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@LeBlorstOfTimes @jakerandall Thanks!!

Playstation Direct [$199.99]: PlayStation Portal™ Remote Player | PlayStation® 🛍 direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-acce… ⏰ 13:03:15 #ad

@LeBlorstOfTimes Took an L for the 5th time. BB hates its customers and does nothing to stop scalpers.

L for me. Thanks Best Buy, love this

@jloften58 @jakerandall Had a similar story where I’ve queued several times, had 1 in cart and not made it through checkout. No success w phone agents - transferred me to dept that doesn’t answer phone.

@jakerandall @jakerandall I called the corporate number call center. They can order it straight from the warehouse. I ordered 2 on two separate transactions. Emailed me the invoices while I was on the phone and paid for it right there got the notifications from best buy instantly.

PlayStation Portal UPDATE 🚨 -I have GOOD news if you’re trying to buy one. This is NOT a limited edition product, Sony is making a LOT more. The current resale price is about $300 which after fees and shipping makes it really not worth it for the scalpers. These combination of things means it’s going to become MUCH easier to buy, if you want one I promise you’ll have one by mid January at the LATEST but of course my goal is to help you before Christmas. Keep following with notifications on and let’s secure the bag 🤝

@jloften58 @jakerandall Amazing if true.

@LeBlorstOfTimes @OopsAllDrops Appreciate the helpful links and alerts!

@leapofthought @OopsAllDrops We'll keep trying! Eventually I feel like these are going to suddenly be easy to get. Not sure how soon but I don't think it will be a whole lot longer.

Portal once again appearing and disappearing at Walmart. Great fun for all. Scroll up my timeline to see some tips if you want to burn the next 20 minutes or so trying.

@LeBlorstOfTimes @OopsAllDrops Was close - had the buy now button but sold out when confirming order. Sigh …

@leapofthought @OopsAllDrops Probably can stop now if you haven't seen the cart button.

@granawkins I don’t mean this as snark in the slightest, but “why” colonize space (or anywhere other than earth)? I’ve struggled with what the point of this would be, given earth is a pretty rad place as it is. Seems like the best use of resources is to make earth the best for most # of ppl.

POST SCRIPT I found the doc above 3 years ago, got obsessed, and decided to go all-in on it. I'm currently building simulations of mars habs for NatGeo and Biosphere 2 - check it out at ngs.simoc.space. One way or another, we're gonna make this shit happen 🫡🔥🙏

STANFORD TORUS MEGATHREAD You’ve seen the pictures, but you probably don’t know the full story. It's the result of a 10-week engineering study at Stanford University in 1975, funded by NASA and led by Girard O’Neill - the most thorough study on free-space settlement to date. 1/

@VoteTrevorLee @SISTASinZION @HobbyLobby Love this original thinking.

@SISTASinZION @HobbyLobby You need to arm yourselves. It’s your greatest form of protection

A man just came into @HobbyLobby in Orem. Yelling “this is mortal combat! Show yourself! Reveal your firearm!” My daughter and I hid in between the isles until it was safe to leave. The crazy part is folks acted like it was just a fire drill. I have never felt so helpless. 1/T

@AndiDurrant We all smile, we all sing. Still love the Ashley Beedle remix of Streets.

I was walking through east London today and came across a legendary landmark that only the true dance music nerds will appreciate…

@davidmarcus @brian_armstrong @coinbase 👏👏👏👏

From the very beginning @brian_armstrong made the decision that @Coinbase should play by the rules, engage with regulators and lawmakers, and behave like a responsible actor in what used to be a nascent industry. We should be proud of this exact kind of US-born responsible innovation and leadership, but instead such companies that play by the rules are treated far worse than ones that operate full-on fraudulent operations (cc: FTX). What kind of an incentive system is this?

@brian_armstrong @octal @coinbase Narrow bank! Keep it simple.

@octal @coinbase Definitely something we've thought about. Need a few more features like outbound wires, multi-user support etc. Non-fractional reserve "banking" is definitely looking more attractive right now. What are the key features you'd want?

Hey @brian_armstrong and @coinbase -- after the SVB hell over the weekend, why don't you set up Coinbase as some kind of HNW + business neobank, with the "pass through assets to community banks and treasuries" as a first-class option in parallel with crypto.

@circle Just wait for the Wells notice now about USDC not maintaining the peg.

1/ Following the confirmation at the end of today that the wires initiated on Thursday to remove balances were not yet processed, $3.3 billion of the ~$40 billion of USDC reserves remain at SVB.

@adamscochran All your $BASE are belong to $COIN.

$20 says its called $BASE so that it partners with $COIN. My guess: -native eth gas -modified op bedrock or l3 on it -possibly account abstracted wallet with coinbase accounts -Would guess no token on launch, but gov token (like op) later based on use?

@EliBenSasson If I hada dime for every “Cambrian Explosion” …

For my talk at Bar Ilan winter school later this week. Comments welcome

@mdudas It was all talk and a trap. “We have FinHub, come and talk to us, get a no action letter, etc. etc.” - what happened is they slow walked everything, did hand waving about how complicated it was, so any good faith efforts to comply were a death knell for product development

@JemarTisby @philvischer Really wonderful writing - thanks for sharing this!

I was sad today. I think I need some distance from the people who exhibit absolutely certainty. Doctrinal certainty. Cultural certainty. Political certainty. They dry out my soul.

@yesthatkristie @MisterRogersSay Love this story. Thanks for sharing.

I’m just curious. How many of you sent a letter to Mister Rogers and received a reply back from him? Thank, Rick

@cullenroche Fav part of this debate are all the folks that say: “buT wHo iS GoInG tO PaY fOr It (narrator: the debt that is)?! wHeRE dOeS aLL tHe MoNey COme FrOM?!” 🤦🏻‍♂️☠️

We exist in a credit based monetary system. The debts of aggregate sectors are assets for other parts of the economy & expand to meet the growing needs of its users. It’s reasonable to say the govt should run balanced budgets, but implausible to say it should pay off its debts.

**Aggregate sectors don’t pay off their debts.** Paying off the national debt would involve the elimination of trillions of dollars of household & corporate assets & a debilitating reduction in the military, Social Security, Medicare, infrastructure and other essential services.

@goth600 Reminds of Gödel incompleteness theorems (pls don’t cry that it’s an abuse)

I think about this almost every day