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Flez retweeted
I can't properly describe to anyone under the age of 30 just how cool the Internet was before Amazon, Google, Meta, and Apple turned it all into a walled garden of garbage and commerce.
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Flez retweeted
May 11
Everyone has been 'vibe coding' for like 2 years with this 'insane' tool and there are still 0 (zero) notable game changing products that compare to what dedicated humans created in their basements prior to AI.
Anyone w/ expertise in any subject immediately realises how overrated it is for giving you anything beyond the most basic information in it.
If you can legitimately write, any writing produced by an LLM is a disgusting insult to all of your senses.
Good for the boring and tediously repetitive tasks organising information, but still so unreliable and far away from what Silicon Valley keep trying to shill us.
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charts would look so different if any web3 apps/networks were truly useful (or actually web3)
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never forget đ¤Ą
before it got censored at Leemoâs request:
forum.polkadot.network/t/on-âŚ
DV exposed this on-chain evidence
but instead of backing transparency to fix Polkadot, he literally pushed to keep it off the forums (yes screenshots exist)
now this angle?
the switch up says enough
peak irony
Yo whereâd all those DAOs/voting groups that were doing it to improve Polkadot - and certainly werenât just in it for the money or alleged quid pro quo - go to now that DV has gone?
Only a couple remain - I guess trying to improve the network through feedback wasnât all that it was cracked up to be when the moneys not there đ
Anyway, fuck ChaosDAO.
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âjust send it to bugbounty@parity.io and weâll fix itâ
ah yes, the decentralized security model:
one company
one inbox
one gatekeeper
very trustless đ
so the model is: remove the people who raise issues, then rely on them to fix them while the salaried side keeps getting paid
but sure, focus on the disclosure, not the systemic failures that led us here
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Would be nice if you could just report on what you have found at bugbounty@parity.io. Then we can take a look and just fix it. Thank you!
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Hyperbridge exploit story:
>single audit, no bug bounty
>rude to whitehats, publicly mocking their efforts
>April Fool's - "Security Incident Report xD lolllz"
>claims they're unhackable
>gets hacked 2 weeks later - "Bridge update!"
Always respect the whitehat efforts, alwaysđ
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seen this play before..
built polkadot cloud
asked for (basic) support
got nothing but silence
zero interest from parity
but yeah⌠letâs act like this is new
Can Polkadot become Web3âs cloud?
JAM is the direction the network is evolving toward.
Donât miss this short interview with @OliverTaleYazdi, building JAMbrains, an implementation of Polkadotâs JAM in Elixir.
âWe can be the decentralized cloud provider for any Web3 application.â
đ˝ď¸ youtube.com/watch?v=gg4P23PiâŚ
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100 days later and the polkadot website still looks like đŠ
where are the products? new narratives? anything?
this should never have happened.
Parity is a private, for profit company. Gav leads as CEO. that context matters.
Polkadot was structured so no single for profit entity could control the public face of a common good.
thatâs why OpenGov exists. itâs one of the main reasons W3F exists. itâs why refs like Wish for Change #1157 treated the polkadot website and brand as shared public assets.
now look at what happened.
polkadot.com was quietly reworked by Parity members through a CLOSED process, announced with ~24 hours notice via LinkedIn, and pushed live without a finished identity or design, or even basic SEO or UX considerations.
just a generic text logo that isnât even trademarkable, paired with throwaway copy disconnected from large parts of the existing ecosystem, yet presented as âofficial.â
now swap Parity or Gav out for literally anyone else. another for profit company. an agency. even a respected community builder. the same process wouldâve caused instant backlash, and for good reason.
there wouldnât be debates about colors or design choices. the reaction would be immediate rejection of the process itself, because a public common good canât be treated like a private rebrand.
and if this only feels acceptable because of who did it, then the principles Polkadot was built on are already slipping.
a public common good cannot survive if its rules bend for the people at the top. that should be unacceptable to everyone.
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faster sprints are irrelevant without shipped products. months later thereâs still nothing to point to. people are tired of the fluff. also wild to see parityâs stance on AI flip so quickly once they got lapped.
AI has allowed us to move from month long feature completion to one week sprints. these sprints are accelerating development for polkadot in a compounding way. this is far from the stereotype of "vibe coding" though - knowledgeable engineers create specifications, develop super quickly, ensure things are correct, and audit crucial code. if you're on "AI twitter" in 2026 this may not be surprising, but most engineers worldwide are still lagging far behind. working with smart people in a lean environment has amazing returns.
so much cool stuff coming and i can't wait to show the world.
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this should never have happened.
Parity is a private, for profit company. Gav leads as CEO. that context matters.
Polkadot was structured so no single for profit entity could control the public face of a common good.
thatâs why OpenGov exists. itâs one of the main reasons W3F exists. itâs why refs like Wish for Change #1157 treated the polkadot website and brand as shared public assets.
now look at what happened.
polkadot.com was quietly reworked by Parity members through a CLOSED process, announced with ~24 hours notice via LinkedIn, and pushed live without a finished identity or design, or even basic SEO or UX considerations.
just a generic text logo that isnât even trademarkable, paired with throwaway copy disconnected from large parts of the existing ecosystem, yet presented as âofficial.â
now swap Parity or Gav out for literally anyone else. another for profit company. an agency. even a respected community builder. the same process wouldâve caused instant backlash, and for good reason.
there wouldnât be debates about colors or design choices. the reaction would be immediate rejection of the process itself, because a public common good canât be treated like a private rebrand.
and if this only feels acceptable because of who did it, then the principles Polkadot was built on are already slipping.
a public common good cannot survive if its rules bend for the people at the top. that should be unacceptable to everyone.
Polkadotâs new website is live.
It's a simpler, more human introduction to a complex system.
The last decade built the protocol; that work continues. In the decade ahead, the focus shifts to the products and experiences built on top of it.
This is v0. It will evolve as products emerge.
â polkadot.com
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Flez retweeted
16 Dec 2025
The best advice I got in my 20s: Nobody cares. I often wonder how many extraordinary people waste their entire lives fearing the judgement of people who were never even thinking about them. Nobody is thinking about you. Theyâre too busy thinking about themselves. Go do the thing.
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Flez retweeted
10 Dec 2025
Polkadot Builder Party Hackathon: The Winning Projects x.com/i/broadcasts/1ypKdqYpZâŚ
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Flez retweeted
9 Dec 2025
the tides are shifting for crypto marketing
shortcuts arenât working anymore
most airdrop campaigns are death sentences
the timeline is allergic to "KOLs"
cheap growth tactics are increasingly ineffective
yaps and âmindshareâ matter less than ever
many teams are stuck repeating the same playbooks, hoping that if they just get lucky the old tactics will still work, but they won't
and this means there's an opportunity
for the right teams
the ones who balance funnel tactics, creative energy & data
for the teams who don't settle just for top of funnel awareness, but who also know how to convert attention into acquisition
but a lot of teams won't make it
because they're stuck trying to take shortcuts
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