“Obsession” (2026), is an allegory for bad prompting and misaligned AI. If Bear had phrased his One Wish Willow request with proper safety constraints (“while remaining herself, happy, and not a demonic entity”), the whole movie would’ve been a rom-com.

RT @zooko: Zcash is a project for the next one hundred years. Zcash is money for an infinite civilization. ⤵️

This city will absolutely PUNISH you just for wanting to travel from place to place

10 years. Amazing. It's a great day to celebrate how far we've come, leveraging the forces of nature and math, with good and clear-eyed people building for the betterment of the world. To all of you who have joined this cause and worked so tirelessly, thank you. 10 years from now, shielded ZEC will be in the hands of billions. Onward.

People keep asking me where the open source AI and private AI people in New York 🗽 are. Instead of a million group chats, I'm bringing them together for a day of hacking and discussion on Saturday November 7th. No one should own your AI except for you. Welcome to LOCALHOST ⬇️

I'm an "Art the Clown" democrat

When your homie says something lowkey Christlike at the kickback >

Lots of people missed this, I think. Soon, @vizorwallet will have quantum-unlinkable swaps, and it doesn't need to wait for a network upgrade. Yet another way it leads the privacy frontier of Zcash right now.

I oppose the dev fund, and won't comment on sex work but I will say this group hosted an awesome event during Berlin blockchain week. Hundreds of people inside and outside of the city's crypto scene passed through the space, on-boarded to Zcash and sent transactions. They are great technical communicators who put Zcash onto a lot of people's radar and cast it in a positive light. The space had a line out the door most nights, some people even pleading with the bouncers to get into the house transformed into a shrine to ZEC where chatter of privacy was inescapable in every conversation

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Basically revisit any idea that was blocked on software-engineering complexity!

Mexican foo: yo who is that Other foo: that’s Elizabeth Holmes First foo: naw but what’s her last name though

My experience partying all night at Berghain in Berlin made me think of how we're lacking this experience in the San Francisco tech scene. We can literally become the coolest, most tasteful social scene on Earth if we had our version of Berghain, but better. So let's build it. The best aspect of Berhain is how they select who gets in. The club has a vibe and atmosphere, and if you aren't wearing the right clothes or have the right demeanor, you don't get in. That's how you cultivate a tasteful crowd. We can improve on this by only letting in high agency, talented operators in the tech scene who can still pull off dope outfits, so no geeks. SF is in dire need of late night venues, and Berghain goes until 8am. That's a little too crazy for high net worth operators who are changing the world so we could do something like 2am. Berghain also is kinda dark and in a weird building so we'd put the club in a SoMa corporate office that we convert to speakeasy or barcade vibe. Maybe add a quiet area for people to bring their laptops and work? I honestly feel like we're improving on the Berghain form here, especially by swapping out the crowd of weird partiers in inappropriate clothes (or lack there of) with insanely cracked founders and engineers. I'm super stoked about this idea, SF tech could really run the dopest parties on the planet.

A couple months ago I went to a gun show in my home town. Gun shows in the US are cool bc you DON’T need a background check when buying a gun from a private party. Similar to buying gold in the US with a private party, you don’t need to fill out any KYC docs. With the tech privacy chains bring, I see similar types of in person meetups happening for P2P transfers in the future (5-10 years out)

Perhaps one of the last protocols fully implemented by a Natural Intelligence (me)

Raising $100M for a startup that turns litecoin into bitcoin through a series of tractable engineering problems

Agree

As the Internet gets compromised and tries to figure out where all their servers are… It’s nice to know that decentralized consensus is very resilient to this… Working code means running blockchain, so patches happen fast and completely. Zcash did this.

If it can be shut down it was never a protocol anyways

Waka waka, middlemen. 🟡 Read Zcash straight from the source: grants, treasuries, governance and on-chain data, all openzcash!

there's no way they got our goat. just a purge tactic. he'll come back on some "rumors of my death were greatly exagerated" type shit