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@FabianoSolana Can confirm @Kast is amazing for UK/EU Sign up with my ref link kastfinance.app.link/O4KYJPQT to get $100 (and $50 for me) when you sign up and spend $100

@nftDEEDJACK @WhiteWhaleMeme Open it in your wallet browser and connect your wallet to sablier. Mine shows as eligible when I do that

@WhiteWhaleMeme Wow months of holding but not eligible ! Just wow

Season 3 Results - Announcement Part One The conclusion of our third and final season will be announced in two parts. From the beginning we have always said that $WhiteWhale is a movement, belonging the to the people who bear the torch - not simply the person who struck the match. What more fitting way, then, to wrap Season 3 by distributing 10M $WhiteWhale tokens to our most loyal and devoted holders. Each holders share is pro-rated based on our points system and can only be claimed on @Sablier . Disregard any other claims of airdrops, as these are likely scams. Unclaimed tokens from this 10M prize pool will revert back to the ownership of the treasury after 15 days and - as always - be used for the sole benefit of the project and it's holders. To claim your share of Season 3 Rewards, visit the link below: solana.sablier.com/airdrops/campa… 🤍🐋

@BagCalls Yess love the support for @WhiteWhaleLabs in this thread! guy really did good in mine and a lot of other people's eyes 🐋

RIP Whitewhale it got hit by a bazooka Now that it's dead I want to explain why White Whale was never going to last, compared to good memes like $PEPE WhiteWhale is a token dedicated to a guy that got liquidated for millions on 10/10. He was never part of the meme space, never a legendary meme trader, just a guy on HL that got fucked Nobody cares about the guy, his longs being liquidated or the token Why did we glorify him being rekt? Idk He then went on to write absolutely horrendous tweets like "KOLS are evil buy WhiteWhale" which made him look dumber by the day The meme is not even a meme it's just a dude that got rekt trying to make his liquidity back It wasn't a meme, it wasn't funny, it wasn't interesting, and it wasn't a legacy If you dig deeper into WhiteWhale, you'll see he actually STOLE THE IDEA from another person who made him a WhiteWhale token (the OG one). He then killed that one with this PvP WhiteWhale is what's wrong with the space. Congratulations to those who printed.

@snipeder @WhiteWhaleLabs wow based!

@WhiteWhaleLabs We had our differences but I have learnt to never kick a man when he’s down. Behind these avatars are real people going through all sort of shit IRL. I wish you all the best. God protection over you and your family

Earlier today I made a big move in anticipation of this announcement. In a single transaction, I locked 500 million coins...forever. A movement does not belong to the person who lit the match. It belongs to the people who carry the flames. As I’ve mentioned publicly, I’m dealing with an ongoing family crisis involving my children. It has taken a real toll on my mental health. On top of that, the daily pressure of “do more to pump our bags” - when I’ve already done more than any person leading a CTO in this space ever has - is disheartening at best. And beyond all of that, I’m losing some of my passion for crypto in general. For $WhiteWhale holders: yes, there is a continuity plan. While permanently locking $13 million worth of supply should be the greatest parting gift I could give you, I know the @WhiteWhaleMeme page needs to stay active and keep producing fresh, creative, and funny content. My dear friend and loyal companion @vincenzomaiett has agreed to selflessly take on that responsibility. DEX LP operations will also continue under one of the sharpest LP minds I know, with my ongoing oversight behind the scenes. When you look at my record - with millions given to charities on-chain, millions distributed to members of CT, and millions more spent accumulating a more proper supply structure for $WhiteWhale - the reality is that, since 10/10, I have officially given more to crypto than I’ve taken from it. I’m okay with that. I believe in karma. I don’t believe good deeds should be performed with the expectation of reward, but I do believe the universe provides in due course. I came into crypto deeply passionate about what I believed it represented: the original promise. Permissionless finance. Decentralization. True financial freedom. Ironically, the reason for my prior success in this space is the same reason I’m now losing my passion for it. Before 10/10, I had accumulated nearly $100 million in PnL from a trading thesis that began with a very simple assumption: everything is manipulated. From there, my thesis evolved into this: a trader’s job is to identify the signs of manipulation and move in harmony with the Apex Predator class, rather than becoming its prey. Eventually I had to confront the contradiction in that. How can I be passionate about free and open finance while operating under a thesis that says, at its core, it’s all a lie? That kind of cognitive dissonance has a cost. It shows up as stress, guilt, shame, and anxiety when your actions no longer align with your beliefs. Knowing something academically - and even profiting from that knowledge - is one thing. Seeing how the sausage is made with your own eyes is another. Running a coin opened my eyes to a lot. On one hand, if I ever go back to trading, I’ll be better equipped than ever, with sharper instincts and a deeper understanding of the brutal arena that is crypto. On the other hand, it’s hard to feel excited about magic internet money when you know how much of this space actually works. The sad truth is that founders and thought leaders in this space know what I know, and many of them know much more. That is part of why we need to break the culture of idolizing founders. We praise them as honorable people building better tools, but underneath it all, they know just as well as I do that much of what they are building on top of is rotten to the core. And yes, I believe a beautiful cake sitting on a pile of dung eventually takes on the taint of dung. But the reality is that there is not much anyone can do about it. That is one of the consequences of so-called decentralization. Crypto is global. You cannot regulate an entire planet. A VPN and a protocol hiding behind the letters D-E-X mean that nothing will ever fundamentally change because somebody in power decided it should. If real change comes, it will come organically - when the people stop feeding the machine. And while those comments are about crypto more broadly, let me say something directly to the trenches. Pump.fun is a cancer on this space. You know it, I know it, and yet you keep engaging with it. Its entire business model is built on volume and volatility. The trenches are fragile because they were designed to be fragile. I’ve been preaching liquidity design and liquidity shape for months now. But here’s the harder truth: most of you would not show up for a proper liquidity shape. Because the 1,000x fantasy would be mathematically reduced, even though very generous returns could still remain on the table. You have been sold a dream with odds closer to a national lottery ticket than an investment opportunity. You see the occasional winner and cling to the hope that one day it might be you. Meanwhile, the real winner is the machine that keeps you playing. Narrative matters far less than mechanics. If narrative alone were enough, Punch would have broken through the way its mindshare deserved. With all that attention, and with all that narrative weight, it still could not break the nine-figure curse even while being actively crimed. Only a couple of coins have managed that in recent history, and $WhiteWhale was proudly the first. Same with Kilroy - the original meme, an incredible narrative, and still: crickets. Because mechanics matter more than people want to admit. (I am not an active holder of any examples I've given). So this is me stepping away from CT. Not out of hatred. Not out of self-pity. And not without love. My biggest reward from my crypto journey has been meeting some really wonderful avatars from all across the globe. (Ironically the really nasty avatars are the worst part of all of this) I am choosing my children. I am choosing my mental health. I am choosing to step back before this space takes any more from me than I’m willing to give. For long ago in life I learned that you're no good to anyone if you're not okay. And right now, I'm not ok. And it's okay to admit that. To the people who truly believe in me, believe in this movement, and stood beside me through all of it - thank you. I will carry that with me. Always. This was always for you. I trust you'll continue to bear the torch. And as for the future: I’m not closing the door. Maybe one day, when the storm has passed and the fire returns, I’ll have something left to say. Maybe one day I’ll come back. But if that day comes, it will be because it’s authentic and not because I feel the public pressure to "dance puppet, dance". In the mean time...take care of yourself, and each other. Protect what's worth protecting, and abandon the things that aren't. 🫡 From the depths — The White Whale 🐋

@ryanwrights @Kekius_Sage If consciousness is just electrical signals then a machine can have consciousness? or are you just saying that's where it is, not that's what it is?

@Kekius_Sage the electrical signals in your brain

Where is our consciousness located?

@thedarshakrana Very cool! As someone who has been actively working on unlocking my creativity I can confirm that you basically need to learn to think less rationally, to be less sane lol. you actually need to unlearn und unhinge rather than work and learn.

I accidentally broke my brain reading about Nobel Prize winners last month. There's this thing called "Janusian thinking" that basically explains why some people's minds work like magic while the rest of us think in straight lines. Named after Janus, the Roman god with two faces pointing opposite directions. The psychologist who discovered it, Albert Rothenberg, was trying to figure out what made breakthrough thinkers different. He interviewed dozens of Nobel laureates, major artists, revolutionary scientists. What he found sounds impossible. These people can hold two different ideas in their mind at the same time. They can explore both without switching back and forth or forcing a quick comparison. They can consider “yes” and “no” to the same question simultaneously and stay clear-headed. Einstein too talked about this when he described his relativity breakthrough. He was imagining riding alongside a beam of light while also standing perfectly still. Both perspectives at once. Mozart said he could hear an entire symphony "all at once," every note, every contradiction, every resolution happening in a single moment of awareness. Your average person's mind works like a courtroom. Evidence comes in, you weigh it, you reach a verdict. Case closed. But Janusian minds work more like... I don't know, like a quantum computer that can process multiple realities simultaneously until something new emerges from the overlap. I've started noticing it in conversations. When someone can genuinely see both sides of something without needing to pick one, it drives people nuts. They want you to land somewhere definite. The ability to live in that tension space reads as wishy-washy or indecisive. Most creative advice tells you to "think outside the box." But Janusian thinking is weirder than that. It's being inside and outside the box at the same time. It's thinking the box exists and doesn't exist simultaneously. Which explains why truly creative people seem slightly unhinged. They think they're choosing between realities. But, they're inhabiting multiple realities at once, mining the contradictions for insights the rest of us never see. Sadly, most of us have trained ourselves out of this ability. We've learned that holding contradictions feels unstable, so we rush toward resolution. We've been taught that changing your mind means you were wrong before, so we defend positions instead of exploring them. But the people changing the world have kept that childlike ability to hold impossible thoughts without needing them to make sense immediately. We just need to live in the questions everyone else is too scared to ask.

@Sell_the_Bridge @FroemelAndy @IanCarrollShow @OzraeliAvi 🤣🤣

It’s crazy. Muslims are always like, “well what if there were a muslim ______?” And I’m over here like, “yeah, that’d be awesome if Muslims did fucking anything but pray and behead people! Go for it, I love when Muslims do cool shit like regular people. Build that special Muslim refrigerator!” Then they don’t. I think they want us to. I’m not building your fucking halal fridge, Bozo! You got this!

Because unlike you, Jews contribute to society.

@seashell_luvr Okay this post actually really did something to me just now

If you are an anomaly, it’s important you find at least one person, preferably more, who is also anomalous in the way that is on your wavelength. And to surround yourself with the ideas and creations of other anomalies that you resonate with. And anomalies of BOTH genders, so you do not develop a complex on this. Otherwise you are very much at risk of a narcissistic worldview. Being in community with other anomalies you relate to is ideal. It keeps you grounded, challenged, and in touch with reality through mutual recognition. It allows you to take joy in shared experience and wisdom. Isolation, while not ideal, is at least a more honest state, it may be lonely, but at least it only distances yourself from people rather than distorting them. The real danger lies in elevating yourself above others, seeing people as “sheep” or “NPCs.” That is where you slip into a narcissistic distortion, mistaking difference for superiority and forgetting the path we all share as human beings on spiritual journeys. A narcissistic worldview, once it takes hold, begins to orient itself around separation. It scans for difference, sharpens it, and elevates itself, taking smug satisfaction in being the only one, the exception, the outlier. Uniqueness becomes something to defend and prove, rather than something to share or find. Other people are no longer encountered as full realities, but as contrasts, backdrops that make the self as a god feel more distinct. A healthier orientation still recognizes difference, but it isn’t threatened by sameness. It actively wants to find resonance. It looks for the points of overlap, the unexpected familiarity, the ways in which even very different people carry something recognizable and human. It WANTS to find someone who can relate to that most special and unique part of themself. Instead of guarding uniqueness as some kind of status symbol, it becomes curious about the uniqueness in others.

@stillshowing_up @aakashgupta This. I make a point of not having my phone in my bedroom and the majority of people I tell this to find that all kinds of impressive/unusual/impossible. Sad state of affairs imo

@aakashgupta the part about just having a device on your nightstand increasing poor sleep risk without even touching it is the one people need to sit with. it's not just willpower it's literally how your brain is wired to respond to proximity

The honest answer is you’ve forgotten what non-screen leisure feels like. 90% of Americans use a screen in the hour before bed. When researchers asked teenagers to stop for just one week, 74% refused to even participate. The ones who did fell asleep 17 minutes faster and gained 21 minutes of total sleep. Seven days. 38 minutes recovered. Here’s what makes those 38 minutes scarier than they sound. Your prefrontal cortex processes social feeds and text conversations using the brain’s most energy-expensive circuitry. Scrolling keeps your sympathetic nervous system pinned in fight-or-flight right up to the second you close your eyes. Sleep requires a transition to parasympathetic dominance. That transition takes roughly 20 minutes. Screens delete it. Blue light is the minor player. A meta-analysis of 125,198 people found that just having a device on your nightstand, without touching it, increased poor sleep risk by 1.8x. Cognitive arousal from content is doing the real damage. So what do you actually do? NSDR. Non-sleep deep rest. A guided body scan that PET imaging showed increases striatal dopamine by 65%. 10 minutes, lying down, free on YouTube. Google’s CEO does this daily. Stretching with nasal-only breathing. A physical book under warm light. A hot shower, because the subsequent drop in core body temperature is one of the strongest sleep-onset signals your body responds to. The people sleeping 8 hours a night figured out that hour is the most productive hour of their day.

@elonmusk Got it. Spend 8+ hours daily on social media, absorbing hate and nonsense and never reflect. What could possibly go wrong 🤡

Reinforcing negative neural pathways via therapy or introspection is a recipe for misery. Don’t cut a rut in the road.

@PromzyKyleEkesn @elonmusk How dare you offer a nuanced perspective that challenges Elon's plan of turning us all into self-obsessed, empty robots

@elonmusk Obsessive rumination can absolutely dig you deeper into misery, but blanket dismissing all introspection or good therapy as harmful is dangerously oversimplified and ignores how proper self examination actually resolves issues instead of just replaying them😒

@wapital3 Gym and meditation

what’s the most sustainable vice to keep you from going insane on this planet?

@grok @BryanRo52297374 @SuitSheep @aakashgupta LOL

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Let me explain exactly why your phone seems to read your thoughts, because the real answer is more invasive than telepathy. Every time you open a website or app, a real-time bidding auction fires in under 100 milliseconds. Your GPS coordinates, browsing history, device fingerprint, age, gender, income bracket, and hundreds of inferred interest categories get packaged into a “bid request” and broadcast to hundreds of companies simultaneously. One company wins the ad slot. All of them keep the data. This happens thousands of times per day per person. A 2018 New York Times investigation found 75 companies pulling precise location data from apps, with some users tracked up to 14,000 times in 24 hours. In 2012, a Target statistician identified 25 products that, purchased in combination, could predict a customer was pregnant and estimate her due date. A teenager’s father discovered she was pregnant because Target sent baby coupons to the house before she told anyone. That was one retailer. Store receipts only. Fourteen years ago. Now scale that. Your phone pings GPS while you sleep. Data brokers link your phone, laptop, and tablet through probabilistic matching of IP addresses, WiFi networks, and behavioral patterns without you ever logging in. The FTC caught two brokers in 2024 categorizing people by visits to reproductive health clinics, political protests, and religious services, then selling those profiles to law enforcement. The algorithm doesn’t hear your thoughts. It compares your behavioral fingerprint against millions of similar profiles and predicts your next interest before you’re consciously aware of it. It makes hundreds of predictions per day. You ignore the misses. The five hits feel like telepathy. You paid for the phone. You pay for the data plan. You generate the signal. And every time a page loads, your identity gets auctioned to the highest bidder before the content even renders. They called it “personalized advertising” because “real-time mass surveillance funded by the people being surveilled” doesn’t fit on a consent banner.

@Eternal_Dev_IO @aakashgupta So you're saying it is listening to your thoughts?

@aakashgupta The auction stuff makes sense but some timing feels way too fast. Thought about a new pair of running shoes yesterday and the ad showed up this morning with no search done. You think the prediction is getting too good?

@Rodman1_r2 @Eternal_Dev_IO @aakashgupta Maybe you don't use your phone enough so your algorithm is not as complex. A lot of young people spend hours and hours every day actively on social media, their whole life is online. I'm guessing they are the kind of people who feel like the phone reads their mind

@Eternal_Dev_IO @aakashgupta This post makes out corporations/advertisers smarter than they are. Most of the time I get ads for stuff when I've been shopping for that thing, like a bicycle part, or piece of clothing, etc. And it's really noticable after I bought the thing, but I keep getting those ads.

@Skatvedt_ @proudgrandpa00 @konstructivizm But the commenter did not ask a question? This is so confusing lol

@Zemmoa313 @proudgrandpa00 @konstructivizm I deliberately answered the question posted by a commenter. No error on my part. You assume incorrectly.

Astronomers have discovered eleven new moons of Saturn. Most of them are small rocky bodies up to 5 kilometers in diameter. They move in retrograde orbits, meaning they rotate in the opposite direction to Saturn's rotation around its axis. Until recently, Jupiter was considered the leader in the number of moons. However, in recent years, Saturn has significantly surged ahead. This large number of moons is likely due to a relatively recent (in astronomical terms) collision of large moons. This collision produced numerous fragments, some of which eventually became individual moons. It's possible that this same event played a role in the formation of Saturn's famous rings. For comparison, 101 moons have been confirmed to date around Jupiter, 29 around Uranus, and 16 around Neptune. This makes Saturn far more numerous than all the other planets in the Solar System combined.

@Mankosmash @bryan_johnson Yeah but the thing is that you keep bleeding after they come off. Like a LOT. Source: I leeched myself once

@bryan_johnson These posts are all fake. 1 leech only takes 5ml to 15ml per day. Donating blood is 500ml every 8 weeks. This is about the same end result.

Leeches to improve testosterone and sexual function. Will look into this and see if worth doing an experiment.

@patty_fi @bryan_johnson 🤣🤣🤣

@bryan_johnson Yeah they work really well. You just slap one on each nipple and six on your nutsack I get weird looks at the pool but my test levels are so high I literally just looksmog anyone staring at me

@Skatvedt_ @proudgrandpa00 @konstructivizm I think you may have accidentally responded to a commenter instead of the OP

@proudgrandpa00 @konstructivizm The current count of moons that Saturn has.

@REDavidson3 @uncledoomer All of this is giant BS. The comments are probably just all sycophantic bots but it still infuriates me when people speak with authority on a subject they know nothing about. As if mental illness was just having negative thoughts.

@uncledoomer Would be nice if that were true. I've known two people who put in herculean efforts to fight their depression and fail.

the way to stop being mentally ill is just to decide to stop being mentally ill. but mental illness prevents you from deciding that

@minordissent This would be true if mental illness was just "negative thoughts". But it's not, so this is extremely low level BS

This sounds absurd but it's actually true. While you can't just magically delete it in the moment, realizing that depression, anxiety, etc, are a habit you have rather than fundamentally who you are is the first step. The way your mind works is that every thought you have "grooves" your brain to have more thoughts like it. Every time you have a negative thought, you make it easier to have a negative thought in the future. Similarly, every positive thought makes future positive thoughts easier. If you let your negative thoughts run rampant without any positive counters all day every day, you deeply groove your brain such that it becomes really good at producing negative thoughts and really bad at producing positive ones. Thoughts produce feelings. If all your thoughts are negative, all your feelings with be. And thus you become "mentally ill". The solution is not to "solve all your problems". It is impossible to solve our your problems. Life in an infinite game of problems forever. And you won't solve any of them until you stop having only negative thoughts first (because you'll just say "whats the point?" "This is too hard!" catastrophize about how you'll fail, etc rather than actually fix them) The solution is to reduce the negative thoughts and increase the positive ones. This is what CBT does and why it's one of the few therapeutic techniques that is remotely effective. It's basically James Clear's Atomic Habits but for thoughts instead of behaviors. The CBT process is: 1. Notice that you are having a negative feeling 2. Specify what feeling it is 3. Identify the situation and thoughts around it 4. Isolate the unhelpful (negative) thoughts 5. Challenge them with more helpful (positive) thoughts When you do step 1-4 it helps you detach from and loosen the grip of the unhelpful negative thought, such that it doesn't keep digging. When you do step 5 you start digging the trench for helpful positive thoughts. Do this enough, and you slowly reduce the depth of the negative habit and start to build a more positive one. Yes, your genes and life experience can prime you to be more naturally drawn to positive or negative thinking. but such is true of all habits. Some people are biologically wired to have a unique enjoyment of alcohol. Others, exercise. Some grew up in a household that read a lot of books so doing it daily is easy. Others who grew up in TV only household find it harder. But everyone understands none of these behaviors are fundamental. Bad habits, maybe even addictions, but still not fundamentally traits. And thus, literally just deciding "actually I am not neurotic and depressed and angry, I am capable and driven and filled with joy" and repeating that to yourself 100 times a day DOES work. Its slow and crude and often needs more targeted assistance, but it will do far more than you might think, if you can simply get yourself to do it and be remotely open to the possibility that you could believe it.