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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Attended the premiere of the extended version of Mort Subotnick's documentary If you don't know - he's a pioneer musician from the new music scene and amongst other things helped co-create what is probably the first analog synth (Buchla) I've rarely heard a more inspiring story, sharing the path of a true artist on screen and IRL At 93 years young he's still learning new tools, (even AI), works with Ableton and is performing this weekend for his last ever show He said of being an artist "it's not about me, it's about an idea and a spark" They really don't make 'em like this any more.

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One of the more frustrating things about research in my current setting is not being able to share work as you go. I keep having exciting things to share and then have to hold back due to anon requirements or FOBS (fear of being scooped) until publication. The former much more than the latter tbh.

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maybe something like this would help? @v @dwr.eth

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nostracoglou officially has one of the coldest predictions in all sports https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNbA8UGbw1o&ab_channel=TheRoar

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this is parody right? https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1925235156157440438

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new ATH and i just got my first "hey Cyrus long time what do you think about investing in 💩 token" ☠️

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Had a 1-1 with an extremely famous scientist today... And survived getting science-fact checked in real-time 😇

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new glasses who dis

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Rainbow Fern (Selaginella willdenowii) has a beautiful iridescent, metallic blue sheen It comes from nanostructures that manipulate light, just like morpho butterfly wings 🦋🌿

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Croydon so back

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it’s not going well fam

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levitating water ftw https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIFSHp8Sf4G/?igsh=MTJhcW11NG55cXQ0NQ%3D%3D

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Someone just shared this really fun 'cryptography by hand' tool with me and makes me wonder what else is out there for more tangible/non-screen based ways of understanding the tech behind blockchain? https://blog.blockstream.com/codex32-a-shamir-secret-sharing-scheme/

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is it a shark... is it a blimp... Nah, it's a Shlimp! (also it has a camera and laser eyes for some reason)

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and to think i literally knew nothing about basketball a year ago, then i watched 1 game with @gmo 's brothers got hooked and now i say stuff like this apparently.

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imagine basing every decision in life on something invisible, intangible, grounded in mythology and entirely based on collective belief and no, it's not the thing you think it is

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quickly hacked a controller this morning - to make a thing. might share later if said thing works

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Currently reading about Prof Danna Freedman's research into using qubits to create incredibly sensitive quantum sensors to measure biological phenomena at the molecular level. Nice text about it here: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/22/1114326/unleashing-the-potential-of-qubits-one-molecule-at-a-time/

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