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It's unfortunate they didn't include more photos in the AD article and doesn't really do it justice, even though a lot of his design aesthetic wasn't for me.

Specifically there was an octagonal drafting room without central supports, using chains linked across the room and held together by a giant hub to hold it together from the sides. Truly a wild piece of engineering I've never observed in any home elsewhere.

I tried photographing it, which was essentially impossible but here's the best version I could find. https://www.instagram.com/p/DOZxFBoEdMb/

Since the home was also a studio, he would take people on a bit of a wild tour through his home before leading them to my favorite room on the tour -- and also octagonal 'deal room', which is the room most representative of all of his ideas within that house, with hidden drawers, and drafting boards hidden everywhere. https://martinhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/flw_studi...

I went on the tour of this home / studio early this year.

The tourguide didn't mince words, and came at FLW pretty hard for scams and philandering. My understanding is that FLW was kind of a grifter. Outside of being famous for just not paying his employees and designers, he was working on the side to put up houses that were explicitly against his contract after being paid huge cash advances by his friend / employer. He also famously hoarded his designers' and sculptors' ideas and claimed them for himself.

There's some fascinating ideas at play in his houses, and the fact that he designed the furniture for the rooms they would go in is fascinating, even though I didn't care much for his style. The concept of 'compression and expansion' came through well, when you'd walk through a somewhat narrow offset corridor before entering a grand room. It definitely had an impact.

That house was basically a prototype for a bunch of random ideas he had, including a stage for his children and his wife's students to perform plays (she was a youth teacher) complete with a giant mural of a djinn iirc was inspired by one thousand and one nights.

It felt like a psychedelic church.

You got me dead to rights with this, because I literally bought dontscamgrandma.com earlier this week and it took a heart jumping second to catch the joke.

We're staying away from the trust funds and shame though.

If I'm not mistaken, that's how pindrop does it. Ambient noise analysis

So, full disclosure I’m a sec founder in the space, and was already planning on launching a solution deepfake “grandparent scams” right before hacker summer camp but this post was too on the nose to ignore so I ended up moving it up and launching the waitlist for dontscamgrandma.com tonight.

Long story short, some fraud associated events cropped up last year at work and I was concerned about my mom getting scammed, so we kitchen tabled it and I told her flat out will never ever call you asking for money" and walked her through some quick scenarios and left it there.

About 5 months later, someone called literally screaming, pretending to be me having just gotten into a car accident and killing a pregnant woman, then the phone transferred over to a 'lawyer' and she ended up getting scammed out of most of her life savings.

It sat really poorly with me, so I quit my dayjob at the end of last year and started silversight.ai to solve the ai scam / fraud problem for b2b, but I’ve been wanting to roll out something for regular people from the beginning. This post was the bump I needed to validate that other people were feeling the pressure.

So thanks for posting.

We have more features in the pipe, but as of today dontscamgrandma is backed by an engine that does regular recurring real time phone based training scenarios with an AI that roleplay's common grandparent scams with your loved one with the goal of getting them to recognize and defend themselves from sketchy calls.

Pretty excited to share it. Feedback welcomed https://dontscamgrandma.com

That wasn't enough for my mom. I went through an identical scenario, and about 6 months after we had the conversation she got hit.

There's also the strain and discontent that comes with being the person who is taking away the rights and putting up guardrails for your loved ones. I opted not to do so for my mother shortly before she was scammed out of her life's savings, because I thought I could train her against scams.

I think Nate did a phenomenal job calling out pollsters in that time. Since 538 was predominately a poll aggregator that did tricky stats to rank the reliability of each poll. I remember specifically an interview with him griping about some of the unusual data he was seeing from pollsters that made it look like, and I quote, 'Someone has their finger on the scales'

"How I Approached Reharmonization for the First Time", With actual music!

This is for generating custom bin / baseplate sizes in multiple "formats", and solves a lot of the issues I see brought up on this thread.

https://gridfinity.perplexinglabs.com/

Outside of gridfinity it can be used to generate odd-sized grids via the GRIPS option, make HSW honeycomb walls, and supports multiboard, and a few others.

You can use this custom gridfinity generator.

https://gridfinity.perplexinglabs.com/

Ironically printing custom pelican inserts with this right now

Memo source, though apparently two were released, one with later clarifications.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/deb7af80-48b6-4b8a-... https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25506191-omb-memo-1-...

Side note the OMB (agency issuing memo in question) website redirects straight to whitehouse.gov, which seemingly was not previously the case.

This is unreasonably useful for anyone that has a 3D printer.

Love taskwarrior. Looking forward There's a great TUI; https://github.com/kdheepak/taskwarrior-tui

I wish cross-device-sync was feasible, but it's pretty good.