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beth mccarthy (🪄,✨) retweeted
The Ambhasī residency is underway.
We are very happy to share with you the residents selected for this cohort in Goa, which officially started this Sunday and will run until November 1st.
In collaborative partnership with @JoinEdgeCity, The Consciousness Foundation and Mind at Large, these two weeks bring together researchers, theoretical computer scientists, and philosophers to explore AI and consciousness.
Meet the residents:
Anna Mikeda
Athiye Jawad
@bscotrousse
@chris_percy
Daphne Demekas
@georgejwdeane
Guilio Trichilo
Hongju Pae
Jay Luong
Naina Elira Gupta
@pkmital
Patrick Astarita
Peter Skov Andersen
Rían Czerwiński
@rjdrost
Tessa Maneewong
Tuuli Utriainen
Will Taysom
Wyatt Rodgers
Raj Kishore Nath
hear me out: "berghain in SF" purely to bully people into considering their clothing choices and put this shit away for a few hours
DO NOT build Berghain in SF
ESPECIALLY DO NOT if your goal is “becoming the coolest, most tasteful social scene on Earth”
berghain can only work in a place where you can credibly not care about the status and class of the guy ketaminely grinding on your leg. the most vip treatment anyone can get is skipping the queue, after which they queue for tickets and wardrobe like everyone else. they specifically do not let you in if you don’t look like you can party for 24h without looking at your phone or looking for your friends
pics are prohibited. just imagine the loopholes San Franciscans would come up with; they cannot eat a steak without twitter knowing
and the fukken gossip—spare me. Berghain is incompatible with girlchat.
you came to the bay to see the coming age through. focus on that and stop being so fucking cheugy
beth mccarthy (🪄,✨) retweeted
🚨We need tech funding without venture capital
Wouter Tebbens has spent more than 20 years building open source and cooperative alternatives to big tech. At DWeb Camp he helped launch the Democratic Tech Fund, an alternative to VC.
FULL EPISODE BELOW
beth mccarthy (🪄,✨) retweeted
Lots of Security incidents today, here's some practical tips for those who just wanna protect yourself:
1) UPDATE EVERYTHING - main targets are:
a) Browsers - Chrome, Safari, Firefox
b) OS: : Settings -> General -> software update; Linux: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade; Windows: I think there's a button. Do this for any remote home servers & Openclaw/hermes boxes
c) Phones: Update it all
d) Desktop apps (Slack, Cursor, Discord, etc)
2) Limit web browsing this week: Stay within walled gardens (twitter, youtube, etc); don't click random links this week. Just wait until the patches go through. Do step 1 again after a week.
3) Avoid untrusted Wifi networks until your devices are updated
4) Stay vigilant about phishing emails offering "certificate fixes" or fraud updates
5) Have an iPhone 11-16? TURN BLUETOOTH OFF for the time being until apple patches come through.
6) Code/Dev: UPDATE ALL YOUR REPOS - @charliermarsh has already updated uv 0.13.4 which reacts to the eMudra incident for uv (Python), Typesript according to Claude has equivelant. Tell your agents to go and update all your active repos to update package manager across uv, npm, bun, cargo, etc etc
What advice did I miss?
beth mccarthy (🪄,✨) retweeted
Thanks for sharing the proposal and I'm very excited / hopeful that we can build something that can take the best from Artizen while keeping out the failure modes it had.
Some extra thoughts on the proposal on my side:
- one of the main issues with Artizen in the long run was the lack of financial transparency and we can solve this be keeping things onchain
- keeping principal and only paying out yield is a proven method for long term capital accumulation while doing good
- this very much aligns with what we've been building these past years with @breadcoop and we've been able to prove it while giving out over $60k to projects in grants
- giving out the same multiples as what Artizen was giving was just not sustainable so we should be more reaslistic / honest about it by providing financial transparency
- I think there's a lot to learn from the gamification mechanics with points that are worth continuing because it allowed curational voice for people even if they didn't support with funding
As you said, we were also affected by what happened so we are quite motivated to get this right and provide a fundraising mechanism for similar kinds of projects!
beth mccarthy (🪄,✨) retweeted
@allmodelsRwrong i wrote up a temp check for a @gitcoin x @breadcoop collab: an artizen-inspired crowdfunding app people can actually trust.
we'd keep the fun parts (up to 4x match, leaderboards, fiat ux) and rebuild what sits underneath:
- match on-chain + visible before a round opens
- match funded only from yield that already accrued
- principal locked in a permanent fund
- no single person can stop payouts
- round rules in the contracts, changeable only for future rounds
thousands of ppl just learned what matching feels like, then what losing it feels like. i'd love to catch them while they're still energized.
you've lived this harder than i have (bread got caught in it too). where's the design wrong, and what would the mvp need for you to trust it with your own community?
gov.gitcoin.co/t/temp-check-…
beth mccarthy (🪄,✨) retweeted
Apart Research is hiring:
• Fellowships Lead: $100K to $160K, apply by 21 Oct
• Chief Operating Officer: up to $200K, apply by 27 Oct
• Director of Research Programs: $120K to $180K, apply by 3 Nov
• Special Projects Manager: $90K to $160K, full- or part-time, apply by 3 Nov: Apply Here
I don't work there, but if one of these sounds like a fit for you, please let me know directly so I can help you out. apartresearch.com/careers
beth mccarthy (🪄,✨) retweeted
🌐 This Wednesday, Oct 21, join the @internetarchive’s Annual Celebration in San Francisco! 🎉
Visit the DWeb table, meet fellow DWebbers, and explore “Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation.” 💚
🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/democracys-…
#DWeb #InternetArchive
ALT graphic showing a temple inviting to the Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation event.
beth mccarthy (🪄,✨) retweeted
📸 DWeb Camp: Root Systems. The camp may be over, but the memories are very much alive. 💚
From workshops to campfires, conversations, unexpected encounters, relive the magic in our photo gallery: dwebcamp.org/photos/!✨
Did you spot yourself? 🌼
#DWeb #DWebCamp
ALT Wendy Hanamura, Tony Lai, Brewster Kahle and other participants clapping and raising hands into the sky during Closing Cerimony at Linden Theater
ALT People standing with tents and lights in the background
ALT Five people gathered in a circle under a white tent
ALT Robyn Pan smiling in front of a computer monitor.
beth mccarthy (🪄,✨) retweeted
Disco Elysium is so cool I wish being cripplingly mentally ill while trying to navigate a confusing world inhabited by people with nonsensical ideologies who refuse to acknowledge the world is slowly ending was real
beth mccarthy (🪄,✨) retweeted
If you’re around Berlin next week, come have a chat and a drink with us.
Announcing that Pleias will be at Berlin for the @NVIDIAGTC and we'll host a synthetic data mixer on October 21: apéritif/diner all about synth and baguette models.
beth mccarthy (🪄,✨) retweeted
Announcing that Pleias will be at Berlin for the @NVIDIAGTC and we'll host a synthetic data mixer on October 21: apéritif/diner all about synth and baguette models.
beth mccarthy (🪄,✨) retweeted
If you're interested in constructing something new out of the situation then I suggest checking out the showcase I made for a new on-chain and auditable version of what Artizen was trying to do that I've been building using the @breadcoop stack
tbsoc.github.io/pastry
beth mccarthy (🪄,✨) retweeted
🌐 DWeb is heading to the @internetarchive’s Annual Celebration in San Francisco on Oct 21!
Come visit our volunteer-hosted DWeb table 💚 and explore this year’s theme: “Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation.”
🎟️ Register: eventbrite.com/e/democracys-…
#DWeb #event
ALT graphic showing a temple inviting to the Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation event.
