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N̶o̶t̶ A Cartel

Nac nac nac

Big ups to @0xl for hosting an epic squad of builders in Sun Valley this weekend 🫡

Pic with @levy and not pictured but here in spirit @db3045

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

The beach was crowded with snow leopards.

Running

4x3000 @ 4:02/km this morning. 

But the 5 and a half hours on the ski Wednesday were probably too much. My training load is skyrocketing 🚀 😱

Better to take some rest now.

GM Farcaster!
I'm sick again :( Why do I always get sick before a weekend and never on a monday?

FriendTech walked so Clout could (maybe) run

Early days but incredible things happening in the trenches today

politics

The risk of politician coins comes from the fact that they are such a perfect bribery vehicle. If a politician issues a coin, you do not even need to send *them* any coins to give them money. Instead, you just buy and hold the coin, and this increases the value of their holdings passively.

Furthermore, there is deniability: holding the coin is, in financial effect, a linear combination of donating to the issuer and gambling. Hence you can intend to do the former but when challenged claim that you are doing the latter.

You can even hold the coin privately, and show that you are holding it to whoever; you do not need any zero knowledge proofs, you just send a test transaction.

This is all risky to democracy, for reasons similar to what I wrote in https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/08/16/voting3.html and elsewhere. TLDR: the economic arguments for why markets are so great for "regular" goods and services do not extend to "markets for political influence".

I recommend politicians do not go down this path.

> the economic arguments for why markets are so great for "regular" goods and services do not extend to "markets for political influence"

or maybe markets have never been as efficient as they're promoted in the long run, they are only efficient in extremely limited constraints and timeframes

Yet another obituary for the invisible hand

Is Shane Gillis getting class consciousness??

Edith could decide if she should paint her teeth or brush her nails.

the-arena

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

gave extra timing*, sorry, rushed to fill this in due to 9pm pt cutoff for submissions, gotta go fast

Quilibrium

Huge week at /quilibrium:

- v2.0.6-p2 release that gave timing around prover submissions
- Quorum Messenger invites for spaces is live
- Quick stats:
- nearly 10,000 weekly active users
- 260+ spaces created
- 85k messages sent yesterday alone
- 400-1000 people online at any time
- all of these numbers growing

Coop

The craziest part about making in crypto is that you just need to believe that it will all work out when everyone constantly tells you it won’t.

With each year that goes on you slowly sound less insane for having such a large portion of your net worth in fictitious internet money.

Then you realize it wasn’t so fictitious and it’s become more real by the day.

Hard to understate how pivotal a time we are living in in onchain history.

I used to practice weaving with spaghetti three hours a day but stopped because I didn't want to die alone.

WeatherXM

https://docs.weatherxm.com/

Tomorrow or Saturday this gets installed

Robotics

Neolix is going to be used by China's State Postal bureau for unmanned delivery in urban road of logistics & express delivery w/ L4 autonomy

Neolix is going to be used by China's State Postal bureau for unmanned delivery in urban road of logistics & express delivery w/ L4 autonomy

https://www.ithome.com/0/823/546.htm

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

We'll never see another new social network that isn't seeded by bots. 

I just joined a new app and was shocked by the level of engagement on posts. 

After digging in, I'd say ~70% of comments were AI - and none of the other human users seemed to notice 😲

Justine Moore

from AI investment partner at a16z

https://x.com/venturetwins/status/1877521652961128798?s=46&t=rxAVkMPnT_8alZYrwLqp6g

Contrary to conspiracy theories, there is not a lot of voter fraud in the US and in the UK.

2 reasons:

1. US and UK citizens are living in surveillance states. It's pretty hard to do sth like this and not get caught.

2. The ways to do voter fraud in significant numbers without getting caught are more expensive than buying off media & politicians

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.

Everley

@everley