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)
Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸
@genmon.fyi
building inanimate.tech / blogger at interconnected.org
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)
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
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
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
"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...
Frozen 2 should be rated R
Posted on Friday 17 Jul 2026. 1,024 words, 3 links. By Matt Webb.
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There has been considerable "jeopardy inflation" in movies between the 1980s and today. interconnected.org/home/2026/07...
Frozen 2 should be rated R
Posted on Friday 17 Jul 2026. 1,014 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.
interconnected.org
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...
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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"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...
Factories are just rooms
Posted on Friday 3 Jul 2026. 725 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.
interconnected.org
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...
Resident Sandbox on an ESP32 Watch
YouTube video by Ben Brown
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blogged some thoughts about form, and why the best product design in the world is this egg timer shaped like an egg interconnected.org/home/2026/06...
Free concept: AirPods with built-in Peltier thermoelectric coolers so the buds are ice-cold in your ear holes
Free concept: AirPods with built-in Peltier thermoelectric coolers so the buds are ice-cold in your ear holes
Everyone should build their own weather app. This is mine, it has approximately two users, and we both check it every single day
Took the afternoon off to do kid wrangling because the school is closed from the heat (trading with other families who take over kid wrangling other days this week) and I think that is my first “climate day” as a reason for not working?
Wow. This is such neat way to frame it. > these ads are laser-targeted streams of signifiers treating my psyche as a combination lock to be picked. https://interconnected.org/home/2026/06/19/signs
I am obsessed with these two ads
Posted on Friday 19 Jun 2026. 618 words, 1 link. By Matt Webb.
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Wet lab, wet market, wet-bulb temperature, wet ware. New blog post: wet thoughts. interconnected.org/home/2026/06...
Wet thoughts
Posted on Friday 12 Jun 2026. 548 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.
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somebody put this on sir keir's desk
Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸@genmon.fyi · 2mo agocan we put Fable in charge of inventing + commercialising a space elevator? writing a plan is my regular eval for new models reading Fable's attempt, I feel like - enough with the vending machines, let Fable run R&D - the UK govt should fund this! claude.ai/public/artif...
can we put Fable in charge of inventing + commercialising a space elevator? writing a plan is my regular eval for new models reading Fable's attempt, I feel like - enough with the vending machines, let Fable run R&D - the UK govt should fund this! claude.ai/public/artif...
The Gated Ascent: Space Elevator Investment Plan
Detailed investment memorandum for a staged, kill-gated space elevator program. Explores physics, materials science, architecture, and five-tranche funding strategy for Earth-to-GEO transport.
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Another run at plotting mass vs flops of all the intelligence things in the universe, this time made by Fable claude.ai/public/artif...
Any of my mutuals on Strava? 🏃 I recently went private on there for reasons and would like to see a bigger gang
I somehow convinced myself that we will outsource individual body parts to AI via electrical muscle stimulation, and wrote a blog post to figure out the implications interconnected.org/home/2026/06...
Self-driving legs to walk me to the office
Posted on Friday 5 Jun 2026. 1,229 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.
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