
Arthur B.
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Arthur B.
@ArthurB
@Tezos co-founder w/ wife @breitwoman & Agitprop founder. Aligning ASI to not zap everyone is unsolved, that's bad. Tezos stuff, high context humor & more.







Stockholm is remarkably walkable. At one point we were walking somewhere and we needed to check a map. It was such a relief not to have to think about the phone being stolen. In London we always duck into a doorway before checking a phone on the street.

.@friedberg says "California is functionally bankrupt": "People don't realize how screwed California is. I worry that if California falls, so does the union." "We're $250 billion to $1 trillion short." "If it was the federal government, they would just print more money. California doesn't have the ability to print money, so California has to pay this out, and you can't restructure retirement benefits." "There's a Supreme Court case in California that said once an employee has been offered retirement benefits, even if they're currently an employee, you can never restructure their retirement benefits. It has to stay forever." "And the state cannot declare bankruptcy. There's no way for the state to functionally declare bankruptcy. There's no law to allow it." "No state has ever declared bankruptcy, and the the retirement benefits sit senior to the bonds in California. So you have to pay out the retirement benefits before you pay out all the bond holders that have loaned California the money that they use to run all their programs and services." " This isn't about taxes and Billionaire Tax Act. I don't think you can tax your way out of this problem. People will just leave the state." "California's functional bankruptcy is a major risk to the country and we need to figure out what we can change to fix it." At the @HillValleyForum 2026




Tesco argues equal pay claim disregards ‘economic reality’ ft.trib.al/k5n8n5E



, @ezraklein in defense of Jevon's Paradox nytimes.com/2026/05/03/opi…




I regret to inform you that Ask Jeeves is dead. The site closed yesterday. Web 1.0 lost another founder. Ask Jeeves: 3 June 1996 - 1 May 2026. Send no memes.


Britain enters the era of seven-party politics ft.trib.al/2ExxKPK

The Hadzabe language, spoken in East Africa, is one of the most difficult languages to transcribe into writing.


A large percentage of young people are functionally illiterate because schools abandoned phonics in favor of sight reading




In 2025, facing dozens of claims and projected costs exceeding NZ$10bn, the govt passed emergency legislation tightening the equal pay regime. They raised the threshold for bringing claims, narrowed acceptable comparators, and most importantly, discontinued unresolved claims.



The Mail doesn't think seem to think workers, of all ages, are worth £15 an hour. That's fair pay for a fair day's work, with money workers will put back into the economy. We are the party for workers. Vote Green on 7th May.




