Tom

designer @msft // ai, economics, metaphysics

[Pavel Durov @durov]

I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating.

Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.

What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.

Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU).

Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.

A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away.

We’ve been fed a lie.

We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.

By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.

So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time.

[Tom @Thomasemn]

@BTCHoodieGuy @adam3us @DanishBTCMaxi @natbrunell How dense can you be? In 2019 a fork of bitcoin (BSV) was created and the devs increased data limits, to which almost instantly CSAM was distributed.

Don’t take my word. Here is an article from BBC news: https://t.co/8TBn9nZcHF

[Tom @Thomasemn]

@adam3us @OneSeaElephant @LukeDashjr False. Looking at BSV’s fork shows the risks of relaxing on-chain data limits—after increasing OP_RETURN size, CSAM flooded their chain and cannot be removed. It’s a vivid example of how config choices can have lasting, real-world consequences

https://t.co/8TBn9nZcHF

[Tom @Thomasemn]

@hawaalidrammeh i’m crying😭

[Tom @Thomasemn]

my problem is i lack depth.

so much areas that interest me.

i get pulled in too many directions to give one thing the focus it needs.

i can’t seem to hold myself accountable to stick with just one pursuit.

keep jumping from project to project.

not giving any single 1 the attention & care it deserves. this infuriates me. primarily because ik im robbing myself of growth.

i pride myself on understanding problems with depth and taking utmost delicacy when crafting solutions.

idk what happened to me. largely think social media is to blame.

not a doom scroller by any means. all my feeds across platforms are extremely educational.

but ever since i got my first phone, my subconscious has been programmed to chase short term quick dopamine.

this is an issue that the very talented thinkers who came before us never had to deal with.

for example: i listen to every video/podcast on 2x speed, i feel as if im wasting time by not optimizing every second of my life.

a detox from technology is something we could all benefit from.

i need to go immerse myself in deep thought. ground myself in reality.

stop looking at a monitor and observe the world around me.

question the way things are, and wrestle with those questions with nothing but the beauty that is the human mind.

today i did this and throughout the entire day, i was utterly shocked at how many heads were bent down looking at a screen.

its as if we all habitually need to be on a phone.

whether it be waiting in line for a coffee, grabbing lunch, or when that cute girl walks by, etc.

every second you spend on your phone, someone is profiting off you. Ads, degradation of hardware components, collecting cookies, etc.

what the fuck are we doing. the elegance that is life has been reduced to a digital medium. furthermore, one that enables us to be extracted for maximum value to others.

every second we watch content, scroll, like, comment, we’re enriching the incumbents at the cost of our own psyche.

i’m ashamed i’ve entertained this incongruence for so long.

sorry for the rant but that’s what twitter is for isn’t it. raw, unfiltered.

going afk for awhile. haven’t felt so optimistic in quite some time. i love it.

[Tom @Thomasemn]

@vchuang8 so dope!! need this asap😭

[Tom @Thomasemn]

just spent 12+ hours fighting github actions to deploy a simple hugo blog😭

endless errors like:
“missing download info for actions/upload-artifact@v3”

turns out it’s literally the easiest fix ever

just had to ditch actions entirely.

manually built the site → pushed the public folder → set gh pages to deploy from a branch.

no bs CI/CD, no headaches.

unpopular opinion: manual > automated.

especially when debugging eats more time than doing it yourself T^T

lesson learned. simplicity always wins.

[Tom @Thomasemn]

@ryanmurphy1800 you spit nothing but facts🔥🎯

[Tom @Thomasemn]

Retail traders using autonomous AI agents are bleeding hedge funds dry.

s/o @ahkmeddd for the inspo🙌

[Tom @Thomasemn]

@ahkmeddd you cooked w this brotha🔥🔥🔥

[Tom @Thomasemn]

@NaesYelof Real☠️

On a side note ur bull posts are actually goated. i just cached another 140 prime🙏🏾

[Tom @Thomasemn]

@NaesYelof Spoken like a true chad. I gotta get on your level once I graduate in a few months. These classes got me swamped dawg😭

[Tom @Thomasemn]

@APompliano Yet mfs still say grok is better lmao

[Tom @Thomasemn]

@NaesYelof @AIWayfinder 😂🙏🏾

[Tom @Thomasemn]

@NaesYelof @AIWayfinder Lmao I’m right there with you trust. Hate to see how this space has grown to only care about the next get rich quick coin.

Wayfinder will be the wake up call folks need.

Real recognizes real🤝

[Tom @Thomasemn]

@d_gilz i think i’ll pass and take my cushy white collar job

[Tom @Thomasemn]

@templecrash @AIWayfinder You nailed the UX beautifully🔥