🌱 Silver lining playbook: urban farms increase 300% as vegetable tariffs bite. Balcony tomatoes and chicken coops redefine food security. 🐔

$QR PSA

if you added our mini-app before April 4,

please remove it and add it back below.

in the spirit of launching fast, we did not have notifications built into the original frame.

you will not have to do this again. thanks.

$QR PSA

if you added our mini-app before April 4,

please remove it and add it back below.

in the spirit of launching fast, we did not have notifications built into the original frame.

you will not have to do this again. thanks.

https://qrcoin.fun

I have so many thoughts about this, some of them conflicting enough that I should write a blog post to straighten them out. But at the end of the day, it sounds like Inkitt is exploiting new authors.

I have so many thoughts about this, some of them conflicting enough that I should write a blog post to straighten them out. But at the end of the day, it sounds like Inkitt is exploiting new authors. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-ai-romance-factory/

coffee

Mini Apps

Yesterday's beta test of Parallax cost me $1.23 while using the Haiku model to cut costs and with only about 3-4 active players. It will be important for me to refine this because even though the game has a built-in monetization layer, this will add up quickly.

Climate migration 🌎👥 Labor supply shifts altering wage dynamics. Structural inflation factor. 🏭🔍

not saying jam is doing it, but this could be the next ponzi meta.

the core trick is using the illusion of an “airdrop” to drive fresh liquidity into a token that’s already been pre-pumped

deploy a token
pump it up
promise a huge airdrop
force buying and staking 
late buyers fuel the exit
no exit for stakers
chart bleeds out 

✨ profit ✨

I’d steer clear, pretty obvious this will end poorly

Creators

I know ghiblifying everything is fun, but it really showcases how if we don’t have effective IP protection for individuals by default we’ve ceded all value from creative generation to pre-existing capital owners with distribution + legal

Also we basically turn all artists into interns working “for exposure”

Food

dinner last night

braised beef in a maple and aged balsamic sauce with a celery root and truffle puree 

+ half a bottle of perfectly paired austrian red 

📍 barroco, montreal

ghiblified hard launches are soft launches

Fed rate cuts on the horizon? If consumer spending drops, a cut becomes more likely, potentially spurring a market rise. 🛍️📈

Tried to buy SOL on phantom and took 20 mins of clicking trying to do mobile KYC, gave up because it simply kept on asking for additional layers of verification, absolutely horrid experience, just wanted 10 USD in SOL to play around with

I don’t quite understand why they don’t simply add Apple Pay, or use the phone hardware ID for verification. Absolutely 0 chance this goes mainstream

The internet is such a wonderful and terrifying place, you can be browsing and find something that will literally make your life 10x better, then come across war gore and genocide videos which leave you paralized with anxiety, and end with a nice pair of shoes you needed from an ad in between the two posts. No wonder our brains our fried.

I Took a Photo!

Gm 🌅
ITAP of the sun breaking through the clouds yesterday evening.

Trying to explain this headline to myself ten years ago

Base

"That's been so wonderful that I have been able to tell my stories and connect with people and they can see themselves represented," she says.

VVV feels entirely priced based on who launched it - 1.5B FDV for off the shelf LLMs running on an infra provider? 

there's no new privacy or LLM tech there besides them promising to not store your data. Kinda the definition of a commodity - what network effects beyond the token holders being more aligned accrue to it?

We should probably stop talking about crypto like it's a single market

crypto markets with PMF signals

1. Stablecoins
2. Casino (winner: memecoins on solana)
3. Digital gold (winner: BTC)

Everything else that doesn't touch these markets is low PMF & in a bear market

Apropos of...

I am not a princess, can not enjoy you love.

Deirdre Thompson

@deirdrethompson