Stewart Brand

Co-founder of The Long Now Foundation--which takes no sides. In this forum, as a private person, I do take sides occasionally.

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

I will buckle down to work as soon as I finish reading the Internet.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

A very kind endorsement of @WorksInProgMag from the peerless and inspiring @kevin2kelly. https://t.co/iE6P1PO2h7

You can (and should!) subscribe over at https://t.co/lqpiAsucr2.

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

@DAMendelsohnNYC @JakeTropila STONER is best.

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

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[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

@nils_gilman on the coming of post-AI universities. "The inherited architecture of the university has stopped working. The lecture, the term paper, the credential: these load-bearing technologies of the postwar university are all collapsing at once."
https://t.co/C5vSiOfYvo

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

"There are many features of the multiversity that will never be part of the new institutions: sports teams, dead-tree libraries, museums, faculty-oriented laboratories, fraternities & sororities, co-curricular bureaucracy, etc."

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

@StevenLevy's lovely video about me, @Ryanphelan6, and architecture for aging out is online. Two minutes with a lot in it.
https://t.co/cmHUNEvehf

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

@makerjak @barttels2 @jason_pontin @Ryanphelan6 Still happening, new material, here: https://t.co/aTJNZUozfT

[NASA Watch @NASAWatch]

I met @stewartbrand when I worked for @JerryBrownGov Fascinating guy. I was a fan of the Whole Earth Catalog (my Dad was a contributor). One time he hung (left) out with Rusty Schweickart (@B612Foundation), Brown, me (right) and bunch of folks at the launch of STS-1. Small planet @rookisaacman @bizbookpr @StevenLevy

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

@NASAWatch @JerryBrownGov @b612foundation 3-piece suit, no tie.

[Mark Fortier, Fortier Public Relations @bizbookpr]

A poignant @WIRED profile by @StevenLevy of @stewartbrand, who continues writing and working despite a terminal illness, viewing maintenance as more valuable than disruption. His life and his book Maintenance are a testament to resilience https://t.co/jdtiDw8jd9 @stripepress

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

@jason_pontin @Ryanphelan6 Glad you saw it, Jason. I miss Hitting the Hill with you back when. I think it gave me a hardy enough constitution to keep functioning these days without much lung.

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

@gamzeyaavor @StevenLevy @Ryanphelan6 @NASAArtemis @astro_reid @Astro_Christina Nice!

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

@StevenLevy @Ryanphelan6 Steven includes photos of our 1912 tugboat "Mirene" and mentions she is for sale. He was on board in this photo, amid a herd of harbor porpoises. This link has sale details;
https://t.co/nn7q0uLh6i

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

Wired's @StevenLevy rocks in this piece about how @Ryanphelan6 and I are prepping my decline and demise.

[Steven Levy @StevenLevy]

Yes, @stewartbrand is one of my heroes, a visionary rooted in pragmatism who has made his mark on the world. He and his wife @Ryanphelan6 expressed these values in a home they built for his later years. https://t.co/tG2ZG7HmOZ

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

@StevenLevy @Ryanphelan6 The piece includes a 2-minute video, with Steven in it. It's good to see the writer in an article like this.

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

My death poem that Steven mentions goes, formally, like so:

A life
ends.

Life
goes on.

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

@kms_vc76 Five little words with a life of their own.

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

The gimlet has been maligned for decades, says Ty Caudle, The Interval's beverage director, as a result of artificial ingredients and rushed preparations. The Interval recipe has corrected those deficiencies by using navy strength gin infused with lime oil and slowly filtered over three days. The resulting lime cordial is stirred (rather than shaken) to create a perfect pearlescent finish. 

Our Navy Gimlet was just named best in the city by @thebolditalic, and included on this exceptional list which maps the best and most storied bars in the city. It’s an honor to be included.

Check it out here:
https://t.co/AHVagTK7iS

[Alex Rives @alexrives]

Together with UC Berkeley we are announcing the laser phase plate - a breakthrough in atomic resolution imaging. This is the brightest continuous wave laser in the world, 100 million times the intensity of the surface of the sun.

Phase contrast plays an important role in microscopy, but it was thought close to impossible for electron microscopy, where it would require interfering with an electron beam. Holger Mueller and Robert Glaeser proposed exactly this using a standing wave laser. It has taken over 15 years to make this a reality. Biohub partnered with UC Berkeley and Mueller to support this work and to engineer and build the technology.

Contrast has been the critical barrier to achieving atomic resolution imaging of the cell. In cryo-electron tomography, a cellular imaging technology that uses electron microscopy, the low contrast makes it impossible to resolve anything but the largest proteins within their cellular context. The laser phase plate removes that barrier.

With advances in AI this breakthrough in contrast will start to open up a new frontier in structural biology, that will allow us to see the molecular machines of the cell, and how they assemble into far more complex and dynamic systems, and understand how they work.