sonder The Awareness That Everyone Has a Story, from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, by John Koenig

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"Shrouded in Alchemy" on @titlesxyz created using @rakimjah's Rakim.exe model https://titles.xyz/collect/base/0x0bfc6637540341fe257422aaba807f46d7294590/1

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One thing I’ve come to realize is that in instances like these, you have multiple playbooks being run at once, often conflicting with each other. The old guard can’t see where things are going because they conflate past successes for future wins, creating massive blind spots. New ventures don’t have that legacy baggage, but can easily succumb to an archaic way of doing business if they stick too closely to a formula. In this instance, technicolor boxed themselves into a corner. I used to work at a post production facility and saw how these places overextended bridge loans across multiple projects to keep things going. It seemed unsustainable then, and now it’s come to a head. It’s sad, if not predictable outcome given the strategies being used. The only way to build it better is to start anew. Easier said than done, but necessary nonetheless.

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"Something that arises at the inception of most media, even before they come about, is this whole utopian drip about it. And the utopianism often wears down under corporate pressure after a while, and it's important if you're going to maintain the politics of it, it can't be sort of drained off. It is beginning to look more and more like the internet is going to almost certainly become totally privatized, and it's probably, its days may be are numbered, maybe it is so decentralized, and maybe there will be no way to ever effectively privatize the whole thing."

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Pizza Hut was the first major food chain to let you order online. It went live in Santa Cruz in 1994, but was also a bit of a gimmick since all orders would go to a single central location, and then faxed to corresponding locations

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https://warpcast.com/adam-/0x0af53d3f

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“Imagine a world where time drifts slowly…”

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Putting the global population in perspective

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Alright @aviationdoctor.eth, what's it going to take to get you to play a round of Sky Team? https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/373106/sky-team

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Houe To, Puerto Escondido, Mexico Designed by Ludwig Godefroy (2022)

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Diving into this again

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One of the many impressive things DeepSeek pulled off was how it structured it's team. They took ambitious people and prioritized them over those with past successes. This space can learn a thing or two from that lesson as the blockchain space vastly undervalues the role passion plays in generating a breakthrough, and instead leans heavily on those with "senior" in their title. "DeepSeek's moat, as Liang says, is not its current innovations but a team capable of generating innovations anew." https://youtu.be/hFTqQ4boR-s?si=oX3yISXGDbymnGPG&t=327

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