J. N. Silva

Moments of the Unknown: Enter Through the Thrift Shop Curated by @justinaversano and @ViktoriaNagibi1 November 11 - 26, 2026 60 - 62 East 11th Street, New York Opening Wednesday, November 11, 11:11AM - 8 PM; reception 5-8 PM Enter through the Thrift Shop, an artist-initiated exhibition by Justin Aversano, co-curated with Viktoria Nagibina, opens on November 11, 2026, across all seven floors of 60-62 East 11th Street in Greenwich Village. Bringing together 366 paintings, Super 8 film, Polaroids, sound, and generative media, the exhibition follows a year of encounters across seven continents in an ascent from past to present to future. The building is not a backdrop but a participant: its nineteenth-century photographic history is set in direct relation to contemporary ways of making, circulating, and preserving images. The exhibition took shape by chance. In June 2026, Aversano and Nagibina moved their studio into the building and only afterward learned that it had been built in 1895 as the headquarters of Scovill & Adams, the photographic-supply company and publisher of The Photographic Times, at a time when the blocks south of Union Square were among the world’s centers of photographic production. Aversano was then completing the 366 paintings, with no site yet determined for their presentation. Initiated and funded by the artist, who has reinvested the proceeds of his work in the space and its production, the exhibition is realized without gallery, museum, or outside financial support, proposing a model in which an artist builds the conditions for his own public presentation. Visitors enter through Bijan Royal Antiques, an operating store run by its owner since 1965 and the last of the antique dealers that once lined the street. The entrance gives the exhibition its title, and sculptures from the shop reappear on the floors above, placing historical representations of the human figure beside Aversano’s contemporary portraits. At the center of the exhibition is Moments of the Unknown, a three-part work on time, memory, and human connection that unfolds as The Past, The Present, and The Future. Its source is Aversano’s uninterrupted journey of 2023–2024, during which he filmed a different person in a different city every day on Super 8. Over the year that followed, he released one ten-second portrait a day and wrote a journal entry for each encounter, returning to it a year later to the day. Extending a lineage of serial, time-bound practice in which a fixed daily rule gives form to chance, the project brings these recorded encounters into dialogue with Polaroid photography and generative processes, and considers how images preserve individual lives while shaping a collective picture of humanity. Each of the three installations gives the recorded encounters a different temporal form: reversed and prolonged, unfolding in real time, or transformed into an imagined identity. The paintings carry this inquiry into material and process. Each begins with a single frame extracted from the footage and processed through AI image generation to clarify its forms for silkscreen. Color is painted by hand, one layer at a time, before a final black silkscreen completes the image. Every work has its own screen, and the variations produced in printing remain without correction: the process establishes a structure while admitting the effects of chance. An augmented reality application reconnects each canvas with its source footage, returning the still image to motion. 🧵1/2

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É a primeira vez que eu vejo uma música eletrônica analógica

'CITY' by @dave_krugman is acquired for $150,000 USD by @AdamWeitsman. The sale includes: - 1/1 dynamic artwork and living network of the WINDOWS // NYC project - 1/1 grand scale physical work of all 1000 WINDOWS, which will head to the future Digital Art Museum Weitsman is building in the former Carl Sagan Residence in Ithaca, New York

What happens when artists leave the studio? They walk the Mayan jungle, meet the community of Calakmul, and make artworks that give back. A short film with @mayaspiritsnft by @JNSilva_

There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.

people of the sky the first mint phase is now live on @opensea! next phase at 4pm et any remaining editions go on public at 5pm.

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ok safe to say binance is pwned The biggest assets were approximately: • 1.615B USDT • 62.6M RLUSD • 29,934 wBETH • 11,372 XAUt • 6.19M UNI • 198.4M ENA • 7.175T PEPE • 27.8M USD1 • 2.26M LINK • 127,853 AAVE about $2.5B at the explorer’s prices. 1. The attacker deployed a delegate contract, 0x63e842b0...73e9c6fAe, from the relayer at 15:59 UTC. 2. About four hours later, the relayer submitted an EIP-7702 authorization transaction That installed the malicious 7702 delegate code on Binance 14. 3. The relayer then made a call to Binance 14, executing the delegate code, and transferring Binance 14’s ETH and token balances. 4. The calldata is labeled sweep(address, address[]). The second argument is a list of recognizable token-contract addresses plus the zero-address (eth). 5. The same relayer later used the same delegate to move 780M USDC from Binance Hot Wallet 34 into the same pool • The relayer 0x7C... was funded by three Tornado Cash 0.1 ETH withdrawals over the prior two days. • The same pool also received 28,005.6 ETH from Binance 16 24 seconds after the main sweep. • The pool then forwarded 195,460 ETH to a fresh, unlabeled EOA • That EOA has only one transaction and currently holds the 195,460 ETH. What's a bit unclear is why the relayer was needed in the first place. If they had the private keys to the Binance wallets, they could have just sent the assets out in an atomic bundle without needing a relayer at all. So it seems likely that they didn't have the private keys and instead just had the 7702 auth signatures, which must have been phished somehow. I think we can go ahead and assume DPRK.

Unconfirmed, but possibly massive binance hack. Entire Binance wallet drained into new EOA. Contract call was funded by Tornado Cash

ik hes 42 but this all in the same day is frying me 😭