Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
andrewmccluskey.com
Time’s Solitary Dance – Laura Hilliger
laurahilliger.comIf you're going to try,
go all the way.
There is no other feeling like that.
You will be alone with the gods,
and the nights will flame with fire.
You will ride life straight to perfect laughter.
It's the only good fight there is.
— Charles Bukowski, Factotum
OpenAI released GPT-5 today. The head of ChatGPT said, “The vibes of this model are really good.” That’s reassuring.
This Is How Smart People Are Prepping for the AI Era
The Business Case for Decentralized Social Media and Why It Matters Now
onchain.org
Take decentralized networks, which promised to shift power from tech giants back to users. The vision was beautiful: creators and contributors would finally capture the value they generate. But many crypto networks revealed how quickly noble intentions can unravel. What started as a grassroots movement to build community-owned wireless networks... See more
The Last Human Choice
Foundation Architecting and Remind me Often
How can resist the temptation of greed?
Glut is never cool. And to be entertained, humans need some form of novel or complex stimulus that goes beyond what they already know. And you can't just "tune the AI" to be innovative, since we only accept idiosyncratic artistic decisions when we feel human intention behind them.
A 2023 Look-back: the internet dies, etc.
Suicide Prevention Charity
thecalmzone.net
Decentralization is the kind of thing that only matters when troubles arise. It's like an insurance: most of the time you don't need it, but for the few times you do need it, you REALLY need it. Since we can't have "intermittent decentralization", turn it on & off with a switch, this means we need it permanently