I just want enough Farcaster rewards so I can buy a dishwasher

hifi

Music

this track Lomsha from the french Hadouk Trio is really quite special. earthy and sultry world jazz that brings together middle-eastern modal melodies and north african gnawa grooves.

throughout the album the double reed armenian duduk—played by Didier Malherbe—features heavily which takes the place of the soprano saxophone in more traditional jazz ensemble instrumentation.

https://album.link/i/355846728

Got this song during a showroom visit last summer. They casually mentioned there was a pair of Rockport Aviors in another room, so we went to hear how they stacked up to the Wilsons. v relaxing.

great work, though don't have an enterprise sub atm so can't see the whole thing. a few thoughts:

- if you were charting ethereum protocol revenue like a token, you would never buy that chart. looks ugly.

- totally agree re: the rollup-centric roadmap, basically boils down to a lack of alignment between L2s and ethereum. running a popular L2 sequencer is quite profitable, so the incentive is strong for popular apps to own their stack and deploy their own chain.

- another big question on the horizon is how monad and megaeth will eat into ethereum's market share as they compete alongside solana and other high throughput chains.

we spoke previously about charting ETH/USD vs. avg gas, previously I believed that there was a plausible correlation between the two. looking at 2024 heading into 2025, I believe this is becoming less and less the case. haven't looked closely but you could argue that ETH's price action is becoming less correlated to its protocol revenue.

Matthew was born for research and analysis. 

It’s only a matter of time that someone will be lucky enough to have him on their team.

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Roman recently had a whale donor fall through that almost funded the remainder of costs. With all the delays + developments around his case (including todays news) he desperately needs $2M to make it through. Full context:

Roman's legal team is running out of time and resources. His trial has been postponed to July 14th, 2025. This delay means more legal prep, more filings, and more hours for the defense team.

He needs $2M to get through the end of his trial. Here's the breakdown ⤵️ https://t.co/TTxzvF4Gpg

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Roman recently had a whale donor fall through that almost funded the remainder of costs. With all the delays + developments around his case (including todays news) he desperately needs $2M to make it through. Full context: 

https://x.com/freealexeyroman/status/1928523370825425039?s=46&t=rLftPKNSWRVHZOADuhmSqA

Almost at 12,000 subscribers. 

+$230K for weekly rewards

the healthcare industry is ripe for disruption

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

almost wrote “casted” on X about something someone tweeted

we’re so back

there is so much opportunity online right now 💜 feeling very grateful

having a shilling channel in your tg is sin

calling the trudeau-top on gazelles and sambas 👟

Farcaster

curious about crypto UX. occasionally fun(ny)

we need a poidh of all the people who were onboarded by dan to PROVE IT

prev /juicebox | helping free roman and alexey

cannot WAIT to see where ur brain takes us

vegetable lore is now one of my new content pillars 💅🥦

i may or may not have been eagerly anticipating a vegetable fact tonight

allegedly

Did you know that romanesco broccoli grows in a fractal pattern that follows the Fibonacci sequence? 🌀

guess whose head hurts because they were stupid and didn’t drink enough water today

Fashion

tbh I do not like basque waist wedding dresses

a few notes from @brileigh and I's visit to the Ojas listening room in NYC

* Ojas and Devon Turnbull
before founding Ojas, Devon Turnbull studied at Parsons and adopted the tag "Ojas" for mixtapes, graffiti, flyers, etc. in 2003 he founded the streetwear label Nom de Guerre with some friends and over the next few years travelled frequently to Japan as he developed an interest in high-efficiency drivers, horns, and tube amplifiers.

in his spare time, he built Altec-inspired horn speakers for himself and friends which later became DIY flat-pack kits sold through Virgil Abloh's Canary Yellow platform. 

Nom de Guerre closed in 2013 and Turnbull turned his attention to Ojas full-time as an audio practice. by 2018 his custom systems found their way into stores like Supreme, venues like Public Records, and producer Mark Ronson's studio. in 2022 he produced Hi-Fi Listening Room Dream No. 1, an immersive installation that was first presented in Lisson Gallery (NYC, London) before touring to many other institutions.

we thought ai would steal our jobs 

instead, it came for our boyfriends

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

could write a whole thread on this given my background in film digitization.

a couple caveats:

- not all streams are created equal. sometimes you’re watching an ugly old transfer, other times a new UHD remaster in dolbyvision. very variable. disney+, netflix, and apple the leaders in quality imo, but still some bad apples here and there (pun intended).

- not all discs are created equally. you can also watch a bad transfer on blu-ray. not necessarily a guarantee of anything.

that said, in general:

- blu-ray discs don’t waver in quality in response to network conditions like streams do. for example, you’ll see consistently tight grain structure that doesn’t go softer/sharper or more/less apparent.

- good blu-ray players have more sophisticated HDR handling than any streaming method, which will help HDR content not get clipped/unnatural while retaining detail.

- blu-ray discs give you uncompressed audio, not lossy mp3 or aac, but this might only matter to you if you have a decent sound system.