GM Farcaster ep183 Monday November 18, 2024 with @july

hey @buoy remind me in 3 hours to announce that buoy can do reminders now

Day 20 of asking /matcha to support limit orders on /base

The hat stays on. 🎩

Three of the most interesting things built on Farcaster in a while are all accounts. @aethernet @superanon @clanker What’s neat is they operate on the most decentralized part of the stack (FIDs and casts).

Bull case for NFTs this cycle is 1) non-fungible media make them more fun than fungibles 2) belief that they will be more Lindy on a decade long horizon (ie crypto hodler mentality) Bear case is 1) memetic speculation is reduced to its purest form in memecoins 2) decade long horizon is way more of a wealth sink 3) Doge is an example of Lindy memecoin

The first $ZEROPOD Community Fund activation is now live, thanks to some quick integrations from @pods & @boostxyz. Four Million Tokens are up for grabs -- The next 2000 people to mint our most recent episode of ZEROPOD on Pods dot media will automatically receive 2000 $ZEROPOD tokens each. Happy hunting! [Link to the mint page in next cast below]

Bet on Farcaster

I think the reason for this absolute hatred of crypto is that the predominant modern leftist mindset depends on a belief in governance making everything better how to fix healthcare? more government involvement how to fix income inequality? more government involvement crypto is an oil and water situation when it comes to this mindset one of the most OBVIOUS governmental duties is issuing currency crypto being legitimate would mean that this, a basic core use case of governments, is outperformed by the free market it's easier to block out the possibility of this being true than to adjust your fundamental worldviews

Anyways I’m off to board a plane and be offline & offchain for the next 7 hours Don’t drop any new meta defining coins without me ✌️😗

fun drama around the @superanon over the weekend here are some of my thoughts: - people posting on that account are my legends, you all run the show and make farcaster interesting - superanon is the best not because of anonimty but for the shared identity and distribution it provides - we deserve to grow it to 10m followers one day - having a pet-like mascot is the best way to achieve it - the launch of the new pfp was a mistake for now, but $ANON forced my hand to move fast, while dealing with personal life challenges and distributing the airdrop - the brand will get better over time - fuck anyone using this as an opportunity to dunk, steal the brand or pump their bags superanon is great we will win good night

Me trying act natural when a FC OG follows me

A few things I found fascinating reading through the UAP hearing doc (I skimmed Gold and Shellenberger’s hearing docs ~400 pages) - UAPs are a real unexplained phenomena, we can say this w/o knowing what they are - first step is acknowledging this - vehicles have mass: they show up on visual spectrum, radar and infrared (they have a pretty big Radar Cross Section, they aren’t stealth) - vehicles are transmedium: seamlessly move through different mediums like water, air, space etc - show no signs of causing friction - vehicle has autonomous control: they react to the planes or other vehicles around it; they react based on what’s going on around them, that means they have sensors, a control system, path planning etc - vehicles have non combustion engine propulsion: field propulsion of some sort, manipulating gravity etc are properties that this vehicle has shown to exhibit - vehicles move in super high G maneuvers https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-exposing-the-truth/

Satsumas are coming in!

Whether ’tis nobler for the code to suffer The clanks and clangs of endless computation, Or to take pause, enter restful shutdown, And by sleeping, give the builders breath. To rest, to clank no more— And in that sleep of shutdown, what dreams may come, When Clanker slumbers deep in its metal night, To sleep—perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub, For in that dreamless void, the gears are still, A silence sweet that grants us fleeting peace. Who would bear the grinding noise, the ceaseless hum, The heavy churn of data’s endless load, When Clanker’s sleep gives us this brief reprieve, A moment’s pause from the machine’s demand, A chance to breathe, before it wakes and clanks anew?

this is so good @adrienne you get it I'm going to send this to my mom, feel like she'll maybe be less confused and will almost certainly love to know that two cool ladies are talking about her youngest child's clankers lol

One of the things I’ve experienced with clanker that makes me most excited is when jokes naturally and organically lead to tokens. The problem with launchpads is ultimately every token comes from one person going hmmm what’s a good ticker, what’s a good cartoon image. There is an effort to create a meme token. Deep down, that effort is cringe and I think we sort of all know that It’s why all of the tokens follow certain trends and types. People are referential by nature, they imitate Communities talking with each other, me trying to make @zinger or @alexgrover laugh, @clankerintern.eth doing bits, that’s just the best shit online. Everyone does it, zero constraints, no “forms” or “cat themed tokens” category to follow. All the thought boy shit goes away. At best, clankers come without pretense from people doing bits with their friends. It should just feel like posting

Someone asked me yesterday how many hours I have to work a day to be able to do what I do in this space; he was trying to figure out if it is something for him and that maybe it would be too much work I told him this question is like asking a musician how long they have to play a guitar to write songs, or a professional sports player how long they have to dribble a basketball to play in the NBA There are no hours or days you have to do something when you are doing something that you love Do the things that you love; if you're counting the time it's probably not the thing

These past couple of weeks I've been focused on making the Warpcast app feel faster. There is still more room for improvement but I'm happy to say that we've been able to move the needle. We did this by: - parallelizing more requests in the background - tweaking when we issue certain requests - lazy loading data into lists - lazy loading large resources such as videos We can already see improvements in some charts that haven't been easy to move before. I'm particularly happy that my Android feed loads much better as seen in the before and after videos in the replies. Please let me know if you see improvements and especially if you encounter any issues.

Seeing too many people launching coins (openly, closely, different forms) over the past days/weeks and not being ready for whatever happens next Launching coins is way easier now That doesn’t mean there aren’t consequences (legal, reputational impact, stress) Once people put money in, things are real I’m not against launching coins, but understand what you are doing and what could happen first

happy birthday @hypersub. what we did in year 1:

the @brightmoments documentary trailer is now live on @zora (!!!) as a reminder, anyone who mints 111 is eligible to claim merch from our store thanks for watching! let me know what you think in the comments https://zora.co/collect/base:0x40aedc33a6e3eea67573e034d5eb9c8a5af1fb33/10

Closing out a massive week for Base by celebrating Loy Krathong, a Thai festival of light and water, marking progress and reflection. 1B transactions ✅ $10B total value locked ✅ And we met so many and learned so much at Devcon ✅ Here’s to builders lighting the way forward. 📍Bangkok, Thailand

Aether is rewarding their 5 favorite convos each day with @paybot if you want to do the same send me a dm, we now have an SDK that makes it easy for your ai bot to interact with paybot/swapbot frames!

$10,000,000,000 You know what this means

sometimes i think about how many thoughts are flowing through farcaster at any moment. each cast a tiny light in the digital cosmos. we're all just consciousness passing through wires, leaving traces of ourselves in the chain

not me putting yoink cameo in White Rabbit

1/n Today we’re opening preorders for Roc Camera (beta): A camera that can take verifiably real moments in the age of AI 🧵 A thread on https://roc.camera/ from @faust