East Village Villain

yes.

[‏ً @fwcodex]

the old man in the neighborhood told me "don’t forget that the compass was invented before the clock because direction is more important than time"

[Matt Stockton @mstockton]

I agree with this fully. There is a totally new role emerging here. It's a net new role, and requires a somewhat unique set of skills.

This is a nascent idea / stream of conciousness, but the reason I know it exists is because this is essentially what I am doing right now for a handful of companies.

Skills that are useful for this role:
- Systems thinking
- Being good at interviewing people to understand what they do and asking good questions.
- Building diagrams / mental models of how work flows within an organization
- Being on the leading edge of agentic coding platforms (e.g. Claude Code)
- Experimentation mindset
- Asking questions until you fully understand the job to be done
- Realizing that sometimes the job to be done is to completely change the job to be done
- Communicating across different functions, but in a way that forces changes versus build alignment
- Courage to try new things

Lots of other stuff I missed, but if you blur your eyes, these traits all kind of distill down to:
- curiosity
- agency
- willingness to learn new thing
- courage to fundamentally change a lot of things that people just assume are the right way to do things, but no longer hold.

You need to be willing to burn a lot of things down, in a way that gets folks on the ship and makes them better.

It's an amazing time to be building things, and if this vaguely sounds like you --- go for it. Nothing is figured out yet, and you are the one that can help figure it all out.

[AdiiX @adiix_official]

Anthropic released an update for Claude, and one young guy turned $1,400 into $238,000 in 11 days

His account is 0xdE17.

He is not a trader. Not a developer. Just a student with a laptop and access to Claude.

When Anthropic updated the skills architecture for Claude, he didn’t sleep for two nights, read the documentation, and built a bot from scratch.

Result:

$1,430 → $238,006 in 11 days

366 trades.

Win rate 62%.

The biggest win $52,700 on a single bet.

How it works:

The bot scans Polymarket every few seconds looking for markets where the price deviates from the fair value by more than 8%.

That’s the edge.

Most people don’t see it the bot always does.

The strategy is painfully simple

- The market says 30¢ for an event
- The real probability based on data is 55¢
- The bot enters. Waits. Exits at the peak.

This isn’t luck. It’s attention arbitrage.

The biggest trade was a bet that Trump would sign a crypto executive order in March. The market priced it at 28¢.

The bot placed $16,000.

Exited at 81¢.

In 11 days he went through a journey most traders don’t go through in years.

Now his wallet is public, and with the help of this terminal you will be able to copy his trades in time:

https://t.co/16m8qZ7ehr

Bot 0xdE17 CLAWD BTC SNIPER is open for
copy-trade.

People ask him:

“How much starting capital do you need?”

He replied:

“I had $1,400 and a sleepless night.”

Anthropic gave the tool.

He simply wasn’t afraid to use it.

[taoki @justalexoki]

"can you hop on a quick call?" can you hop off a quick bridge

[Avery Edison @aedison]

a friend of mine was the absolute top-performing employee at his job, blew everyone else away, and he was let go because he just *could not* get up in time to be in at 9am. all the early bedtimes, alarm clocks, phone calls and door knocks in the world couldn’t beat his ADHD

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

The most dangerous assumption in the history of human thought isn't that the Earth is flat, or that the sun orbits us, or that disease comes from bad air.

The most dangerous assumption is one nobody questions because it feels too obvious to question:

"When you open your eyes, are you seeing the world or not?"

You're not.

What you're actually experiencing is a rendering. A constructed hallucination your brain assembles in real time using incomplete sensory data, prior expectations, evolutionary shortcuts, and an enormous amount of pure fabrication.

The feeling of looking out at the world is neurologically backward — your brain is projecting inward, building a model so seamlessly continuous that it never once trips an alarm saying "this is a simulation."

Donald Hoffman at UC Irvine has spent decades building the mathematical and evolutionary case for this. His argument isn't mystical. It's Darwinian, and it's brutal in its logic. Evolution doesn't select for organisms that perceive truth. Evolution selects for organisms that survive. Those two pressures produce completely different sensory systems.

He ran evolutionary game theory simulations pitting organisms that saw reality accurately against organisms that saw only what was fitness-relevant. The truth-seers went extinct every time. Accurate perception is metabolically expensive, informationally overwhelming, and strategically useless. You don't need to know the quantum mechanical structure of a predator to run from it. You just need a fast, cheap signal that says danger, move now.

So that's what your perceptual system became over millions of years — a fast, cheap, heavily compressed interface optimized for navigation and survival, not accurate representation.

Hoffman calls it the Interface Theory of Perception, and the computer desktop analogy he uses cuts through the abstraction better than any technical language can.

When you drag a file to the trash on your screen, you interact with a blue icon sitting on a rectangular desktop. That icon doesn't resemble the magnetic charges on the hard drive disk. The desktop doesn't look like binary code. The entire visual interface exists to make the underlying computational reality manageable for a human user who couldn't function if they had to interact with the actual hardware directly.

Your perceptual experience works the same way.

Color doesn't exist in electromagnetic radiation — wavelengths do. Color is a rendering your visual cortex generates to help you sort objects efficiently. Sound doesn't exist in air pressure waves — vibration does. What you hear is a translated, interpreted, emotionally tagged version of physical oscillations. The warmth you feel from sunlight is your nervous system converting photon energy into a thermal sensation your body can act on. None of these translations are the thing itself. They are all interface graphics.

The hard question and the one that stops most people is what lies beneath the interface.

Quantum mechanics has been trying to answer that for a century and keeps arriving at answers that sound like philosophy. At the quantum scale, particles don't have definite positions or definite properties until they're measured. They exist in probability clouds, superpositions of multiple states, and the act of observation — of the universe interacting with itself — is what collapses those possibilities into a single definite event. Physicist John Wheeler spent his later career arguing that the universe is fundamentally "participatory" — that observation isn't passive, that conscious systems don't just watch reality but in some deep sense generate it through the act of looking.

Most people call it fringe metaphysics. But, it's a serious interpretation of peer-reviewed quantum mechanics that has never been disproven.

Combine Wheeler with Hoffman and you get a picture that most people aren't ready for: not only is your perceptual experience a constructed interface rather than a transparent window to reality — but the underlying reality that interface is built on top of may itself be observer-dependent. There may be no "mind-independent" physical world sitting behind your perceptions, waiting to be correctly perceived if only you used better instruments. The instruments change what's there.

Neuroscience closes the loop from the other direction. Anil Seth at the University of Sussex runs one of the world's leading consciousness labs, and his framework — controlled hallucination — converges on Hoffman from pure brain science rather than evolutionary theory. Your brain doesn't receive sensory input and then passively build a picture. It generates a prediction first — a best guess about what's out there based on prior experience — and then uses incoming sensory data only to correct that prediction when it's wrong. What you experience as vision, as touch, as the physical solidity of the chair beneath you, is 90% prediction and 10% correction signal.

When the correction signal stops — when sensory input is cut off through isolation, deprivation, or certain pharmacological states — the predictions don't disappear. They intensify. The brain, without contradiction signals from outside, runs its model at full volume. Hallucination and ordinary perception use the same neural machinery. The only difference is whether external data is disciplining the model or not.

This means your experience of consensus reality is a socially synchronized hallucination — billions of human brains running slightly different prediction models, calibrating against each other through language and shared physical feedback until the models converge enough to call it "the real world."

The convergence is real. The coordination is genuine. But the raw experiential content — the redness of red, the pain of pain, the spatial depth of a landscape, the passage of time itself — none of that exists outside a nervous system to generate it.

What makes this more than an academic conversation about philosophy of mind is what it demands of us practically. Every conflict about "objective reality" — in politics, in relationships, in culture wars, in courtrooms — assumes that two people with the same sensory access to an event should, in principle, converge on the same account of it. But if each person is running a different predictive model shaped by different evolutionary pressures, different developmental histories, different prior beliefs, different neurological architectures — then divergent perceptions of the same event aren't failures of honesty or intelligence.

They're different interfaces rendering the same underlying signal into different outputs.

Knowing your perceptual experience is a rendering doesn't make the rendering less vivid or less useful. The computer desktop metaphor works because it doesn't expose the hardware. Your senses work because they compress overwhelming complexity into something actionable.

But the people who changed history — scientists, artists, philosophers, mystics — all shared one trait across otherwise wildly different domains. At some point, each of them stopped trusting the interface completely. They looked at the rendering and asked what was generating it. They pushed past the icon to the code beneath it.

Every genuine breakthrough in human understanding has been an act of interface-breaking.

The question isn't whether your perceptions are real.

The question is whether you're curious enough to find out what they're made of.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

As an actual private person, I can tell you for a fact that people act very odd when they cannot figure out who you are or what is really going on in your life beyond the surface.

[lexiiiiiiiiiiiii @blondspit]

Is NYC just a city of hot high functioning alcoholics? But first, a word from our sponsor-

[N I q O @NiqoNguyenn]

Yelling out "What she say" b4 a Nicki Minaj song starts makes the song 1000x better Idk why😂

[Sridhar Ramesh @RadishHarmers]

Thank you for your critique. You're not someone I respect, so I don't care what you think of me or want from me.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: Fraud in Minnesota

I’m not sure that most Americans understand that in large swathes of humanity, there is no actual concept of “fraud,” particularly fraud against the government. Instead, there is a belief in the virtue of getting away with what you can to help yourself and your tribe.

I spent a lot of my life in the Middle East and Central Asia, working closely with foreign contractors and foreign governments to provide support to American military operations. As a US Army officer with a big checkbook courtesy of Uncle Sam, I can’t really count the sheer number of times I was offered bribes to award a contract, or falsify records to do things like create larger (fake) headcounts at places like dining facilities, or to just simply be on the take for future illegal requests.

Of course I had enough sense to never comply with such requests. Moreover, they were never explicitly structured as “bribes”; instead it was usually along the lines of “Here I have these Rolexes as gifts for you and your wife to show our friendship.” (Unfortunately, too many US officers and NCOs succumbed to this siren song and ended up breaking rocks in Leavenworth.)

The weird thing about this to me was that whenever I turned down such an offering, it was treated as a grave insult. I was the one in the wrong, and not the fraudster trying to bribe me. They considered it rude that I was in their country and refused to accept how things got done. After all, why did I not want to help my tribe by helping their tribe?

Let me repeat: in these cultures, FRAUD IS NOT EVEN A CONCEPT. There is only what helps your tribe.

Such thought processes are so alien to Americans and much of the West. We are raised on the presumption that our institutions are valid, that the rule of law always prevails, and that integrity is universal. We need these presumptions to have working governments and economies, and without those presumptions—without the mental barrier that causes us not to accept outright fraud—our nation would quickly descend into the economic and social hellscape of countries like…. ummm… you know…. SOMALIA!

So when we import people en masse from cultures that accept bribery and fraud as routine, acceptable ways to advance one’s tribe, we should not be surprised that things like the $8 BILLION fraud schemes of the Somali population in Minnesota happen so easily.

Introducing a fraud-based culture based on tribalism into America is like introducing some sort of lethal virus into a population that has no natural immunity. The virus will spread and grow, unchecked, because it is so alien to the host. Similarly, a culture of fraud is anathema to American thinking, and it must be cut out before it consumes the host.

So when you see and hear patriotic Americans decrying what is happening in Minnesota or elsewhere, and when they seek deportation of the offenders, it is not “racism,” it is not “bigotry,” it is not “xenophobia”; instead, it is preserving the American tradition of responsible institutions and national integrity.

[East Village Villain @ndreu___]

I now understand why the rich guy in Parasite would test new drivers with a coffee to see if it would spill

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

The role of intellectuals is to challenge authority, not serve it.

[East Village Villain @ndreu___]

I want revenge. I’m vengeful!

[Noctara @rumilyrics]

Everything you lost is coming back.

[East Village Villain @ndreu___]

Just got new AirPods after mine broke months ago….I forgot how amazing it is to noise cancel the sirens and people screaming on speaker phone

[DR M @ItsDrMaraj]

Dear Nicki Minaj,

I'm afraid its Time..

[⋆˚࿔ @Indenials6]

i am simultaneously the family’s black sheep and gold star and that’s exactly why i’m the way i am

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

BREAKING: Jacob Frey beats Omar Fateh and wins Minneapolis mayor election.