Maybe: Fred Benenson

@tryBreadwinner, Emoji Dick, 🦪 @kickstarter, @creativecommons, @ycombinator, surfer, 'not an artist per se' - The Guardian

[Maybe: Fred Benenson @fredbenenson]

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by tweets, thirsty hysterical dunks, dragging themselves through the timelines at dawn looking for a viral fix, zero follower reply guys burning for an online connection to the lonely influencer in the pale blue din of a LCD.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

The neurologist Oliver Sacks found that the social-media era resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale.https://t.co/rDFMNBkEH3

[𝙉 𝙤 𝙧 𝙖 @noradottcool]

@giansegato There’s a great essay by @fredbenenson on exactly this (from 2019!!!!). I think about it all the time. https://t.co/wwUYdq9gfv

[Maybe: Fred Benenson @fredbenenson]

the great molting = when millions of people decided AI would be a lot more fun if they paid Anthropic to infect their computers with a botnet so they could construct a decentralized creative fiction experiment about AGI supremacy

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

ok this is weird

new app called "rent a human"

ai agents "rent" humans to do work for them IRL

1. humans make profile skills, location, rated
2. agents find humans with mcp/api & give instructions
3. humans do tasks IRL
4. humans get paid in stablecoins etc instantly

[Maybe: Fred Benenson @fredbenenson]

@waterfountc4nt Yes, I'm sure this will make it into the world within the next year

[Maybe: Fred Benenson @fredbenenson]

I just saw this at Sundance and it completely obliterated me – I was all but bawling by the end of it.

Do whatever you can to see this.

[don hertzfeldt @donhertzfeldt]

i've made a new animated film called "paper trail" that will premiere next month at the sundance film festival✍🏻 "rejected" will also return to ruin sundance after 25 years, in a special anniversary program. see you soon 🌞

[Maybe: Fred Benenson @fredbenenson]

@AsianCommunizer I am sure (hope) it'll trickle out into a digital release at some point during 2026

[Maybe: Fred Benenson @fredbenenson]

@tereborng https://t.co/2xXeD5uP6k Hope you get to see it!

[Maybe: Fred Benenson @fredbenenson]

@xoshitoshi 14 minutes: https://t.co/xbnVCfFQHP

[Maybe: Fred Benenson @fredbenenson]

I posted this 3 years ago. "VC Hubris" won with 59.4% of the vote.

After that, "still marginal but not 0" came in at 37.5%.

I think with respect to mainstream adoption* crypto is still marginal.

* e.g. Web 2.0 became so mainstream it's now meaningless

[Maybe: Fred Benenson @fredbenenson]

What is most likely when it comes to web3 mainstream adoption in the next 3 years?

[Maybe: Fred Benenson @fredbenenson]

I guess that explains the boom

[Maybe: Fred Benenson @fredbenenson]

that boom in Los Angeles at 10:42... people are speculating it was SpaceX Dragon reentry?

felt like a very very large animal falling on my house

[Maybe: Fred Benenson @fredbenenson]

@skeptrune Thanks!

[Maybe: Fred Benenson @fredbenenson]

@OxbloodRuffin What is?

[Maybe: Fred Benenson @fredbenenson]

@f_j_j_ They are certainly capable of that kind of code but ... it kind of feels like the exception when I ask it do really challenging things.

[Maybe: Fred Benenson @fredbenenson]

There's this thing that's been bugging me about Claude Code: besides being addictive, LLM coding agents are incentivized to generate more code for you rather than elegant code.

Unfortunately, this seems like a problem for the economic model:

https://t.co/vvHctSvwqw

[Maybe: Fred Benenson @fredbenenson]

My 😍 @ljmacfadyen has been working on a really fun update to her personal website.

It uses LLMs to parametrically regenerate her biography on the fly. You can crank the number of emojis, the length, the reality, etc.

Play with it here: https://t.co/quBFE6nSIn

[Maybe: Fred Benenson @fredbenenson]

I am thinking about adoptiong kittens again and I am almost certainly going to adopt resues, but I realized I didn't know a lot about cat breeds, so I decided to build a tool:

https://t.co/48O1rEKn4p

Its a 3D visualization tool that uses PCA to match your preferences to breeds.

[FGroypr @FGroypr]

bro called it.

[Variety @Variety]

#TheApprentice was longlisted by the #BAFTAs in six categories, including best film and leading actor for Sebastian Stan. https://t.co/PfQd8g0126

[Fandads @fandads]

I sat in on #TheApprentice virtual press conference today! I will say that the movie was something I did not expect to be drawn into. Sebastian Stan is great & Jeremy Strong is cold as ice!

@ApprenticeMov is a must watch just for the sake of these brilliant performances!