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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #18,188!

I am launching my Substack next month. It’s free to subscribe.

Happy 1st anniversary to the comeback of the Bored Ape Yacht Club as a metaverse !

Anyone promoting AI doomsday cult slop should read this in full.

Bullish developments!

Claiming an inheritance of Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency can be like hunting for buried treasure. It doesn’t have to be.

Porsche is ending its PIONΞERS CIRCLE Web3 project and associated community. The collection ended up with 2,363 NFTs, rather than the originally planned 7,500. They will remain on Ethereum and stay with their owners, but the official social presence will no longer be maintained.

The Wayback Machine lets you travel through more than a trillion saved web pages. 🏛️ ‣ Find an old website. ‣ See how a familiar site changed. ‣ Recover something that's disappeared. ‣ Check what a page looked like years ago. The web has a history. Go explore it. web.archive.org #ToolsYouCanUse

Hunter Biden is fake and gay.

A crime is about to be committed here. Hunter Biden launches a memecoin.

Bitcoin network hashrate remains below its October 2025 peak. That means 316 days without a new record - the longest such drought in roughly a decade. A major reason for this unusual dynamic is the redirection of Bitcoin miners toward AI and high-performance computing.

I ended up having more extended thoughts on Dolly Parton over on Facebook and I thought I would share them here as well.

European equities are near record highs despite the Iran war and higher energy prices. The STOXX 600 has attracted $2.44B of inflows. Companies are expected to report 24.1% year-on-year earnings growth for Q2 - the strongest rate in almost four years. Is Europe back?

OpenAI slows its own capability-development process in response to evidence that its models can behave in ways its existing controls did not adequately anticipate.

RWA deposits inside DeFi protocols grew sixfold in one year!

The amount of tokenized real-world assets actively deposited into DeFi protocols reached $7.4 billion in Q2 2026. RWAs are gaining share of DeFi activity even as the broader DeFi ecosystem contracts.

A growing amount of onchain activity is moving toward tokenized traditional assets such as U.S. Treasuries. Could tokenization be DeFi’s route into mainstream finance?

Apple has developed a proprietary large language model specifically for the Chinese market, with Alibaba supporting its training. The company has reportedly received regulatory approval to deploy Apple Intelligence in mainland China, using Alibaba’s Qwen model alongside technology from Baidu.

Taiwan says its government agencies were targeted in July by a sophisticated campaign combining human operators with AI agents. The Financial Times reports that researchers identified as many as 8 autonomous agents operating against 21 Taiwanese government systems.

Someone woke up a Bitcoin millionaire today

Memento mori

The best crypto story

This is who runs this account.

This Michael Jackson story is bad.

Premium Newsletter: The 16k word conclusion to my series of scenarios of how the AI bubble might burst, covering how Anthropic and OpenAI might fall, and the consequences for hyperscalers, NVIDIA, data centers and private credit. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what-if-were-in-an-ai-bubble-part-3/

I ragequit crypto

I am Satoshi You are Satoshi We are Satoshi

If crypto is so transgressive and counter-culture, I would think the President of the United States would be the one who doesn't like it — not far-left intellectuals like myself.

Not all AI agents are created equal

windows updating whenever it decides to has been the most annoying thing ever

Spotify has added an “Exclusive Mode” audiophile feature for Windows PCs. Spotify Premium users can now get bit-perfect playback on the Windows app, with Mac support coming later www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

"In 1975, the United Nations celebrated International Women’s Day for the first time, formally recognising 8 March as an annual date through a resolution later on, in 1977." A brief history of Women’s Day

“Disney+”

Crypto stolen from Korean authorities after they post wallet seed phrase February 26, 2026 https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=crypto-stolen-from-korean-authorities-after-they-post-wallet-seed-phrase

Khamenei is dead

best job title imho

A study reported by The Register showed that 98% of CIOs had pressure from the board "to demonstrate measurable, increasing ROI" from AI, with 71% believing that their AI budget would face cuts or freeze if targets aren't met by mid-2026 www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/n...

We've been hard at work on a new website with new guides, better docs, more translations, even our very own blog. We think it looks pretty sharp, too. It's now easier than ever to just build things with AT Protocol. atproto.com

This is bullshit

What is The Matrix

A viral new virtual assistant formerly known as Clawdbot is complex and brings security risks—but some early adopters say it feels like the future. www.wired.com/story/clawdb...

Update from the teens: Jan 1 was supposed to be “the great meme reset.” 6 7 is over. The meme slate has been wiped clean. 2026 will be the year of fresh brainrot.

"If you are out of ideas, go for a walk. A good walk empties the mind - and then refills it with new stuff." Tim Ferriss sent his first 2026 newsletter with his favorite life advice for the year ahead. I felt a strong connection to Kevin Kelly’... https://petar.xyz/2026/01/06/if-you-are-out-of.html

is your social media content signal or is it noise

conspiracy theories are brain rot change my mind

take time off social media during the holidays thank me later