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🎗️ Yield for a cause 🎗️ Wanted to take some time to talk about an upcoming mint happening on @blastr_xyz today from @pasteltonesss you can find out more information about her story from her page. If you're new to Blast and refundable NFTs. Here’s a quick summary on an upcoming charity drop, how yield works, and how you can get involved. 1. 🎗️Minting the NFT: Mint an NFT by depositing funds into a smart contract. The mint price is 0.028. 2. 🎗️Funds Locked in Contract: Your funds are locked, adding to the total value locked (TVL) on Blast. 3. 🎗️Generating Yield: While locked, your funds generate yield. 4. 🎗️Supporting LLS: The yield goes to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, supporting cancer research and patient care. 5. 🎗️Refundability: You can withdraw your initial deposit anytime, making it a safe, refundable investment. This means you’re investing in the ecosystem and supporting a great cause without risking your initial funds. What is Blast? Blast is a Layer 2 blockchain designed native yield. How to Mint a Refundable NFT Here’s a quick guide to get you started: 1. Set Up a Wallet: Use MetaMask, Rabby, or another compatible wallet. 2. Bridge eth over to blast: I bridge through @Orbiter_Finance 3. Connect Your Wallet: Visit @blastr_xyz and connect your wallet. 4. Mint Your NFT - Go to the NFT minting page for the charity project. - Ensure you have enough BLAST for the mint price (0.028). - Follow the steps to mint your NFT. Your funds will be locked, and you’ll get your NFT. - Withdraw your initial deposit anytime if needed. Blast has huge potential, and I’m excited to see what else we can dream up. Jump in, mint an NFT, and help support a great cause while earning yield.

@OliLondonTV used to go 15 years ago and camp, some of the funnest weekends i’ve had. way better than hotels or renting a house

Man shows the difference between the ‘rich side of Coachella vs the poor side’ while calling out “fake” Influencers. “I personally think Influencers are the worst thing to ever happen to people…it’s all fake.” 🎥 IG: Eaglesfan215prime

@Marsbars1488 @JustElleRude @MmisterNobody the peter the dolphin thing was real and it was messed up, no argument. but pointing at one bad 1960s experiment to write off science is like pointing at one corrupt cop to abolish roads. science is why your life isn’t complete shit, fridge, AC, toilets, the phone you have etc

@j_wickwick @JustElleRude @MmisterNobody You like science? Like NASA's infamous Peter the Dolphin 🐬 project? Bunch of creeps. 🤮

This one was hard to watch. Christina Koch forgot her lines and froze on stage 😬 These actors need to research their lines more.

@JustElleRude @MmisterNobody there’s no gotcha line, just hoping people can educate themselves. the less people believe in science the worse our world will be.

@j_wickwick @MmisterNobody So you gave it another try and still failed. Comical. I was hoping when you tried again... you might have had a gotcha line...but nope. I am going now. Tootles. 🖕

@sawyeurism brain cells seem to be missing from a lot of people these days. have no idea how people can deny any of those things.

No, I don't "believe" we went to the moon. This isn't a matter of theology. I know we went to the moon, I know we have rovers on Mars, and I know the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, because all of those things are facts.

@EarthIsGrowing @LucasGageX yeah, that’s how film works. as processing technology advances the quality of the old photos goes up.

@LucasGageX They’ve been publishing new photos and videos of the mission periodically for the last 50 years. Amazingly, the image quality keeps getting better and better!

Moon landing deniers: "I'm supposed to believe that we went to the moon when there's more computing power in my cell phone than in the entire Apollo program. Also moon landing deniers: "They faked the moon landings and globe-Earth pics and videos with CGI."

美国当年登月的时候，就怕你们不相信，安装了三台激光反射器在了月球表面，但凡有点实力的天文台，往那个坐标打一束激光脉冲，就能收到返回光信号，年年打年年收到，56年了没断过。全世界航天局都承认美国登月是真的，都2026年了，还有一群民科在造谣阿波罗登月是假的。

@JustElleRude @MmisterNobody it’s not trolling, i can recommend some good scientific books if you would like. if you don’t believe in science then i don’t really know what to tell you though.

@j_wickwick @MmisterNobody Is this the best you got at trolling? Surely you can do better than this... lol. Have a wonderful evening!

@miztergray @Kramersfarm @offgriddesigner I gave two analogies, neither was about jumping out of a car. Pick the one you think is wrong and explain why. Velocity is shared by default. You only lose it if something takes it away.

@j_wickwick @Kramersfarm @offgriddesigner Although I know the answer to his question, and it’s very simple, your analogy is very wrong, considering what would happen if you open the car’s door and jump outside of it.

NASA do themselves zero favours

@JustElleRude @MmisterNobody no pretty much everyone who’s studied science at all believes what science can achieve and has achieved. the tik tok generation and the brainless karens are the ones who don’t believe it.

This is so cringe! Makes it even more comical that people believe this shit... hahhaha..... To see some top influencers and the news cycle still push this out as if it's soooooo amazing..... Many of us see through this all and just laugh at every single one of these stupid made up events.... They are so terrible at acting.

@Kramersfarm @offgriddesigner if car is driving 100 miles an hour how is it still on earth if earth is orbiting at 66,000 mph? if you jump for 2 seconds how come the earth doesn’t move 36.6 miles away from you?

@offgriddesigner If earth is orbiting the sun at 66,600 mph, how did Artemis catch up to earth only going 25,000 mph on its way back from the moon?

@TBC_on_X this is like comparing a shitty soap opera to a 200m tv show

This would take Pixar 3 years to make. With AI it took us 3 hours.

@NACHOS2D_ hm maybe $50 quality lol. this is ass

Hollywood got cooked. AI Seedance 2.0 just dropped a Hancock vs Homelander in a matter of days $1,000,000-level quality.

Sam Altman was fired by his own board. His co-founder Ilya left. His top researchers left to start Anthropic. His head of alignment quit. He dissolved the safety team and its replacement. He converted a nonprofit into an $850B for-profit. He removed 'safely' from the mission statement. His employees begged him to stand with Anthropic. He said he would. That night he took the deal they refused. Then announced it on X like a victory lap. And you still think this man is building AI for humanity?

@sama it’s too late Sam

(I also would like to share this, which I wrote after thinking a little more.) There is a lot we will talk about in the coming days, but since this is one of the first "real deal" decisions we have faced, I wanted to share a few things that have been heavily on my mind the past few days. These are the principles I care most about for this decision: alignment, democratization, empowerment, and individual agency. The democratic process must stay in control, and we must democratize AI. OpenAI should not decide the fate of the world; no private company should. We need to work with governments, but also we need to make sure individuals get increasing power. Things are moving so fast that we need to urgently educate the world so that the democratic process has time to catch up. I think one of our most important strategic decisions ever was the principle of iterative deployment. In particular, the key element required for democracy, such as protection of privacy, must be defended by all of society. I believe that, as some of the creators of this new technology, we deserve to and are obligated to have a loud voice about the risks, pitfalls, and benefits we see. I think we are heading towards a world where the relationship between governments and AI efforts is critical. This will be difficult but it has to happen; I do not see any good future where we don't get there. There should not be games and fights in the press like this; drastic government action should be avoided. I think there are real dangers coming to the world, and maybe pretty soon; I tried to put myself in the mindset of how I'd feel the day after an attack on the US or a new bioweapon we could have helped prevent.

Here is re-post of an internal post: We have been working with the DoW to make some additions in our agreement to make our principles very clear. 1. We are going to amend our deal to add this language, in addition to everything else: "• Consistent with applicable laws, including the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, National Security Act of 1947, FISA Act of 1978, the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of U.S. persons and nationals. • For the avoidance of doubt, the Department understands this limitation to prohibit deliberate tracking, surveillance, or monitoring of U.S. persons or nationals, including through the procurement or use of commercially acquired personal or identifiable information." It’s critical to protect the civil liberties of Americans, and there was so much focus on this, that we wanted to make this point especially clear, including around commercially acquired information. Just like everything we do with iterative deployment, we will continue to learn and refine as we go. I think this is an important change; our team and the DoW team did a great job working on it. 2. The Department also affirmed that our services will not be used by Department of War intelligence agencies (for example, the NSA). Any services to those agencies would require a follow-on modification to our contract. 3. For extreme clarity: we want to work through democratic processes. It should be the government making the key decisions about society. We want to have a voice, and a seat at the table where we can share our expertise, and to fight for principles of liberty. But we are clear on how the system works (because a lot of people have asked, if I received what I believed was an unconstitutional order, of course I would rather go to jail than follow it). But 4. There are many things the technology just isn’t ready for, and many areas we don’t yet understand the tradeoffs required for safety. We will work through these, slowly, with the DoW, with technical safeguards and other methods. 5. One thing I think I did wrong: we shouldn't have rushed to get this out on Friday. The issues are super complex, and demand clear communication. We were genuinely trying to de-escalate things and avoid a much worse outcome, but I think it just looked opportunistic and sloppy. Good learning experience for me as we face higher-stakes decisions in the future. In my conversations over the weekend, I reiterated that Anthropic should not be designated as a SCR, and that we hope the DoW offers them the same terms we’ve agreed to. We will host an All Hands tomorrow morning to answer more questions.

@sama too late, claude pro for me now after paying for gpt for 4-5 years and using daily.

Anthropic responds to Hegseth.

@jack @blocks fuck off

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack

@DennysDiner @Im_Just_Lynn fire the Dennys intern 😂😓

@Im_Just_Lynn Thank you for making us aware. Please send us a DM with your order info, location and date visited, and we'll look into this internally.

Told the dennys waiter to round up to 70 for tip and this nigga used his employee discount on our order 😭

Dear @AGPamBondi: You did the one thing your king ordered you not to do: you made Trump look guilty. You also lied under oath. And you surveilled the search history of Congress Members. We are impeaching you when we flip the House. Unless you resign first. Good evening.