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Who's OG enough to remember these NFT OEs from Dec 2020?!

@cryptopunk7213 Feel you're missing a fundamental point here. Most people spend years learning a language, because they WANT to speak a language and be part of the culture. If im hanging with spanish locals in a madrid bar they want to hear me to speak to them, not a disembodied ai google voice.

lol google destroying duolingo and every language tutor with this 270 million people can now understand 70+ different languages in real-time via gemini AI audio translation when someone speaks to you in chinese you hear english. people spend fucking YEARS and $1000’s trying to get fluent in a language now ai removes the need to even learn one same shit happening with vibe-coders who don’t know code why learn a language when you can just have ai translate?

@valerioshi @eeelistar @sjdedic Bro, this is called recency bias. Every bear is bad for different reasons. In early bears we had no way to know bitcoin would even survive another cycle lol. This bear can only be worse for ppl owning too many shit coins, and not enough btc.

@eeelistar @sjdedic are you seriously comparing today’s bear to last cycle’s? this one is the worst i’ve ever seen, and i’ve been here through several cycles

Sadly, I agree with this take. Most crypto natives have either lost interest, are burned out or just quietly exited. My timeline now is mostly politics, AI and Pokémon cards. Bullish.

@CozomoMedici dude, this has been common knowledge here in the UK for years. ppl - incl. journos - have generally kept quiet to help perpetuate the myth. kinda like how ppl are about 'santa claus'.

Do you desire Banksy’s art more or less after the dox?

@KobeissiLetter bro's a slave to the yield curve

President Trump today: 3:43 PM ET: "I don't want to do a ceasefire with Iran." 5:13 PM ET: The US is "considering winding down" the war with Iran. What changed over those 90 minutes?

@JohnEDeaton1 liz warren is 'corruption' personified

Can’t make this 💩 up.

@SenSanders OK boomer.

I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.

@GaryKThompson71 @7Kiwi bro, the UK have got north sea oil just sitting under the ocean waiting for some mf to come and drill it.

@7Kiwi You demand we "slash energy costs" as if the Chancellor controls the Strait of Hormuz. We cannot policy our way out of a physical supply void. With Qatar's LNG capacity damaged, the UK must buy $110 oil and 170p gas on the spot market just to keep the lights on. 2/5

UK 10Y borrowing costs soar over 5%. This is how debt doom loops begin. It is now urgent to cut spending and slash energy costs to get growth going.

@prestonjbyrne Fck ofcom and fck this labour government. These mfs are bringing the uk to its knees.

Are we wrong? If Ofcom wants to enforce a fine here, they can come over here and sue us. They don't do that because that would involve waiving sovereign immunity and certain defeat in an American court.

@freddienew @darrenpjones @bitcoinpolicyuk @Togetherdec @NoToDigitalID Done. That was a time-consuming process! Even with my super intern at my side (ChatGPT), it took a painful 30mins!

I completed my response to this new Digital ID consultation last night, but was so angry (after watching @darrenpjones try to sell the policy) that I had to go further. Full response from @bitcoinpolicyuk also drafted and sent in. Conclusion? "The UK’s lack of a national identity system is far from a failure of modernisation, but should properly be thought of as a deeply rooted constitutional inheritance that reflects a fundamental principle: that the state serves the citizen, not the other way around. The Prime Minister spoke early on in his premiership about ‘treading more lightly on all our lives’. Digital ID is in fact more akin to the boot at the conclusion of Orwell’s ‘1984’, stamping on a human face, forever." h/t to @BigBrotherWatch as ever.

@prestonjbyrne The fact that the British Government is on the other end is even more reason!

Some lawyers think my hamster e-mail was unserious. Ofcom is unserious. It doesn't matter what person from another country sends my client a demand. Domesticate it properly in the US or GTFO. The fact that the British government is on the other end doesn't change my response

@Ofcom Ofcom is another wasre-of-space agency, wasting uk tax payers' money and regulating away everyone's freedoms. Sooner it gets abolished, the better.

We've fined 4chan £450,000 for not having age checks in place to prevent children seeing porn on its site. The Online Safety Act is concerned with protecting people in the UK. It doesn't require platforms to restrict what people in other countries see. 🔗ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/…

@prestonjbyrne You made bbc news: "4Chan responds to £520,000 Ofcom fine with AI picture of hamster" share.google/W7oeb3xreDYj9n…

The UK's censorship agency, Ofcom, issued 4chan with a giant fine today. We responded to Ofcom with a giant hamster today.

@KobeissiLetter The Kobessi letter used to be good, but recently has become a purveyor of engagement farming slop.

BREAKING: X officially adds a "dislike" button.

🚨 Another call to arms 🚨 Buried in this 'consultation' on a UK social media ban is something even darker. Snuck in towards the back are seemingly innocuous questions about 'age checks to use VPNs'. Having groomed you via the preceding questions about protecting children, they'll be expecting you to 'strongly agree'. Link to the consultation is below, as is a link to the excellent guide from @BigBrotherWatch on how to fill it in. You know what to do!

@jmilprint @gertcha @BBCNews This is exactly the issue. You dont need permanent onsite staff in a car park, just cameras and automated payment systems.

@gertcha @BBCNews They maintain the site, provide security, clean and help customers and only have around 2-3 employees per site, hardly over staffed!!!

Car park firm NCP collapses with nearly 700 jobs at risk bbc.in/4lwmh75

@BBCNews Nearly 700 jobs at risk?! There's the issue; in a world of cameras and automated systems, a business like this shouldnt have 700 employees lol.

@WhiteWhaleLabs @StaniKulechov bro had $50m in a wallet on his phone and attempted a single swap for $50m(!) - anyone this ignorant to the basics of risk management is destined to lose every last penny... whether he's in crypto or not.

@StaniKulechov Once again we demonstrate how immature of an industry we still are. But we expect mainstream adoption to continue when the world relies on Binance for oracle pricing and a check box is all that stands in the way of a 50M loss.

Earlier today, a user attempted to buy AAVE using $50M USDT through the Aave interface. Given the unusually large size of the single order, the Aave interface, like most trading interfaces, warned the user about extraordinary slippage and required confirmation via a checkbox. The user confirmed the warning on their mobile device and proceeded with the swap, accepting the high slippage, which ultimately resulted in receiving only 324 AAVE in return. The transaction could not be moved forward without the user explicitly accepting the risk through the confirmation checkbox. The CoW Swap routers functioned as intended, and the integration followed standard industry practices. However, while the user was able to proceed with the swap, the final outcome was clearly far from optimal. Events like this do occur in DeFi, but the scale of this transaction was significantly larger than what is typically seen in the space. We sympathize with the user and will try to make a contact with the user and we will return $600K in fees collected from the transaction. The key takeaway is that while DeFi should remain open and permissionless, allowing users to perform transactions freely, there are additional guardrails the industry can build to better protect users. Our team will be investigating ways to improve these safeguards going forward.

@CrypticTrades_ it's been so, so long that I've forgotten how to be bullish!

This is bullish. $BTC

Another for you @freddienew

More 'unexpected' economic news from the bbc reportinf on the broken UK economy. Who'd have thought labour's taxation, regulation and ignorance of the future financial system (bitcoin + cryoto rails) would result in this(!)