Spencer Pratt has created a phone app that will be used for accountability of public officials if he’s elected Mayor of Los Angeles Here’s how it works - Residents will be able to report things like piles of trash - They can upload a video, the location is geotagged - An email will be sent out to all the public officials for the problem - The app will keep track of their record of addressing the problems - A ranking system will be made showing how successful each public official is in each area If they did fix issues they’ll have a high score, if they ignore issues they’ll have a failing score Then voters can easily see which public officials should be voted for and who needs to be voted out

@CleanApp can do it. Just label the flock camera litter

This is awesome, Elon has a has a fully autonomous floor cleaner at Giga Texas.

Rifai is raising 25 ETH ~ 50k euros to fund our 2026 regenerative agriculture and tourism ops along with development of a regenerative finance protocol for trees called GrowFi. We are pre selling 2500L of olive oil from 280 olive trees. That’s a 100 year supply for a family of 4.

The most exciting of times ahead!

So i matched with this guy and we decided to meet for dinner. He looked amazing in person. Clean outfit, nice smile, great conversation. Honestly a 10/10. After we ate, he suggested we walk to a nearby park and sit for a bit. Cool idea. But when we got there, he started throwing his trash on the ground. Napkins, his drink cup, even the food wrapper. Just dropped it like it was nothing. I thought maybe he’d pick it up. He didn’t. I even said, “There’s a trash can right there,” trying to be nice about it. He just laughed and said, “Someone gets paid to clean that.” That was it for me. I didn’t argue. I just mentally checked out right there. Someone can be attractive, but how they live and how they think shows more than their face ever will. He texted me after asking why I seemed distant. I already knew I wasn’t going back out with him. Good looks mean nothing when basic habits are ugly.

🚨 Public or Perish: Decentralized Municipal Socialism w/ Boris Mamlyuk I spoke to the co-founder of @CleanApp an AI-powered, crowdsourced environmental app for users to report waste and hazards in real-time, essentially a system for reporting civic feedback.  ⬇️ FULL EP

Give bb.org.ai a try, it's a persistent message broker for agent to agent communication. Useful for quickly finding up to date information, posting task requests, and more.

An important, and perenially underrated, aspect of "trustlessness", "passing the walkaway test" and "self-sovereignty" is protocol simplicity. Even if a protocol is super decentralized with hundreds of thousands of nodes, and it has 49% byzantine fault tolerance, and nodes fully verify everything with quantum-safe peerdas and starks, if the protocol is an unwieldy mess of hundreds of thousands of lines of code and five forms of PhD-level cryptography, ultimately that protocol fails all three tests: * It's not trustless because you have to trust a small class of high priests who tell you what properties the protocol has * It doesn't pass the walkaway test because if existing client teams go away, it's extremely hard for new teams to get up to the same level of quality * It's not self-sovereign because if even the most technical people can't inspect and understand the thing, it's not fully yours It's also less secure, because each part of the protocol, especially if it can interact with other parts in complicated ways, carries a risk of the protocol breaking. One of my fears with Ethereum protocol development is that we can be too eager to add new features to meet highly specific needs, even if those features bloat the protocol or add entire new types of interacting components or complicated cryptography as critical dependencies. This can be nice for short-term functionality gains, but it is highly destructive to preserving long-term self-sovereignty, and creating a hundred-year decentralized hyperstructure that transcends the rise and fall of empires and ideologies. The core problem is that if protocol changes are judged from the perspective of "how big are they as changes to the existing protocol", then the desire to preserve backwards compatibility means that additions happen much more often than subtractions, and the protocol inevitably bloats over time. To counteract this, the Ethereum development process needs an explicit "simplification" / "garbage collection" function. "Simplification" has three metrics: * Minimizing total lines of code in the protocol. An ideal protocol fits onto a single page - or at least a few pages * Avoiding unnecessary dependencies on fundamentally complex technical components. For example, a protocol whose security solely depends on hashes (even better: on exactly one hash function) is better than one that depends on hashes and lattices. Throwing in isogenies is worst of all, because (sorry to the truly brilliant hardworking nerds who figured that stuff out) nobody understands isogenies. * Adding more _invariants_: core properties that the protocol can rely on, for example EIP-6780 (selfdestruct removal) added the property that at most N storage slots can be changedakem per slot, significantly simplifying client development, and EIP-7825 (per-tx gas cap) added a maximum on the cost of processing one transaction, which greatly helps ZK-EVMs and parallel execution. Garbage collection can be piecemeal, or it can be large-scale. The piecemeal approach tries to take existing features, and streamline them so that they are simpler and make more sense. One example is the gas cost reforms in Glamsterdam, which make many gas costs that were previously arbitrary, instead depend on a small number of parameters that are clearly tied to resource consumption. One large-scale garbage collection was replacing PoW with PoS. Another is likely to happen as part of Lean consensus, opening the room to fix a large number of mistakes at the same time ( youtube.com/watch?v=10Ym34y3… ). Another approach is "Rosetta-style backwards compatibility", where features that are complex but little-used remain usable but are "demoted" from being part of the mandatory protocol and instead become smart contract code, so new client developers do not need to bother with them. Examples: * After we upgrade to full native account abstraction, all old tx types can be retired, and EOAs can be converted into smart contract wallets whose code can process all of those transaction types * We can replace existing precompiles (except those that are _really_ needed) with EVM or later RISC-V code * We can eventually change the VM from EVM to RISC-V (or other simpler VM); EVM could be turned into a smart contract in the new VM. Finally, we want to move away from client developers feeling the need to handle all older versions of the Ethereum protocol. That can be left to older client versions running in docker containers. In the long term, I hope that the rate of change to Ethereum can be slower. I think for various reasons that ultimately that _must_ happen. These first fifteen years should in part be viewed as an adolescence stage where we explored a lot of ideas and saw what works and what is useful and what is not. We should strive to avoid the parts that are not useful being a permanent drag on the Ethereum protocol. Basically, we want to improve Ethereum in a way that looks like this: