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Introducing StreamBridge Live 🚀
Over the past few months, I've had a lot of fun building StreamBridge: the best way to stream, host and watch endurance sports together.
Mountain running is my passion, and this project has been close to my heart.
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Foursquare was acquired last month. The outcome was disappointing. It's taken me a while to write this, but I think I'm finally done grieving it. Here are some thoughts on our final years, an effort to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ's legacy, and my attempt to finally get some closure. teendrama.substack.com/p/som…
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📍 When roads are blocked, WFP finds another way.
For the first time in an emergency operation in #Nepal, WFP is deploying humanitarian cargo drones to carry food to communities cut off by devastating floods.
After the 2015 earthquake, WFP reached remote mountain communities using yaks, mules and porters carrying food for days.
Today, innovation allows us to cover that last mile in minutes.
A Principal Saved 900 Students Before His School Was Washed Away in Nepal nytimes.com/2026/08/31/world… via @NYTimes
Nepal’s high-tech disaster response meets low-tech reality kathmandupost.com/national/2… via @kathmandupost
What will be the climate future of nepal? The silence of the cuckoo bird and catastrophic floods warn Nepal’s climate future is already here kathmandupost.com/columns/20… via @kathmandupost
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NESRA has upgraded its live FloodWatch platform for the Rasuwa / Bhotekoshi–Trishuli flood response.
Now available:
• *Situation Brief #05* — English & Nepali
• Rapid *Earth Observation assessment*
• Updated road/access status
• Key changes since the previous update
• Official source links
• Options to request GIS/data, submit corrections or share operational information
🔗 *Live FloodWatch:*
nesraspace.org/floodwatch/ra…
NESRA EO Assessment:
npl-flood-dash-356251209726.…
To help our hackers working in disaster response, government, humanitarian operations, GIS/remote sensing, infrastructure and research
*Nepalese Space Research Association (NESRA)* @nepalhackathon #nepal #hackathon
I will be participating in the @nepalhackathon tonight for those interested to put their talents and heart to support those already building current and future tools for the flood in Nepal Tibet. Nepalhackathon.org #nepal
Success after a century of failures: Inside Moderna and Merck's cancer vaccine breakthrough - reuters.com/legal/litigation…
Sean Howell (He/Him) retweeted
#NepalHackathon is bringing together Nepal-led teams with engineers, scientists, mappers, AI builders, drone operators, funders and global technology partners. nepalhackathon.org
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Today we’re officially launching @explabsai on YC.
Companies spend more on AI every month, but none of it becomes an asset they own.
Up to 97% cheaper and 50% higher quality.
Sean Howell (He/Him) retweeted
Some really cool new experiments :)
New experiment in the flipbook universe, infinite scroll of interactive interconnected generative editable images!
These are actually images, not text overlays or code, but objects in the images are fully editable/movable, and have click interactions attached to them.
This is all powered by structured image generation from @ideogram_ai optimized to run in realtime on @modal , and a fast LLM. Video not sped up at all - there's still room to speed this up ~2-5x. More soon :)
Sean Howell (He/Him) retweeted
One curious puzzle: given how much engineering has been automated by AI, where's all the new software?
My favorite recent paper on the economics of AI, by @ChadJonesEcon (who just joined Anthropic) and @ChrisTonetti, includes some fascinating and counterintuitive explanations 🧵
What I really want from my @OpenAI , @pi, @AnthropicAI is a Socrates mode.
AI is trained to predict the next useful token. Quick answers.
Socrates optimized for questioning and delaying being immediately useful. To achieve this we would need a decompression algorithm.
Sean Howell (He/Him) retweeted
The most under discussed immigration policy:
A lesson from Lee Kuan Yew
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America’s national identity isn’t rooted in the land, a shared race, or scriptural revelation, but in the principles of our founding and an indefatigable optimism about the future.
humanprogress.org/abundance-…
