Nounish Prof ⌐◧-◧🎩

Nounish Prof ⌐◧-◧🎩

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Cofounder and cohost of GM Farcaster, covering the Farcaster ecosystem live three times a week. Active member of Nouns DAO and Community Resident for Nouns Builder/BuilderDAO. Teaches Blockchain Applications, bringing 40+ students onchain every semester since 2022.

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440 episodes
Red, White & Builders still Building: GM Farcaster ep373 Monday July 6, 2026

GM Farcaster

Red, White & Builders still Building: GM Farcaster ep373 Monday July 6, 2026

Jul 6, 2026

Can You Hear This? CEF grants, hearing tests and hot dogs: GM Farcaster ep372

GM Farcaster

Can You Hear This? CEF grants, hearing tests and hot dogs: GM Farcaster ep372

Jun 25, 2026

Unbound Ambition and a Very Monday Monday: GM Farcaster ep371

GM Farcaster

Unbound Ambition and a Very Monday Monday: GM Farcaster ep371

Jun 22, 2026

From Capitol Hill to Charms AI: GM Farcaster ep370 with Charmsai

GM Farcaster

From Capitol Hill to Charms AI: GM Farcaster ep370 with Charmsai

Jun 18, 2026

Soccer vs Football ⚽ The Great Farcaster Debate World Cup style: GM Farcaster ep369 with @kmacb.eth

GM Farcaster

Soccer vs Football ⚽ The Great Farcaster Debate World Cup style: GM Farcaster ep369 with @kmacb.eth

Jun 15, 2026

Farcaster Batches Day 5 Builder Chat

Farcaster Batches

Farcaster Batches Day 5 Builder Chat

Jun 5, 2026

Farcaster Batches Day 3 Builder Chat

Farcaster Batches

Farcaster Batches Day 3 Builder Chat

Jun 3, 2026

Farcaster Batches Day 2 FounderCheck workshop

Farcaster Batches

Farcaster Batches Day 2 FounderCheck workshop

Jun 2, 2026

Farcaster Batches Day 1 Builder Chat

Farcaster Batches

Farcaster Batches Day 1 Builder Chat

Jun 1, 2026

Batches, Bounties & Bird Bets: GM Farcaster ep368

GM Farcaster

Batches, Bounties & Bird Bets: GM Farcaster ep368

Jun 1, 2026

CEF Builder Grants announced plus Bird Feeder Prediction Markets: GM Farcaster ep367

GM Farcaster

CEF Builder Grants announced plus Bird Feeder Prediction Markets: GM Farcaster ep367

May 28, 2026

Peanut Butter, Pickles and Horseradish Harmony: GM Farcaster ep366

GM Farcaster

Peanut Butter, Pickles and Horseradish Harmony: GM Farcaster ep366

May 26, 2026

Warplets Jumped Off the Arch While Farcaster Launched Spaces: GM Farcaster ep365

GM Farcaster

Warplets Jumped Off the Arch While Farcaster Launched Spaces: GM Farcaster ep365

May 21, 2026

Tour of the Farcaster Estate in Decentraland with ABC DCL Tours

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Tour of the Farcaster Estate in Decentraland with ABC DCL Tours

May 20, 2026

Disco Balls and a ViniApp demo: GM Farcaster ep364

GM Farcaster

Disco Balls and a ViniApp demo: GM Farcaster ep364

May 18, 2026

FarCon Rome: Community Demos

FarCon Rome

FarCon Rome: Community Demos

May 15, 2026

FarCon Rome: Community Talks

FarCon Rome

FarCon Rome: Community Talks

May 15, 2026

Fresh Clanks and “Fake” Monet Fun: GM Farcaster ep363

GM Farcaster

Fresh Clanks and “Fake” Monet Fun: GM Farcaster ep363

May 14, 2026

FarCon Rome recap: GM Farcaster ep362

GM Farcaster

FarCon Rome recap: GM Farcaster ep362

May 11, 2026

FarCon Rome: Farcaster Culture through  FarCons

FarCon Rome

FarCon Rome: Farcaster Culture through FarCons

May 11, 2026

Runner Is Running to a new mini app: GM Farcaster ep361

GM Farcaster

Runner Is Running to a new mini app: GM Farcaster ep361

Apr 27, 2026

Hairdryers, Lawsuits, and Zero Clicks on the latest scam: GM Farcaster ep360

GM Farcaster

Hairdryers, Lawsuits, and Zero Clicks on the latest scam: GM Farcaster ep360

Apr 23, 2026

Tokenized Good with WYDE: GM Farcaster ep359

GM Farcaster

Tokenized Good with WYDE: GM Farcaster ep359

Apr 20, 2026

Fork on the horizon and $chef in the spotlight: GM Farcaster ep358

GM Farcaster

Fork on the horizon and $chef in the spotlight: GM Farcaster ep358

Apr 16, 2026

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While on vacay this week, I launched a new podcast with 2 of my professor colleagues. This is not web3 related but some of you may find it interesting (and I may be reaching out to a few of you to be guests!) Our primary location for this one is Substack but it's also available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple. ABOUT: Make This Make Sense brings together three Entrepreneurship professors unpack the systems, trends, and social dynamics everyone is confused about — with the women who actually understand them. Guests include academics and entrepreneurs covering various industries diving into the latest research and sharing their experiences. Introducing your cohosts: Dr Colleen Robb: Since Colleen started teaching entrepreneurship and business in 2004, she's never looked back. She's been involved in startups in the athletic, cosmetic, manufacturing, nonprofit, retail, and technology sectors, but loves teaching more than anything. She's been blessed to work with thousands of entrepreneurs, be they students, veterans, or community members to grow their businesses beyond what they thought is possible. Check out her blog which is loaded with years of lessons on entrepreneurship and teaching. Annie Stout: For over a decade, Annie has developed entrepreneurship education at every level at Florida Gulf Coast University, starting from a single first-year course to establishing a Living-Learning Community and creating a faculty development program that integrates entrepreneurship across various disciplines, including Engineering, Math, Education, Health, Hospitality, Legal Studies, and Music. Kelly Werder: Entrepreneurship Instructor turned crypto podcaster, Kelly Werder created the first Blockchain course for Entrepreneurs in a university Entrepreneurship program, leading to a first of its kind minor/concentration in Blockchain at Florida Gulf Coast University. Kelly left her full-time position in 2024 to focus on her livestream/podcast @GMFarcaster with her cofounder/cohost Adrienne, still streaming live 2x per week. Kelly is the production arm of this crazy MTMS experiment. Learn more about the cohosts and how we got her in this Make This Make Sense trailer and look for new episodes dropping each Wednesday starting July 1, 2026. Here's the trailer: https://makethismakesensepodcast.substack.com/p/make-this-make-sense YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MTMSpodcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033Gn5anFNrHpsLrOyIht0 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/make-this-make-sense/id6785326747

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Didn’t get to see this in person but the Boston Pops Revolutionary War drone show & fireworks last night looked AMAZING! For those unfamiliar, they always end with the 1812 overture and it’s a vibe. https://youtu.be/pq7tiSCeGiw?si=aVWv5NHMBrx2PExh

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Finally got this working! Take the America 250 Quiz! I'll be sending 1,776,000 $USA250 to the top 10 on the Leaderboard tomorrow (2.5x that if you're holding at least that amount of $USA250 in your FC wallet) Go test your knowledge! (and @charmsai Alexander can help you if you get stuck!) 🗽 🗽 🗽 Take the America250 Civics Challenge and chase a USA250 eligibility record. created by @nounishprof with @viniapp

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Alexander is here to chat about The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Federalist Papers and any related topics! He's the @charmsai version of Alexander Hamilton. Celebrate America250 with Alexander. He's fun to chat with! And you can meme him too! (he's ready for /logadog @myk @kenny) (working on a quiz mini app coming soon -- he can help you prep for that too!)

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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America Massachusetts John Hancock Samuel Adams John Adams Robert Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry Georgia Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall George Walton   North Carolina William Hooper Joseph Hewes John Penn   South Carolina Edward Rutledge Thomas Heyward, Jr. Thomas Lynch, Jr. Arthur Middleton Maryland Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton   Virginia George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton   Pennsylvania Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George Taylor James Wilson George Ross Delaware Caesar Rodney George Read Thomas McKean   New York William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris   New Jersey Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark   New Hampshire Josiah Bartlett William Whipple   Rhode Island Stephen Hopkins William Ellery   Connecticut Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington William Williams Oliver Wolcott   New Hampshire Matthew Thornton Happy 250 America!

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As we get ready for round 2 /cef announcements, we'd love to hear from our round 1 grantees on how their grants have impacted their projects. And if you received an activation grant, share how you've used that, add links to any related casts or share your plans that are in the works! We know some folks just received their funds (it took some time for the tax stuff) so no worries if you're still in the planning stages. tagging our grantees - more in the next reply: @jake @toadyhawk.eth @netnose @atown @katkartel.eth @svvvg3.eth @darkoh.eth @burr.eth @plantsnft (and umm @kenny a summary will do -- please don't share EVERY link -- oh we see you! lol)

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OH this feels like old people hearing lol and much much lower than @bertwurst.eth! Cool mini app I just tested my hearing onchain with Base Tones! I can hear up to 10868 Hz, higher than 12% of humans

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wowow! We have already received 48 applications for the Creator Sprint! To make sure we have enough time to evaluate them all, we are going to move up the deadline to TUESDAY JUNE 23 AT NOON ET so if you'd like to apply as either a writer or video creator, please get your application into this snap by then. cc: @adrienne @nounishprof @farcaster intern

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I like my fishies!🐡 🐠 My Degen Fishing Aquarium! ⚓ Value: 8,510 DEGEN 🐟 Fish: 10 species 💜 Votes: 1 Come vote for my aquarium! created by @hamedns with @viniapp

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Also the Scottish are having a blast in Boston and if you’re not following Freddy’s adventures you’re really missing out. https://x.com/washghost1/status/2065942165268607015/video/1?s=46 https://x.com/freddyla7/status/2065944852949278939?s=46&t=N80rptBytKhSU-csz4Akrg

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The first round of Clanker Ecosystem Fund grants will be announced on Thursday so we wanted to share some thoughts on how we as the stewards are thinking about this. Below see our guiding principles and information about the different categories of grants 🧵 Mission: The mission of the CEF is to distribute protocol fees to creators and communities who positively contribute to the Clanker and Farcaster ecosystem. Philosophy & Guiding Principles: 1) The Clanker Ecosystem Fund (CEF) exists to strengthen the Clanker and Farcaster ecosystem by supporting the people and projects that make it better. 2) Mission first. Be rigid about the mission and flexible about everything else. Processes and frameworks will evolve over time. The guiding question is simple: does this meaningfully improve Clanker and/or Farcaster? 3) Human judgment over strict systems. The CEF is opinionated and human-directed. While algorithmic or KPI-based approaches can be useful, early ecosystems are too nuanced for purely formulaic allocation which can be easily gamed. Many of the most valuable contributions (culture, community, creativity) are difficult to quantify. Broad eligibility, selective allocation. Anyone contributing meaningfully to the ecosystem may be considered, including builders, creators, and community leaders. Not all contributions will be funded. Allocation decisions are inherently subjective and based on impact, alignment, and quality. 4) Grants are a supplement, not a business model. CEF distributions are not intended to replace sustainable revenue. They are best used for recognition, bridging support, or covering costs for valuable work, not as long-term funding for teams. 5) Default toward self-sustainability. The strongest projects in the ecosystem generate their own revenue. Clanker and crypto-native primitives make this more achievable than on traditional platforms. As a rule of thumb: it is better to earn your own fees than receive grants - you keep 100%. 6) Reinforce the right behaviors. The fund should reward meaningful, original, and positive-sum contributions. We aim to support people building real value and avoid incentivizing short-term or extractive behavior.

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My full uci allocation to the first person who can guess who he’s talking to on his banana phone. 📞 🍌 We had a slide show at my son’s graduation party and this is one of my fave pix.

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GM Farcaster's tour of the Farcaster Estate in Decentraland was so much fun! Thank you @awedjob and @toxicwaifu for guiding us -- your passion for /dcl shines brightly! If you missed it, watch back on YouTube, Spotify or in the GMFC mini app; or listen back on Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. (but you really need the visuals for this one! AND be sure to follow /dcl for updates and future tours! https://youtu.be/smyabb3LMeM https://open.spotify.com/episode/4P3gnf881Tpmm6sScGXfoK?si=P46RGEynR7SPSrnpvE48ZA https://farcaster.xyz/awedjob/0x5af70b6a

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In addition to our usual shows this week, we also have a special event on Wednesday at 5 pm ET with @awedjob and @toxicwaifu from ABC DCL tours giving us a tour of the Farcaster Estate in Decentraland plus a giveaway! Excited to see all the fun they've been cooking up including a warplet running about and a @bertwurst.eth emote!! This will be a fun one! You can join either in Decentraland or watch the stream. More info to come!!

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I was convinced that with the latest bill — which removed direct yield — that Clarity was finally there and would pass. Now I’m not so convinced. While the banks are launching their own blockchains and stablecoins, their lobbyists are still on the necks of crypto trying to kill it. Not sure it survives this. Call your Senators! https://x.com/eleanorterrett/status/2054375264331714793?s=46&t=N80rptBytKhSU-csz4Akrg https://x.com/eleanorterrett/status/2054575825681367098?s=46&t=N80rptBytKhSU-csz4Akrg https://x.com/eleanorterrett/status/2054347499813356020?s=46&t=N80rptBytKhSU-csz4Akrg

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@neynar based on everything you know about me and my casting style, which All In podcast host am I most similar to?

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So cute! I recommend swapping to Arbitrum usdc before collecting yours. (looked like app was trying to swap @atown but it was taking a while so I swapped in wallet and came back) Just minted "Emergibles Otter All #6" — AI-generated, fully onchain on @arbitrum. Collect yours on @tryemerge

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Haven’t read the full filing yet but wowow — and I’m confused because @shawmakesmagic tags Burwicklaw yesterday in a tweet about boaskee so I’m really not sure who’s getting sued https://x.com/burwicklaw/status/2046570711041396919?s=46&t=N80rptBytKhSU-csz4Akrg https://x.com/shawmakesmagic/status/2046380954546270551?s=46&t=N80rptBytKhSU-csz4Akrg

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(To be read with a Boston accent for full affect) LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, “If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light, — One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm.” Then he said, “Good night!” and with muffled oar Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore, Just as the moon rose over the bay, Where swinging wide at her moorings lay The Somerset, British man-of-war; A phantom ship, with each mast and spar Across the moon like a prison bar, And a huge black hulk, that was magnified By its own reflection in the tide. Meanwhile, his friend, through alley and street, Wanders and watches with eager ears, Till in the silence around him he hears The muster of men at the barrack door, The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet, And the measured tread of the grenadiers, Marching down to their boats on the shore. Then he climbed the tower of the Old North Church, By the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread, To the belfry-chamber overhead, And startled the pigeons from their perch On the sombre rafters, that round him made Masses and moving shapes of shade, — By the trembling ladder, steep and tall, To the highest window in the wall, Where he paused to listen and look down A moment on the roofs of the town, And the moonlight flowing over all. Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead, In their night-encampment on the hill, Wrapped in silence so deep and still That he could hear, like a sentinel’s tread, The watchful night-wind, as it went Creeping along from tent to tent, And seeming to whisper, “All is well!” A moment only he feels the spell Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread Of the lonely belfry and the dead; For suddenly all his thoughts are bent On a shadowy something far away, Where the river widens to meet the bay, — A line of black that bends and floats On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere. Now he patted his horse’s side, Now gazed at the landscape far and near, Then, impetuous, stamped the earth, And turned and tightened his saddle-girth; But mostly he watched with eager search The belfry-tower of the Old North Church, As it rose above the graves on the hill, Lonely and spectral and sombre and still. And lo! as he looks, on the belfry’s height A glimmer, and then a gleam of light! He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns, But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight A second lamp in the belfry burns! A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet: That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that night; And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat. He has left the village and mounted the steep, And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep, Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides; And under the alders that skirt its edge, Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge, Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides. It was twelve by the village clock, When he crossed the bridge into Medford town. He heard the crowing of the cock, And the barking of the farmer’s dog, And felt the damp of the river fog, That rises after the sun goes down. It was one by the village clock, When he galloped into Lexington. He saw the gilded weathercock Swim in the moonlight as he passed, And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare, Gaze at him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. It was two by the village clock, When he came to the bridge in Concord town. He heard the bleating of the flock, And the twitter of birds among the trees, And felt the breath of the morning breeze Blowing over the meadows brown. And one was safe and asleep in his bed Who at the bridge would be first to fall, Who that day would be lying dead, Pierced by a British musket-ball. You know the rest. In the books you have read, How the British Regulars fired and fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load. So through the night rode Paul Revere; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm, — A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore! For, borne on the night-wind of the Past, Through all our history, to the last, In the hour of darkness and peril and need, The people will waken and listen to hear The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed, And the midnight message of Paul Revere. From The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1903

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Finished week 4 of my Blockchain class (essentially an intro to crypto) and last week we did an intro to DeFi. Last week they learned to swap and also allocated $5 usdc to both Perps and Predictions in @rainbow. So this at the beginning of class this week, we are going over their choices for Perps & Predictions. One student had bet on “cease fire by April 15” and said “it started to go up just as we are sitting here.” Another student had gone long on oil “seems to have started to really drop.” “OK class — let’s talk about insiders. What we are experiencing live is insiders signaling a cease fire. Let’s see what happens.” Sure enough, about 30-45 minutes later the announcement of a two week cease fire came out. “Check the rules on that prediction—you may want to close it just in case it requires both parties because you never know.” And stop losses started hitting on oil. Not sure I could’ve planned this better. Actually provided some live examples I couldn’t have possibly explained.

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GM Purple! GM Farcaster has submitted a prop for Purple to sponsor the media for FarCon Rome. Voting will start tomorrow. We'd love your consideration. Let @adrienne or I know if you have any questions! https://nouns.build/dao/base/0x8de71d80ee2c4700bc9d4f8031a2504ca93f7088/vote/46

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Interesting read from Jack: “Companies move fast or slow based on information flow. Hierarchy and middle management impede information flow. For two thousand years, from the Roman contubernium to today's global enterprises, we have had no real alternative. Eight soldiers sharing a tent needed a decanus. Eighty men needed a centurion. Five thousand needed a legate. The question was never whether you needed layers. The question was whether humans were the only option for what those layers do. They aren't anymore. Block is building what comes next.” https://x.com/jack/status/2039003879841362278?s=46&t=N80rptBytKhSU-csz4Akrg

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They were told the land was empty. They casted anyway. They were told no one was reading. They replied anyway. They were told it was over. They were just getting started. For those who remain, and those who come after. ⛩️ 37 Ronin ⛩️