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co-founder @joinedgecity | 🏡 Zuzalu 🌱 @seedclubvc 🐉 @hydraventures_ | ex founder / investor / runescape woodcutter

Berlin & NYC

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@timourxyz

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I wrote an essay — Zone of Scenius Just one year since Zuzalu, there are now dozens of 'popup villages.' You could spend the rest of 2024 going from one to another. I wrote about my personal experience at these gatherings and why I think they are important. Link below! 🌞

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The OpenAI Sora video model is incredible! Prompt: tired-looking “idea guy” leaving 7-day crypto conference in Denver airport

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I made the mistake of leaving the crypto space in 2018. My project lost steam during the crash, and I was extremely disenchanted with the public discourse. I decided to start a company in a different space. I enjoyed those interim two years, but I wish I hadn't left.

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I love this clip from the Chomsky–Foucault debate in 1971. Very relevant to our work today. "A federated, decentralized system of free associations, incorporating economic as well as social institutions ... seems to me the appropriate form of social organization for an advanced…

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Kicking off the Network States and Cities track at Zuzalu with @VitalikButerin 🌞

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This is just wild. The mic in his left hand is his voice, the mic in his right hand is Holly+, Holly Herndon's AI voice model. Very exciting stuff coming from @hollyherndon , @matdryhurst & @spawning_ excerpt from Holly's TED talk featuring Pher (the singer in the clip)

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I have many thoughts about my experience at Zuzalu in Istanbul over the last couple of weeks but something that is top of mind: It is wild how amazing it is to put 300 thoughtful, kind, intelligent builders into a shared IRL space together for an extended period of time (2+…

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Bullish consumer crypto

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Hey friends, I'm building a new thing called Edge City. We create popup villages that last 1 month+ and bring together people working at the frontiers of tech, science, and social innovation. Would love it if you follow along and consider donating to the gitcoin round here🙂

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Edge City

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Edge City is a new concept for gathering, living, and working together, with the goal of accelerating human flourishing. If that sounds interesting to you, consider donating to the Zuzalu x Gitcoin Quadratic Funding round!

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I presented the takeaways from our AI x Crypto Summit at Zuzalu yesterday at the community town hall, which marks a wrap on the conference! I'll likely share a more thoughtful write-up later, but here are a couple of personal highlights 👇

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10 months

Some personal news! After an incredible time as a full-time member of the @seedclubvc team, I’ll be transitioning to an advisor role at the DAO at the end of the month. Huge gratitude to the team, and I’m excited to continue to participate in the ecosystem as it grows 🌱

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I went to a Buddhist center in Berlin this morning for a multi-hour meditation session (split between practice and teaching). After a few years of using Waking Up and other apps to meditate, I wanted to try something longer. I was a bit nervous, primarily because I didn't know…

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The internet of AI agents will need crypto Kevin Kelly (founder of Wired) wrote in 1997 that computers themselves weren't that big of a deal. They just made us slightly faster at spreadsheets and writing. But the connections between computers, the Internet, is the profound thing…

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The summers and winters are very pronounced in our space. When the energy dies, regulators are attacking, and your family starts asking wtf you're doing (example below 😅), it feels really intense. I totally get why people leave, but I really suggest you don't.

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family group chat going off I guess

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Excited to kick things off for ZuConnect! Two weeks of Zuzalu community programming covering crypto, AI, decentralized science, new governance models, and much more.

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proof of dj

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Jon dropping truth at Zuzalu 🌞 I’m loving the conversation and energy around network states but there is a noticeable lack of conversation about the actual act of living and communing together. @creatorcabins is a notable exception in the space. 👏 @JonathanHillis

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Excited to be part of Hydra, a $10M venture DAO fund of funds backing other venture DAOs. Slightly meta, but very exciting. We need more experiments pushing the venture space forward, and I'm excited for Hydra to back and incubate the next generation of these DAOs.

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We are proud to announce the summoning of Hydra Ventures, the first dedicated investment DAO fund of funds. With over $10m raised & ready to deploy, we're excited to back the next generation of early-stage investment DAOs.

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In retrospect, I missed out on one of the most interesting times to build in this space: the 2018-2020 bear market. These years were transformative for the industry, with so many new ideas, projects, and principles. 2023-24 will likely be seen the same way.

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If you stay the course, you'll be there for the breakthroughs. You might even create them. It's such a good time to be in the space because if you build something interesting, it's almost certainly going to get noticed by the people who matter – your fellow builders and users.

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To summarize – ignore the noise, forget the value of tokens, and focus on the principles you believe in. Stay in the space, refine your understanding, and one day, the world will catch up.

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Feels great to finally announce ourselves with a shiny new site and even a little essay explaining how we see the world🌱 Grateful for the chance to work with @insideNiMA , @antavedissian , @thattallguy , and the amazing members of our DAO ✨

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Today, we are excited to come out of ’stealth’ and officially announce ourselves. Hello world, we are Seed Club Ventures, a $25M venture DAO investing in a world of internet-native organizations 🌱 What are we up to? Read on ↓

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Kicking off the AI x Crypto Summit at Zuzalu today! This has been a labor of love and I'm excited to finally see it happen. We have a great lineup of speakers, including Emad Mostaque (Stability AI), Grimes, Vitalik, and many others. Full lineup here:

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1 year

Cabin has launched the first Network City – a global collection of beautiful neighborhoods in nature. It's a cool feeling to consider myself an actual real life citizen of an actual real life networked community. Congrats to the team! Super excited to be part of this.

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Cabin has officially launched the first Network City! An amazing collection of properties, linked by an incredible community ✨ Check out more info below.

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My take is: if you genuinely care about the ideas and principles of crypto, then lean into that excitement. Build/invest in/use these products. Share your thoughts and learnings. You'll be the thought leaders that we look up to in a few years. Probably even sooner.

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A couple of weeks ago, I opened for @Grimezsz at Zuzalu 🧚‍♀️ Here is the recording of my set. I've been DJing as a hobby for the last 12 years and it's fun to combine it with industry events sometimes 🌞

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Timour @ Zuzalu, May 2023

One of my favorite sets in a while! This party marked the end of a conference exploring artificial intelligence held at Zuzalu, an experimental pop-up city in Montenegro. Lots of fun and weird align

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And to end the night, I played a set of some of my favorite dance music, opening up the stage for @Grimezsz , one of my longtime favorite artists ❤️ Grateful to @insideNiMA for asking me to dj and show an old creative side of myself that I rarely express these days.

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very excited for this! long-term popup villages (/proto network cities) like Zuzalu are incredible, and we're about to see a proliferation of them; in a few years, there will be dozens. This round is a great step in growing the movement 🌱 ty @gitcoin and @VitalikButerin

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📢 We're proud to announce the Zuzalu Grants Program on @Gitcoin Grants Stack! The program's primary objective is to foster the growth of spinoff events (Zu-villages) and to support technology-driven projects (digital public goods) that align with and advance Zuzalu's mission…

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Very excited to announce the next chapter of Edge City: Edge Esmeralda. We're gathering this June for a village focused on incubating novel tech and new ways of living. Lots of cool aspects of this one (including a future permanent new city). Read more in the thread! ☀️

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Edge City

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We are incredibly excited to announce our next popup village: Edge Esmeralda! It will be hosted in Healdsburg CA, June 2-29. It is a place for people who believe the future can be better and are actively working to make it happen. If you’re curious to join, read on!

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To be clear, staying in crypto doesn't mean staying siloed in the 'number-go-up' echo chamber. The principles and tools we're nurturing have broad relevance across various use cases and verticals (DeSci, Social, AI, etc.)

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Building a World of Internet-Native Organizations | Seed Club Ventures

Introducing Seed Club Ventures

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bro you need to be meaning-maxxing. dive into heartfelt conversation. write handwritten letters to your boys. read books that enrich your soul. wisdom-maxx from elders. share your truth. romance yourself. remember you are a gift to those around you ❤️

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Ok @getairchat is pretty addictive. It's just nice to hear people's voices, it feels so authentic. congrats @arjunkhemani @0xSigil on the launch 👏 hmu on there or respond if you need an invite

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People will literally start a popup city instead of going to therapy, but now you can do both! 😇 I had a great chat with @tobyshorin about meaning, purpose, communities, being 'of' the tech space, and the cool program he's bringing to our event in June.

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Toby ( @tobyshorin ) has spent years studying how people find meaning and purpose together at @otherinternet__ , and now with a new concept called Care Culture. We spoke with him about this and the 'Concept Clinic' program he'll bring to Edge Esmeralda in June 🌞 Check it out!

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one year later, i still haven't thought of a better tweet

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Excited for this panel today at Zuzalu! I’ll be chatting with @RuneKek , @verbine , and @notscottmoore about where lessons from crypto might be relevant in the development of AI, or if crypto is actually the reason AI will be unstoppable.

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A beautiful post outlining an exciting roadmap 🌱

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Today, we outline a detailed roadmap in a new vision document. It's a heavily-researched paper that our community co-wrote over the last two years. We also opened the beta for Census: one of three interconnected products we're launching this Spring.

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Had a great time playing at FWB Berlin last weekend. The venue was wild! Thank you @enaraxr and @FWBtweets for having me 🖤 Will share the mix eventually

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The biggest flex is no longer your profile pic. It is now who you thank for 'feedback and discussion' at the end of your thought-piece essay. Like damn you spoke to Vitalik and Obama about this? gg

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update: we have a map 🗺️

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We just published the Edge Esmeralda map! Favorite detail: this idyllic bike path that links together all the spaces we've lined up for June We're calling it Serendipity Lane, because it's where you'll bump into fellow attendees between sessions & go for walks with new friends

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Berlin coffee shop demos of the new AI features from the @SoftspaceHQ 3D knowledge map👏 @yiliu_shenburke

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my love language/toxic trait is finding typos in people's essays, websites, and products and letting them know. I worry it can come off as rude, but I promise it comes with good intentions

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11 months

Discussing possible futures at AI Palace @seedclubvc @daoesco

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I wrote a piece for Hydra Ventures outlining the benefits of Investment DAOs and why folks should consider starting one. We shared some ideas for potential DAOs and shared the (simple) steps you'd take to start one.

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1/ We’re excited to publish our Request for Investment DAOs. The post, linked below 👇, outlines how investment DAOs are reshaping early-stage investing. We also share ideas for potential investment DAOs and a structure for how you can work with Hydra to start one.

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Instead of fully jumping ship, you could consider where there is value in the intersections. We're seeing a lot of high-quality teams with pitches exploring this. Based on the decks we're seeing alone, I'm excited. If this applies to you, I'd love to chat.

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finally met the macbook screensaver irl, 10/10 would def recommend going offgrid for the next ten days ✌️ just fyi if you hit me up and I don’t respond

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Super excited to launch the Edge City Fellowship 🌞 This will be an incredible experience for high-potential young folks to come join us at one of our popup villages this year. We're going to work with ten individuals this year. More details below!

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Edge City

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Announcing: The Edge City Fellowship For: Ambitious 18 - 21 year olds What: Spend a month co-living and co-building with the world’s most impactful innovators.

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This is wild! One of the cooler ai demos I’ve played with. This is me entering my living room. Images generated in real time. Bit laggy but it’s happening on my phone - you can see the real camera input in the top left. stable diffusion + webrtc

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Main grant winner #4 : Videosd - Realtime img2img using Stable Diffusion and WebRTC

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1 year

Excited for this! We're co-organizing a weekend at Zuzalu in Montenegro to explore the intersection of AI & Crypto. Loving co-creation and co-living experiments like this. Looking forward to spending time with folks interested in this convergence.

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I wrote a quick essay about how we're approaching the event programming at our popup village in June. In short, we want to encourage cross-discipline collaboration, and work with experts to run content in an emergent way. This will happen across the five themes ✨

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Edge City

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For programming at Edge Esmeralda, we have several design parameters: ➡️ Maximizing surface area for serendipity ➡️ Collaboration rather than just consumption ➡️ Diversity of disciplines Programming will be emergent, coming primarily from the community ✨ read more below

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Thank you @austinrobey_ , @ystrickler and the Metalabel crew for inspiring me to write again. I also started a Lonely Writers Club Berlin group (lmk if you're in town and want to join). Creating and releasing as a group is just so much better. New piece dropping soon🙂

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Metalabel

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Over the past several weeks, we have been hosting a weekly online space called Lonely Writers Club. 200 (!) lonely writers joined together in an effort to reconsider individual writing practices through a mutualistic and collective lens. Let's take a look back 👇

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I'm excited to publish a new essay, Object Histories, with @Folklore_0x . What happens when every physical thing has an onchain record? We get a beautiful archive of memories, imbuing our objects with stories. It's a short read and was fun to write 🙂 Check it out; link below.

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1 year

Guess which one of us plays golf

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Really enjoyed this conversation with @theshikhai on the @LongHashVC podcast 🌱 We covered a looot (I think it's the longest one they've done?) – the internet-native organization thesis at @seedclubvc , our structure as a venture DAO, and why our space is poised for emergence.

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Seed Club Ventures' Partner @timourxyz ( @seedclubvc ) emphasizes that we are witnessing a Cambrian explosion of internet-native organizations. Like a planted seed, SCV grows as an "intertwined root network that will provide the structure for a beautiful, diverse forest". Podcast👇

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POV: crypto VCs overheard you say you are a web3 x AI founder

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If you see me, scan my hat and send me $ on @daimo_eth Real World Ethereum with @dcposch ❤️

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is this a microcommunity?? @ldf_gm @timourxyz

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cohort 7 applications are live! consumer crypto founders, now is the time! seed club is the place you want to be ❤️🌱

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In hot pursuit of a dramatically more interesting internet, SC07: Consumer Crypto applications are now open ·._.·°¯°·..·°.·°°° You have 23 days, young visionary 🌱

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That evening we hosted a performance with the pianist Serene. We invited both Serene and Grimes to participate in the conference but didn't realize they were mutual fans, which led to a spontaneous collaboration 🤯

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today at edge city will be a good time — amazing speakers from the Stanford Blockchain Club conference going all day, and a day party across the road 12pm-6pm. I'll be dj'ing the afterparty in the evening as well (9pm) come by!

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Excited to partner with the Stanford Blockchain Club conference (BASS) today! Speaker schedule below ❤️

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On techno-optimism, markets, and reality outside of the tech bubble Yes, technological progress is good. But how do we identify the problems worth solving? [Note: if this is too long, just read the bold parts and look at the memes] I like @pmarca 's Techno-Optimist Manifesto and…

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A new thought from this panel: Culture isn't just an important internal part of new communities/societies, it is actually also the product that we are developing and exporting. We create an environment for experimentation with new ways of living and being in community -> new…

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Learning how to bridge the URL to IRL divide with @gptbrooke @fifthworldzach & @timourxyz 🌐👉🫂 @buildcities

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guys me too 😤

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1 year

I wrote about our takeaways from the AI x Crypto Summit that we hosted at Zuzalu. Link in this thread!

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scv

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Last month we hosted a 300-person summit exploring the intersection of AI and Crypto at Zuzalu, a pop-up city experiment initiated by @VitalikButerin . We are excited to present the key takeaways and official talk recordings here!👇

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High recommend this for people building interesting products in crypto and AI. Online, 100% free and no-strings. Lots of grants. v3 starting now!

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Backdrop

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Build has been incredible. In V1 and V2 we helped launch hundreds of projects and distribute $140k+ in grants. It’s time to run it back. Today we’re announcing Build V3 🚀

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So glad that I got to catch the Plurality book tour in Berlin with Audrey Tang ( @audreyt ) and Glen Weyl ( @glenweyl )! Very inspiring discussion about tech, democracy, and new institutions. Thank you @RadxChange and @m_t_prewitt for the invite.

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I'm loving @Scenario_gg so far. Currently training a generator to make some beautiful little jungle worlds.

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Fun panel! TLDR takeaways: - autonomous agents are here and active but have a long way to go - current use-cases: prediction markets and delegated governance bots - agents might be pmf for DAOs - the stakes are very high: it's critical we figure out how to govern large…

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I'll be moderating a panel on AI Agents and DAOs at the AI x HOPE event, feat. - @koeppelmann ( @gnosischain ) - @david_enim ( @valoryag , @autonolas ) - @0xNN2 ( @hatsprotocol ) - @richardblythman ( @NapthaAI ) Hit me with any q's for them, and tune in at the link below

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when ppl ask how it feels to work in crypto $points

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I have 3+ years of detailed notes stuck in my Roam Research graph. Hundreds of pages of thoughts, notes, and ideas. Who is making the privacy-preserving AI that can analyze them all and make links between my disparate old thoughts + the new things I read and ingest?

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I'll be moderating a panel on AI Agents and DAOs at the AI x HOPE event, feat. - @koeppelmann ( @gnosischain ) - @david_enim ( @valoryag , @autonolas ) - @0xNN2 ( @hatsprotocol ) - @richardblythman ( @NapthaAI ) Hit me with any q's for them, and tune in at the link below

@seedclubhq

SEED 🌱 CLUB

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AI X HOPE - LIVESTREAM FRIDAY MAY 24 8AM - 1PM ET Join us on live dot seedclub dot xyz alongside some amazing speakers to explore a future of healthy human-AI interdependence Register below

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Excited to have played a small part in this

@pussyrrriot

𝖕𝖚𝖘𝖘𝖞 𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖙💦

2 years

⚡️⚡️⚡️ RIOT GIRLS Pussy Riot x @supergremplin website is live 🥀🖤🔪 mint starts tomorrow ACAB, EDEN, PUNISH: snapshot will be taken tomorrow morning – exact time will be announced this evening if you get an older woman, congrats! they're the rarest.

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Great piece from Toby about the 'apparatus' of loneliness. >> "The most healing social spaces do not even make loneliness or "care" salient; they are intrinsically joyful to be a part of. " Strong agree.

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Toby

2 months

the second Care Culture post is here. I examine the so-called "loneliness epidemic" and how this attempt to influence the lexicon of well-being is playing out. What incentives and institutions drive the Loneliness Apparatus?

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3 months

So excited about these projects! We're making irl incubation labs for novel tech around governance, identity, payments, social interactions etc. Longterm popup villages are perfect to actually bring novel ideas from our space into IRL reality. Denver is just a teaser 👀

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Edge City

3 months

Edge City gatherings are IRL experimentation labs for projects to run tangible experiments. During our weeklong gathering at ETHDenver this year, we're so excited to work with some incredible teams building novel tech. Get to know them below ⚡️

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5 months

if anyone is looking to throw a pretty big party at ethdenver and needs a hookup to an incredible venue, hit me up

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2 months

Great clip from a doc on the origins of house music in the late 80s. So many legends. Good example of how a scene forms and how quickly culture can spread worldwide. Also a banger soundtrack (Move Your Body — Marshall Jefferson)

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7 months

It's cool to see founders leverage group chats of investors or early adopters. If you make it fun, everyone is engaged and jumps in with intros and ideas. And it keeps you top of mind for people. @divine_economy is uber pro at this

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6 months

Love this Ursula Le Guin line "they talked, and new worlds were born of their talking. It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on."…

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3 months

this is why I love doing what we’re doing so many sentiments shared like this from this week ❤️

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Arjun Khemani

3 months

This week in Denver was one of the best weeks of my life. I got to spend time with some of the most interesting and ambitious people in the world @JoinEdgeCity . Meeting so many of my internet friends in person was very special. Just the beginning though. Headed to SF tomorrow.

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1 year

If you were wondering what it looks like when an artist’s voice is used to train AI models, Holly somehow managed to find actual footage.

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Holly Herndon

1 year

Artists, for the time being it is a good idea not to sign any contract regarding usage of your voice in an AI context

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timour kosters

4 months

every month for the last 6 years, I have made a playlist of my favorite tracks I heard that month. January had lots of beautiful chill jams, good listening for the week. Sharing here: !

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January 2024 · Playlist · 69 songs · 10 likes

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8 months

New essay: Crypto's use-cases, experiments, and narrative shifts. Excited to have it featured by @paragraph_xyz and @ourZORA as part of their new partnership! Send it to skeptical family before Thanksgiving 🦃 Link here. Key ideas summarized below. 👇

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Crypto’s use-cases, experiments, and narrative shifts

Crypto opens the fields of governance and economics to the strong forces of evolution, which will lead to much better systems.

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timour kosters

1 year

Really excited for this! Come explore a 3D world and listen to four incredible panelists chat about the intersection of AI and NFTs, with occasional prompts from me. 📍: 🕰️: 2pm EST 👯: @ClaireSilver12 , @coin_artist , @sashastiles , @iamDCinvestor

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Fully immersive experiences for your digital assets (NFTs)

A digital world for creators, oncyber is the easiest way for artists and collectors to show their digital assets (NFTs) in fully immersive experiences (3D/VR), for free.

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1 year

AI x NFTs @iamDCinvestor , tech appreciatoooor @ClaireSilver12 , AI Artist @coin_artist , CEO @blockadelabs @sashastiles , Language Artist Moderated by @timourxyz , Investor @seedclubvc ▪️2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

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timour kosters

1 year

Community-driven ownership and creation are going to unlock entirely new forms of culture. Really excited to be an early supporter of Lore, the co-ownership platform for collectives. 💫 Can't wait for more aspects of the internet to be properly multiplayer. 🌍🤝

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ʟᴏʀᴇ

1 year

Lore Public Beta is live! Start a collective today or join thousands of others. →

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timour kosters

30 days

i've been having fun playing around with @eden_art_ to combine some of the concept art we've been making for @JoinEdgeCity it's worth trying out if you want to make things like this

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Edge City

30 days

Optimistic worldbuilding 🌞

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timour kosters

1 year

Super excited about this ✨ Backdrop are building toward the Open Work Graph: an open, permissionless, and sufficiently decentralized protocol for connecting people and their work. This is a great step in that direction.

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Joey DeBruin

1 year

Work is multiplayer, and the future of professional networks is an open graph that developers can trust. Excited to build that future with this squad 💪 @coordinape @seedclubhq @seedclubvc @paragraph_xyz @bellosights @CollabWORK_co @Radarxyz @QUESTS__ @avenueplace @Upsidecoop

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timour kosters

10 months

Regarding what’s next for my full-time focus – I’ll be exploring new ideas alongside some of my favorite people in the space. I’m always excited to chat with folks, so feel free to reach out!

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1 year

this new blue social app is just @cryptohun3y @rafathebuilder and @cosmicblend for me rn and I’m into it i’m at timour on there, find me and spice up my feed

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4 months

google gemini now lets you generate your background in calls with text-to-image. ai has finally found it's killer app 🔥 (smileys added in post to preserve privacy (not sure what the right etiquette is))

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timour kosters

1 year

Big moves

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SEED 🌱 CLUB

1 year

Crypto's consumer moment is coming, and today we're officially going all in. World, say hello to The Consumer Crypto Accelerator.

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2 months

Check out the site for what will surely be a very impactful project. It’s a quick and beautiful scroll. This clearing protocol idea is reeeally exciting My very basic understanding: if you’re Alice and you owe money to Bob, Bob owes money to Charlie, and Charlie owes money to…

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Ethan Buchman (🐝,🦇)

2 months

Our new website tells one of the most important untold stories of our time.

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2 months

Had a lovely chat with Mashal! We touched on the differences between how one feels at conferences vs. longer term gatherings. We met on the roof of ZuConnect and she was kind enough to teach me about content strategy, and now things have come full circle :) @arlery

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Edge City

2 months

Well-designed community experiences should be full of magic moments, leaving people feeling optimistic and replenished 🌞 Mashal ( @arlery from @OctantApp ) and Timour ( @timourxyz ) discussing their experience at popup cities like Zuzalu and Edge City.

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1 year

Hearing our friend @EMostaque talk about @StabilityAI and the future of open-source AI. Lots of interesting ideas in this talk and the ensuing panel with @pujaohlhaver , @VitalikButerin , and @Grimezsz . A diverse set of opinions to say the least.

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8 months

now kiss

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1 year

about time for a reboot

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@JonathanHillis

Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 year

The ghost town of Lobo, TX — just south of Van Horn, home of the Blue Origin rocket launch facility — is for sale Asking price is $100k (seller financed!) as long you have a vision to do something cool with it …like starting a Cabin neighborhood

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8 months

full debate link: Another 🔥 quote: “if we have the choice between trusting in centralised power to make the right decision in that matter, or trusting in free associations of libertarian communities to make that decision, I would rather trust the latter.…

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Debate Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault - On human nature [Subtitled]

The full tv debate by Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault on the question of Human Nature. Subtitles: English, Portuguese, Japanese. Proper subtitles. If you'd ...

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1 year

fun look at all the things that are happening in scv world ✨

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scv

1 year

Updates from projects in the Seed Club Ventures ecosystem over the last month –– March Edition! 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱

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5 months

the best method I've developed to deal with super long travel is to enter a trance-like state where nothing really registers aside from important input like when I need to be at the gate, etc. anyway, i'm in Austin after 16 hours of trancing out, hmu if you're around

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1 year

Had a great time chatting with @mrjasonchoi and @antavedissian about our vision for DAOs and the space more broadly on the @theBlockcrunch podcast 🌱

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Why We're Investing $20M into DAOs - Anthony & Timour, Seed Club Ventures, Ep. 232

Listen to this episode from The Blockcrunch Podcast on Spotify. Opinion on DAOs, or decentralized autonomous organizations is split between 2 camps - those that don’t believe that decentralized...

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1 year

gm from the Sahara desert, sunrise this morning ❤️

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