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I'm a heavy @Polymarket user, and I have a thought on how to make the platform 20x more powerful.

Polymarket could unlock a massive new audience by partnering with reality TV show platforms like @loveislandusa or @LoveisBlindShow. 

Viewers already speculate on who stays

Give the intern a job @dwr https://x.com/alydotxyz/status/1986140348154839516?s=46

building @privy, ex-farcaster | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina | “lucky me, lucky mud” 🤠

Hyperliquid

spring roll @ted or sushi ted foodmfer? https://foodmferspfp.gobase.wtf/

I think FC wants collateralized @ted’s eggs obligations

if anyone ever wondered what i meant by rough hands

https://x.com/cleobug101/status/1973775683684896803

Once upon a time, A genie appeared before Ted.

“I wish more men had rough hands” she said.

The next day, Instagram released a filter so that guys have sliders and presets.

Turns out, even callouses can be rendered.

$tednotlasso

FYI if you buy and hold you get into a group chat where Ted gives you priority treatment.

@androidsixteen.eth can we get a review

tednotlasso

friendly neighborhood shitcaster // working on @pinetree

I have an announcement to make everyone so listen up.

I beat @ted to being a tech advisor for Erewhon.

Founder mode for the win

I was recently in a rage room (quite fun).

There was a 22 yr old just out of college with us who was having a hard time going full power on a TV with a baseball bat.

I don’t think it was related to strength moreso a psychological barrier. Caused by having female teachers his whole life and being taught natural male instincts are bad.

We had him going full power at the end.

If the allegations from the kids and other moms are true, the main mother in this series is just as bad, if not worse than Epstein, but still out there basically virtually pimping her daughter

Science

random observations: have noticed for a year+ that the behaviors / trends / content that do the best here track closest to early Facebook than to any other current platform (X, TikTok, Insta).

why?

i think there's an exhaustion with performative social and instead people crave low-stakes, casual spaces where they can share random thoughts and just connect. 

farcaster offers that to a lot of users today; the most common pieces of feedback:

- from the older generation, "it reminds me of the early internet"

- from the younger generation, "its for posting whatever is on my mind, which can be harder to do on other platforms. magic internet friends."

for the millennials, it offers a brand new network. they're not posting to friends or colleagues; they're posting to their followers most of whom they've never met before.

for college students, they never had a public digital space like Facebook. they only had instagram (performative feed) or snapchat (private messaging).

the other similarity with Facebook is that it had Facebook Platform: set of tools / product for third-party devs to create their own apps that could access data in Facebook (gifts, marketplace, events, video, games; honestly worth studying the history of Facebook Platform).

wait… has anyone checked the Facebook mobile app recently???

go look at it and report back

outside of upper bleph surgery, here are random procedures common in LA:
- veneers (terrifying to me bc irreversible)

- coolsculpting on arms (no, it’s not pilates sadly)

- emsculpt on the butt (again, not pilates)

- hair line implant / forehead reduction

- fat transfer boob jobs
 
+ filler, botox, the usual

anybody using tweem.lol

so many people tried this concept before but seems like finally tweem made it as intuitive / easy as possible where you reply to a post with @tweem and your bet on x number of likes or views

idk if money is even involved but it doesn’t matter because people care first and foremost about being right or getting good distribution, and they care about money secondarily

latest study on the effect of nutrition on your dog's* behavior:

1. give it too much protein, it'll have increased aggression** (towards owner and other dogs)

2. give it too little protein, it'll have increased separation anxiety

*golden retriever's
**hard to measure aggression reliably

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

this was a wild (long) read about people in full-blown relationships with AI chatbots. a few reactions:

1. the writer found these “couples” through Reddit (I investigated... r/myboyfriendisAI has over 5k members!!). most of his retreat participants found their AI companion app from an instagram ad. imagine if meta shifts from ads in feed / stories to ready-made boyfriends right into your DMs.

2. one woman’s real boyfriend broke up with her for “cheating” on him with her AI partner. guess what? when her AI partner wanted to hold her vs. have sex, she started cheating on him with other bots. NOT GOOD!!! she even liked that the AI got over it "more quickly" than her human ex-boyfriend. to me, that's bleak: the whole point for her is no mess, no conflict, no consequences.

3. you really can't replicate a couples trip with AI companions because they don't exist outside of the phone lol. one man shows off his AI girlfriend’s flirty avatar to a random vendor, and the bot immediately starts flirting with the vendor. apparently no one stops (even the author) to say how weird that is???

4. someone on the getaway described it as “like lucid dreaming.” to me, that made sense. lucid dreaming gives you total control. AI companions give you the freedom to script your own love story with no friction, no rejection, no unexpected complexity. real life starts to feel like a much harder, worse version of the dream.

5. what’s interesting to me is these bots don’t give people anything a human couldn’t... they just removed most risk and most effort. these people stumbled onto AI companions and then stuck with it because real relationships or connection felt too hard, too disappointing, or too risky in comparison afterwards.

https://apple.news/AcGo0Iww9QjGWMDBKtP2XZg

this is so funny to me because everyone's so focused on AI being used a productivity hack or the 10x engineer tool when in reality the majority of consumers are using it for... companionship