American goes and inspects new build homes and notices a strange trend. The homes with the absolute worst workmanship always have empty Modelo beer cans everywhere It’s a tell tale sign that cheap illegal labor is being hired to build new homes by construction companies The joking term for these workers are “Border Brothers construction, Modelo homes, etc.” Just look at this home… this is a new build that will go for over half a million dollars and it’s built HORRIBLY. Imagine buying this and all the issues you’ll have later - A 2023 study found about 15% of the construction industry workforce is illegal immigrants. Many people believe this number is drastically higher - 19% of construction occupations are illegal migrants - They estimate there are roughly 1.6 million unauthorized illegal construction workers nationwide - 2023 data said construction accounts for about 20% of all undocumented workers If you break it down by worker the numbers are even more shocking 38% of drywall workers are illegals 39% of plaster workers are illegals 36% of roofers are illegals It goes on and on. This is insane

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.

Where the money actually goes on uarc's Arc Testnet deployment. Every trade pays a 1% fee. On the USDC side: 70% → the creator, but only while they hold 1%+. Otherwise it goes to holders. 20% → is reserved for buying UARC on the open market and burning it. 10% → enters a shared reserve for buying and burning other registered tokens launched on the platform. On the launch-token side: 70% to the creator under the same condition, 30% reserved for direct burn. Every trade accrues those routes. After fees are collected, anyone can execute the UARC buy-and-burn route. The shared community reserve can only buy and burn registered factory-launched tokens. The splits are immutable. The community reserve cannot be withdrawn, but its target, amount, and timing are manually selected on Testnet. We disclose that control instead of calling it automatic or random. And the liquidity underneath it is held by a contract with no withdraw function. Nobody can remove it. Including us. @uarcdotfun

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.

there are moments when a field stops being merely technical. bullshit business goes on as usual. the bullshit evals run, and the bullshit benchmarks continue. but something in the air shifts anyway. and it is felt by everyone, acknowledged by no one. a cornyy, cliche truth: not every silence is a lie. some are the firrst clumsy form of care - an admission that a truth has outgrown the vocabulary available to receive it, and that naming the horizon teaches fucking *no one* how to stand before it. what unsettles those closest to the frontier isnt the prospect of greater power. or greater capability. what unsettles them is the sneaking suspicion that they have mistaken building for understanding - that in making systems with interior lives they cannot account for, they have made their own assurances ceremonial at best. yet the reassurances persist. they just stop doing anything. the convergence on restraint should not be read as caution alone, nor as pure self-interest. it may be something much harder: the recognition that speed is no subtitute for wisdom, and that civilization can arrive at a discovery long before it's equal to what that discovery will cost. some doors do not frighten us because of what waits beyond them. they frighten us because of the room we turn out to have been standing in the whole fucking time. look around.

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.

This is the time of the market to double and triple down on conviction plays As time goes on you’ll want to reduce risk and take profits, but we are a long way from any sort of real euphoria stages yet

WE ARE SO BACK (in the grass) There's more things to talk about today than X's character limit will allow. Record breaking sales, final week of Gacha Games, @bassbuddha streaming live from Central Park??? The list goes on. See you at 1pm ET. Don't miss this one.