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Trick question, all 3 of course. The real question: me & who?

Haitian Divorce: Rhum Barbancourt 8, Ilegal Mezcal, PX Sherry, Angostura Bitters https://www.liquor.com/haitian-divorce-cocktail-recipe-6499854

Remember January of last year when "ETH was dying" and then later in the year it reached all time highs? Now "FC is dying." Not to tut-tut people's concerns, but as a devoted single father once said: "I find your lack of faith disturbing." Try sticking to cypherpunk values, even when it's not en vogue and more fashionable to be cynical. You'll avoid the FTXes the past like I did, and hopefully stay for (what I think will be) one of the biggest paradigm shifts in human coordination & cooperation since the invention of the web itself.

I see a lot of consternation that Farcaster will 'die' though unspecified means because of the wallet strategy. This is not only wrong, I'll argue the opposite is true. Wallets are like invertebrates that can survive nuclear fallout. @myetherwallet is the first Ethereum wallet and is still around: Why? Because there are fees to be made through swaps and DeXes will exist in some form probably until the heat death of the universe. Consider the opposite case: Bluesky. Bluesky currently has growing server bills, zero ways to pay for it, and a userbase that hates the founding team & has already pledged to never financially support them. What I will say is that ATProto people are on a spectrum of ambitious to borderline arrogant: they want to rebuild the entire world on the ATProto stack, including replacing SMTP email (probably not going to happen), but ambition gives people hope of escape velocity. OTOH, I can already see Bluesky following in {Diaspora, Tent\.io, Mastodon, Identi\.ca}'s footsteps, namely: good vibes will pay the server bills. A wallet is less inspiring but it's also infinitely more pragmatic and likely to be impossible to kill even if everyone at Merkle left tomorrow and sold the org: there's fees to be made somewhere.

Interesting point, what good does it do to stigmatize lung cancer even for habitual smokers? Moreover: is sympathy a scarce resource to be rationed out? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/well/lung-cancer-stigma.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EVA.H-od.KvWcelUGfO0u&smid=url-share

Unfortunately they "reached capacity" even though I had a ticket and turned away hundreds of other people who also had tickets...Smugs it is 🥲

I'll be at the Bits in Bio reception today in SF (Sponsored by Cadence!), unfortunately at capacity already, so if you're not already going...join me later at Smuggler's Cove! https://luma.com/0627vwce?tk=SpEEzQ

This one is a must watch, touches deeply on social media design https://youtu.be/hiw51ppCbuE?si=r71X6UfFhvFKfyAb

great read. social crypto has to be about designing social feedback loops.

I created a crypto alt account back in the "drop your ENS" heyday of 2021. It was nice because I would have one account for crypto things and one account for everything else, two separate feeds. Now both algo feeds are pretty much identical: mostly Reddit-style ragebait and tiktok slop. Luckily the 'following' tab still seems to work.

Sad that @3dns is shutting down. No announcements on social media or the front page, just saw this when I opened the webapp. Who's going to take up the mantle of domain tokenization? https://3dns.box/transfer-to-namesilo

The reason effective altruism is inane bullshit is that EA's constantly play hide-the-ball with uncertainty. Driving to the store to buy skittles? There's a chance you kill someone. But then we are expected to believe pushing a button to save 10^100 shrimp will work with certainty? Let's make the button a single photon emitter that will pass through a 50-50 beamsplitter, of which only one leg will hit the 'button' that will 'save' the shrimp through unspecified means. This is how the world actually works. EA is the politics of solipsism: just ignore the noise & uncertainty in the real world unless it backs up your preconceived notions. https://morallawwithin.substack.com/p/yes-you-should-save-10100-shrimp

Woot! We did it /sanjose 🙌 Oh wait.

Ok this guy knows ball https://www.reddit.com/r/innout/s/lTbOuwL58Y

I've been slacking on my cocktail posting. (I don't do dry January per se, but I do try to cut back especially after the holidays) Jet Pilot from Dr. Funk & a Disgruntled Mai Tai from Prizefighter

Surprised @rac beat Odesza. Also @cliffordusher.eth at #9! My top songs list makes the most sense from my memory. https://rewind.tidal.com/2025/e6317393-801e-4e77-bb6f-92f649f6f1b9

Today in Bluesky drama: Sky Marchini deactivates their account after posting an explanatory thread about the nuances of oil refining w.r.t. Venezuela. Popular leftist account 'Karl' says Will Stancil & Sky should be "doxxed like Nazis" seemingly for undermining the narrative that it was "all about oil." Karl then gets banned & fellow brigadiers get even more irate. My take away is that Bluesky is still paying the "Faustian bargain tax" of onboarding primarily anti-social/extremist users that nobody would pay to read (or advertise next to), and this is starting to repel high signal users. While I'm sure the BSky team understand this is a problem (they've all been brigaded & harassed personally), it's extremely difficult to resist audience capture and potentially have DAUs drop while weeding out low-quality users. The lesson? Grow qDAU not DAU. https://bsky.app/profile/eyepatchguy.bsky.social/post/3mbknehk6bc2d

Simple thought experiment w.r.t. Venezuela: Imagine if Hillary Clinton had done it. How would the right react? How would the left react?

Is SIWF broken for anyone else?

Monitoring the situation at Smuggler's Cove with a nice Venezuelan rum