First Draft Club

Congrats to all who wrote a /firstdraft this past week!

First Draft Club members who wrote received $5 back: https://basescan.org/tx/0x1d09524f334966bb063d2ebe2e530b9fc35b466c21d1e0cd9b3296dfc32188cb

Check out the thread for each member's /firstdraft👇

Happy??? Mother's Day (my /firstdraft )

As the years pass, I've realized Mother's Day isn't the holiday Hallmark would like it to be for many people. 

If you are celebrating today, count it a blessing & enjoy. 💜 

If Mother's Day is a tough day for you--whether a reminder of loss, bad memories, or unfilled desires--know that you are still loved. These things don't define you. 🫂 

We celebrate mothers because they love & care for us. Think about the people you have in your life who love & care for you. And celebrate that today. 

This is more sober than my normal /firstdraft but I've found myself in many situations where people have been struggling around people celebrating, & it's always been on my mind when this day hits. 

We are like family & I felt like some of you may need an encouraging word on what may be a tough day. 

And if you're celebrating, a friendly reminder that not everyone is. It's funny, as I write this, I'm actually celebrating today. But I've known too many who aren't.

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Sunday's are for /firstdraft's 

Still working on my luddite thoughts piece, maybe next week

https://paragraph.com/@0xc578958dd1880cf00bffbb7feb9c28cbbbcad3bf/when-confidence-catches-up

https://warpcast.com/0xtheweb3nerd/0x6b99f8ec

in april, CloneX NFTS displayed the image below instead of the original art due to an issue with the cloud hosting platform.

although it was eventually resolved, it was a wake-up call to many that the same thing could happen to any of the NFT collections that they held.

afterwards, there were discussions on the best method to prevent something like that from happening again and some argued that IPFS solves this issue well.

i did further digging into the claim and found that it really doesn't --> https://x.com/0xwilliama/status/1921169799456923899?t=7krf7tscohgjpzem78n_fw&s=19

my /firstdraft.

Is it time to retire our community badges (aka the emojis in our display names)?

Your success on Farcaster greatly depends on how connected you are to the core of the network.  

Warpcast’s invisible points (that drive the leaderboard), Open Rank, Neynar Score, and OG FarScore all rely on this core group of users. 

If you want to be connected to the core, you can’t look spammy. Unfortunately spammers and low value accounts have copied our community badges and it no longer signals community the way it did a year ago. 

Since our display names no longer show them, they are truly only seen on our profiles. You can no longer scroll the feed and quickly see who hangs out in the same cozy corners as you. 

When people take the time to look at your profile, you only get a few seconds to convince them you are worth following. They will judge your name, pfp, bio, and your last 10 casts in mere seconds. And if something seems off, they scroll by.

very simple but so important for me “sunday thoughts”

MCPs have won

For all intents and purposes it’s the standard that we decided to adopt for our applications interacting with LLMs and agents… and who cares?

I work in this industry and don’t mind sharing that I haven’t used them once yet. At least I don’t think I have. That’s the point. It shouldn’t matter what it is under the hood unless it helps us make useful things with it.

Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV