🤷‍♂️ I disagree that this is binary a) All limits have been removed from what is possible and this will (and has) lead to extraordinary discovery and improvements b) Thinking there won't be a lot of pain and unimaginable disruption/job-loss is wishful thinking

We are now entering into an era where any product can be created exactly to a consumer's preferences & needs. I vibe-fabricated a dog door with a wifi-controlled lock, perfectly to the specifications & design of my house. I know nothing about metal fabrication or electrical engineering. It's now getting manufactured and delivered in 2 weeks -- for almost the same cost if I bought a mass-produced item off-the-shelf.

we put on a broadway musical about accounts payable. slate called it "a glorified ad for a tech company." correct. it was also the most fun we've ever had as a company. the part i didn't expect was what happened after. a flood of messages from theater folks in new york saying it meant the world to them. billy porter told the crowd that industrials like this paid his rent for decades, until they disappeared in the early 2000s. for most of the last century, when a company had something to say, it hired composers, choreographers and actors. somewhere along the way we decided marketing should be cheap, measurable and forgettable. i hope more companies lose their minds a little. make something people feel.

🚨☣️More details on the Oct 1st pneumonic plague outbreak in Siberia, after a lab accident at a BSL-3 lab. "FSB units accompanying ambulances transporting people who had been in contact with [lab tech] Shipilova for medical examination," as per local news. This is significant. FSB is Russia's domestic security / counterintelligence service, tasked w/implementing the national security of Russia." (Its predecessor was the KGB). This suggests quarantine was not voluntary. It also means Russian authorities are treating the lab accident and plague outbreak as a national security issue, involving a lot more than routine public health.

Starship goes orbital. NDS unveils first good gov website. Matic shares master plan for family of robots. Freckle launches phone for outdoor kids. Transplanted hearts adjust to host's biological age. What a week for the optimists.

Ben Affleck (Hollywood star & Artists Equity CEO) talks about how he fine-tunes open video models by unfreezing weights and trained only the last cinematic layer so a film crew can hit real production standards. for context, Ben Affleck founded InterPositive in 2022, a 16-person AI shop for film post and Netflix bought it in March 2026 for $587 mn in cash. He needed that model because public video models were trained on his peers' films, and he did not think that was a real business. So InterPositive raised money, shot its own dataset for 8 months on a controlled stage, and used it only as late-stage training. Each new film then trains a private model on its own dailies, so the production keeps the footage and the learning. That is the product Netflix paid $587 million for. ---- From "Bloomberg Live" YouTube channel, (link in comment)

I have been dreaming with @cyantist about turning San Francisco into a playground of experiences that create joy. Meow Wolf meets Disneyland, with the soul of summer camp. We call it JoyCon. The first experiment is in January. Limited tickets 🚀. luma.com/joycon

I have been dreaming with @cyantist about turning San Francisco into a playground of experiences that create joy. Meow Wolf meets Disneyland, with the soul of summer camp. We call it JoyCon. The first experiment is in January. Limited tickets 🚀. luma.com/joycon

We’ve heard a lot of moonshot ideas on this podcast, but this week’s guest may have the most impossible one yet: making tech more cultured. In this episode, I sat down with @TheAnnaGat , a Hungarian philosopher, playwright, and founder of Interintellect, a platform for hosting intellectual conversations online. She calls herself “the bridge” between the humanities, academia, and the tech world, which in practice means getting engineers to read Goethe. Gát grew up on a TV set in communist Hungary. Her parents made the country’s biggest shows in an era when there was one channel available on Saturdays. In 2015, a family crisis left her starting over in London with two suitcases, one of them for books. She rebuilt her life on Twitter, DM’d Sam Altman, and got him as her first meeting on her first trip to America. Before Interintellect, Gát did just about every wordcel job you can do: playwright, screenwriter, script doctor. She holds graduate degrees in philosophical aesthetics and linguistics, currently splits her time between SF and NYC. The company that would become Interintellect began in London in 2016 as an AI tool for helping “humans have categorically better conversations.” On the side, she angel invests in aerospace. We get into why X was once the French café that could publish you and is now a place you can’t get discovered from, why the East Coast’s healthiest, wealthiest people are so convinced the future is doomed, and the duty AI builders have to explain themselves. Gát also admits, on the record, that she’s a sucker for Elon Musk’s syntax. I try to convince her that kids don’t read books anymore. She tries to convince me Silicon Valley should fund symphonies. Thx to @brexHQ and @sendcutsend for making the Core Memory podcast possible. #BrexPartner TIMESTAMPS — Intro — The science of dialogue — Growing up famous — Nobody saw 1989 coming — Losing everything in 2015 — Silicon Valley as the new Ellis Island — Balaji's DAO campaign — Elon's syntax — Why does America hate tech? — Engineers took over the world — Have LLMs solved language? — Are books dying? — No Pop-Tarts — Who funds culture?