In today’s How to Punk, a clever collector walks us through their latest Punk acquisition!

5762 bought CryptoPunk 5084 for 28.73 ETH, below PunkPredictor’s 39.31 ETH estimate and the 30.65 ETH floor. The latest ask was filled in under a minute.

Let's talk participatory conceptual art by @jackbutcher. A thread 🧵 1/14👇

pissin and shittin and pukin like what / you don't want to see what's coming out my butt bid on the 1/1: songaday.world/6500

Thoughts about our space: I've been around since 2021 I saw so many people come and go, good and bad I went through many crashes like 3AC, FTX, Luna, Trump, etc Today, more than ever, we are VERY few It's so easy to think our space is big, but in reality it's an echo chamber Many of those artists and collectors that left were great people, it was unfortunate for us to lose them Choose to be kind to those who remain, choose to build good No one knows what they have until it's gone Prioritize relationships over transactions

Thoughts about New York: I woke up at 6 to go to the gym Worked out and left found a small coffee shop run by some edgy teenagers I ordered my latte, they spoke Spanish and I said I am Mexican and was just visiting We spoke for a few minutes and they gifted me the coffee and wrote on it “enjoy New York” I tipped them the amount of the coffee when they didn’t notice Now I’m sitting on their vintage leather couch that has been softened by a thousand butts I’m sinking in it while listening to music and drinking my coffee This is happiness Life is simple Thank you New York

I’m trying an experiment similar to @zxocw’s living off of Bitcoin in 2013. I am converting as much of my life, family and business to run on @SpaceX (incl @Tesla) as possible. Looking for feedback on the evolving list which includes some predictions on forthcoming products: Home & office internet: @Starlink Everyday transport: @Tesla Model X Weekend transport: Roadster Foundation model: @grok (with decentralized inference from next-gen Megapack by 2028) Boat/Plane: I predict an autonomous electric yacht and business jet by 2035. Phone: @Tesla edge node device will replace iPhone by 2029. Home energy: Powerwall with solar on roof from @Tesla. Corporate: @Dialectic_Group runs on a substrate of coordinated @bot swarms already. Bank account: @XMoney Investments: Literally just buy $SPCX & outperform.🤷‍♂️ Social media, news & education: @X Intercontinental travel: Starport city-to-city by 2033. @robotaxi in most cities by 2029. @Tesla_Optimus robots for help around the house, farm, kids, cooking, cleaning, looking after animals, etc. This one is the big unlock. Expect to have a few by 2028. My thesis is that there are massive synergies and opportunities that arise from the convergence of these technologies under a unified company that allow for a truly optimized life. The $SPCX acquisition of $TSLA is fundamental for such an experiment.

I will miss you, Japan Wedding diet starts now

Stay conscious and alive day in and day out As AI and crypto grow this becomes harder and more of a competitive advantage Human nature wants quick results. Money now, attention now. If we don’t get that result right now, easier than ever to bail and look for the next shiny object STAY CONSCIOUS: be self aware and don’t give into the fomo and fud that bots and NPCs project on you STAY ALIVE: Believe in something more than money and attention and don’t bail

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Two new paintings

CryptoPunk #110 and Autoglyph #25 by Larva Labs are now on view at the West Bund Museum in Shanghai, as part of Computer Worlds, an exhibition spanning 70 years of computer art from the Centre Pompidou collection, alongside works by Vera Molnár, Manfred Mohr, Herbert Franke, and Cory Arcangel. Curator Philippe Bettinelli sent me a photograph from the opening: a little kid who ran across the gallery to hug the Punk. He apologized for the terrible photo, but I think this photo perfect. I recall when the same Punk first went on view at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2023. At the time, the curators were a little nervous about how to present CryptoPunks. They were more accustomed to abstract computer art, and Punks were a strange proposition for a museum; they challenged some pretty fundamental assumptions about what art could or should be. And then a group of teenagers spotted the Punk from across the gallery and ran straight toward it. The curators looked at each other, suddenly reassured. Here was a work they'd spent so much time thinking about how to contextualize, and these kids already had a relationship with it, the Punk quite literally MOVED them. Three years later, a little kid in Shanghai is doing exactly the same thing. And I love how uncomplicated that response is...kids don't run toward art because they've been told it's important. They run toward something they recognize, something that already feels like part of their world. No explanation of the blockchain, no art history, no discussion of ownership or value. Just the simple pleasure of seeing something you love. These little 24×24 pixel portraits have come a long way since 2017, but the instinct to connect with them remains the same. And maybe that's enough?

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I made p(doom)! A mod of Doom where you play as @sama or @DarioAmodei. AI has defeated humanity and you must save the last 20 people alive (people like @allTheYud and @geoffreyhinton). play it: mann.cool/pdoom ca for fun: 2PLF955KTb7CDpHbA5VZH8CgunkvWqfic9wufwJFpump