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Degen Mary Poppins. Founder of @CtrlX_World, decentralizing the future of digital publishing. Ex-@WIRED. @SuperteamDE member #parrotfied

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Joined September 2009
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I deleted the X app off my phone. I’m sorry, I hate it here. Twitter was never perfect but X is a cesspool. I will be posting on @bluesky when I get the microblog impulse: bsky.app/profile/arikia.bsky…
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A “thinker-writer” is a tech job now? Ok….
Hiring: Thinker-writer $80k starting comp - fully remote. You're a fit if you have: - Read 100+ books. - Gone viral on X by writing authoritative pieces on specific topics. - Chatted with at least one founder doing $10M+ in sales. - Written thousands of posts, articles, essays. - Also required being a native speaker Identity Labs helps CEOs of $10B+ companies share their greatest ideas, insights, and experience. We've worked with Deel, Gamma, Airwallex, Pocket FM, Lovable. The job is to help founders articulate their story & vision. You'll interview them, become their thought partner, and handle the relationship. These founders are extremely thoughtful and smart. We expect you to write industry-defining and narrative-shifting pieces. You need to be a clear thinker, analytical, and a top 1% writer. It's a very demanding role, but if you enjoy writing and business, it's a dream. DM me if you are a fit ___________ A few big ideas & innovations account for the bulk of progress. In the 19th century, industrialization, evolution, electricity. In the 20th, antibiotics, information theory, the transistor, internet. The ones that will define the 21st century are being created by entrepreneurs. However, they are typically too busy to get what's in their heads onto paper. We work closely with them to help them bring ten of those ideas into the world. Identity Labs is setting the agenda in tech. Distribution carries more leverage than labor or capital. A great product is no good if nobody knows about it. It's our job to help our partners be the talk of the town in a tasteful way. We are very meticulous when deciding who to hire. Identity Labs is at the very top of the industry, and we are only 15 people. We believe our track record is singular, which we owe entirely to the quality of our team.
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Will be wearing this hat everytime I fly out of BER from now on. @lufthansa has passengers applying their own baggage tags on international flights now. Rude.
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arikia🦜 retweeted
> be story protocol > raise $40M from a16z > launch multi-billion dollar token > exit scam and token rugs 99% > rebrand as data network > launch nothing > get acquired by sui for $30 million what?
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arikia🦜 retweeted
Not super into the idea of building my brand on talking smack about my former coworkers. It's generally not a good look. OTOH, it looks worse when someone you were once closely associated with is engaging with whats looking more and more like massive amounts of fraud.
The founder of Artizen was the same guy who tried to rug FRD, and had even attempted to get parts of Ross's family to cosign his fraud. Anyone who within the community still defended his actions stood to benefit from his rug attempt or simply couldn't believe someone would have the audacity to attempt to nakedly steal millions from the fund. FRD could still be an existing source for good in prison reform if it weren't for his highly destructive attempt at theft. Hate to hear anyone having life threatening health issues, but a $30m discrepancy being found after a catastrophic health event seems right in line with what I'd expected from him. I hate that his actions destroyed an amazing, tight knit community with the FRD crew, and I hate to see him even further destroy faith in the regenerative funding concept in crypto even more.
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I’m very said to see so many innocent artists facing the fallout of Artizen’s casino scam. Projects like this give crypto a bad name.
I feel scammed. I trusted @Artizen to finance the next stage of Goodfella, my startup raising funds and visibility for animal rescue and rehabilitation shelters. Today, after almost 6 months with my grant funds locked, we were told is shutting down. And we won't receive the promised grant. 🧵
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Replying to @CoinDesk
@CoinDesk @Cointelegraph @WatcherGuru @Artizen advertised a $30M+ endowment, then excluded creator match/prizes in its shutdown. My records show payout discrepancies and an unsigned claim marked “Submitted.” Emails, CSV and video preserved. Please investigate. nitter.cf/EmilyLazar_SM/status/2…
I spent months rallying fans to fund September Mourning through @Artizen. Now it’s ending active operations and invoking “Early Exit”: sales paid, match/prizes/bonuses excluded. René cites serious health issues. I wish him recovery. Creators still deserve answers.
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arikia🦜 retweeted
Thanks to @arikia / @CtrlX_world I have the best train reading material
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This is not investigative journalism. This is pro-Trumpian racism with a “data-driven” wig on. Just because the author it too scared to put a byline behind any if this doesn’t make it automated.
I am automating investigative journalism at Effort.News We're breaking five stories today based on verifiable financial data which everyone missed for years. This is what I’ve been working on. 🧵
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No, AI cannot be trusted - not because it’s an autonomously intelligent Silicon God, but because the very human people running these companies are motivated by profit and control.
There’s hope in hard questions.
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Our talk from the ATmosphere is live. Check it out and let us know what you think:) Learn how we use AT Protocol as a Social Context Layer for Resource Allocation. And get to know the use cases by @maearthstudio, @GainForestNow, Simocracy, and more... youtube.com/watch?v=vOXIj9CI…
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arikia🦜 retweeted
volunteerHQ & pool side read- ing a t @GETDWeb berlin THX 🤩 @arikia #theinternetandeveryone
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PSA: When going through TSA and boarding flights, you can simply say: I’d like to opt out of unnecessary facial recognition procedures and proceed to board. It’s not more complicated than this.
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💳 Who should decide what content is acceptable online? Banks? In TRANSACTION DENIED, author Rainey Reitman joins Annalee Newitz to discuss why content moderation decisions shouldn't be made by financial institutions. 💵💷💴 As banks, payment processors, and credit card networks gain influence over who can participate online, questions of speech become questions of financial power. ⚖️ 🎧 Listen & subscribe to the Future Knowledge #podcast ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.f… @RaineyReitman #DigitalRights #FreeExpression #InternetGovernance
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In recognition of #Juneteenth today, we’re sharing scans of General Order No. 3, the document that informed enslaved people in Texas that they were free on June 19, 1865, carrying out the Federal Government’s final execution of emancipation. 📜 Read the text in scans based on the original handwritten records preserved by the U.S. National Archives and saved to the Internet Archive ⤵️ archive.org/details/general-… @usnatarchives #History #Archives #BlackHistory
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JUNETEENTH․com launched in 1996, helping share the history of June 19, 1865, and support celebrations across the United States and beyond. As awareness of Juneteenth grew, so did the site. The Wayback Machine preserves three decades of the site, documenting how it helped connect communities and sustain a tradition now celebrated by millions. Explore the site's history 👇🏾 web.archive.org/web/19980815… @WaybackMachine
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I'm participating in #DWebCamp 2026: Root Systems! From July 8-12, join me and hundreds of builders and dreamers from all over the globe to discover, tinker, make, and ideate the decentralized technologies we truly need. @getdweb dwebcamp.org
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I’ll be preparing some on-site reading materials, coordinating video operations with the amazing @ZkAv_Club, as well as giving a lightning talk and leading a workshop. Excited to share knowledge with this amazing group of humans! @GETDWeb
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Whattup NYC?
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