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Don’t track my stack! @EdgeWallet

I’d like to defend decentralized governance of contracts (aka DeFi). Without it, we rely on threats of violence in our game theory because all contracts would be upheld by participants obligated to follow the rules of the contracts unless they suffer legal consequences invoking force. Maybe I am drinking the koolaid, but improving this situation with automation seems reasonably good.

Gold is decentralized money that has worked for thousands of years without defi. I can't get a car loan, or a mortgage, or a business loan, with DeFi. Even if I could someday, it would still rely on centralized services, governments, and courts. DeFi has only been useful to me for decentralized swapping, and you don't need programmable money for that.

Crypto is absurd: The top 3 chains are nonsense, that is, if we are honest with ourselves: BTC has no capacity, programmability, & no long-term security or scarcity! ETH also pivoted to reject utility, only to become a worse version of BTC... All while XRP remains centralized!

I’d like to defend decentralized governance of contracts (aka DeFi). Without it, we rely on threats of violence in our game theory because all contracts would be upheld by participating obligated to follow the rules of the contracts unless they suffer legal consequences invoking force. Maybe I am koolaid, but improving this situation with automation seems reasonably good.

Anthropic shut down an entire company's Claude access overnight 60+ employees. No explanation. Just an email. Want to appeal? Fill out a Google Form. Integrations gone. Histories gone. Everything built on Claude... gone. Never let one vendor own your workflow.

Looks like a good time to short BTC

Ben: “Bad guys use money for bad things” Jon: “Wild! 🤯”

@RyanSAdams it’s whatever the regulators decide. Thinking we have a choice on the matter is merely optics/narrative As long as you think the votes, protests, and hijacked blockchains matter, the regime erodes our liberties and any recourse we have.

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A video of a mall? Malls kind of are the start of the fake. I think the digital world created most of the fake. It’s too convenient. Real things are hard. Fake things are easy. in-person conversation -> SMS text message Polaroid photograph cataloged in photo book -> instagram photo Years building an intimate relationship -> AI friendship/lover I could go on and on, but the true problem here is digital. You and I have never met. You don’t know if I’m real and I don’t know if you’re real. Yet, here we are, sharing a fake conversation over a fake medium, feeling fake connection. Have a good day. Keep it real.

I think I know why everything sucks... ...and it's because everything is fake We are getting fake college degrees that cost 4 years and six figures that teach you fake education and get you fake jobs. We are eating fake food, with fake ingredients, funded by fake research. We are scrolling through fake lives, with fake relationships, who take fake, curated vacations to promote brands that make fake products. We are voting for fake candidates, who run on fake promises, inside a fake system that was never designed to fix anything. We are raising kids in fake schools that teach fake history, fake science, which quietly produce fake adults who can't think for themselves. We are watching fake news, about fake crises, produced by fake journalists, for fake outrage. We are borrowing fake money that was printed from nothing, to fund a fake economy that would collapse in an afternoon if people stopped pretending it was real. We are buying fake organic food that's just a paid label, and drinking fake juice with two percent juice in it, and putting fake cheese on cheeseburgers that's just "cheese product" on fake burger meat. We are donating to fake nonprofits where the moeny never makes it to the people and then funding fake foreign aid that buys real weapons to prop up fake governments. We are going to fake therapy that teaches fake coping skills instead of telling you hard truths. We are buying fake furniture made of fake wood that's actually compressed sawdust and glue that looks like wood, ships in fourteen boxes with instructions written in a fake language that isn't quite any language, requires tools it doesn't include, takes 4 hours to build, wobbles on day 1, and is totally destroyed in 6 months. We are downloading fake "free" apps that charge a subscription after three days for AI features that don't work, hidden behind a paywall we didn't see, protected by a privacy policy we didn't read, buried inside Terms of Service written by lawyers specifically so we wouldn't read them, that we agreed to by tapping a button the size of a thumbnail, that gave a company we've never heard of the right to sell our data to companies we'll never hear of, to build a profile on us we'll never see, to influence decisions we'll never know were made. IT. IS. ALL. FAKE. And we all yearn for what was once real. Don't you remember? Did you forget? There was a time with a simple handshake between men was a contract. When bread went stale because... well, that's what real bread does! When kids played outside all day until it was dark, and nobody tracked them. When a family could live off a single income. When music was made by people who LIVED something real and you could feel it. When schools was HARD... and that was the point! When doctors knew your name and your family, they even came to your house, When you bought something once... and it was yours forever. When the chair your grandmother bought once lasted 70 years and she passed it onto your dad. And now nothing is real, and that's why everything sucks.

@lopp You're absolutely right!

Surrounding yourself with sycophants leads to: * Dunning–Kruger effect * Less critical thinking * Loss of touch with reality Never forget that most LLMs are explicitly trained to be sycophantic, because humans love feeling flattered. It's basically the AI industry's nicotine.

@BTCBreadMan You’re also assuming that most of the Bitcoin bought isn’t rehypothecated. This would take 2 months at 2500 transactions per block for provable bitcoin.

I propose that 21 million of us all get together and buy 1 bitcoin each and refuse to sell it. We could send the Bitcoin price to $10,000,000 overnight. Who’s in?

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@mad_paiement What contributes most to this? What stands out immediately?

Since leaving the U.S., my baseline anxiety dropped in a way I didn’t expect. It’s a lot easier to make things when you’re not constantly bracing.

@Kluckies_ It’s not private from the state

Give me a realistic scenario for how Bitcoin could fail. Just one.

🚨BREAKING: Someone just “someone justed” about a browser built for AI that’s faster and more better than Chrome.

@paullinator Pretty much. 😕 Puts a whole other meaning to “pull” request. 🔫

@sam_holmes Great, Asana/Jira for assasins ☹️

How does this make you feel?

@mad_paiement Heaven on middle-earth?

Whenever people ask, “How’s New Zealand?” and I say, “It’s literally heaven on earth,” they assume I’m being hyperbolic. I’m not.

At Edge, privacy isn't a buzzword.