The greatest threat to humanity has never been external. It has always been the inflation of the ego beyond what reality can sustain. We have built civilisations of extraordinary sophistication and called it wisdom. We have mastered the manipulation of matter at the atomic level and called it understanding. We have constructed systems of communication that reach every corner of the earth and used them primarily to argue, perform, and seek validation. The narcissistic inflation is not individual. It is civilisational. The belief that human cleverness has no natural limits. That nature exists to be conquered rather than respected. That the ancient wisdom encoded in living systems, in the soil, in the body, in the accumulated understanding of generations who lived close to the earth, is superstition to be replaced by whatever the current scientific consensus happens to say this decade. That arrogance has consequences. We see them in the chronic disease epidemic produced by a food system that treats biology as a manufacturing problem. We see it in our medical system. In the neurological consequences of an electromagnetic environment imposed on a species that evolved in nothing resembling it. In the psychological fragmentation of a culture that replaced genuine community with digital simulation and called it connection. And in COVID, the moment when the full expression of institutional arrogance became visible. The certainty that a novel genetic platform could be deployed at global scale in months. That the complexity of the human immune system could be safely overridden by a synthetic spike protein. That anyone questioning this was not a voice worth hearing. Humility is not weakness. It is the accurate recognition of the limits of what any human being or institution actually knows, combined with the willingness to act accordingly. Without it, intelligence becomes the most dangerous thing we possess. With it, even imperfect knowledge can be used wisely.

🚨 UPDATE: Mini Shai-Hulud has crossed from @npmjs into @pypi and is still spreading. Newly confirmed compromised artifacts: @​opensearch-project/opensearch: 3.5.3, 3.6.2, 3.7.0, 3.8.0 (1.3M weekly downloads) mistralai: 2.4.6 on PyPI guardrails-ai: 0.10.1 on PyPI additional @​squawk/* packages on npm guardrails-ai 0.10.1 executes malicious code on import. On Linux, it downloads git-tanstack[.]com/transformers.​pyz, writes it to /tmp/transformers.​pyz, and runs it with python3 without integrity verification. The git-tanstack.​com domain displayed a message signed “With Love TeamPCP,” along with: “We've been online over 2 hours now stealing creds Regardless I just came to say hello :^)” The page also linked to a YouTube video and you can probably guess which one.

Thanks for being a precise voice which exposes the indecency.

How many seconds, hours, days, weeks, or years am I allowed to keep a unit of currency before "using" turns into "hodling"? Please provide an exact figure and a principled argument why it should be exactly that figure.

“We have repeatedly seen how in-person time accelerates progress in ways that online collaboration struggles to match.” Great report.

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.

I do support this viewpoint. Do we really want to build censorship into the process of collaborating on a censorship-resistant money?

I do not fear the rise of superintelligence. I do, however, fear the rise of billionaires, organizations, and world powers who seek to use computing to maximize their power, influence, and control.

For the sake of Aaron Swartz I beg you to make this shit stop.

Are we building sh*t that matters ? Amiti Uttarwar @ Africa Bitcoin Conference 2025 #ABC2025

« Defend Bitcoin or watch it get captured. » Anita Posch at Africa Bitcoin Conference #ABC2025

#ABC2025 Africa Bitcoin Conference 2025 just started with deep welcome address by @Farida_N

Relevance creates unruggability. What was directly relevant to everyday people was the paper notes, not the SoV behind it, hence rugging it to fiat was easy. x.com/TFTC21/status/19520709…

When dictator @FEGnassingbe seized power through a coup in 2005, Togo’s population was 5 million. Twenty years later, it has doubled to 10 million yet he has not built a single university in the past 20 years. He did not build a single public hospital. Not a single library. Not a single stadium. Not a single museum. Not even an arts or cultural center. Today, there is only one functional MRI machine for the entire population of 10 million. The entire country has just two public dialysis centers. Public hospitals are so overcrowded, patients sleep on the floor, and children are placed three or four to a single bed. Doctors are forced to perform surgeries using the light from their cellphones because there is no electricity in public hospitals. They even prescribe sachet water for patients to wash their hands before and after surgery. Yet, Faure Gnassingbé spent over $35 million to build himself a new presidential palace because the $14 million palace his father built with public money was not “modern” enough for him. This 58 years of kleptocratic reign has taken everything from us the people of #Togo. #FaureMustGo #FreeTogo

Pourquoi Proton quitte la Suisse ? #10minutes pour comprendre youtu.be/-pSdE6jjdG0?si=ldt8… @julian_liniger What is your take on this ?

Great that HTMX 2 does support web components.

a good article on using htmx & lit pragmatically no reason to use htmx for things it's not good for! lorenstew.art/blog/eta-htmx-…

Les #gueux sont heureux d’apprendre que les agapes fines de nos politiques à l’Interallié sont offertes par des fondations cossues. Ils aiment cela. Ce qu’il faut, c’est une classe politique habituée à se déconnecter loin du #gueux , pratiquant l’hyper entre soi à Paris. Et haïssant la frugalité gaullienne. Merci de préciser « avec une dizaine de leaders français  », le détail enchante. Là Republique en est grandie. Nous avons besoin de ce genre de signaux. De sentir la connexion intime avec les culs-terreux. SE RENDENT-ILS COMPTE ?

Le plus grand ennemi de Jésus, ça n'a pas été ceux qui l'ont crucifié mais ceux qui ont regardé sa Crucifixion sans broncher, ceux qui ont suivi l'opinion de la majorité, ceux qui ont obéi, ceux qui ne l'ont pas défendu. Jésus est un message adressé à l'humanité. Ce message est intemporel, il concerne les humains de toute religion, et même les athées. Ce message le voici : n'obéis pas aveuglément, ne répète pas aveuglément et prefère toujours la voix qui est au plus profond de toi à celle de la doxa. Désobéis si cette voix te l'ordonne. Cette voix, c'est ta conscience. Celle-là même qui est capable de se demander si une chose est juste ou non. Cette voix sait mieux que les sachants, les philosophes et les prophètes ce qui est juste ou non. Fais grandir cette voix qui est en toi et obéis-lui. Tu marcheras alors peut-être à contre-courant de la loi des Hommes mais tu te rapprocheras du beau, du juste et du vrai. Ce qui est incommensurablement plus élevé.