I rarely speak up, but if I think that there is about to be a massive extraction I have to And in this case, I am not the only one In fact, there are dozens of people talking about the mass spam and very robotic approach with this upcoming OTTO mint But the biggest red flag is not just the approach… it’s 10,000 collection - .07 mint Honestly, if you do participate in this, do it at your own risk because I do not think it is going to end very well for anyone but the team

Rare moment caught on camera A brown dipper diving into icy water to hunt insects

One of my all time favorite collections is @moonbirds guided by one of the smartest leaders in the entire space @spencer . Definetly a lot of new shiny things to test drive in the NFT space recently but in the end I’ll always choose a legendary OG project like this one first. ❤️

Space and time reconstructed in 4D Is this how higher dimensional beings see us - every moment at once? Starting to understand what Vonnegut meant by humans being “great millipedes” - clearly it applies to our four legged friends too! Geolocated 2d video → per frame 3d gaussians → each left precisely where & when it happened

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GM, future Landlords Are you WL yet?

1/ gm. gm. Name is Hsin-Ju. I have a dark, kinda tragic personal announcement. I've decided I'd rather take $0 than accept a settlement that requires me to stay silent about what happened to me. I have since fired my lawyers at @sanfordheisler & will be releasing all the evidence from my time @hack_vc on Wed 8/26. INTRO: I've been in crypto for 9 years. Most recently I was a partner & head of platform @hack_vc which is a $600-700M crypto VC firm. Many of you may know me from my time as Head of Growth at @StellarOrg in 2017 (worked w/ the Mt. Gox founder), @Solana in 2018 (joined under ~10 ppl, but quit before my cliff), & @Fhenix in 2024. Or have attended one of my @DystopiaLabs ETH events (2019-now). Last year, I was forced to work through a serious medical emergency while at @Hack_VC due to threats by @alpackaP @dbulaevsky, saying that they would blacklist me from the space if I quit before finishing the hacksummit conference & side events that I was helping with during @kbwofficial. I was working 13-14hr days, 6 days a week, sleeping 0-4 hrs a night, and had documented Graves' disease, hyperthyroidism, and severe insomnia. I repeatedly asked to quit. Hack VC refused. This + other threats and intimidation went on for almost a month. The conditions got so bad I attempted suicide. The fucked up part is that, even after the suicide attempt, I told everyone at Hack VC (in writing) that I had no plans to sue. I was scared & extremely sick. I just wanted to leave. I told them that as long as there was no retaliation or badmouthing - I had no plans to sue. @Hack_VC chose to retaliate. After just 1 month after my near suicide, Hack VC mishandled my COBRA health insurance, refused to fix things, kept shooing me to customer support (when it's legally Hack VC's responsibility to fix this), and my insurance had issues and was not fixed for almost 4 MONTHS. Hack VC did not fix everything until I hired lawyers and had them force Hack VC to adhere to the law & fix my COBRA insurance issues. The sheer cruelty of an employer harming someone's health insurance almost immediately after they nearly committed suicide is extremely fucked up. And, even during the legal engagement, Hack VC continued to lie & attempt to harm me through their lawyers and other employees/partners (multi-million dollar carry & clawbacks can make even the nicest ppl willing to turn the other way or lie). @0xRodney @IsTheBaron @roshunpatel @Alex__Botte. Now. Almost an entire year of engagement & my near suicide anniversary coming up, our lawyers (mine & Hack VC's) have reached the point of preparing for private mediation and settlement. And...I realized that I just can't do it. I don't want money in exchange for silence. I'd rather speak. I fired my lawyers yesterday. In case it needs to be said, I did a good job at Hack VC. I was only there full time for 7 months; been part-time since 2021. I got a $50k raise to $300k, $30k bonus, and promises of additional carry that would have been implemented about a week or so after my last day. I was also offered admission into the GP entity (but not sure if admission was actually completed bc it was during my medical emergency). This + my resume, should show that me suing is not a money grab; I was genuinely harmed. I'm aware that I'm just one person (who is not rich) facing a $600-700M VC institution. I've been told by @alpackaP that he's known most of the managing partners at most VC firms for almost a decade and he could absolutely blacklist me. I'm also painful aware that the conclusion of this will probably be extremely poor for me or death - but I've accepted it. Sharing with other web2 & web3 VCs: @paulg @ycombinator @500STARTUPS @a16zcrypto @PanteraCapital @dragonflyvc @RaceCapital @hosseeb @haunventures @hiFramework @ElectricCapital @blockchaincap @Delphi_Digital @variantfund @1kxnetwork @archetypevc @shimacapital @robotventures, etc. TLDR; I’m done with continued threats, pressure, and intimidation. I'm not going to take a payout and allow Alex or Hack VC to walk away from harming me. As mentioned, I'll be dropping the evidence from my case on Wed 8/26 (or before) -- privacy be damned. Support here (or DM) please: ETH: 0x68c10776C5c05Cbf5B4C2318bE02D61B9f06B875 SOL: B7S8TPcWWJXTsmgG8ShoTmy8sNPuJ3Dbmt7z5gLFAveq

The autumnal equinox is upon us on Tuesday @ 8pm eastern. It’s one of my favorite times of the year for skywatching. Quick reference (and note to self): - Dusk: Venus, low southwest - Overnight Wed/Thu: aurora watch at higher latitudes - Dawn: Jupiter and Mars in the east The moon waxes toward full later in the week, so faint auroras are gonna have to compete with that. Enjoy 👁️

So I found some interesting shit in the Mesopotamian ritual series Bīt Mēseri, in Tablet III, lines 10 13. The seven Apkallu are described as brilliant purādu-fish, born or grown in the river, “who keep the plans of heaven and earth in order.” It doesn't just say they taught people agriculture and writing or how to build cities. It says they kept the "plans of heaven and Earth in order." These were the seven primordial sages associated with Enki/Ea and the Apsû. They emerge from the ancient waters carrying knowledge that humanity supposedly did not possess, and they become responsible for the foundations of civilization. I find it interesting that the older tradition gives them a role connected to the actual ordering of heaven and Earth itself. Then the Flood appears. The Apkallu disappear, and later the tradition starts talking about sages of human descent. Before the Flood you have seven strange aquatic fish sages maintaining the “plans” of heaven and Earth. After the Flood you've got humans carrying pieces of that knowledge forward. There is much more to this story to uncover.