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[t33 @t33Girl]

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[Cuffee 🦾 @chopsticx_]

⚠️ Disclaimer!!! ⚠️

https://t.co/lobRckmODa is an independent, non-profit, user-generated digital archive built by collectors to celebrate the living legacy of Dima Kashtalyan. This project is entirely recreational, handles zero financial transactions, and is not officially affiliated with or endorsed by the artist. All rights to the featured artwork belong strictly to Dima Kashtalyan. To support the artist directly and view his official portfolio, shop, and updates, please visit https://t.co/9OUgNq9S3b.

This disclaimer is uploaded to the website as well.

I had a few concerns about building the website initially and some doubts too, especially about Cyber and IP laws so I had to do a lot of research and reading (not my favorite thing to do).

I wanted to do something meaningful while still respecting the artist's work and not infringe on his IP rights. I also didn't want to get slapped with a lawsuit 😭

Please visit our Kashtalyan wall and sign there to help us get to 1,111 signatures.

PS: there was no vibecoding involved in the development of this website, we built the code base from scratch.

[Cuffee 🦾 @chopsticx_]

When the project team announced an art contest, I wished I could participate. But I can't paint or sketch to save my life. I’m a tech-inclined girl.

I realized that while my hands can't hold a paintbrush, my code could be a canvas to celebrate his legacy. My little brother and I teamed up and spent the last few days building an interactive, non-profit digital archive to honor his work.

We just launched it at: https://t.co/lobRcknmsI

A living digital archive

[Cuffee 🦾 @chopsticx_]

ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴄʜᴀɴɢᴇᴅ ᴡʜᴇɴ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʙɪʀᴅ ᴀᴘᴘᴇᴀʀᴇᴅ.

ᴡʜᴇɴ ᴀ ᴍᴀꜱᴛᴇʀ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ ᴡɪᴛʜ 20 ʏᴇᴀʀꜱ ᴏꜰ ɢᴀʟʟᴇʀʏ ᴇxʜɪʙɪᴛɪᴏɴꜱ ᴅᴇᴄɪᴅᴇꜱ ᴛᴏ ꜱᴛᴇᴘ ᴏɴᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴄᴋᴄʜᴀɪɴ, ᴛʜᴇ ᴇɴᴛɪʀᴇ ɪɴᴛᴇʀɴᴇᴛ ᴛᴀᴋᴇꜱ ɴᴏᴛɪᴄᴇ. 🧵

[V🦾 @May16t]

@Sounz0_0 @thebeaksart @DKashtalyan Broooooooooo?????

[Elysia @Elysialiora]

According to 𝐂𝐞𝐬𝐚𝐫 𝐀. 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐳, a filmmaker/Educator; 𝐀𝐫𝐭 should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

I was 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 by Contrast; the idea of taking something often seen as elegant and mysterious, then 𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫, 𝐦𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐬.

Been a fan of fantasy stories in films and myth-style illustrations that take nature and twist it into something unexpected, but still full of meaning, 𝐈 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 if it existed between beauty and darkness, silence and presence.

As the contest encourages us to break away from traditional ideas and re-create (reimagine) 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐬, I took it so personal because I already know in art and symbolism, Beak stands for instinct, intelligence, freedom, transformation, omen, etc.

So I decided to create a 3D 𝐕𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐀𝐫𝐭

I reimagined the Beak as a 𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐦 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫-𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐞 , but not to show fear or horror.

Instead, I wanted it to 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬��𝐧𝐜𝐞.

In my artwork, 𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐦 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 the space between endings and beginnings; like a timeless figure carrying memory, hidden truths, and emotional weight.
@thebeaksart @DKashtalyan

[V🦾 @May16t]

@BurrowzNFT Let's goooo

[V🦾 @May16t]

@TheSymbioteLab @opensea How many per wallet?

[𝗔𝗝𝗝𝗘𝗘𝗘🦾💊 @ajjeee__]

Giving Away 3X GTD WL For @lacertianseth

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[V🦾 @May16t]

@borladayo @thebeaksart @ssheyii @MartKAD @DKashtalyan This is fire 🔥

[ØxBedee ♟️❄️ @borladayo]

Some artworks just make you stop scrolling and yeah, that was me when I found @thebeaksart

It’s not just because the art looks good, but because you can actually feel the years behind it.

20 years of practice, then stepping into Web3 is not something you see every day, and honestly, that’s what makes @thebeaksart by @DKashtalyan unique to me.

If you watched DKashtalyan draw live on X two days ago, then you already understand the vibe.

Watching a Beak come to life in real time, tv details, the patience, the creativity, it reminded me that real art will always stand out no matter the space, so I did this art for The Beaks because I genuinely connected with the vision that much.

This is the kind of project that inspires you to create too

[V🦾 @May16t]

@TheSymbioteLab Come get infected.
@Evrardzz @ifuru___ @Crystal_nftB

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

I put on my fraud detection hat whenever I see a 22 year old Tech bro who supposedly dropped out of college to fund an AI startup. In this case, what I found about this Kled guy is incredibly disturbing.

K5 Global is Kled’s lead investor. K5 Global is a firm that frequently invests alongside the Palantir and Thiel network. Another Kled backer, Aglaé Ventures, owned by Bernard Arnault, has a massive AI portfolio that intersects with the same labs that Palantir’s AIP integrates with.

Basically, Kled is the Data Harvester for Palantir. Their job is to mobilize hundreds of thousands of gig workers, mostly from the Global South, to upload personal photos, videos, and documents. They convert raw human life into a machine readable product. Their clients like Palantir act as the Data Refinery. Palantir’s software, specifically Foundry and AIP, is designed to take that data and make it actionable for governments and corporations to put into global surveillance and military use.

We can safely conclude that this Kled guy and other similar AI startups harvesting user data are human meat shields. They are specifically set up and funded to do the dirty work for Silicon Valley tech empires.

Understand that these Large AI labs are currently being sued by artists, writers, and publishers for stealing data through web scraping. To win these court cases, OpenAI and Palantir need to prove they have clean, consented data. Buying a dataset from Kled, where every user signed a 50 page digital consent form in exchange for $20, gives these billion dollar tech companies a free pass.

Also, imagine if Palantir, a company already criticized for government surveillance and US military war campaigns, offered to pay people in developing countries to film their living rooms and daily activities. It would look like a global surveillance network. By using Kled as a middleman, they get the same data but keep their hands clean in the public eye.

Even though we cannot verify his claim of Nigerians defrauding his company, what we can verify is that he is an industry plant. He is set up to allow AI data labs to continue harvesting user data for global surveillance and military use.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

"We create the chaos. Then we move in and capitalise on that chaos...We're looking at the long term here gentlemen. Rates of return that'll make Iraq and Afghanistan look like chickenfeed."

To those who want to remain asleep, may you sleep until you wake no more.

[Nnamdi Obi @nnamdiobiii]

Olodo

In the 1980s, Nigeria was pushed into Structural Adjustment Programs by the IMF/World Bank. SAPs forced government to slash spending on public infrastructure such as power, water, health, education.

Who designed those conditions? Washington consensus institutions with US Treasury fingerprints all over them.
NEPA didn’t fail by accident. It was defunded by policy.

Now zoom out to Nepal.

Nepal sits on some of the most powerful river systems on earth. Hydroelectric potential that could power the entire subcontinent.

Yet they remain one of the poorest countries in Asia,dependent on foreign aid, foreign expertise, foreign approval.

Why? Because energy independence is geopolitical power. And powerful neighbors (with US backing) don’t want a self-sufficient Nepal.

Two countries. Two continents. Zero electricity sovereignty.

The CIA doesn’t need to cut your light. They just need to make sure you never build the switch.

But because you can’t read not think objectively, you make careless tweets without realizing how hopeless you are.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

For anyone interested in Political Literacy 101, this is a simple and very important glossary to read.

[V🦾 @May16t]

@chopsticx_ @GoblynzNFT @magicburp Nice storyline.
I hope you get in

[DINERO🦾 @Dineroxyz]

Happy to announce our collab with @tmm_eth

R-rated animated IP evolving into a full-blown interactive Web3 universe with 550,000+ subscribers worldwide.

Supply: 666
Price: FREE
Chain: Ethereum

More info on our discord