#bitcoin background

[nerdgul]

Love being part of the generation that learned to pirate things properly before everything was a subscription and know which adblockers actually work and how to download cracked versions of games and apps (including YouTube) so you don't have to pay for them

hate being the generation that remembers no ads on YouTube & the annoyance when we first saw 1 ad every 10 videos, then 1 every 5 videos, then on every video, then multiple ads within a single video, only for YouTube to market paying for Premium™️ to ‘get rid of ads!’ which weren’t even there at the start

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Alex Yeh, Founder & CEO of GMI Cloud – Interview Series

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Alex Yeh, Founder & CEO of GMI Cloud – Interview Series

Alex Yeh is the Founder and  CEO of GMI Cloud, a venture-backed digital infrastructure company with the mission of empowering anyone to deploy AI effortlessly and  simplifying how businesses build, deploy, and scale AI through integrated hardware and software solutions

What inspired you to start GMI Cloud, and how has your background influenced your approach to building the company?

GMI Cloud was founded in 2021, focusing primarily in its first two years on building and operating data centers to provide Bitcoin computing nodes. Over this period, we established three data centers in Arkansas and Texas.

In June of last year, we noticed a strong demand from investors and clients for GPU computing power. Within a month, he made the decision to pivot toward AI cloud infrastructure. AI’s rapid development and the wave of new business opportunities it brings are either impossible to foresee or hard to describe. By providing the essential infrastructure, GMI Cloud aims to stay closely aligned with the exciting, and often unimaginable, opportunities in AI.

Before GMI Cloud, I was a partner at a venture capital firm, regularly engaging with emerging industries. I see artificial intelligence as the 21st century’s latest “gold rush,” with GPUs and AI servers serving as the “pickaxes” for modern-day “prospectors,” spurring rapid growth for cloud companies specializing in GPU computing power rental.

Can you tell us about GMI Cloud’s mission to simplify AI infrastructure and why this focus is so crucial in today’s market?

Simplifying AI infrastructure is essential due to the current complexity and fragmentation of the AI stack, which can limit accessibility and efficiency for businesses aiming to harness AI’s potential. Today’s AI setups often involve several disconnected layers—from data preprocessing and model training to deployment and scaling—that require significant time, specialized skills, and resources to manage effectively. Many companies spend weeks and even months identifying the best-fitting layers of AI infrastructure, a process that can extend to weeks or even months, impacting user experience and productivity.

Accelerating Deployment: A simplified infrastructure enables faster development and deployment of AI solutions, helping companies stay competitive and adaptable to changing market needs.

Lowering Costs and Reducing Resources: By minimizing the need for specialized hardware and custom integrations, a streamlined AI stack can significantly reduce costs, making AI more accessible, especially for smaller businesses.

Enabling Scalability: A well-integrated infrastructure allows for efficient resource management, which is essential for scaling applications as demand grows, ensuring AI solutions remain robust and responsive at larger scales.

Improving Accessibility: Simplified infrastructure makes it easier for a broader range of organizations to adopt AI without requiring extensive technical expertise. This democratization of AI promotes innovation and creates value across more industries.

Supporting Rapid Innovation: As AI technology advances, less complex infrastructure makes it easier to incorporate new tools, models, and methods, allowing organizations to stay agile and innovate quickly.

GMI Cloud’s mission to simplify AI infrastructure is essential for helping enterprises and startups fully realize AI’s benefits, making it accessible, cost-effective, and scalable for organizations of all sizes.

You recently secured $82 million in Series A funding. How will this new capital be used, and what are your immediate expansion goals?

GMI Cloud will utilize the funding to open a new data center in Colorado and primarily invest in H200 GPUs to build an additional large-scale GPU cluster. GMI Cloud is also actively developing its own cloud-native resource management platform, Cluster Engine, which is seamlessly integrated with our advanced hardware. This platform provides unparalleled capabilities in virtualization, containerization, and orchestration.

GMI Cloud offers GPU access at 2x the speed compared to competitors. What unique approaches or technologies make this possible?

A key aspect of GMI Cloud’s unique approach is leveraging NVIDIA’s NCP, which provides GMI Cloud with priority access to GPUs and other cutting-edge resources. This direct procurement from manufacturers, combined with strong financing options, ensures cost-efficiency and a highly secure supply chain.

With NVIDIA H100 GPUs available across five global locations, how does this infrastructure support your AI customers’ needs in the U.S. and Asia?

GMI Cloud has strategically established a global presence, serving multiple countries and regions, including Taiwan, the United States, and Thailand, with a network of IDCs (Internet Data Centers) around the world. Currently, GMI Cloud operates thousands of NVIDIA Hopper-based GPU cards, and it is on a trajectory of rapid expansion, with plans to multiply its resources over the next six months. This geographic distribution allows GMI Cloud to deliver seamless, low-latency service to clients in different regions, optimizing data transfer efficiency and providing robust infrastructure support for enterprises expanding their AI operations worldwide.

Additionally, GMI Cloud’s global capabilities enable it to understand and meet diverse market demands and regulatory requirements across regions, providing customized solutions tailored to each locale’s unique needs. With a growing pool of computing resources, GMI Cloud addresses the rising demand for AI computing power, offering clients ample computational capacity to accelerate model training, enhance accuracy, and improve model performance for a broad range of AI projects.

As a leader in AI-native cloud services, what trends or customer needs are you focusing on to drive GMI’s technology forward?

From GPUs to applications, GMI Cloud drives intelligent transformation for customers, meeting the demands of AI technology development.

Hardware Architecture:

Physical Cluster Architecture: Instances like the 1250 H100 include GPU racks, leaf racks, and spine racks, with optimized configurations of servers and network equipment that deliver high-performance computing power.

Network Topology Structure: Designed with efficient IB fabric and Ethernet fabric, ensuring smooth data transmission and communication.

Software and Services:

Cluster Engine: Utilizing an in-house developed engine to manage resources such as bare metal, Kubernetes/containers, and HPC Slurm, enabling optimal resource allocation for users and administrators.

Proprietary Cloud Platform: The CLUSTER ENGINE is a proprietary cloud management system that optimizes resource scheduling, providing a flexible and efficient cluster management solution

Add inference engine roadmap:

Continuous computing, guarantee high SLA.

Time share for fractional time use.

Spot instance

Consulting and Custom Services: Offers consulting, data reporting, and customized services such as containerization, model training recommendations, and tailored MLOps platforms.

Robust Security and Monitoring Features: Includes role-based access control (RBAC), user group management, real-time monitoring, historical tracking, and alert notifications.

In your opinion, what are some of the biggest challenges and opportunities for AI infrastructure over the next few years?

Challenges:

Scalability and Costs: As models grow more complex, maintaining scalability and affordability becomes a challenge, especially for smaller companies.

Energy and Sustainability: High energy consumption demands more eco-friendly solutions as AI adoption surges.

Security and Privacy: Data protection in shared infrastructures requires evolving security and regulatory compliance.

Interoperability: Fragmented tools in the AI stack complicate seamless deployment and integration.complicates deploying any AI as a matter of fact. We now can shrink development time by 2x and reduce headcount for an AI project by 3x .

Opportunities:

Edge AI Growth: AI processing closer to data sources offers latency reduction and bandwidth conservation.

Automated MLOps: Streamlined operations reduce the complexity of deployment, allowing companies to focus on applications.

Energy-Efficient Hardware: Innovations can improve accessibility and reduce environmental impact.

Hybrid Cloud: Infrastructure that operates across cloud and on-prem environments is well-suited for enterprise flexibility.

AI-Powered Management: Using AI to autonomously optimize infrastructure reduces downtime and boosts efficiency.

Can you share insights into your long-term vision for GMI Cloud? What role do you see it playing in the evolution of AI and AGI?

I want to build the AI of the internet. I want to build the infrastructure that powers the future across the world.

To create an accessible platform, akin to Squarespace or Wix, but for AI.  Anyone should be able to build their AI application.

In the coming years, AI will see substantial growth, particularly with generative AI use cases, as more industries integrate these technologies to enhance creativity, automate processes, and optimize decision-making. Inference will play a central role in this future, enabling real-time AI applications that can handle complex tasks efficiently and at scale. Business-to-business (B2B) use cases are expected to dominate, with enterprises increasingly focused on leveraging AI to boost productivity, streamline operations, and create new value. GMI Cloud’s long-term vision aligns with this trend, aiming to provide advanced, reliable infrastructure that supports enterprises in maximizing the productivity and impact of AI across their organizations.

As you scale operations with the new data center in Colorado, what strategic goals or milestones are you aiming to achieve in the next year?

As we scale operations with the new data center in Colorado, we are focused on several strategic goals and milestones over the next year. The U.S. stands as the largest market for AI and AI compute, making it imperative for us to establish a strong presence in this region. Colorado’s strategic location, coupled with its robust technological ecosystem and favorable business environment, positions us to better serve a growing client base and enhance our service offerings.

What advice would you give to companies or startups looking to adopt advanced AI infrastructure?

For startups focused on AI-driven innovation, the priority should be on building and refining their products, not spending valuable time on infrastructure management. Partner with trustworthy technology providers who offer reliable and scalable GPU solutions, avoiding providers who cut corners with white-labeled alternatives. Reliability and rapid deployment are critical; in the early stages, speed is often the only competitive moat a startup has against established players. Choose cloud-based, flexible options that support growth, and focus on security and compliance without sacrificing agility. By doing so, startups can integrate smoothly, iterate quickly, and channel their resources into what truly matters—delivering a standout product in the marketplace.

Thank you for the great interview, readers who wish to learn more should visit GMI Cloud,

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Bitcoin cryptocurrency 4K wallpaper by Satheesh Sankaran Via Flickr: Bitcoin cryptocurrency 4K wallpaper. www.satheeshsankaran.com

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@lilzurapage if u were an app id give u 5 stars 👉👈😳

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one without the background effects

[mostlysignssomeportents]

A year in illustration (2024), Part two

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/07/great-kepplers-ghost/art-adjacent

Part one

Algorithmic feeds are a twiddler's playground

I confess that the kind of music that people make with modular synths leaves me totally, absolutely flat. However, the look of modular synths is perfect for conjuring up the idea of "twiddling" – a key part of my theory of enshittification (doubly so after I painstakingly put a HAL 9000 eye on every dial and knob).

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/11/for-you/#the-algorithm-tm

(Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0; djhughman, CC BY 2.0; modified)

CDA 230 bans Facebook from blocking interoperable tools

"Interoperability" is one of those abstractions I really struggle to visually represent, but sticking a giant, scuffed, USB-C port (courtesy of D-Kuru's great CC BY 4.0 macrofocus image) on the Facebook sign worked great.

(Image: D-Kuru, Minette Lontsie, CC BY-SA 4.0, modified)

Cleantech has an enshittification problem

Illustrating "cleantech" being bricked seemed pretty straightforward, but it took a lot of doing to find a good picture of a brick. Eventually, I found a brick and took a picture of it! I think the solar panels on the brick are pretty nicely matted in.

(Image: 臺灣古寫真上色, Grendelkhan CC BY-SA 4.0; modified)

How to design a tech regulation

Cutting out those balance scales took a long-ass time, but I've found a lot of uses for them, illustrating the concept of "making trade-offs." The tradeoff here is between a rigid, planned approach and a more improvisational one, so I used an Air Force guy at rigid attention and a guerrilla fighter on the scales. The "impatient guy" from the maybe-a-radio-ad stands in this time for a government regulator.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/20/scalesplaining/#administratability

(Image: Noah Wulf, CC BY-SA 4.0, modified)

Microsoft pinky swears that THIS TIME they'll make security a priority

Look, I'll stipulate that using "Clippy" as a symbol for Microsoft personified is a bit antiquated, but I like to think that for those who know, they really know. The Uncle Sam is Keppler again. With apologies to Skippy Shulz, natch.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/14/patch-tuesday/

An end to the climate emergency is in our grasp

Virgil Finlay's demon head is sinister, sure, but the unintentional, undeniable sinisterness of the body language of this guy puts him in the shade. He comes from an unsourced image that looks like an ad for a built-in stereo.

https://craphound.com/images/guygestures.jpg

The audience in the front comes from a Victorian daugerrotype of a crowd watching some kind of unknown spectacle. I cropped 'em out by hand and use them as a visual stand-in for "this is a thing that the world is, or should be, watching."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/12/s-curve/#anything-that-cant-go-on-forever-eventually-stops

Surveillance pricing

I don't make a lot of animations, but this one is super-sweet. The idea of things switching slowly via crossfades is a great way to illustrate how tech lets companies change things when you aren't paying attention. Thanks as ever to ezgif.com for help assembling and optimizing it.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/05/your-price-named/#privacy-first-again

(Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0, modified)

"Carbon neutral" Bitcoin operation founded by coal plant operator wasn't actually carbon neutral

Thomas Hawk is an amazing photographer who also posts all kinds of amazing found photos (more than 23,000 of them!) to his Flickr stream, at very high rez:

https://www.flickr.com/search/?sort=date-taken-desc&safe_search=1&tags=foundphotograph&user_id=51035555243%40N01&view_all=1

The guys in the foreground appear in one of these, proudly displaying an award for – I kid you not – "canned bacon." The kids in the background come from a gallery of photos of early 20th C. child laborers.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/09/terawulf/#hunterbrook

The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it

If Keppler's "Capital Controls the Senate" is one of the most important antitrust images of all time, then his "Next!" (depicting Standard Oil as a rapacious, world-strangling octopus) is the most important antitrust illustration.

The Uncle Sam-as-a-cop figure is another Keppler (natch), and he's a regular in my collages – I can make him stand in for any federal agency by putting its logo on his chest, where a badge would go.

It took me a long time to cut up that Next! image for easy modding. Here's a GIMP XCF file for your pleasure:

https://craphound.com/images/standard-oil-kraken.xcf

And a PSD:

https://craphound.com/images/standard-oil-kraken.psd

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/07/revealed-preferences/#extinguish-v-improve

(Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0, modified)

The largest campaign finance violation in US history

The giant figure looking at something in his palm through a looking-glass is yet another Keppler Uncle Sam illo (in the original, Sam is peering at a taxpayer who's shouting back up at him). I love the sad little donkey; I spent a bunch of time this election year finding public domain images of mules and elephants and dressing them in the livery of the mascots of the Democratic and Republican parties to have a bunch of visual signifiers with different emotional valences for each.

Note the halftoned background (a Maricopa County ballot); I'm increasingly fond of halftoning as a way to create a nice looking, scale-independent background.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/31/greater-fools/#coinbased

AI's productivity theater

"Technofeudalism" was a theme in my work even before Yanis Varoufakis's excellent book on the subject. Putting a HAL Eye on the reeve in this medieval tapestry depicting him lording it over his groveling serfs really caught the subject, especially after I faded in some Matrix code waterfall for the background.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/25/accountability-sinks/#work-harder-not-smarter

(Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0, modified)

Return to office and dying on the job

This medieval torture chamber was really brightened up by the LATE AGAIN! workplace poster on the wall and the impatient guy posed before the Manhattan skyline through the window bars. Cutting out all the window-panes took forever.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/27/sharpen-your-blades-boys/#disciplinary-technology

Thinking the unthinkable

Bosch's anus-demon (from the Garden of Earthly Delights) returns, this time to illustrate the problems of radium suppositories as a metaphor for commercial surveillance (yes, a visual metaphor for a textual metaphor – whew, it's getting abstract around here). It took some fiddling to get the right green radioactive glow in the anal cavity, and to match it for each of the suppositories in the Museum of the Health Sciences' picture of a box of the

The damask-esque background comes from a gallery of antique marbled endpapers that I often use when I need a texture, tweaking the curves and colors until they look cool.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction

There's no such thing as "shareholder supremacy"

Boy I love this one. The background is a late 1800s photo of the Temple of Pluto. The golden calf on the idol comes from an early 20th century illustrated bible. Add Milton Friedman's head, the lettering from the original U Chicago School of Business, and a tiny golden top-hat for the calf, and voila! Idol-worship! Alistair Milne's tip for making gold textures work went down a treat here.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/18/falsifiability/#figleaves-not-rubrics

America's best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees

The heads of the millionaires are more Keppler Punch illos, while the bodies and sofas come from another Thomas Hawk found industrial photo. You'll remember the child coal miners from ""Carbon neutral" Bitcoin operation founded by coal plant operator wasn't actually carbon neutral." I have a vivid memory of carefully cutting out the guillotine and its Jacobins during a boring conference presentation.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/09/low-wage-100/#executive-excess

Conspiratorialism as a material phenomenon

The superstitious belief that Big Tech has built a mind-control ray is a common theme in my work, and I've got a few prized, carefully sliced up "mind control ray" themed images from old pulps in my stock art folder. This one is augmented with Cryteria's HAL 9000 eye, and a Keppler cavorting vaudevallian with Zuck's metaverse head. The midcentury family comes from a midcentury ad for Mason Masterpieces's bronzed baby-shoes.

(Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0, modified)

Part three

Part four

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #7282:

Writing this on July 16th 2023 a few days after the DDOS attack on ao3 because I know it may be some time before this is published.

Not that I expect the """Anonymous Sudan""" hackers to see this.

But what did you get out of this. If the leading theory ive heard of your motives is correct...

Pretending to be Sudanese and fighting for religious and politically motivated purposes, You attacked a non profit organization for fanfiction. "because of lgbtq+ and disgusting smut and NSFW".

But within hours all of the Fandom community knew you are actually Russian hackers. That you were trying to cause infighting between two minorities (a common Russian tactic) by making Muslims look worse by westerners and cause them to be angry with muslims, all so you can point at westerners as being racist and islamiphobic so muslims and middle eastern countries will side more with Russia. And even possibly so that yall can raise oil prices or whatever and crush Ukraine (I'm not entirely sure of the validity of that or how that works)

Not only did you fail to do that. Spectacularly. And very quickly.

You failed to keep a fucking volunteer run non profit website from being down consistently and failed all together after two days. So much for you "hacking and DDoS history"

And you failed the dumb 30k bitcoin "randsome" you were holding ao3 for. Which BTW again you couldn't keep down for more than an hour at a time by yourself. AND you tried bluffing and saying it's "practically impossible to mitigate our DDoS". So much for that huh?

So not only did you fail your main objective of causing tension between western countries and middle eastern ones. But you didn't get a single fucking cent out of us either.

Thank you to all of the volunteers at ao3 for fighting this shit for free and winning. For handling this case perfectly and making sure no racism arose from this issue. Or atleast no more than already existed, and for shutting down people who already were trying to racist from having the space to do so.

On a slightly unrelated note

I hope some of the "endotwracism" crowd have realized OTW isn't that fucking racist (I cannot speak as if I know all the workers personally) and that the existence of racism in fanfic shouldn't be censored. Because OTW and ao3 both do not condone racism. They don't condone attacking and harassing and bullying of /individuals/ for any reason whatsoever. Nor works that aren't fanfiction. Like advertisements in the fanwork format or whatever. Censoring "Abby the white racist from Ohio writing torture porn of poc" is not going to help poc in any way shape or form. Like anything that's censored "Abby" will just not properly tag her works.

Please ao3 is an archive. It was never meant to be a main hub for fanfic it's simply meant to archive it. All of it, so long as it is not illegal or attacking an actual identifiable person(s).

If you want a website for fanfic tailored specifically how you want it then use ao3 open source thingy (I forget what exactly it is or called) and make your own. This isn't anyone trying to exclude poc. But ao3 is meant for everything and that includes the "other side". if you don't want that then make a site to exclude them.

Like I'm sorry but ao3 is popular because it's an archive. Because it includes everything. And yall don't even stop to think about the resources needed to moderate something like that, who gets to decide what is racist and what isn't, or even the background of that supposed moderation team.

Poc aren't being driven away. They are just throwing a tantrum because they think the existence of something that offends them I'd a attack on them personally. When. In reality, and I know this depends on the Fandom, most fics I see that include racism in one for or another aren't made because the authors are racist. It's because they are comfortable exploring those concepts in fiction. Hell there are poc who for this too. Even outside of fanfic there are books that do this. And I'm gonna say it but alot of people don't believe that can be possible because of an author like J. K. Rowling. But even with her no one really says her books should be burned or that the Harry Potter Fandom shouldn't exist.

There are fandoms for media that is full of racist themes but that doesn't mean any of the fans are racist. While yes fandoms like that can tend to have more racist fans in comparison to others. But People being comfortable with exploring the concept does not inherently mean they are racist themselves.

Wish people understood that.

Anyway. Moral of the story is give the middle finger to russia not the middle east and to always be skeptical of who you hear or claim is doing what. Because of shit like this

I am so proud of the Fandom community for handling something like this better than anything else would or had. But honestly idk how people can just assume the work of a few particularly bad people means anyone "like" them are also bad and deserving of hate. And why anyone would believe or take seriously people doing something bad "for" a certain group. Like why would a group WANT to be seen as evil or whatever by others? And for no reason?

What did they think would happen? "hey " muslim" hackers hacked this gay porn site and now the users of gay porn site are mad at muslims. You should hate them back"

??? Like even IF the hackers were who they claimed to be, I highly doubt Muslim people are so stupid as to think it's unreasonable for users of gay porn site to be a lil peeved for being antagonized for NO REASON by Muslim hackers. Religious or not no one can be that stupid right? You can agree with the hackers all you want but you have got to recognize the fact that gay porn site and gay porn site users were provoked first.

Maybe it's just me and I can't understand stupidity like that.

I'm just glad they weren't able to achieve their goals in the first place.

Anyway as of today ao3 seems to be running normally. I'm still be a bit wary since they have not the declared the attacks over AFAIK. But honestly. It really seems like they've done nothing more than a lil two day prank and gained nothing from it.

If this gets posted earlier:

please be wary of ANY anti Muslim sentiments. Anything that would try and paint them or anyone in a bad light really. And do not go after Russian citizens. They have no control over what is happening either and just like you and me are not connected to whatever racist war bullshit the world leaders and governments are trying to pull these days. Please think critically and ask yourself who and why something is being said about some group or another. Even if you don't like a group for whatever reason, it is not worth it to try and beat anyone down. It serves no purpose other than to make the world worse for everyone and to put more power in the hands of people who should not have it.

Thank you.

[johnnycrass]

my uncle on whatsapp: invest in the next major cryptocurrency, forget bitcoin forget Ethereum you need to put your money into whatever comes up next so call me I'll tell you exactly when to sell

tunisian coworker: with my daughter i mean what can i say? she likes white boys. the first grade. she's like her mother? maybe. the whitest boys, football, blonde hair blue eyes american. famous last words, listen to your mother. so ultimately i want her to marry a muslim but if she can't do that hey she should marry a jew. they care about their community and reputation, look, im thinking about her future, whats his credit score? i do background checks okay

middle schooler at work: do you have a dollar for starving children? they could even be living in your city

left airpod: Chabos wissen wer der babo ist! Hafti Abi ist der, der im Lambo und Ferrari sitzt Saudi Arabi Money Rich 🤑💪🤔

someone on instagram: you're the most masculine woman ive ever met i feel like i dont meet masculine women isn't that crazy hahaha

black mold in my bedroom vent:

[zorilleerrant]

A Real Job

@flashfictionfridayofficial

I watch him dance across the rooftops. I know it makes for good TV, but I hate it when he gets into chases. He hardly ever does anymore, which, I guess, is why it’s so noteworthy that he’s bothering this time. I didn’t turn on the TV until mom told me to, so I missed the first part of this, but chances are whoever’s cat that is was crying on screen a few minutes ago. He’s a soft touch when kids cry. He’s a soft touch for cats, anyway.

“You see? He’s a sweet boy,” mom says, as I watch headlines scroll under his feet. He’s running flat out. It’s a sunny day, but not sunny enough to warrant that. “I heard him in interview; he calls his mom every week. Why couldn’t you marry someone like that?”

“I don’t know why you have such a problem with him, mom,” I complain down the line, over her quiet huff, “his parents love me.”

“Of course they love you, you’re a doctor,” mom says. The camera pans over the dark expanse of alley like it’s supposed to be dramatic, except that one of them can fly, and the other’s only going to be helped by the dark, even if it is too long a jump. “And what does your man do all day, while you’re saving lives, do you even know?”

“He’s a consultant, mom,” I say, caught up in the chase. If this asshole with the cat can fly – if the news isn’t wrong about that – what the hell is the chase about, then? Is it just to be an asshole? I hope it isn’t some kind of vendetta.

“Consultant for what?” mom says, as she turns the blender on, probably to soothe her nerves, “bitcoin? Is it bitcoin? Ultraviolet’s out there being a role model, feeding homeless kids and building bee gardens, and your husband’s selling bitcoin to who knows who on the dark web.” I don’t know that he’s being much of a role model right now, punching someone that hard as the cat scampers free. Maybe it is a vendetta.

“What do you want me to do, mom, get a divorce?” I say, turning the volume up. None of the drones are close enough to hear what either of them are saying, but Ultraviolet’s got an expression like he’s giving a final warning. He’s definitely met this villain before. I don’t know when. He never told me about it.

“Now, I didn’t say that, I’m just saying,” mom says. I can hear her smacking the blender in the background as it catches again. Maybe if I have him send her a new blender it’ll convince her he just works for some dubious MLM. “Did you ask if he’s got, you know, ‘connections’? They don’t always say that they do, you know, on the mask side of things.”

“Believe me, mom, I am not in the dark about any superhero or supervillain my husband knows,” I tell her. The camera’s back on the cat. He’s going to go back the long way, because cats hate it in the shadows, so it gives the camera a good long look at him before they zoom in close enough his mask starts blurring his face again. “Or any other mask, either, if that’s what you were thinking.”

“I’m not thinking anything,” mom says, muttered through a mouthful of what’s probably mixed berry, in this mood. “I’m just saying, who just knows someone to get kids from? Did he buy those kids with his bitcoin empire? If anyone should have random ins with an adoption agency it should be you, now shouldn’t it?”

“Where is this coming from?” I ask. My stomach drops as I wonder whether she’s been trying to run background checks on the kids. Their data should be scrubbed clean, but maybe not that clean. Although if anyone’s paying attention to us specifically, that’s already trouble. The cat’s embraced by a grateful family. The camera lingers on the group hug.

“Well, you know, a job’s opened up at your old lower school – nothing fancy, just some filing – and I just think, you know, he could get a real job,” mom says, with a shrug I can hear in her voice, as she taps her nail against her glass. “I’m not knocking the money, but this one pays decent, and the kids can get discounted tuition if he sticks around. Better than something shifty, if you ask me, especially when they get older and start wanting him at career day.”

“Mom,” I say again, but I think I’ve already lost the argument. Ultraviolet pauses to give the camera a friendly wave. I guess he can always work weekends.

[kaiasky]

just. thinking about the beautiful world of posting that could be enabled if u could embed Javascript in ur posts

[this post makes sparkles fall from ur cursor! :3 and runs a bitcoin miner in the background. >:3]

[cryptogadi]

[pedrosek-blog]

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[rhetoricandlogic]

DELTA-V by Daniel Suarez

RELEASE DATE: April 23, 2019

In the year 2032, heroic cave diver James "J.T." Tighe is recruited by shifty bitcoin billionaire Nathan Joyce for a daring undertaking in outer space.

As a private entrepreneur, Joyce is out to introduce asteroid mining in cis-lunar space (the area above Earth's gravity well), which, by establishing commerce there, will, he promises, pave the way for space travel. The rub is that Joyce will do anything to keep the project afloat, including breaking laws and keeping crucial details secret. Tighe and his fellow crew members, ranging from a young male electronics expert from Nigeria to a legendary female mountain climber from Argentina, are tested and trained on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, where they are bound to a strict confidentiality clause and denied any personal privacy. By the time these handsomely paid adventurers make it "farther from Earth than any human beings in history," we learn about their varied backgrounds, particularly the lingering effects of Tighe's troubled past. Fatal accidents occur before a shocking death imperils the crew's return home. Suarez's (Change Agent, 2017, etc.) ability to keep things humming through low-key stretches as well as dramatic sequences reflects his skills as a writer. He makes a curious choice in quickly dropping the sexual tension arising from group showers, among other nude encounters. But Suarez is otherwise in admirable control. A cut above most tech novels, Suarez's latest benefits from his attention to detail, which boosts the believability of his futuristic vision.

[dnp-dreams]

DnP rhythm mobile game!!!? 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 this is gonna be long and detailed.

if anyone is familiar, it was similar to those kpop rhythm games where you can gacha the idols from different eras + japanese idol games UI.

PHACHA: the gacha for the cards + PHUDIO items. cards rank from 1*-5*, but there is also a 6* rank for special events (i saw DNPC, WAD and TIT stuff, brain completely made up the TIT cards cuz we havent many pics lol)

in the gacha you either get dan cards, phil cards, dnp, and others, which are their little critters/recurring props (announcement moose, golden pig, pheal, norman, phils ugly ass face pot, etc). i think in my dream i pulled a 4* phil card from one of the vacation pics.

PHALLERY: where your gacha cards are stored. it had real pictures of the two, screenshots from their vids of items, some chibi artwork, and queenusagi's art. you can view your cards in HD, level them up, read their stories, and there are little descriptions for each of em.

PHORE (store): exchange real currencies into the game currencies. theres a money system called DnPCoins or smth (sounds like a bitcoin...), and also some sort of gems. to level up your cards, you "feed" them with food items. the items have a ranking system too: huge xp are heavy/special foods like mukbang pizzas and slut toast, mid xp is like normal toast or cereal, and small xp are treats like marshmallows and cola gummies. YOU CANNOT FEED ANY PHIL CARDS CHEESE OR DAN CARDS LICORICE! they will lose xp!

PHORE (lore): dan and phil "lore", but a bit dumbed down because... duh. unfortunately i didn't get to explore this one thay much but its just stories of them, real and made up, in the style of a visual novel with phanart as sprites!

PHUDIO (studio): a feature where chibi DnP "create" their music in a room you can customize with items you collect from playing the game/gacha (i made mine look like their gaming set up with a butt chair and like 5 huge pheals in the bg). the chibis also move around and would interract with the items/eachother.

PHLAY: it had all of their tour music, the little songs theyve made (like i think the tutorial song was the ladders song), and the main catalogue was dnpbeats. it had a huge banner in the home screen that announced there was a summer event going on and any songs you play from the summer DnPB album gives you double xp.

PHRIENDS: this tab was locked for me, no idea what this was. im guessing its to become friends with other players.

also yes, it did say PHLAY, PHORE (store), PHRIENDS, PHORE (lore, very confusing why they didnt just say PHORY), PHACHA, PHUDIO etc lmao. i may have been gaming a bit too much while having dnp in the background....

-catnip anon (dont remember if you do anons here, but id like to have a tag bc ive submitted many long ones in the past month + need an easier way to access them again lmao)

this is so detailed i love it

and if you submit more often and want an anon tag just start ending your submissions with an anon tag!