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Reid Walley
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Graphic designer. Bitcoin tees: https://bitcoinoutlaw.com/ (Pay with ⚡️Lightning) Twitter: bitcoin_outlaw Twitter: reidwalley (permanently banned for speaking freely) Matrix: @reidwalley:matrix.org
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reidwalley 9 hours ago
Which version do you like better? Speakers all the way to the side-edges or not? 1969 Moon landing. Buzz Aldrin photographed by Neil Armstrong. Speakers for ambience.
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Back to the Moon - Music festival edition Every Floor Is A Dance Floor™ t-shirt design image
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Whew; this is some heavy-duty listening. The Theory of Money and Credit Ludwig von Mises
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reidwalley 1 week ago
Coffee on Earth –> Coffee on Mars T-shirt design image
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reidwalley 1 week ago
Imagine you’re playing basketball and every time you go to make a shot some knucklehead is waving their arms trying to block your shot. That knucklehead is inflation. Always trying to interrupt your purchasing power.
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reidwalley 3 weeks ago
Absolutely stunning Montserrat Caballé singing "Casta Diva" from Bellini's opera Norma Live performance, 1974
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reidwalley 0 months ago
Them: What are people going to do if AI takes over everything? Prince: Dance. Music. Sex. Romance.
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reidwalley 1 month ago
I recently spoke at the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Industry Forum These were my major points: • AI and #bitcoin are merging faster than anyone expected. • Bitcoin will create a decentralized economic system. • Robots and AI will work alongside humans. • They'll earn micropayments for their labor and they won’t be accepting dollars or any government currency. • They'll be taking micropayments digitally and will become part of the social economy. As founders, you are best suited to look to the future like this and adjust your startup accordingly. Embrace technology and innovation. – Tim Draper
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reidwalley 1 month ago
Yesterday, a pen-and-paper illustrator I met said, "I would never use AI" when I asked them if they used AI to generate their reference art. They'd hand-drawn this really cool horse and landscape scene, so I asked, "Do you see the whole seen in your head and then put it on paper or how did you decide what to draw?" They opened iPhoto on their iPhone, opened an image of a horse, long-pressed on the horse, and an outline magically darted around the horse. Then they copied that outlined horse and pasted it onto a landscape image. And, voilà, their reference art. Easy-peasy. It took all of 60 seconds. Something that we both agreed would have taken mush longer decades ago using Photoshop and manually separating the horse from the background. They were positive they weren't using AI during that horse outlining process. ChatGPT says they definitely *were* using AI when using iPhone's Visual Look Up + Subject Lift (introduced in iOS 16). What struck me is: AI is so embedded in mundane UX tasks, that a person who says "I would never us AI" doesn't realize that AI is saving them a ton of time.
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reidwalley 1 month ago
Classic dance floor favorite! Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock - It Takes Two
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reidwalley 1 month ago
This was such a great 80s dance song! Song: Nemesis Group: Shriekback
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reidwalley 2 months ago
This is why we #Bitcoin I asked Grok the following: Q: Would the economy be better off if there was no central bank (like the Federal Reserve) to interfere? A: No, the economy would likely *not* be better off without a central bank, according to the broad consensus in mainstream economics. Then I asked a followup: Q: Now let’s take a look from the Austrian fixed money POV A: From the Austrian School perspective, particularly emphasizing a fixed or slowly growing money supply (e.g., under a strict commodity standard like gold, where new supply comes only from mining), the economy would be *vastly better off* without a central bank. Central banks are seen as the primary source of economic instability, not a stabilizer. https://x.com/i/grok/share/xnNGBAOyk3x2mhwCswUx8A4hv