my brother in Christ, you work for a company that built a close-ended behavioral futures market, and are signaling virtue on a platform that erodes signal and nuance in lieu of minmaxing social capital accrual
You know what kills me?
Being invited to a meeting, being told my thoughts are overthinking and thinking too far ahead, and listening to a room full of senior people meander straight to the points I just laid out
👁👄👁
One of them rare profesh' updates: I'm leaving the consulting world behind to get back into industry! My new fearless leaders are
@StaniKulechov
and
@RebeccaRettig1
at Aave, as I'll be hopping on as a PM on the institutional side!
it's me, writing another tweet, hoping to manifest
@discord
unbundling their tech from their UI so that the next wave of audio social apps will pay for Discord API and they can become the AWS of Social
Calling all crypto-curious and web3 frens 🔈 We are interested in your thoughts on the intersection of web3 and personal finance.
If you'd like to provide some feedback, DM me!
The most upsetting dark pattern is when you wake up your phone, go to Twitter, start scrolling, see a tweet that you really wanted to read, and then the feed refreshes and rugs you, sandwiching countless tweets between your finger and the Good Twete
imagine getting the $LOOT and $AGLD airdrops and realizing "I could quit my job and upskill or work to make something better"
Here's to creating more cool opportunities like this, with and without scarcity baked in, so we can show people how empowering crypto can be
You know you’re running a PR blitz when you tell Bloomberg that you were in contact with a DAO before the auction (not true), say “my son made me do it” , and extend a weird olive branch post-auction after it’s apparent that retail doesn’t like you
@EricRWeinstein
1. Can conservatives shut down Proud Boys/Nazis?
2. If so, why don't they?
3. Based on answers to 1 and 2, what difference in incentives do you see between conservatives and liberals?
4. Doesn't comparing BLM to the antifa strawman reinforce ahistorical false equivalences?
@JJK_Mya
I wonder if living as long as kenny and sukuna means you’ve seen sorcerers get cursed by their victims, so they’re both nice to the strong ones
It’s weird and kind of tragic that my younger sibling will not touch web3 or making art for NFTs because their online artist friends hate it so much that said friends would isolate my sibling for minting. Idk how to fix it, or if those people even want their critiques addressed
Hester Pierce’s SEC speech yesterday was big news. It proposed a path for token projects to legally be exempt from federal securities laws if they built a functioning network and decentralized governance within three years of launch. Thoughts below:
Why is it that for estimating the carbon footprint of a crypto transaction, people allocate the energy cost pro rata, but they don’t do that for things like public transportation or Netflix?
These Congress people will say “crypto is cooking the planet,” and then shortly afterwards pass bills that bar developing decentralized protocols and Proof of Stake validation from occurring in the US without immediately breaking laws
@NoleLuckNeeded
@carrieisbusy
@LaurieSkrivan
sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
1. Trigger finger should not be on the trigger unless you're ready to shoot. Only takes a few pounds of pressure to end a life
2. Pointing a (presumably) loaded weapon at a passerby protest while your finger is on the trigger might not be legal?
If you’re a startup that just pivoted to web3 off of the back of one employee, and you rug that employee by “stealth minting” the NFT they helped you make while they sleep to rebuild the site for said NFT the next day
ngmi
@cyantist
@zavaindar
1. Were the cops operating under the knowledge of all of the info you listed in your original tweet?
2. If they knew that, why did they let him unhand himself?
3. If they knew that and didn't let him go, why wouldn't they handcuff him?
I wanted to channel a lot of the thinking and work I've done around wallets over the past two years, so I wrote a cursory overview of different WaaS providers:
Crypto people:
“Finänce incentives are broken, so we need to rebuild the financial system from scratch. orange coin go up.”
Also crypto people:
“Cop incentive structures are broken, but rebuilding social safety from scratch without the police is an unreasonable policy point”
The amount of people in this subway line, pumped up on Gary Vee copium, buying 10 Biggie Smalls metro cards like they’re going to flip it in a recession is some kind of indicator
If it’s any indication how bizarre and regressive the prison industrial complex is for the US’s people and economy, imagine any other institution costing as much per capita as Ivy League schools while barring its attendants from learning how to code for security risk reasons
@johnmsheppard
@Anna_Giaritelli
you realize that "changing the way that the government runs in ways that voters will like" is one of the most popular campaign platforms... right?
@libratimestwo
@Turboflemme__
@alex_abads
Allegedly Hinge has “leagues” of ranking (elo, like chess or video games based on how many ppl swipe on you, and other things they can categorize)
So someone way out of your league may allegedly be moved out of your feed into Standouts. To shoot ur shot you spend $ or 1 weekly🌹
@aeoliverio
It mitigates the spread if you're already sick; wearing it healthy increases mask buying pressure.
Healthy people hoarding masks only make it hard for hospitals to procure masks and treat patients, which extends hospital SLAs, stresses capacity, and increases outbreak risk.
You had 220 characters left to say "I'm not implying that a Finnish crypto team naming their project after the Finnish word for ghost deserves flak because it's the same word as a black American English dialect; this is a joke." But you didn't, until people called you out. Why?
The QTs and replies are a real litmus test for “do you want femmes and women to learn to code however way works best, or do you only want them to learn to code on your terms?”
We are now accepting Crypto! This will give us more ways to support girls in tech and create pathways for new partnerships in this space, like our partnership with
@DapperDinoNFT
! Learn more and make your gift here:
@matthew_d_green
never thought I’d see the day where someone spliced respectability politics and anti-privacy sentiment together to write a paternalistic essay on why Privacy Is Bad, Actually, and The Users of Privacy Tech Are Too Dumb To Realize They’re Being Weaponized
> be me
> get locked out of eigen operator slack
> no way to get new invite, team unresponsive, and nothing to do before holesky EDA turned on
> daytrade in meantime
> memecoins are cringe racist pump and dumps
if there were a drop of melanin on that team there would be no bail lmao
the government cares more about deterring black people from proximity to drugs than they do deterring international fraud
What’s it called when your job is fixing something, but if you succeed and permanently fix the thing you’ll have no job, so your job is functionally to make it look like you’re trying hard to fix a pervasive, eternal problem (so you’re eternally employed)?
@sallyshin
@dee_bosa
Interesting how this response looks like a compliment sandwich (apology sandwich?) with two emotional statements sandwiching metrics and actions taken in order to communicate lessons learned.
I didn't deploy nearly enough smart contracts last year, so my New Year's resolution is to change that
If you see me engagement posting asking for addresses mind ya bidness
if you like long-form writing and are chronically on Twitter, I EMPLORE you to write 1k words in one sitting at least once a week
Predictably, my optimizing for tweeting weakened my writing skills tremendously
All these CH subtweets hyping up the same shoot your shot rooms that the elite disparaged POC for doing months ago make me want to delete the apps, also emphasizes how much alpha you can find by not being too awkward or eLiTe to hang with other social groups
on this twitter space, his points are:
- I got an ad for Coinbase during a sports game
- someone w/ layer eyes sent death threats, y'all all culpable
- he signed a letter calling for crackdown of crypto, but really just wants to "start a dialogue"
- [respectability politics]
@NeoLibMess
@roomaline
@CharlotteAbotsi
@haaniyah_
It's a good cry and a really contemporary soundtrack, but they spent too much time doing Euphoria-type music video scenes, and not enough time characterizing the family. Also they unwound the characterization of one BM By making a WM act as a foil
It's super interesting how different cohorts of CH have similar and differing experiences based on when they signed up, if they got onboarded, and who else signed up when they signed up
We’re excited to announce that Family has been acquired by Avara (
@avara
), the team behind
@aave
,
@lensprotocol
, and more! The Family brand, wallet, and ConnectKit will all continue to evolve under the Avara umbrella. Learn more →
a lot of critiques are fair & valid
and
it's worth noting that if a week old DAO convinced a 100+ y/o auction house to bid on a historical artifact under preservative pretenses, won, and burned the document, that'd be one of the most damaging things we could do for web3
@libratimestwo
@Turboflemme__
@alex_abads
But the weird thing is that if you read that and believe it, it’s a brain worm.
So if one gets a rose they may wonder
“what’s wrong with this person?
Why is the algo saying I’m out of their league?
Are they beneath me?
i c k”
And they may reject them
chatting with
@reka_eth
about how rarely we post on IG, and she said that most people use it stories and DMs vs using the feed
This suggests that people use social ephemerally and intimately.
Exciting to see how web3 social meets those needs in their own ways
@RepRashida
@RepChuyGarcia
@RepStephenLynch
Stablecoin operators don't charge money on overdraft fees and monthly maintenance.
You literally cannot overcharge a crypto wallet holding stablecoins. How does this act do anything but protect the incumbents overcharging LMI POC?
Civilization after we bridge the gap between IRL finance and permissionless DeFi, securely and safely*
*and figure out fast internet in space, but we can fund that bridging DeFi and IRL markets 🤯
@iamfozzy27
@pastamacaronis
@Dvaritos
@TitusNation
And if he were being arrested for that, why wouldn’t the cop say “he’s being arrested for having a suspended license” into the camera instead of saying weird stuff to a nonviolent person?
In the Alpha Testament, MacBook of Generations 3:4, the prophet Marc said “the future isn’t evenly distributed yet. It’s time to build” (im a tech evangelist)
@mdudas
Everyone thought it was going to pump, and it didn’t -> more sellers
People have been sitting on stETH or validating for a while and need to derisk
We’re still on the prelude to a global recession maybe?