Chase Coleman

This isn't an age verification bill. This is device level KYC. Every operating system would need proof of age which means gov ID + photo for every device connected to the internet. The lazy default implementation? Gov ID + selfie to Persona. The same KYC Discord and Anthropic just rolled out (yep, we're already moving to KYC for AI). This makes one giant honeypot for hackers and is a bow-wrapped gift to the corporate surveillance machine (and U.S gov surveillance who harvest data from them). There's no technical reason to build it this way. We already have zero-knowledge age verification that works at scale, @zkpassport lets you prove you're over 18 without revealing who you are. Data never leaves the device. The tech exists. But that's not the worst part. If every device is gated by gov ID, then revoking the ID revokes digital existence. Revoke passport = digital excommunication. Actually insane we have legislators considering this.

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/copil…

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At least the Cloudflare invoicing system is still up and running.

Kalshi guys using @Dune for their non-existent onchain stats:

AI economists and AI researchers: this is *excellent*. Details below, but as I feel like I've said in every talk on this topic since my slides said "GPT-2", 1) AI technical capabilities are better and improving quicker than you think, 2) impact on economy *much* slower. 1/13

If you're interested in getting started with Deep Learning, the previous editions of this book have been great -- I have no doubt that this one will also be exceptionally informative.

This is, imo, such a dangerous take that I will take the liberty to respond in a more detailed and nuanced take as I think it's fundamental to everything we are trying to build in this space

@mrcampbell @therollupco Shouldn't you be milking the cows?

Lmao. I didnt have @therollupco doing investigative journalism on my 2025 bingo card.

By the way, I don't know if people realize this, but the 2020 work-from-home switch coincided with a major productivity boom, and the late 2021 and 2022 back-to-office reversal coincided with a noticeable productivity drop. It's right there in the statistics. Narrative violation? Productivity growth is now back to pre-2020 levels.

Across is now live on Solana. Bridging to and from @solana, powered by intents.

Zed is honestly a great product. Very glad to see them get some funding. I appreciate that they were willing to start from scratch in order to build a high performance and user friendly text editor. It is a breath of fresh air among an exhausting number of VSCode clones.

This sort of post is why I started the newsletter. @krogoff is actually a solid economist on areas where he has personal knowledge, but he also may be the single worst situated person in the entire world to understand the value of Bitcoin. Why do I say this? He's in America. He's at Harvard. He's rich. He's part of a politically favored class. He lives in the country with the reserve currency, and has easy access to that and banks. Our country has rule of law and things work (mostly - at least compared to many others). Why would he need USD stablecoins or Bitcoin, on a day to day basis? The reality is he doesn't. The marginal value of these things to Ken Rogoff is, essentially, zero. But where he talks about the "grey market" or "sensible crypto regulation" is where things go off the rails. Which grey market does he mean? International wire transfers, where you can wait 5 days, turn out to have paid multiple percentage points after FX, and then have your wire rejected half the time (just ask @malekanoms)? Maybe he means the grey market where women in Afghanistan are supposed to put their money in the bank so the Taliban can confiscate it because they aren't supposed to have independent accounts and that is seen as a good thing to happen, as our Harvard economist appears to be implying? Maybe he meant leaving the citizens of Venezuela locked in with the government inflating away the value of their currency on a minute by minute basis and impoverishing the whole country, and that providing them a way out is, of course, facilitating a grey market and not good regulatory policy? This is the sort of incredibly privileged Western viewpoint on crypto that is just so very tiresome. There's nothing smart about this. There's nothing useful about this. It's a statement of "I got mine so we're locking the door behind us, fuck the poors" when presented in such arrogant fashion. And yet people can't understand why the anti-crypto army was so repulsive to voters, especially minorities (hint: who did banks used to abuse in comically racist fashion?) and immigrants.

new experiment just dropped see if you can beat unichain flashblocks (200ms) was really fun cooking this one up with the team :)

5/ Your .env hierarchy: - ✅ Public data: RPC URLs, contract addresses - ⚠️ Rotatable: API keys (but rotate after ANY suspicious activity) - ☠️ NEVER: Private keys, mnemonics, passwords If it's in .env and can drain a wallet, you've already lost.

6/ Rather, contest problems, like those in CodeForces, are often constructed as follows: a human thinks of a really neat trick (or perhaps two), then builds a question around it. Once a contestant catches on to the trick, a short solution often immediately follows. This is also somewhat the case for the ‘shallow’ tier. In contrast, real world problems, as well as the ‘deeper’ and ‘deepest’ tiers, often involve many steps of uncertainty, and offer no simple shortcuts. x.com/shai_s_shwartz…

I've been in crypto for over 10 years and I’ve Never been hacked. Perfect OpSec record. Yesterday, my wallet was drained by a malicious @cursor_ai extension for the first time. If it can happen to me, it can happen to you. Here’s a full breakdown. 🧵👇

"It takes a model to beat a model"

🧵 of EJ Antoni completely not understanding economic statistics, being partisan hack, or both

I'm noticing that due to (I think?) a lot of benchmarkmaxxing on long horizon tasks, LLMs are becoming a little too agentic by default, a little beyond my average use case. For example in coding, the models now tend to reason for a fairly long time, they have an inclination to start listing and grepping files all across the entire repo, they do repeated web searchers, they over-analyze and over-think little rare edge cases even in code that is knowingly incomplete and under active development, and often come back ~minutes later even for simple queries. This might make sense for long-running tasks but it's less of a good fit for more "in the loop" iterated development that I still do a lot of, or if I'm just looking for a quick spot check before running a script, just in case I got some indexing wrong or made some dumb error. So I find myself quite often stopping the LLMs with variations of "Stop, you're way overthinking this. Look at only this single file. Do not use any tools. Do not over-engineer", etc. Basically as the default starts to slowly creep into the "ultrathink" super agentic mode, I feel a need for the reverse, and more generally good ways to indicate or communicate intent / stakes, from "just have a quick look" all the way to "go off for 30 minutes, come back when absolutely certain".