Rev Miller 🇺🇦 retweeted
@VitalikButerin just opened Devcon and set the tone for the week.
A formally verified OS, open silicon, self-sovereign healthtech, free discourse, private communication, trustworthy AI — these are all part of Ethereum's mission.
"We need to be able to trust our operating systems.
We need to be able to trust our hardware.
We need to be able to trust the things that are most relevant to our health.
We need to be able to trust our sources of information and connection to other people.
We need to be able to trust our communication tools.
We need to be able to trust our AI.
What is the answer? We need to figure out together." - @VitalikButerin
📍 Devcon 8, Opening Ceremony
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incredible example of a highly curated recommendation algorithm
Weekend hack: HackerTube. I was annoyed with YouTube's recommendations so I had Claude filter down 43M comments over 20 years of HN to 6,454 videos that keep being recommended. *Significantly* better viewing experience, ~2 hours with Opus 5.5:
hackertube.org/
- Excellent recs without any logins (state is kept in local browser session)
- Thumbnail is a representative frame from middle of the video instead of the super duper A/B test hyper-optimized user uploads
- Underlying data from the comment analysis as one zip file, point your Claude at it and ask for your own version
- HackerTube Longs ✊
A bit more on the process:
I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac), Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I only talk to Claude and have it do everything, the only "manual work" I helped with in tandem was in the browser (reminiscent of MenuGen): 1) I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata, 2) I booted up a VPS box for serving and 3) I bought the domain name. Once the box was up I gave Claude the IP and told it update, secure, harden, deploy and optimize the code, and it did the whole thing.
Many awesome projects that would have normally taken weeks/months even can now be few-shotted for breakfast. What else are we not thinking of.
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the endgame for each sovereign nation is to establish its own independent space infrastructure.
this is critically important for national security, economic growth, and overall tech advancement.
ICEYE and @Nokia announced today a partnership with The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine to develop sovereign satellite communications. ICEYE has supported Ukraine since 2022 and delivers sovereign space capability at speed. This builds on that.
Read more: hubs.li/Q04C3bj-0
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Rev Miller 🇺🇦 retweeted
Ukrainian DJ Tapolskyi, now serving in the AFU, has recorded a live session from Khortytsia Island (Zaporizhzhia) to fundraise for this unit. During the recording, you can hear and see the explosions from Russian strikes. 💔
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Rev Miller 🇺🇦 retweeted
It is sickening that the USA is now lifting sanctions on Russian fuel, and transparently ridiculous to blame Ukraine for the spike in prices that obviously began with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Putin is murdering innocent Ukrainian civilians every day. The Ukrainians are fighting for their lives. And yet the White House is apparently determined to force American drivers to bankroll Putin’s slaughter. It won’t work and I doubt it will make much difference to the price of fuel.
If we want Russian oil and gas back on the world market then let’s end this war - with a free, sovereign and independent Ukraine.
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Rev Miller 🇺🇦 retweeted
The 7/7 bombings in London rightfully outraged the world when Al-Qaeda terrorists blew up a London bus. The same thing just happened in this city in Europe. This time russia were the terrorists and for some reason that means it doesn’t deserve mass coverage.
russia just directly targeted busses filled with people in Kramatorsk. 12 innocent civilians murdered. Totally depraved terrorism.
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haven't posted much about Commit this year - been experimenting with a few other things, and owe you an update.
i might tinker with commitments as a passion project in the future, but as for the startup part - i'm shutting down Commit (there won't be v2 or community sale).
to be clear, i still:
- love programmable commitments and see lots of meaningful, fun use cases
- believe a product like this could be important and profitable
- think blockchain uniquely enables powerful use cases for commitments
but at some point you have to make a hard call. i'll share what's next in due time.
deepest gratitude to all the users, contributors, and partners who've been part of this journey.
a year since we launched Commit v1.
~3k users, ~$180k in commits, 5 complete app+protocol iterations.
today: all commits complete, rewards distributed, v1 sunset.
grateful to all our users, contributors, and partners.
what's next: Commit v2 + community sale. stay tuned!
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Rev Miller 🇺🇦 retweeted
Introducing User-Generated Markets on Limitless!
Will Sam text his ex?
Will Alex get the new job?
Will Max drink 5+ beers today?
Create a market on literally anything, send it to your group chat, and let everyone pick a side
You create & resolve it: limitless.is/create
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Rev Miller 🇺🇦 retweeted
If scenes like these came to us from Berlin, Paris or Washington, would the world remain indifferent?
This image was taken in Kyiv around noon today, after terrorist Russia struck the building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine with a drone.
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Rev Miller 🇺🇦 retweeted
People in temporarily occupied Oleshky are starving. There is almost nothing left to eat. Reports indicate that civilians are being forced to survive on grass and weeds, while medicines, clean water, electricity, and medical care are increasingly out of reach. Children are trapped in these conditions too.
This suffering has a clear cause and a clear perpetrator. Russia has brought this catastrophe to Oleshky through its illegal occupation and bears full responsibility for this humanitarian disaster, all of its consequences, and the innocent civilian lives lost as a result.
The international community must mobilize every available instrument to reach people in Oleshky, deliver humanitarian assistance, and ensure the safe evacuation of those who want to leave. The @UN, the @ICRC, and other international actors must use their mandates and channels to secure immediate and unhindered humanitarian access.
I appreciate @CommissionerHR Michael O’Flaherty for drawing international attention to the situation in Oleshky. Now this attention must be followed by action. People there cannot survive on statements of concern. Humanitarian access and safe evacuation must become a reality, because every day matters.
I am alarmed by the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Oleshky, a town in the temporarily occupied parts of the Kherson region of Ukraine.
Civilians, including children, are trapped without sufficient food, medicines, medical care, running water or electricity. Reports indicate that they face a high risk of death.
Under international humanitarian law, Russia, as the occupying power, has the duty to provide food and medical supplies and to facilitate humanitarian relief.
I call for an immediate local ceasefire, unhindered humanitarian access, and the safe evacuation of civilians.
The hardship and suffering of people caught along the frontlines of the war and in occupied territories demand international attention and action.
#humanrights #Ukraine #Oleshky #Kherson #HumanitarianLaw
ALT Source Ombudsman institution, Ukraine.
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What if people could support you not for a month/year, but for your lifetime?
Lifetime Patrons: revmiller.com/essays/patrons
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Rev Miller 🇺🇦 retweeted
If you are not on at least one blacklist, you have not truly lived.
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Rev Miller 🇺🇦 retweeted
Good. But it feels sensationalist to say Ukraine "hit Moscow" without pointing out this means legitimate military and refinery targets, not the apartment buildings, shops, and other civilians that Russia intentionally targets in its war of terror.
Ukraine has hit Moscow with what local authorities said was the largest ever drone attack on the Russian capital, setting a major oil refinery ablaze.
Read more here: ft.trib.al/EF66UQh
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i've been part of Farcaster for 3 years and it's been incredible. respect to all the builders out there.
still believe a radical change might help. my bet is on human-only, private by default network.
excited for the next chapter. long live Farcaster
update on @farcaster_xyz, @clanker_world and @neynarxyz
we’ve started a process to look for a new home / team to run the products going forward.
earlier this year, this seemed to be a good fit for our team: it was a developer-first network, and we'd been serving developers from the start. There’s been a lot of change since then and we’re not the right fit for what’s needed next.
talking to a few teams we think could be a good fit for running decentralized social apps and related developer products. If you’ve thoughts / are interested, reach out.
our company will return its balance sheet (most of it remains) and team members will move on to something new.
this is not a decision we made lightly. I’m optimistic that with this next iteration, Farcaster will find its long term fit.
it’s loved enough that it’s unlikely to simply perish - thanks to all of you, and lindy-ness.
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privacy is a fundamental human right.
s/o to @OctantApp and all privacy supporters
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customizable markets embedded on any website
a smart way of decentralizing @trylimitless frontend, increasing distribution and rewarding users who refer their friends/communities.
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