We are continuing our work on building the cultural layer around live entertainment. Last week, RaveDAO co-hosted the first-ever Lisbon Dance Summit, bringing artists, producers, media, cultural leaders, and builders together to explore where electronic music goes next. The first edition brought together 100 speakers, 30 panels, 12 workshops, and 600+ guests from 35+ countries, across a 3-day conference and a 5-day city-wide festival with 30 parties and events in Lisbon. From Lisbon to Berlin, Amsterdam, Asia, and beyond, the conversation was clear: dance music is no longer just moving through clubs and festivals. It is moving through cities, communities, technology, identity, and new cultural rails. That is exactly where RaveDAO belongs. Not just throwing events. Building the space where real people, real scenes, and new onchain rails meet. Where culture can be felt in real life and carried forward onchain. Lisbon was a signal. The rave goes on.

How are midgets going to complain when they are the only "minority" group that has always been represented in media as they are without hate? LotR/Hobbit Willow Willy Wonka Wizard of Oz Time Bandits The list goes on, and still those ingrate dwarves complain about being oppressed, from who? The only dwarf hater that's worked to get other dwarves disenfranchised by CGI and the same pygmy actor for everything, has been Peter Dinklage: a fucking midget. If I was a dwarf I'd be very happy with the lore bestowed upon me. Any midget who doesn't dwarfmaxx Willow larp is wasting his life. Imagine being a decent IQ midget, watching Thunder Dome, and deciding not to find a 6ft+ retard to manipulate into being your personal steed. Makes no sense, the world needs more creative midgets.

Spencer Pratt on LA’s drastic NGO problem: “They will take $100M and steal it right in your face.” David Friedberg: “Can you explain what goes on with these NGOs? Like, how do NGOs create a system that the more we spend, and in the last 10 years, the City of Los Angeles, I think, has increased homeless spending by 10X, and the homeless population has doubled, and clearly it's gotten a lot worse. What's the role that the NGOs actually play in this?” Spencer Pratt: “First off, when you said homeless is 2x, homeless is 200x. When Mayor Bass in the debate was like, “It's down 17%,” these are the most cooked numbers. Even the RAND Corporation says it's a 30% increase. But they just drive around and they go, “One, two, three, four, five, six.” They're not going in under these encampments, and bridges, and bushes, and unzipping these tents, and going into the sewers. So we don't even know the count. But let me tell you my first experience with NGOs. After the Palisades fire, FireAid, $100 million raised. Every single person I talked to messaging me, “No one's getting this money. No one's seeing a dollar.” I go to Washington, I ask senators to investigate this. We open up a case. Now all of a sudden, FireAid puts out a legal letter to defend themselves. In their own legal letter from the law firm, they say, “Several of these NGOs gave directly to fire victims.” The list for the $100 million is 200+ (NGOs). Google “several.” It's under 10. So even in their defense, they're telling you, and again, I don't believe one of those, 10 gave directly. The people that they said did, they're like, “We gave gift cards.” Who'd you give gift cards to? You don’t think one fire victim, they're messaging me all day long, said, “Hey, I got a $500 gift card.” So that's when I learned firsthand that these NGOs will take, right in your face, $100 million and just steal it.” @friedberg @spencerpratt --------------------------------------- Thanks to our partner for making this possible Most advertisers have never heard of the platform with an $11B annual run rate in ad spend. by AppLovin — 1B+ daily active users, full-screen video ads watched for a median of 35 seconds, and businesses are profitably spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a day on it. Advertiser access is in closed beta. The window is open at @AxonAdsManager

A thought that just occurred to me: the factors currently weighing on the market are not new negatives. The semiconductor cycle peaking, deteriorating profitability due to excessive CAPEX, China’s push for semiconductor self-sufficiency... People simply want to take profits. As time goes on, the market keeps resurrecting whatever bearish narratives it needs to justify selling, creating a self-reinforcing vicious cycle.

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From @TheAthleticFC: There will be 104 matches at this World Cup, and we are ranking them all as the tournament goes on. We ranked every match from worst to best.

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