cyrus

@cyrus

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While @july has never felt more optimistic about the future, I'm slowly veering in the opposite direction. A few people asked why, so I wrote this short essay. After years of working with century long time horizons, I'm noticing a shift in my optimism. I believe it partly stems from a paradox around unprecedented global connectivity alongside deepening fragmentation. It makes me wonder if our technological ingenuity can truly outpace our collective dysfunction when planetary challenges demand wisdom. https://cyrusclarke.substack.com/p/why-an-optimist-is-slowly-veering

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this Miyazaki chap knew what he was talking about

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the only interesting thing about it is how boring it’s made the internet for 48h. like a virus or an invasive species infecting every scroll.

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also this chaos breeds possibilities

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back in the lab more. casting less. has revealed and made me realise quite a few things about being in-person vs remote - a natural, massive decline in being chronically online - my concentration levels are significantly deeper - less random interactions IRL, but those that do happen are more meaningful mentally, socially, emotionally and produce more serendipity - the time to travel to and from 'work' is really important for thoughts to form and build cognitive architecture - physical proximity to instruments and materials creates a sensory relationship with research that screens simply cannot replicate

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"As of March 2025, 23andMe has over 15 million customers worldwide" If ever there was a use case for data sovereignty, it’s this.

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the context on this one is actually crazy my first neuromorphic computing experiment, building neural networks with living things, using an opentrons will do a write up once I see the results.

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this week I’m hoping to finally get back to training 🤞

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Drop your last saved photo, no context

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where is farcaster on this map of the web?

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preparing to hibernate

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how long do you think it'll be until we can program cells like this?

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stumbled on this wild paper - genetic circuits that are essentially running the basis of blockchains (and other distributed compute) with living cells only a 2-bit hash function but still intriguing. who wants to fund the world's least secure, but most alive new chain? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-024-01730-1#citeas

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just got this e-mail - it just confirms my decision not to travel for the foreseeable future while the situation remains precarious. there are some things i've had to make peace with: - i have a (very cool) new exhibition opening in Madrid at the end of this month that I won't be able to attend or help setup. hopefully they take nice photos for me. - i won't be able to go 'home' this summer and see my friends (and some of their new babies). but we do have facetime. - i will get to spend the year in the US so need to start planning long road-trips on very straight roads...

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this is why people hate crypto. https://x.com/solana/status/1901675230868758895?s=46&t=PYrTBRBcheJgjOuKFw1acQ

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thinking about post plastic futures by @gmo https://open.substack.com/pub/editlife/p/microplastics-without-borders

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less content creators, more cultural producers; less influencers, more community builders; less viral bubbles, more meaningful movements; less algorithm chasing, more context shaping; less digital noise, more cultural resonance, less light content, more dense media.

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is there a channel or group on farcaster interested in internet culture/theory research type stuff? could be fun to start a reading group like the do not research folks https://donotresearch.substack.com/p/do-not-research-reading-group-v2024

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brett scott writes and speaks quite well about why going cashless isn't the liberating achievement that many think it is i met him once at an event we were both speaking at, ironically in Sweden, and we had a good evening chatting about the future of money he had some interesting thoughts on how cash in many ways is more decentralized than crypto, obviously not theoretically or technically but in actual practice. https://alteredstatesof.money/brett-scott/

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and now a word from our sponsors

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