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Humanising Web3 & Crypto. Head of Design at RDX Works - designing and shaping the future @RadixDLT.

[qɐʇɟ∀ 🌹 @aftabarab]

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” Pablo Picasso

[Financial Times @FT]

Across a long lifetime and productive until the end, David Hockney, who has died aged 88, was Britain’s most popular artist, and one of very few painters anywhere to be a household name: https://t.co/3pExMyRwhU

[qɐʇɟ∀ 🌹 @aftabarab]

@xstelea @aaolomi @DalrympleWill Work in progress! ☺️

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: “Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood” (Is 1:15).

[Radix - Radically Different DeFi @radixdlt]

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[Indie Game Joe @IndieGameJoe]

This indie dev is making a game where you can literally play as Ancient Egyptian wall art.

- Switch between a 3D archaeologist and living 2D art
- Survive puzzles that fight back
- Progress by mastering both worlds

It’s called Fresco. This mechanic is genius.

[Financial Times @FT]

Bored of peace https://t.co/KvWcoTwv9v

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

this right here is the reason China stays quiet on Iran

everyone losing their mind asking where is Beijing while the US & Israel are bombing a major chinese energy partner and the answer is so brutal in its simplicity that most analysts miss it completely, the empire is eating itself alive and China is already building the replacementt

America just dragged the entire Middle East into a war for Israel & now Saudi arabia, UAE, kuwait & qatar are sitting in a room discussing pulling out of US contracts & canceling investment commitments

the Gulf states, the literal foundation of the petrodollar, the system that has kept the US dollar as world reserve currency since 1974 actively discussing the exit and Beijing did absolutely nothing to make that happen…Washington did it to itself

but here's what people miss: china saw this coming years ago and already laid the tracks, literally the belt & road Initiative has quietly wired 150 countries into c’hinese infrastructure, ports, railways, highways, fiber optic cables, power grids…while the western media barely covered it

Saudi Arabia started selling oil to China in yuan in 2023, that alone should have been front page news for a month, the BRICS just expanded to include Saudi arabia UAE and Iran in the samea bloc, China built CIPS as a direct alternative to SWIFT so the entire non western world can settle trade without ever touching the dollar, every single one of these moves was made before a single bomb fell on Iran

and then there's Africa…the youngest continent on earth, median age 19, projected to reach 2.5 billion people by 2050, the largest workforce the planet has ever seen & China understood 20y ago that whoever builds Africa's infrastructure owns the 21st century, while the US was spending 4 trillion dollars destroying Iraq & Afghanistan China was building railways in Kenya, dams in Ethiopia, ports in Djibouti, highways in Nigeria, tech hubs in Rwanda, stadiums, hospitals, government buildings, telecom networks powered by Huawei across the entire continent.. & they did it without firing a single bullet, no regime change, no sanctions, no lectures on democracy, just concrete steel, fiber optic and longterm contracts

so when people ask why China stays silent on Iran the answer is that silence is the strategy, every war America fights for Israel costs trillions, destabilizes energy markets, alienates Gulf partners and pushes the entire Global South closer to a system Beijing spent two decades building

the gulf states pivoting right now has zero to do with ideology, Washington turned their entire neighborhood into a warzone to serve Tel Aviv's regional strategy & then asked them to keep buying treasury bonds with a straight face….the math just stopped working and when the math stops working loyalty stops too

beijing's silencee on Iran is the most patient & most devastating move on the board, China is watching america dismantle its own hegemony in real time while quietly inheriting every alliance washington burns, it just has to keep building & keep quiet

Napoleon said nver interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake, Xi turned that into a 50y doctrine & right now it's paying off faster than even beijing expected

[Financial Times @FT]

Rubio says US launched strikes on Iran because Israel planned to attack https://t.co/Oixa5tYvgd

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Netanyahu is hiding in a bunker in Berlin.

You really can't make this shit up.

[Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office @FCDOGovUK]

British nationals should register their presence with the FCDO at the links here ⬇️

Bahrain: https://t.co/gfBNS0Jooc

Israel: https://t.co/ePmoLluv3v

Palestine: https://t.co/oF7DVBxTOg

Qatar: https://t.co/ziRw1YeL4P

UAE: https://t.co/JkBC49nft8

[Radix - Radically Different DeFi @radixdlt]

500,000 transactions per second.

That's
- 71x faster than Visa.
- 33x faster than traditional finance.
- 7,692x faster than Bitcoin.

On decentralized infrastructure.
That’s what Hyperscale proved publicly.

[Radix - Radically Different DeFi @radixdlt]

RADIX. HYPERSCALE.
• 500K TPS Sustained
• 800K TPS Peaked

This is exactly what the industry said was impossible.

These weren't "empty" transactions. We weren't just moving tokens - we were executing complex swaps across 100+ shards!

[quinn @quinnslcm]

“there is a deep human need for beauty, and if you ignore that need in architecture, your buildings will not last, since people will never feel at home in them.”

— roger scruton in the modern cult of ugliness

[Radix - Radically Different DeFi @radixdlt]

If you’ve ever felt unsure signing a transaction

Radix Wallet WILL feel different

Every action is human-readable before approval

[TaserFace.xrd @TaserFace_xrd]

someone knows something $XRD 👀

[qɐʇɟ∀ 🌹 @aftabarab]

@zzzzshawn Ben Dover 🙃

[lcamtuf @lcamtuf]

Me: I want to have more friends

Tech companies:

[qɐʇɟ∀ 🌹 @aftabarab]

@iamharaldur @uenodotco Massive fan of everything you've done. Have been following you for so many years. I'd love to work with you ❤️