“They vomit to eat, and eat to vomit.” – says Seneca, of Romans making room for further gluttony.

Leon said, “This scope is extensive. It’s a couple months of work.” I said, “Sounds good. Build to completion. Make no mistakes. You have all night.” **went to bed**

Ditched Cursor, which I was only using ClaudeCodeCLI/GeminiCLI/CodexCLI in the embedded terminal and the Cursor file editor/explorer. The verdict is: Still loving cmux and Zed.

Zed

Zed — Love your editor again

Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

cmux

cmux — The terminal built for multitasking

Native macOS terminal for AI coding agents. Works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Kiro, Aider, and any CLI tool.

(MacOS-specific recommendation)

The rePeopling of Rome (and soon the new West): The simple virtues of the common man were not wanting in it. The family life of the Jews was exemplary, and the little Christian communities were troubling the pleasure-mad pagan world with their piety and their decency. But most of the inflowing peoples had literally been demoralized by uprootage from their native surroundings, cultures, and moral codes. Years of slavery had destroyed in them that self respect, which is the backbone of upright conduct; and daily friction, with groups of different customs, had worn away still more of their custom-made morality. If Rome had not engulfed so many men of alien blood in so brief a time, if she had passed all these newcomers through her schools instead of her slums, if she had treated them as men with a hundred potential excellences, if she had occasionally closed her gates to let assimilation catch up with infiltration, she might have gained new racial and literary vitality from the infusion—might have remained a Roman Rome—the voice and citadel of the west. The task was too great. The victorious city was doom by vastness and diversity of her conquests. Her native blood was diluted in the ocean of her subjects. Her educated classes were drawn down by the power of numbers, to the culture of those who had been her slaves. Much breeding overcame good breeding. The fertile conquered became masters in the sterile masters house. — An excerpt from Caesar and Christ, by Will Durant book III of The Story Of Civilization series.

GN, all. Just keep swimming.

Travel well, Artemis II & crew.

T minus commenced! https://www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBMIzNo

Heard about the dev at Anthropic crapping the whole codebase in a commit last night? Well... here's the funniest fastest report you'll find.

Very cool installation.

Clean Room port to python/rust on github for those wanting Claude Code CLI harness features for local models.

GitHub

GitHub - ultraworkers/claw-code: [Notice] The repo temporarily locked while ownership transfer. in the meantime we maintain on here: https://github.com/ultraworkers/claw-code-parity. The fastest repo in history to surpass 100K stars ⭐. Join Discord: https://discord.gg/5TUQKqFWd Built in Rust using oh-my-codex.

[Notice] The repo temporarily locked while ownership transfer. in the meantime we maintain on here: https://github.com/ultraworkers/claw-code-parit...

Been a while since I've seen a fat one like this.

@QnA I was showing off the Prime at a local meetup this past weekend and I got a couple questions that I wasn't sure how to answer: 1. How does a person use their 12 or 24 word recovery words to recover a wallet private key to the @Foundation Passport Prime? 2. What, in laymen terms, is the QuantumLink doing special to secure the bluetooth connection to Envoy? 3. How would a person with an active, secure nsec store that key pair to a Passport Prime without generating a whole new profile? Thanks for any answers that I can take back to the group.

@Foundation or @QnA If the Passport Prime's internal battery has completely failed and will no longer accept any charge, can the device boot and operate fully when powered directly via USB-C? Or does the battery need to be replaced (or at least hold some minimal charge) before the device can power on via USB-C?

Your Doom & AI: There is our use of AI to ‘do’. But then there is the understanding of what AI means to us in our doing and being. The latter is fed by this DOAC interview with Karen Hao. This interview anchors a broader perspective. Her criticisms of the “AI Imperial Agenda” offer a backstop to blind enthusiasm. A balanced philosophical understanding can give us a chance to support open source and self hosted models. We do this by redirecting money and effort to AI that empowers individual freedom of use and decentralized advantage. I can’t validate her message. I fully validate, however, the importance of decentralization and distribution of AI power. Our Doom won’t come first from AI. It will come from those wielding it with and then against us.

@Foundation Finally getting to put hands on a Foundation Passport Prime. Well done, all! The quality feel is terrific. Setup was smooth. The form-fitting case feels fantastic and fits perfectly. Fantastic design and attention to detail. Can’t wait to play with it more!

GM

The grass is always greener on the living side. While you’re still among us, do great things and be grateful.

Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival Fun to hear the stories of how some of the great songs were born, sung by the writers, even if made famous by another voice. 3rd & Lindsley #nashville #livemusic

Waygu Burger Magnificence. If you want your own, find this at HopDoddy, Nashville.

16oz Grass Fed Ribeye with cheesy scalloped taytos. 🤌