listening -> building trust -> increasing capacity -> doing things

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roll call 🗽💚🫂 who is currently in New York City for climate week?

rebranding AI to "super intelligence" at the UN sounds like pure comedy, but the underlying signal is dead serious. trump framing compute as a pure zero-sum geopolitical race ("whoever wins SI wins") shows how nation states view frontier models: not as public infrastructure. not as open coordination tools. just pure national power and dominance. the problem with top-down state accelerationism is obvious: it accelerates centralized silos, ignores verifiable execution, and treats safety/decentralization as friction to get rid of. if your entire defense against adversarial technology is just "our centralized model needs to be bigger than theirs", you get rekt on systemic fragility. this is why d/acc matters. we don't need nation-state compute monopolies racing to build opaque AGI fortresses. we need defensive acceleration: - open source primitives - decentralized compute and verifiable agents - defensive hardware and resilient infrastructure renaming a technology in government paperwork changes zero underlying mechanics. building resilient, trustless systems does. 🫡

NYC!

Passed out & got hospitalised from dehydration The universe is forcing me to rest for 2 days It’s crazy that planting trees for 24 hours in the Kenyan heat didn’t do this to me Yet grinding in Tulum did, I had water, just clearly not enough You hydrating enough, anon?

this reminds me of when i kept being told to go to iceland in the most specific and random ways and then when i finally visited immediately understood why.

Unfortunately even some of the people and orgs we respect and admire most still associate themselves and work with extractors and bad actors. Until I find an organization truly free from that to vouch for again, I’ll continue to make my own way in this space🫰🏽 Remember you don’t need to attach yourself to any one group to succeed. Follow your intuition, give your time only to those who’ve proven worthy of your trust and presence💕 Welcome to my Ted talk on how to reduce your stress and save more of your precious time and attention.

I want to share what happened to me, because I'm still in shock and I want to prevent from happening to others. Two weeks ago, an old friend reached out to catch up through @telegram I said yes. I've been job hunting, I miss my professional friends, and honestly, hearing from someone I hadn't talked to in a while felt good. We got on a video call. My mic glitched partway through, so I installed the update it asked for. I didn't think twice. It was my friend's face. My friend's voice. The conversation was normal. Nothing about it felt wrong. That update was malware. I was temporarily trading on a hot wallet @MetaMask . (I know, idiot move). While we talked, it was quietly draining everything I owned. 1.7 BTC. 10 ETH. Around $180,000. Gone before I even knew to be afraid. That money wasn't just numbers to me. It was five years of discipline, of saying no to things so I could say yes to my future. It was the down payment on a house. It was the freedom to retire early, or at least feel some sense of security. I used to tell people I was financially independent. I was proud of that. It was proof I could take care of myself. Now I open my wallet and see zero, and I feel something I've never let myself feel before: helpless. Defeated. Destitute. I'm unemployed right now too, actively interviewing, trying to hold it together while I process losing my savings and rebuild a career at the same time. Some days I feel stupid for trusting someone I've known for years. Most days I just feel numb, replaying what happened over and over. I'm sharing this publicly for another reason too. This wasn't a random phishing email or an obvious scam. It was a deepfake, real-time, on a video call, with a face and voice I'd known for years. If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone, and I don't want the embarrassment of admitting that to stop me from warning other people. If a "friend" ever asks you to install something mid-call, especially anything framed as fixing audio or video, stop and verify through a separate channel first, a text, a call to a number you already had, another social media platform, anything outside that same conversation. Don't do it in the moment, no matter how real it looks or sounds. Now, here’s the hard part for me. I’m not asking because I think I'm owed anything. I'm asking because I don't know what else to do, and because I know there are people out there who understand how fast something like this can happen to anyone, no matter how careful you think you are. If you can give anything, it matters more than you know. If you can't, please share this. Someone reading it might warn someone else, or reach someone who can help. Thank you for reading this far. Thank you for however you're able to show up for me. And please reach out to me if you’re able to help.

Genuinely excited for today in nyc ! Bringing together musicians & creativity for the Amazon with speeches from water & rainforest activists Come join / invite people to rock & souk in Manhattan happening now for the next 8 hours eventbrite.com/e/bewun-clima…

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that part good to be back in NYC indeed :)

bags out just a few mins after I walk out the plane, smell of weed stepping out of JFK, cool air and fall weather, with half the people in front of me walking super fast as they lug their bags with efficiency and the other half walking slow and looking glazy eyed as they take it all in. it’s SO good to be back home 💝

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and we did it, my first 10k 🙌🏻

Sometimes seeing real care hurts, because I notice most clearly what is missing or what has been lost, rather than what we came from and what can still be nurtured. It is a little like a pain doctor who has never seen a healthy person and only knows the symptoms. Watching our daughter being welcomed by so many hands gave me a glimpse of what healthy social soil can feel like. Not to romanticize, just something I could actually see and feel around us. Remembering that these ways of caring for each other exist, and can be nurtured, makes me hopeful.

Look for those who are going to where you want to go and get into conversations with them.

I’m 33 Ex-McKinsey because I didn’t want to wait until I made partner to start changing the systems we live in. Now hosting @EdgeCity in India 🇮🇳 Let’s connect if you like yapping about the future of food, cities, and how humans live 🌱🏙️

I used buildy.ai to take this web site wish offered to the Xiverse and create the actual web app. Check it out at buymeabook.online A Book Wishlist app that is independent of book sellers and help promote local book stores through Bookshop service. It's a beta site, come create a basic account and test it out.