Thomas

@aviationdoctor.eth

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Tired: what did you get done last week? Wired: what did you get done last week, or else you’re fired?

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I went from 121K followers to 76K Just like my crypto portfolio

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What a crafty hack. Pyongyang is now on par with Dubai, New York, and Zug for being a hotspot of crypto innovation. If draining a multisig cold wallet managed by a competent professional team is now in the realm of possibilities, how can we expect corporates and normies to embrace the tech (let alone self-custody) without strong layer-0 guarantees and insurance? And if we do implement those, how is it not just TardFi and the FDIC with extra steps?

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We need to step up the Second Amendment. Society would be much more polite if everybody was carrying a tactical nuke in their pocket

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My unapologetic view on the current political situation: it is clear that █ is breaking from a long tradition of upholding █ █ in its decision to cease all support for █. Whether you call them █ █ or █ █, we used to rally and identify around those, and now █ █ █ is █ at breakneck speed using a █ approach to █ and █. There, I needed to say it, I hope I did not offend anyone, and if so, █ █.

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They spoke of light, now shadows bloom. Their word was firm, now deals consume. The vow they swore, a fleeting mist. Once carved in stone, now bends, now twists. Their hands once built, now tear for trade. A dream once held, now sold, now weighed.

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Even if you’re wrong, take solace in knowing that you can never be as wrong as Francis Fukuyama

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Never a dull day in crypto https://x.com/sassal0x/status/1891451625543176232

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If it squirms, it's biology. If it stinks, it's chemistry. If it doesn't work, it's physics. (Magnus Pyke)

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How is it that the “do your own research” crowd (e.g., conspiracy theorists) also tend to be the ones who get to the wrong conclusions?

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I am in constant awe of people who push the human experience to limits I would never dare approach myself. I live vicariously through their bravery. A couple of examples worth watching: 1/ A professional expedition to the deepest point of the deepest cave in the world: https://youtu.be/OPUTLWhhqCo 2/ More insane spelunking, this time by a couple of hobbyists: https://youtu.be/X10002WPycY

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I wonder if we’re on the verge of a civil war among Talibans in Afghanistan — between the powerful Haqqani faction in Kabul and the religious Kandahari faction, with the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) jihadists stirring up the pot. Several Haqqanis have been killed, detained, or exiled in the last three months, and now this seemingly retaliatory explosion in Kunduz targeting the Kandahari faction. https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/2/11/bomb-blast-kills-at-least-five-in-afghanistan

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Laundry guy came to collect shirts today. He would normally give me a paper receipt where he simply writes down how many there are. Today, he whipped out a mobile printer from his bag. He fiddled with it for a minute to switch it on and pair it with his phone. He then opened a bespoke app on his phone in which he proceeded to painstakingly enter the type of clothes and the number of pieces. After another minute or so, he gave up because the 5G connection sucks inside the building. He left without giving me a receipt because he no longer carried the usual stubs. We don’t need to digitize everything https://x.com/robertmsterling/status/1889097312103747776

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Kanye is having a full-on bipolar episode — each one of his tweets for the last few hours is worst than the one before https://x.com/kanyewest

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A primer by @remyroy.eth on changes to validator mechanics from the Pectra upgrade and the included EIP-7251 (MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE increase) TL;DR: those running more than one validator of 32 ETH each will be able to combine them into a new kind of self-compounding validator with a ceiling of 2048 ETH https://github.com/eth-educators/ethstaker-guides/blob/main/docs/pectra-features.md

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Some of the fastest-moving objects on Earth:

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“I never thought leopards would eat MY face”, sobs group who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces party

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@vgr makes an astute observation (as usual). AI is already commoditized because all models are trained on roughly the same dataset of human knowledge; and, therefore, they perform similarly within a segment (broadly: light/free, medium/paid, and advanced/expensive models). It then follows that users will gravitate toward the cheapest or most convenient model within that segment. Now, if AI is fungible, and AI is set to replace human intelligence at a variety of tasks, does that mean that human intelligence is also fungible? I’d respond in the affirmative if and only if humans were also trained on the entirety of human knowledge, but that’s obviously not the case. Our lifespans and brain capacity are too limited for that to happen (yet). So, for now, what differentiates the intelligence of two humans of equal IQ is whatever dataset they trained on — which roughly maps to upbringing, culture, education, and formative experience. 1/2 https://warpcast.com/vgr/0x3053ee4a

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Went down the rabbit hole of watching Kane Pixels’ The Oldest View (a bit late, admittedly) and am stunned by the extraordinary quality of this amateur piece of fiction made entirely in Blender + UE5. About one hour of watch time in total Part 1: https://youtu.be/EjY897CCu4g Part 2: https://youtu.be/wWNMsZ44ooc Analysis in English https://youtu.be/UL7_mLgVbpg and in French https://youtu.be/zYjPReIp61o

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2025 is the year the user manual dies. Don’t bother with writing user manuals anymore, nobody will read them. Write training documentation intended for front-end LLMs instead

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