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Just enter it into your wallet of choice. If, for instance, you are using sparrow on tails, just use that seed, generate a receive address and do a test transaction to send a few sats to it. Confirm that you can recover. All the usual things. Go slow, take care.

2026-08-31 21:08:17 GMT

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I think this is a dark chapter for Bitcoin, but it is still our best hope and the fight is not over. Bitcoin will either be decentralized and secure peer-to-peer electronic cash or it will be captured as part of fiat and we will have to build something else.

2026-08-28 00:39:22 GMT

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https://blossom.primal.net/c38ea294f37c7a2e29dfbd194649876e9ca40b60bd367fe78a5e804f1f2231a2.jpg

2026-08-22 08:31:23 GMT

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Its not about the legalism, though. It's about the culture. We tend say "open source good" or whatever. I have realized over the years that its not so much about the form. Its about people and intent. Legalism can alwats be perverted. Integrity is always a human question . This is the good guys fighting back and I'm here for it. Watching Linux get captured over the last 15 years has been brutal. Taking it back would be a great victory and a model for reclaiming Bitcoin. Cede no ground.

2026-08-22 03:25:45 GMT

This is how you resist capture. Good job @nprofile…nj96
https://youtu.be/-GiugFOFI_w

2026-08-22 03:14:39 GMT

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Funny, I saw this and thought of you.

2026-08-14 03:35:57 GMT

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Not the way things are. But one day they will. I am sure many would thought the notion of everyone driving was ludicrous. Nothing ever changes until it does

2026-08-13 21:53:04 GMT

Your hands. Your eyes. 5 dice and a numbered list of words.
It IS NOT hard.
And it is the best education in self-custody you will ever get. It will click for you: "this is my secret and it is all mine, to keep or lose."
Then the whole game of cryptography is made clear to you.
The rest is just details of how you handle that secret.
Keeping the secret while you use it still requires paying careful attention. But now you know the name of the game.
If you protect that secret, everything that it protects is yours and yours alone.
That is self-custody.

2026-08-12 22:46:23 GMT

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Quantum threat is an unfalsifiable trust-the-experts group-think boogieman. When someone brings it up, I ask myself how they are using it to advance their agenda. Are they an ambitious dev looking for a way to be important? A company digging a regulatory moat? An agency expanding their power with security initiatives? Media looking for clicks? Or just someone trying to suck up to or fit in?

2026-08-12 17:29:51 GMT

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I don't know yet

2026-08-12 07:28:11 GMT

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😂

2026-08-12 03:20:13 GMT

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I showed this to my 8 yrld a d he loved it. Thanks

2026-08-12 00:06:23 GMT

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I'm sorry but this solves a non-probem. A pack of dice from the toy store, an old shoe box and a printed table to look up words is fine.

2026-08-11 22:30:29 GMT

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I don't think this matters much. Open source code quality is not necessarily better. It's about the culture, practices and resources of whomever is responsible. Verifiable source transparency is primarily a security benefit because of public accountability and an open license ensures the code you depend on can't be taken away. Open source, as practiced, as a big hippy drum circle, is a mess. Everybody is building on a thousand dependencies that they assume someone else has read. Piles of third party trust and not enough accountability. Deep layers of supply chain with unknown build and distribution security.
This model is ending the way that the insecure free-for-all of the early internet era had to end. AI is making it easier to build more responsibly without commits from an unaccountable mob and easier to get powned if you don't. It not that AI really changes the equation, but it scales some key variables.

2026-08-11 21:23:06 GMT

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The more I think about it, the more bullish I am on this split. If we can't beat the capture of the main chain, the Knotts chain is an insurance policy. It puts competitive pressure on the main chain to clean up. Either way. Let the true Bitcoin win.
@nprofile…c93l and co, thank you again for your principled work
#nevent1q…kzqc

2026-08-11 18:01:17 GMT

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*people deserve

2026-08-11 16:07:47 GMT

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Can you imagine Satoshi pitching Bitcoin to VCs?
Can you imagine the scoffing and mockery of midwit influencers?
I think the trick is to find something you believe in so much that you'd rather die than not try.
Favorite @nprofile…3as9 note so far.
#nevent1q…tfea

2026-08-11 06:16:11 GMT

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So true. My belief is that civilization is built by fathers trying to prepare their sons for the world and where it is going. There is no greater skin in the game.
I may get flack for gendering that, but men face the world in a unique way, in general. And the record bears it out.
When men are doing this civilizations rise. When they are not, civilizations fall.

2026-08-11 05:12:51 GMT

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I'm not sure how it work out. It think it's complicated. It would theoretically make the market more fluid and open it up. It would put it into more direct competition with AI for GPUs. What's going to happen with gpus is a guess. Will GPU demand tank after the overbuild we are likely in? Will older GPUs flood the market after newer models push them out? Not to get all Austrian but capital has structure. I only thought of this today, so I don't have much of a cooked mental model yet

2026-08-11 03:29:02 GMT

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This exists since forever. Gentu. Guix.

2026-08-11 03:14:14 GMT

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You can't. Not yet

2026-08-10 23:57:59 GMT

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Sorry, wrong note.
#nevent1q…kzqc

2026-08-10 23:53:00 GMT

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Should have cced @nprofile…h34j on this too. @nprofile…gpax and @nprofile…n29e as well.

2026-08-10 23:28:53 GMT

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Thanks. Good to see. Though I think this only verifies that the mechanism of the bug was not the big lesson. "Make no mistakes."
#nevent1q…3fnv

2026-08-10 23:13:15 GMT

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Absolutely.
#nevent1q…kzqc

2026-08-10 23:09:44 GMT

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Jeff is right.
#nevent1q…kzqc

2026-08-10 23:01:09 GMT

Bitcoin is Young
Don't panic and don't crash out.
For those who were aligned with BIP110, let's take a breath.
Bitcoin is too important to give up because we lost one battle. This was not the first L we've taken and it will not be the last. Bitcoin is a once-in-a-millennium opportunity to free civilization from the parasite of usury. How easy did you think that was going to be? If you get demoralized and leave, you are ceding the network.
When I was much younger, I got demoralized about the chances of the cypherpunk mission ever succeeding. Everything was going the wrong way and smug, derisive people seemed determined to enslave themselves. So I shook my head and turned my back.
It took me a long, long time to get back on the field. I was cynical and very slow to take Bitcoin seriously. I regret my lack of faith, deeply. I shirked my mission. I'm ashamed of it. If you give up on Bitcoin now, I think you might regret it too. The fight isn't over and you are needed. If you are one of the few who understand what this fight was actually about, you are greatly needed.
Bitcoin is young. Very young. The fight has just begun.
I supported 110 for two reasons. The immediate issue was stopping network abuse by shitcoiners and spammers. But the deeper and more critical point was, and is, about capture. Capture is the greater threat. The greatest threat.
I felt and feel that repudiating the facilitation of spam by captured and misguided Core devs is critical. Anything accomplished by capture needs to be reversed, resoundingly, as a deterrent to further capture. Capture is a motte-and-bailey game. The counter-move is to crush the motte. When they take an inch, we should take back a mile. Every time.
Both are fights that will never end and we won't win every battle. Vigilance and perseverance are prices of freedom.
It's legitimate to say "if Bitcoin fails we will build another money and try again." Absolutely. But we are nowhere near that, IMHO. Demoralization is poison. Don't take the poison. This network is still ours to lose. Or they wouldn't be attacking it like this.
The usury system still rules the world and is very, very good at subversion, corruption and demoralization. That is the very essence of its power. Betrayal will lurk around every corner. Resistance is going to be insanely hard. It's going to take patience and the willingness to level up. It's a mental and spiritual war. Hold the line.
And this was not a total loss. We got a lot of new information. Many masks have come off. And the machinery of capture has revealed itself, which is even more important.
What did we learn?
Who gets it and who doesn't
Who many of the actual bad actors are
That some of our thought leadership is less than stellar
How vanishingly few Bitcoiners really understand what Bitcoin is
That miner centralization and dev capture have neutered the UASF
That culture, tribal politics, and dev funding are attack surfaces we need to defend vociferously
Maybe we already knew a lot of these things on some level, but I think more of us have a better sense of the sophistication and scale of what we are facing now. I certainly see the picture more clearly. And I'm not going anywhere.
I know it's hard to watch these people who didn't get it gloat and troll. It's discouraging to have the very people you are trying to help mock you for your effort and celebrate their own usurpation. But that's always going to be the way. They know not what they do.
To the brave ones who poured their hearts into this, thank you. @nprofile…n9fy @nprofile…c93l @nprofile…566r and many others. We all owe you a lot and anybody who doesn't see that you were trying to defend the network and everything that makes it important is missing the plot. If you decide to build another network, I get it and you have my support too.
But I'm not ceding Bitcoin. This is far from over.
To the well-meaning who took a different position, I still think you got this wrong, but we are still brothers. I will keep an open mind and I hope you will too. Bitcoin is young. We've never had anything like it before. And we are all still learning.
The bad actors and shitcoiners who would sell humanity's chance at freedom for personal gain will only wreck themselves in the end. Pray for them. They're still trapped in fiat, playing a negative-sum game that nobody wins. Bitcoin is a truth machine and we're not going to let it fail.

2026-08-10 03:28:51 GMT

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It's such a tragic endy to how it began. Buy also probably good. Real protocols grow beyond the first implementation. Bitcoin is so young.

2026-08-10 03:26:43 GMT

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He always is

2026-08-09 23:26:28 GMT

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https://lunduke.substack.com/p/four-months-after-the-nixos-nazi

2026-08-09 03:03:48 GMT

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Are you building a nix for noncommunists?

2026-08-09 02:12:03 GMT

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Core was already dead

2026-08-09 01:32:14 GMT

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GN, you digital poet.

2026-08-09 00:58:56 GMT

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I don't think Bittorrent faced anything like what Bitcoin has. It was never an existential threat to the debt-based system. I'm not throwing in the towel on Bitcoin yet, but the level of capture is grim.
Core. The miners. Post Quantum upgrade is probably next. The consortium and the redteam are big upgrades to the capture machinery ... It's grim.
As you say, the mission isn't Bitcoin. The mission is freedom money. If Bitcoin is captured beyond repair, we will have to learn from it and build a version that can stay decentralized and secure. The fact that we made it this far means we were very very close.

2026-08-08 23:45:06 GMT

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What if periodic PoW changes were part of the protocol? Chosen in some way that would not be predictable far in advance? Thinking out loud

2026-08-08 21:57:03 GMT

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Go play with your monero

2026-08-08 21:45:34 GMT

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Coldcard had a perfectly good RNG. That's why this is irrelevant and you making it about RNGs is irrelevant. Its easy to capture your own entropy with dice. I am not telling experts not to use RNGs. I've been writing code that does so since the 90s. But normal people who want a secret without trusting a hardware and software stack and supply chain that they cannot reasonably verify should just use dice. You are a concerned with making it complicated so you can strut around that you are telling people to continue to do the very thing that just burned so many good Bitcoiners. You are doing the bery thing that led them all to the slaughter.

2026-08-08 20:04:09 GMT

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You might find this article I wrote helpful.
#nevent1q…3fnv

2026-08-08 18:15:57 GMT

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Let this be the end of the hardware wallet era.
#nevent1q…l3tp

2026-08-08 18:15:09 GMT

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A little dated, buy better than trusting a gadget to give you a seed

2026-08-08 17:50:17 GMT

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Mostly that it's irrelevant posturing. People get hurt by this kind of larping and you should stop it.

2026-08-08 17:42:01 GMT

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Your grug brain is a good cryptographer. Even if you know a ton about computers, keeping devices out of the middle between you and your entropy is less to trust. Simple is better.

2026-08-08 16:32:54 GMT

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It is not similar and you have it backwards. You do not kmow what you are talking about and you should stop spreading misinformation about security. We've had enough of that.

2026-08-08 16:12:16 GMT

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If you self-custody Bitcoin, watch this video and read this essay.
#nevent1q…3fnv
#nevent1q…jht8

2026-08-08 16:06:10 GMT

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Responsibility needs to be taken
#nevent1q…3fnv

2026-08-08 15:46:07 GMT

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Your logic is as flawless as your grammar.

2026-08-08 08:45:53 GMT

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You might find this interesting
#nevent1q…3fnv

2026-08-08 07:06:08 GMT

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I think we can make it hard and less people will do it. Go grab the dice out of your kids boardgames or whatever. Throw them in a shoe box and shake it. Look up words on a paper list. Done.
We can turn a bunch of theater into making this hard and people will get scared and reach for the easy button and get rugged again. Entropy is everywhere. Just grab some. There important part is that it is yours. Self. Custody. So don't trust a device to be involved.

2026-08-08 06:58:11 GMT

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That's a separate issue. One is not alternative to the other. Everything flows from the seed. It is the root. If you get poisoned there everything down stream is compromised. Yes, other things need to be secured along the way too, but so what. The entropy of the seed is the basis of the security of everything else

2026-08-08 06:47:13 GMT

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Thats why the idea of dice rolls being entered into a hardware wallet is a bad idea. I said this in my essay:
" But instead they turn dice rolling into something you do through the device. This inserts the device into the dice rolling process, defeating the very purpose of it, and making it feel like the dark arts. Theater. It's funny how the easy button finds a way to make the easy part hard, scary, and kind of pointless at the same time."

2026-08-08 05:43:23 GMT

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Security theater is killing us.
#nevent1q…3fnv

2026-08-08 05:12:26 GMT

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The problem is the tools are shaping how we do things, not just making something more convenient.

2026-08-08 04:53:30 GMT

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You don't need to do anything fancy. Just shake normal dice in a normal box or roll them on a table. Even if they a slightly biased dice, no one would be able to get any advantage guessing your secret unless they study your particular dice. And even then, not enough to matter unless they were very lopsided dice. Even the whole casino dice thing is superstitious.

2026-08-08 04:47:50 GMT

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Reproducible builds are good, but they are a supply chain mitigation. They don't eliminate trust. Dice eliminate third party trust from entropy.

2026-08-08 04:42:22 GMT

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"Your phone or laptop is doing dice rolls better than you ever could. "
This is false and superstitious. Entropy is measured in bits. 256 bits = 256 bits. The only question is trust. The bits you get from dice are best because you know how they were made.

2026-08-08 02:14:38 GMT

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Thanks @YODL. Strange indeed.

2026-08-07 20:38:25 GMT

NVK Was Wrong: Fear, Theater, and Self-Custody
The case for general-purpose cryptography
https://zsubmesh.net/essays/nvk-was-wrong.html
If you are a user or a builder of self-custody tools, I have written and essay that I would like you to read.

2026-07-13 22:06:03 GMT

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I agree, it's a steep hill. But if we fail, it will be on execution (my fault) and the next team will have to crack it.
At the end of the day, either the cypherpunk thesis was wrong, or we still need a general-purpose personal cryptosystem that regular people can actually use.
Steep hill or not, it's not optional and it's one I'm willing to die on.
That said, I assume I am wrong about plenty of details, so please let me know if you see any problems or better options. I'd genuinely love to hear them.
Thanks for digging in and feel free to reach out anytime.

2026-07-05 00:18:01 GMT

🎇 New release from Zsub: secure transport layers.
This repo contains the transport stack we will use for Zsub integration:
- Keel: secure link protocol: fixed cell, mutual auth and double ratchet.
- Submerge: reliable transport protocol: chunking, reassembly, and repair.
- Surface: the overlay traffic envelope for L2 and L3 traffic.
- Mooring: cross platform virtual interface manager.
Code, docs, and protocol drafts are up. Comments welcome.
This gets us very close to the final integration step and the first release we
will properly call Zsub.
https://codeberg.org/Zsub/Keel
Happy 250 and GN!

2026-06-09 05:30:39 GMT

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57 channels and nothing on.

2026-06-09 05:07:00 GMT

Security for enemies.

2026-06-06 02:57:25 GMT

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Nice! I love this.

2026-06-05 22:57:13 GMT

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Corpus Christi procession ready?

2026-06-04 04:26:54 GMT

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Yes, and by that logic, accelerating self-custody adoption is our short squeeze.
What if we could give everyone a seed, before they even knew they wanted Bitcoin... Imagine how Bitcoin adoption might take off if everybody aleady had a seed and a wallet anyway?
If you read this essay, especially with that question in mind, I think you just might find it very interestting:
https://zsubmesh.net/essays/johnny-can.html
I'd love to know what you think.

2026-06-03 21:12:51 GMT

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Thanks! We're getting very excited. Building from the ground up like this has taken a lot of self-discipline, but it's paying off.
We won't tell anybody to put in production until there's a formal audit completed. Here's the roadmap:
- networking and hardening for the next 3 months
- audits, more hardening and build apps for 3 months after that
- then we will run pilots
It may be as much as a year before we get to customer-ready polish. It's killing me but I think it's important to take the time to do it right.

2026-06-03 01:29:25 GMT

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Don't let her talk to you like that.

2026-06-02 18:44:05 GMT

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Hey @nprofile…rsk5 , what do you think of this?
#nevent1q…t9j4

2026-06-02 04:44:18 GMT

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Hey, @nprofile…qt5c . what do you think of this?
#nevent1q…t9j4

2026-05-30 22:41:55 GMT

Why can't Jonny encrypt? Here's .my answer. Tell me if you think I'm wrong.
https://zsubmesh.net/essays/johnny-can.html

2026-05-04 22:00:08 GMT

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https://blossom.primal.net/3f14099b9f1501b64dc74ba70828f533dd8ab674e57d604137a6dfc716f09182.gif

2026-05-04 02:42:15 GMT

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Nothing ever Open Sources
#nevent1q…nk6s

2026-05-01 03:55:55 GMT

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I wish!

2026-04-18 04:44:48 GMT

Opus 4.7 is in the "Danger Zone" of the Hot Crazy Matrix of LLM scaling.

2026-04-15 21:58:37 GMT

Noise is the mind killer.

2026-04-13 23:29:04 GMT

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Yeah, of course we should be intellectually honest. You know where I stand. But I'm not shocked that most people hedge.

2026-04-13 03:58:36 GMT

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"you can't double spend your logic" ❤️

2026-04-13 01:46:41 GMT

No CRQC ever. Ceiling is 1,609 qbits. Paper is wildly diplomatic, but conclusion is it would require computing below threshold of Planck. Good luck with that.
Note this is almost exactly the threshold I got to working backward from lindblad and have been posting for many months.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.06322
@nprofile…0xkv @nprofile…tkhj

2026-04-12 23:29:39 GMT

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Love it

2026-04-11 19:04:45 GMT

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This is a good metaphor. To me it feels like directing a team of engineers, but I've never flown a Blackhawk, sadly.
#nevent1q…zl22

2026-04-11 18:41:23 GMT

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Pretty Good Pills! 😂

2026-04-11 18:39:43 GMT

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I disagree. If they were given time to grok the situation, they would be disgusted and furious with how we are misusing it. I doubt they would say "yeah, famines and plagues and tons of death in childbirth and infant mortality are great." They would say "how are you idiots squandering this opportunity to flourish?"
They were victims of hard circumstances. We are victims of our own corruption and stupidity. Blaming it on technology is weak.

2026-04-11 03:20:30 GMT

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😂

2026-04-10 19:12:18 GMT

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We will get there, but it's still going to be a while. Maybe a couple year after the bubble pops. Then the real value unlock comes. Same as every other tech revolution ever. Trough of disillusionment first. By the time people realize that the value did eventually come they will be noticing it in retrospect.

2026-04-10 00:15:49 GMT

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They should've just named it Psyop

2026-04-09 22:10:10 GMT

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This is the worst attack on Bitcoin yet. This is a proposal to destroy Bitcoin by its own developers. I am sure it is not intended as such. But that is what it is. Quantum FUD must be resisted.

2026-04-09 22:04:58 GMT

Mythos. Really? Could the name be any more on the nose? This is the most cringe AI marketing stunt yet. 🫧🪡

2026-04-06 00:10:30 GMT

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You misspelled 58k

2026-04-02 08:48:46 GMT

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God offers forgiveness. Despite the fact that we don't deserve it. Whether we want to accept it is another story.
Holding on to grievances is a prison. Forgiveness is freedom.
It's not easy. People do horrible things. And thley will keep on doing horrible things.. Forgiveness takes work, but the choice is yours.
God has made it clear what you are supposed to do.
Forgive us our debts as we forgive the debts of others to us.

2026-03-29 04:06:24 GMT

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😂

2026-03-25 12:20:58 GMT

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It's not usually either or, but what's the point in cooperating to fail?

2026-03-22 21:13:20 GMT

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Will Hasan Piker be the spokesman?

2026-03-22 06:03:16 GMT

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The metaverse died like this:
https://blossom.primal.net/c15a780eefed1d27ada9cffd709fad9759b6bfa59a2ca405a1a99342952922e7.gif

2026-03-20 09:37:57 GMT

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And then there was a gust of wind and she killed herself.

2026-03-20 00:59:36 GMT

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My experience has been the opposite and anthropic's models score best on bullshit bench, which is a pretty good proxy for sycophancy. Maybe it shifts if you talk to it in a personal way, which I don't do.
https://petergpt.github.io/bullshit-benchmark/viewer/index.v2.html

2026-03-19 02:28:09 GMT

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Nicely done.

2026-03-18 05:53:46 GMT

The word "entropy" in information theory is a semantic disaster that causes me endless autistic pain.

2026-03-18 05:27:21 GMT

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If St. Patrick were here today, he would be burning the snakes of Epstein Island.

2026-03-18 05:11:27 GMT

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I think there is a power struggle between elite power centers that is more important to them than us ants.
Cyber boogaloo may happen. But, whatever happens it is less about us and more about that.
Don't fall for the demoralizing psyop that we are masterfully ruled by some coherent plot. The ultimate secret of the machine is that no one is really driving.
Our "rulers" are bungling opportunists always fighting amongst themselves. And perhaps that is even more dangerous, but it's still important to know the difference.
They will do random stupid shit and then act like it's all some grand plan. But they are just geasping morally defective retards.
They probably know less about what they are going to do than we do.
Prepare for chaos.