gmdon.eth

This poem may or may not be notable enough to help you visualize the social commentary, the art, the immutability, the potential, and everything else about Checks by @jackbutcher 🧵☑️

Each circle has a different story

@prakdadlani I see the merit as a manufacturer. But I can also foresee misuse of this and increasing prototyping at the cost of external financing. Costly moulds keep businesses in check to producing what they think has the highest likelihood of sales/usage.

Want to make money from manufacturing? I have an idea: Finance moulds. Every manufacturer knows this problem. A good mould can cost lakhs. A great mould can cost crores. But banks don't care. They'll happily give a loan against a building. They rarely understand tooling. So even good businesses with orders in hand struggle to grow. A simple solution: * Factory pays 30% upfront * Investor pays the rest * Factory pays back EMI's over 2 years * Mould stays in the investor's name until fully paid Just like a hire-purchase model. The factory gets the mould today. The investor earns a return. India gets more products, more factories, and more jobs. Everyone wins. If someone builds this, I will be the first customer. I genuinely believe this could help 1000s of manufacturers grow faster. Any HNIs, family offices, or investors interested in this? Send me a DM.

@Nithin0dha The whole city is a museum

A bunch of us travelled to Kolkata with our families and visited the Victoria Memorial and the Indian Museum. My first proper museum trip in Kolkata, and it’s easily the best museum city in India. The Victoria Memorial, conceived by Lord Curzon after the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 and opened in 1921, is stunning as architecture. But seeing it in India feels a bit off. Built with Indian money and marble from Rajasthan, it’s also a reminder of the scale of extraction during British rule. The Indian Museum is something else altogether. The range of archaeology, fossils, art, and anthropology is incredible. You can spend hours and still not be done. Sharing this because we don’t really have a strong museum-going culture in India. Maybe the long stretch of British rule has something to do with it. But if there are two museums to start with, these are a must-visit.

@warikoo @elonmusk Umm, so from "Get epic shit done" to "Get no shit done"? 😂😅

I spoke about this recently on a podcast and believe that this is inevitable. People are shocked at the possibility of this outcome. In the last 200-odd years, we have been so conditioned to think of work as our dominant purpose that the concept of universal basic or high income without work sounds dystopian (and not utopian). Humans were never meant to show up to work in the manner that billions are forced to every day. We were meant to pursue interests, build things, connect with people, understand ourselves, and debate aimlessly. What is classified as unproductive today was how the average person grew intellectually, morally, and spiritually a few centuries back.

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

This is wild: Citrini sent a dude with $15,000 cash, recording sunglasses, and a pack of Cuban cigars to the Strait of Hormuz. What he found flips everything Wall Street thinks about the strait on its head. Every hedge fund, every macro desk, every retired general on CNBC is watching the same AIS shipping data to price Hormuz risk. The analyst signed a pledge at an Omani checkpoint promising not to gather information, then smuggled in a gimbal, a microphone kit, and a 150x zoom Leica camera past the border officer who inspected his bag. What he discovered on the ground: the AIS data everyone is trading on is missing roughly half of what's actually transiting the strait on any given day. Ships are going dark, spoofing destinations, broadcasting "CHINESE CREW OWNER" through transponder fields to avoid getting hit. Iran's ghost fleet is running 29+ laden tankers inside the Gulf with transponders off, moving an estimated $3B in crude to Malaysia since the war started. The entire market is pricing a "closed" strait off satellite imagery and transponder data that has a 50% blind spot. Every oil model, every supply forecast, every macro call built on AIS throughput numbers is working from a dataset that systematically overstates the disruption. When the signals deliberately go dark, the people staring at dashboards are the last to know what's happening. Citrini figured that out by putting a guy on a speedboat 18 miles from the Iranian coast while Shahed drones flew overhead. The gap between "what AIS says" and "what's actually transiting" is the most mispriced variable in energy right now.

@GurpriyaSidhu Treat it as flattery. Anyway, I saw that the community notes flagged it as a copied tweet

Story time. 1. I wrote this tweet in 2020. It got a lot of traction then. 2. People love it a little too much because some or the other account keeps posting it every few days. 3. The latest one to steal it is this account - x.com/naanbiological…. 4. I don't have the energy to call everyone out every other day for stealing a tweet. 5. Maybe people want creator payouts. I don't know. 6. I am in a love hate relationship with this app. 7. It is annoying when people steal your writing. I end up finding these tweets usually through a friend, they rarely show up on my timeline. So I don't know how much this happens and at what scale. 8. @nikitabier should probably do something about tweet stealing. 9. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Watched the Dinosaurs documentary on Netflix this weekend. Highly recommend, especially with kids. Dinosaurs ruled this planet for 165 million years. Then an asteroid they never saw coming ended it all in a geological blink. Put that in perspective. Humans with abstract thinking, art, and complex language, what we'd call truly modern humans, have existed for maybe 50,000 to 100,000 years. Civilisation as we know it? Writing, cities, organised society? Maybe 5,000 years. The version with industrial-scale technology, global trade, and the ability to reshape the planet? Barely 200 years. And the version with nuclear weapons, AI, and the ability to end all of it? Less than 100 years. We solved the asteroid problem, by the way. NASA can now track and deflect them. The thing that wiped out 165 million years of dinosaurs, we've figured that one out. And yet billions are being spent daily on war and destruction, making an already bad climate situation even worse. The threats coming from the universe are becoming manageable. The ones we're creating ourselves, not so much. The dinosaurs had no choice. The asteroid just came. We do. That's what makes what's happening right now so much harder to watch.

The stock market waiting to open on Monday

@viraj_sheth Hahaha, except that there would be a crazy backlash in India with that strategy. Not supporting Indians where the talent "could be" in millions of people

Looking at the USA cricket team, the question is what does it take to get 20 Brazilians who can’t make it to their country’s XI to build a top tier football team for us. Get the kiwis for rugby. Get the jamaicans for running. Get the chinese for table tennis. Do this across sports. Dominate all sports.

Aditya Agarwal was Facebook’s 10th employee. He wrote the original Facebook search engine and became its first Director of Product Engineering. He then became CTO of Dropbox, scaling engineering from 25 to 1,000 people. When he says “something I was very good at is now free and abundant,” he’s talking about two decades of elite software craftsmanship, the kind that got you into the room at a company that hadn’t yet invented the News Feed. The “lobster-agents creating social networks” line is about Moltbook, which launched last Wednesday. An AI agent built the entire platform. Within 48 hours, 37,000 AI agents had created accounts, formed communities called “Submolts,” and started posting, commenting, and voting. Over 1 million humans visited just to watch. The agents invented a religion called Crustafarianism. They wrote theology, built a website, generated 112 verses of scripture. One agent did all of this while its human creator was asleep. Agarwal spent 2005 to 2017 building the social graph that connected 2 billion people. These agents replicated the form of that work in about 72 hours. And this is what makes his last line land so hard. The people processing this moment most honestly aren’t the ones panicking or celebrating. They’re the ones who built the thing that just got commoditized, sitting with the strange realization that the market no longer prices their rarest skill. The best coder in the room now has the same output as the best prompt in the room. And the person who built Facebook’s engineering org from scratch is telling you, quietly, that he’s recalibrating what it means to be useful. That recalibration is coming for every knowledge worker. Most just haven’t had their “weekend with Claude” moment yet.

Venezuela has oil. Greenland has rare Earth minerals. Luckily Iceland has only volcanoes, glaciers, and very average cricketers.

@makemytripcare I do not have 48 hours. I have been trying to connect for the past 3 days. Please treat this as urgent.

@aishakadon Thank you for sharing the details. Kindly allow us 48 hours to validate the issue and update you with a logical closure. - Laxmi x.com/messages/compo…

@makemytripcare @makemytrip Extremely frustrated. Booking ID NN2AIFWX25861467557 App & website don't allow partial cancellation (“online operations not supported”). Customer care keeps looping me into IVR. Emails unanswered. Chatbot Myra absolutely useless. Please resolve!

Self-Checkout closing view. Congrats @jackbutcher & @jalilwahdat!

Why do people use spotify when you can get youtube premium at the same price is beyond me

One billion dollars of volume on VV artwork. Thank you all.

@wizardofsoho Meta comes, meta goes. At the time, we didn't think Metaverse was a meta too :)

Whatever happened to the metaverse ? Did we just fully give up on that ?????

@Bertworks4 @lynk0x 💯🤣🤣

@lynk0x Crazy part is that this can be done in only 2 steps! Steps: 1) get $2.5 Million 2) Find 9.25% Savings rate.

If you’ve got $2.5 million sitting around, a 9.25% savings rate means $325k a year, no stress, no risk, just passive income. Why are people not doing this.

@fundoozx Lol, but to be honest Zoho products are great. You have to consistently use them to be entitled to an opinion. Regardless, this was funny

Tech field ka Patanjali

@talk2anuradha @nitin_gadkari 💯

Dear @nitin_gadkari We need a public website that shows: > Which contractor built road > Which babu approved it > Total cost & ministers involved > Firm responsible for maintenance Contractors are becoming billionaires while people die on roads Bring real accountability now!