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Cdesign retweeted
Good explanation of a weird thing that's been happening on here lately. It feels very scammy - I'd be wary of this.
Numerous creators have received random X Money deposits of thousands of dollars.
It’s actually quite interesting what’s going on, but it could also be very bad for you and your brand if you’re not careful.
Let me explain.
A lot of people just got unsolicited X Money deposits and some are calling it a “financial DDOS.”
This is not random cash.
A product called Paid / @UsePaid lets someone launching a pump(dot)fun token attached to an X handle.
Token fees get converted to fiat and pushed to that person through X Money as a “creator fee.”
The point of the payment is attention.
They want you to notice the deposit, ask what it is, quote it, thank them, or talk about the coin in public.
You can usually take the money and say nothing.
Silence is the cleanest move. If you don’t engage, they often just move on to the next handle.
Do not publicly discuss, thank, quote, or “just explain” the coin.
We’ve already seen creators get sued or dragged into legal fights after they publicly touched coins they didn’t launch, didn’t control, and didn’t fully understand.
A public reply can look like endorsement, promotion, or involvement even when you thought you were just being polite.
Be careful, my friends.
And to those receiving free money, congratulations!
Cdesign retweeted
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent"
theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
Cdesign retweeted
The Kennedy Memorial is made of irreplaceable marble that was gifted by Italy.
Matisse tapestries found throughout were gifted from France.
The massive starburst chandelier in the Opera Hall, and lights along walkways, were a gift from Sweden.
The record-breaking stage curtains were a gift from Japan. They had to build special looms to weave them because of how big they are.
The grounds are beautiful with displays of art.
This is what Trump is destroying.
Cdesign retweeted
The Kennedy Center’s Grand Foyer is 630' long and 63' high. The crystal chandeliers were hand-blown by @orrefors and an official gift by the Kingdom of @Sweden in 1971. The huge mirrors at left were a gift the Kingdom of @Belgium on behalf of its people and nation.
A detail worth noting in the Kennedy Center madness is a magnificent 12,000 crystal lighting array at the Opera House created by J & L Lobmeyr, who also made chandeliers for the Vienna State Opera and Schönbrunn Palace. It's an official gift from the Republic of Austria, meant as a permanent memorial to President Kennedy.
Cdesign retweeted
For years, you've read me complaining about CA governance, so now read something positive:
Buffy Wicks, who chairs the CA State Assembly Appropriations Committee and who has helped lead the drive to relax supply constraints across the state, has agreed to lead a Breakout at Reconvene in October.
She is coming specifically because she wants to hear from people who build and operate housing in California about all the ways state government interferes with us doing so profitably.
If you are on the front lines and want to share your experiences / frustrations with someone who a. cares and b. is in a position to do something to help, I strongly urge you to join us.
For more information, visit reconvene.com
Cdesign retweeted
New exclusive: In his 25 years as an OBGYN, Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas repeatedly sued patients for outstanding medical debt. At least 81 were arrested during their court proceedings. Some had debt from c-sections; others from miscarriages.
Cdesign retweeted
Texans will pick their next governor, U.S. senator and more than a dozen statewide elected officials during the Nov. 3 general election.
Oct. 5 is the last day to register to vote. Early voting begins Oct. 19. Here's what you need to know. bit.ly/4xYKvLY
Cdesign retweeted
Anytime you see "MUCH more miserable" in a @NWSLosAngeles forecast, it's going to be no good, terrible, very bad day
ALT A highlighted section from a National Weather Service forecast for the Los Angeles area that reads, "Widespread highs in the 90s (including near some coasts) to low 100s will in its own right be hot. However the potential for extreme humidity (for Southern California) from incredibly high precipitable waters of 1.5-2 inches, well above normal ocean temperatures, and even recent or upcoming rainfall will make it much more miserable outside and also keep temperature the 70s and 80s well into the evening and even overnight for some areas."
Cdesign retweeted
We have traditionally provided reassurance to patients with a borderline anemia. This new prospective data from >500,000 people challenges that lack of concern, indicating an increased risk of all-cause mortality
acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/… @AnnalsofIM
Cdesign retweeted
Breaking News: The Trump administration has proposed trading land just inside Yosemite’s western boundary to a Las Vegas developer. nyti.ms/4gEsRq8
Cdesign retweeted
23 US states/territories have COVlD outbreaks. You can use this promo code to get 20% off FlowFlex rapid tests.
That's the test my family uses and that I give to patients and staff because it has >98% sensitivity. (link in next Tweet)
ALT Code: FLEX23
PMC COVlD Update, Week of Aug 24, 2026
(posted 2 days early)
The US is experiencing COVlD outbreaks in 23 states/territories (see Alt text).
▪️Largest outbreaks: TX, CA, HI, AK
▪️1 in 136 Americans estimated actively infectious
▪️Highest levels since March 20th
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ALT The US has at least 23 states/territories with COVlD outbreaks. These include much of California, Texas, Alaska, and Hawai’i, as well as the territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Outbreaks are also present in Washington state, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, New York, New Jersey, and New Hampshire. There are likely outbreaks in additional states. The summary statistic of 23 only includes counties with observed data, rather than estimated data. Levels in some Texas counties are so high – on par with the national peak of BA.1 Omicron – that it drives up estimates for counties in neighboring states that lack CDC wastewater monitoring systems. Looking closely at the map, notice other instances of Very High counties in one state driving up estimates of an adjacent county in a neighboring state that lacks data. This shows a clear value of the county-level map over the CDC state map.
Cdesign retweeted
I am begging everyone to stop outsourcing your brain to robots. Life is worth living only because we feel and control every part of it. Please don't give away your agency.
Cdesign retweeted
🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."
My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."
I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.
Hedgie🤗
Cdesign retweeted
New paper: every law in America is technically public. But not really, until now!
With @DenisPeskoff at UC Berkeley, we built a corpus of ~every publicly accessibly city and county law, and released a huge chunk of it!
2.2 million laws, you're (probably) covered in it!
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Cdesign retweeted
🦔Leonardo is a $17 billion defense contractor. It built a system called SignalTrace that clips sensors onto the license plate readers already mounted on street poles, overpasses, and police cars across the US. Every time you drive past one, the sensor grabs the Bluetooth and WiFi signals from every device in your car, ties them to your plate, and logs the time and location. Your phone, your AirPods, your kid's tablet. All of it goes into the same file. A friend rides with you once and their devices are linked to your plate.
Leonardo has sold this to police departments since at least 2023. There is no federal law covering it, no opt-out, and no warrant requirement.
My Take
None of the pieces here are new. Your phone has always broadcast a signal. The license plate cameras were already there. Leonardo just connected them and found a buyer. Nobody had to break a law or build anything from scratch. They assembled a surveillance system from parts already in place and sold it before anyone noticed.
Most people found out this week from a 404 Media investigation. Leonardo received the patent in 2024. By the time you hear about something like this, the deals are done and the sensors are on the poles. That's how it works now.
Hedgie🤗
404media.co/this-company-wil…
Cdesign retweeted
Trump should show up here at the L.A. County ballot processing center because he’d learn within five minutes this is democracy in action, not some conspiracy.
Cdesign retweeted
With everything we are hearing right now about ticks this seems like good information to share.
“Here’s what I’ve learned after more ticks than I care to count.
First, whatever your uncle told you, forget it. No matches. No nail polish. No Vaseline. No soap on a cotton ball. All of those do the same terrible thing, they stress the tick out, and a stressed tick empties its gut back into the bite before letting go. Which, if you think about what that actually means for a second, is literally how Lyme and the rest get transmitted so you’re not speeding up its exit. You’re making it throw up into you.
Fine-tipped tweezers. Grip right where the mouthparts enter the skin, not the body, the head. Pull straight up, steady, no twisting, no jerking. It’ll feel like it’s resisting because it is, the mouthparts are barbed. Just keep the pressure on and it lets go in a few seconds. If a piece breaks off in the skin, leave it alone. Your body pushes splinters out. Digging around with a needle does more damage then the fragment ever would.
Clean it with alcohol or soap. Wash your hands.
Now here’s the part most people skip: don’t flush the tick.
Tape it to an index card. Clear packing tape right over the body, write the date and where on your body it was, and stick the card in a drawer. If you come down with anything weird in the next 30 days, rash, fever, joint pain, that flu-that-isn’t-flu feeling, that tick goes with you to the doctor. Some labs will test the tick itself, which is faster and often more reliable than waiting for antibodies to show up in your own blood. A dated tick taped to a card is one of the most useful things you can hand a doctor who’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with you.
The other thing worth saying out loud: if the tick was engorged when you pulled it, and you can’t swear it was off your body within 24 hours, call your doctor that same day. Don’t wait for a rash. Fewer than three out of four Lyme cases even produce the classic bullseye. A single preventive dose of doxycycline within 72 hours of a deer tick bite cuts the Lyme odds way down, and most docs in tick country will write that prescription without giving you a hard time, especially if you walk in with the tick taped to a card and a clear timeline.”
Cdesign retweeted
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
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Cdesign retweeted
Native plant roots grow 5 to 15 feet deep. Your lawn's roots go 4 to 6 inches.
Big bluestem, Indiangrass, switchgrass, compass plant, and all the native grasses and forbs of the American prairie put more of themselves underground than above it.
Up to 90% of a prairie plant's biomass is in the root system. Some species can reach as far as 15 feet down. Those roots hold the soil, recharge groundwater, store carbon by the ton, and survive drought because they're tapped into water tables that lawn roots can't reach.
Kentucky bluegrass, the standard American lawn, has roots 4 to 12 inches deep. It can't reach water past the first hot week of August without you turning on the hose. Roughly 30 to 60% of municipal fresh water in this country is sprayed on lawns trying to keep them alive against their own design.
The reason your lawn dies in summer isn't just the heat. It's that the grass you planted didn't evolve to live where you live, while the plants that did are being pushed out as weeds.
Replace one section. Even 200 square feet of native plantings does more for your soil, your water table, and your local wildlife than the rest of the lawn combined.
