This clip of Honeycomb co-founder & CTO talking to @conorbronsdon about AI made me think of @ryangrim and the other crypto skeptics here on Farcaster

"If you hate AI, you should really embrace it. Get to know it. Get to know it up close. No one cares about the critique of someone who is way away from it"

Which makes me wonder, @ryangrim , have you picked up any new anti-crypto angles from your up close experience yet?

And OH HEY @conorbronsdon, come reactivate your account.  Did you hear they're paying people to cast now? 

https://x.com/ConorBronsdon/status/1910042816883069295

No, sorry, still seems like kind of a silly use of time and resources.

What year did kids stop getting told this? I certainly heard it (well not this)

I had a feeling but it's confirmed,

This places inherent failure is that it is run by women

Yeah but we have a cave in the basement so it’s cool

This is a moment I feel I wish I had learned how to run scams instead of learning to code. Not too late I hope...
https://x.com/washingtonpost/status/1909598422346121689?t=Xr86Qi5EBZyYHPAKX1dIig&s=19

Bought my first ever BTC the other day and now it’s wiped out. Fun. How’s everybody’s bag?

$PURP

Guys I'm building a team



*this tweet is an under rated banger

We need a movement for offline spaces, just like walkable cities.

Faraday cage environments where phones and laptops simply don’t work. 

Libraries with pencil and paper and no distractions.

Laptops without WiFi chips, so you can type offline and then sync back manually via USB or Ethernet when you want.

Restaurants with phone lockers at the front, where everyone must check in devices beforehand.

What else?

Yes to this. We need it culturally too. I went to see Trey Anastasio play an acoustic show the other night and I didn’t see a single phone up recording. I’m sure some people took some snippets but they did it very discreetly. It was a sign of respect from the audience and a collective commitment to being in the moment. It was cool

Still awaiting my daughter’s arrival, but in the meantime I’ve made my debut in The Atlantic. 

I wrote about the looming boom in geothermal energy, one of the few renewables generating as lots of excitement among both Republicans and Democrats. 

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/04/geothermal-energy-boom/682291/

We really should be going all in on geothermal

cryptoleft

Reporter at Drop Site News, co-host at Breaking Points/Counter Points

I am happy to get into all that, but I did want to align first on one question: do you agree that Xiomara Castro and the family running the new Honduran government are crooks?

https://apnews.com/article/xiomara-castro-coup-carlos-zelaya-honduras-corruption-60fc69e941f8b8ed55b770da530468bf

This conversation has been clarifying so far I think

As an American im disgusted 

As a Marxist this is the god damn funniest shit that could of happened

Turns out Trump just made up these tariff figures he claims other countries charge us. 

Idiocracy was a documentary

AI fraud will extend well beyond the restaurant receipt example that is trending on LinkedIN.

Yesterday, I asked ChatGPT to generate a fake video dataset with timestamps, device ids, face embeddings, and more.

From there, I asked it to generate an image that matches one of the rows in the dataset.

While there is still a ways to go on the image/video replication, the dataset is already a big enough attack vector.

Is your data even your data?

On point 5, on the legal creations of these ZEDEs, take a look at the actual process of creating them: it involved a coup, the destruction of the Supreme Court, and then to defend them an effort to override a subsequent election. All of that was done in alliance with a president now convicted of drug trafficking. That can’t be an example of success.

Background on the Honduras crypto state and how it was formed

No Channel Channel.

The fact that you are approaching everything from a bad faith point of view, and assuming that network states mean lands that laws don’t apply says it all. The arrogance is nauseating. It’s just unfortunate that your casts are getting boosted for some reason and I have to suffer seeing them.

Ok, here’s my story on arguably the most high profile such zone, the one in Honduras. If what you’re arguing is that there is an ideal version that hasn’t been tried, and we should all analyze that rather than the actually existing versions, you sound like every communist saying real communism has never been tried

Ok, here’s my story on arguably the most high profile such zone, the one in Honduras. If what you’re arguing is that there is an ideal version that hasn’t been tried, and we should all analyze that rather than the actually existing versions, you sound like every communist saying real communism has never been tried https://theintercept.com/2024/03/19/honduras-crypto-investors-world-bank-prospera/

It’s hard to tell what is going on with this guy’s casts 
Does he genuinely believe what he’s casting, ergo he hated blockchain technology, not just crypto, or he’s casting to evoke outrage ie attention mining 
The “freaks” in this cast is making me wonder

I don’t hate blockchain tech but the idea of having a bunch of land where laws don’t apply is fundamentally anathema to me. We did kings, and we’re doing dictators, and that’s not for me. (Or I’d prefer it was not for me. I may not get a choice, which is the point.)

A left-wing journalist I know on Bluesky was saying that the push around Greenland is clearly related to the VC-backed Network State idea. 

I spent some time yesterday perusing this website: https://www.vcinfodocs.com/what-is-the-network-state

Obviously there’s a big crypto connection. What do you guys think of the project? Anyone involved? What does this clearly very skeptical site miss?

The world of crypto guys who want to create sovereign states is a wild thing. What’s the warp/farcast view on those freaks? Are some of them here?

Here’s a crypto use case I didn’t see coming. Holy shit.

There’s a new app where citizens can report illegal aliens and foreigners engaged in criminal activity AND get paid in crypto for doing so! 

On @LoomerUnleashed, I spoke with independent journalist @JacobEngels about how the ICE Raid app https://t.co/lOAAeeOevz uses geotagged https://t.co/Q8i8sbo3jR

Laura Loomer

Here’s a crypto use case I didn’t see coming. Holy shit. https://x.com/lauraloomer/status/1906080456765775947?s=46

Incredibly bleak https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hundreds-of-international-students-are-waking-up-to-an-email-asking-them-to-self-deport-for-campus-activism-or-even-sharing-posts-on-social-media/articleshow/119679695.cms

Very very important point here about money and politics

Musk is now amplifying this deeply misleading clip. 

Klein implies that Dems got in a room and unilaterally decided on this lengthy process.  That is false. This process came out of the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and was largely at the insistence of *GOP Senators* as a

Bharat Ramamurti

Very very important point here about money and politics https://x.com/bharatramamurti/status/1905594268460167546?s=46