Michael Newman 🔺

@andyhyfi @Marczeller @nikitabier Funny conversation is the ultimate CAPTCHA. Insert joke here.

@Marczeller @nikitabier gotta get back in conversation mode, every reply i draft still feels like accidental ai slop

Extremely good new X feature to restrict replies to who I follow and who they follow, I think it just solved CT. Very grateful @nikitabier.

@khnh80044 The more curious fact is Michael Jackson neither held or drank any Pepsi in the commercial.

Pepsi asked Michael Jackson to make a commercial for them, and it turned into a spectacle. But there’s a curious fact—let’s see if anyone gets it right! Do you know who the child in the red jacket was?”🤔 🎤🥤

@austingriffith The Griffith Point.

🤔 What part of the cycle is it when I just paid for a general admission ticket to an Ethereum conference for the first time ever. 🫡

@andyhyfi The Byte-les.

an AI pop rock group will be bigger than The Beatles in your lifetime.

@andyhyfi This is gonna need more ketchup packets.

@michaelbnewman imagine if they had done a 6-7 nuggets campaign

if you're not sure how many nuggets your kid wants for lunch you are an unc and washed. the answer is 6 or 7

This study points to encouraging improvement for NO2 air pollution due to the ongoing transition to zero emission vehicles. grist.org/solutions/evs-…

@ASvanevik Survivor bias

not enough humans run with --dangerously-skip-permissions

@ryanshrout Yes, 75 is within a range of +/- 0 from the actual answer. I value precision and accuracy in my calculations.

This kind of stuff pops up in my daughter’s homework all the time, and it’s so frustrating.

@TheCinesthetic The Boys from Brazil

Name a movie most people haven't heard of that you highly recommend.

@TheCinesthetic Indiana Jones youtu.be/0gU35Tgtlmg?si…

What film would be held in better regard if it weren't for it's sequels?

@PatrickAlphaC I make sure all the tutorials I write avoid plaintext passwords (thanks to your past reminders). Thanks for your continued efforts to advocate the end of this bad practice. #resend-the-icm-message" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.avacloud.io/guides/how-to-…

I get meme’d on for telling people that plaintext private keys are bad. But here we are in 2026, and I’m still fighting people saying it’s ok to do so, while key leaks were the #1 source of hacks last year. Let me explain the common rebuttals I get and why they are wrong. 👇

At some point, the excuses ran out. That point was 2025. AvaCloud Wrapped // 2025 🔵 $7B+ supply chain trade. 🔵 Billions in RWAs. 🔵 100M+ interactions, one L1. Banks. States. Sports. Gaming. Redefining creator economies. Infinite global impact possibilities. One AvaCloud. 👇 1/ $7.7B cross-border trade enabled via KBank and @StraitsX 2/ Policy engagement preceded regulation, not followed it 3/ $7B+ RWAs + 16M+ compliance traits live via @blockticity 4/ @DinariGlobal Financial Network launched, AvaCloud-powered L1 for 150+ regulated equities 5/ SOC 1 + SOC 2 completed before institutional mandates via @aligncompliance 6/ Stablecoin VAT refunds piloted with real travelers via NH NongHyup 7/ 100M+ onchain interactions processed by @MaplestoryU 8/ Global sports L1 built for fan engagement via FIFA 9/ Consumer-scale creator economy operated without congestion via @orange_web3 10/ Millions of users onboarded without throughput degradation 11/ Zero downtime sustained during major cloud outages 12/ Dozens of Avalanche L1s moved from pilots to production 13/ Minutes to mainnet replaced quarter-long deployment cycles 14/ Privacy and auditability shipped together with policy enforcement 15/ eERC enabled encrypted transactions on public infrastructure 16/ Healthcare refunds executed digitally without paper or kiosks via @Letsbuyhealth 17/ Wyoming launched FRNT, first usable U.S. state-issued stablecoin on @avax 18/ Bank capital bridged onchain without rebuilding settlement rails via FIS, @intainft 19/ Wallet abstraction removed onboarding friction for non-crypto users @cubistdev 20/ Asia functioned as execution, not expansion, via TIS No victory lap, we're just getting started. Just fewer reasons left not to move real economies onchain. Let's make 2026 one to remember. 🔺 - The AvaCloud Team

ANSWERS!!! In chronological order: Hubble (older 1990). Super Mario Kart (older 1992). vgmusic.com (1996). Google (younger 1998). Ocarina of Time (younger 1998). Game Boy Color (younger 1998).

Is Game Boy Color older than vgmusic.com (29 years old today)?

Happy 29th birthday to @vgmusic (launched Dec 19, 1996)! 🥳 Quiz time: Is each of these older than the site? Vote in the polls below! (Answers revealed at the end of the thread)"