Maracaibo, Venezuela at night, from the Space Station. (where I lived when I was just learning to walk)

build and invest long term.

New Video 🌈🌈🌈 Up and Running with Rainbow Kit - Easy to Add Wallet Connection for your Dapp 🌈🌈🌈 Tried RainbowKit today and liked it so much I figured I'd throw together a quick 6 minute video showing how it works. youtube.com/watch?v=zFm6T7…

Great article Tony Frangie Mawad Before falling for Maduro's posturing, consider the dire reality Venezuelans face on their daily lives, the destruction of the environment to protect the pockets of their allies, and the well-documented human rights abuses that continue to this day

nunca es alternativa quien quiera competir bajo las reglas de juego de un sistema que termina pudriendo a sus jugadores. la única alternativa es construir un nuevo modelo que vuelva obsoleto a lo vigente. la alternativa es cripto y nunca podrá ser ningún político con promesas.

I guess the conclusion is, peacekeeping and cooperation-seeking needs to be an explicit effort rather than peace being an assumed default.

Social media will have you believe that there is no gray area in almost any topic or debate, when in reality it’s usually the complete opposite. We need algorithms which reward nuanced ideas and discussions, not outrage.

Politicians are getting dumber, algorithms are getting smarter.

From its inception, Developer DAO sought to be a space rooted in people who want to educate, and who want to build. After months of hard work, our new governance token $CODE has officially launched today 🥳 blog post: devdao.mirror.xyz/lGRLUA7wXZP2Rs… thread 👇 🧵 #CODEdrop

People continue to underrate how often cryptocurrency payments are superior not even because of censorship resistance but just because they're so much more convenient. Big boost to international business and charity, and sometimes even payments within countries.

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If you advocate for democracy at home, don't defend autocracies abroad.

🐼🚀🚀🚀 #TheMerge youtube.com/watch?v=Nx-jYg…

People whose primary vibe is "I and my tribe are domain-expertise-endowed professionals, the people I criticize and mock are amateurs, and you should shut up" are really really uncool, and people should recognize the pattern and immediately unfollow anyone who exhibits it.

Four kinds of trust falling at the same time. Trust in vote counting Trust in verified tweets Trust in vouched reserves Trust in visual images Cryptographic verification is a partial solution. But also need high-trust startup societies.

Experimenting with using GPT3 to learn Spanish. It's not perfect, but also... not that bad! Hablantes nativos de español, qué errores cometió el GPT3?

It's the official day of celebrating Zulia's culture and identity, my home state in #Venezuela I grew up in a community that cherished love, friendship, generosity, affection and genuine fun as essential components of a good life. Human connection at its best. #DiaDeLaZulianidad

Happy 30th to Day of the Tentacle, originally released on June 25th, 1993.

It’s extremely absurd to say that opposition parties, which have no power to change the electoral rules and policies imposed in an authoritarian state, are responsible for the failure of their attempts to compete in elections! It's either stupid ignorance or calculated hypocrisy.

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