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@LaPetiteADA Amen!

Today, two people working 50+ hours a week can barely afford: • Rent for a tiny apartment • Healthcare they’re afraid to actually use • Groceries • Student loans Owning a home feels impossible. Having kids feels financially reckless. Education doesn’t guarantee opportunity. Experience is never “enough.” And layoffs can erase your stability overnight. And somehow, they convinced you it’s your fault. You're not a failure; the system is.

@LaPetiteADA Wise woman, big brains!

Gm, spending your healthiest years building someone else’s wealth from 9-5, paying into a pension system you may barely benefit from, only to enjoy freedom when your body can no longer keep up, it's a losing deal. Invest and build your own business. It's the only way out! 🫵

@MastrXYZ You are one of my favorites, thanks for sharing your insights and thoughts!

There is another form of centralisation far more dangerous than the price discovery of cryptocurrencies. It is the centralisation of our freedom. Our words. Our informations. Our Data. Our movements. We are centralising information at a scale humanity has never seen before. And stopping these corporations and billionaires, who like hyenas always want more, stopping these power hungry and dangerous institutions through democratic processes and data protection is not a bad thing. It is absolutely necessary. And very few people care, because it is complex and uncomfortable, and because it demands attention in a world that punishes long thought and long texts. Communication, money, identity, memory, truth distribution, all flowing through fewer and fewer corporate arteries. When information centralises, power follows. When power follows, abuse is not a risk, it is a certainty. I think humanity peaked in the 90s. Not because the 90s were perfect, but because the incentives were still human. In the 90s I felt like technology was being built to extend my freedom. Today I feel like technology is being built to compress my behaviour. In the 90s I used the internet. In 2025 the internet uses me. The difference is not speed or graphics. The difference is the business model. Back then, the default was privacy. Not the legal definition. The lived reality. I could exist for hours, days, a whole weekend, without generating a readable trail that could be packaged, scored, sold, and fed back into a system designed to shape me. Now the default is total capture. The phone in my pocket is not just a tool, it is a sensor suite. And the scale is basically universal. In the US, smartphone ownership went from 35% in 2011 to 91% in 2025. In high income countries, 93% of the population is estimated to be using the internet in 2024. When nearly everyone is online and nearly everyone is carrying a tracking device, society quietly changes its definition of normal. Being reachable becomes expected. Being trackable becomes assumed. Being silent becomes suspicious. Being offline becomes deviance. That is what people miss when they say nostalgia. I am not just missing aesthetics. I am missing the old baseline of freedom. And here is the part I refuse to sugarcoat: modern tech is not mainly about empowering me. It is mainly about extracting me. The proof is not a vibe. The proof is the economy built around it. One market estimate puts the global data broker market at USD 277.97 billion in 2024. That is a giant machine that turns human lives into products. In the 90s, I was a person who bought things. Now I am a stream of signals that gets auctioned. In the 90s, ads were something I saw. Now ads are something that studies me. At global scale, WPP Media projected global advertising revenue reaching USD 1.08 trillion in 2025, and Reuters reported that digital advertising dominates, with digital around 73.2% of the market in that forecast. This is not marketing like it used to be. This is behavioural engineering with a budget larger than the GDP of most countries. And it does not just show me things. It trains me. It trains my attention span. It trains my emotional range. It trains what I dare to say. It trains what I dare not say. It trains what I click. It trains what I believe is popular. It trains what I believe is safe. I know exactly how this sounds, so I anchor it in something concrete: the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Facebook said up to 87 million users may have had their data accessed in that context. That moment was not an anomaly. It was a demonstration. It showed what happens when a society outsources its public square to companies that monetise prediction. The 90s had propaganda, yes. Every era does. But the 90s did not have globally scaled, real time, personalised persuasion delivered into my pocket, tuned to my psychology, constantly A B tested, constantly refined. Back then, culture moved slower, and that slowness protected us. In the 90s, I listened to albums. A whole album. I lived inside a track list that an artist actually sequenced like a story. I learned patience. I learned taste. I learned depth. Now music is often engineered for skip resistance. Hooks arrive faster. Songs get shorter. Everything competes in a feed. Art becomes content, content becomes output, output becomes analytics, analytics becomes conformity. In the 90s, tech felt like curiosity. You installed something because it was cool. You explored. You broke things. You learned. The machine served you. In 2025, tech often feels like compliance. Log in. Accept. Update. Verify. Scan your face. Prove you are real. And while I am doing that, it is watching everything. The machine does not serve me first. It serves a business model first. That business model needs predictability. And predictability needs conformity. So I watch the world get more standardised every year. Not in fashion. In thought. In the 90s, people still argued, but argument was not instantly converted into a public performance with social penalties attached. People wrote fewer things, and because they wrote fewer things, they thought longer before they wrote. Words had weight. Now the interface rewards speed, not sense. The fastest emotion wins. Outrage wins. Mockery wins. Certainty wins. Nuance loses because nuance is slow, and slow dies in a feed. It is not that people suddenly became worse. It is that the system punishes reflection and pays impulsivity. Even trust itself has degraded, and that matters because low trust societies are easier to steer. Pew documents long term erosion in trust in the US federal government, noting that in 1958 73% trusted the federal government to do the right thing almost always or most of the time. Pew also reports that the share saying most people can be trusted declined from 46% in 1972 to 34% in 2018. And Gallup notes that when it began measuring trust in the news media in the 1970s, 68% to 72% expressed confidence, but trust later fell substantially and hit new lows in recent readings. When trust collapses, people become easier to manage through fear. Fear is the most profitable emotion on the internet. Fear increases engagement. Engagement increases data. Data increases prediction. Prediction increases power. That is the loop. And I live inside it. This is where the 90s comparison becomes painful for me. In the 90s, Western leaders at least spoke like progress and democracy were real ideals. Sometimes it was theatre, yes, but the theatre still mattered because it set expectations. There was still a cultural assumption that leaders should aim for legitimacy, institutions should aim for fairness, and the public should aim for truth. Now politics often feels like content warfare, and leaders feel like influencers with state power. Everything is brand. Everything is narrative. Everything is engagement. Even language changed. We used to talk about citizens. Now we talk about users. Customers. Targets. Segments. Cohorts. That is the vocabulary of a system that sees humans as units to optimise. And it reaches into identity itself. In the 90s, identity was something I explored privately, through books, music, friends, mistakes, conversations at 2am, experiences that did not leave a permanent record. Now identity is a profile with a history. It is searchable. It is screen shotted. It is archived. It is judged by strangers. It is scored by algorithms. It is punished by mobs, extremists, ppl who never read a book. So people adapt. They self censor. They simplify. They perform. They copy safe opinions. They say what will not get them banned, shamed, fired, or downranked. And then we pretend this is authenticity. I feel nostalgic because I remember when the world still had space for private growth. When a wrong sentence was just a wrong sentence, not a forever label. When people, men and women, actually paused before writing because writing was not a reflex, it was an act. In the 90s, if I made a mistake in public, the mistake stayed local. Today mistakes go global, permanent, monetised. The internet never forgets, and the market never forgives, because outrage is profitable. So when I say things got worse, I am not saying technology bad. I am saying the incentives got predatory, and the incentives shape everything. I miss the era when technology felt like a ladder, not a net. A ladder lifts you and then lets you go. A net catches you, holds you, maps you, weighs you, and sells the measurement. And I am tired of being told to accept it as inevitable. I am tired of being told it is convenience, when it is enclosure. I am tired of being told it is personalisation, when it is surveillance. I am tired of being told it is safety, when it is control. I am tired of being told it is connection, when it is extraction. The 90s were not paradise. But the 90s still felt like a world where humans were the point. Now too often, humans feel like inputs. And I cannot unsee it, because once you see the machine, you start noticing how often it asks the same thing from everyone: be simpler, be louder, be more predictable, be more conforming, be more monetisable. That is a factory for obedient patterns. And here is the part that keeps me awake: We are centralising information at a scale humanity has never survived before. Communication, money, identity, memory, truth distribution, all flowing through fewer and fewer corporate arteries. When information centralises, power follows. When power follows, abuse is not a risk, it is a certainty. This is why blockchains mattered to me. Not as a hype cycle, but as a structural counterweight. A rare attempt to design systems that do not require blind trust, that do not collapse into a single point of control, that resist total surveillance by design rather than by policy. But even here, I watch the same gravity pull everything back into centralised hands. Exchanges, custodians, interfaces, narratives. A decentralised technology wrapped in centralised convenience, because convenience is how control enters quietly. And influence today is terrifyingly cheap. One algorithm tweak can reshape millions of minds. One feed can manufacture consensus. One click can trigger mass formation. Not through lies alone, but through selective visibility. You do not need to silence people anymore. You just need to make sure they are never seen. This is mass indoctrination without uniforms, without slogans, without violence. It feels voluntary. It feels normal. That is why it works. And this is why I genuinely believe we are standing in front of darker chapters of humanity if we do not push back. Dark not in a cinematic way. Dark in a bureaucratic, optimised, manipulative, frictionless way. A world where dissent is allowed but irrelevant. A world where freedom exists but is economically punished. A world where obedience feels like a personal choice. I miss the 90s because I miss the last time the future felt open, unoptimised, unfinished. Now the future feels engineered. And I miss the 90s because I miss the last time the future felt like it belonged to us. Thanks for reading. You are probably one of the 0.3% reading it to the end.

@jasonappleton Divorce sucks but sometimes it might be for the better. Keep going to the gym, sauna is nice, be really kind to yourself and your kids, I felt a lot of anger and pain through my experience, was good to talk with someone about it, learn/use anger mgmt skills, pray. Good luck!

@thatsdax I care.

Nobody Cares, Work Harder.

@AndamioPlatform Great video showing clearly what the Andamio Platform can do, so many potential use cases!

What can you do with Andamio? --- @AndamioPlatform is a verified trust protocol for distributed work. Organizations can mint credentials, verify skills, and find contributors. Individuals can learn, discover opportunities, join project teams, and launch their own projects. 👉More about Andamio: andamio.io Andamio docs: docs.andamio.io Join our Discord: discord.gg/FtvpAYnBMU 🤪Fun fact: Contributors and Organizations don’t just create courses and projects on Andamio—they can also deploy their own custom Andamio instances on top of the Andamio protocol. Andamio: 🫡Proudly Cardano.

@Crypto_Fulla $SNEK on $STRIKE with leveraged perps is like $ADA on Crack on a Hypersonic Missle heading to Valhalla.

$SNEK 🐍 is leveraged $ADA

@TheJoeySwoll Hey Joey, I don't usually leave comments but you definitely deserve it, I hope you see this...I'm a big fan of what you do, please don't quit. Breaks are fine and healthy. You inspire me and many, many others. Fuck the haters. Rock on!❤️🙏🏻💪🏻

All the good I've done, all the people I've helped, all for nothing. I truly hope all the people I've inspired do great things in their life and pay it forward to help others and carry on my message. But no matter how much good you do, people just wait for a reason to hate you and tear you down. You either die a hero, or live long enough to be the villain. Thank you for your support. I am done.

@astroboysoup Get well soon Pete, I appreciate you!

I've been officially sick for over a month now. First, it was Influenza A, then Influenza B. Everyone in my family and close circles is sick. For those who have seen me sick, coughing up my lungs for months, that's what I've got again.

@phillerino @flowdefi @DexHunterIO Nice tip, please share more, this is especially insightful for people new to crypto, defi, and/or Cardano

A simple, low risk and relatively cheap way to leverage long $ADA, is to borrow $USDM on @flowdefi against your ADA, sell it on @DexHunterIO for more ADA. If you're feeling extra adventurous, rinse and repeat the above, or buy another CNT on the rise, like $SNEK. Borrow APR on USDM is very attractive on Flow.

@bobcorn_ada Great post/discussion, since liquidity providers are the backbone of the protocol and allow traders to open leveraged positions they should be rewarded no matter what, otherwise what incentive is there to provide liquidity if they can potentially lose it...

Strike is currently the top Dapp on Cardano. Recent upside on $ADA has caused some losses for liquidity providers. Here's a summary of what's going on. I will start by saying that this was a very well known and documented risk when providing liquidity for a perpetuals platform. The liquidity you deposit is used by the traders as leverage for their trades. So you are basically taking the role of the "House". If the gamblers win big, you lose. And vice versa. Usually you would see a balance of longs and shorts, so lp's would earn from the hourly and opening fees while the liquidations balance out the other sides profits. But the longs were always outbalancing the shorts by a ratio of at least 95-5. This made providing liquidity akin to taking a short position on $ADA. Since if ADA goes down all the longs liquidate and you make money, but if ADA goes up then you will pay their wins. And for the first 2 weeks the pool was up about 13% since the start. 1 LP token was ~ 1.13 ADA Last week when ADA started going up. The unrealized profit peaked to over $1m USD. This placed the liquidity providers at the mercy of the longs. If they take profit the lp will lose. And that is what happened. Right now the pool is down about 16% from the top last week, and 5.3% since it opened. 1 LP ~ 0.947 and there is still $550k of unrealized profit that can be claimed. Or ADA can keep going up The only saving grace for liquidity providers is $ADA to dump to recover some losses. Attracting new liquidity is also tough since longs are carrying all this unrealized profit. If you go in as a liquidity provider you are immediately carrying an unrealized loss. I suggested the hourly fee to be a curve, starts low but scales up quite quickly with time. This way traders that are coasting are forced to take profit or pay a higher fee as time passes. This does not help current liquidity providers as much but does help balance out the books so fresh liquidity can be added

@MeditatorCrypto Very nice, you sound professional!

It's Never Too Late to Do What you Love ❤️ At my 34 i finally start my studies in Classical Singing! I've been singing for 15+ years as a hobby and i decided to finally study it Sebben Crudele - Antonio Caladara 🎶 Is my first ever Classical Aria i sung Publicly! Take some profits and do something that YOU WOULD LOVE FOR YOUR SELF 🙏💙 I hope you enjoyed a small taste of that song 🙏🎶

@strikecardano Hello, can you please explain why liquidity providers are down, I would have assumed that this high volume would have rewarded liquidity providers...

Project update 🕹️ We’re now at 120,000 ADA to be distributed to strike stakers. We will announce when the distribution is ready. This has been accumulated over the last 15 days and we’re now on pace to distribute 2.88 million ADA this year to stakers. Protocol trading volume skyrocketed to $5 million over the last 24 hours. All Cardano dexs combined did a total of $7 million. With the sharp price increase of ADA, liquidity providers are down on their positions temporarily by about 15%. Long term it’s expected that liquidity providers will be profitable. The protocol performed flawlessly during the sharp 25% price increase, handling tens of millions of ADA and working as expected. We’re working on some new features to help liquidity providers hedge their positions better. These will be announced soon. Thanks to everyone for the support as we continue to grow our platform.

@TapTools Cardano is in tune with the rhythm of the universe.

Solana is fast. Ethereum is programmable. Cardano is _______.

@coinbureau Cardano is digital concrete.

Cardano = ____________

@D_realMrBanana Cardano is digital concrete.

COMPLETE THE STATEMENT: Bitcoin is digital gold. Ethereum is digital oil. Cardano is _______.

@TheDAppAnalyst Just fucking send it already!!!

Weekly chart just closed! Stoch RSI cross up! ⬆️👀 Last time this happened ADA rallied over 270% Now $ADA needs to get back above key moving averages (20, 50, 200) to flip bullish. Do you think we will get back above them in the next few weeks? 💭

@TheDAppAnalyst @cardano_whale @TheUnpopularEL I could totally be wrong but potential bottom signal???

I understand why @cardano_whale and @TheUnpopularEL left. I’m getting quite close to it myself.

@IOHK_Charles Hi Charles, what is the name of your construction company and how can we follow their progress on X? Very cool!

Case study 147 on how the Internet is not real life. In real life, my construction company has nearly 100 Ford vehicles, mostly trucks and a few Broncos. I think we are on good terms with a company I've done millions of dollars of business with.

@realdecimalist @strikecardano Keep the leverage at 2x or 3x max, you should be good to go!

is the goal to get liquidated on every single position you open on @strikecardano ? if so, ima god