“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” –George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905

"People aren't ready, this is gonna change everything" You know what people weren't ready for? Fucking mammoths. Tigers eating them. Monkeys ripping their arms off. The black plague. The ice age. Smallpox. Vikings pulling up on the beach. Drinking water that gives you diarrhea until you die. Getting a scratch and losing your whole leg. The Mongols. The Spanish Inquisition. One volcano can send us back to the dark ages and these safety guys are gonna be shocked. Oh the robots didn't kill us? It was a volcano? Imagine their disappointment as the hot ash rains down on them. A solar flare is gonna explode your phone in your pocket your legs are gonna be covered in battery acid and your bank account will stop working. You're afraid of a computer program doing math? "Things are moving too fast" homie you live on a rock that periodically deletes everything. You are one the most luckiest entities in a 100 light year radius living during a golden era. Cheer up. My ancestors crossed an ocean in a wooden box because they ran out of fucking potatoes. "The social disruption will be enormous!" Nigga World War 2? World War 2? Hop in the people carrier we're landing on the beach. Are these people out of their fucking minds? Do they not know what we've survived already? A couple decades of air conditioning and people suddenly think oh this is the natural condition of mankind. No. We used to have eight kids because seven didn't make it. You're gonna be fine. Man the fuck up. Accelerate.

We're used to thinking of open-source models as an unadulterated good. But in the case of AI, they can actually pose additional dangers, as @ReidHoffman and I got into at #CGI2026. I appreciated this nuanced discussion.

Tout ce que vous verrez désormais sur les réseaux est faux. On est clairement pas prêts avec la déferlante de l'intelligence artificielle...

COLDCARD is yours to verify, modify, and run. 👨‍💻 Learn how to change the open-source firmware, test it in the simulator, build a development-key DFU for Mk4/Mk5 or Q, and install it on a dedicated device. blog.coinkite.com/build-run-…

we did it. you crazy bastards I love you ❤️

So, AI wrote some cool app for me: Introducing #ZeroCam, a low-fi camera that runs on @SeedSigner hardware. Swap the microSD card and your signing device becomes a small, slow, strange little camera with sixteen picture effects. Swap the card back and it is a SeedSigner again. **Of course, nothing about the hardware changes in between.** The photographs are not good. That is the point. A fixed-focus sensor behind a pinhole lens, rendered through effects that belong to 2012 phone cameras, saved as sequential JPEGs on a card with no clock to date them. Getting the photos off: Shut down, take the card out, put it in any computer. A drive called boot appears, with a folder called photos inside it. The JPEGs are simply there. No software, no drivers, no cable. Works on smartphones too, including iPhone, if you have a microSD reader Capacity is around 200MB, which is a few hundred photographs. Easy install with Balena Etcher (like SeedSigner image). Free and MIT open source. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do. v.1 is at: github.com/z-l-o-k/ZeroCam

We’ve already responded to you numerous times via DM on different social media platforms. The response isn’t going to magically change just because you’re asking the same question on X now. /Flo

If you’ve ever worked on consumer products, the only way to survive is to understand that every vector will be pressured-tested. If you don’t think like an adversary, you will be taken advantage of to the maximum extent possible.

Liana users:

Why I Sold All My Bitcoin... it's over. (Full video below)

The hard fork is an under-appreciated superpower of Bitcoin. It allows people that would destroy the protocol with endless infighting to triumphantly self-select out, face the reality of their own incompetence elsewhere, never to threaten Bitcoin again. It's beautiful, really.

This was never about protecting the user's ability to run Bitcoin on low compute hardware. It was about control. Protecting decentralization was their argument, now the mask came off: they were always trying to become the center.

So @LukeDashjr seems to have an authoritarian communist mentality. He thinks capitalism is evil. He thinks anarchy (maximum freedom) is evil. He thinks ancap is evil squared. He rallied up the bolsheviks against the bitcoin bourgeoisie. Redefines words and has purity disputes. Tries to gain power by eliminating any opposition. Decides what is the maximum a miner can mine (or have profits) instead of letting free markets decide. Increasingly stricter rules intended to protect the project. Funny comparison is that the word Bolshevik comes from the Russian word for “majority,” although they were not consistently the majority in Russia. nitter.net/LukeDashjr/status/1559…