Every time I work out I think about how all the mass in a tree being made up of carbon that it sucked out of the air. 🌳 

And with every exhale I am shedding just a little bit of that mass that was in my body back to the air.🏃😮‍💨

This was correct. 

Blinks didn't take off because Twitter mobile app — where 90% of usage is — doesn't natively support Blinks (and actively nerfs links).

Remember how worked up everyone in Ethereum got about the sexy launch video? Ignore the noise.

If there’s a World War III I’m not fighting in it. One thing I’ve learned from a career in reporting is that you should not sacrifice your life for any abstract ideological cause. They usually add up to complete folly or merely the dirty game of some powerful people conflated with the public interest. 

If you are directly defending your own home and family that is a legitimate reason.

https://t.co/hZmNNnmX6Y

After decades of using the Internet, I've learned to apply this philosophy to the online Information war that precede these IRL conflicts.

Commentary on my 𝕏 & FC feed lately:

Crypto is a religion founded by the prophet Satoshi. Crypto conferences are the pilgrimage where the faithful gather to share knowledge and seek guidance from the hight priests.

The one-two punch of KYC and third party doctrine. 

1️⃣ If you share your information with the financial institution, you lose your expectation of privacy.

2️⃣ The IRS requires them to collect this information about you.

Liberty is lost gradually then suddenly! 🙄

Ethereum -> Solana
"Gradually, then suddenly." 👀

Ethereum -> Solana
"Gradually, then suddenly." 👀 

https://blockworks.co/news/lightspeed-newsletter-worldcoin-id-solana

10 Million

https://x.com/bluesky/status/1835725657906806986

vibe architect for /opacity --
host of vibe check podcast 
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❄️ icebreaker.xyz/dawufi
👀 seemore.tv/free/fc/dawufi

Imagine this:
I sit outside a coffee shop on a public sidewalk and take photos of everyone that enters. Then I label each photo with the name of the person if I know, a description of what they look like, and summary of how they greeted me. I cast all this data to Farcaster.

Who owns this data?

If data were a friend, then your relationship status is “it’s complicated”

There are ways to justify this (decreasing marginal tax rates are consistent with optimal tax theory, as you get the incentive effect without the reduction in revenue on the hours that people would work anyway), but in general I'm kinda worried about tax policy being driven by memetics. Becomes a complexity nightmare.

Taxing wages is theft.
Theft is immoral. 
Thus taxing wages is immoral.

But governments will do it anyway…

we were pseudonymous because of how we feared the law would be broken against us

you are pseudonymous because of how you fear the laws you broke

we are not the same

I am not pseudonymous because I lack the discipline to stick with the shtick

but I envy those that do

ok this is funny

https://x.com/shadygize/status/1834951609228374160?s=46&t=InqFv-rHAXmvTpjoTSm7Cw

Humans preserve!


https://x.com/lmadgit/status/1834248261479145816?s=46&t=InqFv-rHAXmvTpjoTSm7Cw

I feel like I’m being punked.

Can someone explain to me why Biden put on a trump hat, then later was seen walking on to AF1 with the hat in his hand? Is this real? What is going on?

@vrypan.eth has a bunch of very interesting ideas in this post. 

we're not pursuing them today, but i suspect we might in the next year or two if things keep growing! 

https://blog.vrypan.net/2024/06/26/farcaster-l2/

This is really good! If you are thinking about building on Farcaster read this to expand your horizon.

As someone that is a little OCD, the dust left in some of my one-time use wallets causes me to lose sleep at night.

Google definitely nerfs gmeet on Safari.

Impossible to use on safari, but smooth as button on chrome

Does this apply to casting?

https://xkcd.com/323/

I am extremely bullish on the of crypto payment rails championed by @barmstrong  💪 

But can we please, please, I'm begging, invest in shielded transactions so my kids and their kids don't have to live in a dystopian hellscape!

I am extremely bullish on the of crypto payment rails championed by @barmstrong  💪 

But can we please, please, I'm begging, invest in shielded transactions so my kids and their kids don't have to live in a dystopian hellscape!

https://x.com/matthew_sigel/status/1833585686223724631

RIP one of the few Seattle crypto projects

RIP one of the few Seattle crypto projects

https://www.geekwire.com/2024/nori-a-seattle-based-carbon-removal-marketplace-that-raised-17m-shuts-down-after-7-years/

Answering the question "where's the beef?"

boscolo.eth

@boscolo.eth