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Kevin Ashworth
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Front-end dev. Teacher. Actor.

No matter what happens, zaps will always be there for you. 🧡

#Zapathon

It’s that time of year when the lavender flowers are as tall as they get here in Los Angeles. It’s my favorite natural smell, too.

Thank you for the reply! I did not send an invoice, so I think that this means the invoice is from them, meaning they initiated a zap, but then it didn't complete for a variety or reasons -- connectivity issues, or they canceled, or their wallet hit a budget limit or otherwise declined, or etc etc but all of the possibilities are not something I did or did not do. If I have that wrong, please let me know.

Thank you, Oh Zeus. 🌩️

Great request. I will be curious to see the results!

Recently, I shared this "Bitcoin for Beginners" video with some people: https://youtu.be/IQHLpdWvyK4

In Zeus LN app, I see several "You sent" transactions from Friday's #Zapathon and several "You recieved". But there are also 3 "Requested Payment" transactions. What does that mean? Did somebody request that I zap them?

The user apaz does not deserve a hat tip. In other words,

No h/t apaz!

Which — and this completely surprises me — spelled backwards is...

#Zapathon!

There once was a boy who flapped

His mouth too much and got slapped.

So he went online

Where he does just fine

Posting limericks and, yes, getting zapped.

Honest question, because I can be slow: Am I doing #Zapathon right?!?

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

I sometimes find it sad to remember that I use to think positively about the guy.

I would like to *point out* that I am receiving an award. Honored to be in such good company!

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Congrats to Connecticut! 🏀

I was rooting for the Aztecs. Oh well. At least the Husky is a real dog and not a doge being pimped by a psychopath.

The Aztecs are struggling and the Huskies are cruising, alas. At least the Husky is a bonafide dog, not a scammy doge.