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If you aren’t taking Ethereum seriously yet, I suggest seeking more historical insight of the Internet & of how blockchains work. Real deal.

feels like there was a bump in @ChatGPTapp's cross-chat contextual inferencing. and it's buggy.

@brit exactly my first thought and also thought of @sm

Clearly you are not a parent 😅

@jxnlco Working hard or hardly skinning the cat

Me between giving away credits.

Optimum Nutrition's micronized creatine monohydrate. Given that there are few producers of creatine monohydrate, there is really no reason to stray away from the long-established/trusted brands like Optimum Nutrition. Many of the popular brands from fitness influencers of late charge a ridiculous premium. This might be (partially) because one of the main manufacturers distributing to brands under the name Creapure (for example, see BPN's creatine ingredient label) increased price. On that note, this might explain ON's removal of Creapure branding on their label, suggesting they're potentially sourcing elsewhere lately. But that's not a concern for me given my experiences. Personal anecdote- I deliberately flushed my body of excess creatine over the past 6 months and then re-introduced it (via ON's micronized creatine mono) this past 2 weeks after settling well into a new training block. Since I was pushing my top working sets to perceived effort of 9/10 regularly without creatine, I was able to more clearly perceive the effects of the reintroduction of creatine. I had otherwise always just been flooded with it (as we should be), and never really remembered the experience of the true switch over since it had been so long. I know the original post was less about this aspect, but speaks to what I'm mainly pointing out regarding brands. Pills or gummies are also not preferred as a matter of practicality. If you are interested in taking creatine, you are likely also interested in supplementing your protein intake and so just doing your daily 5-10g serving (even on non-training days) with a protein shake is automatic + effortless + tasteless. The creatine hype on X from short-term experiences has been so silly. I've experimented with mega doses of creatine for 15 years. Maybe I just forgot what baseline without creatine feels like, but at this point, I revert to 10g every single day of my life.

@Bfaviero what format / brand? not ready to choke down 5 scoops of unflavored GNC powder

Slept 5 hours a night this week. Took 20g of creatine and felt incredible every day.

New Research Note: AI Identity and the Megapolitics of the Mind re.alisa.sh/notes/ai-ident…

Love how @SandroNivola can’t keep Pollux Troy contained even after all these years

Big skill drop from @trailofbits today! Here are 10 new skills we publicly released from our internal repository: 🧵

Remembering memories with my friend Felix ‘FX’ Lindner @41414141, hacker extraordinaire with a huge heart, who passed away last week. Whether in Berlin, San Francisco, or Sao Paulo, hanging out with FX was never dull. FX was prophiled in @phrack #68 phrack.org/issues/68/2

@elonmusk opening salvo likely precisely dictated by real-time intelligence opportunity identifying multiple HVTs at the compound for the meeting. although, still interesting to consider that recent events could potentially predict such a meeting

Prediction of the future is the best measure of intelligence

@signulll Immediately explored this inevitability and my view has been that these people already misunderstand AI in general and already hated OpenAI. No doubt it will be louder in coming weeks but ultimately won’t matter in the mid/long term.

as of this writing claude is now #2 in the app store & there’s a real non trivial downside scenario here for openai that many aren’t really grasping. it’s low prob but structurally interesting. lemme explain. if a clean meme forms on tiktok & instagram tying openai to the department of war, & that framing hits mainstream liberal users, the reaction won’t be analytical, it’ll be fucking visceral. most ppl won’t parse contract scope, defensive use cases, or historical precedent. they’ll respond to timing & symbolism. & if this perception hardens, the competitive alternative becomes emotionally obvious. an association that feels morally dissonant could trigger switching behavior, employee discomfort, media amplification, & even long tail brand drift. i’m not even arguing companies shouldn’t work with the war dept. that’s not the point. the point is that in a memetic environment, perception compounds faster than facts. & if that perception locks in among a politically concentrated user base, the second & third order effects on consumer ai could be far more significant than most people expect. again low probability cuz switching is hard but damn if they haven’t opened a can of worms.

@tszzl Just communicated this to someone a few minutes ago

most important part of this >We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies [...] We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements.

@cyantist youtube.com/watch?v=s2Sd2L… From my daily Closer to Truth alert today. Scroll through latest videos and you'll find more. But also, definitely read Anirban Bandyopadhyay's work for...an interesting take.

Who are the best people in the world right now studying or writing about consciousness?

This will bring back the preference for always on “desktop” computer. And then more related to what I’ve been anticipating: real-time social/presence. Actual presence layer (at least reversion to more granular presence signaling) that “cloud” diminished returns, which then further bolsters the Productivity Age through new levels of collaboration with tools we didn’t have prior. Seems clear to me this kind of agent infra actually also simultaneously improves human coordination through later effects.

Personal agent software that you install locally is one of my favorite new metas of 2026 Placing agent power on your own computer empowers every user and I’m so here for that ironclaw.sh

bizarre how otherwise successful/intelligent people are still being tricked into buying poorly-cut gems and tasteless jewelry from the big houses, not realizing there is a different level of rarity and quality to be had for a fraction of the price from independent lapidaries

analyzing my log archives from the EFnet programming channels I was actively fielding questions in. the other misc stuff we were apparently doing: abusing the word grok, exploring and making sqlite tools, debating XML. aside, reminded java channels were the grumpiest

@bryce expected that

Anthropic ads were a total flop in our house. Despite having a highly tech literate family they took a bunch of explaining…

@jasonkwon hope you were lucky enough to skip the perl phase x.com/quantity/statu…

I remember when I was 8, my dad got me a Commodore 64 for my birthday. All of the other gifts are fuzzy in memory, but that one stands out, because it had such ripple effects throughout the rest of my life. Sure, it was mostly about video games at first. It came with a few, but my parents weren’t keen on spending more on off-the-shelf stuff. I also started to wonder how these games worked. So I moved on to collecting programming magazines and checking out books from the library that contained machine language instructions for coding up various make-your-own-games. I started by just punching in the code in a rote manner, but realizing that you could write stuff into the instruction sets of these machines and that they would then do things felt like magic. It led me to want to learn languages, from BASIC to Pascal to eventually C. Later on in my teens, I picked up a modem, and stumbled upon the old BBS’s of the pre-internet era and university Gopher networks. Realizing that you could use these tools as another way to talk to people and belong to a community felt like another unlock. No one sat me down and said I should do these things. The simple fact that I could, revealed by a gift given by a loved one on a whim, set in motion an ongoing curiosity with tech and computing that now spans decades. I would guess that for a lot of people who love coding, building things, engineering, design and tech, similar moments stand out in their lives. Not everyone will get this ad right away. That’s ok - that’s kind of the point. If you’re wondering, then you’re asking questions, and then the rest is up to you. And the incredible thing is, it’s never been easier to just go for it. Go be you, go do you and don’t look back.

Been waiting to see OpenAI's Super Bowl spot before expressing this: Very understandable and predictable to me that Anthropic in particular would fall into the trap of using its air time in the satirical manner it did. That traditional format/style/posture is a bit outdated, and misaligned for a company still very much in its first-impression phase. Especially with the audience it's trying to capture. This all further reflects my opinions of Anthropic. OpenAI instead managed to toe the emotional wonder and nostalgia line well. The most effective Super Bowl ads either fully commit to emotion (when earned by long incumbency) or confidently project optimism in value. OpenAI landed closer to the sweet spot and reflected positive light on curiosity, creation, and the future. That aside, too much implicit knowledge required with Anthropic's ads- should have instead focused on features/value. It only lands with those already in the know, and even then it's not really meaningful or lasting...even by an AI week's end! Surprised I haven't seen @lulumeservey break this down more succinctly yet. In any case, good for @sama @OpenAI for maintaining composure in the face of constant bullying and trusting @kate_rouch & team instead of doing what most do in these situations: weaken their image by allowing others to control their emotion, leading to tilt and typical unnecessarily overly-assertive response. They could have gone into a last-minute adjustment disaster. Last semi-related thought- OpenAI's focus on Codex for this particular placement/spot drives home something I've been communicating to private groups lately: Anthropic's Claude Code approach made clear that a rigid dev-first focus (arguably necessary) without the flexible foundation and urgency to quickly segue to "enable the people to be creators" leaves an opening that OpenAI is likely already ahead of. Like I said in my last post, they are more effectively planning the multi-pronged approach and executing on it very well, whereas it is apparent (by direct accounts) that Claude Code was winged into play. My overarching opinion is that we are going to revert to classic MDI-style experiences for design, creation, orchestration (and much more!) in a manner that is appealing to even the new user, and that OpenAI might already be laying the tracks for that. Think: workshop portals.

I find it hard to believe a less-emotional, less-viciously competitive Musk would be truly more concerned about @sama than about Dario and friends

To me it feels like... Early 2000s Apple vs MS/Dell/then later Samsung/everyone else (even on some superficial counts, e.g. recent ads). The better balanced Democratic Party of past vs the now pretentious/deluded/self-destructive Party. Some corners of IRC/90s security underground vs the holier-than-thou Institution (many of the 90s legends are at OpenAI now). Anthropic continues to reflect much of what went wrong with the Democratic Party...elitism, insulation, naivete (both morally and strategically), etc. OpenAI's culture is far more approachable than Anthropic's, similar to certain periods of Apple vs Microsoft (IMO). And the culture is more conducive to potential innovation on the next-most important layer(s). The product strategy is (more) astutely multi-pronged and balanced, again IMO. Even OpenAI's design and messaging/communication are much more approachable/interpersonal than Anthropic's, specifically with regard to yanno...the rest of the normal world vs devs/researchers/technical/corporate folks.