Burak Arikan

CLAUDE CODE but for HACKING its called shannon, you point it at website and it just... tries to break in... fully autonomous with no human needed i pointed it at a test app and it stole the entire user database, created admin accounts, and bypassed login, all by itself, in 90 minutes

this is disastrous that you needed to be terminally online and had less than 24h heads up to switch away from twitter showing your country to everyone. awful rollout with no user choice or consent whatsoever. this was the exact case for a terms of service update email that would have allowed some time to delete if you disagreed with the new policy. sad seeing people cheering on further erosion of pseudonymity. such a massive gift for oppressive regimes, im sure this will have chilling effects. remember there were times when it was up to platforms to dismantle manipulation networks and proudly post about it. hasn't been a case since 2022.

Elon is truly the dumbest smart person ever: -Your ID is not required because your information is checked against the voter role. -Candidates appear on the ballot for each eligible party that endorses them. (For Mamdani this was Dems and WFP.) -Cuomo is last in the bottom right because he made a brand new party to run as no one wanted to endorse him. -None of this impacts voting. How stupid do you need to be to think someone would walk in to vote for Cuomo, but suddenly pick Mamdani because Cuomo was only on there once? It shows how little Elon thinks about people that he thinks you’ll be bamboozled by standard ballot measures.

Florence banned the use of Arabic numerals in account books for centuries Even though Fibonnaci published his famous book on arithmetic with arabic numerals in 1202, the Medici Bank was bookkeeping in roman numerals right through the 1400s

🚨 US Commerce Department Begins Distributing GDP Data on Open-Source Blockchains Including Bitcoin, Ethereum & Solana. Initially targeting Nine Blockchains per Bloomberg Report

basically you can think about it like this: the QTM has a term called "V" that says "insert reality here." the GTM is a theory of what's inside V.

Probably time to move past the app chain/general purpose dichotomy. Projects with sufficient leverage want to 1) own more of the value chain, 2) grow their addressable market. This drives *both* vertical integration of core business functions and expansion into other verticals.

the reason Venice got all the hype and you only know about Genoa from salami is because the academics just wanted to travel to the pretty city of canals but much more than the Venetians, the Genoese built the modern world.

The sheer intellectual collapse you have to experience to be faced with 122 international aid organisations telling you the same thing... ISRAEL IS STARVING GAZANS... only to decide they are ALL lying & that actually Benjamin Netanyahu, on trial for fraud, is telling the truth.