I received a DM this morning that really made me think. An AI creator told me they were shutting down their TikTok account after being targeted by anti-AI accounts. They had spent years developing their project, and after finally starting to share it publicly, the hostility became so overwhelming that they began questioning whether it was even worth continuing. But what touched me most was something they said: “Your posts don’t make me feel alone.” I’ve experienced the same hostility on X and Threads. I’ve been insulted, mocked, threatened and accused of spreading “pro-AI propaganda.” But I’ve decided not to let it stop me. In fact, I’ve started laughing at some of these attacks. Because here’s something I’ve learned. Every angry comment or hostile quote post has the potential to introduce my work to people who would never have discovered it otherwise. Not every interaction helps the algorithm, of course. But sometimes the very people trying to discourage you end up bringing new attention to your work. And that attention can turn into profile visits, new followers, connections, and opportunities. I’ve decided to look for opportunities to grow, even in negative experiences. That doesn’t mean harassment is acceptable. It means I refuse to let it define my experience as a creator. To every AI creator who’s been discouraged or bullied for sharing their work: Don’t let strangers decide whether your creation deserves to exist. Keep creating. Keep experimenting. Keep sharing. And most importantly, let’s keep supporting each other. Sometimes the best response to people who want you to disappear is to keep growing right in front of them. ❤️ 💪🏼

The 80s

One of my favourite Harry Potter loopholes doesn't even involve magic. It involves exploiting the Muggle economy. Hagrid tells us there are 17 Sickles to a Galleon. Sickles are silver, Galleons are gold. Simple enough. Except gold and silver don't have a fixed exchange rate in the Muggle world. Their market value fluctuates constantly. Before 1900, the gold-to-silver ratio averaged around 16:1, which is pretty close to the wizarding world's 17:1 rate. Throughout much of the twentieth century, however, it averaged around 45:1. See where this is going? Wait until the market heavily favours gold. Melt your Galleons down and sell the gold in the Muggle world. Use the money to buy as much silver as possible, then take that silver to Gringotts and have it converted into Sickles. Finally, exchange those Sickles for Galleons at the fixed 17:1 rate. Congratulations. You've potentially turned a small pile of wizarding gold into a much larger pile of wizarding gold, simply by exploiting the difference between Muggle market prices and Gringotts' fixed exchange rate. No Dark Arts. No Horcruxes. No elaborate schemes. Just precious metals, a fixed exchange rate and a wizard who understands arbitrage. The real question is why nobody in the wizarding world seems to have built an entire financial empire around this.

#Malfoid Expecto Patronum

This is a building heating system with a Bitcoin miners as the core heat source. At this location and with this system and current market, the owner generates about $1.25 for every $1 spent on power. I'll explain how it works below 👇

There is unfortunately precedent for this. Before word processing, document length was bounded by the human capacity to copy long-form text & plateauing. After word processing, the tax & legal codes grew without check.

Probably the best explanation of how casinos work I've ever seen.

#Blizzard, hear me out! Here’s a proposal for #WoWForever to solve WoW’s gold inflation problem permanently! Almost every version of WoW eventually runs into the same problem: the gold supply keeps growing without any hard monetary limit. Over time, this inevitably creates inflation. Gold loses purchasing power, prices rise, and new or returning players enter an economy where veteran players have accumulated wealth for years. There is a simpler solution: Give every server a hard, fixed gold supply. For example: 100 million gold total. Forever. Think of it as the server’s monetary base. Gold dropped by mobs would no longer be newly created. Instead, mobs would distribute gold from a global server pool. The amount of gold mobs drop would dynamically depend on how much gold is currently available in that pool: • Lots of gold in the pool → mobs drop more • Little gold in the pool → mobs drop less Gold spent by players flows back into this pool and can then be redistributed through gameplay. NPC purchases such as skills, professions, repairs, mounts, etc. would return 100% of the spent gold to the server pool. Trading systems like the Auction House could also recycle part of the circulating gold back into the pool through transaction fees. This creates permanent circulation instead of permanent monetary expansion. NPC prices should also be dynamic. If a large percentage of the total gold supply is being held by players and very little gold is actively circulating, prices for essential services like skills and professions should decrease. That prevents new players from being priced out simply because veteran players are sitting on large gold reserves. The game economy would continuously adapt to the purchasing power and availability of gold. Over the very long term, the general price level might gradually decline, potentially resulting in mild persistent deflation. But that wouldn’t necessarily be a problem if the game world itself dynamically adjusts to the purchasing power of gold. One possible consequence of persistent deflation is that players may initially hoard gold. Imagine someone accumulates a large amount of gold, stops playing for three years, and then returns. Because prices have fallen in the meantime, their old savings could suddenly have significantly more purchasing power. But this effect is naturally self-correcting. The moment that player starts using that increased purchasing power, the saved gold begins circulating again. They get the benefit of having saved, as they should, but once they spend it, that purchasing power is transferred to other players and gradually redistributed throughout the economy. In other words: hoarding can temporarily concentrate purchasing power, but spending automatically starts reversing that concentration. The important part is: Gold would finally become truly scarce. No endless monetary expansion. No inevitable long-term inflation. No need for increasingly absurd gold sinks every expansion. Just a closed monetary system where the same gold continuously circulates between players, NPCs, and the game world. For a version of WoW designed to exist forever, its currency should be designed to exist forever too. @Warcraft @Blizzard_Ent @Warcraft_DE

⚡️The engineering is explainable. The deeper mystery is the time horizon. They had cranes, scaffolding, geometry, master masons, guild knowledge, and generations of accumulated craft. What feels alien now is that people were willing to spend 80, 100, sometimes 200 years building something whose original builders would never see completed. They were constructing for descendants, for God, for a civilization imagined to outlive them. We have more technology. They had longer time. That cathedral is less a monument to lost engineering than to a lost willingness to build for people who had not been born yet.

It's four pieces of engineering. The protein is ultrafiltered skim milk, which is milk pushed through a membrane that holds back the protein and strains out water and lactose. That's where 30g comes from and why the sugar is under a gram. Then lactase enzyme breaks down whatever lactose is left, which is why it's lactose free. The part you're actually tasting is the second line, modified plant fat, EPG. EPG is newer on the market and not widely utilized. It's a fat molecule built so your body mostly doesn't absorb it. It coats your mouth like fat and carries flavor like fat and then leaves without the calories. That's the answer to how it's rich at 150 calories. Sucralose and acesulfame potassium do the sweet, Dutch cocoa does the chocolate, and four different gums do the thickness.