Debbie Jennings

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[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

A French tax agent sold a list of crypto investors to criminals, triggering a wave of kidnappings. https://t.co/0bubOJPvee

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

There are two problems rn for crypto and, specifically, bitcoin bulls:

1) marginal liquidity would rather speculate in prediction markets and equity markets

2) marginal energy to mine BTC is worth 10-20x if reallocated to serving AI tokens

These changes feel structural but I could be wrong…

[path.eth 🛡️ @Cryptopathic]

https://t.co/ByLt6SDVxi

[The Block @TheBlockCo]

THE BLOCK: The U.S. and U.K. say they plan to use stablecoins in cross-border finance, in a joint statement as part of the Transatlantic Taskforce for Markets.

"Both governments recognise that well-regulated stablecoins have the potential to promote efficiency and competition in our financial systems, modernise financial market infrastructure, and improve cross-border payments and transactions," they said.

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

This is an amazing quote from Lindsey Graham about when he realized how politics works. https://t.co/sh04ahQOFq

[tirzah christopher @tirzahchristoph]

An outlier from the Pa. Leg: Sen. Vince Hughes spent almost $80K (of ur tax dollars) on invite-only lunches while also taking per diems on at least seven days — a violation of Senate policy (gift link):

https://t.co/eff4ECNSEc

[Debbie Jennings @dljenn_]

the U.S. has serious competitive disadvantages for open-source AI that no executive order can resolve.

[Jacob Wendler @jacob_wendler]

Scoop: Talk has begun circulating around town that the White House may be considering a possible executive order on open-source AI, sparked by fears about Chinese dominance, nine people familiar told me, @BrendanBordelon, @delizanickel and @meredithllee

[Debbie Jennings @dljenn_]

Joining the PGPZ community.
Verification code: PGPZ-50F8AEE413
https://t.co/iOM8kfGD4S
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[Debbie Jennings @dljenn_]

Even if you passively inform your agent of your preferences (low cognitive cost), the amount of info needed to prevent your agent from inefficiency due to psychological manipulation may ultimately be worth more to the highest bidder than your streaming and browsing history.

[Debbie Jennings @dljenn_]

The 'you are the product' model has new competition. But as a wise man once said, "prices don't come for free." The more reasoned your agent's decision-making, the more technological transaction cost.
https://t.co/9zx79tJriU

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Finally, the web has native monetization. Ads were not the only way.

[The DeFi Investor 🔎 @TheDeFinvestor]

Craziest thing I've seen in a while:

• Someone buys $4M worth of BONK

• Then posts a DAO proposal asking to transfer $20M in BONK to themselves

• Waits 7 days without anyone noticing

• Then votes "yes" with their own BONK holdings, and the proposal passes

• $20M is transferred to them

And now the Bonk team has suddenly realized they lost $20M.

This wasn't even a hack.

The proposal passed because no $BONK holders checked the governance forum.

Insane to see the current state of DAOs.

[Logan Dobson @LoganDobson]

Someone needs to tell Apple we’re building in America again

[Scott Kupor @skupor]

What's missing in the @friedberg and @RoKhanna billionaire tax debate is any discussion of the spend side of the equation - there's no reason to believe that more taxes will solve any of our fiscal problems. The argument is circular: more revenue = more spend = more debt = more need for incremental revenue!

[Debbie Jennings @dljenn_]

@friedberg @elonmusk Confiscating the entire income of the top 1% would only pay for 127 days of government spending.

[Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins]

Here is our portal if your farm has been the target of government overreach or lawfare.

➡️ https://t.co/4bNZu6LZ71

[onionweigher 🧅⚖️ @onionweigher]

it's almost that time again

[Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez @RepMGP]

Car headlights have gotten absurdly bright – roughly doubling in recent years – and it's dangerous for others on the road.

I encouraged the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to look into setting better maximum brightness standards in their upcoming infrastructure bill.

[Debbie Jennings @dljenn_]

Best thing to come of this is that now I know more countries to guess on Worldle

[Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait]

The coastal elites may sneer, but working class Americans are tired of being taken advantage of by Svalbard and Jan Myen

[Decrypt @DecryptMedia]

"If we were to achieve quantum computing in the current global context, I believe that losing access to private keys would be the least of our worries," @jb87ua of @DeSciWorld told Decrypt on the implications of a room-temperature superconductor. https://t.co/o5J2sfiMgR

[Chuck Grassley @ChuckGrassley]

For ppl who think food grows in grocery stores may think #cornwatch is about sweet corn u hv at dinner table but it’s not. Sweetcorn in Iowa this yr is limited bc of drought If not for drought end of ear wld b filled in w more kernels. pictured is Grimes Sweetcorn #sweetcornwatch