Please post a bit more positive, beautiful or informative content on this platform

Elon Musk

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1873417011294093499

billsmafia

honkfacts

building /quidli 🦑, casting in /justinahn, daoing in /🍊 & /🟪

https://x.com/gakonst/status/1873477640692371678?s=46

coffee

okay I guess I can sometimes eke out a half decent pour

Tried reading two books recently with o1:

The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society — impressed with how well it could summarize the salient points from the history without mentioning the book. Also asking it study questions (per Tyler Cowen) was useful immediately after reading to gauge comprehension.

The Iliad (Lattimore translation) — amazing to use the voice feature while reading. For example all of the epithets and patronymics are immediately translated for you with context. Also you can ask it to recite the Ancient Greek for any of the translated English lines. It’s like reading with a Classics professors on-demand. 

Overall, incredible experience. A bit sad that I missed school years with this level of AI. Makes me excited for my kids. Bearish Wikipedia rabbit holes. Bullish AI conversational rabbit holes.

Music

by popular request (okay just @ted and @nicholas) here is an overview of our hi-fi setup:

* but first, why?
listening to music can be either a passive activity, like background music while cooking or commuting, or an activity that demands your full attention. if the latter, then the quality of your experience is shaped by the ability of your system to reproduce music. this means everything from source (streaming, CD, vinyl, reel-to-reel tape) → amplification → volume control (preamp) → speakers and all of the cables in between.

maybe this all sounds dumb (who cares about cables???) but until you have a once-in-a-lifetime experience listening to a really great system, you won't know what you're missing from your favourite music. not just technical qualities like detail or extension, but emotion, texture, and meaning. hi-fi is a great real-world example of plato's cave, because once you've heard what you're missing... you can't unhear it.

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I will pretty much never balk at the price of hi-fi gear like speakers, amps, turntables, etc. because they are some of the things that I use most in my day-to-day life.

60hr this week alone (!!), pretty wild. of course not all of that is dedicated active listening, but still. 

the only things that I (maybe) use for more hours per week would be my laptop and desktop computer.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

I met my boyfriend/unpaid intern on Farcaster 

https://x.com/francidellamora/status/1869376910599614816?s=46&t=kvXSq0PMHK3pxIfZ4x0gbw

find u someone who loves you as much as ethereum hates $4,000

slowly building a brain dump & voice sample library of every american alive

Books

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building roc.camera, writings: july.rocks

Food

Claude is incomprehensibly better for certain tasks imo

I’ve tried both Claude and ChatGPT

I use ChatGPT for tasks I know I don’t need to waste Claude on

I have subscriptions to both, but mainly use the API for Claude. I prob pay around 200-300 dollars per month in prompting for my personal stuff alone just fyi

Clankers

v0 self-claims are now live! 

Anyone can initiate a claim that will be sent to the deployer's verified address. There isn't the ability to designate a recipient for these earlier contracts.

Next up is token distributions from previous claims (no action is needed from your end, will airdrop)

v0 self-claims are live courtesy of @dish and @yungwknd for working hard to get this done. We're making steady progress getting one of our most powerful features (rewards) live, in the front end for all of our creators

coming soon: design! points - for traders, creators, and partners that build with us

Gray Tribe

I love Costco but we need much stronger regs regarding factory farming.

You’re telling me you hatched a chicken, raised it from birth, butchered, transported, and rotisserie’d it for under $4.99?

Jerome

@jerome-1