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“We are as gods and might as well get good at it.”

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Like so many of the things Lulu does, this thread is a masterclass. Sovereign and clear.

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Lulu Cheng Meservey

@lulumeservey

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Today the NYTimes wrote an article about Substack. While it's a compliment to remain top of mind for the paper of record, the piece contains a lot of hearsay, cherrypicking, and personal opinion presented as fact. Here, I offer an alternate framing and excavate the buried lede:

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Nat Friedman

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Apr 12

Congratulations to the

@deel

team on the spectacular growth.

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deel

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· Apr 12

We made a little chart update

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Nat Friedman

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Mar 30

Washington crossing the Delaware, as a cave painting

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Painting of a corvette by Monet, in the style of Ralph Steadman

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Painting of a garden by Monet, in the style of Chris Van Allsburg

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Nat Friedman

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Mar 30

Painting of a clock by Salvador Dali, in the style of Picasso

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Drawing of a street corner by Picasso, in the style of Salvador Dali

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Cave painting of a Tokamak fusion reactor

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Twitter logo by Picasso

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What happens next? A world of superabundant beauty? Art too cheap to meter? Dream machines? Imagination prostheses? Desktop Pixar in every home?

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Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

· Mar 28

Been playing around with @midjourney this morning. Here are some my favorite results so far. Steve Jobs, by Basquiat

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C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate

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Idyllic sea and trail view at Sea Ranch, California, as travel poster

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Venice gondolier, Japanese woodblock print

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First contact

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Mark Zuckerberg in the style of a Byzantine icon

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A railgun on the moon

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Suffragettes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in the style of pixar moms

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Photorealistic rendering of a Cubano sandwich

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Travel poster for the Garden of Eden

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Keanu Reeves fighting as a Chinese piainting

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1930s travel poster depicting a trail in Sea Ranch, California

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A beautiful futuristic view looking down Market Street in San Francisco, every building overgrown with plants, in solarpunk style

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Hokusai's great wave consisting of spaghetti-os

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Princess Elsa from Frozen, portrait by Giger

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Ice hockey game by Jacob Lawrence

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Bank note from a country with a history of space exploration

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Been playing around with

@midjourney

this morning. Here are some my favorite results so far. Steve Jobs, by Basquiat

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Who is your favorite artist working today?

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Congrats to

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@SocketSecurity

on today's launch!

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Feross

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Exciting news! I'm ready to share the project I've been working on for the past 7 months! Introducing

Socket

Search millions of open source packages

Detect suspicious package updates in real-time

Block software supply chain attacks socket.dev

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Nat Friedman

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The people have spoken

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Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

· Feb 3

An alien lands their spaceship in your backyard and gives you a central control panel for human culture on earth. It contains a single dial labeled "Cohesion - Variety." Which way do you turn the dial?

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I know my pick but I sure hope this isn't a shower temperature kinda situation

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An alien lands their spaceship in your backyard and gives you a central control panel for human culture on earth. It contains a single dial labeled "Cohesion - Variety." Which way do you turn the dial?

Cohesion
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Nat Friedman

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Feb 3

We have this belief that the world is made up of hundreds of independent countries and tens of thousands of separate cities, but in reality most of the world is copy-paste.

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scientism

@mr_scientism

· Feb 2

How the world really works.

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Nat Friedman

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Jan 12

It's important to be happy. Put yourself in situations where you're laughing so hard your sides hurt, shouting spontaneously with joy, leaping out of bed in the morning because you just can't wait for the day to start.

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Jan 12

An excellent exhortation for abundance and against scarcity. "America has too much venting and not enough inventing."

theatlantic.com

A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems

The U.S. doesn’t have enough COVID tests—or houses, immigrants, physicians, or solar panels. We need an abundance agenda.

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Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

Jan 11

The perfect regulator doesn't exi– �?�

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Patrick Collison

@patrickc

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The NRC was created in 1975. Since then, zero new nuclear power plants in the US have ever reached operation. [New = entities whose initial application for a construction permit / operating license (or a combined license) was filed with the NRC.] H/t @elidourado for this. twitter.com/NRCgov/status/…

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