Heading back to the FIAT mines. El Salvador: you’ve been good 🇸🇻🧡

Is this real?

the fact that zaps were blocked is…

new feature just dropped so collaborators can hide from the shame

What is disturbing?

What did you see that made you change your mind?

Right on, that's what it's all about.

Right on, that's what it's all about.

y’all ever feel guilty when it’s beautiful outside but you’re exhausted and just want to beach on the couch watching documentaries and k-dramas 🥹

What your first Lightning transaction fees like:

The Amalfi coast has been stunning!

We've had great food, beach days, hikes, visits to Positano, lunch with friends and much more. I won't go into great detail, but I will dump a handful of photo highlights. Enjoy!

am I dreaming?

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.

Download wallet of satoshi, click receive, copy the email-looking lightning address, and add it to your profile on damus.