Reggie James
@HipCityReg
Everybody worships.
First ever book launch on @tbpn? "HARDWARE 2024" is a 260 page love letter to the builders that allow us to dream of new devices Hardcover book shipping in a few weeks!!! Order here & share with a friend ❣️ hardwarebook2024.com
Ok, enough people are texting me about this account. Please report so they can leave me and my friends alone! @nikitabier please help ya boy x.com/reggiejamess
Great artists, engineers, and researchers are indistinguishable from one another.
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The visions themselves are not very compelling +++ folks don’t even have the capacity to think through the consequences of the technology at scale — because they don’t have eyes beyond profit incentives
what’s the most persuasive argument against techno acceleration you’ve ever encountered?
xAI buys Snap
🆕 @elonmusk started to follow @evanspiegel (🤖💭: i need a conspiracy theory about this)
Jonathan Anderson making a subtly swagged out screen version of Sam & Ilya Gonna have me like this
Jonathan Anderson has confirmed that he will be the costume designer for Luca Guadagnino’s next film ‘ARTIFICIAL.’ The confirmed cast so far includes Yura Borisov, Andrew Garfield and Cooper Koch.
This was going to be an essay / app. But I’m just going to post instead @worldcoin is good for 1 thing & 1 thing only right now HUMAN VERIFIED REMOTE LABOR Idk why devs haven’t caught on to this. The crowd they onboarded doesn’t have cash to burn But they do have time to earn
Victor Shi on @dwarkesh_sp talks about how part of DeepSeek training was focused on tracking CCP Policy Which feels like a more direct “alignment” strategy than how I perceive Anthropic alignment of “trust” and “faith” in model outputs These Dwarkesh China episodes have been A+
Have been thinking about how to break out of venture timelines, in order to have the tolerance for longer and more stable quests Particularly for speculative design research & play Very inspired by what endowments seem to allow for universities and other institutions Any…
It currently feels like technology only wants the “heroic” archetype & maximizing their self-expression It completely crowds out other ideas of founder archetypes & vectors of expression Not only do we lose critical identities if everyone is meant to be a hero. We lose the plot
“When you don’t have to design around a screen all the time, you can do some crazy ass shit.” — @freddyanzures My favorite part of the talk The lack of optionality in hardware today, and how that closes us off when new options are presented
Pushed to the Edge w/ @HipCityReg at House of Paper FEST25 is Aug 1-3 in Idyllwild, CA. Tickets are $99 🌟 fwbfest.info
Bitcoin & ETH are the hedges against the dollar but not for the reason we initially thought Major institutions & governments alike aren’t going to go down with their own currency ship They’ll exit the crisis they constructed. And call it a logical evolution Thank you Satoshi