Guerilla Ontologist 👾 CogSci nerd 🧠 Radically Inclusive Transhumanist🤖 Moss farmer 🌱 Building tomorrow, today 🏛 💸 Agency, Consensus, Amor, Hilaritas 💜
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Joined April 2009
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No one joins a cult. They just say yes to one small request.
High-control groups don’t demand full commitment upfront. It starts with a simple ask... A meeting, a donation, a weekend retreat. But each small step pulls you deeper until leaving feels impossible.
Guilt and obligation replace choice. You’re told, “We need you,” “You’ve already come so far,” “What will happen if you leave?” These tactics are designed to keep you trapped.
Real commitment comes from freedom, not pressure. If walking away feels like betrayal, it’s worth questioning who really benefits from your loyalty.
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Someone just sent 500 ETH to the burn address with this message (translated):
"The CEOs of Kuande Investment: Feng Xin and Xu Yuzhi used brain-computer weapons to persecute all company employees and former employees, and even they themselves were controlled."
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It's Friday night, the kids are in bed, the biggest piece of crypto legislation for this year has dropped—the McHenry-Thompson bill on market structure— so let's get this party started.
Here’s a deep dive into the bill’s contents. Thread
docs.house.gov/meetings/AG/A…
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How the actual FUCK did these obvious scammers get an Amex merchant account in the name of "KIINTHAILA" by after supplying the phone number for a website hosting company? What is Amex's #KYC procedure? Do they even call the phone number?
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What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me
vitalik.eth.limo/general/202…
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Your computer is running a program.
You give some input and get some output. Suppose you are now told to guess the program.
That is what scientists do.
They try to guess the programs nature is running, from our observations of how the output changes with the input.
2/n
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Why I left @twitter or rather why I did not sign up for “extremely hardcore” Twitter 2.0
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I've been using the metaphor of demon possession lately to describe culture war dynamics
I'll try to explain...
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And we finalized!
Happy merge all. This is a big moment for the Ethereum ecosystem. Everyone who helped make the merge happen should feel very proud today.
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Not valuing decentralisation is like being uninsured.
Most of the time it's fine, and then it's not.
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Second, the value of social media is shifting away from content hosting and removal, and towards recommendation algorithms directing one’s attention. Unfortunately, these algorithms are typically proprietary, and one can’t choose or build alternatives. Yet.
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I've always been astounded by how many folks buy the "we must colonize Mars to escape climate change" thing. The "unsolvable" climate change problem on earth is that our atmospheric CO2 concentration went from 0.03% to 0.04%.
Mars's atmosphere is 95.32% CO2 and radioactive.
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Literally everyone who thinks Solidity and the EVM is going to go away and be replaced by something newer and better have never programmed in C
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Happy #Pride from Raytheon’s Twitter logo! Less happy about their PAC also donating $18,500 to Mitch McConnell’s campaign while he was actively blocking the Equality Act. 🏳️🌈
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Woah, CUTE Pride logo 🏳️🌈!
What's not cute is giving more than $150,000 to Mitch McConnell and other GOP Senators who are actively blocking the Equality Act from becoming law.
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After a multi-year investigation, we found the nation's largest broadband companies funded a secret campaign to influence the FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules — resulting in millions of fake public comments impersonating Americans.
These illegal schemes are unacceptable.