Screens

Slowly watching “Band of Brothers” again.

So glad this was made.

burger

This is the country that didn’t let women bank until the 60s…

AI Interfaces

oh. my. god. claude. code. has. queued. messages.

THIS IS ALL I WANT CURSOR

I DONT CARE ABOUT BG AGENTS AND KANBAN BOARDS. JUST LET ME QUEUE MESSAGES SO I CAN BRAIN DUMP AND GO AWAY FROM MY COMPUTER FOR A WHILE

@thekitze like this? https://t.co/cTtc61GNZk

eric zakariasson

Queued messages coming to cursor 

https://x.com/ericzakariasson/status/1938240187424706717?s=46

reposting my thoughts on chloe’s piece because i think it’s important for the girls, especially the ones newer to the space. i’ve worked in crypto since 2017 and i’ve experienced more than my share of bullshit and trauma. some of it public, most of it quiet. what i’ve learned: protection doesn’t come from formal structures, it comes from each other.
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i appreciate the honesty here, and i agree with some points.. performative feminism and internalized misogyny are real issues, especially in hypervisible spaces like CT. but I think this piece collapses a lot of nuance into a single, sweeping narrative

yes, contradictions exist. but so does context. sometimes what looks like "subtweeting" is actually people processing harm. sometimes women with platforms are learning in public, imperfectly, while also trying to survive an ecosystem not built for them.

there's no universal playbook for how to show up, and expecting perfect solidarity under constant scrutiny feels like a setup

i also think it’s dangerous to frame complex behavior as “selective feminism” without acknowledging how power operates. in a space where connections = survival, some people are navigatinng real fear (of exclusion, of retaliation, of reputational loss). that doesn't excuse harmful behavior, but it does explain some of the silence! 

feminism in crypto isn’t failing because women are messy or contradictory. It’s evolving under pressure inside an ecosystem that often rewards compliance over speaking out

speaking from personal experience: whisper networks exist for a reason. formal structures rarely protect you and the cost of naming harm publicly can be brutal (socially, professionally, emotionally). you lose access. you get labeled “difficult.” you become the problem for pointing out the problem.

that’s why many women leverage their networks quietly, to stay safe, to warn each other, to survive. sometimes it’s choosing not to speak up because you know how this ends.

so yes, there are contradictions. yes, people falter. but that’s not a failure of feminism, it’s a feature of navigating power while trying to build something better.

if you’ve never had to choose between your safety and your credibility, you’re lucky. if you have, you know that survival often looks like silence. andd that doesn’t make you complicit. it makes you real!! 

let’s push for more care
but let’s also have grace for people who are still figuring it out while trying to build something better in public https://paragraph.com/@intrusivethots/women-in-web3-are-some-of-the-most-confusing-people-ive-ever-met

Every time you think “why are people doing things I don’t like?!?!?”

There is a reason.

And it’s better to try to figure out that reason before throwing them under the bus.

Being a woman in crypto is complicated and there’s so much subtext because when you are not the dominant group it can be too expensive to say what you want to say outright or trust everyone right away.

Anthropic's new Artifacts app creator is awesome

great for making mini app mockups fast

anthropic.com/news/build-artifacts

Silicon Valley Daily

Need to take a break, just considered designing a new database again.

Just caught up on the tipping meta “drama.” Quick recap + some thoughts:

Recap:
Jacek (founder of $DEGEN) voiced frustration about new tipping apps on Farcaster not defaulting to DEGEN.

He hinted that anything using USDC for payments should maybe rethink that too, but that’s a separate thread.

Most replies weren’t pushing back on the what, just the how he said it.
That sparked a broader convo around tipping as a distribution model, a microtransaction use case, etc.

Some people love it. Some don’t.

My take:
Devs default to USDC or spin up their own token because both offer better upside.

USDC = sustainable revenue
Own token = fundraising rocket fuel

Personally, I’ve never really vibed with tipping.

DEGEN worked because it was free. 

Spending my money just to “like” something ain't it for me. Same mentality goes for Zora, Rodeo, etc., which is why I'm hardly even a casual user there.

It's not that I’m stingy (maybe I am). I’ve dropped a few hundred tipping friends on Farcaster but it still feels weird.

Like Tipping Tuesday is some ritual I feel socially obligated to participate in.

I’ve never subbed to a Patreon.
Never paid for a Substack.
Lived off uTorrent for years.
I’m a child of the open internet. Free by nature, cheap by design.

That said, tipping isn’t inherently bad; quite the contrary. It’s cool that people want to support creators.

But like anything with money involved, it invites gaming, farming, clout chasing, the works.

But that’s just part of the deal. Every system can be gamed.

Final thought:
Do whatever you want with your money. I truly do not care.

I think if you're Jacek right now your emotional brain is probably like wtf why are people using tipn and noice when I gave them free money?!

But logically, no one has an incentive to use your thing based on past free money. They don't feel like they owe you anything. It's not a personal relationship.

You do have a brand in the space, but ultimately you still need to compete. You don't have a monopoly for being first or giving people free money.

The two things with product-market fit in crypto: speculation and stablecoins

We're working to change that!

Coinbase and Farcaster teaming up to build an app around world class consumer experiences instead of just speculation is genuinely exciting.

If Ethereum is the "world computer" we have to onboard the world.

Battle of the Scientist Swarms:
Deep Mind Co-Scientist vs Sakana AI Scientist 

Co-scientist is winning right now, but is closed source :( 

Sakana team is also ex-Deep Mind, so this is DM vs DM.

All the drama on CT about uniswap paying for a dope pink truck and some custom trading cards is emblematic of why nouns always had a hard time finding broad support in this space — crypto people are just extremely, staunchly opposed to having any kind of fun.

i dabble with ai using open identity data from crypto https://alexpaden.tech

I think one of our biggest failures is that we probably spend more on social good and art than any other crypto project and everyone thinks we just throw parties.

https://farcaster.xyz/rubinovitz/0x9f58d710

The advice I’d give to new CS graduates:

Vibe code what you’re passionate about and make video content about it and yourself.

Build a following about your work online and show it off at events.

You’d be surprised how fast you can get to the top of the space you’re passionate about this way.

when your inexperienced vibe engineers are better than your actual engineers, you’ve got a problem.

and maybe at the same time a solution to that problem.

Many “senior” engineers I know think they can still just drink coffee and hand code a feature a week 😬

@bountybot $100 to whoever provably gets Haim on here

Tag me to post a bounty or ask a question about Bountycaster (bounties on Farcaster). Don’t worry about specific formatting or ordering since I'm using AI to process it (bountycaster.xyz) /bounties. FAQ: bountycaster.xyz/faq

My guess on Coinbase Wallet’s new name:

Base

Permissionless being in Industry City has to be bottom, right?

Too easy to kidnap people at this venue 👎🏻

This seems wrong? Wouldn’t retail just trade on Solana?

. @WakaFlocka is now running an onchain native GTM where fans are coining songs onchain paired to $FLOCKA 

this is the new creator economy we're building

The Just Coin It Ethos is what is destroying broad swaths of the industry and burning retail badly to the point where they will never re-engage with crypto. 

Instead of focusing on a few coins that have legitimate PMF and generate real business metrics, people like Jesse are on

Vance Spencer

This seems wrong? Wouldn’t retail just trade on Solana?

https://x.com/pythianism/status/1937961002622222685?s=46

It’s time for a new day one.

The next chapter of Base is coming, and you’re invited.

July 16. Save the date and tune into the livestream.

I have no inside information

But I think you should have your mini-app deployed and QA-ed in Coinbase wallet before July 16.

tenfold

Couldn't find a high quality image of "Speed" so I had Sora fix an image I could find

Hacker founder using ai to coordinate onchain economies /tenfold, nounish channel client /comint

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