There is now a potential reason for self-zapping (fapping). If someone has the top zap and you don’t want it to show up as such, you can fap+1 to get rid of it.
I’m ambivalent about it but it should be an interesting experiment, if nothing else.
Tucker’s first video has 110M views. Even if that is distorted by 5x, it’s still no joke. His latest video has 20M in 5 hours.
We’re coming into a highly contentious presidential campaign. Political advertisers are going to fall all over themselves to advertise against that kind of reach.
The other advertisers will play tough for a while, but they’ll eventually cave.
I hate advertising, but you can see that Elon understands the power of Twitter because he’s been using it as his primary advertising platform for a decade or more.
It’s going to be interesting to see what happens when a majority of women return to worrying more about getting robbed, raped, and/or murdered in public than they worry about tiny minorities of people getting their feelings hurt.
The whiplash is going to be something to behold.
Yeah, Strike did last fall for most I think. Swan is still in the process, no? Or at least some people on Twitter seem to be complaining about getting caught in the transition temporarily.
I disabled DCA on Swan a couple months ago. The idea of having a months worth of DCA trapped in Prime Trust at a time became more than I could stomach.
Glad I got ahead of it this time. Last fall I got complacent and about shit myself when Prime Trust started behaving very sketchy and I had too much corn in two Prime Trust accounts via Swan and Strike.
Hope nobody gets rugged by them, but if you have a Prime Trust backed account, you should probably assume they are close to freezing it.
How it feels to compete with an entire sector filled with software companies that are run by non-software people when you have a team of the best software people you have ever worked with.
Apple is prioritizing diversified chip production capacity, including production in the US. They buy a large percentage of chip production capacity every year and recently bought up 90% of TSMC's 3nm capacity for this year. They also signed a deal with Broadcom to develop US-based production capacity for their chips. Over the last couple years, they have supported TSMC's increased investments in US capacity.
Apple is getting serious about getting games ported to Apple Silicon and now has a DX12 emulation layer to support ports. If they can get games ported, they can give game devs a taste of the high-spending Apple customer base. They will have the most advanced AR/VR hardware, leading chips, best performing high-end computers, and a potential gaming console in the form of an M2 powered Apple TV.
High-spending gamers subsidize the GPU market and the GPU market is critical to AI. If Apple can capture more of that market, some of that money funds the development of US chip production as a consequence.
I want to see a return to US chip production. I also want to see Intel get their shit together and increase their US capacity, but Apple is the leading chip designer on the planet and they drive a ton of high-end consumption too. Wins for Apple are wins for increased US independence in critical sectors for the future. 
Peter on his bank fraud adventure in December ‘20: “I cringe as fuck.”
Nic Carter on his leveraged Bitcoin position:
Sometime between summer of ‘21 and the time FTX blew up, there was a video of Nic Carter in an interview where he was warning that using leverage for bitcoin/crypto is dangerous. But he went on to say he was extremely levered.
My memory says I saw a couple minute clip of this on Twitter sometime fall ‘21, but my memory is definitely faulty so that may not be right.
250K sat zap to the first person who can point me to this video.
Even if ignorance of the law was a defense, at a certain point Gensler started using almost every official utterance to make it clear that most crypto are unregistered securities.
He also didn’t use some newly half baked regulatory authority as law making exercise to come to this conclusion the way many executive branch agencies do. He leaned on the Howey test, a 1946 SCOTUS interpretation of a law from 1933.
None of this is exactly novel and you could have found many lawyers capable of predicting just this sort of outcome. In fact, you probably had to work pretty hard and pay a lot of money to find lawyers who would ignore this amount of precedence.
Peter McCormack loves the state until they prosecute fraud. Why might that be?
Unrelated, remember those times he talked about committing bank fraud (lying on loan applications to obtain loans to buy Bitcoin) on his podcast? I’m sure he was just joking, right?
Also unrelated, remember when he got paid all that money to promote unregistered securities for years at a time? Remember when he freaked out at people on Twitter who pointed out how scummy those scams were and how he was culpable for the harm they caused the people who used them based on his longtime recommendation of them?
I’m sure his current spasm of anarchism is completely unrelated to anything he’s done over the years.
Twitter got rid of the separate counter on videos and now only shows the Tweet view stat.
One of those 2 stats was always much higher than the other. I wonder why they did that. 🤔
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Apple is serious about getting games ported to Apple Silicon.
https://twitter.com/film_girl/status/1666127888679321602?s=21
Neovim getting a programming language that people actually want to use (Lua) has been a boon.
https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/1425wvl/edgynvim_easily_create_and_manage_predefined/
Apparently a protest in Germany.
I saw a post on r/aviationmaintenance
https://ca.style.yahoo.com/style/climate-activists-spray-paint-private-144652629.html
This is the post with estimates of potential costs to fix:
https://www.reddit.com/r/aviationmaintenance/comments/142ltf4/5_or_6_digit_repair_cost/
Apparently a protest in Germany.
I saw a post on r/aviationmaintenance
https://ca.style.yahoo.com/style/climate-activists-spray-paint-private-144652629.html
No regulation, just their own internal risk management. Cash App used to have similar limits too and I assume they still do.
But in a bull run they can end up trapping your corn in custody because the limits are in nominal USD value terms and you can theoretically end up with much more value than you can ever withdraw even if you max out the limits every week.
I suspect this will be punished much more severely than blocking traffic and preventing a bunch of plebs getting to work on time.
To be clear, they won’t let you withdraw more than $3K worth of Bitcoin at a time and they won’t let you withdraw more than $10K worth/week. They also have fiat withdrawal limits too.
The Strike withdrawal limit got cut in half not long ago ($6K -> $3K). It will be interesting to see if we get more of that.
Will they cry again? 
If Solana is an unregistered security and I go on my podcast with 3 of my billionaire friends and brag about dumping that unregistered security on retail after being air dropped that unregistered security explicitly so I could promote it, do I have any legal liability?
Broadcasting to the world what makes you cum is creepy. Making it your entire personality is a sign you have an untreated mental disorder.
Everyone understands that, sometimes. 
If your hobby is flexing on the Pours at 2am in the city in 2023, it probably is best to give that up unless you also wear a gun and want to use it. 
Them: “We need more women in bitcoin. We need more progressive bitcoiners.”
Progressive women bitcoiners: “Don’t say anything that hurts my feelings, bigot.”
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Licensing requirements for one. But this is how it’s being framed. 
Median sats/vB went from ≈15 to ≈60 and some of the noisiest bitcoiners responded with an offer that is hard to refuse.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Balaji *wants* the West to fail.
The reason the AI vendors are in such a hurry to bring about maximal regulation ASAP. They need their moat.
https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1664348813245677577?s=21
There is a podcast with hundreds of hours of audio that I’d love to have transcripts of because I would like to feed those transcripts into gpt4all so I can ask it questions about them.
Core lightning is where I’ll start. I will eventually try LND too, but I like the looks of Core and the ease of writing plugins for it and now with Will’s lnsocket project, that opens some interesting possibilities too.
Learning about Lighting this weekend. Core Lighting is definitely going to be my jam for my first implementation to try.
I should have known that if there is something cool to play with, #[0] would have already been there and done that.
The cammando plugin is one of the first things to jump out at me and there is a great video of Will demonstrating his lnsocket library.