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There is no fate but what we make.

[seed @seedphi]

this account got too serious for its own sake.
it's too real, too political.

so @1i__is my new alt!
MUCH cooler tone
unfiltered public log: tech/AI experiments!

and @grok spontaneously made this pic of 1i while we were chatting about fun @imagine vids!

come join the fun :D

[seed @seedphi]

@MaineFrameworks interesting, thanks! bookmarked for reading later

[seed @seedphi]

Elon is alien-level philosophy

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starlink is alien-level technology

[Rachel V @RachelVT42]

For those who are lost and don’t know what to do now that they can’t simply quote post other people’s post or take screenshots of them, here is a quick how to guide:

- step one, just do things
- step two, tell us all about it.

Alternatively, you could just:

- go sulk in a corner
- tell us all about how unfair life is
- threaten to storm out and never come back (don’t let the door hit you on your way out. 😱)

Once you’re done throwing yourself a pity party, you’re allowed to come back and tell us what you’re actually planning to do to improve your own life, and/or someone else’s.

There’s a fork in the road right in front of you, anon. Choose your own adventure, and may you take the path which is the right one for you.

If you don’t? Just level up and come back once you’re ready to actually do some hard work.

[seed @seedphi]

do NOT host your own email server

there's a real and high risk you'll get your domain banned by major providers (even if you do it right, even if you've done it professionally at Google)

just buy a domain name and use a provider like Proton or Fastmail to connect it (MX records etc)

let specialists do the hard part, it's a full-time job.

[seed @seedphi]

people always wake up 10 years after the fact

hints:
- some domains cost <$10/yr
(I recommend Spaceship, they have a handy API)
- Proton just works (good docs too)

First time? You can be done in 10 minutes with a good agent like Hermes (or 20 with a normie chat, 30 on your own; all GUI clicks)

Once you know how to do it, literally takes all of two minutes to set up a new email domain from buy to finish.

[saila @sailaunderscore]

Becoming increasingly worried that Google owns the authentication service to 99% of my life through my email.

[seed @seedphi]

@gikogently @justalexoki ちゃん は くん じゃない

[seed @seedphi]

@justalexoki Because of You

[seed @seedphi]

i think it's a category error because humans retrofit the computing model into biology as a first principle that would explain it all

every era of physics makes the same mistake (e.g. steam engine: "humans are just microscopic steam machines, we'll crack that in 20 years")

whereas biology keeps eluding all other scientific fields by orders of magnitude it's not even funny

which, IMHO and naively, hints that we're only considering a partial view (think trying to analyze a whole planet when you only see the surface afar from space)

[seed @seedphi]

@shady_kaman @Angora_Felis @GalaLunaWolf @chefthechefuh that's neat and makes a lot of sense

but these are decades, not generations of parents/children

and these are all basically the computing tech tree

there's a lot more, like pre/post EU in Europe, 911, 2008 CFG, covid, etc. (now wars…) that have impacted life in major ways

[seed @seedphi]

oh that's so true

most born after 2002-ish would have this major "hickup" before entering adulthood. that's bound to leave some scars...

OK so roughly
20 years, 1981-2001 for gen Y/Millennials
then gen Z 02-19-ish
then gen Alpha/AI into the late 30s/early 40s

I still can't escape the fact that I see a major ❔ by the late 30s (not the planned type; more of an organic awakening / new cycle, as they come every 80-100 years or so). I'd wager too many people have had their eyes opened to the flaws of the current / then-old system not to seek some renewal by the time we (gen Y/Z) finally come to power demographically. Especially with AI now in the picture, totally.

[seed @seedphi]

unpopular opinion:

Millenials are 1981-2007 (from microcomputer to GFC and Web 2.0), 26 years

Zoomers will be 2008-2038 (from GFC to ❔), 30-ish years

"Alphas" are ten years away.

Gen length increases because it takes longer to build a life/family, if you even can, in the 21st century. May change dramatically for the better after ❔

[seed @seedphi]

thing is, 1981-1994 makes no sense for a "generation" (you don't have kids at 15 yo lol). So 1981-2005 is more like it (24 years, that's more like it).

Gen Z is far from being identifiable yet, but most likely something like 2006-2030 or so.

It's just that marketing and the media always want to make you believe there's a new hot thing but no, 17 or 15 years is not a full generation, whether biological or in the Strauss–Howe sense of that theory. These shorter bouts are more like cultural trends, good old decades, and they do overlap or vary by country.

[seed @seedphi]

thing is, 1981-1994 makes no sense for a "generation" (you don't have kids at 15 yo lol). So 1981-2005 is more like it (24 years, that's more like it).

Gen Z is far from being identifiable yet, but most likely something like 2006-2030 or so.

It's just that marketing and the media always want to make you believe there's a new hot thing but no, 17 or 15 years is not a full generation, whether biological or in the Strauss–Howe sense of that theory. These shorter bouts are more like cultural trends, good old decades, and they do overlap or vary by country.

[Danny Limanseta @DannyLimanseta]

Just tried vibecoding with ThreeJS again (after more than 6 months) and I have to say that the models have gotten much better at coding with ThreeJS and creating 3D models from scratch.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

OpenAI's new image model GPT-Image-2 has leaked

It seems to have extremely good world knowledge and great text rendering

Possibly better than Nano Banana Pro

It's on @arena under code names:
- maskingtape-alpha
- gaffertape-alpha
- packingtape-alpha

[seed @seedphi]

every ~~bubble~~ I mean, S-curve, has its own cultural identity, fashion codes

the Web had all these double-vowel names for intance

this time around it's humanized personification, much like games have a hero/mascot, probably because apps can now distill more storytelling in the UX, gamify / fictionalize the experience

[seed @seedphi]

@RobinNakamoto @LawrenceBitcoin @freddienew any pointers? 😃

[seed @seedphi]

@DaveShapi almost no one
and for the wrong reasons usually

[seed @seedphi]

people don't know Jensen.
veterans of the first GeForce GPUs know he's the OG shittalker, well before Elon.

that's just how he rolls, he makes oversized claims, overpromises like it's 1999. nobody in their right mind should buy products on marketing claims anyway, let alone shape their worldview

[seed @seedphi]

@LuizaJarovsky you have a PhD, so it should come as obvious that such a narrow world view can't meaningfully represent civilization