Before Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, we had NASA's Virtual Interface Environment Workstation (VIEW)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=24ux... Happy Friday!

"Venture is dead." I've heard this same prediction in every tech wave Web 1.0, crypto, and now AI. The argument is AI's capital efficiency makes VC obsolete. I believe the opposite. AI won't just save venture; it will restore value to the entire startup economy. trueventures.com/blog/the-tra...

The next decade of enterprise AI is being defined now. Meet the people building it. Sept 10 in SF: Connected Stack. Hear from founders of 11x, Arcade, Baseten, Chronosphereio, Cresta, Decagon, Deeptrust, Exa, @joinhandshake.bsky.social, @letta.com, Nectar, Nooks @semgrep.com, Veza—and more to come.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Automattic turns 20 this month! 🎂We’re celebrating with a look at some of the stats behind our story. First up: @wordpress.org powers 43% of all websites on the internet. Nearly half of the web!

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Fantastic piece by @whittledaway.bsky.social on rewilding. Nothing else represents such sheer, distilled hope at a time when that can be in very short supply, and it's our primary weapon against nature loss in highly depleted places like Ireland.

I want to thank the Giants community for making mailbags such fun articles to write www.mccoveychronicles.com/2025/1/13/24...

This piece -- melancholy and somehow a bit listless in an honest and important way? -- is beautifully written despite the understandably scattered thoughts. It's going to haunt me for a while. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-fires-...

The results are in from our September repair café: 46 repairs in total 😲. 31 fixed 🥳. 5 repairable & 6 still in repair 🛠️. 2 end of life 🪦. 2 mysteries 🕵🏻. We're back at Barry Library on Saturday 1st February - mark your calendars! #repaircafe #Wales #solarpunk

Great piece from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and a noteworthy example of Bluesky users noticing something stupid, posting about it a bunch, and driving a whole news cycle. I expect we're going to see a lot more of that this year ➡️ www.404media.co/metas-ai-pro...

It is impossible not to resort to cheesy cliches but this is just a soul-achingly breathtakingly beautiful night in the forest surrounded by a galaxy of fireflies, having what I can only assume is the most spectacular end of year orgy 😂 #gonechimping #budongoforest 🧪

Thx @ylecun.bsky.social! Keep up the spicy social media

I've finally picked up the first MurderBot book after orbiting around it for like two years - and I'm so mad I waited this long to read it!!! It's fantastic and I'm burning through it too quickly

Characters for OpenAI Realtime API are OUT! this is a showcase app of what you can build today on top of Realtime API. 🚀 App animation.inc/chat 📋 SDK Form animation.inc 💬 Discord discord.gg/CjEfU4HsjR

New paper! Wildlife crossings are a win-win, protecting motorists and increasing wildlife resilience to climate change by reducing mortality and reconnecting habitats. We review how crossings support adaptation and offer siting/design considerations to maximize benefits. ➡️ tinyurl.com/tt48caxk 🧪🌎

Just to dispel the notion that Substack is the cheapest option for smaller paid newsletters than I described in my first example: ($ amounts represent monthly cost)

Pumped to be sharing the Climate Compass report I’ve been working on alongside an incredible group of climate investors. We dive deep into everything from virtual power plants to AI-driven risk modeling. Read, skim, share below. www.climatecompassreport.com/report