James Preston’s Tweets

Apr 5

Hey. 👋 Welcome to my profile. If you're reading this, hit a like so I know you've stopped by. To expand on the very quaint biography Twitter allows us, I'm a writer interested in philosophical and sociological matters. That's what drew me to cryptoassets back in 2013, [1/8]

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Marc Forrest (iguy.eth)

Replying to

and

Oh wow!!! That was one of the best comebacks I’ve seen in a long time. Straight, to the point and burnt to the ground in just 24 characters! 👏👏👏

Aug 22

The Brookings Institution have just released calculations that it costs over $300,000 to raise a child from birth today until after high school. Good luck to us all

Aug 20

How shit must United beeee!!??

Aug 19

Good writing is painting pictures on the canvases of people’s minds.

Aug 18

Wow! Yep! Perfect prelude to the predicted snow on Friday night. 😉

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@tanya_piper

· Aug 18

Replying to @JamesPrestonZA

My area today...

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Aug 18

As I was saying yesterday...

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lucasvo ꩜

@lucasvo

· Aug 17

I just connected to @Polkadot using the beta light client and voted on a treasury proposal. My browser verified the chain tip and relayed the transaction directly to other nodes. No centralized RPC ("infura") involved here. Definitely the coolest thing I did this week.

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Did you know that scientists are working on creating synthetic fuels using nuclear energy? Just. Let that sink in.

Did you know that scientists are working on creating synthetic fuels using nuclear energy? Just. Let that sink in.

One of the many reasons I love

@cathjenkin

💜

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Barry Ritholtz

@ritholtz

· Aug 17

Unappreciated truth of public writing: Everybody needs a good editor.

The Polkadot/ Kusama ecosystem is the only one where you will find fully decentralised in-browser light clients.

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substrate

@substrate_io

· Aug 9

This is why #Web3 needs light clients like Substrate Connect. Decentralized in-browser light clients are a unique feature of substrate-based networks, like @Polkadot and @kusamanetwork. Allowing users to securely and privately interact with blockchains - without third-parties. twitter.com/0xdev0/status/…

GM from a ripple-clouded Durban. ☀️

Best meme ever,

! 😂 Can we tokenize this on

@GmOrDie_

!? 💰

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Alice und Bob (

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@alice_und_bob

· Aug 15

It was great having @JamesPrestonZA from @ZeitgeistPM on #MangataMonday. Learned a few spicy things

Join us now on Discord for #MangataMonday and let's talk about Predictions Market with

from

@ZeitgeistPM

Link 👉🏼 discord.gg/FRCDCWQT?event

Aug 12

getting the deal annulled. What is unfortunate is that such activity from projects like HEX only serves to further tarnish the image of cryptocurrencies and their possible societal benefits.

Very interesting development over at Barnsley football club. They have canceled their shirt sponsorship deal with cryptocurrency scam project HEX. HEX do a lot of work (like Bitconnect did) to avoid being called a scam, but the red flags are clear. Well done to the

for

WTF!!? 😂😂😂😂

Breaking Bad far and away the winner here.

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· Aug 10

Which is the television GOAT?

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Aug 11

"The baby, for me, really is the capacity for self-transcendence (for lack of a better word) and all of the normative psychological and ethical implications that follow from that." [4/4]

"...is that it (most of the time) doesn't even do a good job of protecting that baby, and yet it protects so many other things that are not only 'not important' for its survival, but are creating immense harm based on various irreconcilable dogmas." [3/4]

...and with Sam being a (rather unconventional) atheist, this statement of his was intriguing: "There is a baby in the bathwater of religion that is not only worth saving, but it is in fact the most important thing in human life. My gripe with religion..." [2/4]

One of my favourite quotations to come from

@SamHarrisOrg

in quite some time comes from his recent conversation with

@arthurbrooks

. After an absorbing discussion about psychedelics, the conversation ventured into spirituality and religion... [1/4]

This GIF comparing Donald Trump with Charles Manson is eerie.

Aug 11

At the moment it looks like it's Breaking Bad or another not on this list.

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· Aug 10

Which is the television GOAT?

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Newsroom
20.8%
Sopranos
16.7%
M*A*S*H
20.8%
None (COMMENT)
41.7%

24 votesFinal results

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West Wing
22.7%
Rick & Morty
18.2%
Friends
40.9%
Cheers
18.2%

22 votesFinal results

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Dallas
25%
Lost
11.1%
Breaking Bad
55.6%
Mr Robot
8.3%

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I’m in tears. 😢 That letter to all of us in Vogue is astonishing. This woman is the Greatest Sportsperson Of All Time. 🐐

Aug 9

“There is only rich and poor. There is no middle anymore.” ~ Darlene Alderson (from the mind of Sam Esmail) While technically not true, I enjoyed the exploration of how society feels right now.

Aug 8

"The world is full of places to which I want to return.” ~ Ford Madox Ford

Aug 6

First Fulham FC. Then Springboks. What a day. And goodnight.

Fulham South Africa

@FulhamFCza

Aug 6

“Too good for the Championship, Not good enough for the Premier League.” 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Aug 6

Premier League Football is back at the Cottage!! Come on Fulham!!

Aug 5

Anyway. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. #OldSchoolTwitter

Just got a new tempered glass on the iPhone. And it’s one of those poorly made pieces that doesn’t register a touch 100% of the time! Gargh! 🥹

OH MY GOD. A sequel to Todd Phillips' Joker with Joaquin Phoenix has been confirmed, with Lady Gaga joining the cast! 🫠🫠🫠

Aug 4

"When you face an adversary alone, your best weapon may be an ax, but when you face an adversary in front of a throng of bystanders, your best weapon may be an argument.” ~ Peter DeScioli

Aug 4

The conviction of "being right" displayed by the religions of the world is disturbing.