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[justin.ahn.eth @ahn_going]

@notdegenfr @EFDevcon seriously? were you at jogger's park on sunday?

[justin.ahn.eth @ahn_going]

not gonna write an entire essay, but got back home yesterday and just wanted to share that i thought @EFDevcon mumbai was great

10/10 would recommend

[Naithan Jones @NaithanJones]

On its surface this looks silly and easy to make fun of but what data center builders are not clocking is:

in the minds of people who live in these places data centers represent massive wealth creation for someone who doesn’t live there. While they don’t get to directly participate. It *feels* like extraction.

These are working class people, some at the margins, so pushing back *feels* like taking power back. These are people who have been promised the run and the moon by new Casino projects, jobs and property values from a new highway overpass projects, all of which did nothing and in some cases harmed their community. They’re jaded and have heard it all

If data centers actually want to get their projects built in communities like this, hate to say it, but they are going to financially incentivize the people there. Do things for them *before* any shovels. Communicate that these benefits will continue as the project succeeds. Give each house hold some financial or quality of life incentive to support it. Not theoretical, tangible and presently available

Just my 2 cents

[Quidli @quidliprotocol]

FYI, @arc is now live on Quidli Connect 🤖🦑🤖

Your agents can pay anyone by their social handle in USDC via API or MCP, no addresses or separate gas tokens required

Run it locally in any MCP client (npx -y @quidli/connect-mcp) or use our hosted MCP server (https://t.co/dnCuJhpPdx) to get started

[justin.ahn.eth @ahn_going]

@goekhan @EFDevcon

[Quidli @quidliprotocol]

Back to building open agentic payments and so can you 🦑

Set up & run Quidli locally on any MCP client: `npx -y @quidli/connect-mcp`

[justin.ahn.eth @ahn_going]

@ETHGlobal @arc @quidliprotocol - get set up & run quidli locally on any mcp client: `npx -y @quidli/connect-mcp`
- feel free to build your own telecentaur setup: https://t.co/oPxb3S24SW

[justin.ahn.eth @ahn_going]

back to the grind, following participation at @ETHGlobal mumbai, we've now added support for @arc on the @quidliprotocol connect API & MCP

got it wired up to my TeleCentaur setup so my agent can directly send USDC on arc to my telegram contacts' just using their handles - no wallet addresses, no gas tokens, just USDC onchain to recipients verified & validated by their socials using quidli

[justin.ahn.eth @ahn_going]

@ETHGlobal @arc @quidliprotocol proof of arc: https://t.co/W0NjPbfxkb

[justin.ahn.eth @ahn_going]

@0xnandhu @EFDevcon likewise! and congrats again on your @ETHGlobal placing 🫡

[justin.ahn.eth @ahn_going]

@goekhan @EFDevcon have people contracted covid?

[justin.ahn.eth @ahn_going]

@francescoswiss break point? you think it's worth attending?

[Social Forensics @SocialForensix]

Who Is Influencing Elon Musk?

We visualized Musk’s social graph, and here is what we found

Write-up: https://t.co/ElmVWfKrjD

Network explorer tool (explore on your own!): https://t.co/txz0ycSbuU

[Péter Szilágyi @peter_szilagyi]

Ahahaha, well, now I'm just not going to report it. Security achieved I guess! Go Switzerland! 🇨🇭

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

[read about what’s happening with AI]

ME: Wow we’re actually legit fucked this is so bad.

[go outside]

ME: Wait those people are all acting like nothing unusual is happening. Maybe I was just in a paranoid bubble? Yeah it must be that. Phew.

[read more about what’s happening with AI]

ME: Wait no we ARE fucked. Shit. It’s all those people outside who are in a delusional bubble.

[go outside]

ME: Wait...

[Yishan @yishan]

This ultimately depends a lot on the temperament of your kids, but this may not be the wisest policy.

My wife and I have the same attitude as yours that the internet is hellacious insanity, but raising your kids in a world completely devoid of it runs the risk of them growing up with no cognitive defenses against its excesses, like college freshmen who plunge headlong into binge drinking or the poor villages whose people become obsessed with porn the moment they first get internet.

We instead had a policy of (ok mostly my wife) talking a lot to our kids about culture and internet ridiculousness, helping them distinguish between what’s real and what the crazy extreme shit on the Internet is. They need to have antibodies to this stuff, I’m thinking of kids who grow up in excessively clean households later developing allergies. I think that you and your wife are very involved parents so you run a much lower risk of your kids being exposed unsupervised to the Internet (and thus allowing it to warp them) than most other households where the parents are busy working all the time.

[Prabal Banerjee @prabalbanerjee]

Last year when they announced @EFDevcon would be in Mumbai, I already knew people were going to complain.

Anyone landing in Mumbai and seeing the traffic, the crowds, the missing footpaths, the AQI is going to react. I’m Indian and I know Mumbai is not comparable to many top-tier cities. I’m not going to pretend otherwise.

Still, the broad takes bother me. India has the largest population in the world and the infrastructure never caught up. Cities like Mumbai keep pulling in people looking for work and better lives, so the same limited roads and systems get more pressure every year. That is most of what people are seeing.

A few days in Mumbai also doesn’t show the rest of the country. The smaller towns, the hills, the villages, the different ways people live and work. That part gets left out of the generalisation.

What a short trip also misses is the underlying drive. Across almost every field, Indians show up disproportionately, both inside the country and outside it. The average person here is constantly trying to move up a level - better work, better education, better life for their kids. It doesn’t pause, and it rarely feels satisfied. That hunger and drive sits underneath a lot of the chaos. People are still pushing hard with whatever infrastructure and opportunity they have.

I’m glad Devcon happened here. It gave Indian builders direct access to people they usually only interact with online. But if the only thing that sticks with you is the disorder of the city, you’re missing the more interesting part: a society that keeps trying to outrun its constraints.

[Quidli @quidliprotocol]

Born to build free 🦑

[Quidli @quidliprotocol]

See everyone next year 🦑🦄

[civil 🍄 💚 🫂💭 @civilmonkey]

why tf would the next DevCon not be in Africa?

give me one good reason