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News! I’ve joined the Filecoin Foundation @filfoundation, and Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb! I’ll be helping technologists, archivists and teachers building the #dweb. We aim to restore the net’s superpower: distributing knowledge and autonomy to all. 1/19

This is what the older generations should try and do more often

Cardano's @IOHK_Charles and @FilFoundation President @MartaBelcher chat about how @Cardano utilizes Filecoin's EiB-scale infrastructure, how the Filecoin Onchain Cloud brings a programmable storage and payments layer to developers, Filecoin's 2026 focus on enterprise-ready products, why Filecoin is made for the AI era, and why decentralized storage is the "last mile of decentralization" for Web 3 projects.

The arguments behind every landmark Supreme Court ruling have never been freely available to the public… until now. Thanks to a gift from the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School, more than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs are now freely freely available on the Internet Archive, spanning 1830 through 2019. The arguments that shaped America, including Brown v. Board of Education. Loving v. Virginia. Read the full announcement ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u-s… @WMLawSchool #SupremeCourt #DemocracysLibrary

Crazy to me that we have a relative glut of small, often quite pretty college campuses for sale at the same time as we have a glut of billionaire eccentrics with their own unusual ideologies and communities, and we can't somehow make these things work together

But if you actually read to the end of the Wired story (I know, I know), its conclusion isn't about claiming Le Roux was Satoshi, but about the dangers of motivated reasoning in trying to do so. A lesson I respectfully think could have been valuable to heed in the Times case:

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@zooko 1997 I think! spesh.com/hip97/

@mala Awww. I still clearly remember the first time I met you. It was at HIP in 1993.

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This is a devastating ruling for the government, finding Anthropic likely to prevail on essentially all of its theories for why the government’s actions were unlawful and unconstitutional. One of the things she mentions is the huge range of amici briefs supporting Anthropic (by the way, 0 supported USG)—so thanks to everyone here who signed on to FAI’s brief, or to one of the many many others. These things do matter. More importantly, you were on the right side of history. On a personal note: some friends and allies of mine on the right have been angry at me for my own words and actions in all this. Anyone who thinks I spoke out for personal gain or trivial reasons against an administration I served in is crazy. It was a hugely costly decision for me. But Judge Lin’s ruling shows why I did it: this is a staggeringly illegal act by the government. That is why I am particularly honored to have been (implicitly) quoted in the ruling for calling this what it was when Secretary Hegseth initially made his announcement: an attempted act of corporate murder. The case continues, but Anthropic has scored a very large win here. The real victors, however, are all red-blooded Americans who are, as the founders would have said, “jealous of their liberties.”

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Big news! We are excited to announce we are teaming up with the @internetarchive to co-organize the @GETDWeb Camp just outside Berlin this year. Will you go camping with us? 🏕️

I have a hunch we are about to enter an Ornamental Age and this reminded me of that:

@MattWelch @reason Oh no. I’m so sorry. Brian was always, genuinely, one of my favorite writers and journalists.

An obituary I never wanted to write.

We are announcing a new ~£50m research funding programme to make AI agents in the wild secure. The call for proposal is now open for £300k-£3m grants until March 24, 2026. (Programme: Scaling Trust at @ARIA_research - see thread)

New blog post from me: As Was The Style At The Time: How We Became Cruel oblomovka.com/wp/2026/02/09/…

Even if you agree with ICE and the deportations, you should be troubled by this. At the moment, there is not conclusive evidence what the deceased was doing when he got shot, yet high up administration officials will happily lie to justify killing him.

DHS deleted this one because: -The family was driving home and got blocked. -ICE deployed flashbangs and tear gas INSIDE the car. -The 6-month old child stopped breathing and had to be rushed to hospital. DHS did NO investigation & rushed to lie to defend the officers.

Donald Trump is, at least until he no longer holds office, a menace to the liberty and peace of America and the world. reason.com/2026/01/12/tru…

"Gossip protocol" x @mala x @Filecoin "I think one of the things that binds the free speech and the privacy movement together is not only a sort of commonality understanding about how technology can transform those civil liberties and encode those civil liberties. It's also that we have a common set of opponents" Watch the talk here: youtu.be/FPUi47Gt6bE Cypherpunk Congress #3 in Mumbai: luma.com/spsnos9t