Brian Grace

@BillHughesDC We need a federal law banning political gerrymandering. Until then, both sides are incentivized to do it. My hope is that these tactics raise enough bipartisan voter disgust that Congress is forced to act.

My four year old came to me this morning crying. "Dad, why are 1.5 million Virginians not in favor of 'restoring fairness'?" I was heartbroken. I didn't know what to say.

@GivnerAriel @NickyScanz @thelabmiami @SolanaEvents @superteam @SuperteamUSA resting lawyer face

@NickyScanz @thelabmiami @SolanaEvents @superteam @SuperteamUSA I wish for once in my life candid photos of me didn’t look like I hated my existence.

Sneak peak

@BirdnalsLAW It's not only stealing, it's theft!

Similar to em dash affectionados, I feel personally attacked now that the narrative device "not just X, but Y" has been co-opted by AI slop. This is human slop I am writing! The clankers stole this from me!

@lex_node Rule of thumb: if you preserve control via a multisig, then you should be prepared to use it. If you don't want that responsibility, give up the control & make your protocol immutable. Immutable protocols have a different set of risks but the market can decide which it prefers.

when a multisig gets hacked people get angry there was a multisig that controlled things, when it's used to reverse hacks people are happy there was a multisig that controlled things... ....today we see this same reaction illustrated within the very same incident (i.e., incident seemingly happened by exploiting a multisig with centralized controls over a system, but also some damages were mitigated by a different multisig with centralized controls over a system).... these two reactions are indeed dissonant . . . . . .imo, if we want arbitrarily censorable systems I think 'paypal with more accountability/transparency' is probably a better and more commercially interesting model to build toward than 'bitcoin with exceptions for North Korea,' but time (and most importantly the market) will tell...

@NeXXa_Creative @JacobRobinsonJD @mikekatz29 Tell that to every target of a criminal investigation.

@JacobRobinsonJD @mikekatz29 The underlying reality is that “AI” is about to flip the legal system and people who have nothing to hide will opt for “AI” assisted self representation. Most of the ordinary people stuck looking for lawyers have nothing to hide. The fear amongst lawyer is real.

My conversation with Mike Katz (@mikekatz29) on legal privilege and AI. Anyone who uses Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc. should understand what legal risk they're taking on. 0:00 Background 1:47 What is attorney-client privilege? 2:44 Policy reasons for narrowing privilege 3:30 Upjohn case (1981) 4:34 Privilege vs. work product 5:17 Three elements to establish privilege 7:23 Consumer AI terms of service 8:09 How you lose privilege 11:30 War stories 15:39 Vibe lawyering 19:09 Could Anthropic or OpenAI be liable? 22:48 Heppner case (2026) 26:26 Kovel doctrine (1961) 28:14 Incognito mode & deleted chats 30:59 Policy questions 34:00 This is not a new problem 37:05 Lawyers: coal or horses? Includes paid partnership with our sponsor, @DayOneLaw. Nothing in this podcast is legal or investment advice.

@jamesmdowns @TheFIREorg *The First Amendment jurisprudence* :)

@bgrace805 @TheFIREorg Apparently my sarcasm wasn’t clear enough. Malice for public figures is a made up doctrine by the Supreme Court. FIRE claimed the First Amendment makes the distinction in their post.

On April 20, FBI Director Kash Patel filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic for its reporting on the director’s alleged “excessive drinking and unexplained absences.” The Trump administration has a record of punishing critics, and its officials are no strangers to filing lawsuits meant to silence dissent by driving up the cost of speaking. Today's filing from FBI Director Kash Patel has all the markings of that playbook. The First Amendment sets a high bar on defamation cases against public figures. In order to win, Patel must prove not only that The Atlantic published false information, but that the reporter knew it was false or had serious doubts about it, and published it anyway. That high standard is important so that all of us — reporters and citizens alike — can hold our government accountable. But sometimes, the lawsuit is the punishment. SLAPP suits are weaponized by the wealthy and well-connected to punish speakers with costly litigation, even if the suit is ultimately thrown out. They’re abuses of America’s legal system, and FIRE fights against these violations of our First Amendment rights. We deserve to know the truth about how our government works. If news outlets knowingly publish false information, they will be held responsible by courts and by the readers they serve. But unless Patel can meet the First Amendment’s high standard, debate on important issues must remain — as the Supreme Court said — "uninhibited, robust, and wide-open.”

@nortonbreads @dlondonwortel and it is often nonsensical... "San Diego doesn't just check all the boxes, it rewrites them!"

@dlondonwortel Its so annoying, it is literally every where, it boils my blood when I see it. Its not just a trend, its a pattern. FUCK!!!

It’s not just new, it’s newspeak

It comes from Supreme Court rulings, which have balanced the protection of an individual's reputation with the 1st Am's guarantees of freedom of speech and the press. New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964) established the constitutional standards, requiring public officials to prove "actual malice" to overcome 1st Am protections.

@TheFIREorg Love you guys and your mission, but could you show us where in the First Amendment it requires a higher defamation standard for public figures?

Notes to self: "I am the coal!" But in all seriousness, it will be interesting to see some of these theories for LLM privilege preservation challenged in court. And the point re deleting chats, I will say, it is way easier to obtain documents from a defendant than from a third party platform. Successfully subpoenaing Google or OpenAI for deleted chat records as a private plaintiff will not be fun.

Agreed -- thus far the SEC's guidance has provided a blueprint for defense attorneys to copy the line of argument, with case citations included. To my knowledge, this is the first US district court opinion that came to the same conclusion as the SEC's position on memecoins. The Court's reasoning is solid. I do think it is the right outcome. It's up to investors to exercise discretion. In most cases, they know the game they're playing w/ memcoins.

@bgrace805 I think this is probably the most interesting part of the opinion, honestly. There’s some persuasive weight to what the SEC said, even if there’s more legal weight/analysis at work here—but I certainly wouldn’t cite it as my main argumentative point in a brief

One interesting part of the opinion: the Court explicitly says recent SEC guidance is not binding/persuasive but the Court reached the same conclusion as the SEC that a bonding curve memecoin w/o a concrete roadmap fails to satisfy the Howey test.

@therollupco Good luck cashing out your tokenized preIPO private chinese company payout.

Seraphim says tokenized chinese ipos could be the biggest unlock in crypto: “if you’re an american, you can’t get hold of these chinese ipos… it’s very hard." “all it takes is a team to bring it on chain and anyone in the world can buy it.”

@toly 3 but only because I speak English. Makes the exercise quite simple!

3, but so i can kick Plato’s seat the whole flight

@meta_hess @blockiosaurus @metaplex Facts.

@blockiosaurus @metaplex Agents built the pyramids

Why settle for ultra-processed, low-protein agents when you can have non-GMO, organic, sustainably raised (through a token) agents through @metaplex

You should also ensure users click to accept for any app/product. This makes it much easier to rely on your t&cs if you need to enforce them.

Me after going through the @metaplex agent kit and thinking about what the future of agents on Solana will look like 🤯

@LeoDaVinciWave He has too much hair

A Julius Caesar knife holder.

@TweAllthaMatter @Dark_PhoenixEE @TodayinHistory They designed the walls differently after the advent of large scale cannons. More angled walls to deflect head on hits. That's why you see more modern forts shaped like this:

@Dark_PhoenixEE @TodayinHistory how, still they can fire canons from the top to obliterate the enemies

Construction of Medieval Castles still blows my mind. For example, here’s Bamburgh Castle in England from the 11th century!

People ask what I’ll do if Metaplex doesn’t win I guess we’ll never know

.@Ledger blind signing is a scourge on the Solana ecosystem. How is this still the status quo?