Here's a summary of three Cardano Discord videos by IOG: If you don't join this Discord, you'll be subject to an automatic NO vote by the DReps party, including Charles DRep. They aim to become the largest DRep and lead the ecosystem. The goal is to create an annual omnibus proposal within the Discord. In short, this Discord is not just another Discord, but could potentially become a requirement for treasury spending, so those aiming for that should pay attention. This is simply information sharing, not my opinion. I. Diagnosis — the venue, not the people. Cardano's governance breaks down because it happens on X, a broadcast medium whose reward is attention and influence. That structure amplifies ego and turns every exchange into a win/lose spectacle. Real agreement requires three things — empathy, shared goals, and aligned incentives — and none of them can form on a broadcast channel. Without them you cannot set goals, build strategy, or collaborate, so governance is structurally impossible. Intersect was supposed to be the dedicated space but failed, partly because X already dominated the conversation and a small group of critics (he claims fewer than 100) controls the narrative. II. The objective. The goal is not maximizing the ADA price but "growth with principles" — value growth that does not sacrifice decentralization. Price-maximization alone would justify even centralizing the chain, which he rejects. III. The solution. Build a purpose-built, moderated space — a "heterotopia" — dedicated solely to governance. The first venue is Discord. IV. Making the space attack-proof and productive. Confidentiality via the Chatham House Rule plus zero-knowledge anonymity blocks the "leak an unformed idea and manufacture a scandal" attack: members can prove they belong without revealing identity, which also enables anonymous voting (e.g., Semaphore ported to Midnight). Conversations are organized into domain-expert "circles" (from Holacracy) drawn from a statistically representative pool, run by a facilitator (human or AI) through a structured pre-/main-/post-conversation flow. The accumulated record becomes a governance knowledge graph and eventually a "Cardano LLM" single source of truth. V. Teeth — the political party and Charles as DRep. A space with no power is "just yelling at a screen," so participation must have teeth. Charles will become a DRep only if a political party exists. The party is a product of the process: whoever wins the convergence on "what growth means" becomes its members, and that converged position becomes the platform; it would likely be the ecosystem's largest DRep. Its core mechanism: automatically vote NO on any funding proposal whose proposers refuse to join and participate in the governance Discord — which, with enough voting power, effectively gates all project funding. His rationale: receiving public treasury funds should carry a duty not just to pass audits but to participate in accountability and growth; accountability means being able to remove those who break commitments; participation is "no longer optional." The party's purpose is to push the constitutional updates through, fill the new elected roles with its members, execute a budget-funded strategy, and protect the discussion channels. He frames this as leadership, not a power grab — he says he wants to be neither king nor president, only to "lead" by including people. VI. The output — a recursive governance cycle. Rules evolve by vote of the participants (the Nomic principle), iterating after each cycle: 　① Define growth metrics → write them into the constitution's preamble. 　② Design an executive function and new roles (beyond today's legislative/DReps and judicial/Constitutional Committee, adding an executive, an AI role, and representation for DApps/projects to address the concentrated voting power of large holders) → constitution v2. 　③ Set strategy, accountability, and a budget — consolidating treasury spending into one withdrawal per year via Funding Organizations (FOs), so a DRep faces one decision and one debate per year instead of a flood of 600M ADA in proposals where every rejection makes an enemy → then loop. Convergence produces winners and losers; sometimes the ecosystem must shrink to grow (the Ethereum/Ethereum Classic split). VII. Rollout as an MVP. Rather than chasing perfection, start lean and iterate: Stage 1 = ideation (an IO working group, RACI roles, staffing and tooling — current), Stage 2 = closed beta plus a hackathon and recruitment, Stage 3 = open it up (many banned at first for breaking the rules). Timeline 12–24 months, legitimized by a DRep vote and a constitutional amendment; later, fork a decentralized social platform into Cardano-native infrastructure linked to the chain. VIII. Boundaries. This is not "No Homers" exclusion: every ADA holder is welcome, but only under the code of conduct. It is not a venue for transparency-litigation or personal attacks — that behavior gets you banned (the surgical-theater / library analogy). To disagree you must offer a workable alternative and explain why it is better.

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I saw that 6-8 companies registered in FARA for Israel within weeks of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. So, I did a deep dive on FARA and followed the money. It's worse than we thought... We are all aware of the “Israel pays influencers" story. But that’s only 10% of the money. 8 companies registered in FARA in 2025. There are only 21 ever. So that’s more than 1/3 in one year to influence you. Let’s follow the $ on how Israel is buying Americans Israel's government spent $150M in 2025 and $730M for 2026, to move American opinion. - $9M to Brad Parscale to flood Gen Z and reshape what AI says about Israel - $900K to pay US influencers up to $7,000 a post, no disclosure, 25-30 posts a month - $3.26M for a church campaign with a VR "October 7" trailer built to tour Christian colleges. They literally did a VR campaign to put people on the music festival field during the attack. That's about $15M. Roughly a tenth. The real money is in the fat blue pipes in the graphic, and none of it touches FARA: ~$52M paid straight to Google, YouTube and X for pro Israel / anti Palestine ads ~$40M to fly 400 pastors, influencers and lawmakers to Israel - $20M on a media war room, campus ops and lawfare Why don't you see it? FARA only catches Americans hired to do politics. Ad buys and free trips don't qualify. So the filings everyone quotes were only ever going to show you the tip of the iceberg…intentionally. And it all routes through one Havas ad office in Frankfurt, so the paperwork reads "Havas," not "Israel." The influencers pushing Israel sympathy propaganda are getting paid $175k-$200k/ month. So next time someone tries and discredits you for posting facts about Israel or is sympathizing with these war criminals, just know they are either 1- being paid like the wh*res they are or 2- pathetic sheep falling for the paid propaganda

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As I have seen current governance, I think Cardano is repeating a mistake from the 20th century. The socialist calculation debate concluded that "central committees cannot replace market price signals." All socialist nations failed to expand their economies in the 20th century. Yet our "Treasury governance" is making exactly this mistake. Hayek's insight: prices compress the dispersed knowledge of millions of decision-makers. No committee, however expert, can process this information. When DReps vote on marketing/commercial Treasury allocations, this is a political process replacing price discovery. The irony: Cardano brands itself as "decentralization." But Treasury-based resource allocation, where political voting replaces market discovery, is structurally identical to central planning. Many DReps drawing from one central pool = Gosplan with a smiley face. Public Choice theory also pointed out that bureaucrats who say "we serve the people" actually maximize their own budgets. "We need funding for the ecosystem" is the Cardano version of "we serve the workers." We knew this type of economy always fails against free market capitalism. No one can be better than the invisible hand of the market. Commercial projects must be funded by profit-making entities with market expertise. DReps, on the other hand, are not directly responsible for outcomes of commercial/marketing projects. It's a wrong fit. If we seriously want commercial/marketing success, don't be socialist. Let the economy be in the market's hands. Stop repeating "Community, community, community." We should think outside the box. coffeepool.jp/notes/drep-vot…

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נשיא ארה"ב מוביל בימים אלה להסכם עם איראן מתוך ראיית האינטרסים האמריקאים, ובהם גם האינטרס המשותף עם ישראל - למנוע מאיראן נשק גרעיני - ואנו מצפים שיעמוד על העיקרון הזה ועקרונות נוספים בתחום הטילים ושלוחי הטרור. ביחד הנחתנו על איראן מכות קשות שהסיגו את יכולותיה שנים רבות לאחור. ישראל חייבת לוודא שגם בעתיד תהיה לנו את היכולת לפעול באופן עצמאי כדי למנוע מאיראן נשק גרעיני, ורה"מ בנימין נתניהו ואני הנחינו את צה"ל להיערך בהתאם. ישראל לא תיסוג מאזורי הביטחון בלבנון, בסוריה ובעזה. צה"ל ימשיך להגן על גבולותינו ואזרחינו מתוך כתר החרמון, הרי הלבנון, חבלי ארצנו בשומרון ורוב שטחה של עזה - מול איומי כוחות וארגונים ג'יהאדיסטים, כלקח מרכזי מאירועי ה-7 באוקטובר. צה"ל לא ייסוג ממחנות הטרור בצפון השומרון, המפונים מתושבים, ובמידת הצורך יורחב המהלך למחנות טרור נוספים. תפיסת הביטחון שלנו חדה וברורה: פועלים מול איומים קרובים ורחוקים ושואפים להכרעות ולא לפשרות וויתורים. הרבה מונח על כפות המאזניים בתקופה זו ואנחנו נחושים להמשיך ולהוביל מדיניות ביטחונית תקיפה שתמנע פגיעה בהישגינו הביטחוניים ולא תסכן את יכולתנו להיאבק מול ציר הרשע השיעי בהובלת איראן וציר הרשע הסוני בהובלת האחים המוסלמים. ברצוני להביע הערכה רבה לפיקוד הצה"לי על ההישגים הגדולים ולחיילינו הגיבורים, בסדיר, בקבע ובמילואים, על מלחמת הגבורה למען ביטחון ישראל - ולתושבי הצפון על עמידת הגבורה שנותנת לצה"ל את הכוח להמשיך ולהגן על ביטחונם. אני שולח חיבוק גדול למשפחות השכולות שאיבדו את היקר מכל ומאחל החלמה לכל הפצועים, בגוף ובנפש, שמסרו עצמם למען ההגנה על חיי היהודים וביטחון מדינת ישראל.

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Trump tells FT that Israel would have no choice but to accept whatever deal the US negotiates with Iran "He won’t have any choice. I call the shots. I call all the shots. He [Netanyahu] doesn’t call the shots"