Josh Linder

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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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Just chipped in a bit for the bounty. Very cool and demanding routine.

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We've got some rad people in this community.

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Say hello to Maisie! Our little boofer ♥️

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We severely underestimated how many smart people didn't realize the true mechanisms of global order https://x.com/yishan/status/1906592890845028405

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You have to really dig to find the "good stuff". IMO the network state stuff that talks about crypto half the time but ubiquitous Flock cameras the other half of the time really doesn't need crypto. It's just using it as a wedge to create space for their alternative cities. Examples of legit good projects: zk email providing private p2p cash/crypto globally, xmtp working on alternatives to signal (should it get shut down), Aztec/noir laying the groundwork for encryption that can make data breaches of critical info a thing of the past. The real advances are just extraordinarily slow compared to the gross stuff. An article compared these kindS of faux crypto efforts to pioneer species that are the first to populate newly cleared fields, but ultimately die off and facilitate growth of a broader ecosystem. Strongly recommend the full article (by @vgr) for a broad long-term perspective on crypto: https://open.substack.com/pub/protocolized/p/strange-new-rules?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=a20ig

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Thanks for the tip. Old Twitter habits die hard, but maybe that approach will feel more natural with time

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This account has got the goods

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Thanks for sharing. Last time I tried to set up sync it wasn't totally plug and play for me. I'm not sure what I screwed up, but syncing wasn't happening. Have you seen it be easy to set up for most people? I might try again.

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credit to the original

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I can't bring myself to quotecast instead of reply. It just feels socially off. I'm trying to continue the conversation, not start a new one! Would appreciate a more reply-oriented experience. Maybe surfacing great replies in the algo instead of relying on people like @trigs to find and quotecast them. I'm sure that this has already been considered. Just my 2c.

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From the comments section it sounds like FISA courts may have been used, adding more opacity. This might be a test case for FISA usage in the context of a foreign national, but FISA can be used much more broadly.

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Dog probably wears NODs for night missions

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Anti-disinfo operations are also often quite ineffective. Stolen from someone I can't recall: "Disinformation is not a supply problem; it's a demand problem".

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Ah, yes, I read the linked thread. I agree with your point that the acknowledging where we are in the lifecycle is the headline, not the page 5 supporting detail.

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I think that Rish's point about Farcaster's youth and 'its a matter of time' was a good non-defenaive response.

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Is this the most anti-free speech administration we've ever had? https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1905994706758046120

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