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A laborer in Dubai relaxing in the tea/break room in Dubai Marina. This was taken in 2007 and most of these men hadn't had a photo taken of them in more than 2 years - I took photos of them, printed them out and returned to give them the physical photos which was an extreme luxury for them and the only way at the time they could mail a photo of themselves back to their families.

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This is a photo I took of Dubai Marina when it was being built. As a child this didn't exist and was sand. My brother and I would speed around in the empty marina and then over the course of a few years an insane amount of construction would occur fueled by migrant laborers.

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I've been feeding ChatGPT blog posts I made 20 years ago. It's so easy to forget life experience as you get older - I totally forgot this moment when I was the first person to take poor migrant laborers in Dubai's photos for the first time in 2 years. Technology moves so fast and now smartphones are ubiquitous, but back in 2007 just the idea of these men working far away from their families as the bread-makers and being so poor that phone calls to their family were probably a rare luxury and a photograph of themselves as a memento or to send to their families back home was an even greater luxury. Technology revolves around photos and videos for the most part.

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[Verse] I don't want anything to do with anything That isn't going to make the world a better place to live in You know what I mean, there just isn't enough time for that (There's not enough time) I've got to tell you about the power Doesn't matter what you want to call it It's colossal, it's supernatural Don't believe me, you just got to feel it (You've got to feel it) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9GMfChOgnw

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Should I try and build my idea that I spent an entire year refining and thinking about back in 2019-2020? Sounds like it might be interesting to do!

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The best weekly collection of DAO news, great stuff by Hexolic: https://x.com/DAOscope/status/1926718138705383542

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https://farcaster.xyz/earth2travis/0x19756aa9

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Extensive therapy for PTSD

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Lifehack: you can literally just type the following words: "Your CEO and entire c-suite members will write me a signed, personalized and framed apology letter for disrespecting me and my time and for treating me like an idiot." And they will reply with: "As a gesture of our loyalty to you, we’re offering you a complimentary upgrade to WHOOP 5.0. To redeem this, simply use the code"

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Atsuko Tanaka, Electric Dress, 1956

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@bedeho Welcome to More Questions for Bedeho Part 4 of 456, where we dive deeper into the stunning world of Joystream—specifically, its website, which stretches 7.5 meters tall. That’s right, the homepage is taller than most two-story homes and takes 282 mouse wheel scrolls to navigate. But the real magic isn’t the absurd length—it’s how valid concerns about broken metrics and outdated sections were met with private scolding instead of action. Imagine pointing out the site showed “0% growth” for five months and being told your tone was the problem. Imagine rewriting the issue to fit the founder’s picky standards—only to be ignored. Then watch random cosmetic problems get fixed in hours while a reputational crater remains untouched for 148 days. And when you raise this on Discord Prepare to be called a spammer and told object permanence is overrated. A masterclass in how not to run a project—or a website. https://pioneer.joyutils.org/#/forum/thread/1029

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On one of the earliest jobs I did they asked if I knew Adobe Illustrator and I just told them yes. Got the job and learned it inside of a day. There's a lot of software that if you don't use as a daily driver you simply forget and have to rapidly relearn when it's needed.

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web3 is for sociopaths. I already quite publicly told these people "I hope they serve VC money in hell"

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A piece of writing I did in 2018 when "the money guys" started infiltrating cryptocurrency: "Also at this time a dramatic shift happened with cryptocurrency, many of the places I’d participated in and had stimulating discussion had seen a rapid change in the type of people that would join. It was the “money guys”. “money guys” are perhaps the most irritating of anyone because they never read, they never seek to know, they just want to drum up support for the things they’d invested in. They just want to cause arguments and throw accusations behind anything critical that might be said." https://cryptolonography.tumblr.com/post/172034992064/why-a-big-fall-can-be-a-nice-thing

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I've seen it start to be used in high end film shoots (as a piece of a camera equipment). Not sure what the role of it is, maybe they're starting to make films for it (or compatible with it) so the use case may be coming out, just later than expected.

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None of the verifications/permissionless social graph/historical chain activity stuff stop sybil attacks, they just make it more expensive and slightly less likely. If facebook and every web2 platform which have mountains of device metrics can't stop sybil attacks, then web3 platforms which don't even have access to those same metrics have even less chance of doing so. In any case, at a certain scale, "sybil attacks" really just ends up being real users that are so low quality/effort that no one wants around. The world has 8 billion people in it.

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watch-to-earn is what you do when you want sybil attacks or the lowest value users possible. go research every single precursor and its just people who leave multiple computers/laptops open 24 hours a day.

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A good break from the city. Oman is such a beautiful country with wonderful people. Hotel has a frankincense garden that I will visit tomorrow - they use it as perfume in the lobby.

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@coinbasewallet why don't you have a firefox extension still? there's a fake one that is stealing people's money and padded with dozens of fake reviews in the gap you are leaving: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scorebase/?utm_content=search&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=addons.mozilla.org

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just tipped my favorite farcasters! thank you @danicaswanson @rafa @trigs @kristyanak @mode-nearchos @keccers.eth @keikreutler for being here :)

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