Jonathan Bowen

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Jonathan Bowen

@BostonByBirth

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Stoughton, Massachusetts Katılım Ocak 2022
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Jonathan Bowen
Jonathan Bowen@BostonByBirth·
If you've been following me, you might sense that I have an issue with people who are Black, Jewish, or Muslim. Let me be clear, I care nothing about your innate identity. If you're a Black Muslim, be a Black Muslim. I'm smart enough to understand the differences between pattern recognition, statistics, and bigotry. It's true that I can see through my personal experiences that a Black Muslim, in general, might exhibit some of the same traits that might make me wary of approaching a person who fits that description because pattern recognition and statistics tell me I should be wary, but that doesn't mean that I'm not willing to engage with any Black Muslim, especially in a one-on-one scenario. I am naturally curious. I like to understand the ideas behind someone's eyes. I like to learn the mechanisms that get people to their exact spots in their personal lives. The idea that's been pounded into our heads by the mainstream media, which is controlled by the Democratic Party, for decades—we must be agnostic, née blind, to pattern recognition and statistics—has done nothing but get liberal White women killed by Black men and aliens who are living in the United States illegally. That's a pattern that can't be unseen. I've also learned that femininity is the opposite of feminism. The push for feminist ideals has neutered women. It has taken the innate beauty of women and turned it on its head. I'm not sitting here as a straight White male telling you that I'm better than a Black Muslim man or a Jewish lesbian because I'm not. I can clearly see that straight White men also have issues. In conclusion, I am still willing to look past every outward marker of my perceived inhumanity to get to know someone who's willing and open to having a light-hearted but pointed conversation, because all humans want to feel seen and loved, just like me.
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Milkdud Jones
Milkdud Jones@MilkdudJ0nes·
@BostonByBirth We all know it’s because he’s white.. Hayden/ Wu know he’ll be innocent of all charges but…. They have to let all white, police officers know their lives will be tarnished if they go after ‘future doctors and engineers’.. The union should sue and internal investigate cox sucker
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Jonathan Bowen
Jonathan Bowen@BostonByBirth·
Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden, a Democrat, saw his chance to rebuke ICE in the most cowardly way possible, and he took his shot today. Hayden, who is Black, may be using the arrest of Boston Police Officer Nicholas O’Malley, a White man, as retribution for the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Stephenson King, a Black man with an arrest record, was trying to escape an arrest, ramming a police cruiser in his attempt. At the time, a man was actively being hunted by police after a violent carjacking. King was found by police in that vehicle’s driver seat prior to the shooting. The social justice aspects of this arrest and arraignment — anti-police and anti-White — smack of flag-planting in the political landscape by Kevin Hayden and Michelle Wu. In an apparent about-face, Chief Michael Cox initially appeared to back O’Malley, “This job is difficult, there’s no doubt about that. We face many dangers in general … carjackings are very very tricky and difficult things,” but he changed his tune. Mayor Michelle Wu later said, “I am grateful to District Attorney Hayden and Commissioner Cox for the urgency they have brought to this investigation and for their commitment to transparency in the pursuit of justice.” What happened behind the scenes between King’s shooting and O’Malley’s arrest? The Boston Police Patrolmen's Association (BPPA) continues to back O'Malley while Hayden refuses to release body cam footage. There were eight days between the shooting and O’Malley’s arraignment. In an interesting twist, Anthony Ellison, brother of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, recently defended a case brought by Hayden’s office. Hayden is up for re-election this year.
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jim iuorio
jim iuorio@jimiuorio·
Basketball would be ten times better if they went back to 70s and 80s traveling rules and enforcement..@MarchMadnessMBB
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Defiant L’s
Defiant L’s@DefiantLs·
Mamdani: "If we want to keep New Yorkers safe, we have to also ensure that we are not just asking police officers to respond to every single issue that comes as a result of the fraying of the social safety net."
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Jonathan Bowen
Jonathan Bowen@BostonByBirth·
I just finished watching “BlackBerry” on Netflix. The movie left me with a renewed sense of PTSD. Many of us have learned these difficult business lessons, but we think we're immune to the foreboding disasters.
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Peter Girnus 🦅
Peter Girnus 🦅@gothburz·
My net worth peaked at $1.2 million. None of it was real. I don't mean that philosophically. I mean it was located on servers that have since been turned off. I own eleven properties in the metaverse. Three in Decentraland. Four in The Sandbox. Two in Voxels. One in Otherside. And a beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds that I bought for $214,000 because Mark Zuckerberg called it "the next frontier." The frontier closed last week. It's a mobile app now. Last year I mass DM'd 340 people the phrase "you don't understand how early we are." I have since stopped doing that. Not because I was wrong. Because most of them blocked me. I got into metaverse real estate in November 2021. Everyone was buying. Someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's neighbor. In a video game. With no legs. The avatars didn't have legs. I thought that was bullish. "The legs are coming," I told my Discord. "Legs are a roadmap item." Three hundred people reacted with rocket emojis. I called myself a "digital land baron." I put it in my Twitter bio. I put it in my LinkedIn headline. I said it on a podcast that had eleven listeners. Three of them were bots. The rest were my alts. My virtual property has more square footage than my actual apartment. My actual apartment has furniture. Location, location, location. My most valuable asset was a plot next to a virtual Gucci store. Gucci left in 2023. The store is still there. Nobody's in it. It's like a mall in Ohio but with worse graphics and no food court. I held. Diamond hands. That's what we said. "Diamond hands." It means refusing to sell while your investment loses 94% of its value. We turned financial paralysis into a personality trait. A guy in my Discord paid $2.4 million for a 618-parcel estate in Decentraland. Prime district. High foot traffic. I asked him what "foot traffic" meant when the platform had 38 daily active users. He said I didn't understand the technology. I didn't. I still bought more. We had a DAO. A decentralized autonomous organization. That means we voted on decisions. There were nine of us. Three never showed up. Two voted on everything without reading it. The other four were me and my alts. We voted to "acquire strategic parcels." The vote passed unanimously. I voted four times. My portfolio peaked at $1.2 million. I told everyone. I made a spreadsheet. I projected 40x returns by 2025. I made a pitch deck. The pitch deck had a slide that said "WE ARE BUILDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY." The slide had a rocket emoji. That was my entire financial model. In 2023 I bought a Bored Ape for $189,000. It's worth $14,000 now. I don't talk about the Ape. I still use it as my profile picture. People ask me about it. I say "I'm long-term bullish." Long-term bullish means I can't sell it without crying in a Panera. My mom asked me what a Bored Ape was. I said "digital art on the blockchain." She asked why it cost more than her car. I said "you don't understand Web3." She said "I understand you live in a studio apartment." She's not in my Discord. Justin Bieber bought one for $1.3 million. It's worth about $90,000 now. I felt better about mine after I heard that. That's community. WAGMI. We're All Gonna Make It. We said that every day. In the group chat. While the floor dropped. While the volume dried up. While 95% of all NFT collections went to zero. We're all gonna make it. None of us made it. But we said it with conviction and a laser-eye profile picture. That counts for something. It doesn't. But we said it did. That's decentralized consensus. Meta spent $84 billion on the metaverse. I need to say that again. $84 billion. More than the GDP of Luxembourg. More than the GDP of Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta combined. They spent it on a platform where the avatars had no legs, the graphics looked like a 2006 Wii game, and the peak user count was lower than the lunch rush at a Chipotle in Des Moines. They just pulled Horizon Worlds from VR headsets. It lives on as a mobile app. My beachfront villa is now a mobile app. Location, location, location. Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Facebook became Meta. A $900 billion company changed its legal name because the CEO watched Ready Player One and said "I want that." Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021. $14 billion in 2022. $16 billion in 2023. $18 billion in 2024. $19 billion in 2025. That's not a strategy. That's a speedrun. They laid off 1,500 Reality Labs employees this year. Shut down three VR studios. Killed Supernatural. Put the entire VR social vision in a casket and said "we're pivoting to AI and wearables." The pivot took four years and $84 billion. I pivoted too. I'm an AI real estate investor now. I bought a virtual plot in an AI-generated world that doesn't exist yet. The founder said it was "the intersection of spatial computing and large language models." I don't know what that means. I gave him $40,000. He has a whitepaper. It's 47 pages. I read the title and the tokenomics section. The tokenomics section is a pie chart. I love pie charts. They make everything look like a plan. The project has a roadmap. Q1: "Build community." Q2: "Launch beta." Q3: "Scale ecosystem." Q4 is blank. Q4 is always blank. That's where the exit scam goes. My accountant asked me to value my metaverse portfolio for tax purposes. I said $1.2 million. He said "current market value." I said $6,400. He stared at me for eleven seconds. I know because I counted. He asked if I had any other investments. I showed him my NFTs. He stared for longer. I told him they were "cultural artifacts with long-term provenance." He asked if I'd considered a 401k. I told him a 401k was "legacy finance." He told me to leave his office. The metaverse is dead. I don't accept that. I am a digital land baron. I own eleven properties across four platforms. I have a beachfront villa in a mobile app, a plot next to an empty Gucci store, and a cartoon monkey that cost me more than my actual car. Location, location, location. The location is nowhere. But I'm early. I'm always early. That's the same as being wrong except you get to say it with confidence.
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Governor Maura Healey
Governor Maura Healey@MassGovernor·
Hunters love what Massachusetts has to offer, they just want laws that make sense — and I agree. Let's start by lifting the ban on Sunday hunting.
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Against Wall Street
Against Wall Street@aganstwallst·
you probably know this. He stole my video, shared it on his account, and it exploded to MILLIONS of views He pocketed thousands of dollars off my hard work, pure theft But after months of reports? Justice finally hit. His creator payout has been paused Stealing content never pays. Karma always wins @TheBTCTherapist 😉
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Against Wall Street@aganstwallst

This thief account stole my video, downloaded it and shared it like it was their own creation. Just because they’ve got 200k followers doesn’t give them the right to rip off creators like me I’ve already filed a copyright claim on X. I’m not backing down. I’ll fight this until their account gets shut down for good You need to take action against content thieves @elonmusk @nikitabier

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ZUBY:
ZUBY:@ZubyMusic·
It feels like the overall experience of social media has dropped significantly in the last few months. It's not unique to this platform, but all of the ones I use. Am I alone in this sentiment?
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🚨DEMOCRAT DA TRYING TO LOCK UP COP FOR PROTECTING HIMSELF AND OTHER OFFICERS Suffolk County DA Kevin Hayden (D) charged Boston police officer Nicolas O'Malley with Manslaughter after he reportedly fatally shot a carjacking suspect who IGNORED multiple …
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P.T. Ward
P.T. Ward@HTWardish·
Director Gabbard is exactly the person we need in the position of DNI right now. She is now testifying to how she checked her personal views at the door when she agreed to serve under the President of the United States, and to provide the best intelligence possible.
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