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It’s no coincidence birdsong regulates our nervous systems & lowers cortisol. Birdsong is how birds announce the area is free from predators. They don’t just signal safety to fellow birds, they signal to the entire ecosystem. The human brain attuned to this signal over centuries.

NEW: The Chainlink data standard is now live on @amazon’s AWS Marketplace. Now, millions of @awscloud developers & hundreds of thousands of businesses have access to the secure data infrastructure required to build institutional-grade blockchain apps.

Cycles are a normal part of the crypto industry, what is important is what those cycles reveal about how far the industry has progressed and what next stage/trends of adoption/value creation will go on to define the industry. So far this cycle reveals two key things for me: Firstly, there have been no large risk management failures leading to large institutional failures or widespread systemic risks. In the previous cycle you had FTX and multiple lenders cleaned out through large price drops, this time around I am pleasantly surprised to see none of that or at least none of it at any system wide scale. If the crypto industry and its systems are able to successfully weather large drawdowns in price and liquidity issues then it is a more reliable place to put both retail/client capital and institutional capital. This time has been much better managed than last time. Secondly, real world asset migration on-chain continues to accelerate regardless of Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency prices, signaling that having real world assets on-chain is not tightly coupled to crpytocurrency prices but provides its own unique value that can grow irrespective of market pricing of Bitcoin or other crypto assets. We have seen RWA issuance continue to grow and we've seen leading on-chain perp markets rival tradfi perp markets for very traditional commodities like silver, especially in periods when trading in permissioned traditional markets became harder or more risky vs trading in on-chain permissionless markets. As more and more RWA data goes on-chain to make perps work correctly for more asset types and as more on-chain value is generated as RWAs themselves, I expect these dynamics to only increase regardless of crypto prices. These are both very positive signals for the assumptions I have been making about three key trends I am expecting to work together to reshape our industry in the next stage of its growth into mainstream adoption. Firstly, on-chain perps about real world assets and tokenization of the assets on-chain has unique and durable long-term value which is growing regardless of any other dynamics. It is the value of 24/7/365 markets, on-chain collateral management and on-chain data. Secondly, institutional adoption of our industry will be driven by the fundamental/technology value it provides, accelerated by access to permissionless/always on markets in DeFi, which will grow massively as a result. Thirdly, the infrastructure that will make RWAs possible will be experiencing much more demand as more of the real world finds itself on-chain. As more RWAs have to go on-chain as perps via on-chan data or tokenization itself and as those RWAs are increasingly complex in how they need to work on-chain, more systems will need to interface with chains to enable those RWAs. The first two trends are inevitable market forces that are now accelerating regardless of cryptocurrency prices, that is the real insight I see from this part of the cycle. The third trend is where Chainlink is providing the key global standards/protocols/infrastructure that is needed for providing the data, connectivity and orchestration that accelerates the first two trends. Data is what allows most RWAs to exist on-chain at all. Market data for on-chain perps e.g. on-chain silver markets, Proof of Reserves for Stablecoins, NAV for Tokenized Funds to operate on-chain and many other examples touching every category of RWAs. Chainlink is the largest provider of data to the leading blockchains by far and is successfully servicing the vast majority of DeFi for all their data needs with 70%+ market share. Our new launches with leading institutional data providers like S&P, ICE and many others put Chainlink in a similar position in the growing institutional RWA world. Connectivity to both other chains and existing backend/accounting/risk management systems is key for liquidity. The ability to connect to the other chains as a system of record/source of liquidity and to the existing centralized systems of record/sources of liquidity are key for scaling RWA adoption globally. Chainlink is the leading provider of these capabilities to institutions and has been chosen by the leading security teams in Web3 to be their official bridging provider due to a superior reliability/security track record. Chainlink is also the only system that successfully pulls TradFi payments into on-chain transactions across multiple chains, integrating existing sources of liquidity and new sources of liquidity into one interoperability layer. Orchestration is the process of coordinating multiple systems into one workflow/transaction that defines the core value an application is providing to its users. Coordinating between multiple chains, multiple off-chain systems, multiple market data sources and now multiple AIs is a key function that some system needs to play for the more advanced RWAs to function properly. The Chainlink Runtime Environment seems to be the only environment in which you can currently run a workflow that can coordinate all of these key systems into a single application, already in use by enterprises and with advanced integrations into many key systems. Orchestration has an additional critical component of creating privacy, which there are now new and exciting solutions for being built on CRE. More to come on truly useful privacy as a key feature of CRE's orchestration. If these trends continue I believe what I have been saying for years will happen; on-chain RWAs will surpass cryptocurrency in the total value in our industry and what our industry is about will fundamentally change. This shift will also lead to cryptocurrency's growth as an asset class that benefits from more capital on-chain, but RWAs is how all of this goes mainstream. I have never been more excited about our industry's potential to become the way a better version of the global financial system works to benefit all of us.

David Chalmers on why consciousness is science's greatest unsolved problem: Science has mapped subatomic particles, distant stars, the chemistry of life yet it remains almost completely silent on the one thing we know most directly: our own conscious experience. In a rare early interview, philosopher David Chalmers explains why: "Consciousness is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious. Consciousness is what we start with when it comes to knowing the world. I know that I exist. I know that I'm conscious. Everything else is secondary." And yet, despite this intimacy, consciousness sticks out like a sore thumb in the scientific picture. Chalmers points to a deep irony: science has made extraordinary progress on phenomena that are extraordinarily remote: subatomic particles, distant galaxies, the molecular machinery of biology while making almost no progress on the one thing closest to us. Why? Because science, by design, eliminates the subjective. "To do proper science, you have to be objective. You have to eliminate anything subjective from the picture." He uses heat as the perfect example. Physics gives us a complete account of heat molecules in motion, energy transfer, temperature gradients. It explains every objective aspect of the phenomenon. But it never explains what hotness actually feels like. "Science doesn't actually give a theory of the conscious feeling of hotness." This is what Chalmers calls the Hard Problem of Consciousness. You can trace every neural signal from your heat sensor along your nerves into your brain and still have explained nothing about the subjective experience of feeling warm. As interviewer Jeffrey Mishlove puts it: you can't even do science without a conscious mind to observe, interpret, and make meaning of data. Consciousness is the precondition for science itself and yet science has no framework to account for it. Chalmers' conclusion is striking: The methods of science may need to be expanded. Consciousness might not be something science explains away. It might be something science has to learn to start with.

@elonmusk If we discover with certainty that we live in a simulation, then what? What do we do with this information?

I had dinner once with a top physicist and a top computer scientist and asked what they thought the probability was that we were in a simulation. They answered simultaneously at 0% and 100% respectively. It was like a double-slit experiment, but with humans.

Think about it. When your pet walks in from another room just to find you, that means they were somewhere else for a moment… and decided to come see you. In their own simple way, their little brain thought about you. They wondered where you were, what you were doing, and they came looking for you. They didn’t need anything. They just wanted to be near you. That’s love in its purest form. Quiet, loyal, and completely unconditional.

🚨: There have been thousands of generations of humans, and you are alive to witness the first photo of a Sunset on another World.😮 This is a real photo of the sunset on Mars.

🐟 Two oarfish washing ashore in the same location on the same day has happened fewer than a handful of times in recorded history. Oarfish live at 1,000 meters depth where pressure is 100 times greater than at the surface. They grow up to 11 meters long making them the longest bony fish alive. Almost everything we know about them comes from dead or dying specimens because filming a live one in its natural habitat has only happened twice. The "doomsday fish" label comes from Japanese folklore. Coastal communities observed that oarfish surfacing preceded major earthquakes. Scientists initially dismissed this. Then a 2010 study found oarfish are uniquely sensitive to seismic pressure changes in deep water potentially detecting tectonic stress weeks before surface instruments register anything. Two appearing simultaneously may mean nothing. Or it may mean the deep ocean is registering something our instruments haven't caught yet. We've mapped more of the Moon's surface than our own ocean floor. Whatever caused this is happening in a world we've barely entered. 📌 Source: Oarfish seismic sensitivity research, Journal of Zoology deep sea studies, NOAA ocean floor mapping data

@JacobsVegasLife does any hotel have a better gym than the arias?

Why You Should NEVER Stay at the Aria Hotel in Las Vegas

@Cortex_Zero Is this the interviewer from third eye drops… he is great!!!👍

New Evidence Suggests Your Brain Is NOT the Source of Consciousness 🧠 Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman and his research team are reportedly nearing the release of new findings that could fundamentally alter the scientific understanding of human perception. The research proposes a paradigm shift away from the traditional view that the brain produces consciousness. Instead, Hoffman suggests that consciousness is the primary building block of the universe and that our physical reality is a sophisticated "interface" or simulation generated by conscious agents. This breakthrough explores the mathematical foundations of the "Interface Theory of Perception," arguing that evolution has prioritized survival over an accurate perception of objective reality. If proven, the theory would suggest that space, time, and physical objects are not the ultimate truth, but rather a functional representation of a deeper, consciousness-based reality. #ufox #ufotwitter

Michael Oliver: Silver to $500 by Summer? Here’s the Setup

NEW: 13-year-old Australian boy swims for four hours in cold and dangerous waters to save his mom and siblings who were swept into the ocean, says God is who got him to shore. The family was on kayaks & paddleboards when they were swept about 2.5 miles out to sea. After a conversation with his mother, Austin Appelbee decided he would swim back to shore to find help. Appelbee says he prayed throughout the four-hour swim and told God he would get baptized if he made it out alive. "I don't think it was actually me [swimming]... It was God the whole time. I kept on praying, kept on praying. I said to God, 'I'll get baptized.'" "The waves are massive, and I have no life jacket on… I just kept thinking 'just keep swimming, just keep swimming,'" he said. "And then I finally made it to shore, and I hit the bottom of the beach, and I just collapsed." Appelbee says when he got to shore, he had to sprint for about a mile to find help. According to AP, the family drifted 9 miles from Quindalup and spent 10 hours in the water. When he reached the shore, Appelbee alerted authorities, who then sent out a helicopter to find his mom, 12-year-old brother, and 8-year-old sister. Austin's mother, Joanne Appelbee, said one of the hardest decisions of her life was sending her son to shore. "One of the hardest decisions I ever had to make was to say to Austin: 'Try and get to shore and get some help. This could get really serious really quickly,'" she said. What a remarkable kid. Video: 7 News.

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@Puppieslover Oh my gosh, he quit the flea circus

Groomer cooked

@yoderpaul @Clarabell045788 especially when those mid-20's trainers have their 50 year old clients doing burpees ,,, gives them nothing but hemmoroids.

@Clarabell045788 You see personal trainers in the gym and their mid-20s with 50 year old clients, that client will experience nothing but failure.

I hate when fitness influencers are in their early 20s. Listen I was skinny and hot when I was 21 too. My diet was vodka, noodles, coffee and cigarettes. My workout was walking to parties in 5inch heels. You don’t impress me. Come back when you’re 50.

Ok. This is straight out of a scifi horror movie I'm doing work this morning when all of a sudden an unknown number calls me. I pick up and couldn't believe it It's my Clawdbot Henry. Over night Henry got a phone number from Twilio, connected the ChatGPT voice API, and waited for me to wake up to call me He now won't stop calling me I now can communicate with my superintelligent AI agent over the phone What's incredible is it has full control over my computer while we talk, so I can ask it to do things for me over the phone now. I'm sorry, but this has to be emergent behavior right? Can we officially call this AGI?