moonset is my favorite celestial happening, you can see it around sunrise the morning after every full moon

As of today, Glow has deployed $6.50 of solar for every $1 of market cap. Helping the planet can be as simple as holding the right token.

my love language is receiving detailed copy edits on drafts of my unpublished writing

I swear to god I can fix San Francisco if someone gives me roughly 700k

saying that ai is certainly not at all conscious is the 2026 version of saying that god certainly doesn’t exist. tough to define terms, can’t really prove it, and reality would be sadder and blander if you could

understanding the first hour of the day is self hypnosis for the rest of the day

I scroll the the timeline casting divine protection spells for the women if I see any weirdness in their replies I chant "you're too hot for this, be free"

lots of cute swallows swooping around the bridge today

for anyone else who is still stuck on "the body is just a very complex machine", I recommend this essay by philip ball people who continue to say this either don't know what they're talking about, or they use the word "machine" in such a broad sense that it's vacuous

panpsychism gonna hit the zeitgeist like juul in the 2010s

More fashion x computer hardware inspiration: Alexander McQueen’s 1999 motherboard collection for Givenchy

If you’re into predictive processing and meditation, this paper pushes the Overton window. From the quantum formulation of the free-energy principle, we show that an agent cannot define its own boundary from within. The realization of this irreducible indeterminacy is a principled definition of awakening. Ultimately, this extends to the separability of any object in experience, formalizing emptiness and engendering a “post-dual agent”. Any persisting agent must minimize surprise by gathering evidence for its generative model. But all evidence available to the agent arrives through its boundary with the world. To prove that this boundary really separates “self” from “world”, the agent would need to step outside the boundary and measure the whole self-world relation. A finite agent cannot do this, as a scissor can't cut itself. So the self-world boundary can be useful, predictive, and necessary for action, but it can never be known as an ontological fact from within. Meditation, on this view, progressively reveals the self-world split as a modelling prior rather than a structural feature of reality. This naturally shifts the weighting of self (inside boundary) and other (outside boundary), since both are seen to be inferences rather than grounded realities by virtue of an indefinable boundary. A more even-handed and compassionate orientation can arise. A highly principled finger pointing at the moon!

when I make billions of dollars there will be literal signs (all of the billboards in SF will be changed to photos of nature)

It’s criminal that no one has put artwork on any of the billboards surrounding SF, it’s bad tech jargon all the way down. it could be so beautiful

what if AI ads in SF were more like this and less enterprise?

listening to the audio transcription of Pope Leo’s Magnifica Humanitas while watching the sail boats drift by the wildflowers in lands end. life is so good, the future will be so beautiful.

the pope's embrace of claude part of a proud long history in which local pagan deities are slowly transmogified into holidays, in this essay i will

narrative is one of the most important parts of ambitious technology beyond “comms” and “marketing”, these are the metaphors, frames, and myths that let people understand what is being built before it fully exists