@VoidAsuka Our brains are just not wired to handle the excesses of modern life, between the extremely addictive junk food, endless news cycle and social media dopamine hits and now this.
The safeguarding of our attention is our biggest challenge and also our most important work.
My newest project is building all my loved ones custom cyberdecks for the p2p mesh network I run. Inspo images :)
I was gonna send out the hardware and make people build it themselves but the chances of them actually completing it is nil. May as well have fun customizing them ✨
@stellachenyl As someone growing up in Singapore, unfortunately I tend to agree. I went to a Chinese school in Singapore. Even then, a lot of my classmates wear being westernized as a badge of honor because they do not want to associate with mainlander Chinese that they perceive to be uncool
@stellachenyl@cmc_r3vilo The Hungry Ghost Festival is also widely observed. You’ll see people burning joss paper, setting up offerings, and organizing getai performances. In fact, some of these practices are even more visible in Singapore than in mainland China today
@stellachenyl@cmc_r3vilo yes and no.
Chinese Singaporeans still follow quite a lot of Chinese traditions. For example, Chinese New Year people celebrate with reunion dinners, traditional foods, and visiting relatives.
“The luminous and shocking beauty of the everyday is something I try to remain alert to, if only as an antidote to the chronic cynicism and disenchantment that seems to surround everything, these days.”
— Nick Cave
@StevenGlinert She said she had to deal with death threats and physical assaults at Stanford, don't think it's strictly an online thing but maybe more noise on X
@henloitsjoyce It is the result of having too many cool people and options for things to do.
When I was living in SF, it was common for people to agree to plans and then flake because they had a better offer. That's why it's called San Fran Flakers
2026 is the year capital flows into biotech.
2012 - CRISPR discovered, nobody knows what to do with it
2018 - Gene therapy costs $2M per treatment, completely unscalable
2020 - mRNA works but gets written off as a COVID fluke
2023 - AI eats software, biotech still stuck in 20-year timelines
2024 - Autonomous labs emerge, longevity gets institutional backing
2025 - FDA shifts, manufacturing costs drop 40%, DeSci bypasses gatekeepers
2026 - AI running 36K experiments autonomously, gene therapy costs dropped 40%, FDA fast-tracking, €2.5M crowdfunded in 72 hours, and biology just hit software velocity
bio/acc.
@munawwarfiroz@metakuna Lol I wish. Train tickets in the Netherlands are prohibitively expensive. Most people people who travel for work pay a few hundred euros per month, and could only afford it because the company pays for it.
@levelsio I honestly don't get why they don't sell it. I've only ever used one iphone, and the rose gold was a factor in that. It can't be that the demand for that is not high enough.
There’s no way Ancient China and the Aztec empire both just so happened to come up with almost the exact same idea
The only logical explain here is that dragons were real but have been hunted to the point of almost near extinction over the centuries