Eric Winer

curly > waffle > wedge > standard > crinkle > shoestring.

huh, i think it's actually been years since i last heard 'mr brightside'

really interesting phishing attempt: they sent me a bunch of phishing emails, then called and did a legitimately decent Google account security checkup! even asked me to delete those emails. then 30 minutes later they called again and finally tried to get me to click a fake link

@daylightco i would love to play with this

AI demos all try too hard to be fancy and impressive We wanna just focus on it being the most seamless, simple, & friction free It turns out it helps to have both the OS and hardware to pull off super buttery smooth AI UX We don’t even call it AI We just call it mAgic Ink Only on daylight. Comment below if you want to beta test.

seems like they've added some CYA crap to their usage policies, saying it's prohibited for you to use ChatGPT for legal advice without consulting a lawyer.  but i don't see evidence (yet) that they're actually changing or restricting model outputs.

is anyone else's battery life tanking after installing the iOS Vista update?

@guillewrotethis well there's a few examples of doing that in a NEAR contract: * github.com/peersyst/fast-… * emailbtc.net is there any value in doing the oauth verification in a shade agent instead?

Curious if anyone has built a Shade Agent that acts as an intermediary with the MPC contract, handling social authentication Basically, one could create a shade agent that checks an oauth token, and allow the user to make `sign` calls when authenticated

hey it's time for my monthly panic of "oh crap did i accidentally rack up a bunch of charges to my personal AWS account"

yay, more shrinkflation, how exciting.

Used to be I had 1Password and Authy. Totally manageable security. Now I've got passkeys littered across iCloud, Chrome, 1Password, TouchID, Yubikey, god knows where else. I know this is a Me Problem, but my online security has arguably gotten *worse* from the rise of passkeys.

Story time: Back in 2012, I went on a (third? maybe fourth?) date with a girl to a jazz bar that had lots of fun games. We had bonded over being competitive, and thought we could play some ping pong or foosball together. She asked to play Scrabble – but it turns out that makes it tough to have a conversation, since it involves alternating periods of intense concentration. I'm no Scrabble wiz, but I love using the two-letter combos to put words next to each other. So I kept doing that, and I remember my date getting pretty frustrated. Soon we ended up with the board below. At this point, we couldn't find any other possible moves to make ANYWHERE, regardless of the available letters. The game was stuck. And so was the date. Pretty sure we never talked again. I didn't remember taking a picture but it just popped up in my Google Photos. Sorry for the 2012-Android-in-a-basement-bar photo quality. If you're out there, fellow former NYC single, I hope you're well, I'm curious for your side of the story, and gg.

@near_ai @Google Ultimately, neither protocol has any adoption to speak of yet. We're still waiting for (and building at @near_ai!) the killer apps that will drive demand for agent-to-agent transactions. Once that happens, either protocol will work great, and work even better with $NEAR. (4/4)

@near_ai @Google Payments protocols: * AP2 is more fleshed out; AITP-01 Payments still has some loose ends * AITP's referral/affiliate revenue model is vital once you have agent-to-agent-to-agent communication chains (3/4)

Getting a lot of questions about @near_ai's AITP vs @Google's A2A/AP2: * Pretty similar in vision, goals, scope * Both move us towards user-owned AI; glad to see @Google making positive moves * AITP was there first; who cares? (1/4)

@sventech 6²

@eric_winer How many years have you been waiting to post this one?

gm. happy 3²/4²/5² everyone.

my new least favorite sales tactic is the "fake forwarded email from your boss". i've got three of them in my inbox this morning.

@erickuhn19 @Gemini @arbitrum @Optimism @CoinDesk hey, @Gemini did something, time for another stock photo of @cameron and @tyler wearing tuxes

@Gemini @arbitrum @Optimism Read about our launch on @CoinDesk coindesk.com/business/2025/…

Incredibly proud to bring @Gemini users onchain today with the launch of the Gemini Wallet and Onchain App! Yesterday we announced deposit and withdrawal support for ETH and USDC on both @arbitrum and @Optimism with more networks coming soon. A huge milestone to make the life of our customers easier by adding new rails for assets they want to bring onchain. We are eliminating the barrier of bridging assets when using Gemini. Deposit USDC or ETH and you just hold the asset. Withdrawal on any network you want and we will take care of the rest. Today we are enabling our users to access the world of web3 with an easy and secure Wallet experience via passkeys. It takes 10 seconds to create a wallet with a secure passkey, claim a human readable wallet name via @ensdomains and start exploring onchain ecosystems like @ethereum @arbitrum @Optimism @0xPolygon and @base . While you are exploring, gas is on us with the help of our network partners. It’s essential we keep our users protected so we partnered with @blockaid_ to evaluate every transaction. Permissionless finance is amazing but this means we need to navigate bad actors. Every time you attempt a transaction Blockaid will review and if there is something suspicious, we will let you know. Security is always our top priority. We also partnered with @trailofbits to audit our code and smart contracts. We will be open sourcing and releasing the report very soon. It was also essential to launch our own Onchain App experience to be the first place Gemini users go. onchain.gemini.com has a curated experience of onchain actions. We started with swap and invest, but plan on bringing many more integrations in the near future. Swap into tokens Gemini doesn’t support via our integration with @BungeeExchange . It doesn’t matter what chain you hold the asset on or what chain you want to swap to, the network of solvers will handle all of the complexity for you. We also integrated @MorphoLabs Vaults that are being managed by @gauntlet_xyz on Arbitrum. Lend/Borrow is an absolutely critical function of finance and now you can easily participate in earning rewards on your stablecoins by investing in onchain vaults. Lastly, it’s been an incredible journey to spearhead these projects at @Gemini. Thank you @cameron and @tyler for giving me this opportunity. However, this is just the beginning. The world is coming onchain and Gemini is here to help our customers navigate this new journey easily and securely. Onwards

@PerplexityComet but also i tried to ask perplexity to make this meme and it... procrastinated?

thx @PerplexityComet for the invite.

@GregHBurnham i'm getting that a lot too! except she'll interrupt any conversation, even ones she started, by saying "what are we talking about?????"

He now replies “oh!” when we reply to any question he asks, as if the answer came as a surprise but he’ll do his best to assimilate it. We were in a cab and I was chatting with the driver, “why daddy talking?” “It’s just nice to talk with people sometimes” “Oh!”