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[Yoni Ben-Shimon @YoniCombinator]

Investing in movements 2.0: Culture is really underrated as an asset class. Culture is value alignment that creates loyalty and stickiness. thats scarse.

Unlike software, which is going to 0.

The result of the 2: culture lead empires: streamers, political leaders, some communities around games /movies and religions will become empires that own a stablecoin, a prediction market, a bank, and more. Already started with trump liberty finance and Beast Industries

The movement thesis all over again.

[Yoni Ben-Shimon @YoniCombinator]

nous research

[Dill @dillonrolnick]

the decade of agents! @theemozilla

[Yoni Ben-Shimon @YoniCombinator]

love it

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Tyler and I just published a list of the recipients of the New Aesthetics grants: https://t.co/aLhVgYXrbi.

Thank you very much to all who applied. There were far more applications than we expected. We funded 28 grantees and are excited to see what they create.

My reflections on the whole thing:

• Though there are clearly selection dynamics afoot, figuring out some route beyond the current aesthetic moment seems to be of wider interest in the art community than I would have guessed. Many applicants described their dissatisfaction with the status quo, some in strong terms. We had to close applications after a few weeks because there were so many.
• It's too early to call it, but it seems that both beauty as an unapologetic goal (contra much that is in modernist and contemporary approaches), and ways to channel pre-modern styles into something new for the present era, are of growing interest.
• The awards made me reflect on the perhaps obvious issue of how hard it must be for an artist to persistently do something new: schools, galleries, buyers, etc., all have structurally embedded preferences as well. These individual awards made me wonder what form supporting new clusters could take.
• Architecture seems to me like the discipline most ripe for new ideas. One correspondent observed: "American architects are somewhat constrained by the association with the academy, in addition to the well known regulation issues. There is a tendency to overthink things so that the designs are formally interesting to someone deep in the conversation, but lacking poetry and magic. There are more firms in Europe, South America and beyond that “just do things” (especially in places where it is easier to build)." This was evident in the submissions.
• AI seems to be making people rethink things in a quite fundamental way, just as urbanization/industrialization/popularization of photography did at the end of the 19th century. For some that will mean interesting new forms of AI-augmented art, but the effects of the rethinking will likely be wider.
• Arts funding is clearly as precarious and scarce as ever. That's unfortunate, but it probably also means that individual actors can have meaningful impact, and I encourage others to get involved if interested.
• There's a lot to know that is not written down, and I'm very grateful to those who have helped and advised me along the way.

[Goshawk Trades @GoshawkTrades]

Agustin Lebron, former Jane Street trader, on a trait he looked for when hiring:

"i would love to talk to the person who is the third best player in the world at some weird obscure chess variant."

"that tells me they have the willingness to grind and get really good at something, not because there's a pot of gold, but because they find inherent enjoyment in it."

they're motivated by the puzzle. the money is just the scoreboard.

[Yoni Ben-Shimon @YoniCombinator]

USEFUL PROOF OF WORK
@prlnet
@tigfoundation
@TheBittensorHub
@nockchain

[Yoni Ben-Shimon @YoniCombinator]

https://t.co/eTM8nhjvt1 finally happened.

[Yoni Ben-Shimon @YoniCombinator]

flippening is imminent

[Yoni Ben-Shimon @YoniCombinator]

@benln 👋

[Yoni Ben-Shimon @YoniCombinator]

true story

[Yoni Ben-Shimon @YoniCombinator]

@sab8a STFU stop spreading fud

[Yoni Ben-Shimon @YoniCombinator]

excited for @iamjunpark and the team 🤗

[Chance @onemoarchance]

We raised $3.2M to build the third place for TCG collectors.

Co-led by @makersfundvc and @hashed_official, with @Arbitrum Gaming Ventures, @GAM3GIRLVC, and Digital Elm.

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The TCG market is massive and still growing. But the biggest gap isn't authenticity or liquidity, it's what happens after the purchase. Collectors don't need another marketplace. They need a place where collecting turns into connecting.

That's what Chance is building. When collectors build for collectors, the details matter. That's our moat.

$3.2M = 3.2 million reasons to curate more grails, create more products, and cultivate more experiences for our users.

To our investors: thank you for taking a chance on us.
To our community: thank you for building this with us.
To everyone who's ever ripped a pack, chased a grail, or stayed up too late sorting through bulk and shit, this one is for you.

Built by TCG natives. For TCG natives.

onemoarchance.

[Teknium 🪽 @Teknium]

Happy to announce that Hermes Agent's repo just surpassed Anthropic's Claude Code repo

[The Innovation Game (𝔦, 𝔦) @tigfoundation]

Jensen Huang (@nvidia CEO) thinks algorithms are the lever and open source wins long-term.

So do we.

Worth listening to this whole clip.

[Yoni Ben-Shimon @YoniCombinator]

Tig is a bittensor for algorithms . thank me later

[ElonTrades @ElonTrades]

$TIG is to algorithms what Bittensor is to AI models.

Just as $TAO turned model training and inference into a decentralized, monetizable marketplace via miner-validator incentives and open subnets,
$TIG uses Optimisable Proof-of-Work and AI agents to let anyone “mine” better algorithms for hard problems (like Vehicle Routing) while keeping everything open-source and forkable.

~$20m mcap

[Yoni Ben-Shimon @YoniCombinator]

new Media companies are the next startups

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

The Hermes Agent Creative Hackathon starts now

16 Days, $25k in Prizes

Presented by @Kimi_Moonshot & @NousResearch

For the tinkerers pushing Hermes Agent into creative domains: video, image, audio, 3D, long-form writing, creative software, interactive media and more.

Show us what your Hermes Agent can do.

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[Yoni Ben-Shimon @YoniCombinator]

flippening is imminent

[Yoni Ben-Shimon @YoniCombinator]

29% dominance. (and growing fast )

@OpenAI vs Hermes agent .
Live for under 2 months.
Open source.

Watch open source AI do what closed source AI couldn't.
https://t.co/vYkyhEOp3X

[Yoni Ben-Shimon @YoniCombinator]

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an app that lets you retire from all toxic social media. Just define your sources of news (Substack, blogs or Twitter profiles) and see it as a personal RSS feed that doesn't suck you in

[Yoni Ben-Shimon @YoniCombinator]

29% dominance. (and growing fast )

@OpenAI vs Hermes agent .
Live for under 2 months.
Open source.

Watch open source AI do what closed source AI couldn't.
https://t.co/vYkyhEOp3X

[Yoni Ben-Shimon @YoniCombinator]

@Natan_benish @framedotfun https://t.co/J5ftswckdd FUN MAXXING

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

Have an idea for an experiment?

Hermes can now write conference-grade research papers alongside you.

[Yoni Ben-Shimon @YoniCombinator]

What if you can collect talents like you collect Pokémon?