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True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict. There is peace in submission, but sometimes greater peace—lasting peace—in resistance. - NK Jemisin in The Killing Moon milad(y)

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It was said that the gods favored fools because they were entertaining to watch. - NK Jemisin in The Killing Moon, accidentally describing all of crypto twitter

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Another way to serve 🙇

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d/acc = decentralized and democratic, differential defensive acceleration. We're funding tech that benefits defense vs offense—e.g. biosecurity, cyber resilience, information integrity—while keeping power decentralized. More on the philosophy: https://bit.ly/3DhXPVk

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No. And I'm also not a capitalist. Both are 20th century ideologies. (And they are words that have been stretched and abused to the point of meaninglessness: remember, in the 1990s, Microsoft called Linux "communist": https://www.theregister.com/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism/ ) I support freedom, global equality of opportunity, kindness and cooperation, human welfare and progress. These are timeless principles. The question is how to use the tools we have available to achieve these values in the context of the 21st century. I've written at length about the kinds of mechanisms I personally support, but I definitely do not think that I am the only source of good ideas, I think figuring out the best approach is a shared project of both thinking and also increasingly real world experimentation.

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Find out more about Session at getsession.org and x.com/session_app Follow for future episodes! Feedback and ideas for future episodes are welcome - DM me.

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🔑 Forward Secrecy: A Notable Weakness Unlike Signal, Session does not support forward secrecy—meaning if your key is compromised, past messages could be decrypted. However, this is mitigated by ephemeral message storage (messages don’t persist forever). 🔗 Groups Over 100 Members? You’re On Your Own Unlike Signal, large groups in Session require self-hosting—a departure from traditional privacy-focused messaging apps. This forces users to take control of their own infrastructure but also raises questions about usability. 🏛 Session Name Service (SNS): A Double-Edged Sword Human-readable account names are convenient, but they tie your pseudonymous identity to a recognizable handle, potentially weakening privacy. Should you use one? It depends on your threat model.

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⏳ Messages Expire if Not Received Unlike traditional messaging apps, messages in Session are not stored indefinitely. If a recipient doesn’t retrieve a message in time, it’s permanently lost—an interesting trade-off between privacy and usability. 💰 The Tokenomics of Attacks Running a node requires staking tokens, creating a financial cost for Sybil attacks. But could attackers drive up token prices, making it prohibitively expensive for honest users to participate? The economic incentives remain an open question. 🧅 How Many Layers Should an Onion Have? More hops in an onion route don’t always mean better security—timing correlation attacks can still deanonymize users. Session sticks with the classic three-hop model, striking a balance between privacy and efficiency.

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Sneak peek of the Session whitepaper walkthrough: 🔍 Metadata Leakage: More Dangerous Than You Think Even if message content is encrypted, knowing who is talking to whom, when, and how often can expose activists, dissidents, and high-value targets. Session mitigates this by removing centralized servers from the equation and using onion routing—but with some key differences from Tor. 🏗 “Like Tor, But Double Tor” Instead of a single onion route from sender to recipient, Session uses two separate onion circuits—one for sending and another for retrieving messages. This prevents a single node from learning both ends of the conversation.

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We're kicking off Explain Again! with Session, the Signal-like chat app that is web3-native and privacy-first. They're pushing boundaries with their approach to privacy and distributed tech, complemented by a beautiful UI and smooth UX. I'm curious what tradeoffs they made and what the implications are for users. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgIitv3Dmkk

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Ever feel like it's hard to keep up with technical developments in crypto? People ferociously @ each other on X, opining on infinitesimal details, while you just want to properly understand of the issue at hand? (er, rollup wars, hello) I’m starting a content series aimed at the intermediate audience ✅🙍 - not pure beginner and not advanced yoda ❌👶🥷 Explain Again! is where no question is too stupid - as you’ll see from my stupid questions 😀 On some episodes I interrogate expert friends, stubbornly digging until we get the fundamentals straight. On other episodes we’ll use visual explainers to grok complex dynamics.

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I'm loving wartime Scott Alexander.

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I actually really love how america has this deep level of culture of people (in this case, both the driver and the company execs) willing to be disobedient to authority in service of higher principles

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best @devcon ever, 10/10, no notes 👏

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“3 things money can’t buy: a fit body, a calm mind and a house full of ❤️” - @naval @thenetworkstate conf in Singapore

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