Yes, much better. 🧡
Earlier this year, I delivered a prez on the evolution of the Bitcoin logo and symbol by analysing the discussions on the Bitcointalk forum during that time. Nakamoto initially designed the first ‘skeuomorphic’ BC coin and the next version based on the “B” with a double strike-through.
However, it was Bitboy the designer (not the influencer) who created the minimalist, orange, flat design that is still in use today. I believe the original colors were likely intended as a nod to gold coins.
Dr. Rhonda Patrick
Amazink prez Kai!! 🧡 #bitcoin
"Salt, sea and air are we
who wander 'cross the globe,
Yet tale be told and night behold
the hour my shadow froze
Voyage set as those before
crate packing merrily,
We pushed from port forevermore
but unbeknownst to me
The tide set high, vessel set sail
sun skipping on the waves,
How can it be this shining sea
is also host to graves?
My thoughts turned bright and chest filled tight
with heaven’s purest wind,
A red sky rose to our delight
a gift from our glowing friend
The crew at ease with such degrees
our latitude assured,
Our gullets soaked in God’s brown ale
went sleeping filled with his word
But ‘ere the cover of the night
cast horrors yet unseen,
Water frothed and shook about
as souls rose from beneath to feed
A cry rang from the crow’s nest
and I, but half awake,
Rose to face with hazy grace
the threat my life to take
Yet we were unprepared as such
for on what our eyes did gaze,
the dripping apparitions
cast from the ocean’s deepest graves
Our fortune set to rising
the dawn began to wake,
but it eclipsed and so we missed
the chance our souls to save
The crescent of the orb
shown behind the cold moon rock,
Not enough glory to command
our banshees to stop
They swept throughout the vessel
the crew they petrified,
Covered in a binding frost
Yet somehow I survived!
The soul it did not see me
and in a manner I don’t claim to know,
Protruding light concealed my bones
and curse was cast upon my shadow
At last the light awakened
gulls called out to the day,
alone I sat upon the deck
all hands were swept away
Though the sun it blistered
on my back it bluntly shined,
As I stared upon the planks
I was lacking in an outline
Feeling as half a man
revenge grabbed hold my heart,
I would wait for those savage souls
and take back my shadow in the dark
As night sank in, once again
those spooks rose up to feed,
and surprised they were, as with my torch
I sought what belonged to me
Alas I found it nowhere
but the spooks I recognized,
They were my own crew from before
yet in their damned disguise
I was born a fighter
a sailor second best,
So sailing about forevermore, I roam
till my outline sinks back into my chest."
Red sky at night, sailor's delight.
Red sky in the morning, sailor's warning.
Meta has decided that users have been posting too much AI generated slop content and their solution is pretty unique. Not something I thought they’d do. They’re going to start posting their own AI generated content in your feed remixing everything they’ve seen you post.
How about pictures and videos of fishing trips with your friends that you never took? Who cares if you actually got tickets to the NBA final because Meta will generate content showing you court side!
This is worse than them spending billions on a leg less VR world.
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/27/meta-ai-posts-facebook-instagram
GReAt. So Meta is becoming a 'post-reality' platform.
What could possibly go wrong...
I'd prefer to stick with shrimp Jesus. *sigh*
The ‘Emoji Standard & Research Working Group’ receives the submissions, and there is a guideline they use. But noted, will look to write a little more on it. I know that there was a petition to submit Bitcoin as an emoji this year, but cannot find it in the submissions. Will look into it. 🙂
Watched Stewart interview Lagarde last night about “exactly what causes inflation.” Lots of talk from Lagarde about Covid, supply chains, and rising gas prices in Europe due to war.
Number of mentions of QE:
Jon: 1
Lagarde: 0
She didn’t take the bait. It’s almost like we’re meant to think that money supply has nothing to do with inflation…
This airtable of proposed, rejected, and accepted new emojis is awesome.
https://airtable.com/appD88rpPmpf4V5zF/shrQ5SB6FPP5UlLJu/tblFdzu4kZYAgkvPF?viewControls=on
Very cool. I geek out over symbols.
So much so, that I signed up to the Unicode Consortium awhile back.
So now I get a preview of the new emojis released each year.
Coming soon to your mobile keyboard: ‘face with bags under eyes’, ‘splatter’, ‘shovel’, and ‘harp’.
Seems on point for 2024. 😱
And yet, they were approved by the Unicode standard. Proving there’s always room for white and bald hair styles. 😂❤️
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
But also. DYOR on any political news sources. I personally get my news from sources that [admittedly] confirm my worldview but I also seek out and respectfully read/watch that which makes me uncomfortable. Both have value. Perhaps the latter moreso.
Otherwise, we're all just living in a media bubble (aka algo).
Love the nostalgic aEstheTiCs. ♥️
However. Looking into it, it's not even ironic - has kept the same 90s web look for the last 3 decades.
Perhaps our past, is our future.
Let’s reboot - simpler, fewer distractions, more focus.
Looked it up - Infowars.com could *possibly* fetch up to $30m, based on current website traffic + domain valuation calculators.
But that's just numbers, the websites' associative liabilities [DYOR] would render it relatively worthless. It's a burnt domain.
Sometimes land gets too scorched to bring back.
Nature's way.
The FOMO algo.
Not a fan of Meta generally, but they’ve been leading in open-source AI. And yes, I understand how counterintuitive that seems - perhaps Zuck is chasing his 'redemption arc'.
They released LLaMA over a year ago, which is their open-source family of large language models - considered to be best-in-class for research, efficiency, and accessibility, compared to other open-source models like GPT-3 and even proprietary models like GPT-4 [which was the leading model up until the more recent 4o + o1].
"...perfection only lives in little moments. Can't be sustained over hours; just instances, you know. Little wisps of time, and the world becomes imperfect again."
Unless you’re both programmers + gamers, in which case they are at the top.