Exploring the outer bounds of tech, creativity, and expression: afro optimist
GM.
Looking to get a hold of a MOCA ID.
Seems I neeed an invite code to do so.
Kindly share leads on one and/or repost this to get things popping 🚀🧨
Appreciate the help ✊🏾🤘🏾💜👍🏿
Day 19 of the $pointless experiment! 🎉
Exciting times continue as we near the full 300M+ $pointless of rewards distributed to those early, onchain, and active lens folks growing the garden.
Read the scoop: app.t2.world/article/cm0fcg8ca7367811xmci3ork6v9
🔥Livestream content creators on fire 🏎️ @simracing: 2-hour F1 stream at Monza! 🎮 @drdoge: 1 hour @gaming Destiny stream 🛸@Bogie.eth 8 hour marathon @metaverse stream
💧Liquidity Providers: Huge appreciation to the contributors making the $pointless/matic LP work! 100k $pointless each heading your way
🙌Good vibes
💡 @awkquariann - Sharing insights into creative process with cool process videos. 🌿 @eliankutse - Curation spree, spotlighting amazing artists like @artbyjah and @toddpham. 🇨🇺 @ceciliajess - Representing Lens Cuba and sharing life through beautiful Spanish content. 🎴 @juampi - Highlighting Talent Protocol's new cards feature on Etherscan. 🎤 @erica_kang - Co-hosting Lens builders brunch during Korea Blockchain Week while pregnant! 📊 @thedefimetro - Breaking down Phaver $SOCIAL tokenomics in simple terms.
🧑🎨Art
🎨 @notgonnamakeit (SOJU) - Prolific artist making stunning contributions to Social Summer. 📷 @colibris - Inspiring with wondrous photography and deep philosophical musings. 🎻 @cristinaspinei - Stunning music content featuring her work as a composer and performer. 🌍 @ibraheem - Capturing stories of pilgrimage, culture, and heritage with a Web3 twist.
✍️Reviews
💬 @yoshimare shining a light on Orb x Zora video integration 🛠️ @superluminal, @iamtherealyakuza, @cavernaeremita - Contributing valuable insights on $pointless migration mechanisms for real users.
🔔 Alpha
🚀Cyber: The first restaked Ethereum L2 designed for social, optimized for mass adoption. New economic designs on social data are being tested . 🎉 @aave is now on Zksync + ZKfest is rocking with cool activities like minting zkImagine NFTs. 🎨 Phaver creator program: Open nominations to support musicians, artists, gamers, traders & more . 🐻 @jakubrusiecki - Leading Social Graph Ventures with a "Shark Tank" style competition for web3 apps.
Not to mention the incredible opportunities for writers with competitions being hosted by @kiwinews, @the2077collective, @silviamogas.eth and more via @t2world
💜 Note - all the $pointless will be airdropped in one go when we reach the final day twenty (possibly on zksync rather than on polygon depending on if we have migrated by then) - ONE more issue to go! So this is technically an IOU, most mentioned here will receive rewards (check the article for details) 💜
Collectible via 1M $pointless (15% repost referral 👀) of course, do kindly help replenish my stocks by collecting and we'll do a mammoth one to finish the twenty day experiment 🤝
Yo crew! $pointless newsletter issue nineteen is COOOKING 🔥
Only problem is that with all the grass 🌳 I have been touching // swimming in I have missed out on lots of gems over the last two weeks 😔
The plan as always is to reward those who are early onchain and active, specially through this tipsy topsy turvy period! Do please help out by NOMINATING dope posts that have elevated your lens experience in the last fortnight (comment below).
If it makes it into the newsletter HALF the $pointless rewards go to the person who nominated first 🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🖤
Easy way to spread some utterly pointless kindness and shine a light on those who enrich the vibes here.
Sunny days ahead ☀️ 😊
Had fun stitching together some ai images for a tik tok championing the message of the song we just released
Does the ai part need to be stated explicitly in the post or is it just so outrageously obvious that it’s unnecessary ?
@anatu and I went heavy metal rock grunge Afro flavour on this one
SMASH THE COMPUTERS
venice.lnk.to/smash-the-computers
Out now 💥
Papa’s explosive new track "Smash The Computers" throbs in sonic rebellion, produced by anatu, with a driving four-to-the-floor bass drum that tears through the facade of the 'social age'. The piercing, pulsating, sizzle of the guitar slices through the shackles in a high-voltage call to action - SMASH EM - to reclaim the raw, real connections we forgot we were missing. A riotous cranking clang of metal and rock meets a hard place in Papa's afrobabble: the clarion rallying cry to unleash the inner rebel and surrender to the next electrifying single from his upcoming album.
The cartoons back in the day would never be able to run on todays television networks
Spicy Take - whilst it’s probably net positive, it’s also a shameas they were iconic 🤘🏾
Paid a little homage to CARTOON NETWORK (RIP 💀) in this video for THUMPING which is out today on all platforms ft. WILL and the people
Warning this is probably SUPER pointless
V1 of Imperfect Form: Onchain Olympics is live on Base & Polygon Amoy testnet: imperfectform.vercel.app
The basic idea is to do as many press ups as you can in two mins, then submit that score as a transaction, it will be added to the leaderboard and we can truly see which community has the most daily ACTIVE users ha.
I was missing the olympics so thought to bring them back for us normies - will be adding squats soon - for now its a press ups focus! The pose detection looks to make sure you do nice, slow, full extension pressups before it counts them - be warned 😈
In future the idea is to be able to sign in with lens or farcaster - which community is more active ? Do challenges across meme communities etc etc
works best on brave browser for me but please share notes of your experience on mobile or desktop *
takes circa 60s to load for me, please share your experience *
the leaderboard is only visible on desktop at the moment *
the cam feed never leaves your computer or goes online, its just to track your pressups *
NOTE you need testnet tokens to submit scores
Polygon Amoy & Base Sepolia faucets
Link: faucets.chain.link/polygon-amoy Link: Link: faucet.quicknode.com/base/sepolia Need a Github account
Link: www.alchemy.com/faucets/polygon-amoy Link: www.alchemy.com/faucets/base-sepolia Need to set up an Alchemy account (free) and have a little matic or ETH on mainnet
Any and all feedback super welcome!