Ethereum is a trojan horse for tyranny.
Consensys owns Infura & Metamask. JP Morgan, UBS, Mastercard own Consensys.
99% of EVM transactions go through Consensys.
DeFi is captured by VCs & banks.
Only #bitcoin is government-resistant. Ethereum is not even insider-resistant.
Disney hired some "little people" to dress as Pinocchio and wave at people at the premiere of Pinocchio. They left them on a balcony with enough food and wine for the day, but by late afternoon they were all naked (the costumes were too hot), drunk and screaming swear words at people.
A harsh truth about growing up:
Every few years, the game you're playing in life changes ― and so do the rules.
A lot of people fail to recognize the these changes and keep stumbling in life.
Some examples:
I decided to outsource my entire personal financial life to GPT-4 (via the @donotpay chat we are building).
I gave AutoGPT access to my bank, financial statements, credit report, and email.
Here’s how it’s going so far (+$217.85) and the strange ways it’s saving money. (1/n):
14. Always over-communicate.
15. Assume you can learn something from everyone.
16. Assume everyone you talk to is also full of shit.
17. Your business heroes are regular people who took action.
18. If you can make $1, you can make $1,000.
Listen to this AI generated song featuring Drake & The Weeknd.
It goes so damn hard.
It's by "Ghostwriter977" on TikTok and it's blowing up on socials + streaming platforms.
UMG, which controls around 1/3 of the global music market, has already asked streaming platforms to ban AI.
A modern Napster moment.
Will be fascinating to watch this all unfold in real-time.
Weekly Recap
1) 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia enters trade alliance with China, Russia, India, Pakistan, and four Central Asian nations to step further away from reliance on the US dollar.
2) 🇨🇳 China and France complete first LNG gas trade using Chinese Yuan, ending reliance on the US dollar for energy trades.
3) 🇨🇳 China and Brazil to settle trades in their own currencies, ditching the US dollar.
4) Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) are developing a new currency, State Duma Deputy Chairman says.
5) 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia partners with China to build a Chinese oil refinery for 83.7 billion yuan ($12.2 billion).
6) 🇰🇪 Kenya signs deal with Saudi Arabia and UAE to buy oil with Kenyan shillings instead of US dollars.
7) 🇰🇪 President of Kenya tells citizens to get rid of US dollars.
8) Association of Southeast Asian Nations considers dropping the US dollar, euro, yen, and British pound for local currency financial settlements.
9) 🇸🇻 El Salvador President officially signs bill eliminating all taxes on income, property, and capital gains for technology innovations.
10) 🇺🇸 US Senator Elizabeth Warren launches "anti-crypto" re-election campaign.
11) 🇮🇳 India to settle trade in Indian rupees with certain countries instead of US dollars, Commerce Secretary says.
12) 🇨🇳 Chinese yuan surpasses the euro to become Brazil's second-largest currency in foreign reserves.
13) 🇺🇸 US government to sell 41,500 #Bitcoin ($1.18 billion) connected to Silk Road, in four batches this year.
14) 🇭🇰 Hong Kong regulators to assist #crypto firms with banking in effort to become a digital asset hub.
15) #Binance and CEO sued by US CFTC over alleged regulatory violations
16) 🇺🇸 US Social Security funds are projected to run out by 2033, Reuters reports.
17) 🇫🇷 5 major banks raided by French authorities in €100 billion fraud investigation
18) 🇺🇸 Former President Trump says President Biden is directly responsible for the bank failures and creating an economic catastrophe that will only get worse.
19) MicroStrategy purchases an additional 6,455 #Bitcoin ($150 million).
20) 🇺🇸 President Biden says the banking crisis is "not over yet."
ok, after lots of testing, here is the best way I've found to create consistent characters in Midjourney.
It starts with a model, and it seems to work best with a head and shoulders portrait photo like this one. Prompts in ALT if you wanna test this out yourself
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This video was made almost entirely by AI.
I used ChatGPT to write a script, Midjourney to create reference images, Runway Gen-1 to apply the style of the images to my source video, and Boomy AI for the music.
Workflow breakdown w/ comparisons in thread.
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