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As uncomfortable as it is, this needs to be seen

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What are your Farcaster’s dirty little secrets? I’ll start: @accountless.eth does in fact have an account @androidsixteen.eth is very much human @horsefacts.eth never casts equine trivia @king is not technically royalty @tldr never summarizes anything @warpcastadmin.eth doesn’t hold the master key

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Criminals: Give us $20M or we doxx your customers Brian Armstrong: Let me put a $20M bounty on your heads instead 🫳🎤 https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/1922967787309256807

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Sometimes I’d come across a random biography and be gobsmacked at how intense and biopic-worthy some existences are (esp. relative to mine). Case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdynand_Antoni_Ossendowski We really are products of the period we live in. “May you live in interesting times” can be such a blessing or a curse

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Since the warplet, have we lost the ability to view the NFTs of a connected address? It was pretty cool to go to someone’s profile and see their collection

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Feels like Ethereum is now in this endgame race for RWA tokenization supremacy, and the runway is getting shorter. Ethereum has all the right infra and characteristics (incl. credible neutrality, decentralization, trustlessness, etc.) but the TardFi corporate decision-makers remain largely unaware or indifferent. Every ETH maxi is hoping for a major RWA adoption announcement (by BlackRock, Texas Stock Exchange, etc). Yet proprietary L1s are cutting corners with marketing dollars and being able to present a smiling suit to board rooms. For all their talk about disruption, corporates still want the reassurance of a wet ink contract and a neck to grab, and a decentralized network won’t provide that. I’m aware of Etherealize & the new EF 1T security initiative; but also of Betamax vs VHS. This is not about price btw — I just worry about a future where lesser solutions (proprietary blockchains / glorified databases with some vague crypto jargon peppered in) prevail over a universal, civilizational ledger

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https://warpcast.com/v/0xf809724b

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In addition to the left/right (economic scale), authoritarian/libertarian (social scale), and utilitarian/deontologist (ethical scale), I propose adding one more dimension to the political compass that guides our understanding of social governance: reflexivity preference. 1/10

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It's fascinating to me that most of the 2D plots that we use in algebra are deceptively hiding the true behavior of functions, which only becomes visible once we start mapping them in 3D space, by switching from real to complex numbers. So many people's understanding of mathematical behaviors are based on a flawed and incomplete low-dimensional premise —much like seeing only the 2D shadows of 3D objects on the walls of Plato's cave. Extrapolating, it makes me wonder how much deep intuition we're missing out on by operating most commonly on the real number line (1D), or at best in the complex plane (2D), but almost never using the quaternion (4D), octonion (8D) or sedenion (16D) numbers — our puny brains probably couldn't take it anyway. This is an area where I'm hopeful that AI, being free of our low-dimensionality bias, can help us make strides. Watch just 30 seconds of https://youtu.be/92wXQYcYLMg?t=1469 to see how much depth is lost by switching back from 3D to 2D plots of familiar functions

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My daily driver in 1997. The antenna was retractable

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Politics then: the end justifies the means Politics now: the bellend justifies being mean

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Barely 48 hours after the flawless Pectra upgrade and the EIP–7251 MaxEB implementation, and already 1% of all the staked ETH sits in compounding validators (those that upgraded to a 0x02 address). Interestingly, those make up only 0.12% of all active validators, because ~100 of them are whales that have consolidated all of 2,048 ETH (the ceiling) per validator, skewing the average. And there are nearly twice as many consolidation requests still being processed in the queue (~2,500 pending vs. ~1,300 completed). This will take a load off the P2P layer as expected. Bullish Stats from https://pectrified.com/mainnet and https://etherscan.io/address/0x0000bbddc7ce488642fb579f8b00f3a590007251

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The politicking before and during the conclave must be a sight to behold. Imagine a Survivor episode where geriatric dudes in fancy red robes compete to wear the funny hat. Except they cannot promote themselves nor scheme for others too overtly because they must maintain the semblance of humility and being guided by a higher power. And that’s all happening under Michelangelo’s timeless frescoes

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This is my first cast. check yours with this mini app by @cashlessman.eth

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So we expected Pope Pizzaballa and we got Pope Pizza Hut?

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Happy Pectra day for those celebrating! The community update watch call starts in 90 minutes (05:30 EST) at https://www.youtube.com/live/NbxaCZYtW-I

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Is the USS Harry Truman cursed or something? It collided with a merchant vessel in February, leading to the dismissal of the commanding officer. Then last month it lost an F/A-18 Super Hornet, which fell into the sea during a hard ship maneuver to evade Houthi fire. And now a second F/A-18 fell into the drink after a failure of the arresting system.

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Terrifying ordeal for the air traffic controllers who lost all radar capabilities for 1.5 minute at the center which controls traffic inbound to Newark airport, one of the US’ busiest. I’ve had the pleasure of working with ex-ATC folks multiple times and you can tell there’s a distinctive equanimity to them — whether it’s the job that attracts a certain breed, or the job that molds them into who they eventually become. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/us/inside-the-multi-day-meltdown-at-newark-airport

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Hey everyone, passions will run high in /geopolitics over the coming days as the India/Pakistan situation develops. Please keep it civil and factual, and credibly source your claims. Reminder that this is a moderated channel meant for high-quality discussions, not ad hominem attacks nor disinformation

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