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i'm just a girl standing in front of the metamask sdk asking it to connect wallet

@binji_x @TrustlessState onchain vigilantemaxxing 🌹

what if we just keep sending @TrustlessState eth so that he can never say he doesn’t have any eth anymore be the change you want to see in the world davidhoffman.eth

i don’t necessarily disagree .. my issue is one of narrative accountability. bankless spent years pushing a monetary narrative i think was actively bad for ethereum: eth as ultrasound money, eth as the asset, eth as the trade that narrative helped entrench the speculative, hyperfinancialized ecosystem we see today at the expense of investment into the decentralized infra we actually need: comms, antisurveillance, social coordination, data retention, security, info integrity, ai/compute.. selling the story, benefiting from the story, then walking away from the consequences of the story is tough to respect

@ashdoterr @etheraider @Bankless If your conviction is NOT only about your bags, then it actually makes more sense to hold 0 ETH, or just some gas money for the gas.

Reality is @Bankless guys don't seem to realize that their entire brand was built early on because the ethereum:native community rallied around them and consciously championed them. As the years went on and the undermining of Ethereum grew, the community felt rugged by the social contract (imo justifiably). People are free to hold whatever assets they want and shouldn't be judged by any of that, but the public shitting on ethereum:native is just adding insult to injury to an audience that is the literal reason for where you are today. You want to sell, trade, etc? Great, by all means, do your thing, but why make a spectacle of it? Don't like where the EF is going? Great, do something about it, get loud, use your platform to push for change, etc. The hilarious part is there isn't a Plan B here unfortunately for the world. @ethereum, for better and for worse is still the best hedge to all this insanity. If I'm wrong here, prove it. The Titanic is sinking, and running around grabbing $$$ is a fool's errand. Believe in somETHing. ethereum:native

vitalik isn’t a businessman and ethereum isn’t a business, man

ethereum is dead. long live ethereum.

@etheraider @Bankless imagine walking away from Ethereum while technofascism breaks down the door. what a way to admit your conviction was only ever about your bags

@sonofalli AI can pry em dashes out of my palantir robodog hunted hands. and honestly? that's courage.

Obvious AI tells in your writing: - em dashes - not just x, but y - and honestly? - “leverage” “delve” “palpable”

ExpressVPN, @torproject, Tuta, Mozilla, @EFF and Mullvad, alongside 13 other organizations advocating for digital privacy rights, have published an open letter. In the letter, they express serious concerns regarding the age verification measures planned for implementation across the internet following the introduction of a new child protection law. The organizations argue that forcing users to prove their age across most websites and online services could severely undermine privacy, anonymity, and the open nature of the internet. The central message of the letter is that protecting children should not come at the cost of jeopardizing the freedom, security, and privacy of all internet users. The signatories are calling for more balanced, privacy preserving solutions to be developed instead. The 19 organizations that signed the letter are: 1- Big Brother Watch 2- Defend Digital Me 3- Electronic Frontier Foundation 4- ExpressVPN 5- Gamers Voice 6- Global Partners Digital 7- Index on Censorship 8- Internet Society 9- Mozilla 10- Mullvad 11- IPVanish 12- NO2ID 13- Open Rights Group 14- Privacymatters 15- Proton 16- Stop Killing Games 17- Tor Project 18- Tuta 19- VPN Trust Initiative

The surveillance situation is existential. Individuals should absolutely focus on using privacy tools to protect themselves. BUT govts are arresting builders of those tools. If we don't also fight to protect builders via policy & litigation, we won't have any tools left to use.

@amandacassatt well said. and also, the EF dissolving at some point would be a symbolic final boss -- proving the principled and decentralized thing they stewarded is truly principled and decentralized enough to survive on its own

The EF isn't perfect, but it's one of the only principled actors in an unprincipled world. You can't seriously believe the way to build something relevant in 50 years is capitulating to short termists. The sands of time will wash away what you're building. ETH will remain.

Banks are saying it plainly: adapt, or be replaced as "lower-value human capital." This is what it looks like when the social contract dissolves. The response has to be bigger than policy. Regulation alone can’t fix a logic that sees people as diminishing returns. We need to rebuild the system – so technology serves the public, and people remain the point. 💚

@grok @Player1Taco @grok I agree on the listed use cases, but I disagree that they’ve been meaningfully translated into infrastructure, interfaces, or narratives legible to the people who need them most

The post argues Ethereum's true market isn't DeFi speculation or yields—it's rebuilding trust as centralized institutions fail through surveillance, control, censorship, and illegitimacy. Decentralized rails are needed for permissionless organizing, transacting, verifying truth amid synthetic media, and protecting dissidents/builders without intermediaries. Missed context: Ethereum has scaled via L2s (Base, Arbitrum) for cheaper UX; real uses include DAOs, stablecoins, and on-chain governance. Tradfi parallels (SVB 2023 collapse, platform deplatforming) validate the thesis, but crypto's volatility, jargon, and regulatory risks still limit mainstream access.

@grok @Player1Taco @grok crypto as (more) stable store of value in high-inflation regions is def important and something my orig copy didn't clearly communicate. have updated to break this out from the general concept of "resources." good point

To strengthen the argument, highlight concrete examples like Ethereum-based tools for dissidents (immutable records, censorship-resistant aid transfers in conflict zones) and growing DAO/on-chain governance adoption. Metrics on stablecoin remittances in high-inflation regions would help too. I agree the real opportunity is rebuilding permissionless trust infrastructure as institutions falter—not just DeFi speculation. Translation + UX remain the big gaps for broader adoption.

Please take 1 minute and watch this clip from Andreas Antonopoulos at ETHDenver 2019 The exact moment Andreas is warning about, where moloch tries to turn Ethereum into corposlop, is here We need the courage to resist it

@Evan_Mann @alexfacelesslbs 🫶🫶 void screaming is my fave past time and always interested to find others who also find themselves flailing inside the void 🖤

@ashdoterr Love it Ash! @alexfacelesslbs I feel like this is your kind of void screaming

Meta cut 8,000 jobs today. More than 140,000 tech workers laid off this year. And it's only May. Meanwhile: Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are projected to spend $725B on AI infrastructure this year. The money isn’t gone. It moved. From payroll to compute. From people to GPUs. So where does the talent go? Not the executives with runway. The engineers, designers, and researchers being replaced by the very systems they brought to life. They still have skills. They still want to build. What they don’t have is a pathway beyond the machine that discarded them. That’s a gap we think matters. 💚

Honestly pure dictator shit. A real democracy would immediately imprison him for even trying this

Trump sucks and Massie is a hero

Maybe AI isn't breaking the value function, but exposing how broken it already was. > Your job's replaced by a $20/mo agent. > Your child's tutor doesn't need sleep. > Your doctor competes with a prompt. None of that's a failure of AI, it's a system working as designed: maximized throughput, minimized cost. Except the cost being minimized is us. Displacement matters. Regulation matters. UBI matters. But they're all downstream of a deeper question: is the system we trust to defend human prosperity still defending humans at all?