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thank you for your contributions 🫶

Unenforceable and retarded.

Hey did you accidentally bomb Iraq instead of Iran??? ChatGPT: You’re absolutely right good catch!

"We used to debate using tabs vs spaces in code we'd type out"

@jack @blocks lame

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack

@sama lame

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

“CEO of Hot Pockets ™ says that ‘most, if not all’ meals will be fully replaced with Hot Pockets ™ within the next 12 to 18 months”

contender v0.8.1 🕊️ just some stability bugfixes :) github.com/flashbots/cont… thank you Stefano Charissis for the heavy lifting 🫶

really nice practical advice for mevooors on rust

🕊️ Contender v0.8.0 (bugfixes!) • Internal nonce tracking for create/setup txs (needed for faster chains like base) & better receipts compatibility (also for chains like base lol) • Core code improvements & cleaned up CLI behavior • breaking: --redeploy removed from cli Also... Since v0.7.0 we’ve shipped: • v0.7.1: new admin contract-address subcommand + campaign stability fixes • v0.7.2: critical builtin scenario spam cost estimation fix • v0.7.3: lock-free spammer path, --infinite campaigns, better logs & cross-platform binaries Full changelog: github.com/flashbots/cont…

I 100% agree with what is being said here Not only in software engineering but across the board in all industries

every tech guy you know working on their @openclaw "productivity" system right now

Bro: How r u so focused even under pressure? Meanwhile me in 2004:

When Meta trains it models on 80+ TB of pirated books from LibGen and other platforms, it's called 'fair use', without them having to pay penalties and / or receive some form of legal punishment, as proceedings are ongoing. When Aaron Swartz downloaded 70 GB of articles from JSTOR in 2010 he was facing a $1M fine and 35 years in prison, before taking his life in 2013.

builder-playground v0.3.0 is here! ⚡ ✅ Flashblocks RPC, mev-boost, contender, bproxy support ✅ Faster startup with cached validator keys ✅ Friendly session names + service browsing commands ✅ Experimental YAML-based custom recipes 🧵

Me building an app with Claude Code: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me maintaining an app built with Claude Code: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

@solana cringe

Starknet has 8 daily active users, 10 daily transactions, and still somehow has a 1b MC and 15b FDV LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Send it straight to 0

Leveraging Blockchain in a New Era of Antitrust was recently published by @Stanford_JBLP

@mattgravesETH Agreed, the "free" model is as appealing to users as it gets. But I wonder if "no ads" is appealing enough to encourage user migration. I'm sure "brain rot resistance" is one of those things that sounds great but users don't care about...

@zeroXbrock There are lots of interesting ideas like this that can work with micro payments, crypto, and/or x402. In reality it is almost impossible to get people to pay for things that they can get for "free". Fun idea space though.

Very bullish on x402. You could have a youtube that combats brain rot and has no ads. Say you pay per second of video watched. As you watch the video, you watch your balance decrease. Without a monetary incentive to stop, it's easy to keep scrolling. But if you're watching yourself lose money, it'd be much easier to notice yourself doom-scrolling, acknowledge the lack of value in it, and stop the brain rot loop. And because the platform is paid directly for serving the video, it doesn't need to run ads to make money. Brain rot solved, lame ads gone forever. x402 babyyyy