Shawn Quirk

Brilliant article. Are consciousness and god one and the same? Seems like most religions point that way if you dig deep enough. Many mystics in all three Abrahamic religions point to a collective conscious experience/deity/presence/spirit, etc. gifting us with an omniscient perspective of the world around us. Many many interpretations of the same eternal experience at the end of the day. Great insight! A welcome perspective that deserves greater attention in today’s ever chaotic discourse.

@BruceDGilley @cehoskinson youtu.be/4Bf2CB45ndo?si… Coup 53 is a great doc that explores MI6’s involvement in the coup of 1953. Definitely a film worth looking into. The truth is indeed murky, but western influence can’t be dismissed either.

The U.S. did NOT overthrow a democratically-elected government in Iran in 1953. Stop allowing this false narrative to go unchallenged. 🧵1/11

@LaPetiteADA Liquidity pools are activity based as far as I know. This may end up mostly effecting centralized exchanges.

⚠️ CLARITY Act deal: No passive yield on stablecoins, only activity-based rewards!! What does this mean? 👀 ▪️ Passive yield = earning interest just for holding stablecoins is now banned in the US. ▪️ Activity-based rewards = stablecoins can only give rewards when you actively use them. How “activity-based” rewards will actually work remains unclear, which leaves space for future regulatory discussions. 🙄 This move reflects pressure from the banking sector! Until they decide what "activity-based rewards" means, this could: 👇 ❌ Reduces incentives for holding stablecoins. ❌ Makes the U.S. less competitive vs. other countries. ❌ Hurts DeFi, apps, and innovation that rely on flexible yields. ❌ Could slow institutional adoption. Stablecoins, such as $USDC, already crashed -18% today, after the announcement. Crypto is here to empower users, not limit what you can do with your money. 💪

"In 'La Strada' (1954), which is my favourite film, Fellini is God. The film was more powerful than a work of neo-realism. With 'La Strada', Fellini composed a lyric poem, the great epic of man’s pain and joy." --- Abbas Kiarostami

@StakeWithPride @Cardano_Power Alphabet (Google) is the current #5

@Cardano_Power none of these are fortune 5. x.com/StakeWithPride…

8 of 10 Midnight supernodes have been announced. 2 more left. #Cardano

@DavidAstinWalsh Valon des Auffes, incredible little spot. Best place to stay if you’re looking for a little oasis within the greater city.

Okay, y'all are selling me on this. Neighborhood recommendations to stay in?

Is Marseille worth visiting?

@roryisconfused They're out there somewhere. They have to be. The internet is too incredibly rich for writers to not bring back the encyclopedic novel in a new contemporary and joyfully tangential contredictory way.

Where are the young Herman Melvilles Joy Williamses Anne Carsons Emily Dickinsons Shusaku Endos Denis Johnsons so on so forth

I don’t want chic, incisive novels by people who know how to mingle at publishing-adjacent parties…I want to read bizarre, singular, musical novels by quasi-mystic basketcases who are otherwise shit at being alive

Thank you for reminding me of this great book Joyce. Read this in a history class in college. 1968 to the Present at BU. Such an amazing course that blended history with literature and pop music from the decades. Why our post WWII history and culture is not taught in high school curriculums more often even today baffles me. This book would definitely be part of that canon.

if you recall Tim O'Brien's tour de force of a group portrait of an American 17-man platoon fighting in the Vietnam War --"The Things They Carried"--as a very moving work of fiction, go back & reread: absolutely brilliant prose poem, perfect technique perfectly executed like one of those old-time card tricks where the magician shuffles the cards all in the air & they fold back together like a waterfall without a single card dropped.

@TheCinesthetic Reds by Warren Beatty - An epic that should be seen and talked about way more often - Jack Nicholson playing Eugene O’Neil is the icing on the cake too. Such a good film all around.

A movie that's in your top 25 list but unlikely to be in anyone else's?

@RachelXReads It’s important to remember too that an author’s audience may very well be found in another time and place. You can’t assume the generations who have yet to be born will not appreciate the literature of today. In some cases maybe moreso than we do now.

Yeats perfectly expresses why AI can never replace artists, novelists, or poets. Read "Where My Books go," and you'll understand that the human author crafts every word for you, to find you, to "sing" to you. It's a message from one living soul to another.

@ReshadKool @Yabba900 @CryptoMane4 I really don't think we can predict what will happen to be honest. The pent up inertia is greater this time around. Could it lead to a larger run? Maybe, maybe not. I guess time will tell.

@Yabba900 $3 seems high. Though if there is a run it could be in play with a wick. I don’t think we break $1.80 this year. Would like to be wrongs obviously for @CryptoMane4 and @ShawnQuirk ‘s sake.

$iag under 5c, I’d be crazy not to Buy Sellers are weak and will ultimately lose out $Ada doesn’t go above $3 this year

@nguyenhdi The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock by T.S. Eliot is what did it for me. Sometimes it’s just a matter of finding the right poets. They’re out there. As far as epics go though and Elizabethans for that matter, Edmund Spenser’s “The Fairey Queen” needs to be read more

Same. I thought Shakespeare would be my gateway to poetry, but my love for Shakespeare seems to be an exception. Or, I guess I do enjoy dramatic poetry & epic poetry—something with a narrative & characters—but not really lyric poetry.

Nous adorons Lynch ici aussi! Mais c’est vrai que L’Europe arrive de le voir plus clairement. Lynch parle de le simulacre parfaitment, mais le plus part des Americans sont dedans le spectacle de leur realité (comme chaque pays). Vous avez le privilege d’êtres des voyants de notre culture de l’exterior. La vue est plus clair.

Lynch, le meilleur artiste américain de la fin du 20e siècle, à la fin plus bien compris et aimé en Europe qu'aux Etats-Unis.... go figure

@frozenaesthetic It's not an album, its a soundtrack. Listen to Revolver if you want to hear a great Beatles Album

Listened to "Yellow Submarine" for the first time and it absolutely sucks

@Tomi_Tapio @SketchesbyBoze Exactly, many of which are about books that have been long out of print.

@ShawnQuirk @SketchesbyBoze GoodReads site has millions of book reviews.

The Washington Post is getting rid of its Books section. We’re losing the institutions—journalism, middle-class artistic and intellectual culture—that once made life bearable. Those things were a threat to the super-rich who increasingly govern us. Democracy dies in illiteracy.

@BortBurner @SketchesbyBoze You never know. Mass media is quickly in the decline. We really can’t tell where cultural tastes will end up a few years from now

@ShawnQuirk @SketchesbyBoze I mean yes, jazz is the best musical genre, but I don’t think it’s going to be making any of the kids end of year lists.

@BortBurner @SketchesbyBoze Jazz is coming back too. I think the coming decades will surprise most of us

@ShawnQuirk @SketchesbyBoze Almost every data point says otherwise. Literature is on an accelerated death spiral in the last 10 years. The smartphone has taken over utterly and completely. It is now niche like jazz.

@ssphinxe How much more popular can you be? He has his own adjective to describe writers who use a similar style.