The importance of developer protections in the Clarity bill
In Clarity there is a BCRA provision which is by far the most important thing. It provides developer protections against being treated as a money transmitter for non-custodial smart contracts. For tornado cash, either fincen/sec stated non-custodial smart contracts are a f
Digg, Rainforests and Mono-cropping
Sharing why I’m really excited about Digg coming back. I never had Instagram/FB/Twitter growing up. I wasted a lot of time on Reddit though. I have lots of fond memories from high school browsing memes while board in class. The incentives of a company like Reddit has an unfort
We climb the mountain only for the pleasure of the next mountain to climb
This simple mental framing has helped me operate at the highest levels more consistently. I don’t celebrate the big wins internally, it’s just another Tuesday. When there is a setback, I begin again with the same enthusiasm as the first time 😎.
Assembling the Digg-vengers
Last year Kevin Rose randomly dmd on X about Digg. This vid is what it felt like.
The Freakonomics of Lust: Inside the OnlyFans API Hustle
I recently got connected to a anon who’s an expert in reverse engineering APIs. He’s a high school dropout self taught programmer. He’s apparently the reverse engineering kingpin for Onlyfans managers. He provides stable apis for automating chats to keep people engaged and spen
Verified bald community
I made a simple zkTLS PoC of how to make a verified bald community using proofs on the 23andme api
Digg, Rainforests and Mono-cropping
Sharing why I’m really excited about Digg coming back. I never had Instagram/FB/Twitter growing up. I wasted a lot of time on Reddit though. I have lots of fond memories from high school browsing memes while board in class. The incentives of a company like Reddit has an unfortu
The foot fetish hypothesis
I heard this theory that male foot fetishes might have been naturally selected for because feet are the body part most likely to pick up infections. Which is… insane, but also kind of makes sense? Like, you’re barefoot on the savannah, step in some primordial muck, and suddenly
Is there anything Viagra can’t do?
Scientific study: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.124.324327
I went down an abandoned iron mine to find life that predates animals
In my early 20s, my science-nerd friends and I thought it would be cool to get our hands on some Precambrian fossils. We had to email geology professors, and they helped us locate some abandoned iron mines. We went on an amateur geological expedition to uncover Precambrian micr
Ulrich Schnauss - 2003 A Strangely Isolated Place [FULL ALBUM]
Ulrich Schnauss's 2003 album 'A Strangely Isolated Place' features tracks like 'Gone Forever' and 'A Strangely Isolated Place'.
The best radio DJ
Klaus Fiehe from 1Live Fiehe in Germany has the best ear for music I’ve ever heard. His station will go get the rights to play the music he wants vs picking from a catalog. My guess is he’s the last radio DJ with this arrangement.
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