iamronen

Yoga practitioner, drawn towards the generative
Product Lead @ Open Finance Consortium (formerly Open Collective)

[iamronen @iamronen]

I am working on a "Spoken Language Development Environment" for making software with LLMs. It has matured to the point where I am using it to make itself.

This feels like a tipping point: the work is surprisingly flowing & I feel I need to reacclimate to working this way.

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Across the Cities Then vs Now

[iamronen @iamronen]

In recent years I've gone through multiple cycles of deep stress & recovery and noticed:
1. Recovery is an innate process.
2. It takes time (longer than I think/imagine/want).
3. Intervention needs to be subtle and caring, it is easy to overdue and disrupt the innate process.

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

This neat moving wooden sculpture by Ross McSweeny.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Mycena subcyanocephala, a tiny, bright blue mushroom species, was discovered in the tropical forests of Taiwan in 2019

[iamronen @iamronen]

I've been reflecting on my experience with AI and applying to it Robert Pirsig's framework of Static & Dynamic Quality
https://t.co/eF6dfMamJS

[Ryan Singer @rjs]

Instantly recognized this drawing from Notes on the Synthesis of Form. So nice to see. 👏 @karrisaarinen

https://t.co/GNzNYMgCGV

[Roy Rogers Happy Trails Music Shop  @RoyRogers_HTMS]

This is pure cosmic poetry in motion 🔥🌌
Watch the Hirajoshi Wave — a mesmerizing polyrhythmic pendulum where gravity-defying spheres trace the exact frequencies of the ancient C Hirajoshi pentatonic scale (C, D, Eb, G, Ab). Each ball swings at its own precise speed, creating chaotic rainbow trails and hypnotic geometry… until everything perfectly realigns in a breathtaking visual AND musical climax.
It’s not just pretty — it’s the universe showing off.
Music is mathematics you can feel. The same harmonic laws that govern planetary orbits, gravitational resonances, and the fabric of spacetime are playing out right here in sound and motion. Ancient Japanese scale meets modern physics, proving once again: the cosmos doesn’t just make music… it is music.

[iamronen @iamronen]

My (remote) day job is more difficult to perform. It requires navigating a lot of friction = difficult vibe.
Friction requires back & forth comms & coordination with others, which requires sync calls which are difficult to get to and do with constant siren disruptions.

[iamronen @iamronen]

1. What I am creating, I could not create without AI.
2. No AI (nor any other person) could create it without me.
3. Through the work, I learn more about the AI itself and what it needs, and thanks to the AI, more about the thing I am trying to create. This is not mutual.

[iamronen @iamronen]

Also this is the most appealing activity for me within the rhythm of the war.
Bomb shelter is a good time for contemplation and organizing my thoughts (extracting myself from the situation). Pauses between alerts and sirens is a good time for authoring and submitting prompts.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je crois qu'on ne mesure pas ce qu'Elon Musk est en train de construire avec X.

Tous les médias de l'histoire ont été couplés à une culture, une langue, une bulle géographique. Le Monde parle aux Français. Le NYT parle aux Américains. NHK parle aux Japonais. Chaque média filtre le réel à travers le prisme de sa culture locale.

X est en train de devenir le premier média de l'humanité. Pas d'un pays. De l'espèce.

Je le vis en temps réel. Mes posts en français se font RT par des Japonais, répondre par des Brésiliens, citer par des Américains. Des conversations qui n'auraient jamais existé il y a 5 ans. Un libertarien français qui débat avec un ingénieur de Tokyo et un entrepreneur de Sao Paulo sous le même tweet. Pas traduit par un éditeur. Traduit instantanément par l'IA, en un clic.

Les bulles de filtre culturelles sont en train d'exploser.

Et je pense qu'on sous-estime massivement les effets composés de ça.

Quand une idée peut traverser un océan en 3 secondes, quand un argument sourcé posté à Paris peut être vérifié par un économiste à Singapour et amplifié par un développeur à Austin dans la même heure, le coût de propagation d'une bonne idée tend vers zéro.

Et c'est catastrophique pour un type d'acteur très précis : les médias qui ont construit leur business model sur le monopole de l'information locale. Ceux qui pouvaient raconter n'importe quoi sur "ce qui se passe ailleurs" parce que personne ne pouvait vérifier.

Quand un journaliste français écrit que "le modèle américain ne marche pas", maintenant il y a 50 Américains dans les réponses avec des sources. Quand un éditorialiste dit que "le Danemark prouve que le socialisme fonctionne", il y a un Danois qui explique que le Danemark est 10e en liberté économique mondiale.

Le fact-checking n'est plus un département. C'est un effet réseau.

Les médias honnêtes n'ont rien à craindre de ça. Les médias qui vendaient une narration protégée par l'ignorance géographique de leur audience vont avoir un problème existentiel.

Parce qu'on ne peut plus mentir à l'échelle locale quand le monde entier regarde.

[iamronen @iamronen]

This history-spanning conversation about the current war with Iran becomes a conversation about avidya itself ( https://t.co/84bqwaoDS0 ):
https://t.co/3fxtEWbzF6

[iamronen @iamronen]

@RichDecibels War & politics are ugly. & having lived in Europe 14 years, my impression is that it may have lost the capacity to clearly recognize evil and consequently the coherence needed to engage it.

+ I may be biased & haven't slept a whole night in 5 weeks. Evil is more tangible here.

[iamronen @iamronen]

"The Arab armies had no technical advantages, but they were fanatically motivated."
~7th century AD

[iamronen @iamronen]

In the building next to ours, on the second floor there are two old women who are not mobile and cannot get to a bomb shelter in time. Apparently the entry door frame is the best they can do.

[iamronen @iamronen]

Following a night with no sirens & no congestion in my breath, I got on the mat. Ujjayi sound filled my consciousness & instantly reminded me of the sound of launching interceptor missiles & for a brief moment my consciousness also soared freely through the universe. #funnymind

[maro @ProofofMaro]

‘AI will take your job’

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

When a Nazi officer entered Picasso's studio in occupied Paris, he saw a reproduction of Guernica. Shocked by the modernist 'chaos' of the painting that depicted the bombing of civilians during war, the fascist asked, "Did you do that?"

Picasso replied, "No, you did."

[Philip Rosedale @philiprosedale]

This is so beautiful. And so important to study. This phenomena (emergent coherence) is central to much of life, and most people don't even imagine it could happen.