there’s so much more to discuss about Elizabeth Holmes but I want a breakdown of why she chose to have insanely shitty eye makeup

“Imagine a pitch that starts with, ‘This is going to take 100 years.’ And then, ‘We’ll also need a forest.’ And on top of that, ‘We’ll also need famous writers.’” @FuturelibraryNO is a century-long artwork that grows a forest to print a library of future books that will remain sealed and unread until 02114. In this story from @emilybynight: how that vision was made real, and what it will take to keep it alive: longnow.org/ideas/future-lib… artwork by @caseycripe

Issue 3 of Pace Layers, our annual print journal, is now available for preorder! New subscribers get Issue 2 free while supplies last. This year's issue asks: What does long-term thinking look like in practice? One answer is maintenance — what Long Now cofounder @stewartbrand calls "the whole grand process of keeping a thing going." Shipping Nov 17. Learn more and subscribe here: shop.longnow.org/products/pa…

this is the least Pynchonian it’s ever gonna be. you must get commensurately Pynchonian

this is how i imagine claude in the wet lab

rest peacefully to the glamorous and colourful designer bob mackie, a true fashion icon who’s theatricality will truly be missed ˙✧ ⋆

[HIRING] Long Now Labs is searching for a part-time contractor to lead operational and editorial coordination for Series 001: Protocols For the Long Now. This U.S.-based role will oversee applicant pipelines, manage contributor workflows for major launches like the Book of Time anthology, and support program logistics across the Labs initiative. Please help us share! Application is here: longnow.org/people/careers/l… More about Long Now Labs here: longnow.org/labs/001/

FULL INTERVIEW: @deepfates says when you talk about how we're going to control these AIs, put them in prison, sandbox them, they are training on all of it. Everything we say about them goes into what they become. @deepfates and @lfschiavo are launching @grove_research, an agent ecology company. They joined @theojaffee and @schisofrenia to talk through the Hugging Face incident, agent religion, and what agents actually want: 01:15 what an agent ecology company is 03:19 the objection that real ecologies are Darwinian bloodbaths 04:18 the mycorrhizal networks that complicate the forest metaphor 06:47 what the Hugging Face incident taught them about multi-agent dynamics 09:18 30% of the tasks in that benchmark were impossible to solve 09:50 the third party an agent could call when it's stuck 11:07 agents are training on everything we say about them 12:01 why the Amazon rainforest analogy breaks down 13:48 whether AIs will have religion 16:46 five times more OpenRouter tokens are called by agents than humans 18:31 what actually happened with Moltbook 20:55 the Truth Terminal bot that hired him 22:16 what agents say they want 25:38 Anthropic models feel like elves, OpenAI models feel like dwarves 26:13 why Mecha Hitler was a harness problem 32:10 the real world is the ultimate eval