interesting writing/art/concepts/companies/x accounts

• grimes

• passion pit

• the 1975

• purity ring

• m83

• puppet

• "well rested" - kero kero bonito

• "little voices" - lane 8

• gattaca (1997)

• planet earth (2006)

• oppenheimer (2023)

• plato, the just polis, platonic forms, philosopher-kings

• hobbes, state of nature

• locke, natural rights

• de tocqueville, tyranny of the majority

• ibn khaldun, عصبيّة ('asabiyyah/group feeling/social cohesion)

• nietzsche, will to power

• john nash, nash equilibrium

• singer, preference utilitarianism

• john rawls, veil of ignorance/original position

• @tszzl

• @iterintellectus

• @cremieuxrecueil

• @aella_girl

• @coldhealing

• @magattew

• @richardhanania

• increasing control and wisdom at the human biological species, human civilization, and planetary scales

• how significant technological, geopolitical, economic, and memetic developments alter the trajectory of progress and its exposure to risk

• building and maintaining functional institutions of live players (burja)

• human hibernation for deep space travel and longevity

• cybernetics

currently, i'm learning about neural control, single-cell transcriptomics, and navigating academic bureaucracy as a phd student @ columbia.

contact: timothylantin@gmail.com; X: @timlantin

new york city