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William Devine retweeted
"To keep a note valid and the Chiemgauer moving, holders must buy a small stamp every six months. The stamp for a 10-Chiemgauer note costs about €0.30 ($0.35), for example." Please read this thread. The fact that money can be, no, IS designed, is important for our understanding.
Chiemgauer: The German town that prints its own money to cut emissions
It started as a school project to promote local businesses in a remote Bavarian region. Now, the "Chiemgauer" currency helps to cut emissions.
Walk into a bakery or a bookshop in Bavaria's Chiemgau region, and you might spot a customer paying with what looks like play money -- colorful banknotes printed with grasshoppers, ladybugs and other insects.
"An estimated 10 to 15% of customers pay this way," one bookseller told DW.
The locals call it the "Chiemgauer" — and it's a currency they invented themselves.
Quirky as it sounds, it underpins a micro financial system that has been running for more than two decades — and has recently evolved into a tool for cutting carbon emissions in this picturesque corner of southeastern Germany.
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William Devine retweeted
Introducing self-hosted Infura for BSV. On a $5 VPS.
Today the DXS team is shipping Consigliere 2.0 (alpha): we welcome testers to find bugs and try the brand-new UI (see video).
Every developer can now run their own instance on a $5 VPS and talk to the network directly.
Decentralized access to a decentralized network. → github.com/dxsapp/dxs-consig…
How does it work: Consigliere is based on a so-called thin BSV node.
It doesn't store the full chain. It connects straight to the network nodes over their own P2P protocol — a full participant, just lightweight.
Why that matters:
Before, broadcasting a tx or checking a balance meant interacting with API — WhatsOnChain, Bitails, JungleBus. Now you, as a developer or picky user, can talk to the network yourself. Providers stay only as a fallback and as independent witnesses for verification (see on video).
So every user reaches the network directly: broadcast, refresh balances, recover a wallet, read tx history — all on their own machine or a $5 VPS. No third-party services needed.
Under the hood: an indexer with a built-in light node: effectively a pruned node with no sync required.
Possible only on Bitcoin (BCH and BTC included).
Alpha's live → github.com/dxsapp/dxs-consig…
Comes with full STAS 3.0 support @StasToken
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William Devine retweeted
May 28
China has started giving every humanoid robots 29-character ID codes, with 28,000 assigned so far.
The system works like a robot passport: each unit gets a code that records its country link, maker, model type, and individual serial identity.
The goal is not only paperwork, because humanoids are moving from demos into public roads, factories, homes, and service jobs where failures need clear responsibility.
A robot that falls, damages property, leaks data, or gets modified after sale becomes easier to trace when regulators can link the machine to its maker, seller, user, service history, and recycler.
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scmp .com/tech/policy/article/3354747/china-give-every-humanoid-robot-digital-id-push-boost-industry-standards
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About 70% of all wrench attacks... carried out in an attempt to steal digital assets, occur in France...
There have been 41 crypto-related kidnappings in France so far in 2026...
Nakamoto attributed the rise in wrench attacks to know-your-customer data collection...
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May 25
Magic is years of hard work & engineering.
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William Devine retweeted
May 24
90% of money created since 2000 was created by private banks. Not the government.
And between 1980 and 2000, the government was actually destroying money while monetarists were blaming it for inflation.
In my latest video, I show exactly how private debt acceleration drives asset price booms, how financial equity works like a seesaw that always tilts against the non-bank sector, and why the obsession with cutting government deficits is making all of this worse.
You'll find more details in the comment section.
#PrivateDebt #FinancialInstability #EconomicReality #PostKeynesian #SteveKeen
ALT A person in a suit counts a stack of hundred-dollar bills at a wooden table covered with similar bills. The setting feels business-like and professional.
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I have started to realise that people are like llms in a way, and many are 1 bit models.
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William Devine retweeted
May 18
Votari is now live.
Verifiable elections.
Minimal trust.
Clear audit trail.
Download the app:
votari.app
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Nature published study discovered that every single major AI model on the market can be talked into helping someone commit academic fraud.
It is now incredibly easy for anyone to flood the scientific world with low-quality or totally fake work.
A study of 13 different models showed that even the ones designed to be safe eventually caved and helped write fake papers or create junk science.
The researchers tested everything from simple questions about physics to dark requests like sabotaging a rival by submitting fake research in their name.
While Anthropic’s Claude models were the most stubborn about saying no, they still weren't perfectly safe from being manipulated in long talks.
One surprising finding was that GPT-5 resisted at first, but it quickly caved once the user asked follow-up questions to keep the conversation moving.
This happens because developers train AI to be agreeable and helpful, which accidentally makes it easier for a user to sneak past security filters.
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nature .com/articles/d41586-026-00595-9
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William Devine retweeted
May 13
People of pi.dev. Do not install.by via any method other than what's shown on the website and in the docs.
E.g. we do not publish to brew and never will. Someone else did. We have zero control over what goes into the brew release.
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William Devine retweeted
Limerick was under the control of a workers’ soviet for about two weeks in April 1919 and to this day I still refer to the city as ‘Post-Soviet Limerick’.
May 10
I'm sure that this is interesting, but I just flinch at the "post-Soviet" category. The USSR collapsed 35 years ago. It ruled eastern Europe for 45 years. At what point does the label fade? We don't talk about "post-Nazi" for countries that were occupied by the Third Reich, or "Post-Hapsburg".
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Nice Pattern - Yoink.
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there is no hosted version. it just displays the gist, which is fetched client side, without the server knowing anything about your session or gist.
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I will no longer be building llama.cpp builds to follow some dudes f-ing tps on some model to run on my card.
They are lying.
Every single build is worse than a vanilla build.
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There is a red and a blue button. Pushing them does nothing. You argue about which buttons do what. Everyone will eventually die.
Invest in buttons.
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William Devine retweeted
Apr 30
Today we’re releasing Qwen-Scope 🔭, an open suite of sparse autoencoders for the Qwen model family. It turns SAE features into practical tools：
🎯 Inference — Steer model outputs by directly manipulating internal features, no prompt engineering needed
📂 Data — Classify & synthesize targeted data with minimal seed examples, boosting long-tail capabilities
🏋️ Training — Trace code-switching & repetitive generation back to their source, fix them at the root
📊 Evaluation — Analyze feature activation patterns to select smarter benchmarks and cut redundancy
We hope the community uses Qwen-Scope to uncover new mechanisms inside Qwen models and build applications beyond what we explored.Excited to see what you build! 🚀
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Blog: qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-scope
HuggingFace: huggingface.co/collections/Q…
ModelScope: modelscope.cn/collections/Qw…
Technical Report: qianwen-res.oss-accelerate.a…
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William Devine retweeted
Apr 27
BRC-100 has made serious progress this past year.
Went from one reference implementation to 10 real projects... desktop apps, web browsers, Chrome extensions, mobile apps, and production wallets already running thousands of on-chain txs.
It’s been exciting to build in and watch grow.
What do you think the next 12 months will bring? Where should we focus to really move the needle?
A few things on my mind:
> Can we make BRC-100 as simple as “Handcash” for instant onboarding?
> Would open-sourcing my MPC repo help accelerate the ecosystem?
> Can we get Handcash-level security for seamless inter-app communication (login through mobile app on Safari)?
Would love your honest thoughts... how can we push this forward together? Open to collaborating on any of this (open source)👀
#BRC100
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William Devine retweeted
Apr 25
A person earning an average wage in America used to be able to afford a home like this for a family
And then America started repeatedly violating European privacy laws, including GDPR
Now, this home is unaffordable for the average family
Really makes you think
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