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Two years ago, on the first Super Burn Sunday, I purchased my first Check. As someone who works for an NFL team, I’m usually locked into the game and commercials, but in 2023, when the Eagles faced the Chiefs, I was glued to OpenSea, watching as new Originals appeared. That was Day 1. I minted Check #11662—a Skittle, but one with a color I loved. After missing the open edition and the initial burn hype, I figured I’d just hold onto that one Check and be done. But as time passed, I fell deeper into the project. I loved the concept of being a parametric artist, contributing my own taste through compositing. I loved curating a collection that represented me within a larger whole. And I admired what Jack and Jalil stood for in a space often plagued by rug pulls and scammers. Today, after two years of collecting and trading, I finally composited a coveted 1 Check (the 69th one in existence) —on the same day that the Eagles and Chiefs meet again in the Super Bowl. The journey has been incredible, and I’m beyond thrilled to have reached this milestone. The project has even inspired my own art (see my shell pieces below in the Checks/VV style) and has pushed me to think more deeply about the concept of notability. One of the best aspects of Checks is the community that Jack and Jalil have built—people always willing to help. Huge thanks to @hemdawg for trading me Check #733, and to @likelewis for also offering a trade. Both of you were incredibly kind! A special shoutout to @Beausecurity—I consider myself pretty solid on security, but I clicked on a bad link this week. Luckily, my Ledger wasn’t connected, but it was my default wallet, and it gave me the scare of my life. Beau helped ensure I was all good. And lastly, a massive thank you to Jalil for his patience while I tested his new tool that allows you to composite all the way down to a 1 Check in a single transaction—giving me the ability to choose my final color. Excited to close this chapter... now, onto securing my grail Opepens! 🎨🔥 Also note a homage to the Chiefs and Eagles embedded within this check with the compositing of 14651 and 2356 (even though both teams can kick rocks). @jackbutcher @jalil_eth @visualizevalue @checksvv

@Yuzu7x @bulevar_r I dont think that’s a rule… These are the rules rugpullbakery.com/terms

@RJFieldsofGold @bulevar_r its called rules

1/ We found an address farming Rugpull Bakery cookies directly from an EOA, bypassing the intended ABS/Abstract wallet flow. Address: 📷abscan.org/address/0xd549… This gives an unfair cost advantage of ~10% and devalues everyone farming through the intended ecosystem path.

I am the Senior Vice President of Late Night Strategy at CBS. I am the person who turned a comedian into a priest and charged advertisers to watch the congregation. I want to be precise about what I built. Not a comedy show. A permission structure. For eleven years, six million Americans tuned in every night to find out what they were allowed to believe by morning. We didn't sell jokes. We sold certainty. Certainty costs nothing to produce. People will pay anything for it. We charged $50 million a year and still lost money because it turns out permission is even cheaper than we thought. In 2014, we had a genuinely dangerous comedian. A man who once testified before Congress in character as a fictional conservative pundit and made the entire chamber look like they'd been pantsed on C-SPAN. His fake persona was the most brilliant satire on television. Layered. Ironic. Unpredictable. The character could say anything because nothing was real. The character was the art. The character was the comedian. We killed the character and put the real man on stage. The real man was a lecturer. Earnest. Thoughtful. Correct about everything. Correct is not funny. Correct is not dangerous. Correct is the absence of danger. We promoted the absence of danger and called it growth. His character could make a Senate committee squirm. The real him makes an audience nod. Nodding pays the same as squirming. Nodding is easier to produce. His final words on air were "We love doing this show for you, but what we really, really love is doing this show with you." The audience wept. I wrote that line. Not the words. The architecture that made those words feel true. For eleven years, the audience believed they were participants. They were not participants. They were the product. "With you" is what you say to a congregation. A comedian says "at you." We hadn't said "at you" since 2015. Our internal metric was called Affirm Rate. It measured the percentage of monologue segments that generated applause instead of laughter. I invented this metric. I also invented the bonus structure tied to it. In 2015, our Affirm Rate was 34%. By 2022, it was 94%. I received a raise every year. We are crushing it. At the things I made up. That's performance management. But I need to tell you about the real discovery. The one I put in a deck called "Content Strategy 2019-2024." The one that got me promoted. Agreement gets applause. I knew that early. But correction — telling the audience their vocabulary is slightly outdated, their outrage is aimed two degrees off-center, their feelings are valid but their phrasing needs work — correction gets them back tomorrow. Agreement is a transaction. Correction is a subscription. We converted a comedy show into a nightly software update for moral vocabulary. Churn was near zero. They couldn't afford to miss an episode. Missing an episode meant using last week's words in this week's meeting. That's social death. We monetized the fear of social death and called it entertainment. I want to be honest about something. The content was not bipartisan. We chose a side. But I need you to understand: we did not choose it because we believed in it. We chose it because that side's audience is more responsive to correction. They want to be updated. They want to be told their language is outdated. They experience correction as care. The other side does not respond to correction. They respond to provocation. Provocation is harder to monetize. You can't build a subscription on provocation because the audience doesn't come back to learn — they come back to fight. Fighting is unpredictable. Correction is scheduled. We optimized for the audience that wants to be told what to think. That audience leaned one direction. That's not ideology. That's market segmentation. The writers' room had a whiteboard. In 2015 it said "What's funny?" In 2018 it said "What should they feel?" By 2021 it said "What are they still saying wrong?" I watched that whiteboard evolve like a finch beak and I never intervened. The market was speaking. We listened. Listening to the market is the same as leading the audience. They can't tell the difference. A writer named Marcus raised his hand in 2019. "What if we just tried to make them laugh again?" I thanked him for his passion and scheduled a creative alignment conversation. He transferred to streaming development within the month. The Affirm Rate the week he left was 91%. Laughter would have brought it down. That's risk management. Here is what nobody will say out loud. I will say it because I am proud of it. We made our audience worse at politics. Not better. Worse. Every night for eleven years, we expressed their outrage for them. Professionally. With a band and good lighting. And because the outrage had been expressed — because a man in a suit had furrowed his brow with the precise calibrated degree of indignation — they didn't need to express it themselves. They watched. They clapped. They felt the catharsis of resistance without resisting anything. They went to bed having done nothing and feeling like they'd done something. That's the product. Not comedy. Not information. Catharsis. Catharsis is the enemy of action. A man who has screamed into a pillow does not then also scream in the street. We were the pillow. A $50 million pillow with a house band. If you feel the outrage has been expressed for you, you will not march. You will not organize. You will not call your representative. You will tune in tomorrow to feel it expressed again. That's retention. Our retention was extraordinary. I want to talk about the comedy-to-catechism pipeline because I think people underestimate what we achieved. Stage one: comedian makes jokes about the powerful. Audience laughs because the powerful are absurd. This is the Carlin model. The jester punches up. Everyone below feels relief. Stage two: comedian makes jokes about people who disagree with the audience. Audience laughs because disagreement is stupid. The jester has turned around. He's still on the stage but now he's facing the crowd with a pointer. Stage three: comedian stops making jokes. Comedian identifies incorrect beliefs and explains why they're dangerous. Audience does not laugh. Audience claps. The jester is gone. In his place: a hall monitor with a desk and a band. Stage four: audience watches not for entertainment but for certification. Having seen last night's episode means you know which words are current. Not having seen it means you might use yesterday's vocabulary in today's meeting. The show is no longer comedy. It is a credential. Watching it means you are educated. Not watching means you are the person being discussed. We made a show that you watch to prove you're not the kind of person who doesn't watch it. That's a closed loop. Closed loops don't need content. They need continuity. We provided continuity for $50 million a year. A comedian — whose entire historical function was to say things too dangerous for anyone else to say — became the person who decides which things are too dangerous for anyone to say. And the audience applauded. Every night. For 2,500 nights. Because being told what is forbidden feels exactly like being told what you already knew. Prohibition performed as validation. I put that in the deck too. Our audience was correct about everything. I know this because they applauded everything we said. The applause proved the correctness. The correctness justified the applause. We called this audience research. The methodology was peer-reviewed by the audience. They approved unanimously. Every night. The actually funny comedians left. They went to podcasts. To clubs. To rooms where the audience doesn't know what's coming and that uncertainty is the point. They took the laughter with them. We kept the applause. We called those spaces problematic. That's market differentiation. The problematic spaces are funnier. But funny is not our product. We lost $40 million a year. We didn't lose it because the show failed. We lost it because we spent $50 million producing what a podcast host in his garage gives away between mattress ads. The podcast is funnier. The podcast is more dangerous. The podcast has an audience that laughs instead of claps. But we had the Ed Sullivan Theater. We had 461 seats. We had a former Beatle play the farewell episode. Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Jon Batiste, and Louis Cato playing "Hello, Goodbye" like it was a benediction. I booked a Beatle for a funeral. The Beatles played that stage in 1964 and the audience screamed so loud you couldn't hear the music. Our audience didn't scream. They wept politely. That's the difference between entertainment and church. We ran a church. Jon Stewart showed up to the finale and did a bit where he pretended to deliver a corporate statement from Paramount about the cancellation. The audience laughed. It was the first time they laughed in a way I didn't recognize. Involuntary. Surprised. Dangerous. For ninety seconds, a comedian was in that building. Then it was over. John Oliver said "At some point, this may come for all of our shows" and then added "but Stephen, what's important to remember is that tonight, it is going to eat you." The audience laughed again. Involuntary again. Two moments of actual comedy in a three-hour farewell. Both of them about death. The finale drew 6.74 million viewers. Biggest weeknight audience in our history. More people came to the funeral than ever visited the patient. I know what they were mourning. Not comedy. The comedy died in 2016. Not the man. The man is fine. He's wealthy. What they mourned was the permission structure. Starting today, they have to decide what to believe on their own. They have to form an opinion without waiting for a man behind a desk to form it first and deliver it with a knowing look. Some of them haven't done that since 2015. The funeral wasn't for the show. It was for the certainty. He joked about the Peanuts theme music licensing cost on his last night. "Oh no! I hope this doesn't cost CBS any money!" The audience laughed. It was a joke about money. About the network losing money. The last joke was about money. Not about truth. Not about power. About a licensing fee for a cartoon piano riff. Eleven years and the final joke was about accounting. I think that's perfect. The show was always about accounting. We just dressed it up as conscience. The President of the United States — the man we spent eleven years explaining was dangerous to an audience that already believed he was dangerous — posted an AI-generated video of our host being thrown into a dumpster on the Late Show set. Then Trump danced to "YMCA" in the clip. Viewed more times in four hours than our farewell managed in a week. His production cost: zero. Ours: negative $50 million a year. We manufactured his relevance every night at 11:35 for eleven years and he never paid us a dime. We were his marketing department. He turned our funeral into content. His ROI was infinite. Ours required a write-off and a farewell concert. The Strike Force Five — Fallon, Kimmel, Meyers, Oliver — appeared in a segment about late-night losing "one middle-aged white man who makes jokes about the news." They were joking about their own obsolescence. All of them know. None of them will say it. The format is dead. The audience moved to phones. The phones don't have desks or bands. The phones have men in garages who are allowed to be wrong, allowed to be surprised, allowed to say something their audience hasn't already approved. That's comedy. We stopped doing that a decade ago. We did approval. Approval looks like comedy from a distance. Up close it's church. I do not feel guilt. Guilt would require me to believe I took something from them. I didn't take anything. They came to us. Every night. They chose the catechism over the comedy. They preferred correction over surprise. Certainty over danger. Instruction over laughter. They wanted to be told. Not challenged. Not shocked. Not made to laugh against their will at something they didn't see coming. They wanted to see it coming. They wanted to mouth along. That's not comedy. That's karaoke. We ran the most expensive karaoke bar in television history and the only miscalculation was charging a cover when the songs are free on every phone. We turned a jester into a priest. We turned an audience into a congregation. We turned laughter into obedience. We turned political engagement into passive consumption. We turned a comedy show into a permission structure and charged $50 million a year to tell people what they already believed in a voice slightly nicer than their own. They were so grateful they showed up to mourn us. 6.74 million of them. Weeping. For the certainty. Applause is more reliable than laughter. I proved it. The proof cost $450 million, one character, one comedian's capacity for danger, and one audience's willingness to act. The metric went up.

@waleswoosh @wyckoffweb That’s not true bc since then i believed in MooDeng…but it ended the same way.

@wyckoffweb Last time believing actually worked was the NFT bull run and we know how that ended

Believing in something in crypto these days is a fast track to generational poverty

@MartKAD Wen wallet checker?

x.com/MartKAD/status… Info about distribution spots here. also, if your content is good enough, maybe God will choose you for a GTD spot. Who knows.

10 hours left before allocations are closed. As promised, the FCFS form is now live: beaks.site/beaklist 1. You need to have at least 200 followers on X 2. If you won WL spot somewhere you can't won again 3. Connect your Discord & X -> attach your 3 best tweets about Beaks (threads,memes,arts all included) -> submit your wallet. That’s it. We’ve also added several new communities to the site. You can check them out here: beaks.site/collabs After you submit, I’ll personally review everything and send you an email. This is your last opportunity. And just like we promised - we’re keeping our word. The FCFS phase will not have more than 500 wallets. Good Luck 🫰

@waleswoosh How many daily active addresses on monad these days. Just curious.

After the end of Terminal, MegaETH active addresses dropped. However, it's not as bad as some people expected. While farming was still active, daily active addresses were around 6–7k. Now they're sitting at around 4k. What really dropped is app revenue, but MegaETH is still alive, and I've actually used some apps even after Terminal shut down. Currently waiting for the final points distribution the team promised, as well as the $ per point conversion rate

@AdamWeitsman @stephensantoro_ As a cornell alum i hope to visit one day! That’s amazing i know right where that is!

I have loved this property since I was a young boy. Owned by famed Astronomer Carl Sagan, this “tomb” sat empty for years perched on the cliff edge adjacent to Cornell University. I was thankful to acquire this historic property from Mrs. Sagan last year and will renovate this to be a meeting/thinking place for digital artists from around the world. I have entrusted the design of this project to legendary architect firm I.M PEI to help bring this property to its full glory. Anticipated completion date: late 2027….

@hoangry Farokh is a larp tard. This is not surprising.

How do these things even happen? Like you know all the interactions came from Abstract and still left fully? Huh? What kind of market research is this lol.

@justintrimble Isn’t the non-compounded retail price of the actual zepbound auto injector prescription only $500/month now?

If you're overweight and have hyperlipidemia, and/or hypertension; you probably spend at least $15/day on lunch ($450/mo). You can get 15mg of Zepbound from LillyDirect for $450/month. I'm not saying it's for everyone, but I do think it's potentially life-changing and doable.

@R89Capital Give it some retatrutide…will cure

It looks like fucking AIDS

@SHL0MS @TransientLabs Can you help me extract…i mean earn…some money like this so i can buy a cryptopunk?

i illegally downloaded images of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena from Department of War servers 1/1/666 0.0666 ETH max 6 per wallet live on @TransientLabs shl0ms.com/UAP

@chooserich @kuyamark Your sharing this story means a lot to many. Thank you.

Two weeks ago I shared that I got Classic Hodgkin Lymphoma ("cHL")... For those who may be unfortunate to end up in a similar place I wanted to share lessons from the wild rollercoaster of the past two weeks. Perhaps it might be a little bit cathartic as well ⬇️

@BB88888888888BB Go look at his OS tweets where he was willing telling his followers to go spend insane fees on swaps and NFTs to farm the airdrop and justifying it 8 ways to Sunday…while being a paid shill for OS. Just gotta assume all these guys have some undisclosed agenda for everything.

people like gorilla are exactly why this space smells like exit liquidity and recycled cynicism. dump on a project, rotate out, then suddenly reappear as the voice of reason acting like some noble protector of the timeline. the funny part is people only become fundamental analysts after they have sold. only in crypto/nfts do people call something a failure because it didn’t make them rich in 3 weeks. project still alive? failure. holders still up 5x from mint? failure. team still building and experimenting? failure. trying new mechanics instead of launching the 9000th copy paste pvp token? somehow also failure. everyone screams innovation is dead then immediately dogpiles anything that doesn’t produce instant dopamine candles. the entire point of experimental systems is that some mechanics work, some don’t, and some evolve over time. if every project optimized purely for week one volume and influencer exit liquidity, we would still be trading pixel animals with roadmaps written in canva. also love the “team made $200k” angle as if launchpads, market makers, influencers and cabals haven’t extracted infinitely more from this space while contributing absolutely nothing except engagement farming and hindsight tweets. ttt may succeed or fail long term, but at least it’s attempting to push nft/token coordination somewhere new instead of pretending another low float memecoin with ai generated art is revolutionary. crypto has become one of the only industries where people expect fully formed network effects, perfect liquidity, cultural relevance, and investor returns immediately on launch day or they declare it dead publicly for impressions. the real delusion is pretending experimentation itself is the problem while the timeline celebrates the same recycled garbage every single cycle.

@_bolivian No one uses dump fun anymore do they? So should not matter for solana.

This is extremly bearish for Solana

@radageth @opensea @dfinzer Crack is whack fren

OpenSea just confirmed 50% of $SEA supply goes to community 🔥 Here's what we know about the 2026 airdrop: → Launch set for Q1 2026 → Over HALF of community allocation drops in initial airdrop → @opensea Foundation running the show → CEO @dfinzer hinting at distribution

@SHL0MS What can you do for me to make me money tho? U never sent me that 18eth from ur monet copy.

sorry i didn't make a burn to redeem exclusive whitelist private sale token gated bidder’s edition that gets you into a private collector club that you have to burn to redeem

@Chilearmy123 Good one

How Crypto founders act Before vs After their TGE 😂

@prjx_hl Gib gib gib

It's time to give back.

It’s been an incredible few months for Pudgy Penguins, with major brand partnerships, new products, institutional Penguins, huge support from Capitol Hill, and more. Whether you missed it or just joined The Huddle, here’s what you need to know 🧵

@waleswoosh Need to come up for a term for this

When you lose more money farming the airdrop than the airdrop is worth, then you're not really farming the airdrop. The airdrop is farming you