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Walked >23km today in Singapore for fun. One thing that struck me (even as a Singaporean) was just how sheltered walkways are almost everywhere. This led me to read this Rice Media article published in 2020 that took me along a longish ride down architecture history: https://www.ricemedia.co/culture-life-one-roof-covered-walkway-conquered-singapore/ Quite interesting imo.

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Media literacy in the 21st century means the difference between: "Your attention is the product" vs. attention-as-agency LLM-induced psychosis vs. LLM-proof cogsec Submerged in simulacra vs. swimming with simulations

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TACO TUESDAYS Taco filled with lengua (meat from a cow’s tongue). 📍: Tacos El Franc, Tijuana 🇲🇽

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #577 in the Prismatic style by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo taken at San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico, June 2024.

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LATENT TRAVELS I had some withdrawal symptoms after travelling in Latin America for a year, so I had a noxious brain fart to get AI to recommend travel routes for me, with a small twist. I didn't want the AI model (Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro in this case) to just recommend me a single route. I wanted more expansive outputs. So I got the AI to first simulate 10 traveller personas, and then recommend specific travel routes for each of them. This simple exercise took me all of 10 minutes, but on further reflection, I thought it was a potent gesture, representing a different kind of "context engineering". Instead of using AI to “one shot” answers and completed work, we could actually harness AI as a “multi-shot”—a tool not to narrow down our thought processes, but rather to open us up to new cognitive trajectories. More thoughts on my blog: https://mirror.xyz/buffets.eth/VZVPFHtVBsKSLR59TpFPHarM9hyz75XOvlFpFkd4kzc

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It seems like I can't load my Mirror sites at the moment. Got a 504 gateway timeout error.

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TACO TUESDAYS A classic "carne asada" taco, filled with slices of grilled beef steak. 📍: Tacos El Franc in Tijuana 🇲🇽

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #111 with the Oasis palette by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo of the lush and lovely town of Jardín in Colombia, October 2024.

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I believe engaging seriously with crypto helps to build our digital literacy. More thoughts in my latest blog post on how crypto is a practical hands-on crash course to navigate our increasingly high-stakes digital world today: https://mirror.xyz/buffets.eth/sQ3s9CKCjLKxK3PK7tcjgkgu72l2_8DxZ3gihwj3L5g

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TACO TUESDAYS A "cabeza" taco, filled with meat from a cow’s head. 📍 Tacos El Franc in Tijuana 🇲🇽

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #447 with the Peninsula palette by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo taken in November 2024 at Pikillaqta, an archaeological site in southern Peru that was once the village for the Wari people from around 550 to 1100 AD.

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Crypto has been the most important factor in developing my digital literacy

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TACO TUESDAYS Taco filled with suadero (named after the cut of beef taken from the area between the lower flank and sirloin). 📍 Tacos El Franc, Tijuana 🇲🇽

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #713 with the Marsh palette by @mattdesl on @artblocks in the collection of @jdh Right: My photo of the town of Iruya in Salta Province, Argentina, February 2025.

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LEARNING TO SEE 🖼️: First #4191 (2021) by @deafbeef 👀: This work probes our collective enchantment at the notion of being first. It frames firstness not as a source of authority and status, but as fictive constructs that can be parodied and lampooned. In doing so, it serves not only as an incisive commentary on the mania surrounding NFTs in 2021, but also a humbling reminder of how fuckable we continue to be—prodding on to materialise some of its fictive firsts today, even though they have long putrefied beyond recognition, rotting into an irredeemable inconsequence.

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TACO TUESDAYS Taco gobernador: a type of taco made with shrimps and cheese, originating from Sinoloa state in Mexico. 📍 Mariscos Titos, Tijuana 🇲🇽

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #963 in the Prismatic style by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo taken at Naqsh-e Jahan Square, Isfahan, Iran, October 2014

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We should think of AI not as a tool, but something more akin to a medium, in the same way that say speaking or writing is a medium—a foundational conduit for thinking, for communicating our thinking, and for engaging with the thinking of others. The range of imaginative possibilities of what we can do with this technology then expands dramatically. One example is offered in this Big Think essay by the science fiction author Ken Liu. With AI, we can "play with captured subjectivities" like no other medium before, as Ken demonstrates through using AI to translate a classical Chinese poem in a multitude of ways. https://bigthink.com/high-culture/ken-liu-ai-art/

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LEARNING TO SEE 🖼️: Receipt 0.1337 ETH (2022) by @0xhaiku in the collection of wilt.eth after a record 30 transfers 👀: This work elevates one of the most fundamental actions a user can perform on the blockchain—the act of transfer—and immortalises it on a digital representation of a receipt. It made me appreciate how art on the blockchain can manifest in what was to me then an entirely novel dimension: where the canvas is a network, and the brushstrokes placed upon it are our actions on that very network.

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Just watched this excellent keynote about how AI is reshaping software by Andrej Karpathy. I’m by no means a software engineer, but I've extrapolated some broader takeaways from it that can be generalised for anyone simply interacting with software, i.e. people like you and me: ⬇️ https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1935496106957488566

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