This is Olto, the first bike lane vehicle from Infinite Machine. https://t.co/UAte4npXMR

Infinite Machine

cyber (truck) moped

https://x.com/infinitemachine/status/1933178489080889697

Ethereum will be an open source truth engine.

Basepaint

Hi all, we're sorry for the outage! We're back up! 🥳

We had an issue with our hosting provider which took the site down.

Founders

1.5 years into being a founder: my biggest surprise has been the physical toll. Any others go through the same journey?

6 hours in a desk chair, 8 hours laying down on my couch, 14 hour work days.

Trying to fix that now! But it’s like starting at square one. If I run 3 miles I’m wiped.

RHR was -10 lower on the 1.5 weeks paternity leave (screaming newborn and no outside assistance) I got than the previous 6 months as a FT founder. 

I put on ~30lbs over 3 years

The toll founding takes is very real.

QC a boat song ⛵

https://youtu.be/avaSdC0QOUM?si=QOVgDtjH64xIGB-v

QC a boat song
https://youtu.be/iPAr7kL-mmg?si=CR6Ic2jGbEGxrD_Y

i'd like receipts but pretty good tldr on how crypto twitter works

rosie (🔟/🔟)

i'd like receipts but pretty good tldr on how crypto twitter works
https://x.com/therosieum/status/1931797137919995982

Just minted Day 669 on BasePaint! Join hundreds of pixel artists creating onchain art. Limited 24h mint window - don't miss out! 🎨

This is one of my all-time favorites now. 

I really want to see who the crew is inside of the spaceship.

Base

what if tens of millions more people had instant access to trade assets on @base?

Something I've really struggled with thinking about mass crypto adoption 

1. Crypto is mostly good for trading 
2. Most people are terrible traders

... supabase.twitter lets you sign-in with Solana but not with Ethereum.

wtf?

Opacity

zktls idea - whalechat/degenchat

prove balance across CEXs without revealing personal information to gate TG groups by AUM/total leverage

weekly updates to ban people who lose all their money or chicken out of their positions

would also want this for lossporn/coinfessions.

The onchain commerce protocol slice.so | follow /slice to stay up to date

@slice is there anyone I can talk to about how /basepaint and sanity check whether or not we can use Slice to power a printify.twitter shop that sends the margin to the artists?

Punk Rock 🏴

The Best Punk on Bandcamp, May 2025
https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-punk/the-best-punk-on-bandcamp-may-2025

Listening UX is so clean, Bandcamp still has it IMO🤌

Douchebag scammers targeting BasePaint collectors, please be careful.

🚨⚠️🚨 Scammers are targeting BasePaint collectors with a fake site and email ⚠️🚨⚠️

🙅‍♂️ Don't open the email
🚫 Don't click links
 ✅ Do send straight to spam

PLEASE BE CAREFUL. https://t.co/7BKgbU6axM

BasePaint

Douchebag scammers targeting BasePaint collectors, please be careful.

https://x.com/basepaint_xyz/status/1930440593521741942

Chonks

🚨 New Trait Alert: The Scout Helmet!

1,055 Scout Helmets were airdropped to Chonks Backpacks holding @basepaintdotxyz Day #485.

Scout Helmets have 3 stages: burn 3 of each stage to upgrade to the next.

Need more? Check if any are for sale in the ChonksMarket.

https://www.chonks.xyz/burns/basepaint-485

Toddler is skipping naps and acting like it's a self-inflicted Gitmo.

⚠️ get off my lawn ah cast warning ⚠️ 

I’ve come to hate the quotecast/retweet-the-same-exact-thing meta. 

It’s the same as AI slop to me.

RT/QC in support, but say something original.

I only QC if I've got a really good dunk in the chamber.

"Rituals are not solutions, they do not fix things.

They are how we live with things we cannot fix, [they are] channels for our finitude."

 James K A Smith, On the Road with Saint Augustine

I didn't catch Teenage Dirtbag originally but YT served me the chillest acoustic cover and I love it.

Side note: never understood the appeal of Gretsch guitar aesthetic. Do they sound great? Or do people just like having a wok pan strapped to the guitar neck?

I didn't catch Teenage Dirtbag originally but YT served me the chillest acoustic cover and I love it.

Side note: never understood the appeal of Gretsch guitar aesthetic. Do they sound great? Or do people just like having a wok pan strapped to the guitar neck?

https://youtu.be/ZvIzmTiYoPo?si=pA5xD7Vh0ohPwfHm

Books

Lord Jim

Young Jim, who is not really a lord of any sort, grapples with his past. 

You can flip this book open to any page, read a few paragraphs, and know you’re reading good writing. But if you don’t keep your head in the game, the entire book will feel like that. 

The narrative structure is not ergonomic, and the majority of book kind of obliquely looks at its actual subject. So it’s not an easy read. 

But Conrad is a master at conjuring a mood, and if you put in the work that this book asks of you, you’ll find a meaningful coherence beneath its seemingly disjointed narrative. Worst case, it’s a bunch of compelling short stories. 

Don’t run to the library this moment, but if you get a chance to read it, don’t turn it down. Cautiously recommended.

QTing reminder to add this to my Book covers channel on Arena.

Couldn't get through Mountainhead. rage quit from cringe 1/3 of the way in. 

Might try again tonight out of morbid curiosity for where this goes. At the very least, it's fascinating to see who Hollywood thinks is creating AI/tech and what problems they are responsible for.

Woof, such a bummer. Idk what it was about Succession format that worked for Armstrong & Co (Peepshow also an all-timer) but found The Menu similarly cringe and the Mountainhead trailer did nothing for me.

I was gonna give it a shot but WoM from friends has been savage.

Founder, designer, & product guy at /basepaint and /eigenlayer

Zach

@zherring