Nikhil Kumar (.sol)
@nkumar23
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building 5x5 Collective // explore all ideas
New York, New York
Joined May 2010
I sat down for an interview about my creative process and am blown away by how it came out. Link in next post “ This week’s Field Note is about the kind of curiosity that rearranges how you see the world —the instinct to get closer, to zoom in, to trust what your senses catch
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Gm! I did my final performance of Where There's Smoke @ryanleegallery's RLwindow overlooking the High Line. The 4 channel installation continues to run 24/7 until Dec. 20th. Special thanks to @ReginaHarsanyi for moderating the talk & to @nkumar23 for the photos. See 🧵
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Btw: All these rich technocrats who spent months tweeting about NYC mayor's race and incoming jihadist leadership are just gonna move on. Watch. They won't follow up, won't pay attention, won't apologize if they were wrong. @shaunmmaguire has already just gone back to posting
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Under-reported story: We will have our first NYC mayor with a beard in a century (Fact check needed)
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Finance is a secondary, supporting function Moving money around, no matter how fast, doesn’t matter if there aren’t ideas worth financing and people who can execute on those ideas Build something worth financing
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Two most underrated wins for NYC: 1) ballot measures 2-5 passed, paving the way for more affordable housing to be built quickly 2) @MarkLevineNYC won comptroller. He puts problem solving > politics, has an abundance-oriented vision for the city, and cares about implementation
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A positive sign from Zohran is him voting yes on amendments 2-5. Gotta build more housing, faster, to create the affordability he talks about and 2-5 will help that happen
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With the continuing government shutdown in the US, SNAP benefits are now paused -- which makes it more important than ever to support food aid organizations. So I've created "Fibonacci Harvest." It's cheap -- .0033 ETH per edition, roughly $12.50 -- and all revenue raised will
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Who rendered this scathing critique about the psychological / civic consequences of specialization? “The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert
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Making an NBA post to see if this cleanses my feed Wemby, wow Austin Reaves, didn't know you had game like *that* Amen Thompson, you got this NBA on NBC, hell yeah ESPN version of Inside the NBA, still great We love this game
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The Decentralized Futures Hackathon is part of an art-driven series of experiments to reimagine creative infrastructure. On Saturday, Nov. 8th participants will prototype new ways of working that expand both self-reliance and community reliance. With a special opening talk by
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Getting back to Max/MSP Hoping to turn my microscope into a (nice sounding) musical instrument Back in 2020 I got a shitty sounding version working where i used The Wekinator ( https://t.co/RLzMfgre2o) to generate an arbitrary real time model of what my microscope was seeing,
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For anyone still confused, here’s a simple chart showing why I don’t subscribe to MAGA, Inc. Me: Limited government Economic freedom Individual liberty MAGA, Inc.: Unlimited government Economic cronyism Up in everyone’s business
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So stoked that 5x5 is part of the @KYDLabs lending pool. @KYDNimale and co are truly building The People's Ticketmaster
💿 In the immortal words of Joey Diaz: “You don’t need 20 people, you only need 4 motherf*ers to take over a country.” $1.6M+ in sales, 300K+ in fee revenue, and 195K monthly active users in NYC. Over 100M Spotify listeners reached as some of the world’s biggest artists
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We are living in alternate realities. Everything this dude is saying is the inverse of the reality I am experiencing. I don’t know this person so I will just take at face value that he believes this stuff and isn’t an agitator / cult member. Pretty unsettling to live in a
The Dems are behaving VERY similarly to the Confederates in the 1860’s. They are trying to preserve their slave-class and are defying federal authority, and thus the Constitution. They are openly engaged in a literal treasonous/seditious insurrection. History repeats.
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Had to unblock Twitter from my devices to give @doublezero love for launch day! 5x5 Collective decided to back Double Zero for a fairly simple reason -- we back founders who are highly multi-disciplinary (non-disciplinary, really) at their core. Through the years working with
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Right-wingers are arguing that Jimmy Kimmel coming back on-air is proof that claims of authoritarianism and censorship are unfounded. Actually it’s proof that sufficient public blowback to caving to authoritarian censorship can cause companies to un-cave.
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you voted for "1st amendment defenders" and you got censorship of major networks, scientists, economic data, and on and on. good job you useful idiots
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