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I'm proud to announce the Mythic Apollo collection:
Reservations are now open — only 27 made-to-order pieces will ever be created. Each piece will be delivered in the order it was reserved.
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I wanted a beautiful computer and couldn't find one, so I made my own.
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Lmfao I think I found Taleb's Amazon account, it is an absolute trip to read the book reviews he's written
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A friend wanted a beautiful, serene computer. He couldn't find one, so I made one for him.
This is the Mythic II — it has transcription, thermal printing, conversational AI, notes, a pdf/ebook reader, and nothing else.
Reach out if you'd like one:
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At long last, the Mythic IV, "Valkyrie"
Much more coming soon:
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The best-kept secret in the LA area is the Apex Surplus Corporation in Sun Valley — I implore you to take a field trip
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This is the Mythic I. I carved it by hand from solid maple and walnut. It has a custom mechanical keyboard, a keyed on-switch, a full-grain Italian leather wrist rest, and an operating system that runs nothing but a 90s era word processor and a shell
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Some very nice press on Mythic:
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Some very kind press on Mythic:
Software engineer
@keegan_mcnamara
creates custom laptops with an eye toward beauty and endurance. He’s one facet of the larger “right to repair” movement and the pushback against planned obsolescence.
By
@ericspitznagel
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I am continually blown away by how easily Noam Chomsky can conjure up historical evidence in conversation and debate, but as soon as I recall what his office looks like, the surprise quickly fades.
Read, kids.
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Things started when I went to the Met with my beautiful girlfriend
@annasofialesiv
last summer and saw the Arms and Armor collection. The collection has a few dozen 'presentation arms', aka ornate guns made for nobility. Here are a few examples:
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Computers are centrally important functional objects in our era. But the status quo for the 'computer' is a plastic and metal box that acts as a portal to sites that strip-mine people of their humanity. Why aren't there any computers that the Met wants to put in a collection?
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I was struck by the fact that these were all functionally guns - they shot projectiles down a tube - but they had been lifted up aesthetically into something beyond plain utility. They were beautiful.
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The next few months were a blur of implementation details - buying lumber, lots of hand-sawing, chiseling, scraping, and shellac'ing. Some programming and soldering. It was very fun, and much better than the more normal software engineering I'd been doing for years prior.
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After much sweat and a healthy amount of blood, I've finally arrived at a point where I want to show what I've made. The personal computer doesn't need to continue being an ugly, psychological terror, and I hope that someday there's a flourishing marketplace of alternatives.
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overheard: your life will suck by default but you'll get complete freedom to make it as beautiful as you can imagine is America's deal on a spiritual level
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And if you're interested in commissioning a Mythic Computer of your own, send me an email with the word "inquiry" in the subject at keegan
@mythic
.computer. Forewarning on pricing: these take a lot of time to construct, and I only use the best materials.
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I approached this design problem with the two classical threads: form and function.
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I spent a couple of months mulling over the most beautifully formed objects I could find (classic cars, grand buildings, antique furniture, exquisite arms and armor) and covering my floors with modeling clay shavings. Eventually, I had made a shape I liked.
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Phonk is the current aesthetic epitome of cybernetics. Teenage anons from Kazakhstan use pirated Ableton copies to make tracks that are 80% pure software music 20% literal favela rap samples and then release them with anime screenshots as cover art. They get picked up as meme
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I'm moving to Berkeley!
Related: It's difficult to grasp the natural beauty of the US without driving on I-70 from Denver to where it dead-ends near Sulphurdale, Utah
If you see a light blue Subaru with a LaTeX bumper sticker, it's probably me : )
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Dryden and Chuck started from a shoebox apartment in SoHo and will finish in a new city. Praxis is the most ambitious startup in existence, and it's brimming with highly intelligent, highly driven people. Truly a force to be reckoned with.
Praxis is building the city of the future.
We’re pleased to announce our $15mm Series A led by
@Paradigm
(
@caseykcaruso
@FEhrsam
@arjunblj
), with
@sama
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@maxaltman
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@AlamedaResearch
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@3ac
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@zhusu
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@robotventures
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@tarunchitra
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Met a guy curled up on a manhole cover in the middle of a snowstorm today in Denver. His name was Nick. (thread)
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Imagine thinking that driving a lambo with a balenciaga tee on is aristocratic when people are out there hunting duck using the peregrine falcon they tamed
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@devonzuegel
~80% of my wardrobe is thrift store clothes! People donate incredibly nice stuff in wealthy places like Boulder or SF (and sometimes fun startup swag too!)
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I see lots of guys Zyn posting on here. Here's my contribution to the discourse
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The wildly underappreciated thing about modern CAD/CAM tooling — it unlocks a zero marginal cost for producing beauty.
But "tech" people don't have enough taste, and artists don't have enough iron in them. Who will sit in the throne at the intersection of that venn diagram?
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I very randomly befriended an 80 year old political dissident from Myanmar last year in Boulder who I now communicate with regularly via email
Respond with your strangest online friendship
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What have YOU done to take advantage of technological modernity today, anon?
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True alpha Chads will continue shaking hands during the spread of COVID19 to signal their virility and demonstrate the superiority of their immune systems
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Startup Idea: get all the fields medalists addicted to meth, then only let them have more meth if they solve long-standing conjectures
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@PabloPeniche
from William Gibson's "Idoru":
...he used to tear up her hardware, the designer's, and put the real parts into cases he'd make in his shop. Say he'd make a solid bronze case for a minidisk unit, ebony inlays, carve the control surfaces out of fossil ivory, turquoise, rock
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The utter humiliation and despair you feel as human livestock aboard a commercial flight is your ancestors spitting on you for foresaking your familial home
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If you want to make something last forever simply use stuff that has lasted forever
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Sometimes you need to recharge. Get away from it all. Sometimes you need to get a strwaberry shake at in n out and almost die driving down Mulholland sipping striwbry shaek with the top down and play modern warfare 2 favela wif yor friend AND watch MDE videois until you fall
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The torch has been dropped. I hope to see it picked up again soon.
RIP Cormac McCarthy
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I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics
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TFW you sit down in your A-frame cabin workshop and perfectly solder a .5mm pitch 50 pin SMD on an American-manufactured PCB you designed
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Aight so nuclear physicist Leo Szilard had a sorta-rich private financier who funded a bunch of his seemingly insane experiments on nuclear chain-reactions, led directly to the Manhattan project
Where the fuck did all of the sorta-rich people funding seemingly insane stuff go?
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"Yeah man, Urbit is filling up with all these novice Hooners – they can't even tell you the branching behavior of a wut-col after 4 months of scouring the docs, it's some troubling stuff, keeps me up at night"
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Consider the fruit-bearing tree. When the tree is growing, you must be patient, you must observe. When it bears fruit you must harvest with great haste and vigor. Human life consists primarily of this oscillation and it's vital to master each phase distinctly
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Formula 1 is a high religious form of the Faustian West
Each team is a clerical order of the engineering religion, fans are the laypeople
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You know when dog kill bird in yard and bring it to back door but doesn't know why it did or what to do from there... very good metaphor for very many things
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MIT has one of the most aesthetically oppressive, ugly campuses I have ever seen (exception granted to Killian Court). It's as if the 80s vomited concrete jailhouses in every direction
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Few know that Tiffany and Co. also used to embellish presentation arms for Smith & Wesson
tbh tiffany has sucked for a long time but it's crazy to see a company that used to be known for making stuff like this slap their name on merch, and then people lap it up like this is the democratization of style when it's just lining the pockets of a lazy billionaire family
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@isidoremiller
Related: before mass adoption of power tools, woodworkers often used green wood (recently cut, high moisture content) because it was easier to work with hand tools
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While you sleep: I crush zyns, pound black coffee, and carve hard maple into exquisite forms with nothing but a mallet and 1/2 inch chisel in a mild-stimulant-fueled fervor
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Feels totally surreal to have just finished my last exam in Singapore, and with it, college as a whole. Onto bigger and better things!
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Huge bummer that there's no real adult equivalent of pre-collegiate, unscheduled, unbounded 'hanging out'
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PSA for all my homies on the spectrum < 21yo: if you are good at software engineering, the problem of choosing where to work after school is *identical* to the problem of being a """Venture Capitalist"""
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I wrote a piece for Palladium about the video game industry, the increasingly exploitative tools it uses to gain/retain users, and why we need change.
In the current period of economic and social stagnation, the video game industry has created increasingly addictive virtual experiences. Pulling users out requires a collective, not individual, effort.
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Oh, a 'corporation' birthed horrors beyond your comprehension? You mean that ... reciting a spell in English common law which creates a superhuman body without organs can have disastrous consequences? lmfao
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I think ~ why eat restaurant meal prepred by shef with hundred hours of trainng when could simply
eat
Doritos with Diet Coke, products wich have been perfectly moulded for human tastbuds by R&D divisions with millions of cumulative hours of ivy~league biochem trainging??f
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The dao of woodworking precludes using species other than walnut, cherry, soft maple, and genuine mahogany...
Only pain will teach one to temper their hubris...
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The truth behind Call of Duty that makes video game haters seethe: it is a Great Providential Filter. Either you waste weeks in dopamine-surged inceldom isolation or you experience a facsimile of war and forge bonds of brotherhood with your closest friends in party chat
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I am drinking a cortado in peace. Two women sit next to me, start loudly discussing how they froze their eggs, then transition rapidly to discussing scrambled eggs
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Today is one of my last days in Singapore, so I sat on the top level of a bus for a few hours and just watched the city go by (thread w/ photos)
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just RIPPED a block of GRASSFED cheddar n' washed 'er DOWN with a TBSP of room temp GRASSFED salted BUTTER and there's not a GODDANM THING u CAN do 'bout IT
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The form of an ideal nation-state is a sphere, maximizing productive volume for a given border surface area
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I'm in Myanmar this week, and I've been blown away by the number of tiny stands/stalls that sell seemingly undifferentiated products. Who finances their creation? How do they survive when there's a plethora of others selling identical goods? What's the typical annual ROI?
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every time u open vscode past 8pm, think "do it. do it. do it for white ferrari 458 spyder, 120mph, on iowa county road, with 'life in the fast lane' 2013 remaster by eagles at full volume, grizzly long cut in lip"
ymmv
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Great essay — computers are at their best when they aren't striving to be something they're not. If you sharpen and hone their edges, you can get a good tool, but you'll never get a steam engine
I can't help notice how the excitement over the mere *possibility* of an actual no-shit physical tech breakthrough makes all the years of hype around chatbots and game-playing robots look kinda shallow and forced by comparison.
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The Virgin 150Ω resistor literally cannot tolerate power, its weak carbon film body bursts into flames with ease
The Chad 150Ω resistor basks in the glory of massive wattage, its wirewound soul and aluminum housing propelling it into the heavenly realm
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While Corona Virus is inspiring my smarter, more driven peers to build billion dollar companies, I have decided to design and subsequently order a personal book stamp from a small family-run business in Indiana
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Raspberries would be a true god-tier fruit if they had even marginally better structural integrity
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It's mind-boggling to me how many times I've been interested in a random math topic, hopped on google, and within 30 seconds found a free, 100+ page LaTeX pdf that explains it in more detail than I could ever hope to comprehend. (thread)
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Competitive gamers mentally separate natural talent from the number of hours played, which is strange when compared to traditional sports. Part of the zeitgeist that talent doesn't get you very far compared to raw input
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You think you're metal, bro? Bro Lycurgus voluntarily starved himself to death when he got old because he didn't want to waste Sparta's resources. That's true metal...
Bro, you're nothing but a fraud
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Why don't people don't talk about the fact that the freezer is functionally a time machine
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3 years of college have made me realize that the best professors are the ones that transfer their mental models to you instead of getting bogged down in formalism
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I had zero background on Don Quixote going into it, so was extremely surprised to be crying laughing by the time I hit page 50 – turns out it's the funniest book I've ever read
Thank You Based Cervantes
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The honest reason I read Jung is because I cannot separate his words from the stone castle he built with his bare hands on the shore of Lake Zurich
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Filtering books for their obvious ideas is small brain, a product of a dopamine-driven, time-starved technological age. Read them for their nuance and beauty. Find hidden things.
If there is no nuance, beauty, or depth, stop reading and try another one
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Some lumber jargon (woodspeak) from this week:
"I know you have African Mahogany in twelve-quarter but it's rough sawn and it's too damn orange"
"Tell me how the hell kiln-dried Cherry can be cupped AND twisted this bad"
"Hey boss, you know the Janka on this Padauk?"
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@crg2600
I keep it on my keyring next to my house and car keys — computers should be as important
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Education after ~5th grade should unironically consist solely of reading textbooks + novels with mentors and private tutors
Incredible value per dollar spent, incentivizes extremely smart people to work with younger kids, leads to a natural credentialing system, etc
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Nick is an exemplar of how a few shitty events can take even the most promising life and burn it to the fucking ground.
Be thankful for what you have and willing to give a little bit of love to the people that need it the most – it can mean everything when someone has nothing.
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Noble Simplicity? Easy. Quiet Grandeur? Extraordinarily difficult.
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