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From Mysticism to the Metaverse:
The Evolution of the Hooded Archetype
(1/) In this thread, I point out how the hooded archetype has been fully integrated into the mythic imagery of the Digital Age! 🧵
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Watching Tupac at 17 is a trip. The contrast between him here and the man he later became is almost unrecognizable. He seems much softer, more expressive, and less guarded than the hardened, hypermasculine warrior persona the world would eventually associate with “2Pac.”
No cap, bro feels a little fruity here lol. 😂
Sometimes I wonder though, if “2Pac” was less Tupac simply growing into himself and more Tupac building the masculine armor his environment demanded of him. Watching him at 17, then looking at the warrior he became, almost feels like watching someone encounter the Animus in real time, tapping deeper and deeper into that archetypal masculine force until eventually you can’t tell where “Tupac” the sensitive artist begins and “2pac” the hypermasculine warrior persona ends.
Warrior culture exists across virtually every civilization, and Black America certainly developed its own expressions of it under very particular historical pressures. Tupac’s evolution makes me wonder what happens when a deeply sensitive, artistic young man enters an environment where toughness, defiance, aggression, and masculine strength carry enormous social currency. Was Tupac becoming himself, or Tupac becoming the warrior his world required and eventually died for it? 😔
And one final piece of food for thought: where was his father throughout that transformation?
Young Tupac speaks about his mother constantly, and watching his mannerisms here made me wonder about the masculine influences he had available to model himself after. I’m not saying mannerisms tell us someone’s sexuality or even how masculine they are. They don’t. But from my own lived experience, I do wonder how the presence, absence, and character of the men around us shape the way we eventually discover and construct our own masculinity.
Maybe his father’s absence had very little to do with the man he became. Maybe it mattered enormously. Tupac himself later spoke about growing up without his father and feeling that he needed a dad to “show me the ropes,” and later found that at Death Row Records, so I don’t think it’s an unreasonable question to ponder.
Either way, seeing Tupac before 2Pac fully existed is fascinating. You can almost watch the armor being forged.
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Decentralized networks of robots & compute will be a superior income to UBI in a world of AI. Robotaxi, Optimus rentals, Powerwalls with @nvidia GPUs supported by distributed solar. @Tesla could become AirBNB + Uber, but for robots, transport, compute & energy (& connectivity with @Starlink).
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It’s still niche AF imo 😗🧃
A few things no one seems to be mentioning about this “NFT supercycle”:
First, where are the new participants?
It’s mostly the same people who have been here since 2020–2021. Nothing has brought a meaningful wave of new collectors into the space. There’s been more to scare people away than bring them in.
Second, more people have simply learned how to play “the game.”
They mint, flip, and move on to whatever launches next. Nobody expects utility or plans to hold long term. We saw that it’s such a small group of participants in real time when liquidity rotated from Argonauts the moment BlockyZ launched.
Third, legacy NFTs still aren’t moving.
Nearly all the excitement on the timeline is concentrated around new launches. If NFTs were truly “back,” we’d see renewed demand across established collections too, not just liquidity bouncing from one mint to the next.
And lastly, this space did it to itself.
People will ape the dumbest shit, repeatedly hand money to known grifters, refuse to call out bad actors, and then continue uplifting those same people like they’re important.
It’s the same money, the same players, and a faster version of the same game but with less people. Good luck and watch yourself.
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Darth Vader told the San Diego city council he is in favor of flock cameras! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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I love my new IRL job. I’m basically building out an operating system on the human level. This operating system helps deal with humans whose programming has gone rogue. As much as I do use AI to offload a lot of the heavy computation, our industry is in-fact AI-proof because it’s humans healing humans.
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Bankless
Thank you, drunk driver, for not killing me and potentially providing me with one hell of an airdrop mid-bear market. 😂
If my market thesis plays out, the timing couldn’t be better: Bitcoin approaching this cycle’s bottom and the big AI stocks eventually finding theirs after the IPO hype and initial sell-offs.
Sometimes life gives you lemons. Sometimes it gives you unexpected lemonade. 🍋💰
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The NFT Invasion Nobody Noticed
While headlines obsess over JPEG speculation, NFTs have quietly become the backbone of modern DeFi. Uniswap positions, Polymarket bets, and Sablier payment streams all run on ERC-721s.
The infrastructure takeover is already happening 👇
~~ Analysis by @punk0439 ~~
Why Everything Will Be an NFT
"Everything will be an NFT."
So tweeted @pbrody, Chair of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. As an NFT wonk, I concur. Ontologically, NFTs are ownable handles for unique onchain state. Their flexibility and programmability position them to permeate every area of human life.
Since 2021, most associate NFTs with art, PFPs, and game assets. While experiments like @normiesART
, and @DXRGai
continue in these categories, the format simultaneously colonizes finance and business infrastructure.
The Infrastructure Reality
These protocols already use NFTs as core infrastructure, though none market themselves as "NFT projects":
> @Polymarket. Underpins Yes/No prediction market outcomes with conditional ERC-1155s.
> @Uniswap. V3 and V4 liquidity positions are minted and managed through ERC-721s.
> @LiquityProtocol "Trove" borrow positions transfer as ERC-721s, enabling onchain debt markets.
> @eth_strategy. Issues long bonds composed of American call options represented as ERC-721s.
> @flaunchgg. Lets coin launchers access trading fee revenues via ERC-721 Royalty NFTs.
> @Sablier. Represents Flow and Lockup-style real-time payment streams as ERC-721s.
> @ensdomains. Domain ownership and transferability function via ERC-721s.
> @Courtyard_io. Tokenizes physical collectibles like Pokémon cards as ERC-721s to streamline secondary markets.
> FundingWorks by @token_works. Vests raised ETH through soulbound NFTs and issues patron NFTs burnable to reclaim unspent funds.
> @RAILGUN_Project. Deploys ERC-6551 NFT smart wallets inside shielded addresses for private DeFi access.
> @thewarren_app. Supports deploying multi-file websites onchain with no external dependencies via NFT containers.
> zOrg by @z0r0zzz. Mints membership badges as NFTs for its onchain DeFi corporation.
For these protocols, the NFT is simply the most elegant tool for the job—an ownable, programmable handle for unique state. As Brody suggested, this quiet proliferation across finance and business will only accelerate, even as the NFT label fades into infrastructure.
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I'm a first generation millionaire,
I broke the curse in my family not having shit,
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Feeling good with my previous forecast. We’ve been chugging sideways since we broke that $70K support. However, sideways markets at these levels are perfect zones for accumulation.
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🌧️Current Market Weather Forecast
Right now, the market is in a more cautious “risk-off” mood. AI spending concerns have pressured both tech and crypto, and there’s a growing narrative that massive AI IPOs are competing for the SAME POOL of speculative capital. While no one can say that’s the reason for crypto weakness, it’s a reasonable macro thesis that’s being discussed by market participants.
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Personally, I’d like to continue averaging into positions while the market reprices. As the AI sector matures and newly public companies begin finding fair value after their IPOs, I’ll likely start diversifying beyond crypto into specific tech companies like SpaceX, xAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI—as opportunities become available.
I’ve been a crypto maxxi ‘til now, but I can buy stock using crypto rails and web3 services, I’d rather do that… 🙄
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