Burning Man

Anyone else going to Love Burn next week?

Music

I know it’s only January, but I’ve seen enough. This is the best album name of the year.

Climate

I challenge you to not smile as you imagine all the major airlines sending their planes to meet up together in the sky to fly to their destination together in a flying V formation. Cutest climate solution since sea otters in kelp forests.

I challenge you to not smile as you imagine all the major airlines sending their planes to meet up together in the sky to fly to their destination together in a flying V formation. Cutest climate solution since sea otters in kelp forests. https://trellis.net/article/delta-air-lines-fuel-saving-geese-flight-formation/

In 2021, the amount of fossil-fuel loans and bond deals provided by global banks was $667 billion (per Bloomberg). After years of global cooperation to decarbonize our energy system the number for 2024 changed to... $680 billion. The climate movement needs new tactics.

I’d be interested to hear reactions to this perspective

Connor Leahy (@NPCollapse): "you don't even have a codebase, you have a neural network. There's no code for you to test, and there's no tests. Sometimes we run evals, but evals are not tests ... evals are just completely trial and error, brute force" https://t.co/On97a0SFon

ControlAI

I’d be interested to hear reactions to this perspective https://x.com/ai_ctrl/status/1874850141733019738?s=46&t=bs94EtvmaWd0Uv-_2k_0EA

Prepping for the launch of the new agency. 

I've dumped my entire framework for thinking about and approaching new media / new PR into a gitbook. A free resource for anyone thinking about how to talk to their audience, build influence and manage information flow. 

https://westenberg-agency.gitbook.io/westenberg.agency

There is some great stuff in here! I hope someday the "takes" industry offers retroactive funding for this public good...

Thank you to the San Francisco Chronicle for randomly publishing this photo of me today 😂

Just learned that I'm related to one of the top people who has been fighting for human rights in Russia. Pleased to share a little blood with a real one.

Just learned that I'm related to one of the top people who has been fighting for human rights in Russia. Pleased to share a little blood with a real one. https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/18/prominent-russian-rights-defender-sentenced-eight-years-prison

Oakland

Books

Love this. Reminds me of my favorite line from the book “Impro” by Keith Johnstone: "I began to think of children not as immature adults, but of adults as atrophied children."

Chia Blockchain Community

Observing Chia has helped me internalize the fact that worldchanging ideas will often be ignored for years. Therefore, there must be countless other brilliant solutions in the world we don't know about. Humanity still has many secret tricks up our sleeve.

We’re thrilled to share more info on our work on the new proposed Proof of Space format!

This update should provide greater efficiency, reduced energy consumption, enhanced security, improved compression resistance, and expanded accessibility.

https://t.co/ug3f6uqCmz

Gene Hoffman hoffmang.xch 🌱

Observing Chia has helped me internalize the fact that worldchanging ideas will often be ignored for years. Therefore, there must be countless other brilliant solutions in the world we don't know about. Humanity still has many secret tricks up our sleeve. https://x.com/hoffmang/status/1866967867796885816

degens🤝regens

Had a great time shilling the /regen token and talking about index wallets at devcon's regen village
https://youtu.be/w7lydsdmC1M

I wish everyone in crypto would think this way 💡

Economics

Trying something new: casting long thoughts into the void. Tell me I'm wrong

The primary problem the world faces is that of unpriced externalities. Firms are excellent at finding opportunities to provide goods to customers, but in their rush to remain competitive we frequently find them heaping costs they incur onto the shoulders of people and planet, rather than paying for it themselves.

Fundamentally, this is a market inefficiency like any other, and it's a problem that all prior organisms have solved, humanity as an organism is now on the precipice of being able to solve it ourselves.

The heart of the problem is this: in order to be able to address the problem of externalities all actors must come to a shared understanding of the costs. In other words, they must come to tell a shared (and true) story about how the world works and the consequences of an action in it.

I think @nor is my new favorite thinker on Farcaster

The only problem is externality pricing.

Building https://negationgame.com

In the future, do you think there will be more kinetic warfare than today, or less? If less, would that be because of greater peace, or because war itself will be less kinetic?

Memecoin. Find the $SOCIAL frame in /socialtoken. docs.socialtoken.fyi

The velocity of innovation on here is incredible. Would be cool if there were a way to see which Farcaster users who you interact with have not yet gotten a @socialtoken airdrop (I have not! Hook me up!), since that would help token distribution better reflect the social graph.

We hosted a mini music festival at my house in Oakland on Saturday and it was ADORABLE

Founder of Trick or Treat: https://trickortreat.co // https://brentschulkin.com

Brent Schulkin

@schulkin