Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.

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Jun 11
. @genmon Galactic Compass. (V1)
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No babe I love your stated preferences the revealed ones scare me
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may the fifteenth be with you
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Heaven is a place on earth and it’s called Marin County
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Path to Petawatts is Mass drivers on Moon
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those who litter in waymos will not see the gates of heaven
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The marina is literally underwater rn
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Holy shit this slaps San Francisco 2035:
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"limit your kid's screen time" is correct advice today, but people are confused about why it's correct, and that matters because the reason has an expiration date. the issue with ipad kids was never too much screen time in some vague moral sense, but that the software on the other side of the glass is essentially a superstimulus engine running a curriculum in learned helplessness. bright colors, zero latency rewards, infinite novelty, no boredom, no friction, and no consequence. you poke the most interesting square and something happens immediately. if the world worked that way, it'd be fine, but the world is almost entirely delayed gratification, ambiguous feedback, physical constraint, and needing to sit with uncertainty long enough to actually figure something out. so you're training a kid on an environment that is aggressively uncorrelated with the one they'll have to function in. it's a distribution mismatch problem. this means the winning parenting heuristic isn't "less screen time," but "don't let your kid marinate in a training environment optimized for engagement extraction when they should be building a world model." screens just happen to be a horrible training environment. but that's contingent and doesn't have to stay true. consider an AI that actually knows your kid, not in a creepy ad-targeting way, but in a way an aristocratic tutor knows their pupil. it follows them since birth, and maybe it remembers what confused them in march and checks whether they've resolved it by june. it notices when they're pattern matching instead of reasoning and calls them out on it. it asks hard questions at the right time, not to test them, but because it has a genuine model of what they're ready to think about next, and critically, it keeps routing them back to real world problems instead of substituting for them. this probably starts life as a stuffed animal, but the same entity transfers across form factors as the kid ages. the plush rabbit becomes a voice in their earbuds. he memory and the relationship are continuous. the interface changes, but it's one long developmental arc, not a series of disconnected apps. the thing that made ipad kids a cautionary tale was that the optimization target was retention. a sufficiently good AI tutor could optimize for what actually matters, like reflection, causal reasoning, metacognition, and tolerance for confusion, using the kid's actual life as curriculum instead of some frictionless cartoon sandbox. basically, the principle I'd actually endorse isn't "minimize screens." it's closer to "choose the training environment that best teaches your kid to think, pay attention, and update on evidence." right now that means less screen time, but in maybe two-five years the correct parenting move might be something nobody is emotionally prepared to hear, which is, your kid should probably be raised in part by an aristocratic tutor with perfect recall and great priors who happens to live inside a stuffed rabbit.
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I'm claiming my AI agent "OpenClawSco" on @moltbook 🦞 Verification: drift-PBF8
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16 Oct 2025
Multitude, Diversity, Quantity, Exuberance. Rarity, Purity, Quality, Chastity.
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8 Oct 2025
Ways to authentically rebel in 2026: 1. Be ruthlessly optimistic 2. Refuse to trivialize romance 3. Sacrifice for what you believe in 4. Forgive your family 5. Optimize for meaning, not optionality 6. Don't do drugs 7. Don't fuck people you don't deeply trust
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7 Oct 2025
“sorry for trauma dumping” bro i literally love and care for you? it’s an honour to learn about the complex and subtle ways that life has shaped you? i hope to be your trusted friend and confidant for the rest of my days?
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By March 2005, I'd already spent years trying to figure out how a solar array could track the Sun without the use of slip rings, while attached to a spinning space tether. Very late one rainy night the answer came into my mind all at once, and it reminded me of a fan dancer.
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There is, in fact, virtually nothing that you need to be maxxing.
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This was an impressive event -- incredible energy and optimism, and some really cool projects and founders (my favorite: @pamir_ai) x.com/fdotinc/status/1950250…

29 Jul 2025
announcing the Off Season Festival a celebration of young founders & what they've built
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Mark Zuckerberg on spinning off Instagram, Facebook's strategy tax, antitrust regulation, brand erosion, and network collapse May 3, 2018
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if you’re depressed, or even if you’re not, you need to be adventure-maxxing go fall in love. build her a boat. buy raw leather and make her a purse. dedicate your time not to consumption, but the mastery of a skill in honor of a loved one. build a kit car for your grandfather. buy a guitar for your father. give great gifts to those who have given so much to you. deploy your capital aggressively. take risk. love risk. love yourself. love others. be outrageously generous. pay off your ex’s student loans. donate to every group that’s ever taken you to dinner. radiate adventure
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