History may never see an alcoholic more functional than Winston Churchill.

Pass on to any burners you know

AI is Uber for Googling.

Best merch I have ever made

Careful out there everyone.

Models increasingly operate as filters in our daily lives. If a critical detail is missed by them, that's a lost opportunity for you. Let’s localizing for models, just as we do for humans. Models are the highest leverage readers rn. friction.observer/writing-for-...

This was great. Can’t wait to read the book.

Did anything interesting happen today?

Language compresses thoughts into a lossy format, like blurry images.

Unword of the Day: brain, from the arbiglish dialect This word also means something in English, but it's unclear yet what it means in arbiglish and whether it shares any etymology with its arbiglish equivalent. highlight.xyz/mint/659a72b...

Unword of the Day: tirste, of the optiglish language A downright nasty utterance with a pleasantness score of 0.4822808860735412 — putting directly into vulgar territory. And a fittingly monotone 3-note melody sung in many agents by a robotic voice. highlight.xyz/mint/659a71c...

Unword of the Day: thoont From the baglish dialect, thoont is a beautiful word with a quite high pleasantness score of 1.7225302251916133 and a gorgeous 8 note vocal melody. highlight.xyz/mint/659a722...

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It was another exciting week in Fissionland! We announced we're organizing an IPFS community event in Istanbul supported by Protocol Labs, and we launched a new Web3 funding primitive called Fund Ring! https://fission.codes/blog/fission-fridays-august-18th-2023/

This will be an excellent event.

Sure is crazy out there.

What do BlackRock and Bitcoin have in common? They are both reliant on stateless accumulators.

"Help me, help you. Help ME, help YOU." - Jerry Maguire

The economy is like a horse: if you feed it peanut butter it’ll look like it’s talkin’.

Everybody sick of thread yet? They do have GIF support though.

This place just got much cooler over the past 7 days.

Just thinking out loud, here.

Join us tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at 8am PST to chew on the UX of authz and permissions in a decentralized, eventually consistent world.

I like my inflation like I like my milk: way higher than 2%.

On one hand I like the name "Blue Sky" - the only problem is the abbreviation BS ;-)

Only designers are qualified to solve the problems with blockchains and AI, because we know the most about transparency and alignment.

I just need an LLM that can write an endless generative version of Symphonies of the Planets in ChucK that I can seed with long passages of text. Is that too much to ask?

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