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Field-trained steel erector, self taught software dev, —now forging raw talent into life-changing careers at Stoneforge Academy in MA.

[Grant @grantelgin]

@bhoyer7 Stoneham as well

[David Perell @david_perell]

I’m making a TV show!

Here’s why: When I was moving to New York, I told my leasing agent that I wanted a place with charm and character. She told me that if that’s what I want, I need to look for apartments built before World War II.

“So you’re saying we’ve basically built nothing with charm and character in the past 80 years?”

“That’s right.”

This is happening all over the world. The same boring and generic style has spread to the entire world. 150 years ago, new buildings in Shanghai looked nothing like the ones in Rome or Tokyo or San Francisco or Buenos Aires. The architecture of each place was as varied as the landscape itself.

And it’s not just the sameness of the modern world that has me scratching my head, but also the carelessness behind so much of what’s built these days. We boast about the triumphs of technology and how advanced we are as a civilization, but why has our built environment regressed so much? Shouldn’t we use our wealth to make our streets more charming and delightful?

There’s lots of talk about how we’ve polluted the natural world, but what about how we’ve polluted the man-made world? We’ve filled our streets with ugly railings, benches, lampposts, and clutter.

We assume these things have to be boring, but they don’t. Good design can make everything, even bins and bus stops, charming. New things can be prettier than old things. The first step is believing it’s possible.

Something has changed. We’ve taken a dramatic turn, and the majority of people prefer what we used to build to what we build today. Just look at where people take photos. In New York it’s the steps of brownstones in the West Village; in San Francisco it’s the old Victorian homes; in London there’s tourists galore in front of those iconic red phone booths which remain on the streets, even though they don’t work anymore, because they’re so nicely designed that people like having them there.

All this is what inspired me to make a TV show.

First: a pilot episode which now has 5.4 million views, 23,000 comments, and 379,000 likes. It also has 241,000 YouTube subscribers from that one video, which is just about unheard of for a new channel.

And now: a full-on, six-episode series.

But when I pitched Hollywood on the idea, they said cultural series of this sort don’t work: “The only kinds of documentaries that get funded are about sports, music, nature, or true crime.” Huh? How can that be?

People are interested in culture. The problem is most culture documentaries are terrible. They fail in one of two ways: (1) people dumb down the ideas in patronizing ways, or (2) people use so much jargon and high-falutin language that it becomes boring and inaccessible.

This is why I’m producing this work. It’ll be called The Modern World, and it’ll be a tour of art & architecture through the eyes of Sheehan Quirke, who goes by @culturaltutor.

It’s our ambition to do for the man-made world what Planet Earth did for the natural world. To use cinematic imagery and simple language in a way that everybody can understand. And to be rigorous, but not in a way that feels like school or your know-it-all friend who never stops talking.

The potential here is huge. Architecture impacts literally every person on earth. What we build shapes the moods of people and the spirit of our culture.

We’ll film in six countries (the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States) to produce six 30-minute episodes which we hope to publish on a major streaming service. We’re currently in the fundraising stage, and production begins once we’ve raised the money.

It’s our mission to help people see the world more clearly, and in turn, make the world a more charming and delightful place to live in.

[ollama @ollama]

Ollama is now updated to run the fastest on Apple silicon, powered by MLX, Apple's machine learning framework.

This change unlocks much faster performance to accelerate demanding work on macOS:

- Personal assistants like OpenClaw
- Coding agents like Claude Code, OpenCode, or Codex

[Grant @grantelgin]

@0xSero I just asked to join LocalLLaMA. I have a mac studio M3 256gb ram plus several older PCs with GPUs. I’m currently interested in running agents for reasoning and coding. I’ve previously trained PyTorch models for applications in metamaterials, text analysis and catastrophe models.

[Grant @grantelgin]

@SahilBloom @alexisohanian I highly recommend you connect with Hector @TS_Secrets

[Grant @grantelgin]

@NotGoKGreen @SahilBloom @alexisohanian @TS_Secrets 100%. I’m the director of Stoneforge Academy, the first HVAC school with VR as part of the curriculum licensed in MA, and currently the only Appliance Repair school. Could not have done it without Hector @TS_Secrets

[Grant @grantelgin]

@MassDailyNews “But turning a routine federal arrest into a citywide moral emergency — while downplaying serious drug trafficking allegations — is how trust gets burned.”
Astute. This articulates the problem with these cry wolf policies.

[Grant @grantelgin]

@n0bledeer @GWHayduke97 Correct. And it seems to be just IPAs. I can drink pilsners lagers and other ales and be fine. I was choking on food for 6 years before I figured this out.

[Grant @grantelgin]

@Zephyr_hg GAMMA

[Grant @grantelgin]

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There are others.

[Grant @grantelgin]

@RobWrightImages The store is Minka. They were the florist for my wedding in 2018. Great people. I’m a fan of their East Coasting clothing brand as well.

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[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces.
But I see everything.

Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments.

One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?"
"6:15," he said, confused.
"Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it."
He blinked. "You... you can do that?"
"I can now," I said.

Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?"
"Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing."
He cried. Right there in the parking lot.

Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic.
But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!"

"Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel."

He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us."

The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over."

Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it.

But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note,

"Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends"
People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket.
I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece."

So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones.

Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees.
It's not glamorous. But it's everything."

Let this story reach more hearts....

Credit: Mary Nelson

[Grant @grantelgin]

@elevenlabs I've been unable to log in to my account for several days now. Screen shot of the browser console attached. There are 401 errors before any login info is entered.

[Higgsfield AI 🧩 @higgsfield_ai]

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[Hector Resendez - Trade School Secrets @TS_Secrets]

If you believe in TRADES please RT and share this.

We’re making a come back baby!

[Grant @grantelgin]

@BurchetteMason @truemetalsupply Interesting. Would this be for a repair on an existing building?

[Grant @grantelgin]

@zachglabman Ultra high-fidelity studio monitor speakers. Designed to reveal the pure truth of the recording. Favorites in some studios worldwide.

[Grant @grantelgin]

Is Namecheap unavailable for everyone or just me? I need to buy another domain I probably won’t do anything with!

[Grant @grantelgin]

@trendyweezy @GreaseTheWheelz @grok Vinh Giang