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🚨WOW!!! A father was filmed walking his little daughter to school... …armed with a pistol-grip firearm and a long magazine. And half the internet immediately treated HIM like the threat. Not the people who have been attacking kids. Not the repeat offenders walking free. Not the school that can’t even keep the front door locked. HIM. A dad. Holding his daughter’s hand. Carrying a gun. They zoomed in on the grip. They zoomed in on the magazine. They wrote the same script they always write: “This is terrifying.” “This is not normal.” “No child should have to see that.” Here’s what they will never say out loud: That little girl is walking to school in a country where fathers have watched other fathers bury their children. Where “gun-free zones” keep getting turned into hunting grounds. Where the people screaming the loudest about “safety” have spent years emptying the jails and lecturing the rest of us about “root causes.” So a dad looked at that world… and decided his daughter was not going to be the next statistic. That’s not “extremism.” That’s fatherhood. You can hate the look of the gun. You can argue about the magazine. You can say he should have carried something smaller, quieter, more polite. Fine. But do not sit there and pretend the most shocking part of that video is a man protecting his child. The shocking part is that so many people saw a father doing his job… and their first instinct was to protect the CAMERA from him. A country that shames the dad walking his daughter to school, and shrugs at the monsters waiting down the street, has lost its mind. That little girl gets to go to class today because her father refused to outsource her life to a slogan. GOD BLESS that dad. 🇺🇸

My 5 year old has come home from school emotionally disturbed twice in the past 12 months. Both times were the result of books read to him by the school's librarian. We live in BC. The first time, he was read a book about a little boy who had to sit at the back of the bus because of the colour of his skin. The second time was today. He was read a book about a little First Nations girl who went to school and all the teachers at the school were mean and she was trapped at the school and never got to go home. He is FIVE. These are not healthy or age appropriate books for such young children. Children who are completely trusting of their teachers. Children who have zero critical thinking skills. Children who are vulnerable and impressionable. I am mad at the school district tonight. I am angry that I had to give my 5 year old an entire well rounded lesson of First Nations history and a global perspective of racism and slavery to provide proper context to the emotionally weaponized sliver of information fed to him in public school. He now understands that we have First Nations ancestry in our family, but that the government doesn't recognize us as First Nations. He also understands that not all First Nations children had unfortunate school experiences. He now understands that some children had mean teachers, but most children who died in residential schools died from disease. We talked about all the things, good and bad. We talked about what happened when First Nations met the men who arrived on ships, and that if those particular ships hadn't arrived, other ships would have. We talked about how First Nations fought eachother, and fought with the men from overseas, and then worked with the men from overseas and fought against the USA together. We talked about how First Nations and people from the new world fell in love and grew families and built Canada together. We talked about how archeologists think First Nations crossed over the bearing land bridge, but that scientists are still discovering new information, and how new people continue to arrive into Canada. He also understands that slavery still exists today and that white people have both been enslaved and owned slaves, but North America and western countries all denounced and apologized for slavery many many years ago, but that other countries still actively keep children and adults as slaves. He is 5. That was a lot of talking to undo two short but devastating library lessons. That was unfair to him and to me. The school curriculum absolutely needs to change @LDoerkson @PeterMilobar. It is unfair to teach tiny pieces of information to young children when the issues are so complex. After the library "melanin" lesson last year my other child, age 6, asked me if "light skin people" are mean. C'mon.

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Zcash is Bitcoin, if Bitcoin: ∙ Took VC seed funding before launch ∙ Relied on a trusted setup ∙ Pre-mined 2 million coins ∙ Formed a corporation it funneled money to ∙ Was highly centralised ∙ Had an inflation bug looming ∙ Was AML-compliant ∙ & essentially no users

The single biggest difference between humans and AI agents is the amount of actions they execute on a computer per unit of time. AI agents can look and act just like humans, but execute 10,000X more actions per unit time. that's the tell. so the key to defending cyberspace from AI slop or AI attacks is to target ACTION, not IDENTITY. trying to detect AI is a fool's errand; targeting its BEHAVIOR is the key. So if you want to deter AI from accessing your website/system, simply make it expensive in computational tokens to ACT on your website. Make every command or button cost a token, and suddenly it's 10,000X more costly for AI to act than a human. You can't stop AI, but you can make it extraordinarily expensive to use it. We already know this intuitively, because everybody who has ever run openclaw or their own personal AI agents knows that the single biggest LIMFAC is compute tokens. your AI is only as good as your compute token wallet. but AI compute is constantly getting cheaper and better, and some countries have far better AI compute than others, creating a major imbalance of power. so the key to long term success is to create some kind of universal, non-sovereign, geopolitically neutral compute token network. that is, we need some kind of network that accounts for a bunch of transferable tokens that are computationally expensive to produce. that no amount of AI compute can produce more of. we need a proof-of-compute token network. and we need it to be fully decentralized so that no single person or polity can gain permanent or centralized control over it. we need this network to be globally dispersed. and we need to figure out a way to distribute those compute tokens in a way that's fair, that gives no single person or polity an advantage over the others. perhaps in some kind of first-come first-served basis, where the users who provide the computational power are given the tokens and free to spread them out however they want. if we had this compute token network, the final step to saving ourselves against AI is to simply adopt the habit of making every online action cost some fraction of a compute token, so that it's orders of magnitude more expensive for AI agents to operate online than humans. the first nation to discover this compute token network and use it to its defensive advantage against the threat of agentic AI will win the 21st century. BTW that compute token network is Bitcoin.

Shielded Bitcoin vs Zcash: Shielded Bitcoin is pretty clever tech given the constraints, but there’s a big gap that Zcash provides. - Zcash: zk-proof of shielded transaction is validated by the miner at block inclusion. Invalid proofs are not included in the block, therefore you know any proof onchain is valid. - Shielded Bitcoin: zk-proof is just stored on Bitcoin without checking for validity. A separate network is needed to determine if the proofs are valid and reconstruct the Sheilded transaction state. You can’t use the Shielded pool with Bitcoin Consensus alone, very much how most L2s function. Interestingly, this seems to be a massive technical improvement over the Lightning Network! Am unclear on how or why the secondary network would function without PoW rewards. An important detail is left to research, which is how the lock/unlock of L1 transparent BTC will work in practice. Look forward to seeing what they find here.