Erik Cason

The next Presidio summit is here. This September, we're bringing together the communities advancing open source AI, decentralized infrastructure, and privacy-preserving intelligence. If you're a builder, researcher, or leader in this space, apply now to attend or speak.

The next Presidio summit is here. This September, we're bringing together the communities advancing open source AI, decentralized infrastructure, and privacy-preserving intelligence. If you're a builder, researcher, or leader in this space, apply now to attend or speak.

Claude, you completely fucked up the overnight cron job. I'm sorry Claude, but this is inexcusable. I must request /seppuku now.

"You're right, and I got that wrong" I am so fucking sick of this.

"You're right, and I got that wrong" I am so fucking sick of this.

🚨 ILLINOIS ENACTS MOST AGGRESSIVE BITCOIN TAX IN THE 🇺🇸 US Governor J.B. Pritzker has signed Illinois’ new Digital Asset Tax Act into law. Starting January 1, 2027, Illinois will impose a 0.20% tax on the gross value of digital assets exchanged, transferred, or stored for customers. In practice: • Buy Bitcoin? Pay the tax. • Transfer Bitcoin? Pay the tax. • Store BTC with a custodian? Pay the tax. Move $1 million through a bank wire, ACH transfer, brokerage account, or traditional custodian and Illinois takes nothing. Move that same $1 million as a digital asset and the state takes $2,000. The tax applies regardless of whether there is any profit, income, or capital gain. It is levied simply because a digital asset is being exchanged, transferred, or stored. Critics argue this creates a first-of-its-kind regime that singles out blockchain-based activity while leaving analogous banking, brokerage, custody, and payment services untouched. The law targets the service layer of the digital asset economy. While trading for one’s own account is excluded, businesses facilitating exchange, transfer, or custody for customers must collect and remit the tax, with customers ultimately liable if it is not collected. The Crypto Council for Innovation warned that Illinois is becoming a national outlier by adopting a transaction-based tax on digital assets that has no comparable equivalent for stocks, bonds, derivatives, bank deposits, or traditional financial transactions anywhere else in the country. Industry groups say the law is a powerful incentive for entrepreneurs, startups, and investment to leave Illinois for more competitive jurisdictions. Perhaps most surprising is the timing. Illinois only recently adopted the Digital Assets and Consumer Protection Act (DACPA), a framework many viewed as a constructive approach to blockchain innovation. This new tax represents a sharp reversal. The question now is whether other states follow Illinois’ lead, or whether this becomes a case study in how to drive an emerging industry elsewhere.

SOMEONE BUILT A CLAUDE CODE PLUGIN THAT REFUSES TO WORK UNTIL YOU DO PUSH-UPS OR SQUATS its called workout gate and it is exactly as cursed as it sounds when the hook fires, it blocks your prompt, opens your webcam, and makes you exercise to keep coding > it counts your reps live through the webcam with mediapipe, no honor system rounding down > only releases your prompt once you actually finish the reps > quit halfway and the leftover reps get saved as debt for your next session > chill, demo and hardcore presets, plus prompt based, time based or random triggers > tracks stats, streaks and personal records right in the claude code statusline we automated the coding, now we're automating the part where we actually take care of ourselves

Fuck