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24 Jun 2023
The hardest part about being a contrarian is knowing when not to be.
The mind virus of conspiratorial thinking has been devastating. It completely paralyzes analysis and reduces everything to entertainment, fodder for clicks, traffic, and attention. It’s like a caricature of the Straussian close reading of texts: the “real” meaning is always hidden from view, and being unable to see it means you don’t have access to esoteric insights and knowledge. In reality, you’re just reading it wrong. In the case of Russia right now, nobody really knows what’s happening. But that doesn’t matter; all you have to do is come up with the most absurd theory, and the more absurd it is, the truer it must be.
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Peter Todd retweeted
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This is GOLD lmao
The official line is that they were a Norwegian trade delegation. Technically accurate, because they are Nordic, and there was trade. But they are also seven feet tall, telepathic, and arrived on the South Lawn without a vehicle. I am the Deputy Director of Visitor Logistics at the White House. I logged them into WAVES as FOREIGN DIGNITARIES (3), NON-TERRESTRIAL, NO MOTORCADE REQUIRED, and the meeting went extremely well. The Pleiadians requested the audience in March. They communicate telepathically, which the President respected immediately, because it meant nothing was in writing. They traveled 444 light-years to deliver a warning about our trajectory as a species, the kind of warning a doctor gives a patient who keeps asking if he can smoke in the waiting room. Atomic weapons. Ocean collapse. Machine intelligence. I did not take complete notes, because the meeting ran 25 minutes and he spent the first eleven asking where they got the jackets. Their opening offer: clean fusion, the cure for every disease, the propulsion equations. Free. Contingent on planetary disarmament. His advisors begged him not to negotiate against a species that reads minds. It turned out he is the one man alive with nothing to find. They reached into his mind expecting layer upon layer of deception and found a single image, perfectly clear: him, wearing one of their jackets. The delegation conferred for a long moment and informed us that in eleven thousand years of contact, no species had ever tried to buy the uniform. They called it coherence. They did not mean it as a compliment. He has already trademarked it. He countered. Landing rights, retroactive to 1947. Eighty years of unauthorized airspace use, invoiced with interest. Legal added a line item for the weather balloon story. Narrative services. We billed them for our own cover-up, and the tall one went silent for nine seconds, which I am told is how their species weeps. Greenland stays in the deal. They did not want Greenland. He said that's how he knew it was valuable. What kind of advanced civilization passes on waterfront? Then UFC Freedom 250. This Sunday. Seven bouts on the same lawn we were standing on. His birthday, which he assured them was a coincidence the universe keeps arranging. He offered them galactic distribution rights. Then he looked at the tall one for a long time and offered him the co-main event. Seven feet. Reach like a cathedral door. Walks around at a weight our scales log as an error. Someone said the commission would never sanction it. He appoints the commission. The tall one declined. He lowered the offer to the prelims. This is a negotiating technique. They asked if staging a cage fight on the negotiation site was a threat display. He said it was a Flag Day celebration, and also yes. I should note that an environmental group has sued to stop the octagon. Nobody has sued to stop the aliens. I forwarded this to Counsel as proof that the permitting process is working. Protocol required a gift exchange. They presented a small silver sphere that shows the holder the full consequences of his choices. He looked into it for four seconds and asked if it came in gold. You have all seen the photo. A groundskeeper took it through the magnolias. We told the press pool it was a costume rehearsal for a streaming series, and the pool, to their credit, wrote that down. The groundskeeper now works at the Department of Energy. I am told this is a promotion. There is also footage. He spotted the camera mid-meeting and pointed at it the way you'd point at a waiter whose name you intend to learn. Instead of having it confiscated, he licensed it on the spot. The leak is now official merchandise. Every time you share it, a royalty accrues. You have probably shared it. Have you checked? He thanks you for your business. The deal collapsed at dusk. The Pleiadians withdrew the fusion offer when he asked them to walk out before the main event as Special Guests of the Octagon. They said humanity was not ready. He had Counsel log that as a verbal option to renew. Final tally: our species declined the cure for every disease and counteroffered with pay-per-view. The delegation received two tickets to the Ellipse screening area. Not cageside. He does not give away cageside. They left without sound. One moment present, then elsewhere, like a fee disclosure. Two things before Sunday. The walkout jackets for the main card are red with gold embroidery. Licensed. The fusion fell through, but the jackets closed in an afternoon. And there are three seats on the South Lawn logged as HOLD, GUESTS OF THE PRINCIPAL, DO NOT ASSIGN. I did not enter that hold. The system says I did. He says everyone comes back to the table. We're the only planet with the belt.
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Peter Todd retweeted
If she actually wanted to hit Fauci where it hurts, she would have released information about the COVID lab in Wuhan. Instead, she published irrelevant nonsense about labs in Ukraine that is already being used as fodder by Russian influence networks to attack Trump.
🚨 LMAO! DNI Tulsi Gabbard humiliates herself with a desperate attack on Dr. Fauci. Trump's administration is obsessed with petty political scores! Washington is a clown show. They weaponize intelligence agencies to peddle baseless coverup theories. Total abuse of power!
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petertodd.org/2024/keeping-i… Idea: we should integrate mining ASICS onto the back of solar panels, with each ASIC connected in parallel to a set of solar cells. Typical solar cell voltage at the maximum power point is 0.5V. So two cells in series could power an ASIC with a 1V VCC. This approach minimizes the amount of material needed to add mining to a solar system. There's a minimum of cost wasted on heat sinks, cabling, etc. You'd disappate heat through the solar cell itself – lots of surface area. You can probably just glue the chips to the back of the panels, and run silver conductors directly to the cell terminals from the chip. For communication, come up with some daisy chainable communication scheme. Or even communicate though current/voltage pulses on the power coneuctors. Once the chip is mounted, just encapsulate it with some sealant for waterproofing. The only cleverness is likely to be a decent control algorithm to adjust the mining frequency to get maximum power given the current illumination conditions. And of course, whatever algorithms are needed to adjust power used by mining as needed to serve demand for electricity. Of course, this is a high up front cost for one time engineering. But if someone is spending, say, $1 billion on a big solar setup, this probably makes sense. An ASIC run is ~$30 million...

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Peter Todd retweeted
ah yes, a small problem with expecting Somalian workers to pay for Boomer pensions
a more diverse europe is already baked in. We could well get multiple new far right governments next year and every one of them is gonna take one look at their budgets and realise you can have zero immigration or pensions but not both
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Watching @D_plus__plus explain Bitcoin mining for newbies out of professional interest. Of course, this is kinda boring for me. 😂 But the explanations are pretty good! @BTCPrague
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😂😂😂 How the fuck does Solana not have address checksums? Ridiculous.
just burned $3,200 USDC by sending to the all CAPS version of my own solana address. uppercased base58 = still a valid address. lands off-curve. no private key can EVER exist for it. funds are gone forever. my wallet let this happen with zero warning. solscan literally flags isOnCurve=false — wallets should too. @solana @phantom @Backpack this is a one-line fix. warn on off-curve transfers. don't let the next person learn this the way I did. tx: 4NfyfM4XtCMSnH6vCBrLydsztNn8JQVdPzyEhu5GuBUAF1aS3EtQA6MFFMe1PqXZrV8cg6GYEmJgdnHJXkGWVVyY
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TFW you were about to leave to get a drink... but it turns out @giacomozucco is next.
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x.com/i/status/2065739978877… Clearly no-one took him up on the offer.
Today at 16:10, my keynote on @BTCPrague mainstage. If you find me somewhere at the venue and you bring me a funny T-shirt to wear for it, I may wear it, provided I find it funny enough. Disclaimer: I will probably keep it.
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Peter Todd retweeted
Bringing up oppressed afghan woman.... and then comparing it to El Salvador. Bitcoin isn't doing much to help Afghan woman. Killing Taliban members would. Bitcoin is a bit player in El Salvador's success. Mass arresting gang members with state violence made El Salvador safe.
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Bizarre to have @jackmallers going on and on about the beauty in the past @btcprague right after the SpaceX IPO. “What happened to the smart kid?” Our cathedrals are reusable rockets and lithography machines. They're fucking awesome.
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Oh god, now making fun of anti-immigration sentiment... Totally out of touch with reality. Importing infinity "refugees" from Africa does not make our countries better.
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Bringing up oppressed afghan woman.... and then comparing it to El Salvador. Bitcoin isn't doing much to help Afghan woman. Killing Taliban members would. Bitcoin is a bit player in El Salvador's success. Mass arresting gang members with state violence made El Salvador safe.
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Peter Todd retweeted
If she wasn’t working for Elon Gwynne Shotwell would be hailed as an incredible success story and the most powerful woman in aerospace. Instead it’s radio silence from the media
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Good idea:
A big part of amateur radio is emergency operations practice. Every single night in my local area there is a group meeting (via radio) where locals check-in to practice transferring messages. You need to be doing this in some fashion with Bitchat as well. Don't just blindly think in an emergency you will be proficient enough to use it.
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The whole "biolabs" nonsense is hilarious when you actually read it and it's mostly a bunch of farming related disease labs. Ukraine is covered with really high quality topsoil. So farming is a huge industry, currently their main export. Of course they're going to have biolabs!
Просто прочитайте цю хуйню, зрив покровів від Тулсі "російська шаболда" Габбард Аж цілих чотири (4) сторінки з загальним висновком fork found in kitchen. Уявляєте, у інституті ветеринарної медицини знайдені бруцели. ПИЗДЕЦЬ! Скликайте конгрес! dni.gov/files/BIOLAB_Slides.…
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Peter Todd retweeted
imagine if we took over a valley, and mandated sodium D low pressure sodium lights at night. if you wore didymium glassblowers glasses, which knock out that line, you could see the milky way perfectly on clear nights.
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Peter Todd retweeted
We love puzzles, so we acquired the secret to one of the most notorious puzzles in cryptographic history. Kryptos is a sculpture at CIA headquarters with an encrypted message on it. The final 97 characters of it have never been solved. Here's what we're doing with the solution.
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Peter Todd retweeted
Martin Luther King's daughter: Jurors need to be judged by the color of their skin, not the content of their character
Karmelo Anthony, a Black teenager, has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after being convicted by a jury with no Black jurors. Whatever one believes about the verdict itself, we cannot ignore the larger truth that many Americans are wrestling with: justice is still being administered through a system with a long history of racial disparity in sentencing and punishment. This requires more than reaction. It requires moral honesty about who is deemed dangerous, whose pain is centered, and how differently accountability has often been applied in America. If we want justice worthy of its name, it cannot be shaped by race. #KarmeloAnthony
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Jury had no Black jurors because qualified Black prospects admitted bias (e.g., couldn’t convict “a brother”) or were struck for race-neutral reasons (educators) upheld by the judge. Conviction based on evidence: Anthony stabbed victim in chest as aggressor. cbsnews.com/texas/news/jur…
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Quite an interesting talk @BTCPrague on open source infrastructure. Real industrial stuff, based on real engineering.
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So that’s a Ukrainian made cruise missile collapsing a building in Russia in year *5 of the 3 day SMO

So that’s a Ukrainian produced cruise missile in flight in year 4 of the 3 day SMO
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