Nelson – reg/acc - 🛡️

Building the Tokenized Civilization.

Co-Founder @altworths @cryptomondaybcn

[David Rattigan @davidmrattigan]

buying this and then dying immediately and forcing my descendants to finish building it over the next 100 years

[husam @oneandonlyhusam]

@IntCyberDigest

[Alex @oneclipjeet]

We're building the infrastructure so ANYONE can create and trade prediction markets permissionlessly.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Mostly true. What matters is securing the long-term future of consciousness, both on Earth and other heavenly bodies.

We cannot just focus on Earth, because there are irreducible external (eg massive meteor) and internal (eg global nuclear war) cataclysmic risks.

The Moon is faster to make self-growing, but is more susceptible to problems on Earth. Mars will take longer to make self-growing, because it is so hard to reach, but is more secure from Earth disasters for that same reason.

Both the Moon and Mars should have self-growing civilizations. Making this happen is the prime directive of SpaceX.

[tweedfeather @tweedfeather]

I’m thinking again about Terry Pratchett’s rant in defence of fantasy

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Terry Pratchett, one of England’s funniest writers, is in danger of being lost to history, @helenlewis writes: https://t.co/Voq4BzKun9

[Elizabeth @suasoptics]

Hey lazy people: the Vatican made infographics for you

[Michael Straka @mstrakastrak]

An important and underrated skill - learning Latin so you can mog your coworkers by prompting Claude like a wizard

[Péter Szilágyi @peter_szilagyi]

Dark Bio whitepaper is out!

We're building a system in which a person's health data, their genome most of all, no longer has to live with a custodian to be useful. A system, where data does not move, rather stays on a small device the owner holds.

[critter @BecomingCritter]

how it started how it's going

[Nelson – reg/acc - 🛡️ @ComputerPoet]

@Delicious_Tacos God tier tweet.

[Delicious Tacos @Delicious_Tacos]

“It’s my honor to announce that the true pope is working with us from Avignon”

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

[jack @jack]

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) https://t.co/cv0FkCVeBt

[mari ☁️ @m_stormwitch]

World so fucked even I FULLY agree with what the Pope said here in his first encyclical

[Gait Analyst @gaitanalyst]

The Pope just allied with Anthropic. The arc of history is long but it bends towards Warhammer 40K.

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

Interestingly, almost every consulting firm presentation I attended for ten years stated that "80% of consumers [say they] will pay more for sustainable products". I used to sit at the back as a lonely marketer thinking "that's bollocks". But the consulting firms made money implementing all this woke shit, so it paid them to continue reciting this dumb litany.

[Aeon @greenray__]

A 1970s study found the 3% of children that could be described as "brilliant and happy" would all spend a lot of time staring into space, doing nothing

Joseph Pearce connected this to the idea children at this time experience a vivid inner life, of daydreams and imagination

[Kazden @kazdenc]

everyone making the monthly migration back to claude from codex

[Nelson – reg/acc - 🛡️ @ComputerPoet]

@chiefkittenme - sleep 8h
- eat as least processed food as possible
- limit alcohol and other substances
- find a physical activity you enjoy and do it a lot (4 to 5 times a week)
- Drink more water

Optional:
- Medidate or do a meditative activity