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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 29/09/2026

I would love to know comes to mind when you imagine an appropriate shrine/ritual/genuflection/devotional retweet. If I were any kind of artist, I would have had a stab at manifesting something myself

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*Should we, maybe, be pondering some kind of moral framework for the way we treat maps of fruit-fly brains *Maybe as a cautious lab rehearsal for what might reveal itself as a big issue some day interconnected.org/home/2026/09...

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A new prayer for the fruit fly connectome

Posted on Saturday 26 Sep 2026. 1,568 words, 10 links. By Matt Webb.

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 27/09/2026

Lots not captured by a connectome as I understand it… over 11,000 types of neurons, so much necessary complexity that won’t be captured in a sim that runs a map. But even so.. it’s on the path..

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Arthur Clune @arthur.clune.org · 26/09/2026

One I missed earlier this month. Google mapped a fruit fly brain. You can now run a fruit fly brain in a simulator. I feel the queasiness that this post (interconnected.org/home/2026/09...) does. Esp given their intent to do the same for the human brain (sites.research.google/gr/neural-ma...)

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Google Research and partners mapped the complete brain of fruit fly. (3 September).
It's a common bug and common in scientific research. The male fruit fly has 166,000 neurons across the brain and main nerve cord; the map is called the connectome.
Long story short, the connectome is now available for free download, you can get a simulator of the different types of neurons, it caught the imagination of the internet, over September there has been all kinds of wild nonsense (impressive

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 10/09/2026

That is amazing. I need to restart my LRB subscription for pieces like this I’ve only seen cave paintings once but they blew me away with… not being paintings in a way I understood? Powerful intrusions on reality. Ironically I don’t have the words… interconnected.org/home/2022/07...

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I imagine cave paintings as ancient virtual reality

Posted on Monday 11 Jul 2022. 1,016 words, 3 links. By Matt Webb.

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 24/08/2026

Apropos "Center of Gravity" ->

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Alasdair McCall @alasdair.md · 28/08/2026

You could fit @genmon.fyi weather app on a single stiffy disk 🤯 apps.apple.com/app/id676809...

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 29/08/2026

Haha I hadn’t noticed. There’s not much going on! API calls and no bitmaps

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 21/08/2026

This green arrow points directly at the central black hole of the Milky Way, 26,000 light years away Galactic Compass 2, now available on the App Store apps.apple.com/gb/app/galac...

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 21/08/2026

See if you can find the time for “galaxyrise” in the debug screen 💫

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 21/08/2026

This green arrow points directly at the central black hole of the Milky Way, 26,000 light years away Galactic Compass 2, now available on the App Store apps.apple.com/gb/app/galac...

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 18/08/2026

I think there was a bunch of violence which I don't really enjoy these days but if there is more to it then I will give it another go and push through

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 18/08/2026

I tried an episode or two but it didn’t grab me. Is there a particular episode you’re thinking of? I could try it standalone

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 17/08/2026

chapter 1 of Greg Egan’s DIASPORA is the realest depiction of the birth of a continuous learning AGI that we’ll have until we actually have AGI and it can tell us he shared it for free on his website. Read it (then buy the book) Orphanogenesis www.gregegan.net/DIASPORA/01/...

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Orphanogenesis (excerpt) — Greg Egan

Diaspora by Greg Egan

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 13/08/2026

Ok clock solid advice but look we’re all just trying to get through the day here

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 11/08/2026

my hunch is that AI alignment is a red herring, and the way to protect against a crazy powerful AGI mulching the earth into infinite paperclips is to release ANOTHER crazy powerful AGI that will hopefully stop it blog post: interconnected.org/home/2026/08...

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AI alignment is a red herring

Posted on Saturday 8 Aug 2026. 1,468 words, 9 links. By Matt Webb.

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 26/07/2026

Added a cute extra font to Poem/1 as a treat for backers who do the firmware update 🌼 (See today’s Kickstarter email for how)

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 31/07/2026

I'm glad it's catching it! I should probably make that manual recovery screen more handsome if you're seeing it regularly...

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 26/07/2026

Added a cute extra font to Poem/1 as a treat for backers who do the firmware update 🌼 (See today’s Kickstarter email for how)

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 26/07/2026

any ideas to get the spotify URL are gratefully received... I can get them via the Web API but it seems like that was recently moved behind a premium account (which I don't have)

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 26/07/2026

finally updated braggoscope.com with ways to listen to In Our Time outside the UK

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 24/07/2026

Mmm yeah. I think that’s why I feel like I’m missing something: maybe what I’m assuming is as dumb as PFI turned out to be, but I don’t have the background knowledge to recognise it

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 24/07/2026

But don’t they borrow ahead secured on the future asset? That’s what private equity would do My struggle is why council house building is being attacked at all on budget grounds. Ideology, sure, I can see why there’s debate

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 24/07/2026

the "cost" comes if the new houses are rented out at below depreciation... but that's a downstream decision from the building programme, and of course should be discussed as govt spend. or does it not make sense to think of govt budgets as capex/opex like this? the building itself: just do it!!

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 24/07/2026

I need a macroeconomist to explain this to me: I don't get why the govt council house building programme is a "cost" that needs to be budgeted for cash is converted into an asset: housing. it's moving numbers around on the balance sheet. the govt still has the asset, can still borrow against it

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 23/07/2026

Remember when you could pay like $20 and a goat would join your zoom call? I don’t think we talk enough about how weird it all got in covid

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 22/07/2026

Totally recognise the problems and we need to fix those directly — but i see a single ID as a tempting hazard in this era of increasingly easy data aggregation and correlation So when i say “only connect on my private phone” i care more about “private” than “phone”

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 22/07/2026

In which case reverse everything I said! I am no longer pleased!

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 22/07/2026

Yeah totally I feel like we need structural impediments to that

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 22/07/2026

lots of cards! Council tax, road tax, NHS… but if you don’t have a phone and a password manager then that could be a backup. Dunno, single ID (electronic or physical) gets me super nervous

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 22/07/2026

then I think we can find ways to solve for that* specifically — we need firebreaks between databases for the reasons I mention (to avoid tech-enabled slippery slope authoritarianism, and a single way to fall between the cracks) * Google oauth, ship out yubikeys, write down passwords/plastic cards

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 21/07/2026

Pleased that UK govt has scrapped the single digital ID scheme. IMO: illiberal and a single point of failure Instead: create a wallet of the various IDs we use — council tax per household, road tax per car, NHS per patient The only place they should connect is my private phone

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 21/07/2026

💯 breaking your body’s feedback circuit on sweetness way way worse than sugar itself

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nephariuz.bsky.social @nephariuz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"we should put MASSIVE weight on death and calamity! Because it’s a big deal! Especially violent death and collective danger. And when we don’t give it weight, it gets assumed as part of the normal order of things. Which it is not." interconnected.org/home/2026/07...

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Frozen 2 should be rated R

Posted on Friday 17 Jul 2026. 1,024 words, 3 links. By Matt Webb.

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Joe @joeinn.es · 18/07/2026

There has been considerable "jeopardy inflation" in movies between the 1980s and today. interconnected.org/home/2026/07...

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Frozen 2 should be rated R

Posted on Friday 17 Jul 2026. 1,014 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 13/07/2026

went spelunking the sci-fi stacks for voice UI that is NOT general purpose and here's what I found (new blog post) interconnected.org/home/2026/07...

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Examples from sci-fi of voice interfaces that stay on task

Posted on Saturday 11 Jul 2026. 1,204 words, 15 links. By Matt Webb.

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 13/07/2026

Weirdly this is one of my top blog posts ever

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 11/07/2026

So there are “seeds” which iterate a bunch of times to produce variety Poem is still on 4o — newer models have poor imagination But I feel like models get dumber when compute is required elsewhere OpenAI released new models and my guess is they diverted compute away from 4o, which became “same-y”

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"I don't like those videos of factories that are supposed to inspire awe. Factories are just rooms. I want these kids to understand that. Sure, it's sometimes complicated, but we can handle complicated." interconnected.org/home/2026/07...

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Factories are just rooms

Posted on Friday 3 Jul 2026. 725 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 30/06/2026

write-up: HOT CODE OVER THE WIRE benbrown.com/txt/read/202...

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 30/06/2026

this is awesome ben brown used Resident to vibe code his new ESP32 watch best quote: > this thing starts off with nothing and you just wish your features into being one by one www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAUz...

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Resident Sandbox on an ESP32 Watch

YouTube video by Ben Brown

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