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@winternet we love you too xoxo

@ericagregor i love you and pear so much

> I went to the shelter wanting to adopt a cat > told myself I can’t just get the first one I see i have to *know* I’ve found my cat > the first two cats I see are the prettiest kitties I’ve ever seen > fuck > I said to the staff wow how could someone choose between them they’re so pretty > she said well they’re bonded, so there’s no choice whoever takes them has to take both > I sit in the pen with them for 10 minutes > sob > they are perfect > they are my girls > I knew straight away > I view no other cats > I apply to adopt them > they get dropped off 2 weeks later

@TedSpare it’s also partly bc @lejeunesimon is a cracked CGO and knows how to get folks to pay attention

I don't think y'all understand how cracked Canada's fintech scene is 1 in 1000 Canadians just tuned in to find out we're gamifying life savings

anyone else hermit so hard this winter they lost the ability to be creative? idk about y'all but now that the sun is out and we're moving our bodies and seeing people irl again i am suddenly reinvigorated

@zak_krevitt I’ve been wanting to do this for Montreal!

Event discovery is broken. I'm building the only tool you need to find the things you want to do. The site is live and operational (beta) for NYC, LA, São Paulo, and Berlin. Try it out, I'd love to hear your feedback. Share this with a friend you want to do something with.

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@winternet @OfflineProtocol gotta get these to finish ✨ the lewk ✨

thrilled to announce the @OfflineProtocol merch goes incredibly hard

@sebbydavies @Nanuthefallen but if an app were to offer me a gamified experience where i grew a pet i had to feed/water by adding to my savings account or it would die, or let me compete with friends to see who could save the most, i might be willing to pay a monthly sub for that service alone

@sebbydavies @Nanuthefallen gamification and personalization should not be conflated* but yes, the actual financial piping of the institution matters most - i think it's clear no one is going to choose an app with 2% APY and cute animations over an app with >2%

One of my favorite interaction explorations work. Can we gamify fintech ? If yes what would it look like?

@Nanuthefallen cutesy animations are not gamification though 😅 true gamification is adding game design into the experience (points, leaderboards, badges, leveling up). you can gamify fintech in ways beneficial to users (savings account), or veer into gambling territory (day trading)

@heavygweit Hahaha , I wouldn’t say that’s explicitly the case. I don’t know much about gambling but I’m sure you wouldn’t send me all your money because of a cutesy animation. Plus fintech and gambling have very different underlying mechanisms , goals and outcomes

physical 3rd spaces disappearing = room for digital 3rd spaces imagine meeting people because their agents and yours have been collaborating for months and figured out you'd actually like each other - so they book you both an activity to do together an agentic meet-cute

@sternhenri @debsoon @privy_io 😂 can't believe they bamboozled you like that!

@heavygweit @debsoon @privy_io feedback heard :b!

this is what founder mode looks like @sternhenri @privy_io

@manoharkale1110 @alexkehr they raised $330M

@alexkehr yeah it’s rough… but honestly, shipping something imperfect is still better than not shipping at all

the Lovable app is shockingly bad. how did a team build this and feel proud enough to ship this hyper-slop?

what fixes it is version control where: 1. every writer is signed 2. every contribution gets attributed by the graph itself 3. capacity scales like a protocol does that's a different system. we're building it.

the first git commit was made 20 years ago, on 04/07/05 by Linus Torvalds git was designed for humans, when agents were science fiction. the system was never designed for who the writer is now everything we're seeing break down now is downstream of this. no patch will fix it.

@robjama they're coming for the waterloo kids

Anthropic starting to post jobs in Canada...Toronto office coming soon??

Four things we solved for this on @makechainnet: 1. Deterministic merges. (parents, patches, strategy) → hash via BLAKE3. Anyone can recompute and check. e.g. A wrong squash produces a wrong hash — the server can't hide it, and any client catches it automatically. 2. Signed intent. The author signs a capability token over {source, target, strategy, constraints}. Any merge that deviates fails verification at every node. So there's no surface for server-side "reinterpretation." 3. BLS-certified inclusion. The validator set attests your op is in the canonical DAG. And any client verifies the cert + Merkle proof without an archive node. 4. All messages are part of an append-only, content-addressed history. A bad merge can be superseded, never silently rewritten. Detection is local and instant for users, agents, build systems. Plus QMDB inclusion/exclusion proofs. You won't need an email four hours later. DM if this makes sense to you; we're hiring. GitHub will see more of these as the internet scales with AI.