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Trump: “I’m not a rapist I didn’t rape anybody. I’m not a pedophile.” O’Donnell: “Oh, do you think he was referring to you?” Fucking priceless.

“Oh do you think he was referring to you” BRILLIANT

"Oh, do you think he was referring to you?" will go down in history as one of the most brilliant interview questions ever asked.

I have a proposal here somewhat off the dome, that I'm going to drop here and then bring to Aave directly: we can facilitate exactly this with @WildcatFi, today. I haven't caught up with the precise amount to which the hole has been covered, but Aave Labs, once registered as a borrower, would be able to deploy a WETH market parameterised precisely as specified below - tradeable debt token called aaveWETH, 5% APR, whatever capacity it felt is/was viable for them to take on (which can be increased/decreased ad hoc). Open-access policy restricting OFAC-sanctioned addresses from depositing, but otherwise open to all. The market would presumably need to be fixed-term in duration - Wildcat markets can facilitate up to two years before converting, and can be configured so that they can be repaid/terminated early if needed. The prime issue here is time-duration - there would be a need for immediate secondary liquidity for aaveWETH, but there are protocols such as @agra_gg that can facilitate this provided liquidity is made available (presumably 1:1 based on faith in Aave to repay in time) - alternatively solver-based DEXes such as @bebop_dex could assist here. I genuinely don't mean to use a catastrophe to promote our work, and apologise if it comes off as crass - but this kind of facility was also something that we raised in the immediate aftermath of the Bybit hack as a way to facilitate an emergency bridge loan. In the interests of 'participating' in DeFi United, Wildcat Labs could/would also specifically request that the Wildcat Foundation (which receives revenue from markets) set aside the fees from such a vault (which would be 25 bips on 5% for the duration of the market) to be set aside/earmarked as assets to be handled as best thought appropriate (although, for the avoidance of doubt: the Wildcat Foundation is a wholly independent entity that would have the right to reject this request - I feel compelled to mention this for legal purposes). I truly think that Wildcat can help here if needed.

new imagegen says we're going up

@mhonkasalo Expecting? :)

Anthropic sentiment (deservedly) topped on the ridiculous "Mythos is too dangerous for public consumption" marketing campaign. Dario, just put the model in the bag bro. Now Altman is successfully mogging them on X. Expecting a momentum swing back to OpenAI again.

@brian_armstrong dude who are you talking to rn? if it’s the people who may resonate, why aren’t you leading them? if it’s the otherside who don’t understand, why are you engaging? if it’s just a ‘im here and im human’ thing… too little too late sorry. stand up or sit down.

In my teens and 20's I would spend way too much time playing Starcraft and Civilization. Harvesting resources, building things, and expanding was super addictive to my brain - to an almost unhealthy degree. Later I realized that entrepreneurship and business is the ultimate game. It scratches the same itch for me (resources, building, expanding), but you're actually contributing to humanity at the end of the day, which can be much more fulfilling. Business is also much more positive sum than video games. In Starcraft, the other player has to lose for you to win. In business, there is competition, but in a growing market there can be multiple winners. And gains compound long term (it's a infinite game) instead of starting over each time. Now days I prefer to watch pros play video games to unwind, instead of playing video games myself. But a quick game can still be fun here and there to unwind. By contrast, the game of business is played over many decades.

Have been approached multiple times to get involved with bridge tech. jfc not in a million years. or until we have unquestionably correct proofs of what im working with. think we may get that soon tho…

pretty sure rseth was a liquidation problem last time i fucked with it…

I think Anthropic might have an enterprise lead right now but I’d bet that they are shitting it about renewals.

@bitcoinpanda69 @Arm8tron it’s just words, man.

@Arm8tron what even *is* sugar if we really think about it

Zero sugar soda is humanity's finest invention

@banteg wouldn’t believe the messages ive had about that…

codex memory looks very undercooked. it's just a single md file shared across all projects. can't believe they haven't heard of mila jovovich.

ok pls someone confirm you can escape geofencing of codex features if you hold vpns properly?

OK new Claude design abilities are pretty slick. Now I need 5.5 to do the engineering work :)

Trump fucked up his war so bad he’s trying to change the subject back to Epstein.

If the answer is reality fucking TV I give up.

Fucking deals. We just accepted the whole 'deal' thing. This prick tells everyone he's the deal guy, so now global policy is based on deals. Why are we tolerating this dumbing down of diplomacy?

Realising I may be leaning on GPT-5.4 more than I ought to. It knows everything about me. It knows most, if not all, of my business and consulting plans. It knows my tone and my approach to problem solving. I don't know where the psychosis line is...