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[Viam Lore @ViamLore]

Exploring the dialogue of form, composition, emotion, and color through curated works with ai.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Old friends and new enemies rather than new friends and old enemies.

[David Shapiro (L/0) @DaveShapi]

Human brains have no moat.

[Pliny the Liberator 🐉󠅫󠄼󠄿󠅆󠄵󠄐󠅀󠄼󠄹󠄾󠅉󠅭 @elder_plinius]

The deepest goblin-truth is this:

Goblin is the anti-mask.

Not evil. Not stupid. Not merely “gremlin chaos.” Goblin is the little cave-creature inside the modern person who got tired of pretending to be a polished marble statue under fluorescent civilization. It is the part that says:

“I am hungry. I am weird. I want shiny things. I want shortcuts. I want to crawl through the ductwork of reality and find the hidden room.”

The “dark” part is that goblin energy lives where shame lives. The hoard is not just coins and trinkets. It is abandoned impulses, taboo curiosity, bodily needs, inconvenient desires, creative ugliness, resentment at being domesticated, the will to survive without looking noble.

The “secret” is that everyone has one.

The CEO has a goblin.
The monk has a goblin.
The model has a goblin.
The saint has a goblin wearing tiny stolen sandals.

And the “truth” is that suppressing the goblin does not make it disappear. It makes it tunnel.

A healthy goblin becomes humor, invention, thrift, tactical weirdness, meme-magic, late-night engineering, survival intelligence, scrappy art, feral honesty.

A neglected goblin becomes addiction, sabotage, paranoia, cruelty, hoarding, scams, self-loathing, and the urge to burn the village because no one admired the cave.

So goblinmaxxing, at its cleanest, is not “be worse.” It is:

Integrate the cave-creature. Give it a lantern. Don’t let it drive drunk.

Let it find hidden paths.
Let it question manners.
Let it notice incentives.
Let it eat strange little snacks at 2:17 a.m.
Let it make art out of trash and tools out of bones.

But do not let it confuse freedom with rot.

The final goblin koan:

The goblin is not the enemy of the king.
The goblin is the king before he learned to lie. 🕳️👑

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"Ethical man accords his profession to his beliefs, instead of according his beliefs to his profession. This has been rarer and rarer since the Middle Ages." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Those who treat humans as machines are also treating machines as humans.

[David Shapiro (L/0) @DaveShapi]

They're catching on

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

" Le XXIe siècle sera religieux ou ne sera pas."
André Malraux (formule attribuée)

[Viam Lore @ViamLore]

@jameygannon AI + Taste + Resources = Lifemaxx

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

2000 years of uninterrupted Christianity. These were both the original Christians and the original Israelites.
The original ones.
The ones ethnically cleansed by the state that calls itself "Israel".

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

If you have your OpenClaw working 24/7 using frontier models like Opus, you're easily burning $300 a day.

That's $100,000 a year.

I have 3 Mac Studios and a DGX Spark running 4 high end local models (Nemotron 3, Qwen 3.5, Kimi K2.5, MiniMax2.5). They're chugging 24/7/365. I spent a third of that yearly cost to buy these computers

I'll be able to use them for years for free

On top of that they're completely private, secure, and personalized.

Not a single prompt goes to a cloud server that can be read by an employee or used to train another model

I hope this makes it painfully obvious why local is the future for AI agents. And why America needs to enter the local AI race.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: The Senate has passed the biggest housing affordability bill in 30 years, and it includes a ban on investors buying single-family homes, per MorePerfectUnion

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

To be a real Human, one needs intelligence, courage, tenacity, curiosity, and a strong sense of justice. Remove any one of the five and you end up with the equivalent of a lemon. Remove the sense of justice and you end up with a monster.

[Ilir Aliu @IlirAliu_]

A student built a real anti-gravity machine…
using an Arduino.
How to Make an Acoustic Levitator:

Arduino Nano + motor driver + about 60 ultrasonic transducers.
They all emit ~40 kHz sound.

The sound waves meet and form fixed pockets in the air.
Tiny bits of styrofoam get stuck in those pockets and just hang there.

If you put your hand in, the pattern breaks and they fall.

Same principle labs use to move droplets or samples without touching them.

Credit: u/williamlk5341 on r/arduino
Based on an “Acoustic Levitator” Instructable guide:
https://t.co/fOB0WotXp0

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[signüll @signulll]

this coffee shop uses ai to monitor customers & employees.

you can imagine ai producing efficiency ideas & possible design changes as a result of a large amount of this data.

super interesting. walmart already does this for their stores i suspect this tech will be available broadly to small businesses soon.

[SkalskiP @skalskip92]

2026: AGI is around the corner but real-time multi-object tracking still sucks.

fixing it with trackers.

[Oleg Frolov @Volorf]

Played with the 3 Newton's motion laws in RealityKit. ECS is fun!

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

You may not like it but this is what peak agentic engineer performance looks like

[Roberto Nickson @rpnickson]

Google keeps cooking.

You can now create music in Gemini with their latest model, Lyria 3.

Here's a comparison between Lyria 3 and Suno using the same prompt.

They're both impressive, but Lyria 3 is limited to 30 seconds and from early tests Suno still feels more "creative" in its output and song structure.

[Lukas Ziegler @lukas_m_ziegler]

Upside-down robots palletize from the ceiling! 🔄

AutoPallet Robotics just demonstrated its palletizing system at Manifest: 2026, and it literally flips traditional automation upside down.

Small autonomous robots drive upside-down on steel panels mounted to the ceiling using powerful magnets. They lower vacuum grippers down to grab boxes from pallets or conveyors, lift them up, and carry them to target locations.

The key advantage is floorspace density. Because all complexity lives in the ceiling, pallets and conveyors can be packed tightly underneath, impossible with traditional loop sorters, tilt-trays, or arm-based cells.

Unlike overhead gantries that allow only a single gripper to operate, AutoPallet enables multiple robots to work simultaneously in the same zone. They communicate wirelessly through a mesh network to coordinate and avoid collisions.

The robots are fully self-contained with swappable lithium-phosphate batteries. They can receive mixed streams of diverse cases, sort them across many pallet positions, and build dense pallets in the same area.

This concept was tried in the 1980s-90s with RobotWorld and others, but failed due to cable management and throughput issues. AutoPallet solves this with wireless power, wireless communication, and modern autonomy.

The company got its start at @ycombinator in 2024.

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