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@jacobincambodia Money can get you anything in Cambodian prisons (literally everything except leaving the premise). Still it seems hard to believe women would get raped. Or maybe a prostitution ring with willing female prisoners, but that quite changes the narrative.

@jacobincambodia I wouldn’t pay too much attention to what this con man says. Also never heard of such mistreatment in Cambodian prisons. The whole story about women inmates being raped implies many people would be involved or being able to testify. Hard to believe, even for SHK

Sihanoukville Prison Rebuts Goodnight Chicken Sihanoukville Provincial Prison has formally rejected the lurid abuse claims made by Chen Nengchuan, the Taiwanese streamer known as Goodnight Chicken (晚安小雞). He and his cameraman were released and deported on February 13 after serving two years for staging fake kidnapping and ghost-possession videos in Cambodia. Chen has been giving interviews since. He told Taiwanese personality Rose that on his first night in prison, a cell leader had him stripped and forced a long pencil into his anus while more than 30 inmates watched and laughed. He says the same pencil was then used to brush his teeth. He also described an arrangement during exercise periods where female prisoners would sit on chairs for male prisoners to pick from, with 25,000 riel buying 15 minutes of physical contact in a side room. The prison's rebuttal, issued yesterday, says officials interviewed the cell leader and Chen's former cellmates, including Chinese and other foreign nationals, and none backed up his account. The cellmates voluntarily gave thumbprints to attest. The statement closes by reminding the public Chen and his friend made a habit of fake performance videos to attract millions of views on Facebook and TikTok before their arrest.

@sstrangio The intimacy you have with both Cambodia and Myanmar, you are one of few who could deliver a quality story about what really happened there the past decade. A canonical gold rush and history of violence. (Write the book!!!)

The use of "Scambodia" in the headline of this WSJ piece is getting quite a lot of pushback on Cambodian social media -- but frankly, Cambodia's government only has itself to blame. The piece provides a pretty good overview of a fatally serious problem.

@VBkramnik We'd love to have Erigaisi and Abdusattorov compete too, and Firouzja, and Keymer, but your original argument to reassess acceptable candidates is invalid x.com/maxrewak/statu…

I offer best solution to avoid huge legal problems and scandal for FIDE. 2024 and 2025 tours runner ups were Erigaisi and Abdusattorov What about including both since anything else would become a huge problem They both completely belong to Candidates level and I don't thing anyone would be against it. And @FIDE_chess can avoid scandal and maybe think whether people responsible inside the organisation for that would be careful in future learning regulations in advance What do you think guys? x.com/VBkramnik/stat…

@davthewave The gap between how passionately you document the conflict and how cold and rational the solutions you sometimes put forward are, is awe-inspiring. Democracy would work great with people like you as representatives.

Probably the best thing that could happen is for various countries in the region to have a peacekeeping force in the Gazan strip. This was mentioned in the peace deal, and on this condition the Hamas leadership would bow out. This is something all parties [except no doubt Israel] would be keen to see.

@delucinator This is a unique case of a pegged-asset protocol that has the necessary resources to repeg but won't do it and leave everyone rekt. The level of crooking here is crypto S-tier.

@delucinator We pushed QIP-247 last week to gov Github as they only consider pleb's suggestion if there is a QIP. docs.google.com/document/d/1A-… Their answer was "before i read this, does this proposal provide a way to resume operations on the depegged chains"?. Then they promptly deleted it.

good thing all you had to do was silo losses without compensation, make new stable with same name to pretend its all good, then go found a new protocol

@martinkrung These are inflated by 50%, Curve API is mispricing $TAIKO. Actual APR is ~35% lower.

Sad state of the industry, you offer 3 crvUSD, but then nobody does the work! So I earn it myself. But, this is the good state of the industry: ~ 50% on stables!

@raphaelmansuy @DarioAmodei Nexus thesis precisely @harari_yuval?

Dear @DarioAmodei As a long-time admirer of Claude and Anthropic's work on AI safety, I must respectfully challenge your position on export controls. Your focus on a US-China technological divide overlooks how Chinese companies like DeepSeek have actually democratized AI development: They've made their research openly available They've proven that innovation comes from human ingenuity, not just computing power They're showing that progress happens through global collaboration, not isolation The framing of "democratic nations vs China" creates artificial divisions in what should be a united human endeavor. History shows that sanctions often backfire - driving innovation underground rather than preventing it. The real path to responsible AI development lies in: Global research transparency Open source collaboration Universal ban on military AI applications Shared governance frameworks Rather than using regulation as a competitive tool, we should focus on making AI development more accessible while establishing clear ethical boundaries that apply to all nations equally. What if we redirected this energy toward building trust and cooperation instead? And by the Way Why you Block Anthropic From Hong Kong ? A proud Hong Kong Resident.

My thoughts on China, export controls and two possible futures darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-an…

@gfsdgsdg2334 @delucinator

@delucinator Did the tx to contract ratio screw us?

Have 17k txns on base on 4 wallets got 62 op lfg!

@delucinator I have about 10k tx on a single wallet: 0 OP. Narrow range CL LPs got rugged, even though they power the whole trading and defi eco on Superchain.

@AndreCronjeTech I feel you. Pretty insane how little praise you got from being the mad scientist behind ve(3,3) dexes, when its forks are most often the top AMM on every single L2 out there, by all measures. Is oke tho, the old DeFi guard, we know what we owe you.

@VanthaPhoung @MechDara1 Any idea which posts are targeted specifically? Can’t find / remember any candidate post on Twitter recently

Cambodian freelancer journalist @MechDara1 was apprehended during his return journey from Sihanoukville with his family. As of now, there is no official confirmation regarding the nature of his charges.

@sadbryce Not all of Coinbase familia are good, also a couple of full-blown scammers like Michael Sall and Blake West who lost millions to investors (in supposedly safe corporate loans) while overpaying themselves and their friends, and are now already raising funds for their new scam

I don’t think people fully appreciate how unique the Coinbase mafia is in crypto: • Huge alumni network across every major crypto company • Many of the most influential VCs worked at Coinbase • Deep, crypto native talent pool that knows how to execute • Culture of staying connected and helping each other out

@VitalikButerin @llamaonthebrink Don't you think the EF should set an example by disbursing as many payments as possible on-chain? After all the treasury is essentially on Ethereum, why not (1) swap to USDC using the large available liq on DEX and (2) pay services providers, employees, grants, etc. on-chain?

One other thing I would add, is that we should all agree that finance *isn't enough*. There are sooooo many centralization points that are rapidly growing and threats in the world's technology today: * Ongoing political attacks on encrypted messaging * Centralized identity systems and credit scores * Bugs/backdoors in insecure/proprietary operating systems * Social media - both censorship imposed on platforms by governments, and the opaqueness/centralization of algorithms made by the platforms themselves * Chokepoints in a small number of powerful countries getting more and more power to deplatform people halfway across the world from half the internet * Surveillance, deplatforming and economic domination risks from centralized AI * Similar concerns about mind-reading tech (BCI), soon to come etc etc Even if you could magic finance into being exactly perfect, if we get these other issues wrong, the world would still really really suck, along all the philosophical axes that we care about that brought us into crypto in the first place. At the same time, finance is a critical part of any strategy for pushing against many of these trends. Your VPN is not anonymous unless your way of paying for the VPN is privacy-preserving, and so I'm grateful to @RAILGUN_Project for giving me a way to do that (and excited about @0xbowio's work in expanding privacy while minimizing bad actors' ability to benefit from such protocols, all without backdoors). Polymarket is part finance, but also not just finance. Farcaster is social, but uses a finance component for anti-spam, and I suspect that sustainable monetization strategies for decentralized social will involve decentralized finance (when anyone can build a client, ads are inherently more limited, so you have to try something else) So I think intersections between decentralized finance and other decentralized tech are going to be very important. And "other decentralized tech" is a sector that does not naturally get $100M VC rounds, so I think it needs a high level of explicit support today, though my ideal case is one where we can find stable feedback loops for it to get developed.

I watched the recent SteadyLads episode with Kain and I have to admit I had no idea that vitamin and the EF dislike DeFi… It almost feels hard to believe in a sense. The overwhelming majority of ETH’s value comes from its use as collateral in DeFi, why on earth would you want to see fewer DeFi protocols being built? I honestly hope it’s not true. I would feel a bit jaded tbh since I see vitamin praising USDC all the time which I find to be a very unimpressive use of crypto. It’s almost ironic to shill something like USDC (which literally undermines ETH as an SoV and the neutrality of the chain) and ask for less DeFi (the thing that lends the most value to ETH) in the same breath. If I had to sympathize with the view I would say maybe vitamin is a purist who thinks much of our defi isn’t really defi due to the reliance on trusted oracles and multisigs (which to be fair is a valid criticism) and that he would encourage more “pure defi” with no external dependencies like Uniswap. But I can’t read Vitalik’s mind so I don’t know what he really thinks. I just find it hard to believe that his views of defi are really that pitiful, if so, that would be very discouraging to all of us who are defending ETH on the timeline and using the chain while attention migrates else where. If you have a line to vitamin I request that you send him this, I still don’t really believe the assertion that he doesn’t like defi but I’d prefer to hear it from the horse’s mouth.

@tzedonn @_4lex_4 @goldfinch_fi Warbler Labs is now trying to clean themselves from any jural relation w/ Lend East, putting the weight on individual lenders. But lenders haven't received a single update from Lend East in a year, even after the default materialized. RWA done wrong there. gov.goldfinch.finance/t/update-on-le…

@_4lex_4 @goldfinch_fi Indeed, many calling for the treasury to sell $GFI to make lenders whole

Looks like @goldfinch_fi is in for another default. Lend East just revealed today that they can only repay ~$4.25M of their $10.15M loan from the Goldfinch pool, for a whopping 58% loss. This default also represents ~7.7% of total active loans on Goldfinch. According to some Discord community members, $750K borrowed from Goldfinch was allegedly used by LendEast to repay other borrowers in breach of the loan agreement. Reporting by Goldfinch has also been lacklustre, to say the least (see screenshot). The Lend East pool was a $10.15M loan with a 25-month term maturing 3rd April (today) at 17% USDC APY (or 28% var. GFI APY). Needless to say, underwriting junk bonds is difficult. Defaults are unavoidable but your goal is for interest from healthy loans to cover the losses. Smart contracts make the flow of funds more efficient, but at its current state does not solve for creditworthiness & underwriting. With defaults from the Tugende ($5M default) and Stratos pools ($7M default) coupled with a few Almavest pools ($12M) that are late / under grace period, things are looking shaky for now. 😨

@Fiskantes @StaniKulechov nouna.lens

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@Cryptoyieldinfo Hats off. I give it a non-zero chance that tweet was made a slide and prints distributed during a Coinbase board. Who else...?

@elonmusk Different keywords, c’mon E

Google is deeply infected with the woke mind virus

@kamikaz_ETH ETH on Blast are withdrawable afaik just giving up on the points.