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I like how the Dronecore Godblob in #AnnihilationMovie is a roiling knot of spacetime propagating itself by twisting matter into panpsychic, xeno-Gaian chimeric being via morphogenic fields, refracted genes, non-Euclidean geometric forms and so on. That bit was good.
A great article on the chip fab industry, and the near-mystical dedication and mastery that makes it barely possible
newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
“A major module of the EUV machine is fashioned at an ASML facility in Connecticut that has the aura of an alchemist’s atelier. When I visited, in July, arcane prisms rotated on medieval-looking polishing machines. The facility hires the sorts of people who fix their own motorcycles. One young employee sat at a workbench in front of a block of milled amber glass that appeared extraterrestrial. The block, which bears a chip’s blueprint, levitates inside the machine. It moves with the precision necessary to trace a strand of DNA, even while enveloped in a robot that accelerates with forces great enough to tear an airliner apart nine times over. The entire apparatus is like an MRI machine that is expected to scan hairline fractures in the middle of a violent plane crash. The engineer proceeded by feel. He paused now and again to tap his fingers gently against a particular spot. It seemed less like engineering than like reflexology. This felt poignantly ironic. When you dig down to the very bedrock of A.I., you discover that underneath all of its cognitive power is a dude drumming his fingers with occult proficiency.”
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What if all the dollars Bitcoin could buy were stacked in one pile, how high would it reach? All the way to the moon?
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Ride the stack at bitcoinweighin.com/?btc=2100…
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First ten cards of the Revised YooKay Tarot deck now finalised. Only sixty-eight more cards to go!
🤖 Made with AI
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Every 10 minutes, machines like this race to guess one number. This one is a die smaller than your fingernail, trying a trillion guesses a second. We opened one up and followed a real winning guess all the way in.
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Every bitcoin that will ever exist buys… one oil field 🛢️
All 21 million BTC = 13.7 billion barrels of crude. That's everything Alaska's Prudhoe Bay has pumped since 1977, and the whole world burns through it in 132 days.
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Another angle to this is that dogs effectively stumbled onto what is for them the equivalent of artificial superintelligence 20,000 years ago. The Singularity already happened for dogs. They live in a world they cannot understand, surrounded by miraculous wonders they take entirely for granted, their every need seen to by entities whose thoughts they cannot begin to fathom.
The result is that there are about a billion dogs on the planet now. Most of them are pretty happy. Almost none of them need to work. It worked out pretty well for them.
Look closely at these photographs.
It might not look like it, but these are all the same person, shot at different focal lengths! Incredible.
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Every bitcoin ever mined would buy 98% of Manhattan.
Saylor calls bitcoin "cyber Manhattan," so we raced the biggest stacks up the real island: the 2010 pizza coins, the US government, BlackRock, Strategy and Satoshi.
Who gets furthest? Guess, then watch.
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All 21 million bitcoin in $1 bills, stacked on the ground.
We took the elevator.
At Thursday’s close it gets 50.5% of the way to the Moon. At $167,595 a coin, it arrives.
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13 years ago today, the FBI shut down Silk Road. That month it seized 144,000 BTC from its founder, then worth about $27 million.
At Thursday’s close: $12.2 billion. In gold, a 91-tonne cube 1.67 m on each side.
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Satoshi’s 1.1 million untouched bitcoin would buy 5.3% of Manhattan.
From the Battery to Chambers Street: the Financial District, and not much else.
