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Really excited about the $AZUSD stablecoin as a force for ecological and social good in crypto. DeFi principles, regen energy. We really need more of this combination.

Great work by the team over the last two months to get this over the line! Lots more to be done, especially on the project data integration side, but we're excited about where things are headed.

Any crime fiction fans here? Would you be interested in getting a single, "unheralded" book recommendation to your inbox every week?

The Green Crypto Handbook is an impressive piece of work. Hope it gets published soon. In the meantime, check out the interview with the authors. So many great insights about how Web3 can positively impact the environment. "Yes, we believe blockchain is mature enough to support a meaningful transition—if we recognise that infrastructure maturity is not purely technical. It is also political, cultural, and institutional. Many of the building blocks needed for a new environmental finance architecture—programmable registries, verifiable claims, composable markets, and multi-stakeholder governance—already exist and are actively being deployed. We’re still missing a few crucial primitives, such as location-aware dApps (see: @astralprotocol) and mass tokenisation of commodities, but this point feels moot. Overall, what remains underdeveloped is not the tech stack, but institutional readiness to use it."

Did they just tease a Squid Game USA at the end of season 3?

If I understand this correctly, now that the dust has settled, Portland turned Damian Lillard, Anfernee Simons and 2 second-rounders into: - Jrue Holiday - Malcom Brogdon - Robert Williams III - Carlton Carrington (14th overall selection) - Deandre Ayton - Toumani Camara - Boston's 2029 1st round pick - 2028 and 2030 pick swap rights with Milwaukee - $11.5 million in trade exceptions Quite the haul.

The good people at Greenpill Writers Guild and @gpdevguild.eth have some important work cooking. If you're a regen community and want better tools to make your work easier/possible, fill out this survey! 🍄 We can't wait to publish the findings on @carboncopy-refi!

Finished Black Mirror S7. Perhaps all the positive reviews set my expectations a little too high. Not to say it wasn't better, but it didn't have that "Holy crap!" episode like most of the previous seasons. E1 - 7/10. Definitely the nearest-future of the episodes. It's probably already happening somewhere. E2 - 4/10. Was 6/10 until the ending. Premise was a bit out there. E3 - 8/10. This was my favourite of the season. Fantastic imagination. E4 - 6/10. The Bandersnatch connection was interesting. E5 - 7/10. This concept probably wasn't too far away. E6 - 5/10. Should've watched the first USS Callister episode again before this one. Took a bit to remember what was going on.

Ramona always gets to the bottom of these stories. "But the decision to replace Thibodeau, one source told ESPN, had been trending in that direction for months. The team simply wasn't maximizing its talent, despite having two All-NBA players in Brunson and Towns. And after meeting with the select group of players and coaches this week, sources said, it was clear to Rose that the organization needed a new voice." https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/45453816/he-got-outcoached-why-new-york-knicks-fired-tom-thibodeau-their-most-successful-coach-decades

Does anyone else live in abject fear of getting a call or having your baby wake up from a nap while you're playing MiniWord?

We always enjoy putting this report together. It's a great way to take stock of the work being done in the ReFi/Regen space. @farcaster gets a solid mention, namely that regens need to get off X and start taking advantage of the native onchain features and users this app offers.

Finished up You S5. For me, this series peaked at S3. S4 was good, but you could tell they were reaching. For S5, they had to rely on multiple plot twists per episode instead of originality. If I had to put my finger on it, I'd say the main reason this show didn't need to go on so long is because Joe doesn't change. You don't need 5 seasons of Joe doing the same thing again and again.

Finished The White Lotus S3. Aside from the gun obsession that American shows seem to have, the one part that felt off was the pretense Rick used for going to Sritala's house. Find it hard to believe that a seasoned Thai actress would be so enamoured with Hollywood that she would blindly trust a random guest when he says he wants her to be in a movie. Alas, it got me thinking of a difficult technique for fiction creators: when creating a pretense for some unlikely event, how to avoid making it seem contrived?

I just donated to Help Me Get A Phone To Keep Creating And Working @ifeoluwafavour

"If novelists can learn how filmmakers utilize particular camera shots to achieve specific effects, create specific moods, and evoke specific emotions, they have a powerful tool at hand." Great perspective on how to show, not tell. https://www.livewritethrive.com/2025/04/03/the-best-way-to-show-dont-tell-scene-segmenting/?inf_contact_key=ae45938d25b65253aca653c05c6cd40b680f8914173f9191b1c0223e68310bb1

First attempt at @zora. From S2 E1 of the Accidental Intrigue audio drama. Crime lord Benedict Goh (Singaporean-Chinese) and his consigliere Noah (British) discussing the potential of crypto in 2019. @jpfraneto @tokenizedhuman What do you think of this format? https://zora.co/coin/base:0x7c651a6cd1ce2f87655f011488d7b395f12d61a0?referrer=0xAe9e4e5e911EbC05c2f6d3644FF895934EbED410

Five chapters of narration complete and there is one feature that would make the process a lot better: The ability to provide semantic instructions to the virtual voice on how to read a particular piece of text, say dialogue. Startled, surprised, angry, for example, or even something more granular like "Said in the same way a person who just receives bad news on a great day". Even better if it would allow you to select the voice that reads the text. One thing this would do is eliminate the need for dialogue tags, which really aren't necessary in audio books if narrated correctly.

A few chapters in now. I remember getting a piece of sage writing advice a number of years ago: Read your writing aloud. It's the only way you'll come close to understanding how it sounds in a reader's head. I never ended up doing it, but now I see why it's important and can be so helpful. It's a lot easier to judge pacing, flow, and transitions when you hear it. The parts that don't work sound like a wrong note was played in a familiar song.

This has to be one of the best accounts on here right now. Epic journey. Reminds of a trip some friends and I made in a 1980 Zhiguli 011 from Azerbaijan to Croatia in 2011.

Trying out Amazon's virtual voice feature for producing audio books. - Choose between American, British, Australian, and American South accents. - Each chapter can have its own voice. - You get a decent level of granular control over pronunciation, pauses, and voice speed. - It will take quite a while to go through the entire book and set all the pauses correctly. The obvious drawback so far is that you don't have much control over intonation and inflection. You can't make character sound more excited or sinister, for example. Combine that with expanding the vocal library and specifying a voice for individual dialogue lines and you have quite a powerful tool. A new audiobook director/producer role will be needed to help writers get the most out of it.