A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

Yeah. The similarly seems to be their ego. Thinking that they are somehow immune to the friction everyone else faces. 
"you can just do things". Turns out, you can't just do things. Things are hard to do.

It's more than that, he's out for good and taking parting shots as he leaves. The NYT piece is so funny.

Farcaster

I've never faced any issues with swapping. Could be a Sol thing cuz it's on a different chain?

Aw man that sucks. It's also slightly funny :p

I Took a Photo!

This music by Shervin hit me, and I feel connected with it 🥲


https://youtu.be/GYf4fe302tk?si=Fyal1Y0F0XiiN7w4

Photographing musicians is my favourite topic when out and about canvassing the streets.

Since I’ve some what calmed down. Yes, I sent it to the wrong address. Part my fault, part the pedestrian user experience on this app. Anyways, I need to recoup my lost funds so have to do some stellar casting.

Nooooo! I can understand your frustration. Can you show me the transaction that didn't land in your Farcaster wallet? Let me see if I can help

Spotlight

Introducing $PROCOIN, the community-led governance token for Farcaster Pro users.

All 10k NFT holders are eligible for an airdrop.

But there’s a twist.

**The token will be untransferable until 500 Pro users claim.**

In order to get a mandate as a community token, we need broad support.

To claim, quotecast this post with the text “Ratifying @procoin governance”

All 10k NFT holders are eligible, but the first 500 claimers will receive ~5x the allocation.

Farcaster Pro Community Governance | $PRO 0xF65C3c30dd36b508E29a538B79b21e9b9E504E6C

The U.S. will begin revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.

Secretary Marco Rubio

https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1927859105282015532?t=asD6LlQ6Hsk6amVZoK_PpA&s=19

US court invalidates all of Trump's tariffs 😂😭

US court invalidates all of Trump's tariffs 😂😭
https://youtube.com/shorts/3MRv3MImQj8?si=jA2FctpA3x9-HmwN

Farcaster Pro is an important step forward in making the protocol sustainable.

Raising a bunch of money from investors and spending it is not sustainable. It’s a tactic not a strategy.

If the protocol can charge a fee that people are willing to pay annually, then it will have budget to spend on what is important to the protocol—independent of any one company.

We’re starting with a pragmatic, optimized for speed approach today where we are centrally collecting, deciding (via an algo) and distributing rewards.

In the next few weeks, subscribing to pro will be onchain and permissionless. 

In the longer term, ideally we can figure out how move rewards to something more akin Bitcoin or Ethereum block rewards where funds are collected and distributed entirely at the protocol. We’re not close to this and not a near term priority, but it’s where we would like to get to. 

(Solve the problems in the correct sequence.)

I’m genuinely impressed how much money Farcaster Pro generated and how quickly. Demonstrates a real community and staying power.

Pick up any AI paper from the last 5 years and read the names. Then prepare for America's average IQ to go down by 10 points over the next 5 years.

Pick up any AI paper from the last 5 years and read the names. Then prepare for America's average IQ to go down by 10 points over the next 5 years.
https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1927859105282015532?t=7iu8NxW-JDS1R_hU8zKLwQ&s=19

reply guys

non pro users waking up to pro user casts flexing on their pro badges be like

This is wild
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article307309191.html

I am Farcaster Pro User #4,581, I signed up 119 minutes after launch, check yours! 

- I snoozed, I losed.

Geopolitics

He was also groomed and abused as a child by his current spouse. France is a sick place when it comes to child abuse. It's really sad.

This is egregious.

On May 21, Nvidia, $NVDA, announced it was partnering with Navitas Semiconductor Corp $NVTS..

You can see that ON THAT DAY and ON MAY 16th SOMEONE BOUGHT LOADS OF CALLS.

The $NVTS $4c for Jan 2026 was particularly unusual.

$NVTS gets zero options, LITERALLY ZERO. But on May 21 and May 16th, someone loaded over $100k in options. 

They are up 2150%, with a profit of $2.15 million.

Insane this unusual trading is allowed.

See more: unusualwhales.com/stock/NVTS/overview

Waqas

@worqas