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Is pain necessary for intelligence, or is it just evolution’s shortcut?

Crypto is… Desperate gamblers chasing their first bag. Investors funding the buildout of the global casino. Bankers hypnotizing the masses to collect their vig. …all meaningless and ephemeral without the cypherpunks, who defend the dream of encrypted and unstoppable cash.

Any system that aims to regulate or control another must be at least as flexible and complex as the system it is trying to manage.

I drew these colliding galaxies with mathematical equations.

@willccbb Dmed :) @willccbb

if you’re looking for your next role in open models + infra, we are hiring aggressively for top talent that’s passionate about open-source research by having compute as our bedrock, our incentives are really well aligned for true openness at the model/infra/data layer. our success is directly tied to the usefulness of our open infra and research artifacts, and becoming a bedrock of the open research ecosystem. we’re building the big lab for everybody. our moat is network effects, relationships, and compute orchestration. revenue is growing rapidly. we’re well-resourced. we see a clear path to venture-scale growth. it all comes down to taste, speed, and execution. and it seems like we’re doing pretty well on all counts thus far. come join us :)

@dopplerprotocol applied ✅

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We're hiring a Protocol Researcher. Help design the future of onchain markets. Research the cutting edge of mechanism design Design new iterations of Doppler and novel protocols Work directly with engineering to ship Remote. Full time. Global.

New AI/security/philosophy paper from me and @0xpiapark arxiv.org/abs/2603.19011

VOLE-in-the-head is a fast hash-based ZK proving system which is plausibly post-quantum secure. We invited @crypto_carsten to give a talk on how it works, including how it was applied to build the FAEST signature scheme which is currently a NIST candidate, and the POMFRIT blind signature scheme. youtube.com/watch?v=5VjvkV…

Surveillance isn't inevitable. Let's stop normalizing it.

@dankvr Very cool

Saw this on maker world. Solar powered mesh network lanterns. The casing is 3D printed. P cool design If there was a way a drone can be used to hang these somewhere it’d be a good way to cover lots of area

visualizing all my claude code sessions: each plant is a project, its leaves the sessions. sliding the timeline scrubber -> replaying projects growth over time.

Bio-neural hybrids are interesting because biological networks co-locate memory and compute, potentially easing the memory/power bottleneck for adaptive tasks, while silicon remains better for precise computation.

My friend set up his AI agent to flirt with me… are we dating GPUs now lol

Social hallucinations at scale. Welcome to the Delulu Era.

Markets > Governments

I have no idea what happened but Anthropic and Dario just won huge points in my book, any powerful leader that is taking a stance against this fascist government during this era of knee benders is a rockstar

So, when do we start talking about AI and Privacy?

Formal Verification is a core part of Lean Ethereum. Here's an explanation

gm fam rainy istanbul vibes, crypto convos, coffee doing the heavy lifting ☕️ w/ @niluokay

@ggizemyildiz 💗💕