tmc

Co-founder of $ATHL – the first data-generative crypto, empowering athletes and fans through NFTs, real-time sports data, and decentralized fan engagement.

[tmc @TomMcOO1]

I want Twitter to succeed and for huge financial rewards to go to the most interesting, insightful, and entertaining people I follow on Twitter.

But the explosion of paywalls via subscriptions for every good content creator on Twitter will likely lead to a suboptimal customer experience.

Yes, getting vast numbers of subscribers will dramatically encourage creators to increase the quality and quantity of content. And with great content, Twitter can dramatically increase its user base and user minutes.

However, paywall proliferation will substantially reduce the “open town square” that is Twitter’s mission. Soon Twitter will be more like an endless sea of pay-for-entry content bubbles. Is this our future open marketplace of ideas? If so, it is only for the relatively rich who have the means to pay for all the interesting people they would like to hear from.

What is unique about Twitter with these new creator subscriptions is that you essentially already need the $8/ month blue check to get any kind of response to your posts if you have not known. If you want to follow your favorite 25 people on Twitter at $4 each, the monthly cost is $108 or just under $1,300 annually. That’s a crazy huge amount for most people on the planet for just Twitter usage.

Now imagine if every podcaster, YouTuber, Redditor, and IG person you liked put up a paywall of $4 a month. Soon everyone would need to pay $5K annually for what was all free content a few months ago.

This may be the economy we are headed for, given that AI will take many jobs.

But this substantially differs from the town square of ideas if all the best ideas are behind paywalls.

I get that Elon needs to make Twitter profitable, but the gold rush via millions of new paywalls is a dystopian future. Yes, great content creators can earn millions of subscribers and make millions each month. Still, what does this do for our society besides making it more financially exclusionary while creating FOMO from all the great future creators you can not afford?

All the free content we have enjoyed for many years may have spoiled me. But I would rather just see more advertising.

I do not have a solution that would eliminate the paywall per creator model yet enrich creators and Twitter enormously, but this model needs some rethinking.

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@yuppie064432 The yeti was UNDERFILLED - not a fair test!

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TL;DR: Top hacker calls Anthropic’s bluff.

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@RNicholasBurns You’re an idiot for saying this. You want them more involved??

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@maverickecom Workflow

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@DividendBreeder White vinegar drops in the ear works well for that.

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@craigbrockie What is your recommended amount?

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@AJA_Cortes Research

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@MikeBenzCyber You should be appointed secretary of Deep State Research!

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American Universities show a massive die-off of Honeybees in the United States

- 60% to 80% colony loss in the US through 2025
- Wild bees show a 30-96% decline in species, including Honeybees (96% WOW)

This woman went to Cornell and got a Masters in Beekeeping, she explains why

“Well, the bees are dying. They were claiming catastrophic historic losses. This last year, 60 to 80% of all bees, all honeybees in the US just dead. They're gone. Cornell University.

They have a hunch. Their hunch is that it's neonicotinoids and pesticides in monocrop farming. Well, I'm here to tell you I don't have a hunch. I know. I know what it is.

I went to Cornell University to get my master beekeepers. My final paper was on neonicotinoid.

Neonicotinoid is a type of pesticide that is extreme. It makes it extremely effective. It lives systemically in the plant, and if you have a plant with really dense tissue, like a tree, like a tree trunk, it holds onto that poison for years. So if you're spraying your tree every year, it's getting more and more potent to the point where when it blossoms in the spring, if a honeybee was to feed off of that nectar, it could disorient and not even make it back to the hive, or it could just drop dead on the flower.

Neonicotinoids are used in lawn sprays. If you ever have anyone knocking at your door and wanting to spray your lawn saying, oh, we don't spray the flowers, we don't. It's all affecting everything.

It gets in the groundwater when the farmers spray their crops. And this is one of the main reasons that the monarch butterfly migration is depleting. It's because of these new nicotinoids. But of course, it's super effective, so people are going to be using it. You have a green lawn, you have beautiful trees, like, why not use it? And the more you use it, the more your plant or your grass are dependent on it. If you stop using it, it's going to look worse than it did before.

So quit spraying your grass, quit spraying your trees. Find alternative ways to do it. And if you have to, if you absolutely have, use some sort of pesticide, don't use a neonicotinoid.

And it's hidden under these names.

- imidacloprid
- acetamiprid
- thiacloprid
- dinotefuran
- nitenpyram
- thiamethoxam
- clothianidin

So remember these names. Turn around your bottle, see if anything there is listed in what you're using, quit using it.”

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@DudespostingWs Whats the monthly rent??

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@Konner_Cool @GailAlfarATX The glass is strong - but was never claimed by Telsa or Elon to be bullet proof. The steel exoskeleton is bulletproof.

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@Cernovich Just block if you do not like. Remember, this is a free speech platform.

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@alexfinn Thanks for the helpful tip. What is the second most helpful thing to do?

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@ArtificialAnlys Why is grok not on these lists??