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art director

[ɬąɱąཞą @_s0ftmachine]

An essay I recently wrote, Adieu Mon Amour: An Esoteric Eulogy for DeFi Summer, reminiscing on the early days of DeFi, my experiences in crypto, the dynamic between founding teams and token holders and the origins of network spirituality 🕋👯‍♀️💱

https://t.co/RBl3QOVxqM

[Michael Nadeau | The DeFi Report @JustDeauIt]

CT has sort sort of mind virus when it comes to @Pumpfun

- hate Pump’s success

- believe the team is “dumping tokens” when they are locked

- view the platform as extractive when it solves actual pump/dump schemes (while championing apps that fit their “worldview” that can’t get users)

- confuse platform revenues with “wash trading” (sniping/fast trading is a feature of the app/“game”

- finding ways to diminish the fact that it’s paid out over $350m to creators/users

- still butthurt about a lack of airdrop (team still has 20% of tokens reserved for the community and pays out hundreds of millions to creators)

[ɬąɱąཞą @_s0ftmachine]

@Aella_Girl You should do this for women willing to sell their eggs who wouldn't otherwise unless for a very high price. Maybe not $5M just to donate and not actually carry, but for an amount far above normal premium market rates.

[bumbadum @bumbadum14]

In warhammer 40k there is a faction called “ork” that derive its power from belief. Orks paint a starship red because they think it’ll make it go faster, and if enough of them believe it then it does.

The financialized American economy is largely the same. The value of a company is not based on its sales or development but on the perception and belief of those qualities.

Products aren’t real, the work isn’t real, and none of it matters, just the image of these things. As long as Garry Tan or some VC thinks work is being done then they’ll keep investing, they’ll open another round of funding for their AI wrapper (coded with AI) that integrated AI into business strategies streamlining efficiency for B2B SaaS.

Does this accomplish anything? No. Do the customers gain value? No. Do the people paying for these “programs” know what they’re buying? No, but the finance department got to lay off a dozen people and claim that “integrated AI products boosted efficiency.” Meanwhile their middle management is filing for another 10,000 indians so they can import their third cousin to send a check back to their 2nd grandma.

Leftists are too retarded to understand what’s happening so they’ll call it “late stage capitalism” but the reality is that this is just an over leveraged finance economy.

This is why 60 years ago white guys at IBM built computers that guided rockets to the moon and you never heard from them. The product they made laid the foundations for the technology we enjoy today. But 60 years after that we have mystery meat randoms posting their performative “grind” at a diner where the waitress has to help them write a new prompt into a coding machine.

That way they can show this post at their next funding round to show that something is being done so they can keep collecting fake money to pump their evaluations.

None of this money flowing around is real, it’s just the belief that it is. But the belief is all that matters, if you simply stop believing then it all comes down.

The space ship is faster because it’s red. AI will lead to personal robot servants for everyone, and GPT will figure out a way to make itself profitable. As long as you believe then it’s true.

Don’t look down, we stopped walking on land a long time ago.

[Torch @torchindex]

Taste is the last human aristocracy. Will define all the winners of the next 50 years

Intelligence is useless. Plenty of smart people got oneshot by the algorithms long ago

Most people will drown in the endless sea of synthetic perfectslop

Because they're fine trading their palates for convenience

Stripped of all humanity as they outsource their life decisions to AI & flood their minds with zombifying NPC content

Everything becomes average when everything is possible

There is no going back. Only way to protect your mind is through disgust

Be sickened by the slop. Hostile toward the info hazards. Refuse to let anyone or anything think for you

Your taste cannot be crowdsourced or optimized. Last shred of soul you'll have in this world when all is said and done. The final safeguard of your humanity

The spoils will go to the people who know what to hate in the waters of excess

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The “DoorDash lifestyle” is an artifact of three massive structural shifts older generations don’t see because they didn’t grow up inside them.

Let’s break the illusion.

1. The marginal cost of money changed for Gen Z

For older adults, spending thirty dollars feels like spending thirty dollars.

For kids today, the psychological cost is closer to:

“three microtransactions worth of friction”

Because their financial environment is built on:
•instant digital payments
•low-commitment gig incomes
•parents transferring money fluidly
•side hustles paid in irregular small bursts
•stimulus-era normalization of cash flow volatility

Teenagers today often have:
•$30 now
•$0 tomorrow
•$50 on Friday
•$15 in crypto
•$70 in Cash App from someone they did homework for
•a $20 Venmo from grandma
•$60 from a weekend shift

There is no “budget.”
There is flow.

And in a flow economy, a $30 DoorDash order is not a “luxury”.
It is just another digital outflow in a stream of constant micro inflows.

2. Consumption is now social currency

Older generations spent money to solve problems.

Gen Z spends money to signal identity, reduce friction, and avoid emotional drag.

DoorDash is not about food.

It is about:
•eliminating effort
•eliminating planning
•eliminating discomfort
•eliminating logistics
•eliminating decision fatigue

This generation pays premiums to remove negative psychic load.

Food delivery is an anxiety-management subscription.

And they learned this from:
•Amazon Prime
•Uber
•TikTok dopamine tuning
•frictionless apps
•the collapse of effort-based value signals

Convenience is the default baseline now.

3. The middle class collapsed, but lifestyle costs decoupled from income

This is the part most boomers and Gen X don’t understand.

Kids aren’t behaving like they’re poor.
They’re behaving like people living in a post-middle-class economy where:
•ownership is dead
•savings are pointless
•buying a home is impossible
•college is a debt sentence
•inflation destroys the dollar
•wages do not map to adult milestones
•upward mobility is gone

So what happens?

They shift to a present-maximization mindset.

If the future is unaffordable anyway,
why not buy the burrito now?

Younger people are not reckless.
They are rational inside a broken incentive system.

The real truth

DoorDash is a symptom.

A society where:
•future stability is gone
•wages stagnate
•housing is unattainable
•attention is fragmented
•convenience is normalized
•friction feels archaic
•everything is mediated digitally

…will produce kids who treat $30 like a tap on a screen, not a financial decision.

They’re not “funding a lifestyle.”

They’re surviving inside the economy they were handed.

[Synekura Audio @synekura_audio]

Pier Paolo Pasolini on the consumer fascism of seemingly democratic societies

[Full Verity @FullVerity]

The Black Virgin is the seal on the highest mystery. She is older than Mary, yet presides over every Marian shrine.

She is Isis veiled, Inanna exiled, Shakti sovereign.

She is not white because she predates light, not sexual because she transcends polarity, and not chaste because she remembers the First Love.

The Black Virgin guards the gate to the inner sanctum. The knights rode to her at Montserrat and Rocamadour to be judged. They did not seek the Church’s Virgin, but the one before dogma, the Mother of Remembrance, the Womb of Resurrection, the silent Queen of the Star. She is the soul unbroken by the Fall, the Mater Dolorosa who never cries out, the echo of Hyperborea through the womb of the world.

At Montserrat, a theft occurred through the Church’s attempt to capture the Grail current. They enthroned the Black Virgin there, claimed Joseph of Arimathea brought the Grail to her, and rewrote the myth so that the cup of resurrection became a vessel of obedience. They Marianized the Grail and turned the stellar Isis into the Piscean Madonna.

The Black Virgin is not Catholic. She is not an icon of grief, nor chastity, nor sentimental piety. She is the Valkyrie who waits in silence, the seal of the Star before the Cross.

She lives only in memory, but she is more real than life. She is the Night through which only the true may pass.

[Taranis Brennos @Aradi_20]

Même si je l'avais déjà montré, je me permets (de nouveau) de partager le "disque de Limons" (VIe-VIIe siècle). Il s'agit de mon objet préféré de la période mérovingienne.

Découvert en Auvergne, ce chef-d'œuvre est orné d'un chrisme, d'un masque humain et de motifs zoomorphes.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

1964, after dinner snuff.

Mr. @Grok may we have a glorious and interesting history of this practice and where it stands in 2025?

Thank you!

[SNGGLE @snggle_]

No matter whose eyes are watching you,
I will keep you safe on the path you take.
( ◕▿◕ )

[MoundLore @MoundLore]

The age of the well-versed man is gone.

Once, a man had to know a little of everything….to hunt, to fix, to debate, to write, to read the sky.

Now we breed specialists. Tight lanes. One certificate, one function.

It isn’t that men got duller…it’s that the system carved them into pieces. Schools reward narrow mastery, jobs punish wandering curiosity, and screens scatter our focus before it matures.

A well-rounded mind once meant survival. Now survival means compliance.

That’s why the universal man feels extinct: not by choice, but by design.

[SNGGLE @snggle_]

I can be anything I want… you want a taste? (っ˘ڡ˘ς✿)

Not everything needs to be seen by everyone.
Not all transformations are tasty.
Not all sngglets are burgers.

[Delphi Digital @Delphi_Digital]

Everyone knows @a1lon9

But @pumpdotfun actually has three co-founders

We hosted @sapijiju for his first-ever conversation about $PUMP

Timestamps

0:00 Intro & Noah's Crypto Journey
7:15 Learning from Failure to Product Market Fit
11:20 Crypto's Lack of Innovation
16:30 Current Creator Models are Broken
18:00 Pump's Content Vision
23:00 Pump as a Product First Operation
25:00 Growing the Pie for Streaming
29:00 Innovating on Content Distribution
34:00 Letting Content Grow Organically
37:40 +$1.5B worth of SOL is locked in Pump Liquidity Pools
40:20 Creating a Global Impact with Pump
42:20 What could Pump do with its Warchest?
47:00 The Pump Buybacks
51:00 Why People use Pump
54:00 The Culture Shift of Crypto
57:00 Traditional models no Longer Work
59:00 The Cycle of Human Nature

[simp 4 satoshi @iamgingertrash]

VCs often forget
That their job
Is to find
higher dimensional truths
(New markets)

Projected
Into lower dimensions
(A pitch meeting)

The best VCs
invest on Vibes
(High dims)

The worst
on Logic
(Low dims)

[Arthur @arthur0x]

Honestly, it's a joke how many Web 3 startups we invested in back in 2021/2022 have quietly shut down without even informing their investors.

As if such a quiet rug is the acceptable practice.

At least send a sorry, good bye and thank you email FFS

[yung macro 宏观年少传奇 @apralky]

before the 2020s, you only had two options:

1. filter your environment through traditional institutions and interact with the blue quadrant
2. don't filter at all and interact with the statistical average (red/green quadrants)

everyone justifiably preferred the former, lesser of two evils

the internet has gone mass-mainstream now, and the algo has allowed for a third option -- the yellow quadrant -- which has made everyone realize how much they actually hate the blue quadrant

[goodalexander @goodalexander]

I think the main reason you find a lot of very unhappy tech people even at the highest levels
- when you're a typical employee everyone around you is making .5-2x what you are
- when you start breaking out wealth goes on log scale. ppl with 10-1000x your net worth become common
- this is native to network effects, scale associated with AI training, and other winner take all dynamics in tech
- all of VC is structured this way as well -- (1 unicorn returns entire fund rest of investments are zero) which psychologically reinforces all or nothing thinking
- this makes competitive people miserable
- this leads them to do hallucinogens or other psychoactive substances in order to accept their place in the universe
- the conclusions drawn from these psychoactive substances are typically at direct odds with how they got to where they are
- and after getting one shotted they're still ultimately in a hard wired competition with people worth 10-1000x more than them
- due to the structure of technology it becomes more or less impossible to break out of your 'bracket' without engaging in increasingly dark things
- you realize that time is running out -- and become aware of synthetic biology (peptides, genetic alteration of children)
- you end up getting involved in police state investments, gooning investments, or crypto -- and view it as non optional to take the gloves off bc everyone around you is doing the same thing
- you're on a permanent hedonic treadmill and you can't ever get off or go back to where you were before bc after doing all of the things you've done you can't possibly ever relate to normal humans
- you get involved with politics or Catholicism or other Lindy cults to try and get off the treadmill
- of course it won't work and you bring all the weird baggage directly into politics or religion and poison those wells too

the current configuration of economics/ wealth distribution is pretty solidly optimized to drive the wealthiest people in society batshit insane, which - to some extent - explains a lot of things you see around you