chosen 3rd

Nothing to brag about

[Max the VC 👨‍🚀 @mreiffy]

Google is basically saying:

“We’ve cut the quantum resources needed to break Bitcoin’s encryption by 20x. We can now break it. We can prove it. We’re just not going to tell you how.

We’ve slowed down research to give crypto a chance. You have until 2029 to figure out a solution. Good luck.”

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Glenn Greenwald told me something disturbing today: The U.S. has been in a perpetual state of wars

This statement stuck in my mind, and as I gave it more thought, I realized not only is he right, but the U.S. was the one to initiate all these wars

There has been NO country that has declared war or preemptively attacked the U.S. since WW2.

And this shouldn’t be surprising. The U.S. has been and still is by far the most formidable military.

Yet, in that same period, the U.S. has been involved in over 20 military actions, causing a total 5-10 million deaths.

This includes:

- Korean War (1950–1953): ~2–3 million deaths
(including ~36,500 US)

- Vietnam War (1955/1965–1975): ~1–3 million deaths
(including ~58,200 US)

- Gulf War (1990–1991): ~25,000–50,000 deaths
(including ~300 US)

- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021): ~150,000–240,000 direct deaths
(millions of indirect deaths; including ~2,400 US)

- Iraq War (2003–2011): ~200,000–1 million+ deaths (including ~4,500 US)

- Other notable mentions: Kosovo War (1999), Libya (2011), ISIS (2014–present), invasions like Grenada (1983), Panama (1989)

And now the ‘military action’ in Iran

These wars not only failed to improve America’s security, they created new enemies while also skyrocketing the national debt.

That debt is what many economists worry could lead to the fall of the American Empire

So you gotta wonder. Why? What special interest groups hijacked the American system to such an extent to force the country into these wars for so many decades?

Note: The above does not include 911 as it was not commited by a nation state. Also I excluded North Korea's 1968 USS Pueblo seizure, which resulted in 1 American death. Ironically, we never attacked or declared war on North Korea after this incident. I guess they didn't have enough oil or minerals.

[chosen 3rd @malik_3rd]

@bbest12g @trashh_dev Billy blanco from the bronx or your honorable Sir William what going on bro... Please don't tell me you've become the old man yelling at the kids to get off your lawn; I thought you'd be embracing AI and helping to development it; not fighting it.

[ZOYA ✪ @HeyZoyaKhan]

Reality is cooked

No one can spot AI videos anymore

10 wild examples:

1. Kitty Olympics, looks 100% real, but it’s fully AI.

[chosen 3rd @malik_3rd]

@ElsiDawson (A little late but...)
Did you considered burning down your place, think about it,
1. You collect a nice insurance check
2. Gives you the perfect excuse to postpone.
In the future don't be afraid to use fire to solve your problems😂

[chosen 3rd @malik_3rd]

@8teAPi When your kitchen appliances start pondering lifes vicissitudes

https://t.co/TjDZOmLAtv

[chosen 3rd @malik_3rd]

@nobrainflip FOMO'd into catdog at under 20 mil-marketcap
Please don't let this be a rug🙏

🐱🐶 to 1 billion+ MC baby

[chosen 3rd @malik_3rd]

@huntersolaire_ @cburniske New governance modles that don't invovle a financial token structure.

Vitalic wrote a blog about this concept

[GroveCoin Official @GroveToken]

And like that the #BitcoinHalving2024 has completed its cycle!

[Angry Tom @AngryTomtweets]

The OpenAI team continues posting incredible Sora videos.

Here are 10 new ones:

1. POV footage of an ant navigating the inside of an ant nest

[chosen 3rd @malik_3rd]

@OhYouBlockhead get out of my head; 😆😐😥

[Prakash @8teAPi]

Mark this moment,
come back in year and it’ll be good,
in 2 spectacular,
in 3 superhuman

[chosen 3rd @malik_3rd]

@ChrisBlec come on Chris, if you refer a friend you get paid, and if they refer their friends you make even more money.

nothing ponzi-ish about that

[nvk @nvk]

Bitcoin is hard to use.
Credit cards will never take off...

[chosen 3rd @malik_3rd]

@NoContextHumans Sing along if you know the word;

There's 104 days of summer vacation,
And school comes along just to end it

Meh.. You know the rest

[17 years of song a day @songadaymann]

You knew this was coming, right?

Bid on the NFT:
https://t.co/B43m5yN89Z

[chosen 3rd @malik_3rd]

@ProTheDoge Aww.. What a crummy week for crypto, first found out that ledger may have a backdoor built into there wallets;

Then found out that trezor who partnered with wasabi can censor your bitcoin transitions.

Guess its time to look for a new wallet.

[chosen 3rd @malik_3rd]

Which lead to the famous saying "beware the ides of march"

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

On this day 2,067 years ago Julius Caesar was assassinated in broad daylight in the middle of Rome.

But it wasn't a mob or a popular uprising - Caesar was killed by a group of disgruntled senators.

Here's how it happened, moment by moment, on that fateful day in 44 BC...

[chosen 3rd @malik_3rd]

@bbest12g Dude, did you try GPT-3 yet... Because it might change the coding game for everyone..

I was trying it out the other day, and im starting to believe the hype

[chosen 3rd @malik_3rd]

@bbest12g The front end is just html, CSS, Javascript, bootstrap, (and im learning react now)

The back end is python & django..

Which is kinda funny because it where I started with you and brandon all those years ago.