phasepunk

network. intelligence. state.

[phasepunk @phasepunk]

@InlandCaGuy Actually I think being born in the late 1900s to living in the mid-21st century will be a similar trajectory

[phasepunk @phasepunk]

@underpaid_mom amazing idea and very well executed! would love to see this evolve further.

btw why are faces blurred? is it because Image 2 was trained on mostly Google Maps?

[phasepunk @phasepunk]

AI art is a paradox for me

in a way it's a renaissance of infinite new art forms

and yet it feels meaningless compared to human art, nor does it seem to converge into coherent movements

[Simo Ryu @cloneofsimo]

What the fuck, this is unironically work of art

[phasepunk @phasepunk]

quick, enjoy this tweet before nikita bier sees it and thinks "how can we make sure there's less of this on our platform"

[ArtButMakeItNow @artbutnow]

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

[phasepunk @phasepunk]

You either die a simple useful website or live long enough to see yourself turned into enshittified corposlop.

[The Verge @verge]

Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion https://t.co/zKlS1EkaX2

[phasepunk @phasepunk]

this is what having principles looks like. @DarioAmodei and @AnthropicAI are real ones. switching to Claude as my daily driver

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War.

https://t.co/rM77LJejuk

[phasepunk @phasepunk]

@ns hey @balajis @ns can you please upload these new episodes on spotify

[phasepunk @phasepunk]

@paulg this is one area where the Chinese system is superior

there is little liquidity between political power & other forms of capital, so politics is more reserved to political players and harder to influence with other forms of capital

[phasepunk @phasepunk]

I'll be right back, I'm reanimating the world-knowledge spirit-golem to consult with the ancestral archives

[Nabeel S. Qureshi @nabeelqu]

I really enjoyed this piece, especially this part. AI as “animations of mankind’s collective knowledge” is a nice analogy:

[phasepunk @phasepunk]

@mikethree it was over in a different way

previous overs were "it's over as a failed experiment"

this over is "it's over as a counter-culture movement"

[phasepunk @phasepunk]

wow this seems like a great idea, let me see what david lynch thinks about it

[xAI @xai]

Halftime: Dynamically weaves AI-generated ads into the scenes you’re watching, so breaks feel like part of the story instead of interruptions.
@krishgarg @yuviecodes @lohanipravin

[phasepunk @phasepunk]

@chainyoda @brian_armstrong he's not. if no one in a prediction market has any insider info then the point is to arrive at a probability based on all public info (debatable whether that's useful)

if someone "leaks" insider info but doesn't have lots of money to bet on it, the impact will be marginal

[phasepunk @phasepunk]

@hasufl state-level bans won't solve the issue though. kids will find a way around it while it will make the internet and the world worse for everyone else.

this really should be up to parents and not the gov to control.

[phasepunk @phasepunk]

@banteg just an another proof point of the splintering of the internet

the idea of one pseudonymous borderless internet is not going to be the norm going forward

digital borders will be as important as land borders

China saw this early & that model will be copied among other blocks

[phasepunk @phasepunk]

@nearcyan amazon e̶m̶p̶l̶o̶y̶e̶e̶

[phasepunk @phasepunk]

@Fiskantes enshittification like everywhere else

there was a purity & simplicity to the early chatbot model that isn't sustainable

they need to add bloat to make it profitable eventually

probably also have to do with scaling optimization. at least gpt5 vs gpt4 felt like a scaling nerf

[phasepunk @phasepunk]

@oser_ser @apralky yeah, Singapore is definitely a special case

the question is whether it's an outlier due to unique circumstances and exceptional leadership or if it's how the world will be once other developing countries reach a similar level of development

[phasepunk @phasepunk]

when I grow up, I'd like to be a senior vice president of people experience and technology to help our organizations stay nimble and continue to strengthen

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

Corporate buzzword masterclass

[phasepunk @phasepunk]

seeing people talking about Zcash & sharing Satoshi Bitcointalk screenshots about ZKPs feels like breathing fresh air again

almost forgot how it feels after drowning in ETFs, regulate us, Trump family griftcoins, & VC exit scams

what we need is a cypherpunk renaissance

[path.eth 🛡️ @Cryptopathic]

Ten years ago this month, before dropping out of university, I gave a presentation on cryptocurrency to the uni's investment society. The three projects I talked about in particular were Bitcoin, Ethereum and Zcash.

Bitcoin was $250
ETH was $0.80
Zcash had yet to launch

I felt that these three projects best captured the fundamental ideology of decentralised finance - and for that reason were most likely to revolutionise the industry. This was met with a lot of scepticism and some laughter.

The third entry on this list has never been as successful or appreciated as the other two, and yet I have always maintained the same belief I held back then. Zcash is a deeply authentic realisation of the cypherpunk ethos that enables the concept of digital cash without compromise. It's built on an extraordinary breakthrough in mathematics and gifts practical freedom through privacy to the entire world; it is liberation through science.