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The year is 2015. I am sitting in front of my laptop in my kitchen with a few bros cackling as we run gross half eaten food pictures through deep dream. If you had stepped outofa time machine at that moment and told me about where AI is a decade later I wouldn't have believed you

My net worth peaked at $1.2 million. None of it was real. I don't mean that philosophically. I mean it was located on servers that have since been turned off. I own eleven properties in the metaverse. Three in Decentraland. Four in The Sandbox. Two in Voxels. One in Otherside. And a beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds that I bought for $214,000 because Mark Zuckerberg called it "the next frontier." The frontier closed last week. It's a mobile app now. Last year I mass DM'd 340 people the phrase "you don't understand how early we are." I have since stopped doing that. Not because I was wrong. Because most of them blocked me. I got into metaverse real estate in November 2021. Everyone was buying. Someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's neighbor. In a video game. With no legs. The avatars didn't have legs. I thought that was bullish. "The legs are coming," I told my Discord. "Legs are a roadmap item." Three hundred people reacted with rocket emojis. I called myself a "digital land baron." I put it in my Twitter bio. I put it in my LinkedIn headline. I said it on a podcast that had eleven listeners. Three of them were bots. The rest were my alts. My virtual property has more square footage than my actual apartment. My actual apartment has furniture. Location, location, location. My most valuable asset was a plot next to a virtual Gucci store. Gucci left in 2023. The store is still there. Nobody's in it. It's like a mall in Ohio but with worse graphics and no food court. I held. Diamond hands. That's what we said. "Diamond hands." It means refusing to sell while your investment loses 94% of its value. We turned financial paralysis into a personality trait. A guy in my Discord paid $2.4 million for a 618-parcel estate in Decentraland. Prime district. High foot traffic. I asked him what "foot traffic" meant when the platform had 38 daily active users. He said I didn't understand the technology. I didn't. I still bought more. We had a DAO. A decentralized autonomous organization. That means we voted on decisions. There were nine of us. Three never showed up. Two voted on everything without reading it. The other four were me and my alts. We voted to "acquire strategic parcels." The vote passed unanimously. I voted four times. My portfolio peaked at $1.2 million. I told everyone. I made a spreadsheet. I projected 40x returns by 2025. I made a pitch deck. The pitch deck had a slide that said "WE ARE BUILDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY." The slide had a rocket emoji. That was my entire financial model. In 2023 I bought a Bored Ape for $189,000. It's worth $14,000 now. I don't talk about the Ape. I still use it as my profile picture. People ask me about it. I say "I'm long-term bullish." Long-term bullish means I can't sell it without crying in a Panera. My mom asked me what a Bored Ape was. I said "digital art on the blockchain." She asked why it cost more than her car. I said "you don't understand Web3." She said "I understand you live in a studio apartment." She's not in my Discord. Justin Bieber bought one for $1.3 million. It's worth about $90,000 now. I felt better about mine after I heard that. That's community. WAGMI. We're All Gonna Make It. We said that every day. In the group chat. While the floor dropped. While the volume dried up. While 95% of all NFT collections went to zero. We're all gonna make it. None of us made it. But we said it with conviction and a laser-eye profile picture. That counts for something. It doesn't. But we said it did. That's decentralized consensus. Meta spent $84 billion on the metaverse. I need to say that again. $84 billion. More than the GDP of Luxembourg. More than the GDP of Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta combined. They spent it on a platform where the avatars had no legs, the graphics looked like a 2006 Wii game, and the peak user count was lower than the lunch rush at a Chipotle in Des Moines. They just pulled Horizon Worlds from VR headsets. It lives on as a mobile app. My beachfront villa is now a mobile app. Location, location, location. Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Facebook became Meta. A $900 billion company changed its legal name because the CEO watched Ready Player One and said "I want that." Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021. $14 billion in 2022. $16 billion in 2023. $18 billion in 2024. $19 billion in 2025. That's not a strategy. That's a speedrun. They laid off 1,500 Reality Labs employees this year. Shut down three VR studios. Killed Supernatural. Put the entire VR social vision in a casket and said "we're pivoting to AI and wearables." The pivot took four years and $84 billion. I pivoted too. I'm an AI real estate investor now. I bought a virtual plot in an AI-generated world that doesn't exist yet. The founder said it was "the intersection of spatial computing and large language models." I don't know what that means. I gave him $40,000. He has a whitepaper. It's 47 pages. I read the title and the tokenomics section. The tokenomics section is a pie chart. I love pie charts. They make everything look like a plan. The project has a roadmap. Q1: "Build community." Q2: "Launch beta." Q3: "Scale ecosystem." Q4 is blank. Q4 is always blank. That's where the exit scam goes. My accountant asked me to value my metaverse portfolio for tax purposes. I said $1.2 million. He said "current market value." I said $6,400. He stared at me for eleven seconds. I know because I counted. He asked if I had any other investments. I showed him my NFTs. He stared for longer. I told him they were "cultural artifacts with long-term provenance." He asked if I'd considered a 401k. I told him a 401k was "legacy finance." He told me to leave his office. The metaverse is dead. I don't accept that. I am a digital land baron. I own eleven properties across four platforms. I have a beachfront villa in a mobile app, a plot next to an empty Gucci store, and a cartoon monkey that cost me more than my actual car. Location, location, location. The location is nowhere. But I'm early. I'm always early. That's the same as being wrong except you get to say it with confidence.

@gothburz @PyrrhicVictory6 Real shit bro

@ledgerdust @pudgypenguins

new series of @pudgypenguins plushies incoming tomorrow

Mnemonic Erosion Why can't you forget? Ledges fall into the sea, but you must step back. #haiku

@a16z @pmarca Cone head maxxing

"Speed wins." "You have to be willing to commit to being fast. You can't have long bureaucratic processes. You can't have a risk-averse posture." @pmarca explains the OODA loop — and why the fastest operator controls the narrative in business, media, and politics: "There's a framework called the OODA loop, originally developed for fighter pilots and later for broader military strategy." "It stands for observe, orient, decide, act. It's basically the decision-making cycle." "If speed is the thing that matters, then the person who gets through that cycle the fastest is the one who's going to win." "If you can have a sustainably faster OODA loop processing cycle than the next guy — think about what happens… You operate and make a decision within an hour. The other guy is still inside his own OODA loop when you make your decision. He's only halfway through his process and now has to start over. You've changed the parameters of what's going on." "This is also a big explanation for what's happened in traditional media." "The New York Times has its own OODA loop, and it's like 24 hours to go through its process."

@SBF_FTX Dude is so desperate for a pardon

Dems like censoring ‘misinfo’ on social media. Of course, 'misinfo' really means 'info Dems don't like.' They censored the lab leak theory (which was clearly true!), while making social media sites tell us to wear masks 24/7. Truth Social & GETTR have always put free speech first. @SBF__Truth" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@SBF__Truth gettr.com/user/SBF_GETTR

The secret to better coffee is boiling hot dogs in the water first.

A solitary truth held up in a vacuum is just another lie.

90% of the new #Minecraft music sucks. You literally have to mute that shit and just put on a @c418 nostalgia playlist to make the game palatable. #halfjoking

There was a time before we were born where everything was different, but it was exactly the same.

@Steviedubs19 @rekt2160 @RektCoin Lmaoooo are u talking about the fingernails incident

@qlolpV @rekt2160 @RektCoin You’re staying mad at all girls because one girl named MuratPak broke your heart 4 years ago man

Is your conviction up over this majors move or are you praying for it to do something? $REKT is up 37.66% over the last 7 days keeping pace with the ETH breakout. Maybe it’s time to look at @RektCoin 🤷🏼‍♂️

@Steviedubs19 @rekt2160 @RektCoin "never fade pak"

@rekt2160 @RektCoin Imagine looking at this chart for a week and choosing to fade it, @qlolpV

@ChampagneMan @m4rtr3d @jediwolf @genekogan TRIPLE PATTY

@m4rtr3d @jediwolf @genekogan @qlolpV we are in this together! + its fun ;)

What you see on the left is "A Book from the Sky" considered to be the first long-form AI art collection (Dec 2015). What you see on the right is @genekogan - one of the fathers of AI art. I'm gifting 10 pieces from this iconic work to the wonderful AI art community 🎁(show more) One of my passions is AI art research going back to its very beginnings. There are only a few names that can truly be called the fathers of AI art and @genekogan is certainly one of them - playing a crucial role in the development of the genre 🙏 He was creating AI art and running workshops when 99% of us didn’t even know it existed - starting back in 2015. He’s one of those giants on whose shoulders many stand today. While conducting my research a few years ago I reached out to Gene to acquire some of his early AI works for my UnderTheGAN collection. During our long conversations I suggested he consider minting A Book from the Sky - his 2015 genesis AI art collection widely considered the first long-form AI art collection in existence. And Gene did! I was thrilled because the opportunity to own a piece of real AI art history doesn’t come often. The collection comprises only 530 pieces and was released in collaboration with @FellowshipAi I minted as many as I could and all of them have remained in my collection until now. However I believe it’s time to share them with others - specifically artists who are using AI in their own work. I want you to know the history, to understand where we’re coming from. To discover what was possible back in 2015 - while you already know what’s possible today. Dear Artists❤️‍🔥 please comment with your AI artworks attached - the ones you’re most proud of - and share this post. Dear collectors 🎨 please comment with your favorite AI artworks from your collection and tag the artist. Share the story behind the piece and your collection. I’ll kindly ask @genekogan to select 10 winners each of whom will receive a piece from A Book from the Sky as a gift 🙏 Enjoy - Art is love!

Great contest : ) I'll go for this piece as my favorite in #AIArt - MEGA MAC by @qlolpV: -> same as @genekogan, a truly shameful post-dated mint from an original piece of 2015 -> love the inspiration, buying a BigMac at McDo, then turning it into a hallucination with faces, limbs, insects, birds, dogs... truly impossible to eat a burger normally since then -> also love the "lost & found" aspect of the piece, rediscovered by @ChampagneMan in the depths of @objktcom -> love the fact it didn't cost much than a handful of Tezos, a good reminder that even for us sinful money thinking collectors, it feels great to just buy something we like for almost nothing. no pressure, just love.

@dancevatar @ChampagneMan Deep dream walked so Veo could run LOL

@ChampagneMan @qlolpV These are supercool!

The Lost Early DeepDream Art of @qlolpV - July 9, 2015! A re-discovery thread. Opportunity to acquire a cool edition at the end 🔥

1/ Mega_mac by @qlolpV (minted 2021, executed 2015)

@Sendeca_GM Lmao

Trump on Ethereum: Builds defi protocol on top of AAVE Swaps using CowSwap Stakes ETH with Lido Trump on Solana: Drops 2 dog shit meme coins Keeps 80% of the supply Lets insiders buy early Waiting three months to dump on holders Important lessons here.

@terriblart Hell yeah!

@qlolpV Bought a few🫡

A massive thank you to @ChampagneMan for drumming up interest in these old pieces. You truly never know you're participating in history until almost a decade later. Additional thanks to everybody who purchased these works!

@sunnysangwan @ChampagneMan @pkok_art Thanks hoss!

@ChampagneMan @qlolpV Thanks for sharing, super cool. Acquired a bunch for the @pkok_art collection.