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Some guy. Doesn't know how to program.

Got bored with the Elon reality TV show. I don't come here often.

Work account: @pkoch_idos

[Alberta Tech @albertadevs]

No, AI isn’t making you “forget” how to code:

[Web Design Museum @WebDesignMuseum]

Badger Badger Badger, also known as “The Badger Song,” is a viral internet meme and classic Flash animation from 2003 by Jonti Picking.

The looping animation featured dancing badgers, mushrooms, and a snake, paired with a catchy repetitive song that became one of the most iconic viral videos of the early internet era.

#InternetHistory

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@kapilansh_twt Julia

[farcaster.xyz/pkoch @pkoch]

@FUCORY @mitchellh This has MKUltra vibes.

[Jeremy @Jeremybtc]

A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine.

> Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla.

> The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks.

> In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway.
Investors went wild.

> What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind.

> Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll.

> He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media.

> Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't.

> In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford.

> Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight.

> A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time.

> In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days.

> A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year.

> He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal.

> He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.

> In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders.

> Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing.

The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

[farcaster.xyz/pkoch @pkoch]

Don't embrace the future, make the future.

[Always Generating @notiansans]

What started off as a workflow test, just an idea, quickly had me locked into a flow state. 4 hours total from completely blank slate to finished video.

I can’t believe we’re all so lucky to have this at our fingertips.

🔊 sound on 🔊 @runwayml

[TheStandupPod @thestanduppod]

Casey Tries Node

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

There's 3 levels of rich...

Level 1.) Cutting your own grass

Level 2.) Paying someone else to cut your grass

Level 3.) Cutting your own grass

[anul agarwal @anulagarwal]

You all are overthinking your side projects.

>This guy made digital balls physically bounce off real objects/sticky notes using just a webcam, a projector, and JavaScript.

Go build something fun.

(via ig/bongyunng)

[farcaster.xyz/pkoch @pkoch]

@fwdemail Excellent. Is this open source too?

[kenny @kennyistyping]

https://t.co/yoXD74pCEK

[farcaster.xyz/pkoch @pkoch]

@kennyistyping Let's go! So excited for this! 🎉

[kenny @kennyistyping]

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[farcaster.xyz/pkoch @pkoch]

You're absolutely right!

[Paul Graham @paulg]

One big difference between talking to AIs and talking to people on Twitter is that AIs usually admit when they're mistaken and correct the error, whereas people on Twitter will do anything to avoid this.

[farcaster.xyz/pkoch @pkoch]

Help me build a better, compliant, web3!

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[farcaster.xyz/pkoch @pkoch]

It's been fun over there.

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[farcaster.xyz/pkoch @pkoch]

Failure is always an option.

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