Jason Brink aka BitBender

Gamer dad and blockchain advisor.

Views expressed are my own.

[Jason Brink aka BitBender @BitBenderBrink]

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[Jason Brink aka BitBender @BitBenderBrink]

@ENJU1123PIPI Yes, it is very convenient.

However, my grandfather, who was a prison guard, thought I had been to jail to learn to eat like that because apparently they do not give people knives in jail for obvious reasons.

[Jason Brink aka BitBender @BitBenderBrink]

@ENJU1123PIPI Massive fan of chopsticks.

Hate the idea of hand eating with the exception of bread and latin food items like tacos.

Pizza gets a pass as part of bread.

Rice should never be eaten with hands, imo.

[Jason Brink aka BitBender @BitBenderBrink]

@tuuu28283 Don't listen to the haters. You do you.

[Jason Brink aka BitBender @BitBenderBrink]

@tuuu28283 Congrats!

[Jason Brink aka BitBender @BitBenderBrink]

@pear4thew92233 Here is a link to the video...it works for me in the article text, not sure why it isn't for you.

https://t.co/5ytrUJdkGy

[Pledditor @Pledditor]

Charles basically telling $ADA holders it's over...

[Jason Brink aka BitBender @BitBenderBrink]

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[Jason Brink aka BitBender @BitBenderBrink]

Here is a link to the video: https://t.co/5ytrUJdkGy

[Pledditor @Pledditor]

Charles basically telling $ADA holders it's over...

[Jason Brink aka BitBender @BitBenderBrink]

I love your writing. I am not sure if you are serious in all that you write, but I appreciate the sentiment. Every day, I see one of your posts and it gives me a different view of my own culture through eyes that I can somehow see through but only once one shows me how.

Keep it up. Keep writing. If we ever cross paths, I would be happy to meet you for lunch. For real, not just the promise.

[Jason Brink aka BitBender @BitBenderBrink]

Holy shit...hes younger than me.

I get those feels though. I know EXACTLY how he feels. You end up being the face for something you don't control and other people and forces do things you cannot change or prevent, and the common person blames you for it.

It sucks. Been there, still doing that.

[Jason Brink aka BitBender @BitBenderBrink]

I cannot express how much I love this writing. Everyone should give this guy a follow.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A backyard. One man guarding a grill for four hours.

He never left it once.

Everyone else drifted and drank and laughed. But one man stood alone before the flames, turning meat with a long fork, immovable. I knew him at once. The keeper of the sacred fire.

I took my place beside him and said nothing. After a while, he spoke.

"Low and slow," he said, eyes on the coals. "You can't rush it. Rush it, you ruin it."

I bowed my head. A blade, a tea, a life. None can be rushed. I had crossed four thousand miles to hear my grandfather's words from a man in a "KISS THE COOK" apron.

"Everything worth doing is slow," I agreed.

He glanced at me. Something passed between us.

"My wife says just use the oven." He shook his head at the fire. "She doesn't get it."

"They never do," I said.

And this is where it turned.

For the first time in years, this man had been understood. And he rose to meet it. His back straightened. His voice dropped low. A teenager reached for the grill and the man lifted one hand without even looking. "Not yet." The boy retreated. He was becoming what I already believed him to be.

A woman asked when the food would be done. "It's ready when it's ready," he told the flames.

Three people approached. Three were turned away with a single word. By the fourth hour, no one questioned him. The whole party had arranged itself around the man and his fire, the way a village arranges itself around a shrine.

Then he handed me the fork.

"Watch it a sec. I gotta pee."

I have been trusted with castles.

I have never been more honored.

He served everyone before himself, and ate last, standing, still watching the coals. We never traded names. We did not need to.

He believed he had finally met a man who took his cooking seriously.

I believed I had finally met America's last samurai.

Neither of us will ever correct the other.

So tell me, America.

Who is the man at your gathering who will not leave the grill?

Have you ever once asked him why?

I think he is still standing there.

Guarding the fire.

Waiting for one person to understand.

[Jason Brink aka BitBender @BitBenderBrink]

@Markgraefla @PersonalThai That is very cool. Stone masonry has always been something I have been interested in. I would love to learn to carve stone.

[Jason Brink aka BitBender @BitBenderBrink]

@hthieblot ICQ...I fricking miss ICQ.

[Jason Brink aka BitBender @BitBenderBrink]

I have explained this to you several times.

Companies try things all the time. Just because those things do not work does not make them a scam, it just means that they didn't work. Whatever it was or is, Gala Music was never a scam. Apple sunset the iPod forever ago...that does not mean it was a scam, the company just pivoted in a new direction. Companies MUST do this to survive, because you can't keep supporting something forever that isn't making money.

Gala Music was a very cool concept, and it is one I still think could work. Launching ANYTHING during that period of the market was extremely difficult, especially for anything involving NFTs...I mean, just look at the string of stuff that started and shut down in the same time....sound.xyz, https://t.co/aPzuLXMNQU, even fricking Napster's web3 reboot came and went in the same time.

As I have also said I have not worked there in over two years and have control over what they do or any idea what the internal situation is.

A lot of awesome artists, Emily included, gave the platform tons of support and it was something that worked for a time. It does not appear that the company is moving it forward any longer, and that doesn't have anything to with me or any of the artists that were on the platform. It just appears that the company has moved into other directions and said they are consolidating everything into one platform. You can see this message on the Music and Film websites.

Please quit tagspamming me. This is the last response and I won't be commenting further. I just feel the need to stick up for a team that I know was well intentioned, even if the product didn't end up working in the long run.

[Jason Brink aka BitBender @BitBenderBrink]

No argument on that, with the exception of the fact that the Democrats did themselves no favors by not putting someone forward a lot of the country could get behind.

I see him as a symptom of a broader lack of cohesiveness on the part of the American people. We suck at working together and maintaining any sort of unified standard, so people like Trump can very effectively divide the nation.

However, body odor or the fact that he farts isn't relevant to that.

[Jason Brink aka BitBender @BitBenderBrink]

@John4U001 @GoGalaMusic @GoGalaGames No, I am not.

I have not worked there for over two years. Please stop asking me about it. I know less than you do at this point.

[Jason Brink aka BitBender @BitBenderBrink]

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[Jason Brink aka BitBender @BitBenderBrink]

Behind-the-meter power used to be the kind of thing only a few unusual operators talked about, and now it is showing up as a baseline assumption in how serious data center developers plan their next sites. The recent Foley survey found that more than half of developers are actively exploring co-located or on-site generation, GE Vernova is scaling toward roughly 20 gigawatts of annual gas turbine output, and deals like the CalEthos and TerraVolt natural gas supply agreement are being structured specifically so a 200-plus megawatt campus can run without leaning on the local grid at all. What I find genuinely interesting is the quiet reframing underneath all of it. Generating your own power onsite is no longer a fallback for when the grid says no, it is becoming a deliberate strategy for speed, certainty, and control. The grid will still matter, but the operators building their own power are buying themselves an optionality the rest of the market will be paying a premium to get later.