Drop some SCI-FI ANTAGONISTS 🛸🖤👾

Any person who looks at a market that’s overrun with Romantasy porn, AI slop, 10k page fanfiction and LitRPGs, and decides to write, sinking thousands of hours of his life with no monetary incentive is either a madman or possessed by God.

Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks. wired.com/story/organoids-la…

Dear @nikitabier : I'm actually having a lot of fun watching you demonetize the copy-paste brigade. But I also find myself in a position where my payouts often don't make a lot of sense. Sometimes they're curiously low. Sometimes they are strangely high. Now, I'm aware that you and your team are constantly tweaking to try to incentivize content that is original and well-received, so the way payouts are calculated varies week by week. But the success of incentives is bottlenecked by people's understanding of what they are. So I don't want the payout structure changed... you're probably changing it all the time and figuring out how is your burden to bear. I'd like it itemized. Post by post. So much for this one, so much for that one. That way, I know what the tweaks are trying to encourage. Not just to chase the money... although, yes, I like money, and I'm a professional writer, which means I'm supposed to get paid. But also because this kind of transparency creates the potential for a two-way dialogue about what constitutes "good content". Is it "better" to write a long, thoughtful analysis that not everyone has the patience to read, but some few will really enjoy? Or to try to distill the zeitgeist of the day into a pithy encapsulation? Before X, social media sites were mostly random, and when they became intentional, it was mostly only through censorship, focused on content... what topics and ideas are to be shut down. But making social media useful is probably more about form... what kinds of writing, what sorts of presentations, are most valuable to subscribers. And X appears to be trying to work in that space. Itemizing payouts would give some transparency into what X's current concept of the goal is.

Which midlife crisis will you chose:

This guy recaps the deficit situation:

More bad news for Bitcoiners living in the leading country for wrench attacks. The French tax authority has been hacked and 678K records leaked. 26,805 people with income over 100K€ 386 people with income over 1M€ 8 people with income over 10M€ frenchbreaches.com/alertes/d…

The July federal deficit annualized would be 5.2 trillion Read that again 🤣

@LynAldenContact's The Sotlguard Incident is the best techno thriller I've read this year. It's like Sanderson's Mistborne meets Amazon's The Boys but set within the modern tech trend line as currently observable on X.com. Also, does not include any woke socialist brain washing which is a huge differentiating factor for the modern sci-fi.

Nostr on fire, powering two of the top three trending projects on GitHub 🔥

I’ve been watching the Iranian rap battle for the past week. The bad news is they totally rekt us on this one. Hit us in the jugular. By attacking them, we helped launder their reputation. The good news is, they’ll never make a better one than this. They already got it out.

I don't see how rates can go down now that we see Warsh as a serious practitioner, the president unable to stop the war, the allies in the region depending almost entirely on us, and oil stocks headed back up quickly. Unholy developments