Alex Viñas

Spain probably has the worst government in the Western world.

Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com

La nueva portada de "Why nations fail"

our domaim appears to have been compromised and the eth.limo domain has been hijacked. We're actively working with all parties involved to assess the situation and remediate the problem.

Post-mortem: April 14 domain hijack What happened, what we’ve confirmed, and what’s next. Transparency matters — here’s the full breakdown ↓ x.com/CoWSwap/status…

This retard finally exposed ..

Sometime after 13:00 UTC yesterday, an attacker gained enough control over cow.fi to create a new SSL certificate and serve malicious content to CoW Swap's primary domain. They were able to do this by convincing our DNS registrar that they were a CoW Swap team member, using false documents. It is important to note that this was not an attack on CoW infrastructure, and that it was not a result of any private information leak. It was a social engineering attack on our domain registrar.

UPDATE: The swap dot cow dot fi domain is currently locked and not accessible. We are working with security experts to assert control over the domain while it is locked, but we *do not* expect it to be live again tonight. For those who rely on CoW Swap daily, we have spun up a new instance of the CoW Swap UI at swap.cow.finance, which is safe to use. Please continue to exercise extreme caution when interacting with any websites (including the new URL above) or social media accounts purporting to be CoW Swap. Only rely on official communications from this channel or on Discord surrounding the status of CoW Swap.

.@CoWSwap has experienced a DNS hijacking. Our phishing detection service has blocked the CoWSwap dapp in the meantime, so if you have MetaMask installed you will notice a roadblock if you attempt to visit their site.

To clarify: the correct approval address for Cowswap is: 0xc92e8bdf79f0507f65a392b0ab4667716bfe0110 on all networks. On Mainnet the contract is almost 5 years old. Those approvals are totally fine. You are only potenitally effected if you set a new approval in the last hours.

Users should revoke all approvals made on CoW Swap after 14:54 UTC today. Tools like revoke.cash make this easy to do.

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El himno de España en el RCDE Stadium. La Selección Española vuelve a jugar en Cataluña con un lleno absoluto. Qué momento.

El terme “expat” és fantàstic perquè permet que un evangelista de la moral (aka bona persona d’esquerres) faci un comentari com aquest, després de dir-te a tu mil cops que criticar la immigració era racista.

Ver para creer, los mismos que hace 6-7 años se reían del dinero mágico de internet