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After reading @GretchenAMcC 's thread on better recommendations (twitter.com/GretchenAMcC/s…) [h/t @visakanv] I will try to convey why @alyssamarieraps is my favourite artist. A winding thread, but TLDR: she's a goddamn poet philosopher. Firstly, my motivation:

The first ever mainnet tx for @aztecnetwork was mined yesterday ✨ But what's in it?

"I'm at my limit" emotional or claude?

sovereign af ❤️‍🔥🤘 el 10/04 sale @settle_io, un primer paso para recuperar la soberanía como individuos optimista del futuro, gracias por todo el feedback y apoyo

i have just found out that while australians have been debating for years on if it’s called a parma or parmi the fucking brit’s have been calling it a parmo and i think we just need to put our differences aside to shame this

Regional woomba intensity across Australia

Prior administration's SEC (both under Biden and under Trump before) destroyed tens (arguably hundreds) of billions of dollars in value, punishing consenting adults for making their own financial decisions, in what is allegedly a free country that allegedly permits and encourages entrepreneurship, risk taking, and individual responsibility. The consequence of Gensler's SEC was, most obviously, a substantial reduction in entrepreneurs' willingness to attempt token designs of authentic utility. The flourishing of utility tokens post EVM (2016-2018) came to an end under fear of persecution. In its place, an era of memecoins and even greater scams that went entirely unprosecuted until post-collapse, like FTX. "If you try to build something of utility, we will ruin your life. If you make dog meme, no prob. If you steal $10b in customer money outright, we'll ask you for input on upcoming bills in DC so long as you donate some of it to our campaigns." The current SEC is materially better. Today's guidance is good, not because it is "clear" (ambiguous liberty is superior to clearly defined oppression), but because it recognizes limits on its own power; because the scope of tyranny over an allegedly free people is lessened. Importantly, what's new here is correct exclusions from security-definition of both "Digital Collectibles" and "Digital Tools". The latter aka utility tokens, so often persecuted under Gensler's regime. Digital Collectibles and Digital Tools are each massive categories. Huge, open territory for innovators to once again explore. To the current SEC, thank you for improving toward the ideals of what makes America good. I encourage anyone who was persecuted by the prior agency to post anything you feel comfortable sharing in the comments.

I think the standard economic story makes sense and isn't a paradox. If we annexed some other country (let's say Canada), this would increase per capita income in both countries insofar as it removed legal barriers that prevented resources from being re-allocated to more productive uses. This is obvious with physical resources like oil. Imagine that there's a very high tariff on oil, so Canada leaves most of its oil in the ground or expends it on low-value uses, but there's very high demand for oil in America. Once America annexed Canada, the tariff issue would be over, Canadian oil could flow to its economically-highest-value use in America, and both countries would benefit. But the same is true of people. If there's a Canadian genius who could make better electric cars, but he's stuck working in a mechanics' shop for $20K/year because Canada has no electric car companies and he can't get a work visa to move to the United States, then after we annexed Canada he could work at Tesla and overall productivity of the US/Canada system would increase. Or if there are lots of strong young construction workers sitting unemployed in Canada, and lots of construction projects that can't be done in America because there aren't enough workers, then, again, once the US annexed Canada, we could better match supply and demand and the overall productivity would increase. The problem is that you're imagining that the US annexes Canada on paper, but everyone keeps doing exactly what they were doing before and nothing changes. Then you're comparing this to immigration, which is a case of people very much changing what they're doing and re-allocating themselves from less productive to more productive areas. Of course in this comparison the first would show no economic benefit, and the second would show lots of economic benefit!

Asking “why don’t we just print more money” in a room full of men just to feel something

@John_Attridge And honestly? It wasn't just the best of times. It was also the worst of times. And that's rare.

We strongly oppose the Unified Attestation initiative and call for app developers supporting privacy, security and freedom on mobile to avoid it. Companies selling phones should not be deciding which operating systems people are allowed to use for apps. uattest.net

I was using ChatGPT for legal advice and it decided to completely hallucinate some preposterous nonsense about how growing wheat to use on my own farm somehow constitutes interstate commerce

it has also been 61 years since the reverend mother called maria a cunt face. a moment i’ll never get over😭😭

I received a wedding invitation. At the bottom it said: “Your presence itself is a gift. We don't want any gifts at the wedding.” I was confused, so I read it again and again. It's been an hour & I'm still confused! Am I invited or not??

who called it recursive self improvement and not how much claude could claude code clone if claude code could clone claude?

Tables

First they came for the programmers, and I did not speak — for I was not a programmer Then they came for the entry-level analysts, and I did not speak — for I was not an analyst Then they came for the middle managers making slide decks, and there was no one left to speak for me

my agent team watching me try to fix a bug manually

watching minarchists try to figure out the magic combination of words to get political figures to do what they're told would be comical if it wasn't so sad