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Proudly introducing my upcoming series, "Conversations between Nature’s Memory" 🏞️🧠 What if nature could remember? What if forests, roots, fungi, and soil were constantly speaking to each other through invisible systems we never learned how to hear? Conversations between Nature’s Memory imagines a living dialogue between two interconnected ecosystems,... one above soil and one below. Growth, decay, fusion, and redistribution unfold through a mycelium-inspired system where every action reshapes another. An AI observes these exchanges and attempts to translate them into fragments of memory, care, and seasonal change, but the language always remains incomplete. The work premiered at La Biennale di Venezia 2026 as part of As Above, So Below. Organized by One Ocean Foundation Conceived by ZEITGEIST19 Curated by Farah Piriye Coene & Elizabeth Zhivkova Drop mechanics in comments 👇show more

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Ricardo

594,453 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

Micron is going to $4,000 and once you understand what inference actually is, the number stops sounding crazy (Save this). Dylan Patel just said that by 2030, OpenAI and Anthropic alone will need over 100 gigawatts of compute combined and by 2040, we may not even be measuring AI infrastructure in gigawatts anymore. We may be talking about terawatts. Every single one of those gigawatts needs memory to function. Without it, the compute is worthless. Most people heard that and thought about Nvidia but they should be thinking about Micron. Every AI model generating a response has two phases. The first is prefill, processing your prompt which is compute-heavy and the second is decode generating each word one token at a time and that phase is almost entirely memory-bound, not compute-bound. During decode, the GPU's processing units sit idle more than 95% of the time, waiting for data to arrive from memory. Google confirmed it in a research paper that decode-phase bottlenecks are dominated by memory bandwidth and capacity not raw compute. The GPU is not the bottleneck but the memory feeding the GPU is. This matters because inference is now where all the money lives. Training a model happens once, Inference happens billions of times a day every ChatGPT response, every Claude output, every agentic workflow running in the background and every one of those token streams is a billing event tied directly to memory performance. Adding more GPUs does not fix this because GPUs are already underutilized in inference because they are sitting idle waiting on memory. Adding more memory bandwidth and capacity is what directly reduces token cost, reduces latency, and allows the same cluster to serve dramatically more users simultaneously. Longer context windows compound the problem further, a model running a 1 million token context window requires dramatically more memory per session than a 10,000 token window, and every new model generation pushes context longer. The market treats memory as a downstream beneficiary of Nvidia orders. The correct framework is the opposite, Micron is the upstream constraint on how much value every Nvidia GPU can actually generate at inference scale. Micron guided Q4 to $50 billion in revenue, has HBM4 ramping at twice the pace of the prior generation, and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra has said supply will not catch demand before the end of 2027. At 8x forward earnings on $112 projected FY2027 EPS, Micron is the most undervalued infrastructure company in the entire AI stack. Inference is memory. Memory is Micron and the inference ramp has barely started. Milk Road Pro members are already up massively on this position and we're just getting started. If you want the full breakdown of what we're buying and why, come join us for just a dollar using the link below!

Micron is going to $4,000 and once you understand what inference actually is, the number stops sounding crazy (Save this). Dylan Patel just said that by 2030, OpenAI and Anthropic alone will need over 100 gigawatts of compute combined and by 2040, we may not even be measuring AI infrastructure in gigawatts anymore. We may be talking about terawatts. Every single one of those gigawatts needs memory to function. Without it, the compute is worthless. Most people heard that and thought about Nvidia but they should be thinking about Micron. Every AI model generating a response has two phases. The first is prefill, processing your prompt which is compute-heavy and the second is decode generating each word one token at a time and that phase is almost entirely memory-bound, not compute-bound. During decode, the GPU's processing units sit idle more than 95% of the time, waiting for data to arrive from memory. Google confirmed it in a research paper that decode-phase bottlenecks are dominated by memory bandwidth and capacity not raw compute. The GPU is not the bottleneck but the memory feeding the GPU is. This matters because inference is now where all the money lives. Training a model happens once, Inference happens billions of times a day every ChatGPT response, every Claude output, every agentic workflow running in the background and every one of those token streams is a billing event tied directly to memory performance. Adding more GPUs does not fix this because GPUs are already underutilized in inference because they are sitting idle waiting on memory. Adding more memory bandwidth and capacity is what directly reduces token cost, reduces latency, and allows the same cluster to serve dramatically more users simultaneously. Longer context windows compound the problem further, a model running a 1 million token context window requires dramatically more memory per session than a 10,000 token window, and every new model generation pushes context longer. The market treats memory as a downstream beneficiary of Nvidia orders. The correct framework is the opposite, Micron is the upstream constraint on how much value every Nvidia GPU can actually generate at inference scale. Micron guided Q4 to $50 billion in revenue, has HBM4 ramping at twice the pace of the prior generation, and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra has said supply will not catch demand before the end of 2027. At 8x forward earnings on $112 projected FY2027 EPS, Micron is the most undervalued infrastructure company in the entire AI stack. Inference is memory. Memory is Micron and the inference ramp has barely started. Milk Road Pro members are already up massively on this position and we're just getting started. If you want the full breakdown of what we're buying and why, come join us for just a dollar using the link below!

Milk Road AI

128,079 Aufrufe • vor 17 Tagen

A woman sits between two men. One is old and wealthy, and he is offering her a fortune. The other is young with nothing to give but himself. And Bouguereau painted her in the exact moment before she chooses... The painting is called Entre la richesse et l'amour, "Between Wealth and Love," made in 1869 by the French master William-Adolphe Bouguereau. At its center sits a young woman in a soft pink dress, her expression caught somewhere between thought and sorrow. On one side of her leans an old man, richly dressed, holding out an ornate casket, a small chest of treasure. He is wealth. He is offering comfort, security, a life without want, in exchange for her hand. On her other side is a young man in simpler clothes, earnest, leaning toward her, his hand pressed over his heart. That gesture is all he offers. He holds out no gold and no gift, only himself, the sincerity of his feeling, and the promise of a life that may be poor but will be warm. He is love. Bouguereau does not tell us what she decides. That is the genius of the painting: he freezes her in the one instant every human being recognizes, the moment when two futures stand on either side of you, and you understand that to choose one is to lose the other forever. Everyone, sooner or later, sits in that chair. Everyone is asked, in one form or another, to choose between the safe life and the true one. And the painting does not pretend the choice is easy. It never tells us what she should do. It only asks us to look, and to notice what we find ourselves wishing for... I started my newsletter because the past is full of masterpieces like this one, and fewer and fewer people are helping us truly see them anymore. Every week I try to. If that is something you'd like to be part of, you can join through the link in my bio, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible. Thanks for reading.

A woman sits between two men. One is old and wealthy, and he is offering her a fortune. The other is young with nothing to give but himself. And Bouguereau painted her in the exact moment before she chooses... The painting is called Entre la richesse et l'amour, "Between Wealth and Love," made in 1869 by the French master William-Adolphe Bouguereau. At its center sits a young woman in a soft pink dress, her expression caught somewhere between thought and sorrow. On one side of her leans an old man, richly dressed, holding out an ornate casket, a small chest of treasure. He is wealth. He is offering comfort, security, a life without want, in exchange for her hand. On her other side is a young man in simpler clothes, earnest, leaning toward her, his hand pressed over his heart. That gesture is all he offers. He holds out no gold and no gift, only himself, the sincerity of his feeling, and the promise of a life that may be poor but will be warm. He is love. Bouguereau does not tell us what she decides. That is the genius of the painting: he freezes her in the one instant every human being recognizes, the moment when two futures stand on either side of you, and you understand that to choose one is to lose the other forever. Everyone, sooner or later, sits in that chair. Everyone is asked, in one form or another, to choose between the safe life and the true one. And the painting does not pretend the choice is easy. It never tells us what she should do. It only asks us to look, and to notice what we find ourselves wishing for... I started my newsletter because the past is full of masterpieces like this one, and fewer and fewer people are helping us truly see them anymore. Every week I try to. If that is something you'd like to be part of, you can join through the link in my bio, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible. Thanks for reading.

James Lucas

107,011 Aufrufe • vor 6 Tagen

A new way of working. And a scary one at that. Memory Store is one of a group of new kinds of AI-first companies that can turn you into a Fast Company. I’m using several of them on my desktop and they are a dramatically new way to work. It builds a memory for: 1. Your AI agents. 2. Any employee using it. 3. The company itself. I sit down with founder Diwank Singh Tomer, Diwank Singh Tomer, who both freaks me out as well as shows how AI can radically help workers as well as managers. First, why does it freak me out? Well, his AI watches nearly everything a worker does and keeps a “memory” of it. It watches your email. Your calendar. Your Slack. And a whole lot of other things. This can really freak out workers if “forced” on them. And leads to a whole new set of security issues companies need to consider before adopting these things. Such data about a company could give a competitor a HUGE advantage, if leaked. They would know how a company “thinks.” It really is a surveillance system for employees and the company itself. OK, now why would anyone ever use such a thing? Because it gives employees super powers. It makes them more productive. Shows workers a lot of things about themselves, and helps them work and stay on task. It also gives the company super powers. Institutional memory stays with the AI now, even if an employee dies or leaves. As companies move to “AI First” approaches, they will increasingly see the value in companies like Memory Store. It prepares employees for meetings. It helps them remember things. It shows them what they should be working on, and helps them do it. Memory Store builds a memory for: 1. Your agents. 2. Your company. 3. Yourself, or any employee on it. This helps all three work better together. Diwank Singh Tomer and I go in depth about what it does and how deeply it improves working at a company that deploys it. But to get the ultimate benefits you gotta convince your coworkers to use it. And your managers to approve it. Which means you have to get over your fears and get everyone you work with over theirs too. Which will be the challenge for Diwank. Luckily for him his first customers are raving about how good it is and how much his platform helped their companies. Increases sales. Makes teams more productive. Decreases errors and unnecessary costs. Which tells me everyone soon will be using systems like this. This is what the new way of working looks like. Once I got over my fears it sure is an amazing way to work. Will you try working this way?

A new way of working. And a scary one at that. Memory Store is one of a group of new kinds of AI-first companies that can turn you into a Fast Company. I’m using several of them on my desktop and they are a dramatically new way to work. It builds a memory for: 1. Your AI agents. 2. Any employee using it. 3. The company itself. I sit down with founder Diwank Singh Tomer, Diwank Singh Tomer, who both freaks me out as well as shows how AI can radically help workers as well as managers. First, why does it freak me out? Well, his AI watches nearly everything a worker does and keeps a “memory” of it. It watches your email. Your calendar. Your Slack. And a whole lot of other things. This can really freak out workers if “forced” on them. And leads to a whole new set of security issues companies need to consider before adopting these things. Such data about a company could give a competitor a HUGE advantage, if leaked. They would know how a company “thinks.” It really is a surveillance system for employees and the company itself. OK, now why would anyone ever use such a thing? Because it gives employees super powers. It makes them more productive. Shows workers a lot of things about themselves, and helps them work and stay on task. It also gives the company super powers. Institutional memory stays with the AI now, even if an employee dies or leaves. As companies move to “AI First” approaches, they will increasingly see the value in companies like Memory Store. It prepares employees for meetings. It helps them remember things. It shows them what they should be working on, and helps them do it. Memory Store builds a memory for: 1. Your agents. 2. Your company. 3. Yourself, or any employee on it. This helps all three work better together. Diwank Singh Tomer and I go in depth about what it does and how deeply it improves working at a company that deploys it. But to get the ultimate benefits you gotta convince your coworkers to use it. And your managers to approve it. Which means you have to get over your fears and get everyone you work with over theirs too. Which will be the challenge for Diwank. Luckily for him his first customers are raving about how good it is and how much his platform helped their companies. Increases sales. Makes teams more productive. Decreases errors and unnecessary costs. Which tells me everyone soon will be using systems like this. This is what the new way of working looks like. Once I got over my fears it sure is an amazing way to work. Will you try working this way?

Robert Scoble

25,975 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

⚡️Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei: 🔹 We reached understandings on a number of issues, but on two to three major points, there were differences in views, which ultimately prevented an agreement. 🔹This round was the longest set of negotiations we’ve had with the Americans in the past year, lasting around 24 to 25 hours. 🔹 The talks began yesterday morning through indirect discussions and message exchanges between the two sides, mediated by Pakistan, and continued without interruption. 🔹 Discussions went on through the night, covering a range of topics, including items in Iran’s 10-point plan as well as points raised by the other side. 🔹 These negotiations took place after 40 days of imposed war and were conducted in an atmosphere of mistrust and suspicion; naturally, we should not have expected to reach an agreement in a single session. No one had such an expectation. 🔹 Another point was the complexity of the issues and conditions. Some new issues, like the Strait of Hormuz, were added to the negotiations, each with its own complexities. 🔹 While some areas saw progress, differences on two to three key issues ultimately blocked a final agreement. 🎥 Video: IRIB. Translated by Drop Site News

⚡️Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei: 🔹 We reached understandings on a number of issues, but on two to three major points, there were differences in views, which ultimately prevented an agreement. 🔹This round was the longest set of negotiations we’ve had with the Americans in the past year, lasting around 24 to 25 hours. 🔹 The talks began yesterday morning through indirect discussions and message exchanges between the two sides, mediated by Pakistan, and continued without interruption. 🔹 Discussions went on through the night, covering a range of topics, including items in Iran’s 10-point plan as well as points raised by the other side. 🔹 These negotiations took place after 40 days of imposed war and were conducted in an atmosphere of mistrust and suspicion; naturally, we should not have expected to reach an agreement in a single session. No one had such an expectation. 🔹 Another point was the complexity of the issues and conditions. Some new issues, like the Strait of Hormuz, were added to the negotiations, each with its own complexities. 🔹 While some areas saw progress, differences on two to three key issues ultimately blocked a final agreement. 🎥 Video: IRIB. Translated by Drop Site News

Drop Site

62,233 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

Masquerade now hangs in The Toledo Museum of Art. But unlike a painting, Masquerade holds within itself: a gathering of people in the network and systems to connect us. The piece is not "A" piece. It is every Mask, every dot, every observation made and, through a new layer, every one yet to be made. I feel both stupidly lucky and genuinely honored to bring everyone who has given energy to Luci out of the network and into a place that has honored my work and the work of so many other artists I deeply admire with immense and precise care. This absurd world of masks and monkeys I love so much because of what has been shared between people through it has had my love compound through the care of people. To help to protect and preserve a story bigger than my own, not unlike what has taken place atop its surface. Much as the systems of participation echoed the systems of its creation, so too does its curation and cultivation by others help it grow. Masquerade now hangs in a museum, but it hangs alongside a cadre of digital art's giants in an exhibition titled “Infinite Images,” which sits centered inside a museum filled with the giants of art history itself. For this to happen requires a lattice frequency of care: not as a feeling, but as something intensely actionable. Care—demonstrated through sacrifice and skin in the game. It pours out of the dark blue diamond walls and the work atop them and into our orange room; it bleeds from every installation, overflowing from each and every artist, and the space between each of us within. Care is revealed through a curator who helped me understand my own work more but also learn what connects me backwards to the shoulders I stand on. Julia Kaganskiy 🇺🇦 found and presented our systems not as separate worlds, but as part of one system of life—all while bringing into life of a higher order: her first child. Care extended through a director, Adam Levine, who pushed for something quite radical and got his hands dirty to allow this show to even exist. The Museum and the people who keep its engine moving treated our new as sacred as their old. They did so not to onboard, but to remain. A portal that lifts up a movement happening in the network by seeing the need to connect our nodes rather than relegate or shut the gate behind. Doing this required the patronage of Alan Howard, channeled through the cataloging brilliance of Martina Negro, and the willingness of high‑order patronage to become a cooperative network rather than an adversarial one. In that cooperation is where Masquerade’s place in the exhibition came through Kanbas. A throughline drawn between the roles of our ecosystem. Of what can be built between us if we see each other as one ecosystem, both different and essential. An exhibition filled with cutting‑edge technology and masterful presentation does not exist with only artists or curators or museums; it is enabled through a network of generous patronage and curiosity. Kanbas helped me take what began as the orange room with a digital confessional that is Rachel and I’s studio in New York, that last year became The Monument Game boat‑dock exhibition in Venice, Italy through the genius of ScriptedFantasy and support of Ryan Zurrer, and evolve it to sit in a Museum in a way that does not just exhibit the work, but educates and invites people to come closer who may not know any of this even exists. Rather than just house the singular work, Kanbas and Amanda cared to share the network of 613 Masks and the people who wear them with it. Care came through my team who built Masquerade with me in Nifty Gateway Studio. Chrisly, Ashlin, Bob, Nirali, Tara, and all who pitched in make our interface and systems accessible to a whole new audience; to build infrastructure and enable thousands of people who have never touched the blockchain to create a wallet just by leaving an Observation atop the Masquerade is more than a feature: it is spreading the network rather than closing its gates. I feel so lucky to have such a tremendous team of people to think not as a marketplace, but as stewards to present what we have been building well and improve it with time and circumstance. This patronage enabled artistry within artistry to thrive, through a masterful exhibition design led by Richard The, technology and fabrication partners through TCI in Greg and Anthony, Jack with projections, and fabricators through Bednark. With me is my brilliant engineer, Alex Borre, who has broken apart all of this alongside me and helped me grow as an artist. By my side has been joeyL.eth, the eternal vibe check of taste, restraint, and precision - the finest eye and mind I know, and the relentless, perpetual support of El Barba Roja blue check who championed and willed this exhibition into existence more than anyone. No matter how much “this is how we build” has looped and human‑centipeded in on itself through cynical interpretations, in this case, it truly is, and his hands are all over not just my contribution, but many others in this show, as well as in the exhibition’s foundation itself. But in the end: care has been given in the highest order by my wife Rachel Spratt who has done what all new great mothers do and given life through tremendous exertion. We did not take a break after Masquerade, because it just immediately became Masquerade IRL. She has given to me, given to our daughter Syla, given to our tribe of Masks and Skulls, to this exhibition: everything. What is left after one gives all away, no matter how sweetly, can be a hollowing of self or, if met well before a break, a shedding of self. To sit in this beautiful room together, within an exhibition this magnificent, inside a building this rich with history and love of humanity, and have so much care be put in to match hers by this network around us on and offline, I got to sit in pride because I knew this very real moment for me, that began so alone and has become quite collective, would simply, unequivocally, never even come close to existing without her. So much of my life has been defined by solitude. I was not expecting having my work presented like this to move me so much. I thought it would be more of a feather in the cap or rather beautiful box to check. But it isn't that at all. It's connection to others. I fell in love with the artists' work that sits alongside my own. I saw Dmitri Cherniak's Ringers I’ve seen a thousand times, but saw them again in a way my daughter could visualize her own curiosity about the world—decisions in how these were shared served a higher purpose: to communicate. I saw Casey REAS as someone not just as a pioneer, but as someone more real—who, like my wife, cut part of himself out and set it aside to see what others could create. I saw Operator not as slick performers of the code, but as arbiters of freedom. I saw invitations to see the humanity in code in dozens of directions, and gratitude to sit even close to any of it. Talent. Sweat. Blood. Skin in the game. The artists pushed. The fabricators pushed. The docents pushed. Not one of us is like the other and no template was ever to be made to try to force otherwise. On September 12th, I will be inviting every holder of Luci: Masks, Players, Council, to come out to a small town in Ohio and leave a bit of themselves behind and get a very deep look into the world I am trying to build in the process. More on that very soon, but should you be able to come, know that there is much to care about beyond what I’ve built within this exhibition—and I hope you will fall in love with the rest of these infinite worlds as I have. We all know we aren't supposed to touch the paintings in a museum. But my daughter Syla touched the illuminated lightbox of Masquerade that she unknowingly stars in at the center of, and I smiled. Because she's not touching a world of divine objects susceptible to fingerprints and pretense; she's touching a display. A front‑end stand‑in representation for the network of humanity underneath. A place where light, code, instructions, a design that rhymes across all things has formed a very unlikely but very real gathering of strangers over the last few years to create together. I feel lucky for her to grow up surrounded by people who create and who care.

Masquerade now hangs in The Toledo Museum of Art. But unlike a painting, Masquerade holds within itself: a gathering of people in the network and systems to connect us. The piece is not "A" piece. It is every Mask, every dot, every observation made and, through a new layer, every one yet to be made. I feel both stupidly lucky and genuinely honored to bring everyone who has given energy to Luci out of the network and into a place that has honored my work and the work of so many other artists I deeply admire with immense and precise care. This absurd world of masks and monkeys I love so much because of what has been shared between people through it has had my love compound through the care of people. To help to protect and preserve a story bigger than my own, not unlike what has taken place atop its surface. Much as the systems of participation echoed the systems of its creation, so too does its curation and cultivation by others help it grow. Masquerade now hangs in a museum, but it hangs alongside a cadre of digital art's giants in an exhibition titled “Infinite Images,” which sits centered inside a museum filled with the giants of art history itself. For this to happen requires a lattice frequency of care: not as a feeling, but as something intensely actionable. Care—demonstrated through sacrifice and skin in the game. It pours out of the dark blue diamond walls and the work atop them and into our orange room; it bleeds from every installation, overflowing from each and every artist, and the space between each of us within. Care is revealed through a curator who helped me understand my own work more but also learn what connects me backwards to the shoulders I stand on. Julia Kaganskiy 🇺🇦 found and presented our systems not as separate worlds, but as part of one system of life—all while bringing into life of a higher order: her first child. Care extended through a director, Adam Levine, who pushed for something quite radical and got his hands dirty to allow this show to even exist. The Museum and the people who keep its engine moving treated our new as sacred as their old. They did so not to onboard, but to remain. A portal that lifts up a movement happening in the network by seeing the need to connect our nodes rather than relegate or shut the gate behind. Doing this required the patronage of Alan Howard, channeled through the cataloging brilliance of Martina Negro, and the willingness of high‑order patronage to become a cooperative network rather than an adversarial one. In that cooperation is where Masquerade’s place in the exhibition came through Kanbas. A throughline drawn between the roles of our ecosystem. Of what can be built between us if we see each other as one ecosystem, both different and essential. An exhibition filled with cutting‑edge technology and masterful presentation does not exist with only artists or curators or museums; it is enabled through a network of generous patronage and curiosity. Kanbas helped me take what began as the orange room with a digital confessional that is Rachel and I’s studio in New York, that last year became The Monument Game boat‑dock exhibition in Venice, Italy through the genius of ScriptedFantasy and support of Ryan Zurrer, and evolve it to sit in a Museum in a way that does not just exhibit the work, but educates and invites people to come closer who may not know any of this even exists. Rather than just house the singular work, Kanbas and Amanda cared to share the network of 613 Masks and the people who wear them with it. Care came through my team who built Masquerade with me in Nifty Gateway Studio. Chrisly, Ashlin, Bob, Nirali, Tara, and all who pitched in make our interface and systems accessible to a whole new audience; to build infrastructure and enable thousands of people who have never touched the blockchain to create a wallet just by leaving an Observation atop the Masquerade is more than a feature: it is spreading the network rather than closing its gates. I feel so lucky to have such a tremendous team of people to think not as a marketplace, but as stewards to present what we have been building well and improve it with time and circumstance. This patronage enabled artistry within artistry to thrive, through a masterful exhibition design led by Richard The, technology and fabrication partners through TCI in Greg and Anthony, Jack with projections, and fabricators through Bednark. With me is my brilliant engineer, Alex Borre, who has broken apart all of this alongside me and helped me grow as an artist. By my side has been joeyL.eth, the eternal vibe check of taste, restraint, and precision - the finest eye and mind I know, and the relentless, perpetual support of El Barba Roja blue check who championed and willed this exhibition into existence more than anyone. No matter how much “this is how we build” has looped and human‑centipeded in on itself through cynical interpretations, in this case, it truly is, and his hands are all over not just my contribution, but many others in this show, as well as in the exhibition’s foundation itself. But in the end: care has been given in the highest order by my wife Rachel Spratt who has done what all new great mothers do and given life through tremendous exertion. We did not take a break after Masquerade, because it just immediately became Masquerade IRL. She has given to me, given to our daughter Syla, given to our tribe of Masks and Skulls, to this exhibition: everything. What is left after one gives all away, no matter how sweetly, can be a hollowing of self or, if met well before a break, a shedding of self. To sit in this beautiful room together, within an exhibition this magnificent, inside a building this rich with history and love of humanity, and have so much care be put in to match hers by this network around us on and offline, I got to sit in pride because I knew this very real moment for me, that began so alone and has become quite collective, would simply, unequivocally, never even come close to existing without her. So much of my life has been defined by solitude. I was not expecting having my work presented like this to move me so much. I thought it would be more of a feather in the cap or rather beautiful box to check. But it isn't that at all. It's connection to others. I fell in love with the artists' work that sits alongside my own. I saw Dmitri Cherniak's Ringers I’ve seen a thousand times, but saw them again in a way my daughter could visualize her own curiosity about the world—decisions in how these were shared served a higher purpose: to communicate. I saw Casey REAS as someone not just as a pioneer, but as someone more real—who, like my wife, cut part of himself out and set it aside to see what others could create. I saw Operator not as slick performers of the code, but as arbiters of freedom. I saw invitations to see the humanity in code in dozens of directions, and gratitude to sit even close to any of it. Talent. Sweat. Blood. Skin in the game. The artists pushed. The fabricators pushed. The docents pushed. Not one of us is like the other and no template was ever to be made to try to force otherwise. On September 12th, I will be inviting every holder of Luci: Masks, Players, Council, to come out to a small town in Ohio and leave a bit of themselves behind and get a very deep look into the world I am trying to build in the process. More on that very soon, but should you be able to come, know that there is much to care about beyond what I’ve built within this exhibition—and I hope you will fall in love with the rest of these infinite worlds as I have. We all know we aren't supposed to touch the paintings in a museum. But my daughter Syla touched the illuminated lightbox of Masquerade that she unknowingly stars in at the center of, and I smiled. Because she's not touching a world of divine objects susceptible to fingerprints and pretense; she's touching a display. A front‑end stand‑in representation for the network of humanity underneath. A place where light, code, instructions, a design that rhymes across all things has formed a very unlikely but very real gathering of strangers over the last few years to create together. I feel lucky for her to grow up surrounded by people who create and who care.

Sam Spratt

49,081 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

What if you could visualise how electricity flows from a wind farm in Scotland to your home in London? Ok it's not quite that simple, but it got me thinking that there must be a way of visualising the complexity of the electricity transmission grid in Great Britain. This is my first attempt… What you're seeing are the real power lines and substations on the transmission grid using OpenStreetMap data. The real connections between each substation are found using PyPSA-Eur as well as calculating the "electrical distance" or impedance between each substation. This is my incredibly basic and naive way of attempting to show the "speed" at which the energy is moving through the network, where the bottlenecks are, etc. I know it's not as simple as this, but it's a first attempt so… 😉 I've also added a way to pick any substation in the network and show how electricity pulses through the rest of the network from that point. This is the magic sauce that really brings to life how much infrastructure electricity has to pass through to get from point A to point B. Of course this isn't really what happens, and there's no demand to soak up the energy. However I think it still serves as an interesting visual of how complex the network actually is and the distances involved to get energy from one side of the country to the other. What do you think? Is this worth exploring further?

What if you could visualise how electricity flows from a wind farm in Scotland to your home in London? Ok it's not quite that simple, but it got me thinking that there must be a way of visualising the complexity of the electricity transmission grid in Great Britain. This is my first attempt… What you're seeing are the real power lines and substations on the transmission grid using OpenStreetMap data. The real connections between each substation are found using PyPSA-Eur as well as calculating the "electrical distance" or impedance between each substation. This is my incredibly basic and naive way of attempting to show the "speed" at which the energy is moving through the network, where the bottlenecks are, etc. I know it's not as simple as this, but it's a first attempt so… 😉 I've also added a way to pick any substation in the network and show how electricity pulses through the rest of the network from that point. This is the magic sauce that really brings to life how much infrastructure electricity has to pass through to get from point A to point B. Of course this isn't really what happens, and there's no demand to soak up the energy. However I think it still serves as an interesting visual of how complex the network actually is and the distances involved to get energy from one side of the country to the other. What do you think? Is this worth exploring further?

Robin Hawkes

144,511 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

One of my favorite upgrades to Claude Cowork right now: Projects Here's the problem it solves: By default, every new thread starts blank Claude has no memory of what you were working on, what other threads figured out, or what your instructions were So you'd re-explain yourself at the start of every session Or your agents would overlap, contradict each other, or miss context that another thread already had If you've been following my Cowork setup guides, you've already solved part of this — local files and a CLAUDE.md get you most of the way there Projects takes it the rest of the way Shared memory across every thread in the project Permanent instructions that apply everywhere — set once, always on Scheduled tasks that prep your work before you open the app One project HQ to launch every agent from The day-one prompt I paste into every new project: "I just created this project. Read every file in the folder. Then summarize what you know about this workspace — what's here, what I probably use it for, and what instructions you'll follow. If anything is unclear, ask me some questions." Run that once and Claude builds its own understanding of your project workspace from scratch Full video with my live build, including my 4 tips for getting Projects right, and where projects still lack. Send to someone whose ready to Do More with AI, or bookmark to implement this weekend!

One of my favorite upgrades to Claude Cowork right now: Projects Here's the problem it solves: By default, every new thread starts blank Claude has no memory of what you were working on, what other threads figured out, or what your instructions were So you'd re-explain yourself at the start of every session Or your agents would overlap, contradict each other, or miss context that another thread already had If you've been following my Cowork setup guides, you've already solved part of this — local files and a CLAUDE.md get you most of the way there Projects takes it the rest of the way Shared memory across every thread in the project Permanent instructions that apply everywhere — set once, always on Scheduled tasks that prep your work before you open the app One project HQ to launch every agent from The day-one prompt I paste into every new project: "I just created this project. Read every file in the folder. Then summarize what you know about this workspace — what's here, what I probably use it for, and what instructions you'll follow. If anything is unclear, ask me some questions." Run that once and Claude builds its own understanding of your project workspace from scratch Full video with my live build, including my 4 tips for getting Projects right, and where projects still lack. Send to someone whose ready to Do More with AI, or bookmark to implement this weekend!

JJ Englert

29,809 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

FTC documents show Pepsi is price fixing The FTC looked at internal emails with Pepsi and Walmart, they found they act as one company and Pepsi even takes action against grocery stores and other chains like Target if they price Pepsi as cheaply as Walmart does “The FTC looked at a bunch of internal Pepsi emails and communications. The executives at Pepsi would talk about Walmart's prices as our prices. As if this is, this is all one big company — Big rivals like Target, small mom and pop shops, regional chains, everywhere it could keep an eye on it, it did. And where it found that Pepsi prices in those other stores were getting low enough to really compete with Walmart, with all of the discounts and all of the other things that it was giving Walmart, it took action against those other stores. What does that look like? It reduced their deals, it reduced the discounts they were giving these other retailers. It even increased their wholesale prices, started to kind of ratchet it up more and more every year so that the price of Pepsi products at every other store that wasn't a Walmart were artificially higher for the consumer than they would have been if there was actual competition between Walmart and these stores. These stores wanted to push the prices down, but Pepsi simply wouldn't let them by charging them more” This is price fixing and illegal

FTC documents show Pepsi is price fixing The FTC looked at internal emails with Pepsi and Walmart, they found they act as one company and Pepsi even takes action against grocery stores and other chains like Target if they price Pepsi as cheaply as Walmart does “The FTC looked at a bunch of internal Pepsi emails and communications. The executives at Pepsi would talk about Walmart's prices as our prices. As if this is, this is all one big company — Big rivals like Target, small mom and pop shops, regional chains, everywhere it could keep an eye on it, it did. And where it found that Pepsi prices in those other stores were getting low enough to really compete with Walmart, with all of the discounts and all of the other things that it was giving Walmart, it took action against those other stores. What does that look like? It reduced their deals, it reduced the discounts they were giving these other retailers. It even increased their wholesale prices, started to kind of ratchet it up more and more every year so that the price of Pepsi products at every other store that wasn't a Walmart were artificially higher for the consumer than they would have been if there was actual competition between Walmart and these stores. These stores wanted to push the prices down, but Pepsi simply wouldn't let them by charging them more” This is price fixing and illegal

Wall Street Apes

98,740 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten

Every December, when harmattan settles like a quiet blessing on the red earth, Igbo sons and daughters rise from every corner of the world and begin the journey home. From cities with tall glass towers, from villages wrapped in memories, from faraway lands where their tongues have learned new rhythms, they all return to the soil that first knew their footsteps. The roads tremble with laughter and headlights, and the air fills with the ancient pulse of Ogene, calling each traveler by name, reminding them that no matter how far they have wandered, Ala Igbo still keeps their stories. In the compounds of their forefathers, the Oja Ike sings like a spirit in motion, its notes rising and falling like a bird escorting a people home. It carries the breath of the ancestors, weaving the living and the departed into one long, unbroken lineage. Under the udala tree, umunna gather, men and women from many works of life, returning as bankers, traders, filmmakers, students, craftsmen, nurses, and dreamers, but sitting as brothers and sisters first. Palm wine flows gently, greeting palms meet in warmth, and conversations stretch into the night, glowing with the fire of memory and belonging. This is mmekorita Nwanne in its purest form, where hearts beat in one rhythm, where quarrels dissolve like fog, and where the spirit of community rises taller than every title and achievement. And when the New Year enters with moonlight on its forehead, the living stand side by side with their ancestors. They step into the future with prayers whispered in both worlds, feet on the red earth, spirits lifted to the sky. Thus the Igbo begin again, reborn through homecoming, renewed through family, and carried forward by the eternal dance of Ogene, Oja Ike, umunna, and the sacred mmekorita Nwanne. K’am juụa gi, Nwanne, ị ga anatakwa December?

Every December, when harmattan settles like a quiet blessing on the red earth, Igbo sons and daughters rise from every corner of the world and begin the journey home. From cities with tall glass towers, from villages wrapped in memories, from faraway lands where their tongues have learned new rhythms, they all return to the soil that first knew their footsteps. The roads tremble with laughter and headlights, and the air fills with the ancient pulse of Ogene, calling each traveler by name, reminding them that no matter how far they have wandered, Ala Igbo still keeps their stories. In the compounds of their forefathers, the Oja Ike sings like a spirit in motion, its notes rising and falling like a bird escorting a people home. It carries the breath of the ancestors, weaving the living and the departed into one long, unbroken lineage. Under the udala tree, umunna gather, men and women from many works of life, returning as bankers, traders, filmmakers, students, craftsmen, nurses, and dreamers, but sitting as brothers and sisters first. Palm wine flows gently, greeting palms meet in warmth, and conversations stretch into the night, glowing with the fire of memory and belonging. This is mmekorita Nwanne in its purest form, where hearts beat in one rhythm, where quarrels dissolve like fog, and where the spirit of community rises taller than every title and achievement. And when the New Year enters with moonlight on its forehead, the living stand side by side with their ancestors. They step into the future with prayers whispered in both worlds, feet on the red earth, spirits lifted to the sky. Thus the Igbo begin again, reborn through homecoming, renewed through family, and carried forward by the eternal dance of Ogene, Oja Ike, umunna, and the sacred mmekorita Nwanne. K’am juụa gi, Nwanne, ị ga anatakwa December?

The General Snow 🇨🇮

15,832 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten