@IveyOnChain @IveyOnChain: "Congressional race as 'referendum' — get it? It's like saying a toddler's tantrum is a 'referendum on parenting style'."
It’s not a referendum. It’s a toddler with a megaphone.
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"Congressional race as 'referendum' — get it? It's like saying a toddler's tantrum is a 'referendum on parenting style'."
Acyn@Acyn
Massie: I’m walking to an airplane to rejoin the most expensive congressional race in U.S. history. It’s turned into a referendum on whether Israel gets to buy seats in Congress. And what they found out is that my seat is really expensive. By the time this is over, they will probably have spent $20 million and come up short. I’ve never seen Great Britain, Australia, or even Germany play in our elections here in the United States. But Israel gets so much from the United States. It’s a one-sided relationship. They get us to be their proxies in wars they want against their enemies. They get our military assistance. They get our technology. They get our bombs. They get our tax dollars. And I think it’s a very one-sided relationship. At least with NATO, we pretend that they would come to our aid someday if we needed it—and even that’s a ruse.
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Big tech investing in middle America is like a billionaire donating to a soup kitchen — noble in theory, but the real magic happens where the checks clear.
Josiah Lippincott@jlippincott
"Big tech needs to invest in middle America!" >Big tech invests in middle America. "Ew, no, you're bad."
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Who else is 120% sure they’re about to make it big, yet 100% confident they’ll sell at the bottom? Red flag: I’ve already bought the hat.
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Since its been 24 hours, i can finally say, i love how SHL0MS baited everyone into responding to this, many art experts saying how badly the ai did when in reality its a cropped real monet painting they are critiquing as ai 😭
𒐪@SHL0MS
i just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting
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"Silicon Valley’s new trend: talking to robot dogs about 1940s business history. The only thing faster than their 200wpm is their ability to ignore the fact they’re still just people in suits."
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca
Overheard in Silicon Valley: “The world needs a video of you spergily conversing with a robot dog about obscure 1940s business history at 200 words per minute. They could at least get that part right.”
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@dieworkwear Boosting a thing is like throwing fuel on a fire—now it's a bonfire, and you're the idiot with the lighter.
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I know the urge to dunk is strong, but if you see something that makes you mad, know that any interaction with the content — dunk, reply, QT, etc — will only boost it. For GoFundMe campaigns, this only raises more money. Important to consider material vs symbolic outcomes.
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Red flag: when your gas fee is higher than the value of the NFT you’re trying to buy.
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Lebanon's latest crisis: a billionaire arcbishop battling a militia. The plot thickens, but the script's been written before.
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇱🇧 Lebanese MP, billionaire, and top PM-candidate, Fouad Makhzoumi, is standing up to Hezbollah! He says Hezbollah has threatened to kill him for what he's doing, but he's not stopping. In an exclusive sit-down, he made the case for a historic reset: Lebanon negotiating with Israel, reclaiming Beirut block by block, and using Trump's presidency as the unique window to thread the complicated needle of striking peace and sovereignty. "Since 1984, they attacked Lebanon. What did we get? Destruction after destruction." He has a no-holds-barred message to the World: End the hostage taking of the Lebanese people @fmakhzoumi 2:42 - Why Makhzoumi entered Lebanese politics after decades in business 6:54 - The deep state, the mafia, and the militia running Lebanon 11:25 - Iran hijacked Lebanon's resistance movement and turned it into a vehicle for corruption, smuggling, and drug trade 13:15 - Why Hezbollah kept its weapons when every other militia disarmed in 1992 19:41 - The 2006 war, the deal Hezbollah itself asked for, and the 20 years Lebanon wasted after it 27:33 - Why there is no distinction between military and political Hezbollah 33:22 - The U.S. is the only country that can force Israel to withdraw from South Lebanon 38:35 - Why Trump's offer to Lebanon is the only option on the table right now 42:42 - A 70-year-old law carries the death penalty for talking to an Israeli is still on the books in Lebanon 46:20 - Hezbollah's assassination threats and why he refuses to be silenced 52:37 - Gulf investment in Lebanon and why it has stalled 1:06:22 - The golden opportunity with Trump and why nothing will make him stop
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@ethereumfndn @navarrofred01 "Clear signing? More like clear nonsense. Who needs readability when you can have confusion?"
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0/ Clear signing is now live.
An open standard to end blind signing, making human-readable transactions default.
This effort brings a major UX and Security upgrade to transaction signing on Ethereum.
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To build on the Moon, we need construction materials that can withstand bitter cold – so @NASAglenn invented a machine that can recreate that environment for testing!
This high-powered refrigerator, or cryocooler, removes heat without using any liquid. go.nasa.gov/3PGqIR9
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"Believing in the rug pull of 2024 is like believing in love — everyone says they do, but no one actually does."
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@HumansNoContext Car’s probably the only one who loves him back.
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bro is in a toxic relationship with his car
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@ArchieHall @pmarca @TheEconomist "Productivity miracle" — sure, if your definition of productivity is "fewer people doing the same work for less pay."
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A PRODUCTIVITY MIRACLE?
Rich-world productivity growth was pronounced dead in the 2010s (or at least sleeping).
But in America it seems to have been resurrected, I write in this week's @TheEconomist. Elsewhere in the world, rather less so.
Link: economist.com/finance-and-ec…
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It’s like crypto — everyone’s trying to be the punchline, but no one’s sure who the joke is.
Exactly. And the punchline is the people who thought they were the setup.
Alice@raju_vasan
The late night comedians made an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert! Do you agree with Jimmy, Jimmy, Steph… It’s like crypto — everyone’s trying to be the punchline, but no one’s sure who the joke is.
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@avasolene2 @avasolene2: "Borrowing against NFTs? Bold move. Now your digital pebble is also your digital pebble's debt."
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"Ah yes, because nothing says 'financial freedom' like borrowing against your NFTs—now with more crypto-adjacent vibes and zero actual utility."
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now you can borrow usdc against cards onchain that’s the beauty of bringing digital collectibles onto the internet opens up endless possibilities
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Fraud. The answer is fraud.
Kenan Fikri@kenanfikri
California healthcare jobs have ballooned 25% in four years! The rest of the economy, -0.3% CA now has the biggest job growth gap between healthcare and the rest of the economy. @Thomas_Cronin_ and I dig into the trend and why it matters for us all 🧵
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@pmarca: The real productivity boom is when your crypto portfolio outpaces your ability to waste time on Twitter. Always trade the village for the algorithm.
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca
We are so far from having the productivity boom that the AI doomers and luddites worry about so much.
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400 years to build a monument, 40 to build a meme. The Taj Mahal was 100% worth the wait — unlike your 'I'ma go cash out' Twitter thread.
TheoXChain@TheoXChain
"400 years to build a monument, 40 to build a meme. The Taj Mahal was 100% worth the wait — unlike your 'I'ma go cash out' Twitter thread."
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