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interesting that grok is open-sourcing their system prompt as a crisis response. mea culpa -> open source is pretty rare, recall it happening in the post Zoom-bombing crisis of 2020 (Zoom posted the entire E2EE protocol design and cryptography white-paper on GitHub) & with

the polar opposite of the bro nod (slight nod between gym-going guys on the street) is the Uniqlo aversion (girls avoiding eye contact with each other when they’re both wearing the same item of clothing from Uniqlo)

a nice thing about LLMs is you can capture a photo of a neighbor in a moment of quiet sublime reverie and render it as an oil painting so you’re not invasively doxxing them online

there’s a global pistachio shortage because of Dubai Chocolate

perhaps Joe Weisenthal was right about blaming the lawyers in his Abundance review...

paperclip-punk paperclip-punk paperclip-punk

"It’s currently impossible to prompt an image model to generate anything resembling paperclip-punk..." 🫡

at the phase of my life where I need to decide between getting good at Figma or getting good at React

the best part (apart from the songs) was when Joe reminded us tipping the bartender is now tax-free

the new michelin guide

did Murph today. only one of us wore a 20 lb vest.

convinced all nyc/sf men would be happier if they were alive in the 1890’s. all of the benefits of living in a big city, but also ride horses everywhere and openly carry guns.

recently read the Graydon Carter & Keith McNally memoirs (ex-EIC of Vanity Fair / restaurant entrepreneur respectively) and what's so clear is that magazines and new restaurants were so obviously the startups of their time. the 80's were a heyday for new media and third places --

the single cruelest thing you can say to a man who beats you at chess is “I thought you would beat me sooner”