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Shower Thoughts

Thinking about the paper Compressed to Zero where they found that sufficiently advanced Sybil protection blocks everyone but the Sybil farmers

No Channel Channel.

i want to do this but for bugs on farcaster web client

appreciation

today i appreciate:

1) mint: its subtle but refreshing flavor

2) ice: it makes any drink a nice relief in the heat

3) hot chocolate: especially in the winter time this drink always makes me feel like im a ancient Incan king (idk if chocolate is from peru/ecuador or not its just a vibe)

nocontextmemes

𝔩𝔞𝔪𝔟𝔠𝔥𝔬𝔭

the most expensive mistake is offering yourself at a discount

Nature

idk what these creatures are but i would get one (or 3+)  if i won the lottery

a data center but its in Antartica and is also a luxury hotel

a one day trip from south africa to antartica with the white desert tour group starts at $15995 per person

The Effects of Pharmaceutical Methamphetamine on a Girl Boss

It takes a second for your medication to hit.

You’re going to crush your meeting today. First, is there time for coffee? If you leave in the next two minutes then you can go to the place on Broome. No, that place always has a long line and the baristas talk too much; go to the place on Prince St. instead. Perfect. Walking down into the lobby of your building, you should stop and check your mailbox but no, no time, focus. You’re nervous about the meeting—no, you can’t admit that, you lose a little bit of respect for yourself each time. “You make yourself small when you look up to others.” That was either Buddha or Naval.

Walking outside, it’s the whole world. You nearly bump into a homeless Chinese woman pulling a giant cart of crushed cans. The air is tinged with hot garbage. A siren shrieks maybe one block away causing you to look around. It’s almost overwhelming. Holy shit, it's a beautiful day. This summer has been so bad, just wet and rainy, and now it’s hotter than it’s ever been and like it’s already hard enough living in New York City and it’s been a bit depressing if you’re being honest but there’s no other place you’d rather be; well, maybe a cabin in Connecticut or a retreat in Sedona or even just a girls’ weekend in Tahoe, unplugging, but other than that you’re happy being here. “It’s not about being happy, it’s about being productive.” That one was definitely Naval.

Four blocks from the coffee place, you double-check the flowers you ordered for the Chicks Can Program mixer tonight. This year’s CCP cohort was kind of a waste of time but it was nice to have a part of your life that was altruistically good, which is rare and worth the two hours a week, usually. The last Monday of every month was a catered mixer where you tried to introduce the girls to all kinds of culture and things in life they wouldn’t normally see. Most of those girls probably don’t even have a place they can get a boxed water and just vibe for an hour so you’re happy to give them that.

You get a text. Your meeting was moved up. Don’t panic. That’s fine; you can make it work. Besides, respond saying you should move the meeting to the Garden around the corner and you can show up looking very smart with your coffee.

But then, just one block from the coffee shop, within sight of the door and sign out front that always has a cute little message, you get an e-mail from the caterer cancelling. You’re stunned. You can’t walk. You dip inside of a Duane Reade to get your bearings. You knew you had a bad feeling about ordering Mexican. There’s no time to find a replacement. Write a long-worded response saying you understand—well it starts as understanding but you kind of let it morph into something between an embarrassing plea and a threat. Whatever, you can just order some pizzas.

Back outside, there’s a line for coffee as if things can’t get worse and there probably isn’t even one at the other place. Who are all of these people? Tourists and new transplants from the suburbs of Chicago; ugh, go home. You notice you’re sweating pretty intensely. That reminds you how last night you found a grey hair; and not just one but at least six. You went to ask Grok what to do and you saw a notification from a GP at a VC who has a son older than you asking about mentoring you and taking you to dinner. You still haven’t responded. If you do take the meeting, you won’t tell your boyfriend about it this time. You order a large black coffee and a blueberry muffin. The cashier tells you some number you don’t even hear and you nod and smile, incredibly calm, and tip the suggested 30% like you’re being held at gunpoint.

Walking to the Elizabeth Street Garden, you’re getting nervous and maybe it’s the approaching meeting that’s making your heart race in your chest, skipping beats so it can’t possibly go faster. It feels like you’re floating, above everything, so people walking past on the sidewalk are on some level below you, down with the grime.

The Garden, as the unforgiving humidity of the city comes alive, is the most beautiful place in all of Manhattan. A sign on the giant iron gate begs residents to SAVE THE GARDEN! with a QR code for anyone wanting more information. Just inside, a yoga class of white women in hijabs is in the midst of Child Pose, mats arranged too closely together across the grass. Giant empty clay pots are scattered around, wanting for any of the nearby flora. All around the corner from the best shopping in the world. This is Eden.  How dare they try and turn it into housing for the elderly.

There, always able to snag one of the coveted metal tables, your fate awaits you, smiling in the sweater you got him last Christmas, hair messy so it’s almost offensive to mom that he left the house looking this not put together. The muffin is for him and you hand it over, ready to let it run interference while you perform the pitch you’ve been rehearsing in the back of your mind all morning about how this will be the last, truly, last time, but as he says “thanks princess” and bites into the blueberry pastry, you know an ACH transfer is coming your way. It will all work out. Good. Sip your coffee now. Good.

a new farcaster reads first short story from blockhead

quotes

"the path you got lost on is your way:)" - emush

Network States

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Sky Pod (Echo Camp in Antartica) by White Desert

TIL theres commercial hotels in Antartica and all i can think is who is building the Antartica network state/society

warpcats

from the warpcatipedia "cathode-ray tube" article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode-ray_tube#Size

more wikepedia image should include a calico cat for scale

brypto

and I think that's beautiful https://x.com/GENIC0N/status/1942307392533967083

aichannel

The paper’s results do not unequivocally argue for an abandonment of LLM use for those striving for efficiency and deeper cognitive processing. When the brain-only group participants engaged with session 4, within which they were able to use an LLM, they exhibited a “significant increase in brain connectivity across all EEG frequency bands”; these increases were not witnessed among members of the group who used ChatGPT in three consecutive sessions.

Using an LLM sparingly could be the ideal way forward, the team noted: “These results suggest that strategic timing of AI tool introduction following initial self-driven effort may enhance engagement and neural integration.”

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/emotional-behavior-behavioral-emotions/202506/your-brain-on-chatgpt

today i appreciate:

1) the brash the ones who tell us what we dont want to hear

3) sushi: a fun food format

3) being in the open casino: opportunity overflows

Bounties

Science

The Arc Institute has launched a “Virtual Cell Challenge” 

They are giving 100k to any person/team (independent/institution) that essentially builds a model that can predict how a cell will respond to certain changes

This sounds simple, but predictive, whole-cell simulations have been a pain to achieve in biology

Anddd someone kindly wrote a primer for non-biologist engineers: 
https://fleetwood.dev/posts/virtual-cell-challenge

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