Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.   — Oscar Wilde

The Chinese-trained AI being naturally better at math than the American-trained one is so on-brand

Gen Art

winter trees. curated outputs drop tomorrow to subscribers only.
https://hypersub.withfabric.xyz/s/mbranson

Books

Following the Equator

Mark Twain does more travel writing. 

It’s probably the weakest of the bunch, but it’s still great. 

Don’t miss out on one of the funniest writers of all time. 

I’ve been spamming Twain travel reviews all week, so that’s all for now. 

Four stars for its class.

Chaos Monkeys

Our own @antonio tells the story of his journey from square job to startup job to founder to acquired by FAANG. Plus, a lot of personal life hijinks. 

The most important point is that he can actually write. He also knows the industry firsthand. 

The book does a good job of avoiding both vapid tech industry boosterism and groundless anti tech vitriol. 

In other words, it paints a fair, high res picture of our industry. That, plus its consistently irreverent humor, makes it a rare work indeed. 

Five stars for its class.

Director, @baseAds. Founder 
@spindl (acq. @coinbase). Wrote bestseller 'Chaos Monkeys'. 

My FID is lower than all but 52 of you.

skininthegame

Appreciate the love on my walk and talks

The series needs a name. The current leader is “Random Walk.” 2-4 mins of me walking and talking with friends outside of crypto included occasionally.

Reply with your best name idea

1 ETH if I use it

Insider Trading

Coinbase literally shot themselves in the foot by not listing Virtuals. 

The biggest driver of liquidity to Base will now primarily be a SOL focused launchpad (imo).

Really having doubts about keeping money on Base. The original thesis was that Coinbase would pump Base. But they’re doing the opposite…

> The thesis is that Coinbase would pump base, but they’re doing the opposite

Somebody show bro the TOSHI chart

coinbase freezing/restricting accounts issue seems like a legit PR problem

it probably only happens to a tiny minority but the minority is vocal enough that people desire to switch. i've never had issues but feel a latent worry that the next time i offramp will be when i get cooked

Tomorrow will bring something new, so leave today as a memory.

Mac Baconai

how your email finds me 
https://x.com/Macbaconai/status/1876616720544362738

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

x-posting my modest proposal for burning the @ethereum account on FC and X into a TEE: https://x.com/dfern_eth/status/1875327469047382414

This accomplishes the simultaneous goals of:
1) diss twitter rather than reifying it as important 
2) stop the perpetual whining by twitter maxi's about 'marketing' (please go tell this to Satoshi Nakamoto, and lmk how it goes)
3) living cypherpunk values by decentralizing control & exiting to community, along with demoing the coolness of secure enclaves
4) providing an audit trail for when rogue Twitter employees hack the account and put out drainer links (happened before & you just know will happen again)
5) did I mention fuck twitter?

@hudsonjameson we can arrange the encumbrance ceremony where the TEE livestreams the mouse clicks as it changes the @ethereum password to assume on-chain ownership of the account

Andrew Miller

Update: LFG 🚀
https://x.com/socrates1024/status/1875630181827932176

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.

AfraAfra

@afraafra