Climate

Hello. I'm excited to start posting here. To introduce myself, I'm an award-winning reporter and writer who's covered energy, climate change and geopolitics for more than a decade. My reporting has spanned four continents, and I definitely keep an international focus. I also love plants, tea, books and music.

Classical

Memes

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/usc-annenberg/15526455#1

someone-build

𝔩𝔞𝔪𝔟𝔠𝔥𝔬𝔭

😭 download this video on mobile with a warpcast watermark

Southeast Asia

One reason I’m very bullish on Southeast Asia is that pluralism is existential there, not some sort of nice optional extra for good times. SEA doesn’t exist without pluralism. When it has abandoned pluralism, historically it has degenerated to absolutely dystopian bloodiness, not some sort of ethnonationalist rump state that at least the victors can pretend to enjoy if they squint.

And it’s notable that in recent decades the region attracted both a cohort of ex-Soviets in the 90s and ex-Putin-Russians since 2020. It’s also where the Chinese have historically retreated when their state has turned against them. 

I suspect there will be a new wave of American expats in the region soon, very different from the Tim Ferriss vitamin selling nomad era.

Farcaster

Design

interesting governance app that deserves a short vid demo. dev is responsive on email feel free to contact him

interesting governance app that deserves a short vid demo. dev is responsive on email feel free to contact him https://www.zaratan.world/chorewheel

Summer of Protocols

i want to try the tension game with irl colleagues

any video demos?

memory is a thing
思い出 ("thinking out") is an action-thing

Books

adding progress here https://summerofprotocols.com/protocol-reader

delulu

Think about it this way:

If I do something -- I want to do it well. Or don't do it at all. Ultimately, doing things is an act of love. If you don't love what you are going to do fully, why even do it? Yes, of course not everything is going to fall into this bucket. But why not maximize the amount of things you love. It can be something simple, like tending to a plant, or sending a message etc

Why not? There is almost no downside to this

If something is worth doing it’s worth doing extremely poorly

It may additionally be worth doing well. That’s what we in the mediocrity business call optional extras.

So next time you feel purposeless and stick, ask yourself: What seems worth doing really poorly

If the answer is is “nothing” you might be suffering from optimization mind virus

If I do something, it's history.

https://warpcast.com/vgr/0x4ed04796

Illiteracy is arguably fundamental to the human condition.

confessions

Engineering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02tA8Cn4-yg

Electronic Music

Music

idk how and why, but after 25 years of being into Detroit techno, I'm only now listening to John Beltran's Earth & Nightfall album. Incredible album from start to finish...Ranging from deep techno to ambient, here's one of my favorite track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5DbWn2iSYk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpr8gc-40Zs&list=OLAK5uy_l2h2HKnUU6JS9nUJEt8XLJVUAn3DhWKfI

naive

aichannel

Elite NBA players average 500 shots a day in their offseason to get better.

How many prompts a day do you average today?

Warpcast will remove "likely to be spam" accounts from follow counts soon. 

Likes and recasts from spammy accounts have been removed from counts for several weeks. We're now going to remove follow counts from these accounts as well.

brypto

i'd like to pretend that a boss is an llm

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@na