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[Trevor Jones 🎨 @trevorjonesart]

What happens when you stand in front of a room filled with people from the traditional arts, institutions, education, creative tech, and culture… and start talking about NFTs, AI, cryptoart, AR hijacks, digital ownership, hype cycles, and why some of the “worst ideas” of my career became the foundation for everything that followed?

Tomorrow I’m keynote speaker at the Creative Tech Scotland Gathering at the Edinburgh Futures Institute in Edinburgh. Popped in today to see the space.

Honestly, I’ve no idea how this is going to go 😅

The whole talk is built around creative risk, ridicule, disruption, perseverance, and how artists navigate technological change before culture eventually catches up.

Should be interesting. Wish me luck!

[Yossi BenYakar @YossiBenYakar]

Top British attorney Natasha Hausdorff stunned the audience by completely destroying the Palestinian narrative about the conflict. The truth the world refuses to accept:

Palestine never existed as a sovereign Arab state.
The British Mandate of Palestine was a British territory taken from the defeated Ottoman Empire after 1917. Jews lived continuously in the Holy Land for centuries — long before modern Zionism. They were the majority in Jerusalem under Ottoman rule. Jews legally bought desert land (including the area that became Tel Aviv) and turned it into thriving cities and kibbutzim. Not a single Arab was displaced by these purchases.

The Arabs rejected the 1947 UN partition plan and launched war to destroy the newborn Jewish state. They lost. During that war, Arab armies ordered local Arabs to flee so they could “push the Jews into the sea.” Many did exactly that.

Israel has never committed genocide. It has fought for survival against repeated attempts to commit genocide against the Jewish people. Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran’s regime are the real obstacles to peace in the Middle East.

The historical facts are clear. The propaganda is not.

Share this. The truth needs to be heard.

[SPECTR @CryptoSpectr]

Pretty astute. I mostly released on KO and NG and now feel like my legacy is just shadows & dust already, only remembered by a very select few. I've had to delete all the links to my work in galleries from my personal site. Gradually switching to physical media.

[John Knopf @johnknopf]

I wanted to weigh in on the closure of Foundation and what’s happening across NFT platforms.

I used to think sending royalties to zero was the biggest rug pull in this space.

Turns out giving platforms a percentage of every sale was bigger.

Artists onboarded because we were promised perpetual royalties.
We stayed because our sales lived on-chain, surfaced through platforms that gave our work web3 “credibility.”

But that credibility was rented.

Now platforms we paid millions to are shutting down. Others are raising fees. Auction histories are disappearing.
And suddenly “provenance” depends on whether a company still exists to display it.

All the data is on Ethereum.
But the visibility, trust, and market access were not.

Those were controlled by the platforms.

We already knew “not your keys, not your wallet.”
Now it’s clearer: not your gallery, not your legacy.

Web3 was supposed to break the traditional gallery model.
Instead, we rebuilt it on new rails and handed the power right back.

In the traditional art world, galleries promote artists because their revenue depends on it. They have limited space, they have no other option. Curation comes with support, it has to. In web3, platforms scaled curation without this responsibility. They can essentially have unlimited amounts of art with no real obligation to help them succeed.

That’s not a partnership. That’s extraction dressed as opportunity.

But imo this isn’t the end of the story, it’s the beginning.

If this space is actually different, then artists need to act like it. Not waiting for small-team ultra curated platforms to validate our work, but owning identity, provenance, and relationships directly.

Most of us believe in what we’re doing here for the future generations of artists, it’s why we haven’t left, but If anything is going to change, it definitely WILL NOT come from platforms.

It comes from us… 🖤

[Ahmed Khalifa @_A_khalifa]

As a real Arab and Muslim
I don’t get why the hell Europeans
aren’t defending their own identity
culture, & way of life.

Why the hell are you letting some
immigrants change everything?
Why did you turn your countries
into a garbage dump for every loser
& terrorist from the Middle East?

Now even we can’t come as tourists
because of all the extremism and
violence.

Wake the fuck up and do something!

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

The most satisfying video you'll watch today.

Karma is a bitch.

[SPECTR @CryptoSpectr]

@RFDZI Yeah ✋️😄

[SPECTR @CryptoSpectr]

@TRobinsonNewEra @KemiBadenoch @Nigel_Farage @benhabib6 @RupertLowe10 @benhabib6 is the top cat in that line-up for me. Ben Habib for PM!!

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

On 16 May the Unite The Kingdom movement is holding another massive rally for those who love our country.

No single politician can pull together the number of patriots that UTK can.

So I am inviting @kemibadenoch @nigel_farage @benhabib6 and @rupertlowe10 for a “do not miss” opportunity to meet YOUR supporters.

UTK is not about me. It’s about the people and our country.

Put aside your political differences. Join UTK on 16 May.

Country first!

I await your replies.

[SPECTR @CryptoSpectr]

@aliemamiofnyc @NedtzoArt My favourite post today!! 😆

[Ali Emami 👊🏼👊🏾👊 ⚡️👑⚡️👊🏿👊🏻👊🏼 @aliemamiofnyc]

"German" Reporter: Are you an agent of Israel

The Shah: No but my grandfather refuged them when you guys were burning them in the oven!

[Tousi TV @TousiTVOfficial]

WATCH: Crown Prince @PahlaviReza fires back at European doubt over Iran’s future

“40,000 people gave their lives for democracy. Iranians are more than ready.”

As politicians question, Iranians are fighting.
As journalists hesitate, history is being written.

Whether Europe stands with them or not, the push for a free Iran is not slowing down.

[SPECTR @CryptoSpectr]

@farokh I honestly don't understand where they're coming from. What he said to you makes very little sense.

[Farokh @farokh]

Walked up to this British man who was carrying an Iranian regime flag today in the street and asked him if he was aware of the flag he was proudly waving.

His first response was “oh here comes the propaganda!”

So I proceeded to calmly talk to him and his group and told them that as an Iranian, I find it intriguing that they’re so proud of carrying that flag.

He then immediately got defensive and accused me of attacking him.

I proceeded to stay calm and tell him that I have nothing against him, but rather the flag he was carrying.

I asked him if he knew what it felt like to see this as an Iranian, and if he knew the actual damage the regime has done.

Him and his group then started saying:

“If this flag ceases to exist, Palestine ceases to exist”

“The USA started the war Iran is defending itself”

“This flag is for the people”

Not sure which “people” they were talking about, but one thing is for sure, they didn’t have one care in the world for the Iranian people.

I told them that it’s OK to approach things with more nuance and that one can be anti war, support Palestine, and be anti Islamic Regime.

They walked away, unwilling to entertain a balanced conversation.

It’s pretty sad we’ve come down to this level of “black or white”, there is not much balance left in this world.

[History of Bitcoin - Smashtoshi @bysmashtoshi]

Bitcoin’s history is too important to be lost, distorted, or reduced to myths.

Today, History of Bitcoin officially launches. 🧵

https://t.co/Mx7uhxd8qx

[Reza Pahlavi @PahlaviReza]

Whether or not Europe stands with us, whether or not your journalists do their jobs, whether or not your politicians demonstrate the courage to act, I will fight for my people and my country.

[shah @shahh]

Yes or No

[Ali Emami 👊🏼👊🏾👊 ⚡️👑⚡️👊🏿👊🏻👊🏼 @aliemamiofnyc]

Who was The Shah!

1- The Shah was not a dictator – he was a parliamentary king under the Mashroteh (Constitutional Monarchy) system, one of the biggest achievements in Iranian history, equivalent to America's Founding Fathers

2- He gave women the right to vote before Switzerland – Iranian women voted in 1963; Swiss women couldn't until 1971

3- He gave women divorce rights, child custody rights, and raised the marriage age through the Family Protection Law – and he did this despite the Islamic clergy and religious networks fighting him tooth and nail every step of the way

4- He transformed Iran from a WWII-invaded (1941), famine-stricken country into a nation that major world powers owed money to by 1979 – in less than 40 years

5- He co-founded OPEC (1960) and gave oil-producing nations control over their own resources and pricing

6- He started Iran's civilian nuclear program through diplomacy and negotiation – with no sanctions, no conflicts, and without making either the East or West feel threatened

7- He gave Iran international prestige through the 2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire (1971) – the same ceremony critics call "too expensive" actually increased Iran's tourism revenue from $45 million in 1971 to $152 million by 1976, and made the Iranian passport one of the most powerful in the world

8- He ended a centuries-old feudal system through the White Revolution (1963) – took land from the landlords who had exploited farmers for generations and redistributed it to the people who actually worked it

9- He made education free, expanded access to schools, and sent thousands of students abroad on full government scholarships including living expenses – and even when many of those students protested against him from abroad, he never cut their funding

10- He built world-class universities – Sharif University, expanded Tehran University, Pahlavi University (now Shiraz University), and opened a Harvard-affiliated branch in Iran

11- He built a modern healthcare system – hospitals, clinics, and medical infrastructure across the country

12- He created the Knowledge Corps, Health Corps, and Development Corps – instead of wasting time in traditional army service, university graduates served in rural areas to fight illiteracy, provide healthcare, and develop infrastructure in small towns that had no schools or clinics

13- He established retirement and pension plans for workers

14- He built Iran's steel and iron industries, automobile manufacturing, and petrochemical plants – when the West refused to share steel technology, he turned to the USSR and got it done anyway, showing how dynamic and internationally flexible he was

15- He built stadiums, highways, dams, and railways still in use today

16- He expanded the Trans-Iranian Railway

Iranians now know what a mistake the 1979 revolution was. Many of the revolutionaries have verbalized and written about their mistake, and some have apologized to the Pahlavi family even former MEK members who escaped the cult.

Others like Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the world-renowned filmmaker, and Shirin Ebadi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, are among those who have acknowledged this.

Do not be surprised why Iran is going back to its glory days.

#IranMassacre
#JavidShah‌‌‌‌‌
#DigitalBlackoutlran

[SPECTR @CryptoSpectr]

@RupertLowe10 This is all very well to say Rupert, but if Right wing parties like Restore & Advance can't galvanise as and form a strong union, there's no chance to win the next election. It'll be Greens and Labour coalition, just watch. If they lower thr voting age, its over.

[The Iran Watcher 🇮🇷 @TheIranWatcher]

🚨 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MINAB SCHOOL IS EXPOSED!

The Islamic Republic converted a school in Minab into a barracks, where over 120 schoolchildren were killed as human shields.

A brave citizen from Minab shared this video and photos after finally gaining internet access following 46 days of blackout. The regime built a guard tower and converted parts of Shajareh Tayyebeh School into a military position.

An IRGC Navy guard tower stands in the middle of the school courtyard. Does this look like a place of education or a military barracks?

The child-killing Islamic Republic regime is solely responsible for the slaughter of these children.

Will undercover Islamic Republic supporters now condemn this brazen use of human shields?

[SPECTR @CryptoSpectr]

@ImtiazMadmood We live in hope! 🙏