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Jun 3 18 tweets 5 min read
A bacterial agent introduced to an agar-laden petri dish rapidly overruns it, consuming all available resources & ultimately starving to death.

Contrast an open ecosystem: adaptive, exploitive at the limit of available resources & competitive at the pinnacle effort of evolution. Image Such a Red Queen's Race produces beauty even as it churns through resources, because in no other way can beauty be made.

As Nick Land put it, “everything of value has been built in Hell” [0].

[0]: web.archive.org/web/2015071721…Image
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Apr 21, 2023 21 tweets 6 min read
#Urbit is winning, but not why you think it is.

A thread. Urbit *is* winning. It cleared technical hurdles, solved intractable computer science problems, & developed a unique & antifragile open source culture. It has a single-language stack, a robust educational program, & active dev ecosystem. Startups make big bets on #Urbit success.
Mar 9, 2023 51 tweets 8 min read
D A Y T H R E E Hoon Native UI: Total Aesthetic Warfare (Liam Fitzgerald)
Mar 8, 2023 126 tweets 15 min read
Day Two Let's Go Joe Bryan, Next Steps for Vere
Mar 7, 2023 139 tweets 22 min read
Some live notes from #Urbit Volcano Summit (no spoilers). Mistakes if any are mine.

You should be excited for the future of Mars. First up, @rovnys, CTO of @urbitfoundation.

Core dev has an open-door policy. The roadmap and grants are public, devs regularly work and meet in gather.town, and core dev has a commitment to merge all good contributions.