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Matthew McDowell-Sweet

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Matthew McDowell-Sweet
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A new version of Subset is now available on iOS via TestFlight. + Summary stats and streaks + Compound search queries + URL clean-up + Import and export Head to the site to see it in action and/or get access right now. https://subset.network/
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Enjoyed this for a few reasons, the main one being the insight into the struggle to make training for critical, life-endangering scenarios have near-parity with the reality of such situations. https://open.spotify.com/episode/76AHPMeQ9TxTGA9D7uknkh
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*insert ghiblified image of someone doing tai chi beneath the ocean’s surface
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Kinda. This thread helps contextualise it in comp. to other approaches. https://x.com/ejames_c/status/1895416279722594311
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Taking a spin through JS’s Advice on Upskilling and The Math Academy Way. Helpful right now as I’m trying to advance a bunch of skills in parallel—computing, entrepreneurship, BJJ, math, climbing. https://justinmath.com/books/
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Hmmm. “Such technologies, together with established genetic techniques to inhibit brain development, make it possible to envision the creation of “bodyoids”—a potentially unlimited source of human bodies, developed entirely outside of a human body from stem cells, that lack sentience or the ability to feel pain.” https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/25/1113611/ethically-sourced-spare-human-bodies-could-revolutionize-medicine/
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Reminds me of this. “I’ve only been back at work for a few days, but already I’m noticing that the more wholesome activities are quickly dropping out of my life: walking, exercising, reading, meditating, and extra writing. The one conspicuous similarity between these activities is that they cost little or no money, but they take time.” https://www.raptitude.com/2010/07/your-lifestyle-has-already-been-designed/
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Bootstrapping one’s social cred and seeing spontaneous clusters of interactions emerge are perennial social network problems, though, not just WC/FC ones. It’s interesting seeing how FC attempts to solve them at the same time as Bluesky.
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So the intro to people to vibe with part is what seems absent/weak right now?
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https://x.com/orphcorp/status/1904542396911698329
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One thing that this place has going for it is link positivity. Culture is referential and if the pointers are only ever internal the discourse gets stale fast. I know what you mean about the event planner thing. But what does “good conversation” feel / look like to you? Any examples from here, or from other places?
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The mechanic for rewarding friendships and interactions are the friendships and interactions themselves, no? The network-protocol-client-whatever can facilitate it but it’s ultimately on the end users to 1) recognise the inherent value of talking to people and 2) interact and sustain relationships.
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logseq-ux-latency-frustration-score ■■■■■■■■■□ https://logseq.com/
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💯all technical systems are socio-technical systems, easier to compromise social factors than technical ones etc🕵️
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Related—and a much more credible stance. https://x.com/thegrugq/status/1904322718063088070
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*obligatory sceptical “hmmm” goes here. https://www.nefariousrussians.com/p/signal-is-a-government-op
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Finally finished my odyssey through volumes I-III of Braudel’s Civilisation and Capitalism. Overall: newfound appreciation for the consistent and compounding ingenuity-at-scale of humanity across millennia, and a renewed appreciation for how the forces of capital, labour, technology and ecology entangle and perpetuate one another. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/civilization-and-capitalism-15th-18th-century-vol-iii/paper
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Orgs like this should have an explicit death protocol that nukes certain assets when an existential threat is realised. https://warpcast.com/mazmhussain/0x33418218
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TIL about this absurdly ambitious attempt to anti-Dune a massive area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall_(China)
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Anyone with sufficient CompSci and/or program synthesis expertise able to tl;dr the (non-)significance of this and where it sits in relation to the rest of the field and the SoTA? I did trawl some of the replies but I’m not embedded in that domain enough to really unravel what this means on a larger scale. https://x.com/victortaelin/status/1903942608449327274
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