Josh Linder

@jcl

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I know lol. This is shitposting crypto!

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Wow. Scary development. Also, this is the kind of thing that makes a good tik tok bit.

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Ty. Casting from recaster

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What do you think of "Claude plays Pokemon" as a more objective ongoing assessment of where the models are at?

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I highly recommend trying Kagi, a paid private search engine. It also has anonymized access to top LLMs through their Assistant product. I have a mobile shortcut on my phone that opens directly to a new assistant chat and I use it instead of search often, although Kagi search is better than Google IMO as well.

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Which alt client do you recommend?

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""" Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk alone; you don’t want to “go out of your way to make trouble.” Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty. Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. [...] """

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Looks like some of the latest research that the administration is trying to scrub from history shows undocumented immigrants commit crimes at much lower rates than US citizens. https://web.archive.org/web/20250121225514/https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/undocumented-immigrant-offending-rate-lower-us-born-citizen-rate

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Strangely, I feel like most of this is infrastructure? The only thing that normies care about from this list is stable coins. Everything else is an ingredient for something else. Even prediction markets act more like an intermediate good for news providers.

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Your Poverty of Abundance essay sold me on Sloptraptions. Couldn't believe AI (largely) wrote it.

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I think the challenge with onboarding normies is that there is just way too much to learn. There are too many concepts to understand to use crypto safely. I casted before that I got a hotel in Panama to accept crypto for the first time. I set them up with Coinbase wallet and sent the money there. USDC on base. Pretty easy. But then how can they off-ramp? So we needed to setup a Coinbase account where they could add their bank, kyc, and off-ramp. It got really confusing explaining the difference between a wallet + key vs their Coinbase account + password. They still haven’t even added their bank because it requires 2FA- but there isn’t service here. So they have to leave to go into town to find service just to get their SMS code to initially login to Coinbase. So then I explained passkeys can help with that. Besides even setting up a wallet and an off ramp mechanism, they asked how can they accept more crypto in the future. I had to explain Stablecoins…

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This is sick. Reminds me of fingerprint denim vibes https://frontoffice.co/cdn/shop/files/fingerprintworkpant3.png?v=1730368330&width=1445

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After reading this I was immediately going to recommend the Podcast "behind the bastards" series on the Zizians, but not sure how much will be new to you.

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I can't believe I haven't seen that chart before. Thank you for posting

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I wonder the same thing! It's such a pain!!

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Ran across this gem in an interview with Doug Coupland in 1994. He was an early observer of internet culture and wrote Microserfs, which is "present day historical fiction" grounded in his time embedded with programmers at Microsoft. It's amazing how much this vibe is similar to crypto: very janky sometimes, but the friction of using crypto ironically leads to higher quality community! https://www.altx.com/int2/douglas.coupland.html

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At least for the TEEs, what comes to mind is the idea of facilitation of verified secure boot of open source code on offchain ec2s. For instance, today Mullvad uses TEEs to facilitate secure boot of their VPN servers in what I assume is a standard approach. Users trust Mullvad and Mullvad uses the TEE to verify against certain attack vectors that they have less control over. In a distributed TEE environment, TEEs could validate that some person who volunteered to run a VPN node is running the correct code, and that it hasn't been tampered with. This might allow for some reduction in the cost of security/trust-reduction since maybe you don't need as much in terms of econ incentives to deter the operator from messing with the node.

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