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It’s obvious to anyone not pretending otherwise: the consultant-industrial complex that props up modern government is broken. Not broken like a vase fallen from a shelf—broken like a machine still running but long since severed from its original design, whirring and wheezing under the weight of obsolete incentives and institutional amnesia. Governments don’t need more 90-page PowerPoints from firms who bill by the hour and dilute their insights into the safety of jargon. What they need—what w...

Not being met at your depth. That’s a painful mismatch—not a personal failure.

The Bizarre g0hst Collection, a limited-edition 8-piece NFT series now live on Highlight and Rodeo! This special drop is a direct homage to our legendary builder, @g0hst, the brilliant mind who brought the $BB Miniapp and countless other innovations to life across the Farcaster ecosystem.The BIZARRE g0hst Collection: What You're CollectingThis unique series blends the hand-illustrated, signature style of BizarreBeasts with the glitchy, otherworldly energy inspired by @g0hst’s coding magic. Ea...

Rashford Poised for Newcastle MoveMarcus Rashford looks set to leave Manchester United, with Newcastle United preparing a deal as they strengthen for a Champions League campaign. Rashford impressed at Villa on loan but with Emery's side missing out on Champions League football next season the financials were always going to be challenging.Zubimendi Lands in London to Complete Arsenal SwitchMartin Zubimendi is finalising a €50 million-plus move to Arsenal from Real Sociedad, expected to slot s...

We are people watching in the park in this issue #250 of your weekly poetry shot

Welcome back to Unlocking the Future! The energy sector is shifting gears and blockchain is driving the change. From peer-to-peer trading to smarter grids, blockchain is making energy cheaper, cleaner, and more democratic.

A case study of how inviting inclusive perspectives from neurodiverse learners helped MuseKat establish the right boundaries and parameters to benchmark the quality of AI outputs

It's that time of year again. Monocle has just released their annual Quality of Life Survey. This is their 18th annual ranking of the world's top cities according to what they do best: whether it be housing or nightlife. What I like about this survey is that it does things a little differently. Most liveability surveys tend to be a list of the world's most boring cities. It's as if uneventfulness is the measure of quality of life. This is not that. For example, number 3 on the list is Athens....

An initiative to fund and coordinate essential developer tooling projects across the Ethereum ecosystem.

The past several weeks have been filled with positive news around stablecoin adoption:Senate passes GENIUS stablecoin bill, providing a regulatory framework for stablecoin adoption and usage in the US. It still needs to be voted on by the House 🤞Circle, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, IPO’ed 2 weeks ago at $31 and recently tapped $200 with a chart outperforming 99.99% of memecoinsRetailers like Walmart and Amazon are actively looking into offering their own stablecoinsTech companies such ...

MIT’s new study says your brain does not work better after using ChatGPT. But the setup all but guaranteed that result. This post breaks down what the study actually tested, why the conclusions are misleading, and what a more honest look at real-world AI use should include. If you care about how people actually think with these tools, not just what happens when they check out completely, this is worth a read.

We’re kicking off a 10-week BIZARRE Summer inside the /bizarrebeasts Farcaster channel — and you’re invited to: GO BIZARRE. GET BANK. Every week through August 28th, we’re dropping 25,000,000 $BB tokens in rewards through @rounds for those who participate, create, and show up to support the BizarreBeasts. That’s a total of 250,000,000 $BB up for grabs this summer! Whether you're minting, gaming, memeing, or checking in—every cast counts. Let's make this a BIZARRE summer!How to Participate (an...

Perhaps it is such: I am not unloved,. Rather I am simply not being met at my depth—and that experience that I could describe as pain is me experiencing the disparity, like ascension sickness. Doctor feel good says: the medicine I need is decompression.

We’ve all felt it, haven’t we? The drag of large, centralized organizations where innovation seems to go to die, tangled in red tape. And on the flip side, many of us in the Web3 space have dived headfirst into the dream of pure decentralization, only to find that without structure, even the most passionate communities can struggle with accountability and coordinated action. It often feels like we're caught between a rock and a hard place. But what if there’s a more effective path?

The financial world runs on cryptography. But that foundation is under threat from quantum computing. That’s why we led an investment in Project Eleven.

A case study of how elementary aged students at P.S. 281 helped me conduct product tests and build critical thinking skills at the same time

Yesterday afternoon and evening was a series of interesting discussions about city building in Toronto. First, I met with Jeff Ranson of Northcrest Developments for a tour of YZD. This is the 370 acre former Downsview Airport lands that is now the biggest urban redevelopment in North America. The tour also involved the two of us e-scootering around the property, which was timely given yesterday's post about not hating on them so much. Jeff is up next on Globizen's Global City Builder series, ...

An independent open-source zkVM project. ZisK is a high-performance zkVM stack for low-latency proof generation

In a world where scale once meant success, the next great companies will win by building cultural gravity. This piece explores why subcultures, not audiences, are the new strategic moat.

As Base grows, we’re seeing breakout apps that bring 10x more traffic to the network. This post shares our learnings as we keep scaling Base, ensuring that we continue to meet growing demand with greater throughput while maintaining sub-cent fees.