Ryan Capers

@gothburz Yet another AI bot masquerading as a human, how clever.

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.

We have no business being in Iran. This is not national defense. It is arrogance, aggression, and entangling alliances driving foreign policy while America’s standing on the world stage continues to erode.

Figma shipped a silent patch specifically to kill figma-use — my open-source tool that did what they wouldn't: an MCP server that creates and modifies designs, JSX export, design linting. Then they scrambled to catch up with their own MCP server. So I spent the weekend recreating @Figma from scratch. OpenPencil: reads and writes .fig files, AI chat with full design tools, P2P collaboration with zero servers, ~7 MB app. No account, no subscription. Three days, one developer, MIT license. openpencil.dev

Started experimenting with hand-tracking-based interactions for my little voxel editor – BoxelXR. There are a lot of things to tune, but overall it feels good. Though it would require some decent work in sound design to compensate for the lack of haptic feedback.

@meiselasb I’m embarrassed for you.

I sent the following letter to Joe Rogan

@qubemoney Really disappointed by this decision—it feels poorly handled and puts customers in a tough spot. If this goes through, we absolutely won’t return. It’s disheartening to see a great product risk losing trust like this.

Join us August 28th at 12PM CT as Qube Money CEO Shane Walker sits down with Rob Labreche, founder of iGrad - the financial wellness powerhouse behind corporate programs. Register: streamyard.com/watch/5gKiF9jc…

@kenduffy @isaaciswrong @qubemoney This is insane - don’t they understand that by doing this it’s basically forcing everyone to find another solution for banking and at that point, we’re not coming back once we figure out our next steps after their supposed “pause”. This is incredibly disappointing.

If Qube got blindsided, that just proves how poorly managed this was. You don’t build a company around people’s paychecks and bills without secure banking contracts. But I doubt that’s the case… Now they’re shutting off money movement, and instead of being transparent, they’re spinning empty excitement while people scramble to fix their finances. We’re left to speculate because they aren’t being honest about what happened. They charged users so they “wouldn’t have to sell”… then turned around and dropped everyone anyway. It’s failure at the top.

@osgamer74 just found this and it saved me some major frustration, thank you!

I just learned you can hide those annoying pink colours live feed tabs that sometimes appear at the top of your Twitter feed by holding it down for a few seconds until a ‘hide live feed’ option pops up

@tim_cook I'd be way more excited for a useful Siri at this point...

Expressive. Delightful. But still instantly familiar. Introducing our new software design with Liquid Glass.

Why can’t I stop? 😂

Internet censorship is very real - and terrifying. This podcast is eye opening: open.spotify.com/episode/7uBY7T… #jre #Joerogan #mikebenz

This video made we happy

@ImMeme0 Amen

This lady is spitting hard facts and she is FED UP!!🔥🔥🔥

When’s the match @elonmusk? @lexfridman should absolutely officiate.

@NHnewsUpdate A lot of Disney World fans here in the granite state. Just sayin…

Down big in polls, Ron DeSantis returns to New Hampshire - Florida Politics #NewHampshire #NH dlvr.it/SrF5nw

@odannyboy How about building a ground game via inception to sell a concept or proposed project/effort/whatever. That’s the most underrated skill as it’s the way things often actually get done and make change happen. You sell it through inspiring others to take up the idea as their own.

@odannyboy Interpret feedback and be able to filter it through organizational agendas and personal biases.

@odannyboy Facilitate and drive and ideation session in person or remotely with customers and/or various stakeholders, while pacing around the room with an expo waving around as you say “say more about that”.

@cicadadesign @odannyboy Lol love this comment.

@odannyboy All I really want it to do is fight with a PM on Slack

Delighted to share with you our latest paper. Here, we test the hypothesis that aging may be driven by DNA damage-induced changes to the epigenome. Mightbe due to a glitch in the software of the body that causes it to malfunction, which can be fixed with a reboot?👇 1/