Will of Tyre

philologist and programmer 🐓/acc

[Will of Tyre @willoftyre]

@WojakSatoshi @saylor

[Will of Tyre @willoftyre]

i'm gonna redo this in france which is suffering an egg shortage (bretagne produces 33% of the eggs!)

[Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty]

About a decade ago, many people in Chinese stopped believing that chickens marketed as "free-range" were legit, because some unscrupulous suppliers tried to pass off bad chicken as premium, leading to small disease outbreaks.

In 2017, a Chinese company called GoGoChicken began sticking ankle bracelets onto all of their newly-hatched chickens to track their locations (via GPS), daily steps, the local air quality, and more. These data were logged onto the blockchain (for no apparent reason other than "credibility.")

When these chickens were slaughtered and packaged, the company included a little QR code on the label. Consumers could scan this label and see details about that particular chicken; where it was raised, what it ate, number of daily steps, and when it was slaughtered. These chickens were profitable, selling for up to $43 each. The technology expanded to more than 400 farms, but the company eventually went out of business for reasons that are unclear to me.

(The company also pitched an idea to allow people to buy their chicken four-to-six months before slaughter, so they could follow its life and remotely watch the animal as it grew up. Strange.)

Yes, this is literally a plot from the first episode of the TV show, Portlandia. But it is also a real story, well documented in the book "Blockchain Chicken Farm" by Xiaowei Wang, which is itself a collection of strange stories about technology adoption in rural parts of China. Recommend.

[Will of Tyre @willoftyre]

have to see this

[Daniel Ku 顧仲文 🇹🇼🇨🇦 @danzwku]

Looks like an interesting new Taiwanese film, I think it's on Netflix right now

@NetflixAsia

' "A Foggy Tale" (大濛, 2025) is a poignant Taiwanese historical tragicomedy set during the dark early years of the White Terror era in 1950s Taiwan. The story follows A-Yueh, a brave 15-year-old country girl from Chiayi, who travels alone to Taipei to retrieve the remains of her executed older brother after he is shot by the government for alleged anti-authoritarian activities. Armed with almost no money, she forms an unlikely, protective bond with Chao Kung-tao, a rough-around-the-edges, foul-mouthed local rickshaw driver who helps her navigate a dangerous, heavily policed society built on fear, silence, and corruption.'

[Will of Tyre @willoftyre]

@scriabingroyper classics?

[Alexander's Cartographer @cartographer_s]

Khodarkovsky (not to be confused with the exiled oligarch) is probably the single best contemporary historian on the historical dynamics between Russia & the steppe nomads and highland Caucasians

[Armand D'Angour @ArmandDAngour]

David Butterfield tells us everything that is known about the life of Lucretius. The Fowler Lecture 2026.
Set aside an hour to listen, learn, and enjoy!
https://t.co/B1LlOfu7Oc

[Will of Tyre @willoftyre]

need to read this

[Adam Tooze @adam_tooze]

How the Normans built a modern state in England after 1066： fascinating argument by Jean-Philippe Genet. Summary featured on today's Chartbook Top Links in the comment below.

[Will of Tyre @willoftyre]

@WojakSatoshi

[Will of Tyre @willoftyre]

@Eivor_Koy @grace_laker i'm going to make this for my kids and teach them to write the chinese characters. they are 3 months into chinese lessons :)

great info, thank you!

[Will of Tyre @willoftyre]

@TrenchWeb3 i'll be there! can't wait.

[Will of Tyre @willoftyre]

@NorbertVadas @ZenithFdn @CantonNetwork very intereting. i'm building something on canton and would love to try out zenith... any way we could speak soon? send me a dm if possible

[Will of Tyre @willoftyre]

@TrenchWeb3 @CantonNetwork @CantonFdn Luis, incredible video and I love you bringing Szabo's original paper back into the conversation!

You said at one point that "there's another point CT likes to **glaze over**" rather than "gloss over" and that made me laugh.

Keep it up man!

[Will of Tyre @willoftyre]

@blade_nd really impressive!!

how do you guys make up for the burn with featured app markers? do you receive those rewards only at the poolparty address? or is there another source of revenue that makes the overall operation of the protocol profitable?

[Will of Tyre @willoftyre]

@TrenchWeb3 @CantonNetwork @CantonFdn what do you think of cantor8? aren't they usually #1 in daily featured app rewards? huge buyers of traffic?

[Will of Tyre @willoftyre]

@diedisappointed https://t.co/nAxPmEZiA5

this contains most of his thoughts i think

[Will of Tyre @willoftyre]

@diedisappointed post the full intro pls, curious to know how this ends.

[Will of Tyre @willoftyre]

@RapidResponse47 i think candace is sexy tho, he got that part wrong

[The Medieval Scholar @MedievalScholar]

If you want to learn more about the Holy Roman Empire

Read Heart of Europe by Peter H Wilson

[Jaycel Adkins 鍾書 @JaycelAdkins]

Interesting, yesterday MIT started posting select lectures from course on Dynastic China, Fall 2024 (selected lectures) with @TristanGBrown I think four lectures are posted, hopefully in the future all of them! Link below: