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What a transaction timestamp can establish
Clock uncertainty, causal order and the capacity cost of verifiable timing
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Report: In ‘unprecedented confrontation,’ IDF chief resisting carrying out military action ordered by Netanyahu relating to Iran
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The most used weedkiller on American corn turns male frogs into egg-laying females at a tenth of the dose the law allows in drinking water, Europe banned it in 2004, and the company that makes it put the scientist who found out under surveillance.
Atrazine goes on half the corn in America, seventy million pounds a year, and every spring the rain washes it off the fields into the reservoirs of the corn belt in a pulse the water companies can set their calendar by. In 2002 Tyrone Hayes at Berkeley, who had been hired by the maker to test it, found that at a fraction of the legal limit it castrated male leopard frogs and turned some of them into functioning females with eggs. The company tried to keep the results. He published. The documents that came out in court a decade later were the company's plan for him, by name: discredit him, investigate him, have him followed, and buy the search results for his name so his work came up last.
The frogs were the warning. The water is the point. For most of the growing season the taps of Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Kansas and Nebraska run above the European limit, and the water utilities sued the maker to pay for the filters and settled for a hundred million dollars. The European Union looked at the data and banned it because it could not be kept out of the water. The United States looked at the same data and renewed it, twice.
The corn it protects is fed to pigs, burned in cars, and refined into the syrup in the drink.
A pasture has never needed atrazine, and the cows on it drink from the pond. The corn belt puts a chemical through its own taps every June that changes the sex of the thing in the pond, and the official position is that the frogs are not people.
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This is gonna be great for Gen Alpha to not get a job in 10 years bc the EU decided the only way to keep children safe is to link their TikTok to their real name *forever*
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Why do we do Root CAs as a concept still. Maybe we should revisit this?
Can we have a high-trust internet with 200+ companies with root keys to the kingdom on every device?
Is this how we should design our infrastructure? Would this pass a modern design review board?
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* Towards a Commitment-based Political Economy. Will Ruddick
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"How our promises become power, and whether that power helps us care for one another."
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Once again reminding the hardware wallet retards that the risk that becomes real when you leak people’s SHIPPING INFORMATION is not phishing. It’s fucking PHYSICAL ASSAULTS AND KIDNAPPINGS.
We owe you an apology.
On October 20, we detected unauthorized access to our official website. After verifying API activity with Shopify, we confirmed on October 23 that a third party obtained customer shipping information. You trusted us with those details, and we're sorry we didn't keep them safe.
Exposed: names, contact details, shipping addresses, and order details (items and prices).
Not exposed: payment card or bank details, recovery phrases, private keys, or wallet passwords.
We've blocked access, fixed the vulnerability, opened an investigation, and are emailing affected customers.
Scammers may pose as Keystone by phone, text, email, or mail, offering refunds, replacement devices, or "fixes" for your order or address. None of it is from us.
NEVER share your recovery phrase or private keys, and NEVER enter your recovery phrase into a device you didn't order. We will never ask for them. Don't click links in unexpected messages. Type keyst.one yourself.
A detailed report is coming soon.
Until then, trust only our official channels. If anything feels off, email [email protected]. We'd rather hear from you than have you take a chance.
Again, we're truly sorry to everyone affected.
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MRC STUDY: Right-leaning outlets were 15% of the top news sites studied, but got just 1% of Apple News feed appearances and 2.7% on Google News. 10 months of data.
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Electric vehicles now constitute 67 percent of all new car sales in China, up from 6 percent in 2020.
The figure for the US is 6 percent, down from 12 percent last year.
China’s cracked the code. Innovation, economies of scale, consumer subsidies, integrated supply chains, massive charging infrastructure, environmental action tightly integrated into economic planning.
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The NYT attempts to justify the original bullshit headline by claiming the US “has received intelligence”. No prize for guessing the source.
Increasingly Toxic To Candidates, Pro-Israel AIPAC Retreats From Endorsements And Direct Donations
In the latest indication that a sea change is underway where US support of Israel is concerned, ...AIPAC... will stop endorsing political candidates and directly contributing to their campaigns and PACs.
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The move reflects a new political environment in which the receipt of AIPAC money and endorsements is now being exploited as a major political liability.
AIPAC isn't abandoning the political battlefield, but is choosing to emphasize stealthy means of influencing election outcomes. AIPAC will continue operating its cryptically-named United Democracy Project independent super PAC. That entity is prohibited from coordinating with candidates or giving them money, but can spend a limitless amount to promote favored candidates or undermine their opponents.
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Buried on page 30 of 'Sir' David Bellend's report into antisemitism in schools in the UK it explicitly says there hasn't been a rise in antisemitism, only in anti-Israel sentiment. Astonishingly fraudulent crisis/debate, all to shield a genocidal state
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The opposite of Network State Nostalgia:
* Rebecca Grace Rachamy on the enshittification of network state (school) society
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"Have you noticed that Balaji’s speech has moved from that of one of the most insightful commentators on the state of technology to the speech of a politically-motivated real estate agent? It’s a function of the fact that the Network School locations are, in fact, real estate arbitrage projects, touted as “Society as a Service”. The “society” you get is a fully vanilla society. The residents barely get to decide their own decor. Everything comes blandly furnished. The co-working space, the cafe, the gym—nothing was created by the residents.
Oh, and did anyone mention that even the long-term residents were routinely shuffled from room to room when the Network School was overbooked, or someone “more important” came in? If you were at NS for a longer period of time, you found out that you didn’t have the right to any particular room or apartment. You could be relocated to another room any time the team decided they needed to do so.
Anything that was created by the residents ended up being deemed an “L2”, which is a kind of business that was a layer on top of the foundational NS layer. The NS cafe, the kombucha sellers, the bicycle rental, the maker space, the yoga studio: each of these was a mini-business which residents were launching as businesses that could potentially fund their long-term residency.
Some of these businesses ended up being taken over by Network School. I’m not sure how exactly this functioned, but it seemed that over time, the more successful ventures melded into NS. So maybe your dream of having a long-term business might not have been founded on the best contractual arrangement.
There are good reasons why the arrangement at NS is still a good deal. $1500 per month for all-inclusive accommodations, meals, gym, fast internet, cleaning, the whole works—that’s not bad. Several startups put their HQ in NS, because they could bring together multi-national teams for a year or two, with no distractions, at a fairly low price, with no operational overhead.
The problem comes when you feel zero responsibility to the residents of your project."
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We let companies be people (have personhood).
Why are we so reluctant to consider AIs as people?
Hitting a bit too close to home, perhaps?
Ego strikes in interesting ways.
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The one place in modern life where the law obliges you to sit on wool is at thirty-five thousand feet, and the reason is fifty-five people who died on the ground at Manchester Airport in 1985 without the aircraft ever leaving the runway.
British Airtours Flight 28M was a Boeing 737 bound for Corfu. An engine blew on the take-off roll, the pilot aborted, and a fire took hold under the wing. The plane stopped, the doors opened, and the passengers had about a minute. What killed most of the fifty-five was not the fire outside. It was the cabin: the seat cushions, the wall panels and the overhead lockers, all polyurethane and plastic, which caught, melted and filled the aisle with hydrogen cyanide and black smoke so thick that people a few feet from an exit died in their seats. The investigators found bodies in a heap at the over-wing door.
The inquiry changed the rules on both sides of the Atlantic. Every seat cushion on every airliner had to be wrapped in a fire-blocking layer, and the covers over them had to meet a burn test that most synthetics could not pass. What passed, cheaply and without treatment, was wool. A wool and nylon blend, nine parts to one, is the standard airline seat cover to this day, because wool needs more oxygen to burn than there is in the air, chars rather than melts, and goes out when the flame is taken away. The aviation handbooks list it first. The upper cabin panels on a wide-body are often pure wool tapestry for the same reason.
So the airline that sells you a plastic cup and a nylon blanket seats you on a sheep, by law, because the last time a cabin was fitted in plastic it killed a planeload of holidaymakers who were still on the tarmac.
Your sofa, the one you fall asleep on with the heater going, is the 1985 seat.
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🇦🇪 The UAE keeps leading the blockchain and AI conversations.
Jimmy Nguyen sits down with Dr. Mohamed Al Hemairy to unpack how researchers can finally protect and monetize their work as IP in the AI age.
@iamJimmyWIN @AlhemairyM
A mission SignSplit PBC is already turning into reality.
Worth every minute. 👇
How can #blockchain empower scientific researchers to have their data & work protected as #IP and monetized securely - especially for use in #AI age?
Global #tech leader Dr. @AlhemairyM - Chairman of
@ABAI_UAE - talks with me about recognizing long-ignored work of #research innovators. And how our venture SignSplit (led by @almonterosso & Glib Denisov) does so, powered by a recent $400M seed investment package at $1 billion valuation.
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