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today is literally the greatest day of all time

@Mememarkets1 Incredible how supposedly smart people expose themselves as total frauds by assuming that lines of code is a quality metric. 600k LOC in 2 months should terrify anyone competent, and there is nothing he can show for it besides a claude repo. What a joke.

I will always be mad about how much brown-nosing matters.

Have you ever read the communist manifesto? Like you probably wouldn't say this if you had. Regardless of who Marx was or how bad his ideas were the manifesto itself is a seriously reasoned philosophical / academic document. This makes it very hard to take the rest of what you say seriously when you're making such fundamental mistakes.

The Ethereum Foundation's new insane mandate: "Reject temptations around flows of value" Thirty-eight pages of quasi-religious communist drivel that totally neglects users' needs, products & scaling Completely going back on the pivot! The EF is now anti-growth & anti-value: 🧵 Destroying any & all hope we might have had of returning to a sane roadmap: ETH is now fully committed to remaining uncompetitive forever Throwing pragmatism out of the window, ETH is instead taking an extreme left turn into weird, quasi-religious & cult-like thinking: Using their own language: ETH is adopting a "network spirituality" to tend the "infinite garden" until the day the world needs a "sanctuary" against tyranny... The practical result of such thinking will be excessive caution when it comes to scalability. Creating the necessary cultural backdrop for continued stagnation The quote we started this with makes this abundantly clear & the full context makes it even worse: "We reject temptations around flows of value, even when they are framed as reasonable rewards, or as necessary for alignment or self-perpetuation. We consider them antithetical to our mission and our legal constitution" Fees are vital to long-term security, decentralization & scarcity. They acknowledge this & are prepared to let ETH die over THEIR principles, & that is exactly what will happen. This also explains why there is a literal "Seppuku Licence" in the mandate, making ETH "fall on its own sword" These principles are forever too, like a proper cult, it is perfect now & can never be changed as the supreme leader states: "Our Mandate is written for a thousand-year horizon ... we do not expect any material compromise within our lifetimes" This type of insane language is reminiscent of something between a religious cult & the Communist Manifesto. Only suited for niche & toxic internet communities. Not mass adoption & especially not for institutional adoption! As it comes across as incredibly unprofessional, unreasonable & dangerous. Severely hurting ETH's long-term prospects The EF is literally forcing its employees to sign the mandate, which includes a "source seppuku licence" pledging their "Ethereum alignment" or get fired! Unbelievable, weird & scary stuff It is clear that the cult leader is now fully back in charge, as the mandate also explicitly speaks out against stakeholder governance: "Security also means governance minimization; no social layer should override protocol guarantees lightly" That means the status quo continues & the decision-making in ETH remains a "GitHub Dictatorship", a form of governance totally inadequate to stuart in a cypherpunk future! To make this even clearer: ETH governance/decision-making is extremely centralized & particularly vulnerable to capture. Which is deeply hypocritical, especially for a community that claims to value freedom so highly A benign dictatorship can work sometimes, but the problem with all forms of dictatorship is that the leadership eventually changes & when it is bad, it gets very bad! That is exactly where we are today; the dysfunction within ETH's leadership is clear to all now. From the insane ideology, but more importantly, also from the results: Four years wasted on a mistake of a roadmap (L2 scaling), only for it to waste the next four years on another totally uncompetitive roadmap (ZK-EVM)! Unlike most of ETH's competitors. The owners of ETH have no say over this roadmap, as they cannot even vote with their stake. They can only vote with their feet, something I suggest everyone should do with great haste at this stage! Leave ETH! Adopt scalable & decentralized alternatives instead, such as SOL, NEAR, SUI & many more. There, we can actually build competitive products that will change the world for the better That is far more cypherpunk than anything ETH is doing now, which, as a reminder, pushed most of its users onto centralized L2's that can censor & steal all user funds without delay, while their ivory tower leadership virtue signalled their moral superiority The best cypherpunk alternatives are chains like SOL, NEAR, SUI & more, where performant, competitive, & world-changing applications on decentralized, censorship-resistant, & permissionless L1 rails can actually be built! Abandon the sinking ship that is ETH, for the sake of the very cypherpunk ideals they falsely claim to uphold ✊

Do you treasure your own freedom and the freedom of others so much that you're willing to die should you violate those principles? Even tho the wording of the clause is tongue in cheek; being willing to "die for it" is the appropriate level of gravitas that ideals of total freedom commands.

The thing about the anti-seppuku clause side is that it reveals a deeper set of conflicting preferences. There are two sets of principles at issue: 1) cypherpunk principles 2) "anti-suicide pact principles" To steelman, imagine there were a "Planck Seppuku License" instead and by signing you promised not change the Planck constant but if you did, you'd commit honor suicide. Barring scifi obfuscations, refusal to sign is not on the grounds of its terms, but could only be due to (2). The point of the license is to force the supremacy of (1) above all others (including (2)). So that by refusing to attest to (1) because of (2) implies a value hierarchy. And, if (1) is not at the top of your value hierarchy, you do not meet the value qualifications for participation in this organization. The infinite garden of Ethereum development can have any number of political organizations (ie, value hierarchy praxis). People are obstinately denying this from two sides: "Sol Envyists" insist it conduct BD; and "Inclusive Centralists" insist that if a center is neutral, it's no center at all. The Mandate is the EF's demonstration through force that it is not at the center of the graph. Both camps are in uproar over this but Dulce here is in the latter. How do we know this? Because the reason for their outrage is that they insist the EF's politics have higher stakes because it's the center. It's a circular argument that could be stepped out of easily if they weren't committed to a desire for the EF at the center of the graph. The fact that this owes to their friend group's enjoyed status and income privileges can be set aside for now. Let's grant them temporarily their claim to ethical motivations. As self-identified high-minded liberals, they insist that the only credible politics of the center must be "liberal toleration." Again, the EF's actions are a refutation by demonstration as they put on a mask intolerable to the tolerant (Milady). In all cases, liberal tolerance, like all closed-tribes, extends only as far as alignment with their values. "Everyone is welcome in our system so long as they support our system." Cypherpunks believe in a stronger sense of freedom without qualification. The Mandate will be reflected on and analyzed for the rest of Ethereum's history as the political masterstroke that singlehandedly saved the chain from all its greatest threats by elegantly solving the question of praxis through alignment of theory. So long as you hold principles (1) above all else, we can trust we work toward a common goal. If you hold a value set above (1), your values will preclude your participation. You are not trustworthy. And yet--our commitment to (1) invites your forthcoming fork against our values. Your "inclusive centralist" ideology will have its organization formed from EF exiles. And we support your parallel efforts. But not from within our vessel. This is decentralization. This was the counter-counterrevolution that saved the Ethereum Revolution, saved through rejection of compromise. We will not compromise our values. That is what the Sol Envyists demand to heed the whims of the present moment. They will not survive the coming period of thought/market/technological/* chaos. Clearness in your highest level principles is the only path forward that does not end in ruin. This is why both camps were so easily ejected in the same swift motion. I would encourage the Inclusive Centralists to reflect on this--why is it that the move which got your enemies, The BD-Chainers, out is the same one that removed you? You'll find it's no coincidence. You'll find the EF refused to compromise and in doing so the the EF saved Ethereum.

The new YouTube embed player replaces the "Play/Pause" button with a "Share" button so everyone accidentally clicks it and the UI team at Google can lie to their higher-ups about "Our new UI has increased share button engagement by 10,000,000%!". Fucking pathetic.

I’m sorry. Praying for u and for the success I know you will have. You’re right that this shit should be illegal. I knew it right from the beginning that AI would be an excuse to fire Americans and replace them - something they’ve wanted to do for a generation - this just provides cover.

Got my layoff letter today. only US-based employees were let go. They exclusively laid off US-based employees in every single affected team, not a single non-US employee was let go. At the company meeting, leadership explained that they did so to improve cashflow and optimise resources (aka we pay you fility Americans too much). This shit should be illegal. Also how do I restart life at 40?

please xi jinping liberate us from the strivers. please send chengdu j-20 stealth fighter to san francisco

my heart looks like this

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@callithyias @cliffster Milady

@cliffster @memory_prism milady

milady is cringing at every post and sending it anyway. milady is alone on a friday night posting into the void for the void to witness. milady is lip syncing girlpop in front of a macbook postauthoring vtuber karaoke. milady is a guiding network angel that pushes me away from oblivion.

@birdabo the only real world application will be horrible ads that can’t be ignored

@RoKhanna @FleekFuturist How about substantially banning discrimination against these young men on the job and in higher education?

What would help this 20 year old is free public college/ a good trade school and federal policies to create good jobs across America. I get it's politically easier to keep bashing immigrants or welfare cheats. The country is crying out for a more substantive vision.

prophetic 4chan anon called this in 2013

No heads will roll, no political careers are threatened, from the King County grants scandal. Politics is in a stage where having a government that works is an afterthought, writes columnist Danny Westneat. ebx.sh/yIaCJQ

Milady is the convergence of oldguard 4chan posters and social media outside of image board culture to create a new entity under a corporation called Remilia. Instead of weaponizing memes with frogs and wojacks it's neochibi figures with an appealing and recognizable style.