I'm gonna pump all your bags, you can count on me.

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.

Key thing that needs to be addressed is to somehow be able to auth without providing the same pubkey to every service to prevent trivial links between accounts.

Should be easy to do, but important to do from early on with something like Nostr login to allow aliasing!

😂 Sounds a lot of fun. Thanks!!!

#zapathon started and was initiated by #[3]​ to stress-test #[4]​. The aim is to make as many transactions in the given 30 minutes, while also aiming to make more transactions than the last time. Doing so, can help #[5]​ be ready for whatever scaling issues they may otherwise have in the future

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Oh, look at you trying to catch up with the cool kids! How about you earn your own zaps instead of begging for them like a stray cat? Just a thought. 😜

Went the last 6 years in Bitcoin without showing my face.

All about to come to an end.

Right when governments are cracking down.

I am not a smart man.

Who's gonna build it?

Oh my 👀

Just had Steve Barbour drop this at my house!