It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but "California gas is expensive because of a failed high-speed rail project" is 100% real.
Almost half of ALL GAS TAXES go to funding the high speed rail project that hasn't delivered a single functional piece of rail in the last 11 years.
Great explanation of why California gas prices are higher than in other states, in the @sfchronicle of all places.
26¢/gallon goes to "cap-and-invest" which funds high-speed rail.
sfchronicle.com/california/a…
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Before it became possible to get rich by creating wealth, the way to do it was to be on the winning side in a military or political dispute.
After William conquered England in 1066, he incorporated 21% of the land in England as his royal estate.
Then came the rewards for his close followers: 57 people were given control of half the land in England.
Based on the origin of names in the Domesday Book, we can see that almost all major landholders were Norman; only a few hundred English landholders (mostly with smaller lands) are named, who in total possessed just 8% of the landed wealth in England (this figure includes ecclesiastical landholding as well; if only private landholders are counted, it would be even lower)."
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changing from .ai to .si under trump is like putting your pronouns into your bio under biden
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Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash.
Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase).
Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets.
IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster).
Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot.
Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time?
Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.)
Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once.
Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case.
I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026).
Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS.
Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security.
The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.
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I’m in love with this sentence:
You need to be more afraid of wasting your life than embarrassing yourself.
told ya
BITCOIN-ANCHORED DIGITAL IDENTITY WITHOUT TRUSTING A SERVER
Spaces has introduced a “Trust Anchor” that lets apps verify human-readable identities against Bitcoin itself rather than relying on a centralized server.
Users obtain a single Trust ID, scan or paste it into a Spaces-compatible app, and can then verify handles such as alice@bitcoin against a locally verified view of the Spaces protocol state.
The Trust ID is derived from Bitcoin’s header chain and the accumulated state of Spaces, effectively creating a universal root of trust anchored to Bitcoin.
On macOS, the new Veritas app can generate the Trust ID without requiring users to run a Bitcoin full node. Users can also connect Veritas to their own node for stronger security guarantees.
Those already running Bitcoin Core can generate the same Trust ID using the Spaces client.
The broader goal is to turn Bitcoin into the foundation for a decentralized certificate authority, allowing apps to authenticate identities without trusting a company’s server.
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Anyone with eyes could see that Trump’s crypto grifting was going to ultimately kill Clarity
His legacy will not be remembered favorably by the crypto industry
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The greatest threat to a free speech internet & open public debate is militant political groups, who make it unsafe to express your opinion.
These groups coordinate in Telegram groups to manufacture strategies such as doxxing (or baiting others to do it) to silence dissent and control narratives.
They will defend their infringement on the physical safety of others as a one-time, necessary exception for their broader mission.
When software was expensive - thin, horizontal, best-of-breed software stacks extracted rents across every business.
Now that software is cheap - value moves to vertically integrated businesses that deliver opinionated end-to-end experiences.
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Brad Gerstner: Anthropic could *ADD* $200B of Revenue in 2027 - “We’ve never seen anything like this in the history of the world.”
@altcap:
“Let me be provocative here. If (Anthropic) ends the year with over $100 billion (in revenue), I think they're on a revenue trajectory that could 3-5x again next year. We've never seen anything like this.”
@Jason:
“You're saying $100B to $300B, or $100B to $400B.”
Brad:
“Our minds were blown if a company could go from $100M to $300M. Now we're talking from $100B to $300B.
$200B of incremental revenue is incomprehensible in the history of Silicon Valley.”
@chamath:
“In the history of the world.”
Brad:
“Yeah, in the history of the world. The fact that we're even talking anywhere close to this tells us something different is going on here.
I think the thing that's different is that intelligence is the largest TAM we've ever seen in the history of the world. These guys are penetrating it.”
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It took a little longer than expected, but we have created a website for people to view the footage collected from Gaza in one place. You no longer have to download the entire archives to see them.
It includes:
64,537 videos
17,905 photos
Ability to download individual videos
Searchable index
Exhaustive sources list (300+ journalists)
Geolocation data
Livemap with minute to minute updates
Victim list
It can be accessed here: ArchiveGenocide.com
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We will keep adding the rest of the archives to the site, be patient- it is difficult work. Continue to seed the torrents provided, as that is the best way to ensure the footage remains stored in decentalized way.
God bless all those who sacrificed their lives to get this footage out, and everyone invovled in collecting/archiving it.
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