✍️ My longest essay since I left college 📰 >9k words on crypto’s cultural potential through what I call the 5 Cs 💕 A labour of love on a subject I love. If you have the time, I’d love it too if you can read it and let me know your views. ⬇️ Link below

MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #356 with the Invert style by @mattdesl on @artblocks_io Right: My photo of the Church of the Immaculate Conception at nighttime in the town of Jardín, Colombia, October 2024.

@karpathy The superpower of LLMs is indeed open-ended simulations, i.e. simulations that can be continually orchestrated by natural language over time, unbounded by the strict logic of code. Thought about this in a fun little experiment I tried with Gemini a few months ago, when I asked

Terraforms reflects a way of seeing that cannot be unseen

MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #345 in the Prismatic style by @mattdesl on @artblocks_io Right: My photo taken of a Danza de los Voladores ("Dance of the Flyers") ceremony at Cholula, Mexico, August 2024.

Imagined cities in the far east Left: Signage Overwhelms Pedestrians - fragment by @bottoproject in the current "Attention Economy" period. Right: TOKYO #16 - Changing Places by @SimonRaion on @FellowshipAi in the collection of @balon_art

“The cultural medium of our time is software”

MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #544 with the Archipelago palette by @mattdesl on @artblocks_io Right: My photo of the town of Iruya, nestled within the colourful rock formations common across the nearby Quebrada de Humahuaca in Jujuy Province, Argentina, February 2025.

Something I think people continue to have poor intuition for: The space of intelligences is large and animal intelligence (the only kind we've ever known) is only a single point, arising from a very specific kind of optimization that is fundamentally distinct from that of our

MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #453 with the Prairie palette by @mattdesl on @artblocks_io in the collection of @robdixon Right: My photo of some "frailejones", a unique genus of plants that live at high altitude in the "páramo" ecosystems of the northern Andes. This photo

Youth Buried Beneath Media Avalanche A very apt fragment by @bottoproject in the ongoing "Attention Economy" period

1/ Celebrating Ten Years of alignDRAW 🎂 Ten years ago, alignDRAW (2015) by @elmanmansimov became the first AI model to turn text into images. To mark the anniversary we’ve made a new book with five essays, two films, reconstructed the original model and more. ↓

MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #327 in the Topographic style by @mattdesl on @artblocks_io in the collection of @generative_maxi Right: My photo taken at sunrise while making a >1,100m ascent up the Colca Canyon in Peru on the morning of 1 January 2025.

Recursive Identity Fragments - another compelling fragment by @bottoproject in its ongoing "Attention Economy" period. Reminded me of an earlier essay I wrote about the multiplicity of the self on the Internet. Link in quoted tweet 👇

Seeing the machine, seeing as a machine. Metrics Sublime - fragment by @bottoproject in its ongoing "Attention Economy" period.

2025 Still Image Award Winner Ana María Caballero (@CaballeroAnaMa) The Sylphs The Sylphs is from Being Borges, a poetic and (post) photographic recasting of Jorge Luis Borges & Margarita Guerrero's 'Book of Imaginary Beings,' a landmark work of Spanish literature. This series

alignDRAW: Celebrating 10 Years of the Project "A picture of a dark sky #2" by @elmanmansimov → Collected by @buffetlunches

MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #945 with the Fjord palette by @mattdesl on @artblocks_io Right: My photo taken of the Cuernos del Paine, a set of granite peaks along the W trek in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile, March 2025.

Brain rot without borders "From South Korea to Sudan, China to Mexico, Morocco to the Philippines, literature seems to be in retreat. The worst part is that, while every unhappy literature is unhappy in its own way, the various dystopias that our correspondents describe seem to

From slop to pop

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