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Asked my barber if I could pay in bitcoin and got the classic combo of "isn't it too late to invest" and "doesn't Trump have one of those?". Tried to tell him it's just money, but his eyes glazed over. He only accepts cash, so thought he might be more receptive.
More and more convinced after interactions like this that most people can't be orange pilled. They will do what everyone else does. Bitcoin needs to be used by bitcoiners, and available to those who want it - but we won't convince even close to a small minority. That's fine as long as we can preserve the ability to spend and save with sovereignty.

2026-07-14 10:41:05 UTC

BBC needs to do some fact checking
https://blossom.primal.net/4ff768ed06e5cc64002052b02fd9b376bbff6bf6a3a0db5dcdd5c2198cf2b994.jpg

2026-07-02 05:46:27 UTC

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I think it's a sign of things to come
#nevent1q…st88

2026-06-30 15:17:31 UTC

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I've created a very simple and clean meditation app and published to @nprofile…kjtv - check it out! https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qq8xgetk9ekk2erfw3shg6t0dcq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fw0fshqum5daex2tnyv4mqygqvef3qzevdtkvz88q4z8h5qftzla7hy3r0kgq635v90su7x6wflgpsgqqq0c9spaclr3

2026-06-30 09:57:40 UTC

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"Compliant VC" - hopefully a parody account?

2026-06-30 08:51:18 UTC

People who have been terrible managers their whole careers, who give unclear instructions and don't know how to measure progress: "Follow me for advice on the exact right way to use AI"

2026-06-29 08:04:34 UTC

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Still CIA - just engineering a gov bailout so the USG will gets it's SBR 🙃

2026-06-29 06:19:59 UTC

Maybe this bear market is just to punish Saylor for being too autistic to join the Epstein club

2026-06-26 07:01:06 UTC

Hey @nprofile…fg9w @nprofile…q0jg @nprofile…46tj @nprofile…txkn something going on with the podcast feed:
Status:
The podcast host's server does not know where to find the file. It may have been deleted.
Technical details:
404
File URL:
https://feeds.fountain.fm/0EAzqUaM4qqanDr1qNuK/items/WeBIgrQtsFOre1fmcwvU/files/VIDEO---DEFAULT---66482746-8b99-4cb4-9ff5-e164d480c7a7.mp4/ORIGINAL.mp3

2026-06-16 17:50:19 UTC

Oh you want to use a nice app? Privately??!!!!
https://blossom.primal.net/87cd927804e335752d257ab39c8eee2c03da61d96597a46a4494dcf19f983dd5.jpg

2026-06-16 17:42:58 UTC

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It's a "new paradigm" 😅

2026-06-15 09:04:27 UTC

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The walls are closing in

2026-06-15 07:45:44 UTC

I want open source models to win, but worth being realistic. Today the US closed frontier models are MUCH better when looking at more realistic metrics like task time horizon.
For example, while other benchmarks show Kimi K2 and Opus 4.5 (both released November 2025) as being quite close on some indexes, the task length they can complete correctly 50% of the time is very different. 1 hour for Kimi, but 5 hours for Opus.
Some of this may be due to better harnesses for the US closed models, but that's material edge.

2026-06-12 15:23:22 UTC

An observation when running in London: female runners almost always have expensive kit and a water pack, but male runners often look like they've just found some swimming trunks and a pair of old shoes.
Not quite sure what to make of it.

2026-06-07 19:14:28 UTC

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Lol, managed to convince myself of a conspiracy theory that ties together two somewhat nonsensical behaviours of large AI companies:
1. Spending way more than seems possible to get a return on
2. Continually talking up how dangerous they themselves are
They're basically stuck. On one hand they have to spend as much as their competitors in case scaling laws continue, and they're able to keep monetising their AI (but this is not certain) and not fall behind. On the other hand they may have massively over-invested and could lose everything if things slow down or the market turns. So what should they do as rational actors?
Make people maximally scared (based on real concerns, so this isn't exactly baseless FUD), and then lobby governments into buying into them for the sake of redistribution from the rewards of AI labour - an easier short term path than a hostile government takeover that risks the US losing the AI race to China. This is both in the form of a huge government stake, but will be sold as "universal basic capital" (UBC) giving equity to the masses.
This strategy of UBC is actually proposed by two Deepmind economists on the recent Dwarkesh podcast, and they seem to indicate it's the preferred outcome.
The result for Deepmind (Google), Open AI etc. is that they retain a lot of control, get a huuuge low risk pay day, are no longer at risk of hostile state takeover, and all their stakeholders (e.g. researchers who go on effective altruism podcasts) feel good about themselves like they've achieved the right outcome for humanity.
The result for us masses is that we will be stuck holding the bag of the debt governments incurr to make this deal. And the government will then also have an incentive to make it look like a good deal, so they will actively encourage economic destruction to ensure more of the economy is represented by the UBC.
Further implications here are making my head explode, but owning unconfiscateable hard money seems like a reasonable strategy for plebs.
#nevent1q…ptru

2026-06-07 18:10:07 UTC

Be an AI company.
Talk up the risks of AI for unemployment.
Make the government panic.
Present a solution: Government buys you for trillions and distributes shares as "universal basic capital" (while also facilitating fraud at a scale never seen before).
Be super rich.

2026-06-04 10:33:55 UTC

My AI-enhanced productivity is significantly mitigated by how much I get distracted while Claude works. It might be net negative for some tasks 😅

2026-05-21 08:03:33 UTC

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This guy is on the "right" of the Labour Party. God help us.
#nevent1q…xedk

2026-05-18 06:00:32 UTC

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I remember at the time how all the VC podcasts were crowing about how premines were an amazing innovation for incentivising developers. It's been an exceptionally good signal for revealing scammers.

2026-05-16 06:37:32 UTC

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Hi Herman, is this issue on the DA or Afriforum's radar at all?

2026-05-07 08:32:18 UTC

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Have been thinking of planting some Japanese holly instead of box because of this. Have you considered it?

2026-05-05 08:18:40 UTC

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Don't disagree with the sentiment, but this seems to be a well known series of events (pretty sure I learned quite young that UK and other countries developed and tested nuclear weapons): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Grapple
Not sure what documentary that's from, but worth being aware that people pursuing class action claims have a strong incentive to embellish some details.

2026-04-28 14:41:20 UTC

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Awesome, good luck!
(Btw the first part of the video was so wholesome, loved it ✌️)

2026-04-17 19:15:20 UTC

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Nothin' much, what's up with you?

2026-04-13 09:06:17 UTC

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"The Union grows stronger." As if that's an end in itself 🙃 This is the logic of sociopathic bureaucratic blob.
Tbh I have no stake or opinion on Hungarian politics, but the result being supported with such idiotic rationale by *those* people is not a good sign.

2026-04-05 19:49:08 UTC

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Okay, 100% he's in on the scheme
#nevent1q…ppqr

2026-03-27 16:50:44 UTC

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What's your approach?
Agree it's critical to help teach children - for their own sake. Have been trying a mixture of rewards and counting with time outs for our 4 year old. Sometimes my instinct is to shout at her 😅 But I think that probably models bad behaviour, so I resist.

2026-03-22 20:04:35 UTC

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Yep. I'm paid to be patient I guess 😅 It's the repeat offenders that get to me though

2026-03-22 19:59:29 UTC

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Basically half my day is spent replying to people asking them to explain, how to reproduce, share examples. The worst is when they report it with some "advice" like "you should have more testing" before we have any idea of the root cause.

2026-03-22 10:30:30 UTC

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Pretty good idea tbh

2026-03-21 21:22:43 UTC

Kinda reassuring that Meta is incompetent enough to waste $50Bn + on a virtual reality world which they're now shelving

2026-03-21 19:44:16 UTC

"The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." - Adam Smith on Bitcoin

2026-03-21 19:35:06 UTC

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That would be cool if it wouldn't break. But tbh I'd still use my feet to lift with the handles

2026-03-21 16:04:27 UTC

Toilet seats should have handles

2026-03-21 15:56:00 UTC

In the Fallow Field
I went down on my hands and knees
Looking for trees,
Twin leaves that, sprung from seeds,
Were now too big
For stems much thinner than a twig.
These soon with chamomile and clover
And other fallow weeds
Would be turned over;
And I was thinking how
It was a pity someone should not know
That a great forest fell before the plough.
- Andrew Young

2026-03-21 09:52:15 UTC

JFC, can Roku pls stop trying to market horror versions of Bambi and Popeye to my kids

2026-03-20 10:09:38 UTC

One of the best things about coding AIs is that they don't spend the first two hours figuring out who to blame before attempting to solve a problem

2026-03-20 07:45:07 UTC

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GM! But also, wtf? Are those blueberries in your coffee?

2026-03-20 07:44:27 UTC

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Thanks for explaining. I didn't have any knowledge of the US SoW's tattoos - clearly a massive and critical gap in my understanding of the world 😅
Why did you choose to include the word in your post? Assume you are implying something?

2026-03-19 14:57:47 UTC

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Why did you put "Kafir" in parentheses after his name?

2026-03-19 09:06:42 UTC

You can't block shipping lanes for Bitcoin

2026-03-19 08:42:37 UTC

Trump has really fucked up this time

2026-03-18 20:21:01 UTC

JFC, CEO reckons it's "wartime" for our SaaS company so his solution is mandatory more days in the office and letting people comp dinners if they work late. That's the whole strategy. 🙄

2026-03-16 17:26:49 UTC

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Sadly 🙃

2026-03-16 12:01:08 UTC

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Yes. The people they want status with don't think it's dreadful 😅
There are lots of stupid things people do for status

2026-03-16 10:14:07 UTC

Everyone at my company thinks they're a programmer/designer now. I just get tagged in everyone's shitty feature PRs and as the PM have to explain why most of them suck and create tech and UX debt, and don't actually solve the customer problem that well. So basically AI has made me less productive 😅

2026-03-16 10:10:26 UTC

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Status

2026-03-15 07:21:58 UTC

Have gone my whole life without ever needing to use the word "apropos"

2026-03-13 08:37:33 UTC

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01110000000111010100011

2026-03-10 09:13:13 UTC

What if all AI compute just goes into attacking or defending against other AIs, and then basically nothing else changes except we have robots that clean things badly

2026-03-10 08:37:33 UTC

Yes the CCP is so smart that they implemented the one child policy and engineered a self-inflicted demographic disaster.

2026-03-10 08:36:22 UTC

Most charitable interpretation of the Iran attack: It shows that Trump is serious and won't make empty threats the next time there are negotiations. Then restart talks soonish and give Iran regime an offramp (no more nukes, some reforms) from a point of weakness.

2026-03-09 15:06:13 UTC

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Yep
Switching back to Amethyst today

2026-03-09 15:00:52 UTC

Test

2026-03-09 14:52:47 UTC

Test

2026-03-09 14:28:44 UTC

I always like the Robinson Crusoe economic analysis tool. What happens when there is only one economic actor, then two, then threw etc. Useful for understanding trade and comparative advantage and the benefits of specialisation etc.
May also be useful to understand the impact of AI. What do the islanders now do when no one has to do book keeping, or manage customer service, or code the apps? What happens when only one islander can do all of these things - can he then demand more output from the others? What if another islander can also do all the computer work?
I think the equilibrium is people demanding more luxury/leisure goods and services, and more people providing these. Builders, landscapers, cooks, childcare etc. But also more and more novel needs in the digital sphere. Basically we can't know, but the one constant is insatiable human desire.

2026-03-09 12:11:16 UTC

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This is both less sinister, and more evil than it sounds.
Not that sinister and to be expected: Au10tix is just doing standard KYC with the data that the user gives X (and that they agree in ToS to share with 3rd parties). This goes into an automated process to search Google and process results to form a risk rating (maybe to limit reach or ensure X is not violating some type of national law). It's not Israeli intelligence officers sitting there googling people.
More evil: Even people who supposedly care about being anon are willingly handing this info over in order to chase clout on X. The system forces X to do this and KYC is just accepted. Yes it's a honeypot, everyone knows it's a honeypot, but many just do it because they've been conditioned over decades to do so and trust big tech.

2026-03-08 21:41:11 UTC

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JFC, this people are in way over their heads. You can see they're lying and panicking. God help us.

2026-03-08 09:33:08 UTC

Balaji is a very articulate retarded person

2026-03-07 21:53:56 UTC

Many people confuse simple incentives in action for "capitalism"

2026-03-05 11:18:15 UTC

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This has always seemed obvious to me when hearing people argue for moving to lower tax geos from Western democracies - all well and good if you're compliant.

2026-03-01 20:36:10 UTC

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Having a bad time 😅
https://blossom.primal.net/6637a624efc98577bb379a2cc9815ff3b8f4fd26d3edecf53b67905c3084592c.jpg

2026-03-01 20:24:24 UTC

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Brave seems very cucked. Can't sign up with a proton alias email. I thought their whole thing was privacy?

2026-03-01 19:53:30 UTC

I must be retarded because I'm trying to set up OpenClaw with @nprofile…aw3u and I've been stuck twice so far:
1. Need a credit card since Clawi doesn't accept Bitcoin (which is weird given it was built by @nprofile…rzrk). Paid some crazy premium for a privacy.com card, so solved that.
2. Apparently you also need to do a credit card IDV for a Brave browser API key - currently looking for a workaround, da fuq? Obvs not Clawi's fault but seems pretty unreasonable since it's the default search API OpenClaw wants to use.
Is everyone else just doxxing themselves?
Should have just set this up manually with an anon VPS but was lazy :/
(Also failed at setting up a telegram link - never used telegram so maybe it's me, but got the pairing key etc. and it failed - still need to solve this, although hoping I can get my bot to do White Noise)

2026-02-26 10:12:44 UTC

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Objectively true. At the start there was Satoshi and Hal. Intellectual dilution ever since 😅

2026-02-25 19:27:32 UTC

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So good.
What do you think about Surfin' USA too? Such a vibe

2026-02-25 08:52:39 UTC

Two types of nostr users
1. Plants are trying to kill you
2. Plants are medicine

2026-02-25 08:51:35 UTC

It's going to be interesting watching some of the Trump anti-immigrant fans switch to arguing for Bitcoin to subvert citizenship bank account checks

2026-02-24 22:06:11 UTC

Me reading a bitcoin newsletter: skip to the part about why current events mean price will pump

2026-02-18 08:13:44 UTC

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"Independent" central banks
#nevent1q…28e7

2026-02-16 12:56:29 UTC

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Have you used Opus 4.6 too? Any thoughts on how they compare?

2026-02-15 09:49:08 UTC

Seems more and more likely that AI is going to have a large short term disruptive impact on employment. This will lead to panic - I'm already seeing it from normie white collar job friends who think they'll be unemployed in a year and are making big decisions factoring this in.
I honestly don't know what the fuck will happen and I'll probably panic too.
But you know who will really panic? Governemnts. And they will both feed off and feed into the panic. The most obvious thing people will demand is guaranteed income and more welfare to protect them - I think even normies will realise AI is too powerful to simply regulate.
This will lead to money printing. And this will happen before AI has a chance to grow the economy enough (i.e. pay the national debt from more taxes paid by Google and OpenAI).
I don't know if Bitcoin goes higher in this scenario, but it increasingly looks like the one thing that can't be fucked with.

2026-02-14 20:50:14 UTC

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Working now 🙏 Think I had 0.2.7 😬 Update is amazing 🤩

2026-02-14 08:57:41 UTC

Hmmm, wtf happened to Signal on @nprofile…tdq0 ?
https://blossom.primal.net/f113edc36aefe3d1ce9dcd9fc5ee18ed449d0937c3480b429579881b3195dcf0.png

2026-02-14 08:54:13 UTC

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White Stripes are my favourite band, and some of his solo albums and Raconteurs were solid.
But, like Neil Young (lol, we live in a simulation, radio started playing heart of gold as I typed this) and others in the music business they're gripped by left wing ideology.
To be fair, JW was always been quite left wing (listen to Icky Thump) but now has solid TDS. Still like his music but he's not my source of political commentary 😅

2026-02-14 08:36:16 UTC

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Wasn't most of this some kind of registration change of the existing gold? Not that it's not significant but I think the chart doesn't reflect the actual physical gold change?

2026-02-14 08:33:34 UTC

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A. Why is she American if she's Australia's esafety commissioner?
B. Are there people out there who watch this and think "great message I'm so grateful, happy online safety day!"?

2026-02-13 14:13:22 UTC

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Methodology is pretty sus
https://alternative.me/crypto/fear-and-greed-index

2026-02-12 09:56:56 UTC

I often hear "Bitcoin needs a new narrative", and usually from people pushing for some change to Bitcoin.
Pretty sure sound money is a timeless narrative that we don't need to dilute. Some people get it now, others will learn the hard(er) way.
If you want something short term then feel free to push the robot payments narrative.

2026-02-12 09:53:35 UTC

Used Cursor to make a small change PR to my company's app. Took quite a few iterations of it being retarded until it did what I sort of wanted. Still needed an engineer to help figure out why it wasn't able to make the exact change I needed, and then to help correct all the deployment tests that my change broke.
Probably was a really bad example of AI coding prowess, but seemed to confirm my intuition that these tools will be complements and not substitutes for software development.

2026-02-12 09:15:52 UTC

Damn, maybe most people want their lives controlled and fear being free

2026-02-12 07:59:59 UTC

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Hopefully not a top signal 😅

2026-02-11 08:03:13 UTC

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Who are "they"? Ask him to be explicit about how he thinks people like Elon get controlled - does he get approached by a handler for the Rothschild's?

2026-02-09 20:34:30 UTC

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I'm signed up waiting for bitcoin payment option 🙏

2026-02-09 15:55:17 UTC

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Not sure I can trust someone who colour codes their bookshelf

2026-02-07 11:04:18 UTC

Elon is both the best bullshitter AND the most impressive entrepreneur in history. It's wild how he can make any conversation seem simple and accessible and still challenges people who are extremely specialised in an area. He says stuff that is truly imaginative and makes it sound obvious (e.g. all compute will be in space in 5-10 years). A lot is likely oversold but there's an element of vision that will transpire and pushes things forward. Actually incredible to be alive to see it and even have him explain things on podcasts.
(This is a completely separate observation from his ethics in various domains - I think the above is true regardless of other conclusions you make about him)

2026-02-07 10:55:58 UTC

A good portion of my Bitcoin is worth 0, regardless of the price, unless we have ways to spend. Fortunately many places do accept it, and Bitrefill is indespenaible to me but these are not guaranteed. Even today it's much harder to use Bitcoin for some transactions such as putting down a deposit for a home - both the exchange (even hardcore bitcoiner ones) need to know where funds originated, and most solicitors refuse to do a source of funds check for it.
If you actually care about the value of your Bitcoin (i.e. what you can buy with it) then adoption is far more important than any arbitrary narrative about price. Zero times anything is zero.

2026-02-07 10:36:08 UTC

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Wow, interesting take on the A frame - would love to spend a few weeks there

2026-02-06 10:19:24 UTC

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Lyn with the hypothesis driven critical analysis 🧠🫡

2026-02-06 09:23:48 UTC

I always thought Bitcoin was interesting and I was intellectually open to it, but it was only after I rode the 2014-17 bear, sold some to break even, and then watched it runaway to $4k that my conviction truly solidified.
The IBIT people are only halfway through this journey.

2026-02-05 21:32:45 UTC

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Uh... Thanks?

2026-02-05 20:51:33 UTC

Feeling nervous about buying this dip, probably means it's close to a bottom but who the fuck knows

2026-02-05 14:10:13 UTC

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Lol why does this come across as if he's the victim here 😂

2026-02-05 12:15:23 UTC

I still sleep better having something that I truly own possibly dip 50% vs. having an IOU for something that rises by 50%.
Most people only realise the former is better when it's too late.

2026-02-05 11:54:32 UTC

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Spotted the top at the time but didn't want to believe it 😅
#nevent1q…smeq

2026-02-05 09:02:02 UTC

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Humbly borrow $1m from friends and family and only leverage 15% of your stack

2026-02-05 08:22:17 UTC

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They still care. Lower!
#nevent1q…unu3

2026-02-05 08:20:20 UTC

New quarter, new bullshit changes from senior management to look like they're adding value.

2026-02-04 18:53:57 UTC

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Would love it if I could update Maple from @nprofile…tdq0 🙏