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[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

[John Sailer @JohnDSailer]

Strong conclusion: "If the pursuit of disinterested inquiry is compromised, it strikes at the very foundation on which a university should be based, just as the corrupt administration of justice strikes at the foundation upon which a system of justice should be based."

[John Sailer @JohnDSailer]

Next section sums up the sources of politicized scholarship:

1) rejecting unwelcome views, 2) rejecting "understanding" as the goal of scholarship, and 3) rejecting the very notion of politically independent facts.

It largely zeros in on the last source (i.e., relativism).

[John Sailer @JohnDSailer]

Fourth, there's a stronger rejection of objectivity. In this view, claims to objectivity/truth/standards have been wielded as a tool to for power, and they're ultimately a sham. Thus, overtly political standards are no less legit (and they're more honest).

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.

Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.

It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.

[czz9 @cryptozz9]

@AAGDhillon We don't need to ask ourselves - yes it's clear that they are cheating. Question is what you (and DOJ) are gonna do about it

[czz9 @cryptozz9]

@SenRonJohnson Ron Johnson was essentially the lone politician since covid shot hysteria, who was guided by conscience and was fighting for truth and for the censored & injured. Accountability - better late than never

[Charles Guillemet @P3b7_]

👉For 4 years, 1 day, and 10 hours, anyone who understood the Orchard circuit could have minted ZEC out of thin air, silently, with no on-chain signature. The bug was disclosed this week. It was found by an AI-driven audit running Opus 4.8, not by an attacker.

1. Call the bug what it is
Two lines in halo2's variable-base scalar multiplication gadget used assign_advice() where copy_advice() was required. As a result, the diversified-address integrity check pk_d = [ivk]·g_d could be satisfied for arbitrary inputs. A malicious prover could spend the same note multiple times with different nullifiers, i.e. counterfeit ZEC inside the Orchard pool, undetectable on-chain because the privacy of the ZK proof hides exactly the inputs that would reveal the attack.

We do not know whether it was exploited. We will probably never know.

2. Four years. Multiple audits. Top-tier reviewers.
Orchard was reviewed by some of the strongest cryptographers in the field before activation. They missed it. Earlier automated audits with Opus 4.7 missed it. Opus 4.8 catches it in roughly 1 in 4 runs when prompted generically. The bug is hard.

And ZK inflation bugs are not new. Zcash itself shipped a counterfeiting vulnerability in Sprout (BCTV14) that survived years before being silently neutralized during Sapling. Similar soundness issues have appeared in circom, halo2, and rollup verifiers since. The pattern is consistent: when the protocol is private, exploitation is undetectable. You patch the bug and hope.

3. What Zcash did right
This was a textbook decentralized incident response:

▶️Audit: a full AI-assisted soundness audit of halo2 + Orchard, scoped end-to-end.
▶️Discover: the agent flagged the missing constraint and worked out the algebra to turn it into an exploit. A working RPC-level PoC in ~6 hours, mostly waiting on tokens.
▶️Coordinate: a soft fork disabling Orchard, prepared and distributed without leaking the bug, activated 2 days and 15 hours after acknowledgement. Coordinating a soft fork across miners, exchanges, and nodes without disclosing why is genuinely hard. They did it.
▶️Disclose: timeline, code lines, math, open questions. No spin.
Worth naming explicitly: Zcash's turnstile invariant caps the value that can ever leave a shielded pool by the value that entered it. Privacy and verifiability inside the same protocol. That is not an accident. That is good engineering, and it is what kept the worst case bounded.

4. The economics of security just changed
AI does not change whether bugs like this exist. It changes the cost of finding them. I wrote about this https://t.co/AeurraJXhB: a missing constraint in a 4-year-old production ZK circuit used to require a top-tier cryptographer with months of context. It now requires a few tokens, an API key, and a well-framed prompt.

The defender benefits. The attacker benefits more, they only need to find it once, and they never disclose.

Orchard is the optimistic version of this story: defense got there first. The pessimistic version is the one we cannot rule out, because the chain is private by design.

5. The only real exit
You do not patch your way out of this asymmetry. You raise the floor.

Formal verification of consensus-critical circuits, every assign_advice audited by SAT solvers and AI for under-constraint, as the reporter himself recommends. Proof-grade engineering that used to be too expensive is now cheap enough to be mandatory.
Hardware roots of trust, secure enclaves, certified secure elements, WYSIWYS. Cryptographic guarantees the user can actually verify, not promises a host can lie about.
Continuous AI-assisted audit of every consensus-critical commit, re-run immediately on the release of any new frontier model.
Zcash didn't just patch a bug. They demonstrated the new defensive playbook: AI-driven audits, decentralized coordination, radical transparency, verifiable invariants. That is the direction the rest of the industry needs to follow.

And those who don't raise the bar for security will be rekt in this new world.

Stay safe. Stay honest about your trust assumptions.

[czz9 @cryptozz9]

@nickshirleyy This guy is a brain-dead imbecile, a psycho and clown, a complete disgrace to Asian Americans. Poor dog 🐕 - got dragged around by this sicko, someone call animal abuse pls! But great to see towards the end, many New Yorkers went up to you with warm greetings and appreciations!

[Lori Mills @LoriMills4CA42]

Andrew and I are in Washington, D.C. today, where I had the honor of testifying before the FDA on behalf of cancer patients everywhere.
We’re fighting to bring #ANKTIVA and natural killer (NK) cell therapies into the spotlight, giving hope and new options to those who need them most.
Please watch the testimony. I hope it resonates with you.
Together, we’re pushing for real progress. @bullishbruk
@DrPatrick

[Nik Stankovic @nikstankovic_]

Here you go folks, consider this an exclusive for the non-Chinese speaking world.

Many Chinese have seen it, I've seen several short clips from this video over the years. Just this morning, for the first time, I've seen the entire video.

I've arranged English subtitles. Watching without subtitles it is hard to understand what is happening. The video is 12 minutes long and worth a watch.

[Otto Huang  @OttoHuang120]

@JanJekielek

[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

The photos, the source said, reveal the awakening back then of people from all segments of society, including many deeply embedded in the Communist Party system: https://t.co/avOImr4rEw

They are a testament that “Chinese people have guts,” the individual said. “They are different from the Chinese Communist Party, and they know right from wrong.”

And no matter how the CCP tries to “exert power and hide the truth,” the person said, there’s a limit to what coercion can achieve.

“It can make threats and inflict pain on people and their loved ones, but people have a soul, and that it can never kill,” the source said.

The present “darkness” is temporary, and at the end of it, there will be light, the source said.

@StateDept, yesterday: On June 4, the world marks 37 years since the Chinese Communist Party ordered its troops to attack thousands of peaceful demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square. Chinese students, workers, and other civilians who lost their lives had gathered to exercise their natural rights and demand democratic reforms and accountability for corruption. We remember their lives and honor their legacy. No amount of censorship can erase the past. Those who sacrificed to uphold their unalienable rights of free expression and peaceful assembly will be vindicated someday.

Story by @EvaSailEast. [2/2]

[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

For 37 years, over 2,000 images taken by a Chinese state media photographer were hidden in a metal box, surviving brutal purges—until now.

These raw, powerful photos show the courage of the students, the scale of the protests, and the horror of what the Chinese Communist Party did.

Now, The @EpochTimes is making the photos public for the first time. [1/2]

[czz9 @cryptozz9]

Well, what’s the legal and/or political route to get uncompliant blue states to hand over their SNAP data, or their voter roll files? Stop complaining, instead sue, subpoena, whatnot. You got to force it, squeeze HARD, don’t ever dream about voluntary cooperation from these blue states - as this is their CORE issue (fraud & cheat) @DOJFraudDiv @CivilRights @HarmeetKDhillon You need apply MAXIMUM pressure, seek legal accountability on responsible individuals. Otherwise it’s all for naught

[czz9 @cryptozz9]

UF BOT will no doubt rubber stamp Bell in mid June meeting. It's gonna be up to BOG
@alevine014
@TimCerio
& their colleagues to hold UF BOT accountable for not following Regulation 1.002: "The search committee is required to submit more than two qualified applicants, selected by a majority vote of the search committee, to the board of trustees for consideration, other than in exceptional circumstances making fulfillment of this requirement infeasible"

https://t.co/Ns9kNyVdB0

[czz9 @cryptozz9]

@byrondobson @TDOnline https://t.co/IQCR8MYHoe

[czz9 @cryptozz9]

Quick impression of these forums by Dr Bell (videos available at UFSG-SPAN YouTube channel):
1) insincere format (feel staged), all questions were curated and sanitized by Patel & the search committee of BOT, there were NO organic interactions with the audience whatsoever - Bell got treated with kid gloves;
2) extremely unimpressive performance - Dr. Bell is good at speaking many words that don't mean anything, e.g. when asked about ranking slip of Univ of Alabama (from no. ~80 to ~160), he rumbled around with a bunch of word salads without really addressing why the rank decline.

The whole thing is discouraging to watch. It's truly unacceptable that the BOT search committee is producing only one candidate Dr Bell. Why on earth wasn't Dr. Landry included in the final list? Patel, likely under Hosseini's direction, is trying to force this sole choice onto BOG and UF. The entire UF BOT should resigned or be fired.@alevine014 @TimCerio you and your colleagues at BOT got to hold UF BOT accountable.

Dr Bell is unimpressive, uninspiring, see no vision nor conviction from him. UF deserves a much better leader.

@CommiesOnCampus @SenRickScott @GovRonDeSantis @Paul_Renner @ByronDonalds @Michelle_Vought @SUS_Florida @PalmInstitute @JvilleConserv @suzylebo @crystalmarull @CityJournal @ManhattanInst @EDSecMcMahon

[czz9 @cryptozz9]

"The carefully manicured forums offered the clearest glimpse yet of how UF intends to sell Bell’s candidacy. Using a curated selection of questions submitted online by students and faculty, moderators largely steered the conversation toward student success, athletics, campus life and Bell’s vision for Florida’s flagship university." also: https://t.co/rguDPLXfxT

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

California keeps dumping votes. Odds are shifting because the vote dumps always seem to go one way.

Count until you get the result you want?

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Today is 37 years since the Tiananmen Massacre

On this day in 1989, the Chinese Communist Party ordered the People's Liberation Army to open fire on its own citizens.

Peaceful pro-democracy students and workers who gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square demanding freedom, anti-corruption, and basic human rights were crushed under tanks and gunfire.

The protests began in mid-April 1989, triggered by the death of reformist leader Hu Yaobang. On May 13, students began a hunger strike. Martial law was declared on May 20, but protesters remained peaceful.

In the early hours of June 4, troops advanced with tanks and live ammunition. Soldiers fired on unarmed civilians blocking their path in the streets surrounding the square.

Hundreds to thousands were killed. Thousands more were imprisoned, tortured, or disappeared.

To this day, the Chinese government censors all mention of it, erases it from history books, and threatens anyone who remembers.