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grokpronoia retweeted
GPT-6 Astra has the best result yet on the Bach Benchmark. Its chorale contains no voice-leading errors, and its harmonic palette is sophisticated enough to include a Neapolitan sixth chord. More importantly, it is the first model to ever write passing tones on this benchmark, a significant leap in musical understanding.
Extra High effort. Prompt below:
“In LilyPond (version 2.24), write a 4-part chorale in the style of Bach, 3/4 time, G minor. Use two staves -- soprano and alto on the top staff, tenor and bass on the bottom staff. Respond with only the code block.”
grokpronoia retweeted
In Shanghai, a 100-year-old, 7,500-ton historical city block was temporarily relocated using 432 "walking robots.
grokpronoia retweeted
ニャッキの伊藤有壱さんにお声掛け頂き、コマ撮りの展覧会に一作家として参加しています。私はコマ撮り分野ではない場所から活動をはじめて、デザインの視点でのコマ撮りに取り組んできましたが、今回初めてコマ撮り界の本丸の方々とご一緒でき嬉しいです。今6年目のマッチ撮影素材等を展示しています
grokpronoia retweeted
Artemis 11 astronauts saw and heard this at the entry interface and plasma display in to Earth’s atmosphere.
grokpronoia retweeted
Just learned about Ken Isaacs' "Superchair" (1967).
Built-in book rest, shelves, lamp, drink tray, and a seat back that folds into a bed.
A place for "inventive work and the individual search for peace of mind", as he put it.
It was meant for people to build it themselves, hence the almost unfinished look. Blueprints were published in Popular Science in 1968.
grokpronoia retweeted
If your child becomes a reader, about 80% of the educational job is already done. That's our honest assessment, based on many of us working in education for over three decades. Everything else is secondary. Most parents think science education is important. Yes, it is. But if you can't read the biology textbook, you're not going to learn biology.
Reading is the meta-skill that enables all other skills. History requires reading. Science requires reading. Even math increasingly requires reading as it becomes more sophisticated. The child who reads voraciously will figure out everything else. The child who doesn't will struggle with everything.
grokpronoia retweeted
Akira (1988) is cyberpunk cinema carved in neon. Katsuhiro Otomo pushed animation to the brink, over 160,000 hand-drawn cels and unusually detailed mouth movements timed before the voice recording, a rarity in anime. Every frame hums with dystopian energy.
grokpronoia retweeted
insane Claude Code setup.
instead of asking it to "mek app" like a total normie, you first let it spin up 1m subagents to simulate 10¹² branches of civilization from 4000 BC recursively to emulate in which universe a specific version of your app is going to be most successful
grokpronoia retweeted
"Those who give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither."
Epicenter went live @buidl_conf to deep dive into institutional-facing DeFi, the critical role of self-custody, and why "safety" is the most dangerous word in crypto,
w/ @richardmuirhead, Aurora Oriana, Matthew Arrow, and @benlakoff
Full episode dropping tomorrow on X, YouTube, and Spotify
Stay Tuned🔗👇
grokpronoia retweeted
Final session of the 2026 conference! A live session of @epicenterbtc: “DeFi & institutions: what it means for cypherpunk values” by @richardmuirhead at @fabric_vc and @svrn_ai, Aurora at G20, Matthew Arrow at Dark Forest, @benlakoff at @BanklessVC, moderated by Sebastien!
grokpronoia retweeted
Presenting to you: speakers of @buidl_conf 🇵🇹
Agenda is highly curated as well!
Day 1 is Policy, AI, Mainstream applications.
Day 2 is Privacy and DeFi.
Not too late to make that trip to Lisbon! Jan 7-8 at the Red Cross❤️🔥
buidleurope.com/
grokpronoia retweeted
Here’s the problem: Thoughtful and well-reasoned pleas to lower the temperature and unify against political violence will be algorithmically suppressed because they do not generate enough monetizable “engagement” — all while incendiary hot takes intensifying violent conditions will be algorithmically amplified and mined for profitable clicks.
It’s an information doomsday machine, operating imperceptibly in the background of every tweet, Instagram reel, YouTube video, podcast and social media post.
