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Invisible Gardener. Regen practices. Degen research. Building StatelessDAO open source co-ops. Pixeloodles & Degenomemetics: zora.co/@invisiblega...
Happy Equinox 💫
My potted surinam cherry I planted from seed 5 years ago is growing its first fruit.
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Even X seems to be now prioritizing deeper, longer content & conversation threads. Meanwhile here we're stuck in tradersland while everyone quietly leaves.
P.S. If you have left but still check here once in a while, please let me know where you went instead.
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Another "end of an era" moment. Curious about what "some success" mentioned here means more specifically. Farcaster is an extremely interesting experimental environment, there is much valuable insight to learn with all the small and big experiments done here. 🙏
Update: Farcaster Rewards are changing
Tomorrow will be the last day for current version of creator rewards. This experiment started a year ago and has paid out $1M+ to creators who casted on Farcaster.
While this had some success, it's not aligned with our new direction. We will be launching a new experiment soon t
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Another sun halo, this one with a 90 degree companion below the horizon.
Maybe it had even more iridescent point but I could not see it whole from my plane window.
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I loved the water reflections on the mini pool formed on this mushroom cap. Soon to disappear as the slug continues to nibble on...
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The trend points to a renaissance of slow media 🦥
"the next $100M+ companies will engineer density, trust, and time well spent. they’ll build containers for meaning, then use AI to keep them organized, not optimized."
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After 2 months of allowances ending, there is still over 100 million locked $degen, and more than 2k account have not yet bothered to unlock it.
There is no UI for unlocking anymore, but you can still interact directly with the contract via Basescan. The address for LDEGEN is:
0xa8a30E0dafCA4156f28d96cCa5671a0eEcA5E407
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I was gifted a special tea made from the branches of the tea plant. The flavor is really good, like a smooth green tea.
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The Dreamscaping audio experience went really well! We had a cozy setup for groups of 10 people in the afternoon, and in the evening we had 40 people doing it as part of the festival opening.
Today we will have again small groups, and then it will be available online for everyone. I'll post the link here of course.
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Getting ready for a guided audio and map-making experience I'll be offering at a festival in Dortmund this week.
The audio track features the voice of @torii-stories. Will be available also online next week.
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The Fool symbolizes to me a space full of potential, where our paths are wide open and everything is possible, if only we are brave enough to take a leap.
In 2021 I got to design a card for the Arcana Crypto Tarot deck by WOCA. I chose The Fool.
Perfect match from @pichi Tarot miniapp, feeling honored.
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When can gifting be of "self-interest"? I mean it in the expanded vision proposed here by @aviationdoctor.eth. A long term, generational and more interdependent view of "self".
Two nuances that have to do with people’s awareness and understanding of what is, and what is not, included in their self-interest:
- vertically, people aren’t always aware that the common interest is also their self-interest, because there is some time preference or second-order relationship. As a crude example: payi
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I'm researching thinkers on the topic of imagination and hope. Send recommendations!
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I'm planning a workshop called Dreamscaping Territories. I want to reclaim our imaginations from the shackles of dystopia and attention extraction.
We need to be able to imagine and dream our best possible future. It's the first step for being able to build it.
Quotes by Daniel Colon aka colorwecrazy.
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Are you watching the moon eclipse? It's beautiful and subtle. The moon acquires a lot of volume, feels more like a sphere than a circle. Wish I had a better camera to document it. 🌚
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Yesterday afternoon I tried a decaf iced latte and the milk was super thick and creamy.
@camilags told me they use a special choice of biodynamic milk to enhance the pairing with their coffee.
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I'm going with coffee shop made coffee, plus a mini brownie this Saturday.
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Summer lunch with greens from the garden. This red spread has been a big hit, featuring beetroot and horseradish. It's a ready made bough in a jar but inspiring me to make my own version...
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GM with sunrise and coffee (under a mountain of milk foam)
To the right a metal dome created as artwork, to the left a larger metal dome in construction, carefully engineered and fabricated to be a greenhouse
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I'm reading "The Living Mountain" by Nan Shepherd.
Makes me want to go hike in the mountains. It's pretty flat around here so I'm going to the lake.
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Sharing our gifts as creators is an inherent part of "just existing".
Music, art, dance, writing... they nourish the soul in both collective and individual levels, touching something very deep in us.
They might not show obvious "utility" or "structure", but they're essential, and mostly created as gift.
I wish fo...
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Ice cream flavors countryside edition did not disappoint my spoiled city self. The mochi encased ice was so nice. I normally would not get a mountain of cream plus sprinkles but that's how the sorbet came and it was yummy and refreshing.
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I saw yesterday a fully improvised on the spot musical comedy and it was beautiful and powerful.
We listened to a story of stranded sailors in the Bermuda Triangle, being tricked by loneliness to enter a dark underside where they started to forget their loved ones and their selves.
Was tons of fun to watch this perf...
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I'm attending a theater show and watering my allotment vegetables in the city this evening, then back to relaxing in the countryside.
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Guess our smoothie flavors. One was mine the other @camilags
(I had ice cream too a bit later but didn't take a picture 😝)
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Realism is shortsighted.
Naivety is a superpower.
"the best things I've ever done, the most meaningful connections I've made, the work I'm most proud of. None of that happened because I was realistic about the odds."
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Pixel Nouns are still going, they're one of my favorite projects. I adore pixel art. This one came out with a great color palette! 🧡 🤎 🖤
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ITAP of the rising moon from my window. It was almost full, peeking between the clouds and the trees.
My camera zoom is not very powerful so it's just a small dot in the picture, but was so gorgeous in person.
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"Nothing about this empowers positive creativity" pretty much sums it up.
I'm waiting for this nonsense contentcoin phase to exhaust itself.
Creators are mostly already burned so hopefully we will all just ignore this and it will fizz out faster.
Couldn't agree more with Stella here.
Who cares if the LP is auto funded with a single side of the LP? That means all the money your followers invest in you goes into a pool that you can never access unless you dump on your followers.
You only earn trading fees? Who is "trading" these tokens? Ppl trying to extract t
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The concept of "Generative Commons" by Aaron Maniam is a game changer. Gifts have a "magic arithmetic" that means win-win.
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ITAP of fuzzy leaves. Physalis is such a great plant and the fruit is delicious.
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The "utility trap" is thinking you need to "use" NFTs.
Art is the reward itself. Owning it is meaningful already. I agree with @mishaderidder.eth
Ironically, the utility paradigm is old, we seem to be in a coin / speculation "buzz" now.
We shall return to art at some point & realize the value was always there 🤍
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"Fields like art, pure science, education, healing, and generally things related to public goods do not necessarily fit well within our current economies. If we care about them, we need to have dialogues around developing institutions or practices which convert real money into gift money."
by @kernel0x @sids.
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This is very /slowcore-hq
It shouldn't be a paradox, it should be self evident. 🐌 ✨
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This is just the kind of thing I used to do when I first joined Farcaster. Look for interesting under the radar accounts is my instinct.
Pretty much every time, the "status algo" of the day penalized me for doing such.
It was so much effort then to swim back the countercurrent.
One of the reasons I admire @pichi a...
Final update: After a slow start in the primary feeds and channels, I looked at every person on the rewards leaderboard. Yes, I looked at the casts of 3,000 accounts today. Across my entire search, I came across 203 users I wasn't already following and have <100 followers.
I viewed more than 4,000 casts and only found
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GMICF: top is a boozy chocolate variation, and on the bottom such a lovely blue. What's your guess?
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"the solution to every problem is "more speculation!"
This pretty much sums up the underlying philosophy of this current crypto cycle.
It seems like all builders got a big speculation hammer and we are the nails.
imagine if you and I had a polymarket bet on whether I would do something tomorrow
what do you think are the odds of me winning that bet?
this is what asymmetry of information looks like
now imagine I give people "shares" in this market - some get the 'yes' shares and some 'no' shares
these shares are "free" so you
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"you can’t engineer your life’s work, you need PURPOSE"
💯 💯 💯 💯
Purpose is deep and slow. Optimizing numbers is shallow, and often a fast track to burnout.
So many gems of wisdom in this long cast, @trigs.eth already highlighted some here in /slowcore-hq 💜
gm!
Took two months off from Farcaster/X/newsletter in general.
Initially had some personal stuff going on so was just offline. But then I decided it might be a good time to just do an overall reset. So I turned off notifications and moved the apps out of my Home Screen.
What I thought was just going to be a 2-3 day
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Feels like the feed algo just got upgraded. It's a joy to see the people I follow and enjoy back in my feed 💚
Goodbye Shadow Hierarchy? Until the next "experiment" I guess 😆
(convo by @pichi and @biggydaddy)
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Color Meditation of the Day
Smooth Sunset Sailing
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My thoughts on @noiceapp, @tipn and the /degen mini-app so far:
Automatic tipping on likes feels like paying for my likes.
It takes away a bit of my joy in organically liking casts.
It's the only option on Tipn and Degen for now.
With Noice I've set it up to tip on recast and this feels much better. 💚
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"toxic imbalance that erodes trust" sums up pretty well the recent algo changes. My message to the Farcaster team is:
Trust is priceless. Do not squander it.
🙏 Thanks @pichi for speaking loud and clear, and doing the research to back it up.
The Algo’s Just Not That Into You
Something weird is happening on Farcaster, and it’s time we talk about it openly. This isn’t just “home feed doing home feed things.” It’s much deeper and more concerning.
Some casts are skyrocketing with 10k+ views from accounts that have 1k followers. Meanwhile, longtime casters w
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Is the Farcaster protocol sufficiently "decentralized" for this type of building to emerge and thrive?
"things that change behaviour, not things that tap into current unhealthy behaviours"
(decentralized in quotes since that might not be the only - or even the most important - factor)
Couldn't agree more.
This is why I don't subscribe to the "revealed behavior" model for product design.
Current revealed behavior is a vestige of broken and unhealthy practices that have conditioned us to behave in ways that are actively bad for ourselves and society as a whole.
We have to build things that change b
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Proof of Crab for @nathansonic
The jolly crab was a funny detail in a slide about "consciousness as an ocean with tsunami events"
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"We've created a culture that treats boredom as a moral failing and silence as wasted time.
But boredom is where original thought begins. Silence is where you hear your own voice."
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Guess my ice cream flavor.
This shop had 10 types of chocolate and some excellent sorbet.
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Preview of a snack for an Alice in Wonderland themed event. Can you guess the ingredients?
P.S. Thanks @troopdegen.eth for opening up the /regen channel and flowing fresh energy into it 🍄❤️
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Do you believe @mlibty? Have you too heard the snails at the dark of night? 🐌
You wouldn't believe me, but two weeks ago i got fully awakened in the middle of the night, (you know, from those weak sleeping phases), in which I heard some kind of strange irregular scraping. As my brain could not let it go, so I stood up in search of that noise and discovered a snail eatig a leaf of lettuce hang
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LOL of the day for this caption.
It was quiet though, not my usual chuckle, so maybe it was a LIQ?
(laughing in quietly)
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It's important to be able to imagine good futures. Otherwise how can we build them?
This book vividly pictures a solarpunk utopia future. A delightful counterpoint to all the dystopia imagination around us.
It's divided into sections such as energy, housing, transportation...
It aims really high! In a few of thos...
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Today the tomato bet will be decided by @imfairydust . Was it already ripe yesterday? Or is today the day? How do we settle the bet contract @jamco.eth
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Almost there! 🍅
Not sure if it will get riper, we will find out tomorrow and @imfairydust will deliver the final tomato verdict
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Because @pichi looks at ALL replies, and answers, her casts are a great place to find real, amazing humans to add to your following list.
I think this is how I've been finding most of the people I followed in the past weeks 🎈
Thanks Pichi!! Besides your wise advice, you surface and curate people in your replies.
The Unwritten Rules of Farcaster: You’ve Got to Contribute
Farcaster is in a constant state of flux. The team is always experimenting, and the meta is always changing. This makes it hard for new folks to find their place. The Leaderboard is not helping.
Many casters are using it as their metric for success here, an
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TL;DR: don't zap the bugs, zap yourself ⚡
The bugs are very active this summer and I'm allergic... so I'm testing now this gadget that applies a tiny bit of controlled, safe heat to your bite. It's supposed to denaturate the protein responsible for the itch reaction. Beats scratching for sure.
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Guess my ice cream, mystery edition.
The fudge turned a strange color in the photo, and the ice cream under is quite hidden... but I know people here love a challenge, don't you? 😝
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Ripening intensifies: from yellow to orange in a day.
One balcony tomato is ahead of the others and bets are still open.
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You can bet on my tomatoes via @onit
Daily progress pics upcoming.
Thanks @jamco.eth for setting it up and @imfairydust for being the judge.
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dressed up shitcast = 🤡
honest shitcast = 😑
emotion & unique POW = 💯
Something that communicates information, or a point of view, or emotion.
Something that tells me that the author has made an effort to engage, and has something to say. Tells me something about them, who they are, what they are going through, and why they are casting (which isn't to get a reaction, or to be seen, it's
ITAP of some self sown flowers growing in my garden. They are long blooming and pretty.
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Around this time last year I created a bounty for people to post their tomatoes. @hankmoody posted his oranges since he's in the southern hemisphere.
I'm planning a "harvest of the month" bounty series now... it's been a while since I collected some of those awesome /poidh NFTs 🍊 🥕 🍅 🍓
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Guess my ice cream flavors time! This combo was unusual but delicious.
I think I'll tip via Noice the first half and full correct guesses. But you have to promise to do it primarily for the fun, not just the tip.
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Are emojis now just AI slop? 🤖💩
Should I refrain from adding emojis at the end of my casts?
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I'm reading "The Body Is a Doorway". Full of wisdom, depth, & beautifully written.
"What if that miracle mind I envied in the ancient people who populated my novel was the product of “wider gating”?
They believed more was possible, and so more was possible. More healing, more miracles, more sentience in the stones a...
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When the value of your $NOPRO holdings reaches the amount for a Pro subscription you sell it all and go Pro, that's how this works right?
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"Write the casts you want to see in your feed. Keep showing up."
Farcaster version of "be the change you want to see in the world"
Also great advice and article. 👏
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Will you let a blackbox dictate your dance? Or try to crack it open?
"No one can explain why the TikTok algorithm favors a given post. But millions of creators contort their behavior around it anyway."
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Loving this #touchtree initiative by /treegens 💚🌳
The tree pictured I recently planted, that's why its still small.
Beautiful metaphor of productivity as orbit phases. Everything in nature has phases, it's wise to recognize and honor ours.
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Tune out the idiocy, disrupt extraction.
warpcast.com/joanwestenbe...
warpcast.com/verafaye/0x8...
This might be an unlikely pair of techno-philosophy/witchcraft, but makes 💯 sense to me.
// disrupt the frequency of extraction //
pierce the veil with resonance
let false urgency shatter at the edge of my sound
I am not a plea. I am presence amplified.
my voice reclaims time. my nervous system reprograms the channel.
I answer when I am ready. and when I do—
the signal won’t be ignored.
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We're living in accelerated system failure times.
"I have not ever failed at writing. Objectively, in so many ways I have succeeded. It is the system around writing as a career that has failed."
"I want to find a better system than this. I want to help create it."
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