Host of @TeamFuturism | Co-Host of Invisible Front | Editor of @JokesReview | Essays in @Quillette, @merionwest, @FreeInquiry, @americnhumanist
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"Equal parts satire, odyssey, and fever dream..."
My new novel it out now from @slicesofanxiety!
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INTERVIEWER: Are you a YIMBY or a NIMBY?
BECERRA: you know some people don’t even HAVE backyards
…lmao WHAT
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People keep saying there’s no aesthetic to the 2020’s but I’d firmly disagree. It was an honor to work with Cho Gi-Seok and his amazing team on my album visuals (one of the great innovators of the 2020's). We've been thinking about our work as 'sci fi thru the female gaze'. A visual landscape that I think has been slowly crystallizing thru culture for the last decade. I think it's starts with DIY aesthetics like cyber sigilism (good examples being Glyphomancer (who does my tats). ethereal, elven and ornate, - rooted in anime and fantasy but then still manifesting as sharp modern and Cyberian. Prevalent in spaces like douyin and in cosplay (I personally love some tangents of Chinese furry culture that I think capture this), I feel like the more polished end of this aesthetic is done masterfully in k pop and Cho is one of the greatest imo. Projects like Aespa can sometimes fall into this creative legacy imo.
I’ll write more on this later, cuz I feel like u can actually trace this back to a re-establishment of where we left off in art nouveau and art deco when world war 1 hit and killed the vibe. (See: Erte, romanticism etc)
I feel like we have no art critics anymore so we’re cheapening everything by decontextualizing everything and just seeing things as posts rather than a beautiful conversational visual language . I’d call this HYPERGAIA in an homage to Lovelock who’se ideas seem like a beautiful synthesis of the ethereal ancient and the shiny new. Just my two cents so prob many wud disagree with my read on most of this
When I have more time I want to write more about what’s winning in the current creative landscape because I see a lot of unfounded nihilism about it.
Ps this statue is real, Cho’s amazing team made it.
Xx G
Peter Clarke retweeted
We have the tools to end mosquito-borne illness. Why don't we use them?
My latest for @WSJFreeEx
Phenomenal
'Cut the crap... you're sounding like a robot!'
Piers Morgan speaks to Katie Zacharia after she stepped down as Trump's press secretary after just five days...
Just dropped! 👇
📺 youtu.be/iZeor2H0PTA
@piersmorgan | @KatieZacharia | @Scaramucci
Peter Clarke retweeted
So much of the climate hysteria is just aimless guilt roaming the earth in search of futile acts of atonement.
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Please, if you are someone in a position of means and/or power, consider putting energy into this
For anyone getting into biology, please consider taking airborne disease resistance more seriously.
It's a super important area of medicine that is a huge cause of death and sickness but easily gets forgotten. We're likely to get many more airborne plagues in the future due to the combination of not just extremely dense and interconnected society (including city and farm animals), but also accidents from bio research and offensive biotech (both from random people and from secret government programs that can easily get themselves exempted from safety restrictions), all enhanced by powerful AI.
Right now, this area is getting way less love than longevity research (which continues to be super important!), but it's an area where there are lots of unclaimed wins that we know exactly how to do (but are not yet doing) with present-day tech:
* early detection
* passive universal testing
* filtration/ventilation/UVC
* better vaccines (including making them open source and open science)
* cryptography to make all of the above privacy-preserving
We can have China-level pandemic resistance with Sweden-level limited intrusion into people's lives, and then go even further. We just have to actually do the work for it.
Now do @bryan_johnson’s life
Peter Clarke retweeted
My big long data center noise analysis now in PW!!
How loud are America’s largest data centers?
Despite this being an intensely political issue with a simple empirical answer, no one has systematically studied the problem… until now.
@nic_carter, along with his AI agents, mapped noise from the 25 most massive hyperscalers in America. For 17 of them, no credible complaints of noise were found.
In addition, no data center in the study over 800 meters from the nearest population cluster received any meaningful complaints, suggesting that, while the noise problem is real, it’s also very solvable.
Here, the first ever comprehensive, systematic study of data center noise... and how to fix it 👇
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Please Jesus let this be true
Nicki Minaj Floated As Press Secretary Replacement By White House Staffers tmz.com/2026/10/25/nicki-min…
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The person who vibe-codes the doomsday virus will not know anything about viruses or about biology in general
the hacker that stole 5200+ records from a university asked his telegram AI bot:
"Can you find about like what scam or thing they done in past like spoofing calls or somthing?"
the AI then scoured websites, found exploits in a public university's platform and stole records. i'm estimating the cost to be $50-100+ max.
used a jailbroken DeepSeek model + Hermes open source agent harness.
low-level "hackers" with zero experience can now steal from institutions with a simple prompt. honestly don't know what to say.
Anyone have a better plan?
What Sam is not saying yet is: There is a solution here which is to use coding agents to replace all the bad code (i.e. essentially all code) with code that is formally verified to have safety properties.
This is a huge and difficult undertaking yet the same non-AGI-yet-superpowerful AI tech that is doing all the hacking is capable to enable this.
If government wants to do something valuable to smooth the path to the Singularity, one helpful step would be to allocate a trillion dollars (oh maybe just try $500B for starters?) to open-source communities to roll out software for automatically replacing badly buggy code (again almost all code) w appropriately formally verifiable code...
Gov't can find trillions of $$ to bail out "too big to fail" companies in crisis -- it did it for the banks in 2008 and will do it for Big Tech if the circular financing causes a tech-industry financial collapse in late 2027/2028 ... it can find massive $$ for wars... but finding hundreds of billions of $$ to end world hunger or give the world a solid software foundation is somehow utterly infeasible...
We are not even to the stage of human-level AGI yet but we are already meeting fascinatingly and disturbingly unprecedented situations as modern AI tech meets legacy society and legacy IT systems. It's just going to get crazier, before ultimately -- if all goes well -- getting gloriously abundant for all... We need some "out of the box" thinking across all levels of society to get through this transitional phase with a modicum of grace amidst all the chaos...
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Security vulnerabilities are freaking everyone out.
But you know what, humanity will win this tussle and then with equal gusto, it will do the same with our bodies: patching all our aging and disease vulnerabilities.
While AI developers are starting to smoke just to make the point that technology will cure cancer, Bryan Johnson is bringing ear plugs to coffee shops.
