Jemenger - occasionally here

"Stop all the datacenters!"

@MattMematic Really appreciate it that someone out here gets the joke 🙏

@jemenger 🤣🤣🤣🤣

"Stop all the datacenters!"

@calilyliu Perhaps a better framing of the issue: Metaverse was not gaming enough and @Polymarket was.

Also, gaming on a blockchain is not coming back

I am glad that the USA still maintains some powerful friends, particularly Japan. We really cannot afford to have any more distance from European nations, but the distance is growing. Lacking enough friends, and lacking in rightness, we will have to rely on our advantages.

Braking from the old Western traditions and current laws, treaties, etc. that constrain warfare may be effective. Arguably even necessary at times. But it saps us of the moral high ground. We would have needed that in the difficult times ahead.

December 7, 1941 is clearly no longer a date which will live in infamy. Our sense of chivalry has evaporated after decades of Cold War, undeclared wars, and experiencing large-scale terrorism. Even the advantaged powers will use the assassin's mace. nytimes.com/2026/03/20/wor…

If you could fix just one thing about crypto, what would it be?

@DCinvestor Nah, I would say it is time for people on the left and people on the right to sit down every day, take a deep breath, and focus for fifteen minutes on being a lot less stupid.

it’s time for the medium-far-to-far left and the medium-far-to-far right to come together and start to agree on a platform you’ll need to agree on closed borders as table stakes and American primacy in the political system, rebuking foreign influence but the right will not get militarized deportation ops against non-violent offenders at this point and the left will not get radical social agenda items it’s going to be give and take idk if it can even work, but if there were ever a moment where it should be tried, it’s now

@laurashin Thanks for the correction! It is good to know that Bastian might be a little bit less weird now.

The other day I tweeted about a website on the Wayback Machine with a url that I noted had the same name as the new ED of the EF and that the site had been taken down shortly after the Ethereum Foundation published a blog post appointing someone with the same name to EF management. An EF spokesperson says the EF's Bastian is not German, which is the native language of the website. The website also references "supposed books," and they found a German author of the same name with books on Amazon.de. I apologize to the EF and Bastian for my tweet.

@Will_Tanner_1 There are also numerous, accidental cultural features which led to flourishing. For example, the tithe powering religious investment in sculpture, painting, architecture. Or a constant drive to impress the population. We should not get too attached to any simple explanation.

@Will_Tanner_1 Other factors are important as well. Often I think that the tremendous diversity of Europeans and nearby peoples, combined with their tendency to have vicious wars yet also openly trade, led to a powerful and well-tested differentiation between cities and states.

Stephen Miller is 100% right here The high culture that made the West so superior to everywhere else on Earth only came because Western Europe executed ~1% of each generation for centuries In weeding the crime gene out of the population through centuries of capital punishment for everything from larceny to murder, Western Europe made itself a paradise, and blossomed into the greatest high civilization the world has ever seen over the 18th and 19th centuries So, as he said, "The West only achieved the place that it did in human history because it spent previous centuries eradicating the criminal elements within it’s territories. The West that we came to know that had the great music and architecture and science and the most powerful economy had spent centuries previous to that establishing order first." That is 100% true. High civilization requires order, and requires the pruning of the tree of civilization to achieve it

@laurashin I don't get the guru business and spiritual pals thing, but there's a lot of groups I don't get. To each his own!

@laurashin Having been in California for a long time I can forget that running a guru consultancy for wealthy people might be considered weird or even shady. But there are reasons. Perhaps it is just a personal interest done in a way which is financially sustainable, or helpful at tax time.

Perhaps we can thank Anthropic for showing us the importance of formally articulating and committing to our principles. AKAICT the EF has always had some approximation of the values conveyed in this mandate, as did the majority of the people building Ethereum in the early days.

@tayvano_ There's a lot of nerve endings in there; I hate even the smallest injury to a thumb or finger.

I’ve broken bones. I’ve got in fights. I’ve fucking given birth. But a few days ago I got a cut (stab?) underneath my thumbnail while gardening. I don’t actually know. And today holy shit this pain is fucking unreal. I cant even function rn. If I touch it I might vomit. To make it worse, all I can think abt is the time I was talking to a boy who had a similar thing. I thought he was being a baby. He didn’t hack shit for nearly 2 days bc his poor wittle finger. But now….now I see. Now….I might try egg. 🥹