Take heart: the endgame isn’t oligopolies exerting absolute control, but individuals reasserting asymmetric advantage over anything or anyone that would control them. bsky.app/profile/ens0...

The good guys in AI are the users who want to use it to improve people’s lives, not any corporation

i remember the part of my life when i didn’t know who marc andreessen was with a kind of wistful melancholy.

you may not like it, but this is what peak non-toxic masculinity looks like

A one-man show staring JD Vance in Islamabad: "Waiting for Ghalibaf"

Oh, that’s Why Not

No one is ever going to take the FIFA Peace Prize seriously again

how can you run your business with AI when your running shoes don't run on AI? AllBirds™️. Because Why The Fuck Not™️

Find out in my NYT Bestseller: “The Book Stops Here: Which Dollar Screeds Make the Most Cents”

The kids have re-invented Google Wave from first principles

the next time someone angrily calls you out for saying some erroneous shit, just reply "sorry, but I think the world is desperate for more storytelling right now". then the person will be mad with you for totally new reasons.

Hall of fame streak of Ls by JD Vance this month: - internally campaigns against pointless war in Iran; war happens anyway - gets sent to Hungary to campaign for a loser authoritarian, who loses the SUPERMAJORITY - gets sent to Pakistan to fix the mistakes of a war he didn’t want to start; fails

Unlike the Federal Reserve-backed fiat system, Bitcoin is not vulnerable to AI Psychosis

As we speak bizdev people for a dozen different crypto coins are scouring Linked In for an IRGC connection

“Did you hear they figured out who Satoshi is??” Oh wow, so they got it verified through encryption? He moved coins? “…no” Oh, then surely he was able to sign something cryptographically that proved he was Satoshi? “…no” It wasn’t just some bullshit language and time zone study, was it? “…”

It is not so much that Bitcoin is vulnerable to quantum computers, but rather it must carefully navigate the Strait of Shor’s Muse

Imagine bundling this with an AMD chipset and calling it the “He Has Ryzen” Bundle

> We demonstrate that Shor’s algorithm...can execute with either ≤ 1200 logical qubits and ≤ 90 million Toffoli gates or ≤ 1450 logical qubits and ≤ 70 million Toffoli gates research.google/blog/safegua... quantumai.google/static/site-...

it's crazy to me that video podcasts existed 21 years ago on iTunes via simple RSS publishing. glad it's back in Apple's walled garden but man. (I know because I published one of the first video podcasts that was available there)

* REUTERS: GLOBAL MARKETS ON PRECIPICE AS CHUCK NORRIS DIES

perhaps if we had all eaten less Avocado Toast we wouldn’t be in this mess

figured out how to break Claude

Excited for the inevitable video of Trevor Milton’s jet flying through the air that’s actually a 90–degree rotated frame of the last 15 seconds before it crashes into the ground

Bob is the best. Oil is getting all the attention right now, but the nat gas story may be the bigger one of our time for reasons going way beyond the events of the last few weeks.

God, they’re not even reading the documents they’re frantically updating. Check out this one that promises default E2E in Instagram, then (this week) suddenly pretends it was optional. about.fb.com/news/2022/08...

Ender Wiggin, welcome to Command School. This is your first simulation–

“Marco, we need you to sell 10 million crude deltas today”

I agree with this guy www.thetradenews.com/sec-and-cftc...

gork is this good

faking being 100% into AI to meet the corporate mandate by secretly outsourcing my job to humans

Happy Season 13 of Gaby’s Dollhouse Release Day to everyone else trapped in the same prison of children’s Netflix content as me

Call him Ted K the way he sent a debt bomb to Oracle through the DVD-by-post company

the american right's pivot from "we're the *real* liberals" to "no, we're indeed just authoritarians & that's good actually" is head-spinning. like are we even gonna acknowledge what happened there? maybe a little self-reflection? do you not realize we can see your old tweets???

New story from Protos: How $850 million seized from Crypto Capital Corp was apparently tied to the Israeli Mafia moving cocaine directly out of Colombia and into Europe, 100 kilograms at a time. Read the whole story here: protos.com/crypto-capit...

Nothing but respect for President Streisand here

Paramount just paid Netflix the equivalent of 112 million months of its highest tier subscription plan, and all Netflix had to do was neg the ever-loving-shit out of David Ellison.

The $1.25 Hotdog. It’s happening.

in a sign of the times, my almost 3yo is becoming less of a Threenager and more of a Threeduce

what if we created a crowdsourced circular AI economy by building a token backed by DRAM chips, which can only be used as payment for long-tail AI services no real economic reason to do this, it's more akin to financial poetry we could call the token "Random Access Money"

nikita, 25 engineers, 2 designers, and 1.5 managers? this is just bay area lord of the flies

well said @bitbanter.com — I would say my interest in crypto (& other P2P tech) as a bulwalk against various types of concentrated power, and more broadly as an environment to run messy but potentially useful opt-in (ideally) economic experiments hasn't changed *all* that much.

“I watched the top-tier brains of my gen get absolutely cooked by delulu, whole squad went from gem to straight slop.”

Donald Trump has been extremely net-negative for Bitcoin adoption, positive legislation, and growth of the asset/use cases for individuals, the industry, and global adoption A short, medium, and long term fail by the industry and big crypto money behind the admin 🧵

Gonna ask Claude Code to finally complete Ted Nelson’s Project Xanadu. (The system will then collapse in upon itself, wiping out all LLM developments of the past five years.)

I prefer to call it a rapid unscheduled wealth disassembly.

I fucking loved this. “Leverage, it classically only works in one direction and that direction is positive.”

my computer when I know I'm about to have the worst FTL run of my fucking life