Corey Hodge Dot Net

Full Stack Developer 📱 and language enthusiast (Spanish/Español + Japanese/日本語) 🌐 Here for indie journalists, cross-cultural networks, memes 🌌@SpaceportG dev

[Corey Hodge Dot Net @CoreyHodgeoNet]

Got a proposal in for @EthereumDenver #YearOfTheSpork just in time!😅

@SpaceportG: A blockchain n00b, two-brother, tell-all, NFT journey

What's a 2-person team like? Pros and cons of working with fam? Will we launch in time before #ETHDenver #EDEN23?

https://t.co/rjalB0p8hA

[Carla Mouriño @CarlaMourinho]

He ido a tomar café al lugar más bonito del mundo? Es posible. Está a las afueras de Kyoto, en el río Kibune.

[SHUHEI @s629217]

📍TACOS 3Hermanos
下北にできた本格タコス屋さん、日本人向けにローカライズせず、本場メキシコの味をそのまま感じられるのが個人的に熱かった🌮

[Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport]

🚨REPORT: AMC theaters will be screening select World Cup games with cinematic audio

Games will be broadcast in Spanish

[Tomoya Ohtani / 大谷 智哉 @Ohtanitter]

I had the incredible chance to meet Thundercat!✨

We talked about his game music influences and bass playing. It was brief, but truly a wonderful time.

I’m nowhere near his level, but meeting him inspired me to become a better bassist.🔥

[SEGA SOUND TEAM @SEGASoundTeam]

世界的なベーシスト兼シンガーソングライターである、#Thundercat が東京・大崎のセガ本社へ来訪！

同じベーシストでもある #大谷智哉 と記念撮影📸
お越しいただきありがとうございました☺️

[Stones Throw Japan @StonesThrowJP]

Peanut Butter Wolf、6月にStones Throw 30周年ツアーで来日🇯🇵

レーベル創設者／ディレクターとして、Madlib、J Dilla、MF DOOM、NxWorriesなど数々のアーティストを世に送り出してきた重要人物。

8年ぶりの来日となる今回は、30周年をテーマにレーベルの歴史を辿る特別な “Video DJ Set” を披露。

JAPAN TOUR: 6/5 OSAKA｜6/6 TOKYO

🎥Stones Throwドキュメンタリー映画
『Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton』

[みやーんZZ @miyearnzz]

鎮座DOPENESS「JUICY 2023」＠吉祥寺音楽祭。ビギーの「Juicy」ビートの上でやっているのがかっこいいっすね。テレビ神奈川で洋楽チェックしていたので共感度高いです（笑）。

[Não Intendo @blognaointendo]

Os caras fazem parecer tão fácil

[BLUEPRINT @printmatic]

They told me this thing was a toy. I'm glad I didn't listen...

There's an art to pulling samples from completely different records and making them work together that I had almost forgotten, but this machine is helping me remember. It's such a creative high when you make them work together so smoothly that it sounds like they were intended to be put together, but the listener has no idea.

Some days the records fall into your lap to make it happen, other days they don't. The samples came together on this one. Let me know what y'all think of this one.

Keep going!
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#akaimpcsample #boombaphiphop #beatmaker #boombap

[90salive @90salive1]

Rhythm On The Loose · Break Of Dawn - 1991

#Housemusic #Techno #oldskool #rave

[Del @TheCartelDel]

We may never know who introduced Takuya Nakamura to UK Jungle music, after moving from Tokyo to Boston to study Jazz theory - but I, for one, am very grateful.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

this is actually insane

> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”

one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.

we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

[Wario64 @Wario64]

CHRONO TRIGGER Orchestra Concert: Melodies Across Time coming to North America

New York - Oct 10
Chicago - Oct 14
Los Angeles - Oct 18

https://t.co/TXSU9fmZ3P

[鈴森はるか 『haruka suzumori』 🇯🇵 @harukaawake]

🇯🇵🇩🇪 A German lady moved to Japan and became a farmer. I have to say I'm really impressed because a lot of us Japanese live in cities and can't do anything like this.

Thank you for showing us respect.

[Spacesthetic @interiorsuckerr]

The magic of lighting by Eric Wang✨

[Ryan Cohen @ryancohen]

The Hollow Men

American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider.

By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants.

These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition.

In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken.

Today, we have severed that link.

We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses.

If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived.

This looting starts in the boardroom.

We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year.

Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor.

And for what?

Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love.

They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders.

And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk?

We get the Delegation Economy.

When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know.

This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering.

They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake.

While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us.

If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag.

The time for polite governance is over.

If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.

[鈴森はるか 『haruka suzumori』 🇯🇵 @harukaawake]

🇯🇵 Someone tried to walk from Shinjuku Sanchome Station exit C8 to Nishi-Shinjuku Station exit C8. It took him about 28 minutes.

Although I grew up in Tokyo, I can’t do this without getting lost. It’s even harder at night as some paths are closed.

[Alex Honnold @AlexHonnold]

My free solo ascent of Taipei 101 in Taiwan is coming up soon - and you can watch it LIVE on @netflix. January 23 @ 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT. Exciting!!

[Kanji alive @kanjialive]

An experimental MCP server for the Kanji alive API to allow it to be queried from e.g. Claude Desktop. https://t.co/016iG5fYJh

[Corey Hodge Dot Net @CoreyHodgeoNet]

@SmokeeRobinson Yo who was that even? Saw this and laughed, had a proper pokeball on there too lol