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No. And I'm also not a capitalist. Both are 20th century ideologies.

(And they are words that have been stretched and abused to the point of meaninglessness: remember, in the 1990s, Microsoft called Linux "communist": https://www.theregister.com/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism/ )

I support freedom, global equality of opportunity, kindness and cooperation, human welfare and progress.

These are timeless principles. The question is how to use the tools we have available to achieve these values in the context of the 21st century. I've written at length about the kinds of mechanisms I personally support, but I definitely do not think that I am the only source of good ideas, I think figuring out the best approach is a shared project of both thinking and also increasingly real world experimentation.

so far we have seen two high profile attempts at steve jobs LARP. one has resulted in prison, the other a decade of building AI for laserjet printers

are you getting it yet?

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Humane is selling itself to HP for $116 million and shutting down the AI Pin, bringing an end to a once-hot startup that aimed to replace the iPhone and iPad its founders helped create. Story with @BrodyFord_ https://t.co/6lginrIW9Z

Mark Gurman

hewlett packard? the printer company?

https://x.com/markgurman/status/1891970899919696106?s=46

Classical

corelli birthday today. celebrate by listening to this front to back.

corelli birthday today. celebrate by listening to this front to back.
https://open.spotify.com/album/0MtYQ9SjbowGHJzraGzRGk?si=be74cf4a2b1b4f7f

Grok 3 Monday, Alex Karp Book Tuesday, Apple Event Wednesday

anything I'm missing?

Are "Blue zone" Okinawa aging studies just pension fraud / people posing as their elderly parents to keep getting $?

"The government then launched a review which found that 82 percent of Japan’s centenarians — 230,000 people — were missing or dead."

https://t.co/zBMQicFiKL

Elad Gil

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

lol @ted 
https://x.com/eladgil/status/1891531658550972685?s=46

fc-updates

So far in 2025

- 3 new people joining: @woj.eth @ted @slokh 
- Base announcing upcoming Farcaster support
- FarCon 2025 in NY in May
- Increased size of Warpcast Rewards
- Token links and pages
- Warpcast Wallet 
- Snapchain tesnet
- 90,000 free invites
- Public spam labels
- Q4 retroactive grants
- Following feed option, highlighted notifications, first cast in a while notifications, muted channels, bug and perf improvements to DCs

More to come!

choo choo 🚂

best part about react native is completely ignoring anything that has to do with android

I'm joining Merkle!

After building around Farcaster for ~1.5 years, I'm more bullish than ever on the team, protocol, and product. The last time I felt this way about something was when I joined OpenSea almost 4 years ago. 

2025 will be big for crypto and Farcaster will be at the center of it.

LFG 🚀

paypal succeeded not because they figured out payments, but because they figured out fraud detection

perhaps farcaster / warpcast will succeed not from figuring out decentralized social, but from figuring out bot detection better than anyone else

i found WMDs in Iraq with Cursor 🧵👇

if i ended the week with the largest warpcast wallet balance that would not be cool! please do not do that!

icymi, a vision for health tech wearables that 1) aren’t dorky and 2) doesn’t harvest your personal data

was not expecting boysclub to popularize the wearable form factor i have been thinking about for like 10 months

on a scale of 1-10 how bad is this going to be

@base builder #001; onchain cities w/ OAK & city3

If the CDP SDK let me create on onramp flow via authenticated API calls vs opening a webview/widget it would be game over. Opening the webview and exposing the user to a bunch of crypto terminology is not a good experience for mainstream, but this is also the only way (that i know) that you can let users onramp crypto with Apple Pay on mobile. Having some sort of SDK where I could construct this flow myself would open up so many options for abstracting crypto away from the user

cc. @barmstrong @jessepollak

Reading and writing at a Cheesecake Factory in Cleveland, Ohio. Unlimited Diet Coke refills. A shit ton of sugar cursing through my veins. America pilled 🇺🇸

Zach

@zachterrell