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The nexus between web3 and the real world, transforming how digital and physical assets interact.

[Dunachain @duna_chain]

@hamptonism love their reports

[Dunachain @duna_chain]

@hamptonism With his words, he speaks my life

[dan ⚡️ @mynamebedan]

elon lost the trust of all gamers overnight. boosting your account and lying about it is the worst offense. incredibly cringe, fragile ego on full display

[💧DripDropz @DripDropz_io]

*Correction We just broke 400K TPS #Cardano https://t.co/7uyQImczQb

[Namada @namada]

rolling into launch day like

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[EFF @EFF]

EFF has so much to be grateful for this year. Today, we're sharing our thanks for the people and organizations who are with us in our work to defend digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.

[Dunachain @duna_chain]

@hamptonism Thank You!

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

Trump FBI head aspirant, former congressman Mike Rogers, was co-founder of deep state “never Trump” group.

The Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD), founded in 2017, became a central player in efforts to tie President Donald Trump and his supporters to Russian interference in the 2016 election. Among its co-founders were Mike Rogers, former Republican congressman and chair of the House Intelligence Committee; Michael McFaul, Obama’s former ambassador to Russia; Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of Homeland Security under George W. Bush; and Michael Hayden, former CIA and NSA director. These figures, with deep ties to the intelligence community and bipartisan opposition to Trump, were instrumental in advancing ASD’s agenda and its controversial Hamilton 68 project.

Hamilton 68, presented as a tool to track Russian disinformation on social media, targeted over 600 Twitter accounts. However, many of these accounts were not linked to Russia but were instead ordinary Americans, journalists, and Trump supporters expressing dissenting political views. Despite this, Hamilton 68’s data was widely cited to support claims of ongoing widespread Russian interference and to insinuate that various policies, events or movements were backed by secret Russian operations. The project reinforced a narrative that Trump’s presidency was compromised, even as Hamilton 68’s methodology and conclusions were later exposed as deeply flawed and misleading.

ASD was funded by entities like the German Marshall Fund and the National Endowment for Democracy, both of which are closely tied to the intelligence community and have long promoted foreign policy agendas at odds with Trump’s claimed policy of reducing U.S. intervention abroad.

Hamilton 68 was eventually discredited when it was revealed that its methodology falsely labeled Americans as participants in Russian influence campaigns. The platform’s true purpose appeared to be casting suspicion on Trump’s supporters and reinforcing claims that his presidency was illegitimate and that only a well funded deep state could save the nation. Despite its collapse, many media corporations made only discrete corrections (if at all) to the false stories they had based on Hamilton 68 data.

[ZK Email @zkemail]

Our very own @bisht__13 will be judging at @EthGlobal's EthOnline, and we'll be giving one of the summit talks at the ETHOnline Verifiable Computing Summit on https://t.co/tb6Vpoht70, in 6 hours :)

excited to meet all the hackers!

[Dunachain @duna_chain]

@Hamptonism Looks like a CTM (Chicken Tikka Masala). Tear a piece of the naan bread and dip 😋

[Dunachain @duna_chain]

@onlyonecookie_ The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

[EFF @EFF]

When you browse the web, go shopping, and even drive around, corporate trackers are watching your every move. Our new report walks through the most common kinds of tracking, from pixels to facial recognition. https://t.co/b791M6qdHn

[Zeng Jiajun 曾嘉俊 @zengjiajun_eth]

Decentralization is not an option, it’s a must.

[Dunachain @duna_chain]

@zengjiajun_eth the value of such a network is beyond measure

[David Wong @cryptodavidw]

@nil_foundation https://t.co/NIbQhrAKQF

[Balaji @balajis]

THE NETWORK SCHOOL

We got an island.

That’s right. Through the power of Bitcoin, we now have a beautiful island near Singapore where we’re building the Network School. We’re starting with a 90-day popup that runs from Sep 23 to Dec 23, right after the Network State Conference. Rent is only $1000/month with roommates or $2000/month solo. And we have plenty of day passes for visitors.

So, go apply online at ns dot com! Then read more below.

THE DARK TALENT
As motivation, I’ve always wanted to expand equality of opportunity around the world. Because my father was born in a desperately poor country, but with the right opportunity he was able to make something of himself. Like dark matter, he was dark talent. And for more than a decade I’ve been thinking about how to give others who are similarly situated the chance to make something of themselves. That is: I’ve been thinking about how to empower the dark talent of the world.

US universities used to fill this role, even imperfectly, and I loved Stanford when I taught there years ago. But the data shows they’ve declined in recent days. And they’re just not affordable or accessible to most of the world. So, it’s time for a new approach. And thanks to Saraswati and Satoshi, I have the resources to endow a new Internet-first institution: the Network School.

The purpose of the Network School is to articulate a vision of peace, trade, internationalism, and technology…even as the rest of the world talks about war, trade war, nationalism, and statism. To revitalize democracy for the internet era, with digital polities and verifiable votes. To train the next generation to be not just leaders of companies, but inspirations for their communities. And to pursue truth, health, and wealth by leveling up our attendees personally, physically, and professionally.

Let me now describe in more detail how the Network School works, who it’s for, and how to apply.

HOW THE NETWORK SCHOOL WORKS
The Network School is for people of all ages, not just the youth. And it’s meant to be lifelong rather than one-off, with both a structured and and an unstructured component. The structured part is about continuous daily self-improvement: learning skills, burning calories, and earning currency. Meanwhile, the unstructured part is about having fun and hanging out with people of similar values.

For short: learn, burn, earn, and fun.

Learn
The first part of the Network School is about learning technologies and humanities.

As motivation, the existing model of US undergraduate education is broken. You pay $100k+ for a four year degree, and then budget nothing for maintenance over the course of your life. It’s like paying $100k+ for a new car and budgeting nothing for maintenance.

By contrast, the Network School is about continuous education. It’s for remote workers, engineers, creators and digital nomads who want to integrate learning into their lives, rather than stopping everything to be a full-time student.

Here’s how that works. We set up mini-classrooms where you can drop in to see the problem of the day.5 You solve that problem and a proctor awards you a cryptocredential, a free non-transferable NFT sent to your crypto wallet that establishes “proof-of-learn.” Often your solution will involve putting code on GitHub/Replit (to show you understand a concept), or posting content to your social media profile (to show you understand a new AI tool). And over time, these cryptocredentials actually build up a cryptoresume proving what you know.

Our initial material focuses on founding tech communities, as distinct from tech companies. As such it touches on everything from crypto, AI, and social media to history, politics, and filmmaking. It should be useful even if you’re just growing a traditional company or building a following. Over time, of course, every branch of the sciences and humanities becomes relevant when building a community. So if this initial experiment works, we can expand branch-by-branch to build a new kind of university.

But we’re intentionally starting with something simple. Our learning is about continuous education, about solving the problem-of-the-day.

Burn
The second part of the Network School is about burning calories.

Longevity is important, but 20th century communities just aren’t physically set up to maximize physical fitness. Quite the contrary: the default mode of Western society is sedentary and sugary. Those who want to escape this need to roll their own nutrition and workout program, which takes time, money, and energy.

We’re changing that. I’ve teamed up with my friend @bryan_johnson to set up Blueprint-inspired food and fitness for the entire Network School community. Bryan will be on campus to set up the program, and then his designates will maintain it on a daily basis. Like many of you, I’ve been both fit and fat at various times, so this is a product I want to use myself.

Every member of the Network School gets a daily workout slot with a semi-personal trainer, much like a group fitness class. You run and lift in the morning at your chosen time, getting a proof-of-workout from your trainer. Your group holds you accountable for showing up. Then you get a box with your Blueprint-optimized healthy meals and head to work. The whole point is to provide willpower-as-a-service, where the community6 provides the discipline.

We’re starting with the basics of running, lifting, eating, and sleeping properly. The initial goal is to hit the limits of your genetics. But if all goes well, the biotech founders that come to the Network School will eventually help us all surpass our genetic limits, to live much longer than we otherwise would.

But again, we’re starting small! And so the “burning calories” part is about lifelong health and the workout-of-the-day.

Earn
The third part of the Network School is about earning currency.

We’ll have crypto prizes of the day for open source projects, AI content creation, and microtasks. There will be $1000 bounties every day for the duration of the program, similar to the various prizes I’ve posted on Twitter and Farcaster. And community members will post their own prizes.

Next, in keeping with the overall theme of self-improvement, we’ll have office hours to help with your job, your career, your visa status, and your funding. We’re much more invested in you than a typical college career center because our interests are aligned: the more you earn, and the stronger you are financially, the more you’ll eventually have to reinvest in the community.

Finally, we’ll have visitor hours with famous visiting technologists. As my friend Sriram noticed, when investors come through Singapore I typically do a podcast with them. Many will also visit the Network School to meet attendees, invest in them, or hire them. Others will give remote talks. And you can see the quality of visitors from the speakers in our conference and podcast.

So, earning is about constant career development and the prize-of-the-day.

Fun
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, of course. So the fourth part of the Network School is about fun.

This is the unstructured component. It’s most of what you’re here for. It’s just about assembling great people in one place: positive-sum people who believe in technological progress, internationalism, and capitalism. It’s your internet friends, coming from URL to IRL. Stanford introduced the concept of residential education, but this takes it to the next level.

In fact, our initial location is very similar to Stanford. It’s beautiful and sunny, and less than an hour from a major city (Singapore) with an international airport (Changi). That means you can be heads down during the week, head into the city on the weekends for fun, and get to just about anywhere in Asia within the same day. This is convenient for the >50% of the world that lives within the Valeriepieris circle.

We’ll do some group outings too, but most of the fun will be up to you.

WHO THE NETWORK SCHOOL IS FOR
Who is the Network School for? There are four lenses on this: demographical, ideological, professional, and personal.

Demographically
As mentioned, our focus is the dark talent. The more respect you have for legacy institutions, and the more respect they have for you, the less suitable you’ll be as an applicant.

So: the Network School is for Indian engineers and African founders, for makers from the Midwest and the Middle East, for Chinese liberals and Latin American libertarians, for Southeast Asia’s rising technologists and Europe’s remaining capitalists.

It’s for everyone who doesn’t feel part of the establishment. But it’s definitely not only for tech, because a community does not run on tech alone.

Ideologically
Ideologically, the Network School is for people who admire Western values, but who also recognize that Asia is in ascendance, and that the next world order is more properly centered around the Internet — around neutral code — than around either declining Western institutions or a rising Chinese state.

For example, the Network School is for those who understand that Bitcoin succeeds the Federal Reserve, that encryption is the only true protection against unreasonable search and seizure, that AI can deliver better opinions than any Delaware magistrate, and that democracy can be rejuvenated with cryptography. It is for those who believe in technology, harmony, internationalism, and capitalism. It’s for those who want Silicon Valley without San Francisco. And for those who want to found, fund, and find not just new companies and currencies — but new cities and new communities.

Professionally
Our ideal applicant is capable of remote work, or has enough savings to support themselves while at the Network School. For our initial cohort, we’re seeking three major groups of people in particular:

- Writers, artists, influencers, and filmmakers
- Trainers, athletes, coaches, and clinicians
- Founders, engineers, designers, and investors

These are, roughly, the demographics focused on learning, burning, and earning respectively. Of course, if you fall outside those categories but still think you have something to contribute, you should still apply to the Network School.

Personally
I should mention that the Network School is a “product” that I built for the young version of myself — the aspiring young engineer. This is the community I want to live in: a technocapitalist college town, a Stanford 2.0 that’s globally affordable and genuinely meritocratic.

So, I’ll be on campus full time. Bryan Johnson and I are supervising the setup of everything from bench press to French press. And we’ll eventually be recruiting faculty in the form of content creators, fitness influencers, and angel investors for the learn, burn, and earn portions of our program respectively. But all that in due time.

APPLYING TO THE NETWORK SCHOOL
Ok, so how do you apply to the Network School?

Just go to ns dot com and click "apply." We’ve set up a simple Luma page where you can apply in a few minutes. Then, if you pass review, we’ll send a second application where you pay rent. As mentioned, our monthly rent is $1000 (with roommates) and $2000 (solo). We also have daily and weekly rates too, but short-term visitors still need to apply.

The rent gets you an air-conditioned room on a beautiful island, with internet, gym, and access to all courses and community services. You’ll still need to handle your flights and pay for your food, but we think the overall package is extremely affordable. And so the Network School could be an amazing option for individuals or small teams looking to save money, get fit, and level up while living in paradise.

I’m looking forward to seeing you there! Just fill out the application at ns dot com, also linked in the tweet below.

[Dunachain @duna_chain]

@curiosityonx Bias

[0xDesigner @0xDesigner]

spent some time reflecting on why i’ve been so unmotivated to try new apps lately.

i think it’s in part because there aren’t enough apps taking advantage of my portable data.

if i have to create a username, add an email, deposit funds, select preferences, follow people, etc then i instantly close the app.

i’ve already done all these things—i have an ens and farcaster with a pfp and bio set, i have several follower graphs on multiple apps, i own thousands of nfts and years of transactions that represent my interests, and i have all kinds of funds on many chains in my wallet.

at this point, as a consumer, my expectation is to just connect my wallet and have everything populated.

i should NEVER have to experience a cold start or onboarding flow again. i should never have to feel like a first-time user.

this is crypto’s unique advantage. it’s the most magical part of being a crypto native.

why aren’t more apps taking advantage of it?

[Stella Assange @Stella_Assange]

Detaining UK @Pal_action activists without charge under the Terrorism Act for protest related property crime is a serious abuse. Starmer is transparently playing left and right off against each other to restrict basic political freedoms in the UK. #Filton6