shazow

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imagine what a different world that could have been, if Hester Peirce got confirmed as SEC commissioner in 2016.

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Avoid making decisions out of fear. Also especially good advice for founders.

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Kinda wanna write "How to make a database better than a blockchain" Simply make a database that is public and collectively owned with these properties: 1. Can't stop me from updating records that belong to me 2. It can't disappear or stop me from querying the latest verified state 3. It can't disagree with previous claims state 4. Robust against attackers who may have billions of dollars (What else am I missing?) As soon as we have this magic database, we don't need a blockchain anymore!

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just tipped my favorite farcasters! thank you @dwr.eth @thumbsup.eth @kenny @dfern.eth @samantha @marlo @boscolo.eth @erica @links @maurelian.eth @kaufman @mazmhussain @worqas @fubuloubu @icetoad.eth @priyanka @keccers.eth for being here :)

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How can open social protocols fail us? I put together an analysis comparing several specific failure modes between Farcaster, Bluesky, and Mastodon. Please let me know if any of the protocol descriptions could be presented more fairly! https://shazow.net/posts/open-social-2025/

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Anyone particularly familiar with ATProto/Bluesky architecture up for giving me some feedback on a writeup comparing failure modes of different protocols?

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There are three kinds of people: 1. Those who want less regulation 2. Those who want more regulation 3. Those who want better regulation Two of them are wrong.

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Thinking about "credible neutrality" through the lens of "I just don't want to be rugged personally" then there are two components: 1. Exclusion: Can a system break a social contract with just a specific subset of participants? 2. Scale of social contract binding: Even if I can't be excluded personally, is it feasible to burn the system just to spite me? (a) The system and social contract is small, let's say a handful of people with just $100 in economic security. If I become a particularly toxic actor, we can imagine everyone just cutting their losses and shutting down the system. (b) The system is huge with a diversity of multipolar social contracts spanning many interests and participants. A binding with this system would require a catastrophic shift across many dimensions to get rugged.

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if you could make any two people follow each other, who would it be?

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What are some "hard power" structures in Ethereum? 1. Client implementations (execution/consensus nodes with slashing conditions) 2. Validators and restaking mechanisms (Lido, Eigen, etc.) 3. External collateral (RWA like USDC) 4. Over a longer term, funding and resource allocations (VC, grants, etc.) Any others?

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Breakfast: 50 cent avocado, $2 for 18 eggs 🇲🇽❤️ Is it just me or do things taste better when they're a good deal?

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wow that took a dark turn https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1905332049021415862

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Ok crazy idea but hear me out: Make Farcaster compatible with atproto, become the first full alternate AppView to BlueSky with sovereign identity on ENS and built in payments and mini apps.

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casually disassociating in a canadian automotive industry research hole until this snaps me back out

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stablecoins are not the next crypto whatever, they are the next visa/mastercard

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vibe code a meme generator where every meme has style variations like ghibli, muppets, etc. could probably dethrone imgflip and friends as the go-to meme generator.

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AI industry continues to produce the best demos of all time.

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https://canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/03/25/i-traded-my-u-s-medical-career-for-life-in-canada-heres-how-the-two-health-systems-stack-up

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https://x.com/Liv_Boeree/status/1904949226095665188

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sorry for not ghiblifying

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