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akiva
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Legal @turnkeyhq. Techno Optimist. #CDKL5 parent. Bitcoin Mostalist. ex @Coinbase. Wine drinker.
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@HansMahncke @calibrated_lies Many such cases … check out The Gray Lady Winked a.co/d/0hGcy6PP
h/t @balajis
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The story behind the New York Times’ 1903 claim that human flight was between one and ten million years away is even worse than it looks.
Once you understand the backstory, you realize that the New York Times story is not really about flight at all but about how elites and credentialed “experts” mistake their own failures for the boundaries of possibility.
The New York Times did not dismiss the possibility of powered flight at random. There was a very specific reason behind it. At the time, America’s most prominent scientific authority, Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Langley, had been showered with large amounts of taxpayer funding to build an aircraft, the Langley Aerodrome. Despite all the money, institutional backing, and elite prestige, Langley and his team could not get it to fly, culminating in a series of very public failures, the last on December 8, 1903.
So when the New York Times declared that flight was millions of years away, what it was really saying was that if the most credentialed and well-funded “experts” cannot do it, then it cannot be done.
A mere nine days later, the elites’ proclamation of impossibility lay in ruins. Two totally unknown bicycle mechanics from Ohio achieved the first powered flight using improvised parts, a few hundred dollars of their own money, and sheer persistence.
The story of flight is, at its core, a story of the triumph of American individualism over elite credentialism. The fact that it was the New York Times that inadvertently delivered the proof is the most fitting conclusion imaginable.
Aaron Ng@localghost
"Man won't fly for a million years" – NYT 1903
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@SchwartzNow @usmint I like this coin … but they should have kept the Mac and ditched the shoes!
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@DopaminePlsMe Some thoughts aren’t ideas, they’re sparks. If you don’t grab them instantly they disappear like they were never there.
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A rogue leftover Biden appointee at the IRS is trying to sneak this through.
This is information that French tax authorities sold to violent foreign criminal gangs, causing a wave of kidnapping and torture of bitcoiners.
Immediate action is needed @SecScottBessent
TFTC@TFTC21
The IRS just created a new crypto audit form designed to make you incriminate yourself. They're sending a new "Historical Digital Asset Form" that lists 100+ exchanges and self-custody wallets: Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, FTX, Mt. Gox, MetaMask, Ledger, Trezor, and demands you check YES or NO for every single one. Then sign it under penalty of perjury. This isn't a tax form. It's a mapping exercise. They don't just want to know what you traded last year. They want a complete picture of everywhere your crypto has ever touched going back years. The catch: there's no right way to fill it out. Forget a platform you used once in 2017? That's perjury. Disclose everything? You just gave them a roadmap for new lines of inquiry. Don't respond? They'll issue a summons. This is coming alongside Form 1099-DA, which means exchanges are now reporting directly to the IRS. They're cross-referencing what they already know with what you tell them, and looking for gaps. If you get this form, do not fill it out without a tax attorney. This is exactly the kind of overreach that pushes people toward self-custody and privacy-preserving tools like Bitcoin. The government doesn't send forms like this to help you. They send them to build a case.
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just picked up this bad boy. can't wait to write some software with it
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regulatory. tech exists to solve it but regulators move slower than builders
zk proofs handle the privacy requirements, confidential compute addresses data exposure concerns. the infra is live
what's missing is explicit approval frameworks and clear guidance from financial regulators on how these solutions fit existing mandates
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Can’t think of a more losing proposition across every conceivable vector than being antisemitic.
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Parents of kids with autism have a unique advantage when working with AI… we are used to constantly providing an extraordinary amount of context when giving instructions
Kai@thinklikekai
The skill isn't using AI It's knowing what to ask for Most people type "write me an email" The 1% type "here's the context, constraints, and outcome I need" Same tool. 10x different results.
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My son: “Dad, what should I do when I grow up.”
Me seeing the latest AI models:
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@Andercot We are probably AI robots transplanted from a super advanced species elsewhere in the universe.
Or it’s just a big video game/simulation.
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Belief is the most mind-altering drug you can consume
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This guy argues it doesn’t make financial sense to register his vehicles. He thinks the occasional ticket and court date would cost less than registration
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@stripepress I think these would be great as Stipe re-publications. They are hard to get on Amazon!
SPENCER@SP1NS1R
Was in/directly recommended this book like 5 times in the last couple months. Holy shit. It does not disappoint.
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