
Jeff Garzik
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Jeff Garzik
@jgarzik
Prev: early #Linux kernel, #Bitcoin Core. Now: energy/acc humanist, network plumber @hemi_xyz
Atlanta, GA, USA Katılım Aralık 2009
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Energy abundance is the root of the policy tree, the big unlocker.
With energy abundance, you have factories, jobs, national security, energy security, food security, water security (desalination), GDP and so much more.
With energy scarcity, you have foreign wars over scarce resources, famine, poverty, all the ghost factories never built and the ghost jobs never generated.
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I don't know where this sudden push for ID checks online came from but it is clearly coordinated and influenced.
There are two many people in too many places that suddenly got this awful idea at the same time.
In America it is completely against the 4th amendment and your ability to access information which can only be limited in very narrow cases like access to adult content.
Every time they want to steal more of your rights it's "save the children" or "stop the terrorists."
This must be stopped or you'll be KYCed for browsing the web.
reason@reason
How a bill banning AI companions for kids could usher in widespread ID checks online reason.com/2026/05/04/how…
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LIGHTSABERS ARE REAL. RIGHT NOW.
Hacksmith just built the world’s FIRST retractable plasma lightsaber:
• 4,000°F blade
• Slices through steel like it’s butter
• Retracts exactly like the movies
May the 4th be with you… FOR REAL.
👇
@thehacksmith #MayThe4th
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These people have been trying to do this since the vaccine mandates, which were designed to institute a parallel legal regime of digital access control whereby access to society replaced jail as a sanction.
They’ll keep at it; they’ll have to keep being stopped.
David Wolfe@DavidWolfe
Bill Gates recently said that if you don’t have the Digital ID by 2028, you’ll be isolated from society.
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The April 8 ceasefire has collapsed. Iranian missiles and drones struck Fujairah, Ruwais, and a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran is targeting the UAE's economic lifelines, not its military:
1) The blockade meant that Iran had to act to break the logjam. The US decision to break through in Tiran using the navy was the final straw. Iran is fighting an economic war. Every target: refineries, shipping lanes, oil hubs: chosen to make the conflict too expensive for the world to ignore, forcing pressure on Washington to deal.
2) The UAE is absorbing 63% of all regional strikes. Its Abraham Accords ties to Israel, its hosting of U.S. forces at Al Dhafra, and its economic vulnerability make it Iran's ideal pressure point. Its global visibility through Dubai clinch the deal. Indeed, he tUAE is structurally realigning: exiting OPEC, severing ties with Tehran, deepening its military bond with Washington and Tel Aviv. Hedging is over. That is why the UAE was chosen. It is now a pure enemy nation to Iran.
3) Iran has no real reason to be restrained. Their leaders are being killed. Their economy targeted for collapse.
4) Escalation will cut both ways. The UAE is moving toward retaliation, Israel is sharing intelligence and preparing for wider war, and the U.S. just launched "Project Freedom" to reopen the Strait by force. Iran has 3,000 drones and 600 missiles deployed.
There is no off-ramp right now. Every actor's rational next move is escalation, and every actor views de-escalation as capitulation. The Strait of Hormuz staying closed doesn't just reshape the Gulf. It disrupts energy markets, supply chains, and insurance markets worldwide. This all but guarantees global economic crisis.
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@TheMuppetPastor @JTLonsdale Trivia: I learned about the Armenian genocide from an early spammer "Serdar Argic", who spammed tons of UseNet newsgroups with Turkish genocide denial content.
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I’ve often believed that the Armenian Genocide is under studied and underreported in the west because:
1. The Young Turk CUP (Committee of Union and Progress) was blatantly progressive politically, which makes progressives today look bad.
2. It murdered orthodox Christians, few of whom live in the west.
3. It shows a Muslim genocide of Christians, which goes against those trying to portray a Muslim/Christian alliance.
4. It shows the bizarre alliance between leftism and Islam for evil gains
5. It shows a very educated and advanced Islamic society falling to barbarism, which counters the narrative that education makes us moral people (the same issue can be found in the advanced and educated German society in WWII)
6. It undercuts the intense persecution of orthodox Christians for millennia, and harms the myth that Islam can coexist with Christianity.
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Your first sentence sabotages your second. 🤦♂️
Baseline:
- Salaries for all, not just Dems, were frozen since 1988
- Salaries of US pols are so low that corruption is practically required for survival.
Increasing salaries was clearly needed and was clearly a non-partisan need.
Gerrymandering is far more awful and your criticism is entirely valid and on-point. x.com/AhmedIbb_/stat…
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The first thing she signed literally tripled the salary of statehouse Democrats!
The second thing divided Virginia so that Democrats could get 91% of the House seats with 51% of the vote!


Governor Abigail Spanberger@GovernorVA
There is so much more that unites us as Virginians and as Americans than divides us.
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"Crypto bears got it wrong again, losing $300 million in liquidations" via @coindesk coindesk.com/markets/2026/0…
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@elonmusk My co @DunveganSpace is building a similar constellation. We should talk.
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@jenni_fowler @elonmusk @DunveganSpace DSS was acquired years ago by @SpaceChain, which has launched over six satellites thus far.
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@FirstSquawk @GrayConnolly "The quote in the linked X post (from @FirstSquawk
on May 3, 2026) is a paraphrased or slightly adapted version of comments made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on March 10, 2026."
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I’ve actually used offshore oil rigs as an example when I talk about reducing launch costs to orbit.
Shuttle cost $50,000/kg to orbit and we couldn’t afford to do anything.
20X reduction: Falcon 9 costs $2500/kg (internal price is lower) and we’re getting Starlink and (soon) a Moon landing.
Another 20X reduction gets us to $100/kg. And we KNOW we can have all sorts of complex industry at that price because we already DO. The fully-loaded cost to have a 1 kilogram wrench on the offshore rig’s tool rack is probably at least $100.
Starlink isn’t about putting more PhD triathlete test pilots in space. It’s about putting blue-collar oil rig workers in space.
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Interesting article on treating agent output like compiler output (and why)
skiplabs.io/blog/codegen_a…

Zack Korman@ZackKorman
Mandatory human-in-the-loop is a cybersecurity cop-out. People are giving agents more and more autonomy. We need solutions that accept that world because there is no stopping it. It's like telling people in the 90s to not use the internet to avoid getting hacked. Good luck.
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