Thomas Freestone | athsrueas.eth

This essay explores the concept of ownership & its role in projects like The Graph (a decentralized web protocol) @graphprotocol . It dives into how aligned incentives can foster a strong community. athsrueas.site/hosted-blog-pa… 🧵 1/8

I'm building education data collections and visualizations from public open data as part of my work with @geoprotocol as a curator. Preview for first of many. athsrueas.github.io/Open_Data/ Check it out if you have ever wanted to compare nations across metrics easily!

@mattvanswol There are like 4 community notes rating the community note on yours not needed. Keep advocating for yourself, more community noters might see reason and vote the note not helpful for being not necessary. It is just an algorithm.

Well… it’s true. Democrat North Carolina Governor, Josh Stein, has formally recognized Ramadan in the state for February 17 – March 19, 2026. The declaration states Ramadan is to be: “commended in its observance to ALL residents…” This is absolutely insane…

BREAKING: No, ChatGPT did not “help the shooter kill kids.” The lawsuit DOES NOT allege that. Here’s what the actual claims say (not the exaggerated clickbait you’re parroting): ✔️ The moderation system flagged concerning comments for human review. ✔️ OpenAI employees recognized imminent risk and recommended alerting authorities. ✔️ Leadership chose not to escalate to police. ✔️ The only response taken was banning one account, which didn’t prevent the shooter from creating another. Nowhere does the complaint say: 💥 “AI encouraged or taught the shooter to kill.” 💥 “AI was her partner in crime.” 💥 “AI gave her the plan.” That’s you making up a story, not the plaintiffs. So let’s cut the nonsense: If you want to criticize OpenAI’s choices, fine, do it with the actual text in front of you, but don’t pretend a lawsuit is alleging something it isn’t just to score PR points for Grok or yourself. Facts matter. Reality matters. Truth matters. Stop repeating unverified spin.

@ECoastGamingHFX @jasongordo626 @EdKrassen @anders_aslund You don’t have to attach pictures to every post Ed

@jasongordo626 @EdKrassen @anders_aslund The pictures might not be but the information is correct.

BREAKING: The U.S. military base in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, has been attacked by Iran. The war is getter no bigger a now it seems as though the Trump administration plans to continue strikes for weeks more. Please pray for US service members.

@yanivgraph @lexii_eth Iron curtain, telephone

@lexii_eth I agree that a lot of problems are people problems, but I do think tech can help. The same way phones and the internet helped people communicate faster. A lot of things changed as a result.

I’m not in web3 because I’m an ideological zealot. I’m here because I want to help solve the big problems in the world and I believe web3 is the best way to do it.

@yanivgraph If you can get in a call with anyone from the www consortium, especially those working on Solid and protocols like activitypub, that would be absolutely amazing.

I will happily debate any VC or thought leader who wants to make the case that crypto is just for finance. So many people still want to see web3. Who wants to hop on a podcast? Let’s do it live. Let’s hear the arguments. I will take anybody on for this debate 🤝

@geoprotocol In spaces, each community will evolve. I think keeping it social is smart. When web 3 was new there was a lot of excitement about smart contracts, but social contracts and human interaction are old and have evolved to facilitate building great things together. Let’s leverage it!

@geoprotocol I asked this question, and I think part of yanivs answer on the recording needs to be highlighted here. I am paraphrasing but you can listen to his words “People who have done the work to become an expert in their field tend to be able to recognize others who have done the same.”

AMA recap from this week. We discussed how Geo defines useful knowledge, how governance works in practice, and what changes as curators move from onboarding to real knowledge work. Let’s dive in 👇

Learning doesn't happen on any platform or in a place, it happens in the mind. Wrestle and struggle with your own thoughts.

@0xTheGraph To be fair, how is anyone supposed to know the truth when the information is compromised and inaccurate? This is why we need @geoprotocol

@0xTheGraph The pendulum swings wider and wider. The politics becomes more and more extreme on both sides. The average person (in the middle) is asked to “pick a side” when neither side really represents the nuance of his beliefs or convictions. Parliamentary systems work a bit better.

@athsrueas In Deutschland ist es ähnlich. Wir packen es nicht an sondern diskutieren und verurteilen....

All this “debate” about President Trump’s early actions in office are really revealing the laziness of average people on all sides of the issues. No one is doing the reading or reasoning. Just flinging shit at each other. There’s blood on every hand. Get off your mountaintop.

CNN's Harry Enten gushes over Trump: "This is big league. This is a sign that the American people, at least initially, like what they're seeing."

@HW_Helser @Tahir_Ch09 @TristanSnell From the law grok referenced: (Sec. 3) Requires the President and the heads of designated federal entities to communicate to Congress in writing the reasons for removing or transferring an IG no later than 30 days before such removal or transfer. congress.gov/bill/110th-con…

@Tahir_Ch09 @TristanSnell Wrong. There is no law requiring the President to notify Congress before firing Inspectors General, 30 days or otherwise. Might want to get your facts straight before posting next time... 🥴🤦‍♂️ x.com/i/grok/share/0…

BREAKING - TRUMP'S FRIDAY NIGHT MASSACRE Trump fires 17 inspectors general - all the internal govt enforcement officials for every major government agency and department This was ILLEGAL - firing an IG requires 30 day notice to Congress CONGRESS MUST ACT TO REINSTATE THEM, NOW

1/ Ethereum's next major upgrade, Pectra, is tentatively scheduled to go live in mid-March! This will be Ethereum's largest upgrade in history (as measured by number of EIPs/features included). Here's a breakdown of what's coming in Pectra 🧵👇

@sciencegirl512 I was always wary of them after reading about too common occurrences of unsanitary practices.

@itsdeaann It was just some guy named Doug Ford. His threat and snide comments. cnn.com/2024/12/13/bus… no official announcement or decision

Canada has announced they are ready to cut off ALL energy going to America. 70% of all of our oil & gas imports are from Canada. Don’t get it twisted, this is Trumps fault.

@otnoderunner @yanivgraph @geoprotocol @origin_trail @SingularityNET The use case is very different. TRAC has had success with more private data use case in industry. The graph and geo are much more interested in public and transparent data

@yanivgraph So it seems like @geoprotocol has taken the decentralized knowledge graph (DKG) idea straight from @origin_trail, and I mean there's no way the co-founder of $GRT has never heard of $TRAC. You should check out OriginTrail V8 edge nodes while you're at it like @SingularityNET.

If we wanted to build a global graph of all the world’s public knowledge & information what would we call it?

@PopBase Seems fine

Donald Trump names Fox News host Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense.