Post-Economic because @x pays me. Currently building @ethereum via @ethlabs_org. Previously built @ethereum via @ethereumfndn, @optimism & @coinbase.
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some human things I’m tracking
> religious schools, retreats, pilgrimages, and faith-based media rising as people search for moral certainty
> “human-only” spaces: restaurants, schools, clubs, apps, and retreats that ban synthetic media, recording, phones etc
> pet daycares, dog hotels, pet insurance, and premium pet food begging to skyrocket as loneliness increases and people defer to furry friends
> post-career identity markets: people living longer and needing new titles, tribes, rituals, status games, and reasons to wake up after professional relevance fades
> private members’ clubs solidify as paid social graphs for adults who lost community to remote work
> dating apps fragmenting into belief-based and lifestyle-based matchmaking since infinite choice has become exhausting
> family formation will become a premium service category: matchmaking, fertility, childcare, coaching, home design etc
> eldercare will start shifting to more at-home treatments due to ai (over time it’ll be cheaper than care homes too)
> analog cameras, vinyl, printed books, notebooks, “dumbphones,”and mechanical watches grow as anti-synthetic status objects
> handmade goods becoming trust objects because machine abundance makes human effort valuable again
> live events becoming more valuable as recorded media becomes forgettable
> glp-1s are just the first mass consumer drug for editing desire, more to come.
> fertility tech booming because career timelines and biological timelines are now in open conflict
> oral exams, apprenticeships, portfolios, and live demonstrations returning because written work is becoming cheap to fake
> digital detox products growing
> air quality, water filtration, food sourcing, and sleep environments becoming mainstream status markers
> luxury shifting from owning more things to accessing peace, beauty, privacy, time, and high-trust rooms
> the biggest consumer opportunities coming from psychological scarcity: belonging, certainty, attention, embodiment, trust, and continuity
“Centralized tech can patch faster”
Sir the same authority that lets you fix a system can also become the means by which an attacker compromises it.
Social engineered hacks by blackmail can be as much, if not more common than pure software hacks after some time.
There is no stopping Ethereum, there are hundreds of thousands of validators all around the world that make it exist, you cannot get them all as easily as you can get the chain with 3 people in a trench coat running the show.
binji retweeted
> If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever
"The greatest battle is playing out over the next 20 years. There’s a world in which Orwell is right, but I do think we have a path to avoid it. If you are talented and are working toward centralization of power, quit your job and figure out how to work toward decentralization. There’s no such thing as centralization of power for good, even if you are good someone evil will eventually take the reins of whatever you built. The idea is never to build the reins in the first place. Nothing in this world is worth the eternal boot. Not your apartment, not your car, not your status, and not your travel. Nothing. And don’t be so stupid as to think you’ll be one wearing the boot. You won’t. Please stop."
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fear not!
this is no cyberpocalypse
this is the internet’s immune system finally waking up to an illness it has always had
a mere fever
the 0days were always there
the only thing that changed is awareness
now we begin the healing process ⚕️
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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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if you're an app-layer dev or an Ethereum power user, have you looked at the Glamsterdam EIPs or provided feedback to the core devs over the past 1.5 years?
38%yes
62%no
224 votes • 3 hours binji retweeted
some human things I’m tracking
> religious schools, retreats, pilgrimages, and faith-based media rising as people search for moral certainty
> “human-only” spaces: restaurants, schools, clubs, apps, and retreats that ban synthetic media, recording, phones etc
> pet daycares, dog hotels, pet insurance, and premium pet food begging to skyrocket as loneliness increases and people defer to furry friends
> post-career identity markets: people living longer and needing new titles, tribes, rituals, status games, and reasons to wake up after professional relevance fades
> private members’ clubs solidify as paid social graphs for adults who lost community to remote work
> dating apps fragmenting into belief-based and lifestyle-based matchmaking since infinite choice has become exhausting
> family formation will become a premium service category: matchmaking, fertility, childcare, coaching, home design etc
> eldercare will start shifting to more at-home treatments due to ai (over time it’ll be cheaper than care homes too)
> analog cameras, vinyl, printed books, notebooks, “dumbphones,”and mechanical watches grow as anti-synthetic status objects
> handmade goods becoming trust objects because machine abundance makes human effort valuable again
> live events becoming more valuable as recorded media becomes forgettable
> glp-1s are just the first mass consumer drug for editing desire, more to come.
> fertility tech booming because career timelines and biological timelines are now in open conflict
> oral exams, apprenticeships, portfolios, and live demonstrations returning because written work is becoming cheap to fake
> digital detox products growing
> air quality, water filtration, food sourcing, and sleep environments becoming mainstream status markers
> luxury shifting from owning more things to accessing peace, beauty, privacy, time, and high-trust rooms
> the biggest consumer opportunities coming from psychological scarcity: belonging, certainty, attention, embodiment, trust, and continuity
A quick explainer for everyone else.
>half the internet runs on PHP
>a big security bug dropped today
>basically hackers can take over websites just by sending one special request (crazy!)
>no password needed
>patches are out
>lots of sites are going down for emergency updates
>if you have a website, tell your host to update PHP right now
>if you don’t, just enjoy the random maintenance pages for now
If you want to find out if you’re affected, you can check via this codex skill.
github.com/openai/php2shell-…
I’m going to take part in this and try out some fiction writing, it’s been a while.
Going to go for a main character from a thousand years in the future rediscovering archives from human history, with a focus on 2040, and a little plot twist at the end.
binji retweeted
Things in your life will sometimes blow up in your face to remind you what really matters like family and posting bangers
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Rant that no one asked for:
My general take about consumer AI is that 99% of the things we've seen so far are super far-removed from reality
Most people feel like they don't have money to spend right now, so the use-cases around agents booking flights or trips or booking reservations or shopping just don't appeal to the average American consumer
I would argue that things that consumers purchase or "do" frequently enough (like ordering on Amazon, or calling Ubers, etc.) were obvious/annoying enough/frequent enough use-cases where we built amazing software UI/UX over the last decade that's been optimized to near ultimate efficiency that adding AI or agents on top would actually be making it *less* efficient. Like really *worth-it* use cases are generally "one-clickable" by great consumer products/platforms already
There's a lot of magical moments/wow factors/sci-fi things with agents that come from super annoying workflows (like booking flights or wrangling personal errand stuff in gmail or etc.) but are just not frequent enough for the average person. They're actually the long-tail. For example, 20% of the world's population has flown on an airplane at least once in their lifetime, meaning 80% of people globally have never set foot on a plane. Only 11%-15% of the global population flies in any given year!
This is not me saying that consumer AI is dumb, I'm actually extremely excited and optimistic, but it kind of goes back to things we've always known about consumer, which is:
1. Save/make consumers money
2. Make consumers entertained or famous
(And, of course, vices)
Even like, regardless of your views on prediction markets/sports betting, I think you have to understand that comes from a place of the average person feeling like they 1) don't have enough so 2) they want to do what they can to jump the socioeconomic rungs
Anyway, there's an extremely *wide* space of opportunity and I'm very excited to see the absolutely insane new AI/innovative stuff that builders come up with, but also I really want to see things that aren't just dressed up versions of 2010s prosumer/productivity software (and the problems that came with it)
P.S. The 90/10/1 rule still applies to consumer: most consumers want to *consume* (and lurk) rather than create!