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@beaniemaxi Glad he outbid me twice on some 1:1 art launch show turned out sparing me eth

You either die a crypto founder or you live long enough to see yourself become an AI consultant.

@beaniemaxi Bro

I’m gonna stop confusing everybody that think I’m bullish on NFTs just cause I rock a Pudgy Penguins PFP. And I got my Substack launching soon (will be dope). So no better time than ever to dox. My name is Michael Kim. Friends call me Beanie. Nice to meet you all. #NewProfilePic

@umikathryn I found a couple use cases

Say no more— I know our generation was the best

@umikathryn idea of Mobile Home

[read the full version on: umikathryn.com] Publicly, I’m effusive about my love for my mother. Privately, we argue far more than we exchange explicit tenderness. Somewhere along the way, we reached a quiet détente: we fight because we love. After her divorce, and once I could finally make ends meet, Christmas stopped meaning home. Home had grown too quiet, too honest about the fact that it was just the two of us. So I began taking her elsewhere. Vegas, for food and spectacle. Beach resorts, for memory-making and sunlit distractions. Anywhere that wasn’t a living room quietly missing people. I enjoy listening to my mother talk about her younger self: rebellious, difficult, but most of all, courageous. The years have narrowed her appetite for risk. She calls most new things “a hassle,” which I’ve learned is just fear. I sometimes wonder if I will also grow more fearful when I get older. Part of why I left Tokyo was so I could fly back to Asia with her; she wouldn’t have gone alone. My hope isn’t reinvention. It’s remembrance. That she might recover the feeling that life is still open, that curiosity doesn’t expire just because responsibility arrived first. That she might remember that life, though fast, is still wide.

[Please read and share] There’s a new social engineering attack circulating in crypto, and it’s disturbingly sophisticated. Hackers are now impersonating people you actually know using deepfaked live video on Zoom/Teams calls. Not prerecorded clips: real-time synthetic video of founders, CEOs, journalists, etc. The playbook looks like this: 1. They DM you from a hijacked or spoofed Telegram account of someone you know. 2. They send a Calendly link + schedule a “catch-up” call. 3. On the call, you see the familiar faces but they don’t speak. 4. Zoom/Teams then prompts you to “install an update” or “download a codec” to fix audio. 5. The download is the malware. One of my colleagues encountered this twice this week. The attackers even chose people he genuinely had relationships with (meaning they’d mapped his social graph). How to protect yourself: - Never download software from an in-call prompt (Zoom/Teams never require installs mid-meeting). - Verify by voice: ask them to say your name or reference something specific. - Cross-check with a second channel (Signal, iMessage, E-Mail). - Treat unsolicited Calendly links as high-risk. - Disable auto-downloads on your devices. Please stay safe. This space moves fast and so do the attack vectors.

@umikathryn That’s lot of lenses.

My first time traveling (not for a conference) since September 2024 !!! My necessities:

@umikathryn Been in Tokyo and Nagoya but Kyoto is in my bucket list and aging…

At least working remotely from Kyoto was nice Seeing the market plummet from Kyoto was also better than being in my living room

@Groowut Box season!

I’m giving away a $1,000 Mythic Pokémon Pack that Phygitals just sent me, featuring a $33K promo chase inside 👀 Winner will be picked in 24 hours. Need extra points? LMK in the comments if you’ve bought fwog blind boxes. fwew💚

Just minted my FWOG blind box! 🐸 Get yours at phygitals.com/fwog-mint

@umikathryn @kyofukai Lots we can do at the corner of this world.

When your taxi drops you and your friend five minutes away from the donation center and you’re carrying four large bags of clothes. A small reminder from today: living abroad this year has shown me how little I actually need to feel content. My friend found @kyofukai, established in 1986 and dedicated to supporting abused and underprivileged women in Japan. They give everything away for free- a rare find when so many donation centers (especially back in LA) end up reselling items, even at low prices.

My friend (now fotmer client) found a donation center in Tokyo (and Yokohama) for underprivileged kids in Japan (and third world countries) for me remembering that I love kids. Here are the items they’ll accept! And my slow consolidation of things I’ve collected in my time living abroad. I’m so glad I don’t need to just chuck things away. kifu-suru.com

@umikathryn Sometimes I buy a book smells good.

This is what happens when a society stops reading: In the 1980s, 60% of American teenagers read for pleasure every day. Now it’s under 20%. Nearly half of adults finish fewer than four books a year. We are raising a civilization that does not read. Reading is not just entertainment. It is the backbone of culture and thought. It teaches patience, memory, empathy, imagination. It trains us to wrestle with complexity and follow long chains of reasoning. Without it, societies grow shallow. History shows us what happens when reading disappears. The results are always the same: collapse of memory, collapse of thought, collapse of culture. After the fall of Rome, libraries crumbled. Literacy shrank to monasteries. For centuries, Europe lost track of its own knowledge in science, philosophy, engineering, medicine. When Petrarch rediscovered Cicero’s lost letters in 1345, he wept. He wrote: “I seemed to hear his very voice.” That rediscovery helped spark the Renaissance. The same pattern repeated with the printing press. Once books spread, revolutions followed. The Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment. Where books flourished, thought flourished. Where they were banned, thought withered. In 1933, Nazi students marched with torches through German cities. They piled 25,000 books into bonfires. Freud. Mann. Marx. Einstein. They were not burning paper. They were burning memory. Heinrich Heine, whose works were among the flames, had written a century earlier: “Where they burn books, they will also burn people.” Here is the irony: we no longer need tyrants to burn books. We are abandoning them willingly. We trade deep reading for endless fragments of content. We scroll instead of study. We choose distraction over depth. The results look familiar: attention spans collapse, truth becomes distorted, history is forgotten, and debate shrinks to slogans and outrage. It’s exactly what happens in societies where books are banned. A civilization that stops reading is easy to manipulate. It becomes shallow in culture, weak in imagination, blind to its own history. It survives on spectacle, not substance. This is why reading has always been more than personal enrichment. It is an act of resistance. To read a book is to strengthen faculties that everything else conspires to weaken. Every age that embraced reading rose. Every age that abandoned it declined. The unsettling truth is this: our future will be written not only by what we create, but by what we continue to read. Source: agelessliterature

@ShiningScience @umikathryn Time is the greatest illusion. Only space exists.

In a new quantum experiment, scientists saw something that challenges everything we think we know about time. Instead of flowing forward like a river, time seemed to loop and fold back on itself. Particles behaved as if their future could affect their past, blurring the line between cause and effect in ways that defy ordinary understanding. This strange behavior was observed through quantum entanglement a phenomenon where two particles remain mysteriously linked, no matter how far apart they are. When scientists changed how they measured one particle, it seemed to alter the history of its partner retroactively. It’s as if “now” and “then” exist together, constantly reshaping each other in a single, connected moment. The findings hint that time may not be a one-way path but a flexible structure that bends and connects distant events. Your choices don’t rewrite your past, but on a quantum level, the universe might not follow the rules of linear order at all. Reality could be stranger than we’ve ever imagined.

@Binance_intern Bought ugly monkey jpeg for $1000.

tell me without telling me you’ve been here since 2021.

@umikathryn Seeing some organizing debt but look nice.

This >

@umikathryn This is why translating cultural nuance is hard.

I’ve always loved English: Sarcastic English Your absence would be the greatest gift. Formal English You will vacate this space forthwith. Upper class English I find your company intolerably tedious. Victorian English I should rather be left to solitude than endure the torment of your presence. Royal English I have exhausted the utmost measure of patience one may extend in such circumstances, and I must therefore insist that you retire without delay, lest my temper betray me into unseemly candour.

@unlimited_ls Huh?

JUST IN: The career criminal —Level 3 s*x offender, wanted for two armed robberies— accused of t*rturing and k*lling an elderly couple in their Queens home, PLEADS NOT GUILTY “I k*lled them. I burnt those […] — don't matter to me though...” Investigators say James McGriff, 42, went door-to-door asking to charge his phone He pushed his way into the home of 76-year-old Frank Olton and 77-year-old Maureen Olton “He tied up Mr. Olton in the basement, he st*bbed him and tried to set him on fire… then tied up Maureen Olton and strangled her to death.” Officials say he set the house on fire after spending five hours inside McGriff was arrested in Times Square on September 10 Police describe him as a career criminal and level 3 s*x offender with a 30-year criminal record He was released from prison in 2023 and had previously served 16 years for armed robbery He is also wanted for two armed robberies earlier this summer McGriff is charged in a 50-count indictment with first- and second-degree m*rder, kidnapping, arson, burglary, and other offenses related to the September 8 home invasion He was remanded into custody and is ordered to return to court on November 12

@R0BERTDENlR0 You two look good.

Me and the bestie…