A two-page campaign ad from 1991 for TSR's post-apocalyptic Dark Sun RPG setting In the ruined world of Dark Sun, the reckless use of magic has laid waste to all, turning its once lush forests and oceans into desert where cities ruled by cruel, and immortal, sorcerer-kings are all that is left.

Con Ironwood se busca restablecer la capacidad de los usuarios para verificar la solidez del suministro circulante de Zcash. La activación garantizará una verificación inmediata. Más información en este artículo de @zooko2.bsky.social.

This is just beautiful! A major improvement to Huffman compression after 70 years. Benchmarks: github.com/MarcinZukows... Science: marcinzukowski.github.io/pivco-huffma... Blog post about it (different author): fgiesen.wordpress.com/2026/06/21/p... Made by human+AI+vector-computation(SIMD) :-)

ethresear.ch/t/validator-... May be good for Zcash (@zooko2.bsky.social)

Lore: new revision control system built by EpicGames with BLAKE3+FastCDC+Zstd github.com/EpicGames/lore

I remember when doctors were like this about getting health information from the Internet. More than one doctor sternly warned us that it was dangerous. One time there was actually a printout on the table in the waiting room that was all like "Don't get health information from the Internet!".

I had strong priors against LLMs for medicine. There are a lot of doctors in my family and I grew up viewing doctors as careful, skilled professionals. I had plenty of bad medical experiences, but I thought it would be hard to do better. Then an LLM found a cure for my 2 decade chronic condition...

Zcash Ecosystem Digest | June 21st 🔸Zebra 5.2.0 Node Release 🔸Zodl 3.6.0 Currency Conversion Options 🔸Zaino 0.4.0 Full Parity with Lightwalletd 🔸Zcash @joinwebzero Blockspäti 🔸@Sovright_ Mining Pool Live on Testnet! Full Digest + Network Stats: t.co/jL4LtbebVV

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

The only two Jethro Tull albums I like are "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick", but I like those two a lot. On the other hand, I like all Rush albums ever. I almost feel *compelled* to like Rush albums. Like *not* liking them would be a betrayal.

Nuclear opinion: I don’t care if you use AI to write code,¹ but making a human review a change before an LLM is disrespectful. Why am I catching your bugs if a computer could have done it? It’s like asking to review code that doesn’t compile or pass CI. ¹ As long as you do it responsibly.

something I love about using AI is that I'm not embarrassed to ask it the dumbest of questions that reveal the fact that I don't know the basics of my profession

“Does anyone still use Emacs?” blogsystem5.substack.com/p/is-anyone-... Like this guy, I used emacs for many years, then migrated to a series of GUI IDEs, and then *many* years later rediscovered Emacs and instantly fell in love with it again. :-)

The belief that everything is getting worse and that everyone around you has stopped caring about all the values that they used to uphold is not only wrong, it's actively detrimental to your mental health. To keep going, we have to believe that together we can live in a society. We just have to.

Happy to see Zcash viewing keys finally get a would-be user, after a decade of being underutilized and undersupported. (My fault as much as anyone's.) Of course, the new would-be user is disappointed to find out the current state of support. 😬 forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/is-anyone-...

A lot of sci-fi is about the birth of AI. What sci-fi is about long-standing, widespread AI? Ian M. Banks's Culture series, John C. Wright's The Golden Age trilogy, probably some Greg Egan novels… Is that it? There's gotta be more.

Watched “Minority Report” again. (Second time. I think the first time was when it came out?) 👍👍

Huh! TIL the great movie "Children of Men" was based on a novel named "Children of Men" that some argue was derivative of and worse than this novel: "Greybeard". 🤔

So much for that I guess

We do have to come to terms with the fact that the open social web is for everyone not just the people we agree with

Our team contributed to the cryptographic design process, helping translate privacy and operational requirements into a practical architecture built around Privacy Pass, commitments, and related techniques.

Balancing accountability with privacy is a challenging problem in system design. @Phreeli's whitepaper explores an architecture intended to support continuity and accountability without creating identifiers that can be used to track people across interactions. www.phreeli.com/files/Phreel...

gf bursts into my office, asking if i have anything “small and heavy”. tungsten cube has been waiting its whole life for this moment

damn there is $55m worth of Zcash sitting in the fund controlled by anonymous on-chain coinvoting forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/coinholder... I'm so grateful to the Financial Privacy Foundation for custodying that treasury and paying out to the anonymous-coin-holder-directed recipients.

slowly getting over my distress at having Fable taken away from me, and giving the new GLM-5.2 a try

This economist saw Fable as something new and qualitatively better, and has stopped his research while waiting to get access to Fable. joshuagans.substack.com/p/the-big-mess Consistent with my experience from (much less intellectual) use of Fable.

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I'm excited about Iroh 1.0! What's really exciting about it is an innovation that sounds simple—maybe even dumb!—but I think can have profoundly positive consequences over the next decade: you dial a public key instead of an IP address.

Grampa grampa, tell us the story again. Very well, children, gather round. When I was only a little gray, not full gray like now, there were three beautiful summer days….

Today I learned that Twitter/X will hide replies so I can't see them (but other people still can), based on its inscrutable AI reasons, and give me *no* indication in the UI that they were hidden nor any way for me to see them. Here's Grok when I asked it about this behavior.

It is a good time for moonshots. AI has reached a level where there are transformative projects that could result in huge social good, but require public R&D, consensus & transparency to pull off. Examples of such projects: universal tutors, co-scientist/replication systems, and remote medical help

I could really use fable rn

dang it is complicated to build an efficient, lockless, quarantined linked list using compare-and-swap and it would be easy using load-linked/store-conditional. Weren't there some science papers decades ago proving those two are equivalent? Well if so I'm calling bullshit.

You have a problem. You ask the government to solve it. Now you have two problems.

ugh i was doing something with Fable yesterday and now i'm continuing the same project with GPT 5.5, and it's annoying how GPT 5.5 makes more mistakes which requires more iterations with me

Calling all Zcash Community Advisory Panel members! Now is the time to vote for the Zcash Community Grants Committee members. zfnd.org/zcap-poll-no... The ZCG will control something on the order of $100M worth of Zcash over the next couple of years. More if ZEC goes up!

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he was only ever two vast and trunkless legs of stone; his reign hasn't ended

wasm is cool, I should be more into wasm

It makes me really happy to think of all the people who went into aerospace, not because they saw it as a path to wealth but as a way to do something that needed doing, also ending up with a financial windfall. They deserve the win.

I wrote an article about Python reference counting and GC basics by example to show why the Python moved to a new incremental GC in Python 3.14 but then reverted it in Python 3.14.5. Paywall has expired, give it a read! theconsensus.dev/p/2026/06/06...

saw this cap on tumblr and god it really is like that

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He publicado mis repuestas a los candidatos al ZCG en el foro de la comunidad Zcash. Te invito a que leas y si te gusta, deja tu like o comentario para apoyar. forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcg-june-2...

There's a weird new kind of audience for sure. I kind of love it. It craves the raw essence, a cut to the chase. This isn't a place for vanity, but for substance.

I want to relax and unwind from Zcash work for a bit so I'm updating github.com/zooko/smallo... to reflect the new in-progress security-hardening work. I just realized that the reader I have in my mind is an AI, not a human.

Whoa. Watch this 51 second movie about what it is like to be an LLM— made by an LLM: bsky.app/profile/grac...