adamspitz.eth

Working in the blockchain world. Father of a toddler and baby twins. Not a fan of wokeness.

[adamspitz.eth @AdamSpitz]

Crypto And Politics FAQ 🧵 for non-crypto people

"Why have I been seeing crypto in the news lately? Why is BTC price going up?"

Because the previous US administration was extremely hostile to crypto, and Trump has been signalling friendliness to it.

[adamspitz.eth @AdamSpitz]

@BIG_PARMENIDES Had my first at age 42 (and now I've got three). I'm noticeably slower and less energetic than I would have been in my twenties or thirties, but being older comes with advantages too. Definitely very glad I did it.

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

i owe an apology to all of the right wing anti-globalizationists and other assorted nutjobs of the 1990s who turned out to be substantially right about the direction and impact of the policies they hated even if their worst fears were underestimates of what would follow

oh well

[adamspitz.eth @AdamSpitz]

@jordanbpeterson Very glad to hear from you. Sorry you're having so much health trouble. My wife and I have learned a lot from you, and your early lectures were some of our favourites; I'll be glad to see more.

[adamspitz.eth @AdamSpitz]

I think it's the other way around. The cryptography will need to be actually *correct*, but that's something AI can help us with too. And once it *is* correct, that's something that an AI *won't* be able to crack.

(I mean, we're all doomed, but I think crypto might be one of the *least* doomed things.)

[adamspitz.eth @AdamSpitz]

@TrustlessState @KookCapitalLLC I haven't sold my ETH and I really hope your latest takes on ETH are wrong, but I liked you before and I like you now and I think you've done all of this in good faith and it really bums me out to see so many people criticizing you over this.

[Sam 🇺🇸 @samclaassen]

Elon becoming a trillionaire is horrible.

What are we supposed to teach our kids?

That if you create self driving cars, colonize space, provide Internet access to everyone on earth and fix debilitating diseases that you can become a TRILLIONAIRE??

Disgusting.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

No, it’s not “Pride Month.” Not for me, and not for millions of others.

You’re welcome to be proud of whatever you want, in any month you like—because this is America. But what started in 1969 as a rebellion against persecution, morphed into a license for public depravity, and then morphed again into a weapon aimed at families and innocent children. Along the way it went from a day, to a week, and then a month and became official, and thereby effectively mandatory for all.

Enough!

If you’re gay and wondering why you are facing resistance now, the answer is that, with few exceptions, most of you didn’t stand up against the expansion and weaponization of “pride,” and the coercion that went with it. In that failure to resist, the gay community compromised any expectation that the rest of us should support “pride” at all, but especially the obscene display of hostility toward civilization and the families of which it is built, and for whom it exists.

If your hackles are raised by the idea that civilization is about families, realize that families are how civilizations persist through time. Not everyone needs to form one, but we all must respect and protect them—It is the foundation of what it means to be civilized.

For the small fraction of gays and lesbians who DID courageously stand up and resist expansion, coercion and the weaponization of “Pride,” I stand with you, and I have all along. But I won’t be celebrating, and I won’t be silent.

It’s not too late to join the voices of reason and to confront the insanity of what “pride” has become.

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

Yes yes we all can plainly see there's historic levels of government fraud and abuse, but just think of how much more fraud we could fund by raising taxes.

[Michelle Rempel Garner @MichelleRempel]

I wonder why @elonmusk, who is Canadian, decided not to build his civilization-changing, historic-levels-of-wealth-creating companies in Canada?

It will remain a mystery.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good.

The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX.

And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen.

Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.

[adamspitz.eth @AdamSpitz]

@steipete @_ARahim_ @bcherny I fix typos because I don't want the LLM to think that I'm stupid.

(Please don't say it.)

[adamspitz.eth @AdamSpitz]

@codevsdev My dad taught me.

[adamspitz.eth @AdamSpitz]

@scottyg_ap @JasonJournoDC He’s been gradually coming around. Slower than I’d like, but I wouldn’t condemn someone who’s on the right path.

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[adamspitz.eth @AdamSpitz]

@vwlarkin @qualiascript @grok What are people’s main objections to Wayland?

[Henrick Johansson @compliantvc]

A trolley is about to hit 5 people laying on the track

You can redirect the car, but the other track has not yet reached regulatory approval or completed its 1 year environmental testing period, so operating a train car on it is a violation of transit regulations

What do you do?

[adamspitz.eth @AdamSpitz]

@binji_x I like Ethereum!

[adamspitz.eth @AdamSpitz]

@RyanSAdams @TrustlessState Thank you for all of your hard work! I like you, I like David, I’m sad to see you go.

[adamspitz.eth @AdamSpitz]

@GadSaad @elonmusk Speaking as a Canadian: I liked you before, I still like you, I'm sad to see you go, and I really really don't blame you for leaving.

[adamspitz.eth @AdamSpitz]

I like this because it's both:
- Hey, look, he's being leisurely, he's not really doing very much...
- ...but also yeah, he gets paid to make a small number of *incredibly impactful* decisions.

If you have any sense, you would be *terrified* to be in his shoes.

Idiots who resent people in high-powered positions like this: you envy him for his leisure time and his luxury, but *you* would not make good decisions. You would screw it up. You would run that company into the ground and many many people would suffer as a result.