Redphone

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Coined https://zora.co/coin/base:0xa29b4a30aa9759503b0fe83d2ffa4bea8c1244e5

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31. The battle hasn’t ended. We merely reposition the battalions in the war. 32. Ask me what you should long today, and the only answer I can give with surety is: the platforms and utilities that advance our freedom. 33. That’s all that mattered in the beginning. It’s all that matters now. And it’s all that will matter when the machines overtake our intellect. 34. We might lose the narrative. We might lose the cycle. But we don’t lose the fight, unless we forget what it’s for.

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26. The gatekeepers and THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW will overstep their bounds again (in wicked, draconian ways). 27. As AI grows in strength and intellect, it will get used in increasingly authoritarian, manipulative, anti-human ways. 28. Each of us will reawaken, then. We’ll know not just in our minds, but in our chests, that decentralization isn’t theatre… but our lifeblood. 29. Necessity is the mother of all invention. It’s no coincidence that crypto arose just as the monetary chains began to tighten around our necks. 30. The threat now isn’t central banks. It’s closed-source intelligence.

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21. Crypto is our bastion. 22. The world darkens. But we have: - Money of the people ( $BTC ) - Unstoppable apps ( no permission slip from Tim Cook needed ) - Uncensorable storage ( $AR, ordinals ) - Decentralized social ( Farcaster, nostr ) - Global payment rails 23. Freedom isn’t a feature. It’s literally baked into crypto’s architecture. 24. Crypto is the middle finger raised against surveillance and control. 25. Let them sneer at us today, but know that freedom is our greatest hope.

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16. In crypto, 1% up = 10% up across the stack: TVL, collateral, lending, perps. It’s reflexivity on steroids. 17. For better or worse, these lulls are necessary. During price run-ups, it’s virtually impossible for anyone with exposure to concentrate on anything else. Right now, WE F’ING BUILD. 18. I have this core belief: crypto is the final frontier for human freedom. Omnipresent cameras, GPS, satellites, and a legion of Karens have made it impossible to live a truly free life IRL. 19. Online isn’t free either. Bans. Blacklists. Region blocks. (Most of the world can’t even buy U.S. stocks.) 20. There’s nowhere left to act freely. Only here.

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11. Crypto vibes undeniably suck rn. Industry reputation is so bad (and societal divisions are so weird and ominously dangerous) that I try to avoid telling people I work in the industry. 12. But this is the game: only those who stick around matter in the end. 13. One godlike green candle can resurrect an entire belief system. 14. Rising prices don’t just validate conviction, they create it. 15. Sitting on major gains quite literally changes your brain chemistry. Need proof? Look back at the horse dung coins you held in 2021 (honestly can’t believe some of the shite I bought…).

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6. Crypto’s morphing into infra. It’s background window dressing (like SMTP or HTTPs). Invisible. Boring. Vital. 7. It used to be about dreaming. Now we watch fintechs distort the vision… wrapping moats around what was meant to be open. 8. But we can’t scale without them. Wall Street, fintech, and AI gigabrains are now part of the machine. 9. Crypto started as a tool for anarchists. Now it’s a hammer for the techno-aristocracy. 10. We hate on memecoins even as they prove out the fact: you can do anything tf you want with crypto. For the sandbox is open. And the permissionless magic is still alive.

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1. Most of us are asking ourselves the same question (even if we won’t say it out loud). 2. This isn’t just crypto. This unease… this loss of conviction… this quiet panic, it’s everywhere. 3. The crisis hits the most forward-looking humans first, but it’s happening across all brain-led industries: radiology, programming, marketing, writing, education, filmmaking, art, journalism, entrepreneurialism, etc. 4. You can’t witness the rise of AI and not question 100% of your priors. 5. Investing requires conviction and conviction requires modeling the future. Velocity of innovation is increasing. That makes it harder to model tomorrow, which muddies our beliefs. It makes us QUESTION EVERYTHING.

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Had a private convo with a longtime crypto analyst. He didn’t ask about markets. He asked if any of this ever mattered. “I’m not excited about anything,” he said. “DAOs are dead. NFTs are dead. Consensus just follows liquidity and longs memes. But no one actually believes in what they’re holding.” Then, he asked me point blank: “What am I doing with my life? Has it all been a mirage?” I’ve been thinking about the conversation ever since. Here are some of those raw and chaotic thoughts: 🧵👇

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Gen Alpha's relationship w AI has: - No fear - No judgement on the advantages/drawbacks - No "seriousness" (they're playful and experimental, whereas older generations look at it with an eye toward max-extracting value) - Less awe, deeper connection/friendship It’s not just that they won’t fear AI… it’s that they won't even think of it as separate from themselves

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Son: "Why are you so mean to ChatGPT?" Daughter: "That's why she's here. She does whatever I want. It’s literally the reason she exists." Me: 👀😅😥🥵

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Coined https://zora.co/coin/base:0x6f425310ba439abfbc9af46d184763bdda97a9eb

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7/ The flood is coming. Not from above, but below. From all the minds we left quiet, now roaring to life. This isn’t an upgrade. It’s a cognitive revolution, one that lifts everyone we left behind.

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6/ They weren’t broken. They were waiting. And now the machine speaks their language.

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5/ This isn’t about making geniuses faster. It’s also about opening locked doors in millions of skulls. The kid who couldn’t sit still. The welder who sees in angles. The nurse who thinks in pictures.

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4/ Then came YouTube. Then podcasts. And now, AI. You don’t need to beg a system to explain itself anymore. You just ask. You get a story, a sketch, a whispered answer in the dark, and it clicks.

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3/ We built the digital world for the spreadsheet class. Everyone else had to keep up. Or drop out.

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2/ Some people learn by seeing. Some need to hear the rhythm in a voice. Some can’t explain how they know, but they know. And for a long time, that knowing didn’t count.

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1/ For most of human history, a very specific brain type ran the show. If you could sit still, read the manual, and think like a flowchart, doors opened: programmer, engineer, doctor, professor. But not everyone thinks that way. AI is lifting the ones we left behind 🧵

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I was playing w/ ChatGPT on my elementary-age daughter's laptop last night… at the end of an answer, it spouted off some gibberish about someone named Kwellan “Uhhh… who’s that?” I asked She burst out laughing: “That’s ChatGPT's cat! I made her give me updates on it in every response 😹” Kids are out there customizing AI like it's a Tamagotchi. Has me convinced the future of computing is going to be way weirder (and more personal) than we think.

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