On my first day at Vitalea, I checked in at the Bored Apes Yacht Club.

They have one in real life.

So boredy.

That sucks.

An offside hotel nicknamed after the NFT collection and went back to the beach club to learn what all this meant in practice.

Drifting past the paper signage in the conference room with slogans like, review holistic systems and acquire the best land for your needs, I arrived at a biohacking lab

where I met Jeffrey Tibbitts and his team at a Bayonk's company called Augmentation Limitless.

I love how they have to like they live themselves into doing the right thing.

Buy the right land for your needs.

Yeah.

Disseminate your seed and make children.

Consume, consume.

Oh, there's some seed later in the story.

Tibbitts, who goes by an alias Kassox, is a registered nurse and an early pioneer of the

Grinders Movement, a community of biohackers known for implanting non-medical devices such as

Wi-Fi routers and lighting fixtures that glow under tattoos into their bodies.

Back in Web 1.0, I remember. I remember the Go-Go 90s. There was such optimism around like

body modification and like transhumanism. And now it's turned into like the nerdiest, shittiest

shit. Like transhumanism has become biohacking now that's

exactly what's happening here it's just so sad to see 25 years on like it was supposed to be you did

like a weird thing to your genitals or like split your tongue so you could have sex in weird ways but now

it's now this guy it seems like the main thing that they're doing is implanting

...