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@seanonolennon Sean is farming you…you are being farmed.

There are things I can never say and no one would believe me anyway.

@anishmoonka @gladstein “One student's homework from 4,000 years ago, now at Yale, holds the most accurate computation found anywhere in the ancient world.” Accurate, but it still took them ages to get into Yale.

Went down the rabbit hole on this one. The answer is actually wild. 5,000 years ago, Sumerian merchants in modern-day Iraq needed a number that's easy to divide. They picked 60. It has 12 divisors (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60). Base-10 only has four. That's 3x as many ways to split something evenly, which matters when you're dividing grain and wages and can't handle repeating decimals. The counting method is the best part. They used their thumb as a pointer on the three bone segments of each finger. Four fingers, three segments, that's 12 per hand. Track multiples of 12, on the other hand, and you hit 60. No pen needed. Merchants in parts of Asia still count this way today. The system spread from Sumer to the Babylonians, then eastward to Persia, India, and China, and westward to Egypt and Rome. By 1800 BC, Babylonian students were using base-60 to calculate the square root of 2 to six decimal places on clay tablets. One student's homework from 4,000 years ago, now at Yale, holds the most accurate computation found anywhere in the ancient world. The Greeks adopted it for astronomy, which locked it into navigation, cartography, and eventually clocks in the 14th century. People have tried to kill it. During the French Revolution in 1793, France mandated decimal time: 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute. New clocks, new laws, the whole thing. Lasted 17 months. Workers hated getting one day off every ten days instead of one every seven. They tried again in 1897. Scrapped by 1900. The metric system replaced feet and pounds across most of the world. But 60 minutes in an hour? Untouchable. 60 is just too good at being divided. You can split an hour into halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, sixths, tenths, twelfths, or twentieths and land on a whole number every time. Try that with 100, and you get ugly decimals for thirds, sixths, and most common splits. 5,000 years of civilizations looked at that math and came to the same conclusion: 60 wins.

@cryptopunk7213 You are dead to Elon now.

GROK 4.20 I FORGOT GROK

wtf SO MANY new AI models in the last 14 days: - gemini pro 3.1 (new #1 model) - google Lyria 3 (new music model competing with Suno) - claude opus 4.6 - claude sonnet 4.6 - GPT 5.3 Codex - GPT 5.2 max high - Seedance 2.0 - GLM-5 (by chinese lab Zhipu) - QWEN 3.5 (multi-modal agent model by alibaba) - Kimi K2.5 with openclaw integration - MiniMax M2.5 and im pretty sure im missing a few lmao. model cycles are getting a LOT shorter. AI's being used to self-improve = accelerated development. what a weird (and fckin cool) time to be alive.

@C_Kavanagh If you think that’s bad, try the Rest is Politics. Alistair and Rory, barf city.

If you have ever listened to All In & are surprised by Epstein’s emails I don’t think you are paying attention. A lot of rich people imagine themselves masters of the universe, see themselves as intellectual geniuses, obsess over status/influence, & have very limited morals.

@PioneerJimmyCam @C_Kavanagh That song slaps! Absolute banger!

@C_Kavanagh But the intro song, Chris. Think about the intro song

@Guillaume34567 @DoctorLemma @grok No it’s not worth it. They’ve got no idea that they are losing thousands of dollars per camel. They simply don’t know. They haven’t done the maths.

@DoctorLemma @grok How much is a camel ? Is it worth it to ship them by air ?

Australia exports wild camels to the Middle East by air. In the 1800s thousands were imported to help explore the Outback. When engines arrived they were released into the wild. Today Australia has the largest feral camel population on earth. Because they are isolated they are free from diseases found in other herds. They are loaded into crates on freight planes and flown to Saudi Arabia for breeding and racing.

@TheStalwart Half as much though.

New Bitcoin get mined every ~10 minutes

@BitcoinVoter @MartyBent Heh heh, well, Marty wouldn’t really say anything else. Macdonalds thinks Venezuela needs some cheeseburgers.

.@MartyBent on how Bitcoin mining can revitalize Venezuela's energy industry

@TheStalwart @liz_franczak *rips bong*

Maybe as @liz_franczak observes, we're sort of reversing to an ancient way of seeing the world. A basketball game is increasingly a collection of discrete events, with no sense of the game itself.

May be kind of a stretch, but I've been reading Bruno Snell's "The Discovery of the Mind" who observes that prior to the great Greek philosophers, there was no evidence of people observing the whole self of an individual. Everything was just a collection of characteristics

@PeterMcCormack People are allowed to be boiled alive in the UK??

Lobsters have more rights than people in the UK.

@Frankfurt132 @toadmeister It was in the article.

@toadmeister You forgot "Kamala for the win!".

Brexit was a disaster, the climate is in crisis, populism is bad – The Rest is Politics's Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart agree on all the big centrist issues. And they're utterly wrong, says Prof James Alexander. dailysceptic.org/2025/12/13/the…

@inVinnieVeriNFT @toadmeister No one is denying that the climate is changing it’s just that complete panic and grifts might not be the best way to skin that cat.

Love the triple header of denial here. 🤨 NASA data confirms 2024 was the warmest year on record, about 1.28°C above the 1951-1980 baseline. IPCC says human-driven warming is unequivocal, reaching approximately 1.1°C since 1850-1900. But sure, the "centrists" are wrong and the climate isn't in crisis. 🔥📊

@Ivan_skybison @CredibleCrypto He doesn’t know, and nobody else does either. Huge teams of financial experts at whose job it is to analyze the markets 80 hrs a week don’t know. Nobody knows.

@CredibleCrypto Cred do you think we top end of the year or we go into next year? Did the recent mover postpone the blow off?? 💥 🐳 💥

14 years of bearish PA on $UUUU erased in 6 months. This is EXACTLY why a long consolidation period should not be taken as weakness. Years of consolidation/chop can be erased in a fraction of the time when the time comes. And for crypto, that time is after $BTC tops at the end of this cycle. Remember how much doubt and frustration there was around the Uranium trade a year ago? And all you needed the entire time, was patience. The SAME goes for crypto. I'm looking at you $HBAR, $CRV, $CVX, $XRP, $TRAC, holders (and many, many more!).

@catturd2 Sounds like my most recent hangover.

So sad.

@RJ_Macnaughton @pretentiouswhat I drive a taxi, I tell bullshit stories to idiots.

@pretentiouswhat These posts are so interesting it’s like I’m in the car with you! 😂

China Taxicab Chronicles: Mr. Liu Can't be Fired Pretty interesting ride last night...I don't often encounter drivers who are just so ambivalent and unbothered as Mr. Liu. He picks me up in Pudong. First we drop off my colleague at his hotel, then head to my home. 🧵

@Estadodederech1 @pretentiouswhat No doubt you met him when he was driving a taxi?

@pretentiouswhat Life is full of surprises, love his attitude to life. Years ago I worked with someone in a similar situation, the guy couldn't be fire because he was the only one that knew how keep running an old mainframe with some Fugitsu software, 2 or 3 times at week.

@pretentiouswhat Hehe yes? “I’m not a taxi driver, I’m actually an old school tech guru” if you believe that you are a credulous idiot. I had taxi driver in KL claim he was actually an entrepreneur just driving for his taxi driver friend who was sick. Then he ripped me off and short changed me.

@cryptomanran You’re telling me I can make microscopic amounts of gold at home with my Large Hadron Collider??

This is REALLY bad for GOLD. Scientists can literally recreate Gold in a lab and this makes Gold no longer scarce. For those that think I am being alarmist or dramatic, study the Diamond chart since the same thing happened and scientists created lab grown diamonds. Neither the human eye nor with a mag glass can tell the difference and the cost is about 1% of the original. Once people realize this, there will be a huge shift into Bitcoin.

@TrustlessState @A_Leutenegger @chainyoda @LidoFinance Don’t forget how you and Aslan or whatever the fuck his name is have shilled heaps of AI vapor complete garbage!

In 2021, we went all-in on the ETH narratives—Ultra Sound Money, credible neutrality, decentralization, rollups, etc. I'm glad we did - Bankless exists to push us toward a better future. But we did two things wrong: - We took it too far - We stuck with it too long We hammered those ideas because 2021 felt like the moment to teach those values to the broadest audience. But in doing so, we boxed ourselves in. Our resistance to other perspectives became our identity. In hindsight, I wish we had stayed more open and curious - it’s still hard to shake off the framing we helped create.

Everyone is midcurving why ETH’s price performance has sucked Ethereum leadership and culture have alienated users and builders by being hostile to its own app layer. We publicly exorcised @LidoFinance. We’ve shunned traders and degens. On a permissionless chain, we’ve tried to police what’s “approved” behavior. If we want ETH to go up, the EF and broader community need to start attracting users and builders, not pushing them away with a holier-than-thou culture. Users. Users. Users. Developers. Developers. Developers. Scale the L1. It’s that simple.

@Cfreehtx @ResisttheMS U can’t touch that.

@ResisttheMS How can you prove a rape from the 90's???

BREAKING: Russell Brand has been charged with a string of rapes and sexual assaults dating back to the 90s.