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"If you want inspiration for resilience, look at @keonne and @leamuirleyn." - @prevhashnonce #PardonSamourai

Almost every major political problem comes down to one thing: too much centralized power. Bitcoin’s real gift isn’t digital money, it’s a working proof-of-concept for permissionless decentralized governance. We’re still not taking that seriously enough.

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I think there’s a point in research based careers where you have reflected so deeply on the fundamentals that you can no longer feel, touch, or see the surface that most people see. This makes it both very difficult - and exhausting - to connect with outsiders on the subject.

Regardless, the "never sell / spend your bitcoin" meme has been going around for a decade and is a toxic, ridiculous, and just terrible advice in general.

Roman Sterlingov was convicted of running Bitcoin Fog, a crypto mixer alleged to have laundered $400 million. But the government never proved he controlled it. No server access, no admin credentials, no operational evidence. #FreeRoman Sterlingov

Everything civilization can do is downstream of energy availability Nuclear fuels are about a million times more energy dense than hydrocarbons and many times more than lithium ion A nuclear battery can last decades without ever recharging Consider a drone that never lands, a sub that never returns to port, a satellite that operates far past the asteroid belt, a rover on the dark side of the moon. This opens up new mission profiles and vehicle capabilities that are otherwise impossible. This is what Zeno Power is building and why it dramatically increases the scope and scale of humanitys reach. (You can come see the founder of @zeno_power present live at the opening hardware showcase of deep tech week in sf on June 21st)

Data retention laws force companies to store your records longer than necessary Every retained record is a future breach liability Minimal retention is a privacy feature

BREAKING: Endurance Energy has secured a $54M Series A led by Founders Fund to develop the next generation of subsea geothermal energy.

"Think of the children" is the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook. Bill C-34 doesn’t protect kids, it normalizes digital ID and erodes data privacy for everyone. Don’t let children be used as a shield for a surveillance state.

We should all aspire to greater HTML! mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-f…

Many events going on with services recently. Hard to keep up. Check the events page for a global overview, services get updated as soon as we are aware of any issue: kycnot.me/events

I found an intruder on my friend's WiFi network for years mostly streaming video. I suggested setting a stronger WPA3 passphrase. They are disturbed by the intrusion but decided changing the wifi password on a dozen devices is too much effort so just decided to let it happen.

Sometimes you just have to go your own way. Introducing "Alma Pay", or @BtcpayServer on @AlmaLinux using Rootless @Podman_io Containers. For those who are extemely picky about their deployments and want BTC, Boltz, Monero & Stripe. github.com/arkfile/Arkfile/b… (DRAFT)

NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware. Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner. Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order safety alignment is risky. When closed (and open) models ship with aggressive refusals, they will be sprinkled with second-order blindspots that attackers will discover...and exploit. We are only in the earliest days of attackers leveraging these features, and it wouldn't surprise me if users systems that need to handle complex cybersecurity issues demand that models be less safety-blunted. In the weeds: @SocketSecurity's post also shows why intention matters in how you design a malware analysis pipeline to avoid prompt manipulation. H/T to colleagues that shared this with me socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hu…

Also worth mentioning, the SCALE of demand is unlike anything we've seen before: 100 GW of nuclear was built in the US in the last atomic age, and it took 30 yrs. 100 GW of US data centers will get built within just the next 5 yrs. And it's likely it will keep accelerating.