Dasha

tribeca wife, prev @Google

[timour kosters @timourxyz]

Which city has the most flower shops?

In her talk “Aesthetic Accelerationism,” @rivatez said that one possible proxy for how much people in a place appreciate beauty for its own sake is the number of florists in that place.

I was curious, so I made a map of 500 of the world’s largest urban centers. The highest density of mapped florists is in:

- Saint Petersburg: 2.26 per km²
- Sofia: 1.55
- Moscow: 1.43

San Francisco has the most in the U.S., yet only #7 in the Americas.

In terms of raw totals, Moscow has 2,236 mapped florists, followed by Tokyo with 1,181.

You can explore density, per capita, and total counts, change the visual style, and inspect the methodology for every city.

https://t.co/rY1GGIqiBP

[𝑨𝒓𝒕 🎨 @_ArtMuseum]

The Eclipse of the Sun in Venice, July 6, 1842, by Ippolito Caffi (1842)

[Will Robbins @whrobbins]

@brenniepell @katech0n @William_Blake Field report helped me meet my wife!

[Markie Wagner @markiewagner]

Introducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99%+ accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents.

We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune 500 companies without hallucination.

While code is too brittle, agents are too unpredictable. The work that runs the global economy - anti-money laundering, fraud investigations, underwriting - needs extreme accuracy.

So we built a new kind of software that pairs the flexibility of AI with the predictability of code.

When the world stays the same, Poetic runs fixed code: fast, cheap, identical every time. When the world changes, Poetic uses AI to regenerate its approach and find its way back to the objective.

In one year, we went from zero to an eight-figure run rate as a team of four.

Since then, we’ve scaled the team and executed the highest-stakes processes at AIG, SoFi, and Chime. At SoFi, a large US bank, Poetic reached 99%+ quality on fraud investigations in five weeks.

[Outlander Magazine @StreetFashion01]

This Mugler Campaign shot in Greenland (1987)

[Dasha @dashadashnka]

@juliasteinberg the matryoshka 🥺

[Kyle Kashuv @KyleKashuv]

@menemazarakis @whrobbins

[jāna ᠶᠠᠨᠠ @yiihya]

Always loved the two slightly different versions of “Remember!” by Nicholas Roerich. The first was painted in 1924, when he lived in Darjeeling (as part of the “His Country” series), and the second in 1945, towards the end of his life.

[Annabel Strauss @annabelstrauss]

Where do i send the wire??

[Cam Kelley @c3kel]

@dashadashunka - "The all-in-one solution for women"
- "Getting kids ready for the C-Suite"
- "Corporate mental health platform for pets"
- "Quickly build internal tools for dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs."
- "Feature Flag Management Built for kids"
- "We solve drug resistance for tax data"

[Dasha @dashadashnka]

Check out https://t.co/vtKDl3hSpO!

I scraped every YC company with an "X for Y" description and generated every possible "X for Y" combination.

Some of my personal favorites:
- "Getting kids ready for government benefits"
- "Digital therapy for former Soviet Union countries"
- "Marketplace for non-experts"

[jāna ᠶᠠᠨᠠ @yiihya]

“By contrast, classic Russian literature (which, when I was coming of age, remained the main source of romantic norms in my country), described succumbing to love as if it were a supernatural power, even when it was detrimental to comfort, sanity or life itself.”

[jāna ᠶᠠᠨᠠ @yiihya]

“The Seventeen girl was trained for making decisions about whom to get intimate with. She rationalised her emotions in terms of ‘needs’ & ‘rights’, & rejected commitments that did not seem compatible with them. She was raised in the Regime of Choice...”

https://t.co/dbZyYq46Ps

[Dasha @dashadashnka]

@bfcarlson Joep Beving

[Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine]

Make sure to review Kant’s rules for dinner parties so that you’re ready to celebrate his 300th birthday on Monday

[Dasha @dashadashnka]

@SchrodingrsBrat https://t.co/R1eJ9SRGBk

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

11. Two Comedians by Edward Hopper (1965)

The greatest ever final painting? This is a self-portrait of Hopper and his wife Jo, both in their eighties. They are the comedians taking one last bow before the end of the show.

Touching, peculiar, impactful, understated.

[Dasha @dashadashnka]

@mspringut Incredible

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

Patience and Fortitude, marble lions of the New York Public Library, commissioned in 1911 for $420,000 in today's dollars.

@Monumental_Labs could do this today for under $200k.

"Cost" is no no longer a reason not to build great things.

[Peter Schade @psframes]

We re-framed Rembrandts Anna and the Blind Tobit this week. We replaced the re-gilded French 18th century frame with 20th century gilded slip with an un-cut Dutch 17th century ebonised pearwood frame. Suddenly the light shines out of the window inside the painting