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@husseinb @coinbureau Centralised systems are easier to upgrade vs social coordination in crypto requiring everyone to move their coins to a new wallet

@coinbureau Bruh, once quantum hits the biggest targets are all finna be TradFi.

⚠️ALERT: FT reports that the crypto industry is now bracing for quantum computing threat. Here's the brutal truth nobody in CT wants to hear: Only ~15 crypto projects on Earth are seriously building for quantum. If your favorite coin isn't one of them, you're holding a wallet with a death clock. The list 👇 PROTOCOL-NATIVE QUANTUM RESISTANT (mainnet, today): 🔷 QRL (XMSS, mainnet since 2018) 🔶 Abelian (lattice-based, mainnet 2022) 🔷 Cellframe (Dilithium + Picnic) 🔶 Mochimo (WOTS+, audited by Dr. Hülsing) 🔷 xx Network (David Chaum, PQ BFT consensus) 🔶 Nexus (FALCON + Signature Chains) PQC LIVE IN PRODUCTION (partial): 🔷 Algorand — Falcon state proofs since 2022, first Falcon mainnet tx Nov 2025 (consensus still Ed25519) 🔶 Hedera — SEALSQ QS7001 chip, shipped Nov 2025 ACTIVELY IMPLEMENTING (testnet): 🔷 QANplatform — Dilithium, EVM-compatible testnet 🔶 Tron — QuantumShield hybrid signatures on testnet 🔷 Circle's Arc — USDC-native L1, opt-in Dilithium + Falcon at mainnet (2026) ROADMAP ONLY (still vulnerable today): 🔷 Bitcoin — BIP-360 + BIP-361 (7-year migration) 🔶 Ethereum — $2M PQ team, pq.ethereum .org, 2029 target 🔷 Cardano — IO Research "Vision 2026: Post Quantum Secure" proposal 🔶 Solana — Falcon roadmap (April 2026), Winternitz Vault live 2+ yrs 🔷 Ripple/XRP — 4-phase roadmap, ML-DSA on AlphaNet, 2028 target Not listed = not building = your funds, eventually someone else's. Harvest now, decrypt later.

@AthletesInSpace Many just like to 'own the libs', and if the other side takes one position, they reflexively take the other without thinking too deeply about it

I’ve said this before, but I genuinely will never understand the right-wing giddiness around destroying the planet & its biodiversity The fact that we even exist as a species on this rare, habitable planet is a miracle & one we aren’t sure exists anywhere else in the universe

@white_sier3790 @HealthRanger Who would have thought Trump would end up pro transgender

@HealthRanger savethefrogs.com/atrazine-updat…

The Trump admin just became pro-Atrazine, not long after supporting glyphosate. These are the No. 1 and No. 2 herbicides used in agriculture. They are the top poisoners, and Trump supports them both, then wants to sell you 600+ generic prescription drugs via TrumpRx to treat the "symptoms" of eating all these herbicides and pesticides.

@Paralelogram777 bird flu patient zero

This is how civilization was created, complete with the screaming females in the background. Without men like this, we would still be living in grass huts.

@max21e8 People eventually get bored arguing and move on to the next topic

why did climate change die?

@realKalos More fuel for the meat grinder

@thetrocro Wonder how many of the people booing used ai on their essays

Wild. I don’t disagree with the gist of what he’s saying but I feel the urge to boo myself. Something so condescending and tone deaf here…

@ingenuityrover1 @VrilNyeX Would the data-centre police allow pointless tweets?

@VrilNyeX A data centre dedicated for the use of science is a worthy endeavour. A data centre dedicated to the use of making funny memes and little Johnny’s English assignment isn’t.

@lanabeesfw What type of pesticide was it?

This is a pregnant wild jumping spider with DKS, Dyskinetic Syndrome. She will most likely not survive. This is what happens with the use of pesticides. Her nervous system is misfiring, leading to uncontrollable movements and confusion. She cannot stay upright, only able to lay on her back. She cannot use her mouth parts correctly. In the wild, she would be dead by the end of the day. She has a small chance of recovery, I’ve misted her to help remove the pesticides and given her a 1:4 sugar water mixture to hydrate her and help her regain her strength. Now all i can do is let her rest and hope. Please opt for non pesticide solutions. The poison doesn’t just get rid of “pests”, it kills our spiders and pollinators. It’s killing our world.

@FirstSquawk Back to sailing the high seas

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@nickstirkster @dailybritainonx Not really, its a fully public ledger that anyone can trace and funds are routinely frozen. Criminals prefer cash.

@dailybritainonx Just so everyone knows. Tether is the number 1 currency used for crime transactions, drugs, you name it. This prick enables crime

He lives in Thailand. He goes by a Thai name. He holds 12% of Tether - a cryptocurrency that made $13bn last year. He has given Farage and Reform £22 million. He gave Farage £5m personally before he stood for parliament. After last night's historic results, this is the most important background read in British politics. Full story 👇

@MayaPar25 @CoinDesk @ProjectEleven_ Many of those centralised systems have either already upgraded or are in the process of doing so. Complacency won't help bitcoin.

This is absolute nonsense. If quantum computing reaches the point where it can reliably break Bitcoin wallets, it will break banking, military communications, encrypted messaging, state infrastructure, and most modern cryptography long before Bitcoin is the main concern. And unlike legacy systems, Bitcoin is open-source and can actually adapt. People act like the network would just sit there and watch itself die instead of upgrading cryptography if quantum ever became a real-world threat. 😂

BITCOIN: Quantum computing could break $BTC wallets by 2030. The bigger problem: migrating Bitcoin to post-quantum cryptography requires every user, exchange, custodian and miner to move simultaneously. @ProjectEleven_ says the gap isn't technical — it's coordination. Read more on CoinDesk

@owenbroadcast 'Demon' is just a term for something that can be explained in other ways scientifically. Aliens can evolve on a planet like we did. Demons can only exist through vague hand-waving.

many years ago i made a long post on here explicating a theory that aliens were "actually demons". although this is extremely cliche now, at the time, it took a lot of digging for me to get to that point. i didn't come up with the theory myself, i just put some pieces together based on my own experiences and areas of interest. my natural inclination is to stay intellectually nomadic and not pigeonhole myself, or rest on past endeavors, so i, naturally, eventually moved on from this topic. it's still relevant to most of my interests and people that were around at that time still associate me with it. for that reason, many people asked me my thoughts about UFOs and such things over the last few weeks and today. if you read this far, here are my disorganized thoughts on this topic and how its discussed now, how i presently conceptualize it, and perhaps any potentially novel aspects that have yet to be integrated into the mainstream understanding. first off, "aliens are demons": i believe at this point both tucker carlson and the vice president of the united states have explicitly said this, so it's now mainstream. this is, to me, a very "battering ram" and simplified way of articulating the actual point: the UFO phenomenon is an extension of what was previously known as the demonological phenomenon. that's a complex way of saying: whatever you think "demons" are or were, UFOs and aliens are something like that. i believe this caught on so swiftly because its an ontological statement, really. it's a quick way of saying that aliens aren't a "science" thing, or an "urban legend" thing, they're a spiritual thing. it's a way of refiling the concept of aliens from science and sociology over into spirituality and religion. i don't exactly use this term anymore at this time, for two reasons. firstly, its entierly conditional on someone's worldview. of course, i have a worldview, but it's just sloppy communication. i speak with someone who says the marian apparitions (visions of the virgin mary) are demonic because they're not catholic, then i speak with someone who says pentecostals speaking in tongues is demonic. "demonic" has to be defined strictly between two people for it to actually communicate anything. it's just not a useful designator. so, i think it should be rephrased as something like: the UFO phenomenon is at least partially metaphysical or spiritual - it shouldn't be viewed strictly as literal physical beings operating literal physical vehicles (although that is possible). secondly, the term "demons" is very medieval. there's nothing wrong with this inherently, but it's very limiting if you're analyzing a live presently unfolding phenomenon. it's almost impossible to hear the term "demons" and not see the medieval imagery in your head that i believe could be an obstacle to actually understanding any of this. in order to not be misunderstood here, i should say that an appropriate analogy would be if we found men on other planets that lived in caves and hit each other with clubs. we could call these "cavemen" and they might literally be "cavemen" but thinking of them as cavemen might eventually become an obstacle, because that term is so tethered to a particular conception of man and particular time period and your experience with all that (museum displays, australopithecus, neanderthals, neolithic life) that isn't being referenced in this new situation. i (not saying anyone should use this term) like the term "intelligences", some people use the term "spirits" (this is too shamanic for me), i could use entity, whatever signals a non-human intelligence to you is fine. as the idea of UFOs and aliens as demons has already become cliche and static, I also think this could be reframed or gone deeper into via a bit of modern western spiritual history and ethnography. the UFO phenomenon was really (in my opinion) a time period, it really belongs to something like the 1950s to 1970s. it still exists of course, but when you actually go into the history of it, it was way more common and way larger at that time, and that's where and when the main concepts cemented. so, firstly, we're far downstream of the origin of this concept and its highest point of vitality - its epicenter. you can't really chart yourself in relationship to it without understanding that. you would be like someone studying hippies in the 2020s without realizing how much that phenomenon, which still exists in many ways, was really tied to the 1960s. the progression of the alien and UFO phenomenon in the popular understanding is missing a huge historical piece. i would describe the strict on the ground "seeing UFOs" thing as the first wave - it extends back from the 1950s and into the 1970s. however, by the 1990s, the spiritual engagement with beings from other worlds was really no long literally seeing them in the sky but a process called channeling. most people are familiar with the concept of channeling (calling another intelligence into your consciousness and having it speak through you) but in the 1980s and 1990s this was a huge thing - truly massive in the world of new age. as popular and as bread and butter in the world of spirituality as crystals or something like that. i'm not sure that most people are aware of this. people had seminars where an individual would speak as a particular channeled being with a full backstory and particular way of speaking, tapes, conferences, particular beings would inhabit a person for a long time and be seen as a real "teacher from beyond", and things like that. one popular manifestation of this that still persists is the concept of the pleiadeans, beings from the pleiades (stars). people were channeling these intelligences - for example, one woman wrote a whole book "from" them (multiple, actually) called 'bringers of the dawn'. there are many things like this. in some circles even today people are still into this. so, beings from the stars and other worlds - even though they're being channeled instead of coming here, those are technically "aliens", really - and i would say the energy of the UFO movement shifted over into this world as sightings, for whatever reason, decreased. that makes channeling the second wave of this. then, i would say the third wave is psychedelics - specifically DMT and ayahuasca, probably also mushrooms, which really picked up where channeling left off. i don't think i need to explain this one, but one of the hallmarks of DMT and DMT based substances is communication with other entities, and their overlap with space and other worlds as a theme is well known. this takes us from the 90s to today. however, you may notice that the DMT and ayahuasca thing has really dropped off, for a variety of reasons. this is one of the primary things i was incorrect about. i thought it would just continue to escalate, but apparently that wave is also ending (i have a variety of theories about this - mostly that amateur pharmacology is difficult to square with the new mental health complex and culture, but that's beyond the scope of this). one of my favorite quotes is "the acceleration of history makes us all historians". from my perspective, right now it's not exactly clear where the UFO thing is headed. for whatever reason, people rarely see them now - at least not as much as the 1970s. "channeling" beings is far too ... candid and "stage magic"-y to come back into our time, and the DMT and ayahuasca thing is abating. so, what's the next "beings from other worlds" thing? it's hard to say, especially considering the christian-ization of the online space. i didn't expect to live in a world where christian instagram homeschooling moms were intuitively linking bigfoot and UFOs with the concept of demons but, here we are. the christian writers who addressed the concept of beings from other worlds (this was previously known as pluralism, means something different today) are generally controversial or outside christian orthodoxy - i believe steiner has written about them, but i'm mostly thinking of (increasing in polarization) ellen white, swedenborg, and joseph smith. i believe ellen white's conception of aliens was relatively simple: they're something like unfallen (sorry to any adventists if i'm misremembering). this makes earth a kind of special hyper-battleground between christ and satan that is unique in the universe, and thus, everyone is watching us, waiting to see how the battle unfolds. i don't believe this myself, but it is a cool framing. classically, i would say there is a potential conflict between certain standard theological principles and the existence of aliens, but i don't see any of this becoming relevant today in those circles. once aliens have been refiled as spiritual entities and you take the claims of them being from other worlds as a deception, it really doesn't matter anymore. all that is to say that i think the next true manifestation of this phenomenon will only be obvious in retrospect. the jump from seeing aliens to channeling beings from the stars to using substances that let you talk to non-physical entities seems obvious in retrospect, but each of these initially presented as discreet phenomena. the next "wave" probably won't look like "more people seeing UFOs". i don't think it will come from people combing over old photos or doing excursions out into the desert at night and such things. that time is basically over. the natural question then is, what is it? if these are all "waves", one has to ask, "waves from what? - or, "waves of what?". truthfully, my present conception of such things plays less into the cosmic battle between christ and satan and more into a kind of spiritual psychology (sorry). while i'm sure some intelligences floating out there are involved in the "cosmic conflict" at a very high level, i don't think this constitutes the majority of UFO cases. when you really look into the long cases and read a lot about them, most of them are really just some guy who gets kind of obsessed with them. these get buried under the flashy and electric crazy cases - but that's usually it. a guy sees something weird and gets kind of interested and then goes back to being a normal person. there was a psychologist named van dusen who worked with people who were hearing voices. eventually, to make a long story short, he incorporated the work of swedenborg into his practice and started treating the voices not as hallucinations but as intelligences. supposedly, he was able to map how they would respond to certain inputs, what they would do when you tried to help a person who was hearing them, and their general patterns and "behavior". his conclusion was that they were something like energy vampires: they enjoyed whipping people up into a frenzy or hyper-emotional state so they could sap that energy from them. that was, ultimately, "why" they were torturing these people - in his view. if you downgrade this slightly, it's not that different from fairy lore as found in celtic countries. the fairies are out there, some are truly malevolent, but a lot of them just enjoy messing with humans because it's something to do and gives them attention. i think most of these things - the real cases, not a smudge on a camera lens or speck of dust or guy who accidentally saw a blimp at night - which are admittedly rare, are something like that. generally, having any spiritual or metaphysical framework entails something like non-human intelligences. apparently these things enjoy attention, sometimes, and can kind of "glom on" to other beings - beings with bodies, who can see things, hear things, and experience things as a corporeal being can: something that, by definition, a non-corporeal being can't do. will-o-the-wisps, the little ball light fairies that light up in the forest to lead people into the forest, aren't that much different than a guy seeing mysterious lights in the sky. if you painted them, they would honestly look the same. why they do it? presently i would say it boils down to (1) various degrees of true evil and malevolence, but mostly (2) that it is probably just cool and satisfying to mess with humans, (3) possibly due to jealousy of beings with a body or feeling like they need a body to experience certain things, (4) and the general rush and powertrip you get from influencing another intelligence and getting attention from them. at this time i would say any real case probably varies somewhere between 0 to 100% for those four factors. that's where i ended up with this topic. perhaps anything here will accelerate someone else building their own framework of such things. ill link a few relevant threads below.

@RCowley185R @ECOWARRIORSS Irrelevant. Snake bites typically have even less than 17 ppb of venom in blood, and can still kill

@ECOWARRIORSS No, wont happen CH4 is measured in parts per billion 17 parts per billion

Researchers have discovered dozens of new methane seeps littering the ocean floor in the Ross Sea coastal region of Antarctica, raising concerns of an unknown positive climate feedback loop that could accelerate global warming.livescience.com/planet-earth/a…

@lfg_uk Misleading to focus on 'one salmon', when it was saving around 2 million fish per year

Meanwhile in the UK, we spent £700,000,000 to protect one salmon every decade at a nuclear power plant (which still hasn't been completed).

@BROKENBRITAIN0 Won't be solved for the armchair detectives on the internet who've convinced themselves it was the parents

🚨BREAKING: The MET police believe they have enough evidence to charge Christian Brueckner with the murder of Madeline McCann 🇬🇧 The police force are currently looking at ways to extradite Brueckner so he can face trial for the murder. Is this decades old case FINALLY solved?

@earthcurated It's also regularly sprayed by trains either side of railway tracks

Something most people don’t realize: herbicides are used across large areas of U.S. forests as part of land management practices. These chemicals don’t just affect target plants they can also impact soil health, waterways, insects, and surrounding ecosystems in ways that aren’t always immediately visible. The real concern isn’t just what is sprayed, but how little public awareness and transparency there is around where, when, and how often it happens. Once ecosystems are altered at scale, the effects don’t stay contained in the forest. This is about asking harder questions before the damage becomes irreversible. 🌲

@EdinburghPicker @Chainsaw_McGinn Often see the same items tossed in the same places like it's part of their routine

@Chainsaw_McGinn And the sheer amount and variety of it means that there must be loads of them, which is frightening!

It's a source of constant disappointment that we have to share this beautiful world with utter morons. Just take your litter home; it's really not hard. #litter

@MrEwanMorrison 2. as any decent biologist should

Two things have happened with Richard Dawkins here with his claim that the AI known as Claude is "conscious". 1. He's fallen for the Eliza Effect, first diagnosed in 1966. "A psychological phenomenon where humans anthropomorphise computer programs, projecting understanding, empathy, and intelligence onto them." 2. He has a mechanistic view of consciousness anyway. He frequently employs machine and computational metaphors to explain human consciousness and biology. He views the brain as a "complex computer" and humans as "survival machines" or "gene machines". So his framing belief system can only lead to his erroneous conclusion - that he and the machine are both conscious.

@owenboswarva @Cyberleagle Doing the you 'oi, you got a loicence for that' meme

Yesterday in the House of Lords, Lib Dem peer Floella Benjamin floated the idea that tech companies and IT platforms should need a licence from Ofcom to operate in the UK hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-04-… HT @Cyberleagle Is this still about protecting the children #openweb #techpolicy