Aaron565

In the interest of predicting the future

[Aaron565 @Aaron565]

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[Joseph Cox @josephfcox]

New: hackers say they have data on all FBI employees and spouses. I got a sample of 5,000 alleged employees, including name, physical address, phone number, and in some cases spouses. Could be a massive national security and counterintelligence risk https://t.co/4mHiUW54PS

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Glad to see that Ethereum L1 will have a new strong prediction market contender that is dedicated to decentralization, and being ethical and not corposlop, and to actually trying to do interesting and meaningful things with this class of economic primitive.
https://t.co/Rj86ZJl3G4

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

There's a new bill in Congress that would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites. Hard to imagine wrongly blocked sites would have much recourse. This would put censorship machinery into deepest layers of the internet. https://t.co/bzbESUlAJ0

[Cassandra Unchained @michaeljburry]

“One of the reasons why I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over, and the two together form a coalition against the ordinary worker and the ordinary consumer.”

— Milton Friedman

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

A girl named Aleysha Ortiz graduated from Hartford Public High School in 2024 with honors and a scholarship

She is completely illiterate, she can’t read a single word on a paper she’s shown

She says she was able to use her phone’s dictation feature to take pictures of text in books and have the phone read it to her. That’s how she got through school and even somehow made honors….

She immigrated from from Puerto Rico and is now suing the City of Hartford and the Hartford Board of Education because she says she wasn’t given enough extra attention as school

So this girl is a foreigner who cheated her way through school and is now suing the school district for $3 million dollars because she can’t read

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

One guy in Sweden built a search engine that doesn't run on Google or Bing. It's been online since 2021, and the bills come to about $200 a month.

Viktor Löfgren says most "alternative" search engines are really powered by Google or Bing, or by authoritarian states like Russia and China.

His engine, Marginalia, has its own crawler and index, with no ads, no loans and no investors.

His argument: when nearly all search runs through a few US companies, censorship becomes easy, even by accident, and one country's cultural bias shapes what everyone finds.

He isn't trying to replace Google. He wants Marginalia to be the "minority report" that keeps the big engines honest.

So it ranks what they tend to bury: personal blogs, old university pages, text-heavy sites with nothing to sell.

Every result shows whether a page uses affiliate links or JavaScript, and you can filter those out. An "explore" mode just shows you random sites from the index.

It's keyword-based on purpose. Löfgren argues that the better a search engine gets at answering questions, the worse it gets at finding websites.

It's open source under the AGPL, so you can host your own copy.

https://t.co/sbiEEs9O8u

[Rooke Poole @rookepoole]

I followed the money behind the “slow down AI” movement.

What I found is not a secret conspiracy.

It is more interesting than that.

It is a documented influence network connecting billionaire funders, nonprofits, creators, media, activists, frontier labs, and lawmakers.

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[Blackfrost_AI @Blackfrost_AI]

Y'all thought I was lying.
Backup Your models people.
Stay Frosty

[Eli Nagar @EliNagar]

Why are bitcoiners celebrating the CLARITY Act?

​​I sat down and read it.
If I can't hold my own money, spend it privately, and build useful things without asking for permission, it's not a win.

​Wall Street and banks got their deal.
​Here is what's buried inside 🧵👇

🔸️If a local bank wants my savings, it should offer me a better deal.

Simple as that.

​Instead, this bill lets the government choke off rewards on stablecoins just so old-school banks don't lose customers.

If a legacy bank can't compete with open-market interest rates, that's their failure.

🔸️A company can freeze your money for 30 days just on a "hunch".
​A simple letter from the police can stretch that to six months.

If the company acts honestly and follows the rules, it's protected from having to compensate me for the hold.

If they're wrong, I want a quick way to get my money released.

Six months can ruin someone's life.

The fact it's called temporary doesn't help.

🔸️Treasury gets the power to block entire categories of transfers if they flag a risk overseas.

​Innocent people sending lawful payments shouldn't be collateral damage.
If you don't build in clear safeguards, regular users like me, always pay the price.

🔸️We're still putting coders in danger. Nobody want another Samourai case.

​If someone writes open-source software and walks away, they shouldn't face decades in prison just because a bad actor used it later.

​If Congress wants to protect builders, say it plainly in the law. Don't leave people guessing.

🔸️I'm glad self-custody got there, but why limit it to everyday shopping?

​I don't just spend bitcoin, I save in it, and I use it for business.

​If the law only protects consumer purchases, it leaves savers and entrepreneurs in a gray area.

Protect the right to hold your own money, full stop.

🔸️My privacy is super important to me.
Every time I'm forced to upload my ID and have my payments tracked, someone else gets to hold the keys to my identity.

​We see database breaches every single week. When it leaks, and it will, the regulators won't be the ones dealing with the fallout. I will.

Calling it "compliance" doesn't keep my data safe.

Final words:
In the end, my test for CLARITY is simple:
​Does it protect our right to hold our own money and build without permission?

​Banks and exchanges cutting a deal behind closed doors doesn't make it a win for everyday people.

Hard decision, but I vote NO.

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

I'm calling it now.

There's a huge AI-related psyop/false flag on the way.

It's not a coincidence that Bill Gates has all of a sudden (and very publicly) turned on AI...

At the exact same time as an Anthropic/OpenAI "whistleblower" went viral warning that AI will wipe out humanity by 2030...

At the exact same time as a new fear-mongering Netflix documentary on AI is about to be released...

At the exact same time as King Charles is set to host a summit with major AI executives to discuss "safety concerns".

As with the Covid "pandemic", when the exact same narrative starts getting pushed out of nowhere across the board, with all the same terminology and buzzwords, it's highly likely that a massive psyop is underway.

[Aggr News @AggrNews]

https://t.co/HyYtcpTei6

[Qwinah @MaaSonder]

Google copied open-sourced code, removed engineers names and claimed it as their own

artemis, Googles new open-source tool for mobile automation was found to be a exact copy of someone’s work

the original engineers named an agent randomly “hopper”, which was found, with its prompt internally

some of the engineers and co-founder’s names were found in the “authors” section of an old commit

all three names had been replaced with another author’s name in a commit, and the other 228 files from mobile-use were unchanged

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Nvidia, Palantir, & more are reportedly restricting use of Anthropic models over sensitive data exposure.

[Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️ @rstormsf]

Nothing can shut down open source. But you can shut down the people who write it.
Roman Storm(me) was convicted over a protocol he doesn't control and transactions he never touched. The jury deadlocked on the two serious counts. DOJ is retrying him anyway, in 2027, four years after the indictment.
Michael Lewellen (@LewellenMichael) tried to do it the right way. Before publishing a non-custodial crowdfunding protocol, he asked a federal court whether writing that code made him an unlicensed money transmitter. In March a judge threw the case out, not on the merits, but because Lewellen hadn't shown a "credible threat of prosecution." DOJ was prosecuting another developer for that exact conduct at the time.
So you can't ask permission. You can only find out at sentencing.
The result is visible: shelved projects, teams moving offshore, protocols blocking U.S. users. Repos don't go to prison. Maintainers do.

[Roger @rdd147]

OpenAI cancels IPO plans until at 2027, saying now isn’t the time to IPO as we plan to slow down Ai model development for safety reasons.

Musk and Dario the same this weekend.

This isn’t safety, this is severe stress in bond markets and the realization they can’t meet their commitments where operating expenses are vs token prices.

They finally realized they were the bubble.

$ORCL $SPCX $NVDA

[Dick Masterson @dickmasterson]

These guys are lying.

LLMs have a mathematical performance ceiling. Getting closer to it costs more and more with every improvement. Long term, they cannot outpace open source models. Their only chance of survival is eliminating open source. Same thing happened to mainframes.

[Eric W. @EWess92]

Wow. The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case about whether a person who could be deported due to an aggravated felony could be held without bail pending deportation. Three days before the brief was due, Governor @GovKathyHochul *pardoned* the felon to end the case. Case dismissed

[Aaron565 @Aaron565]

@julianlehr @didiercatz Average consumer has less worthwhile data remaining to be harvested. Its current value is for realtime surveillance and less established companies.

[Daniel Batten @DSBatten]

Last year, a Bitcoin mining company commissioned this satellite readings from this superemitter landfill emitting 1.5 tonnes of methane every single hour!

Mitigating these emissions has the impact of
- taking 263,413 cars off the road - or ...
- planting 1,130,040 acres of US forest

One year later, the project just took another step forward to viability. The landfill owner wants to move ahead with a Bitcoin mining solution, and the economics pan out for everyone.

This is one of 5 landfills now in an advanced stage or discussions with the landfill owner.

Our vision is not that Bitcoin no longer gets energy FUD, it's that Bitcoin becomes widely recognized as a powertool of environmental and social justice

First step is to get the world's first project started on a landfill that's currently venting its methane.

So, LFG!
= landfill gas

[CyberSatoshi 𓆙 @XBToshi]

negotiated quietly over encrypted pgp until 3,400 btc landed back in the federation wallet.

then immediately rushed to public x to drop a righteous corporate manifesto about how "crime deserves no reward" and threaten the feds on the remaining 600 btc.

take the liquidity, break the deal, call law enforcement. classic corporate honor.

there will be consequences.

watch how it goes: https://t.co/6Ob8ctBVyk