developing valhalla - h/acc

I feel like no one’s talking about how oil prices are predicted to get like significantly higher than they are now lol This is just straight up like 30% higher than it was in 2022

I am horrified and angered by the swastikas painted on homes and synagogues in Queens, including on a plaque honoring survivors of Kristallnacht. This is not just vandalism — it is a deliberate act of antisemitic hatred meant to instill fear.

There is no place for antisemitism in Queens or anywhere in our city. I stand in solidarity with our Jewish neighbors. Their safety, dignity, and belonging are non-negotiable.

The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating and I am confident those responsible will be held accountable.

Starling rescue today at Dulles Airport.

The cypherpunks were not optimists. They didn't believe the arc of technology bends automatically toward freedom. They didn't think transparency would produce accountability, or that decentralization would naturally resist capture, or that the internet would remain the open commons its early architects imagined. They were, if anything, pessimists about institutions and realists about power. The Cypherpunk Manifesto was written in 1993. PGP encryption - which allowed individuals to communicate with military-grade privacy for the first time - was released in 1991. Tor came in the early 2000s. Bitcoin in 2008. And through every iteration, a consistent lineage: the belief that the only durable answer to institutional overreach is technical infrastructure that doesn't require the institution's cooperation. You can't negotiate privacy from a position of dependence on the systems that profit from your exposure. You build the alternative. This is the long game. It runs across decades. It doesn't win news cycles. It doesn't produce quarterly results. It produces infrastructure - tools that exist, that work, that can't be argued out of existence by any policy paper or legislative session. DarkFi is a chapter in a story that started before most of its users were born. The foundations were laid decades ago. Let there be Dark!

BREAKING: The Fujairah port is burning after multiple Iranian strikes hit the only remaining UAE oil export outlet and endpoint of the pipeline UAE built to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.

As I am going about my day, two kids drive past me on electric bikes at high speed. Wheeling. Shocked, I regain my cortisol levels, but the buzzing doesn’t seem to stop. I look up. It is a drone. I watch as it fades, but the buzzing - not. I look back. A cellular network antenna.

Pokemon Pop-Tarts are already being scalped after returning for the first time in 25 years The Target-exclusive boxes cost $2.89, but sold eBay listings show some going for up to $25, not including shipping

What's crazy is that by so violently eschewing AI in art and media, "artists" are going to fall behind both technologically and artistically compared to people who are willing to see AI as a tool. They will only ever be better than slop producers, and even then it'll be close.