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Born too late? Every age had its moment. This one is ours. An Art Deco retro-futurist music video.
I spent weeks training Grok Bot and ran several rounds of video generations, and eventually it was doing 90%+ of the work. I came up with the idea and reviewed every cut. @grok
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Fable 5.5 might actually be close to solving animation
This entire video was made purely in code
Every single frame was produced using JS + Python
19 hours and multiple teams of agents working around the clock
No video or image models used.
Made with @claudeai
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Tom Hiddleston says happiness is overrated and spending your life chasing it can actually make you unhappy
"Happiness is overrated. Meaning is underrated. Happiness is like a sunrise or a sunset. Bear with me"
"You're there. It's lovely. You're present with it. The sun's rising or the sun is setting. It's perfect. After 15 minutes, the moment is over and it's gone. Trying to sustain it is impossible because it's over"
"And a life spent chasing the permanence of that feeling will make you unhappy because you can't hold on to it. The moment you try to hold on to it, it slips through your fingers and is lost"
"Meaning is a structure that only you create in your own life, an architecture with your own particular spiritual fingerprint, whereby if you're going through a hard time, if you're going through challenge, struggle, obstacles, suffering or pain, only you know why you're going through it"
"You might know, this is hard now. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my mom. I'm doing it for my future"
"And then it makes enduring the hard times bearable because you know what it means"
"And meaning - this is the take - meaning yields joy. Joy is deeper than happiness"
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Fuck everyone. Put yourself first.
Read more. Move more. Get stronger. Run farther. Lift heavier. Eat better. Take care of your body. Invest in your appearance. Develop hobbies that make you lose track of time. Learn things that challenge your mind. Dress well, even when there’s nowhere to go. Keep your space beautiful. Discover new cafés. Take yourself on dates. See the world. Enjoy your own company.
Stay away from people’s bullshit.
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Your friend us not wrong... Learjets are dangerous. 5 out of every 1,000 built had crashed.
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There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.
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Looseleaf is my open source React component library. It looks like hand-drawn UI on notebook paper
kevintngo.github.io/looselea…
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Over the past 10 days, I became the digital Nick Shirley.
Using public & private records my AI agent swarm found ~$787 million in government billing that made absolutely no sense.
Thread 🧵
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Game theory shows that the easiest method to avoid betrayal is simply to punish it. It sounds easy because it is. Yet, most people are still too scared to follow through on their promises. And every time you let defection go unpunished, you lower the perceived cost of betrayal. You actively train those surrounding you to betray you, so don't act surprised when they do.
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私は中国人です。日本の皆さんに、どうしても聞きたいことがあります。
日本の歴史教科書では、中国への侵略戦争について、いったいどのように教えられているのでしょうか？
1937年の南京大虐殺。中国側は約30万人が犠牲になったとしています。
731部隊は中国人などを生きたまま実験台にし、ペスト菌への感染実験、凍傷実験、生体解剖まで行いました。平房の実験施設では、約3000人が犠牲になったと推定されています。
さらに、38,935人の中国人労働者が日本へ連れてこられ、そのうち6,830人が亡くなりました。
これは単なる戦争ではありません。虐殺であり、人体実験であり、重大な戦争犯罪です。
一人の人間を、生きたまま実験材料として扱う。いったいどこまで残酷になれば、そんなことができるのでしょうか？
一方で、私が普段目にする日本人の姿はまったく違います。
礼儀正しく、秩序を守り、ワールドカップの試合後にはスタジアムのゴミまで片付ける。
世界中からマナーが良いと称賛されています。
それは私も素晴らしいと思います。
だからこそ、聞きたいんです。
皆さんは、かつて日本軍が中国で行ったことを、どう考えているのでしょうか？
学校で731部隊について詳しく習いましたか？
南京で何が起きたのか、きちんと教わりましたか？
「武士道」を持ち出して戦争を美化する人にも聞きたいです。
民間人を虐殺し、生きた人間を実験台にすることの、どこに誇りがあるのでしょうか？
そして、中国人はもう過去の恨みを捨てるべきだ、という日本人の意見も見かけます。
でも、なぜですか？
亡くなった人たちは、それに同意したのでしょうか？
犠牲になった人たちに代わって、いったい誰が「許す」と決められるのでしょうか？
私は、今の日本人一人ひとりが先祖の罪を背負うべきだとは思いません。
でも、歴史的な事実を知りながら否定し、正当化し、被害者を嘲笑するのであれば、その人が語る「文明」や「礼儀」とは何なのでしょうか？
スタジアムのゴミを拾うことは立派です。でも、歴史の事実を認めることは、それ以上に基本的なことではないでしょうか？
日本の普通の皆さんの本音を聞きたいです。
教科書には、実際に何と書かれていましたか？
南京大虐殺や731部隊の行為を、歴史的事実として認めていますか？
それとも、こうした歴史をほとんど知らない若い日本人も多いのでしょうか？
ぜひ率直な意見を聞かせてください。
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These Ring videos of certain demographics raiding candy bowls on Halloween bring me back to what I like to call the Farm Stand Theory and which I think has been coined elsewhere as the Farm Stand Test.
Most of the neighborhoods I’ve lived in have had a house with an unmanned farm stand. You take fresh produce or eggs and leave the money in a box. It runs entirely on the honor system.
If you are moving and looking for a new community, find one that has a farm stand. The farm stand immediately tells you that the community is safe, neighborly, and high trust. The farm stand reveals more than any other single observable factor ever could. Even if you never use the farm stand, you can rest easy knowing it’s there.
If your neighborhood not only doesn’t have a farm stand but *couldn’t* have one, even in theory, that means you live in a shit hole. It means you can’t even trust the people around you to be minimally civilized and decent.
People who live in the city like to brag about the nice restaurants and stores nearby. But the vast majority of neighborhoods in the vast majority of cities couldn’t sustain a farm stand for even a day. It would be looted and wiped out within about 45 minutes. That makes them shit holes. I don’t care how expensive the houses are or how many restaurants you have nearby. You’re surrounded by dishonorable, deceitful thieves. You live in a dump, I’m sorry to tell you.
But the uncomfortable (for some people, not me) fact about the farm stand is that it also tells you something else: if you have an unmanned farm stand, your community is probably overwhelmingly white. It could also have an Asian population and sustain a farm stand just fine. But that’s about the extent of the “diversity” you’re likely to find if you’re trying to live in a Farm Stand Eligible location, which you should be.
A neighborhood could be wealthy or middle class or lower income and have a farm stand. The farm stand doesn’t tell you much about the average tax bracket of a community. It does tell you something about its demographics. Feel however you want about that fact. But it is a fact.
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Anthropic is digging in at South Lake Union.
113,000 sq ft at Dexter Yard North in July. 50,000 more in October.
An 11-year lease with an option to buy the building.
Not a company testing Seattle. A company staying.
Every one of those desks is someone deciding where to live.
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today's nyc marathon winner:
- first marathon ever
- coaches himself
- won it in 2:06
- "never felt better at the end of a race"
- studied math, was a data scientist until last year
rare non-Kenyan winner too,
what a legend! 🇸🇪 – at Brooklyn, NY
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An influencer is incentivized by attention, so their content must be optimized to be consumed and forgotten (cheap dopamine).
A personal brand is incentivized by money, so their content must be optimized to move you down their sales funnel.
An artisan is incentivized by the satisfaction that comes from the quality of their work. They need attention and money, but for the sole purpose of spending more time on work they enjoy and the impact it has.
Become an artisan.
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What Do the Boomers Really Believe?
Not what they say at dinner. What they believe in the dark, deep in the soul, where a generation keeps the story it tells about itself.
Every civilization has a sacred text. The Greeks had Homer. The Hebrews had Exodus. The boomers have Star Wars. Laugh if you like. They didn't. They lined up around the block for it, raised their children on it, and paid to hear it retold for fifty years. Because it was about them.
In their youth, they saw themselves as rebels. A handful of brave young idealists against an evil empire whose uniforms their fathers wore. So they rose up, blew it to pieces, and danced in the forest while it burned.
But ask yourself one question. How oppressive was that order, really? The one that won WW2, built the suburbs, sent them to university for next to nothing, and handed them the richest society in human history? Watch the films again. The Empire never governs. It never builds a road or collects a tax. It just wears a costume borrowed from 1945. They never asked what it actually did. They only needed it to be evil.
Then they grew older, and the story changed. Now they were the Jedi. Wise masters in robes, keepers of the peace, guardians of the temple and the ancient ways. An order with total power over the Republic, answerable to no one, testing blood, taking children, deciding who rises and who waits.
And yet something is wrong in the temple. Their powers are fading, and they know it. They hide it from the Senate. They turn away the most gifted boy they have ever seen. Why? Because they can feel it coming. The usurper. A young man who will do to them exactly what they did to their fathers.
That's the boomer soul. Rebel in youth. Priest in old age. Terrified, always, of the next rebellion. And George Lucas put every bit of it on screen.
Which leaves us something remarkable: a lexicon. A map of a generation's mind, drawn by its own hand. Through Star Wars we can walk the corridors of boomer consciousness and see what they worship, what they hide, and what keeps them awake at night.
Which brings us to the prophecy. For a thousand years the Jedi guarded it. A Chosen One will come and bring balance to the Force. They were sure it meant their victory. It didn't.
So what did it mean? Who was it really about? Why did the wise masters never see it coming? Or did they? And if Lucas wrote a generation's deepest fear into its own sacred text, what else did he write down without knowing?
The boy is still standing in the middle of the Council. He has waited long enough.
So have you.
Come with me, and I'll show you the Sith pill.
(Link in the next post)
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Le preguntaron a Bukele en Argentina cómo sacaron a los jóvenes del modelo del narco: la casa grande, el coche caro el smartphone… cuando trabajar honesto tarda años. Su respuesta duele porque es verdad
"El gobierno llega tarde si espera reinsertar al que ya violó, ya mató y ya cortó cabezas. A un niño de 6 u 8 años sí se le puede cambiar la vida. Al que ya eligió el mal... el joven que vende tomates en el mercado, suda, carga, gana $5… y en la esquina el pandillero se los quita. ¿Qué incentivo gana? ¿Vender tomates o ser el que cobra? Por eso nunca se gana la guerra de incentivos si el criminal sigue en la calle.
Porque el Estado no puede pagarle triple salario mínimo para que deje el crimen. Eso no es gobierno, sino ingenuidad cara. Un organismo me dijo: «no puedes acabar el crimen de un golpe, son 70 mil empleos, esa plata llega a los hogares y se gasta legal». Lo que ellos insinuaban era que dejara vivir al cáncer para no lastimar la economía. Bukele les respondió con otra analogía: si tengo cáncer con metástasis y me ofrecen cirugía, quimio y quedar débil… pero vivo, me opero. No me quedo así nomás esperando que el tumor sea educado."
Le dijeron que el PIB podía caer hasta 10% por sacar esa economía sucia. No cayó. Subió. Porque el miedo también es un impuesto. Y ese sí lo pagábamos todos los días. Sacaron al pandillero de la ecuación y no sólo para castigarlo, sino para que el muchacho que todavía no entra en ese mundo vea otro menú. Ya no es: «me hago pandillero y gano». Ahora es: «me hago pandillero y pierdo mi libertad». Eso no es odio, es orden. Es proteger a la familia que sí trabaja, a la que manda la remesa, a la que nunca tuvo casa grande porque no cobraba renta de sangre. 30 años de discursos. 7 años de resultados. El resto es teoría para intelectuales.
Tal vez necesitamos un Bukele en España. Y en el mundo.
