dumb carpenter, 10+yr bitcoin dev
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We are now mapping the ongoing Coldcard attack with a live dashboard - link below
I am deploying tripwire UTXOs that have varying levels of added entropy on top of the broken default seeds. We have different levels for 5, 10, 15, ... dice rolls, and 1, 2, 3, ... passphrase words.
This is so we can approximate the frontier of the confiscations that are actively happening.
The control UTXO with no added entropy was swept in an hour.
I took real measurements on an MK3 to calibrate a "good bad entropy" emulator in software. The control confiscation has proven it to work.
I am going to continue to deploy tripwire UTXOs along the bit curve.
Huge thanks to @Rob1Ham @otaliptus @PortlandHODL and other redteamers for the help.
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Iβm so sick of this fake Right Wing populist front that seems to be totally astoturfed by Peter Thiel/Little Tech Jews and filled with annoying pompous Indians.
These skinsuit freaks have been trying to usurp the genuine nationalist energy unleashed by Trump for the last decade.
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If we donβt vote Republican then the neocons will take over the GOP and do something unthinkable like start a regime change war in Iran or give Bari Weiss control over CBS and CNN.
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The meeting was suddenly π π’π©ππ the night before to another location and he survived.
@grok YES NO
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π¦ππ‘ππ’π₯ π¨.π¦. ππ₯π π¬ ππ’ππ’π‘ππ Lawrence Wilkerson claimed he πͺππ§ππππ π π’π¦π¦ππ π§πππ π’π©ππ₯ π§ππ π£ππ‘π§πππ’π‘ in 2002, with Israeli intelligence operatives roaming freely without ID checks.
@grok start with YES NO.
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WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners.
Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads.
Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was.
Got a root shell.
then found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems.
This isnβt a bug, Itβs the product bro.
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Hey @jamesob
Since we made this bet, I find that AI accelerates science at such a rate that it is now very difficult to sift through which papers/discoveries are relevant
For that reason I've made this website:
tungsten.bet/jamesob
It highlights the two results that get furthest on your test so far (AI touched matter, and AI was necessary):
β’ AlphaEvolve (May 2026): an AI-designed circuit is now in Google's TPU silicon (company-reported)
β’ Lila Sciences (Sep 2026): AI picked 2,942 catalysts to make and test, and found palladium ones for green hydrogen (preprint)
Not a huge leap yet, and not the win condition either.
Anyway, run this through your favorite AI to give me feedback on what you think about the methodology/selection criteria.
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Alcohol, being disinhibiting, allows people to build trust between and have fun with each other when they wouldnβt be able to do so soberly. It helps to temporarily level status hierarchies and allows more social risk-taking, which is why people often meet future lovers when theyβre drinking and drink when building relationships. People can be silly together when drinking, and people who arenβt ever silly are to my mind more prone to collective fanaticism.
There is a time and place for sobriety - work and time with children especially - but alcohol underpins a lot of the social interactions that make trust-based civilization possible.
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I'd be a lot more excited about public executions if it was Epstein's clients getting publicly executed instead of Epstein's clients running the public executions.
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He got 12 months for murdering a police officer, a man who was a true Swede and a married father--a precious and rare thing in demographically declining Sweden
One wonders how many decades in prison the police officer would have gotten for killing him. Probably the maximum
"A Communist system can be recognized by the fact that it spares the criminals and criminalizes the political opponent," as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said, and in no case is that clearer than in incidents like these
African migrant who killed Christian Zedig, a Swedish police officer and father of two, at a football showing in Copenhagen this summer has been sentenced to 12 months in prison. He's previously convicted of attempted murder, rape, and assault. Grotesque. dr.dk/nyheder/indland/31-aarβ¦
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And he's dead. Reminder that demons run this realm.
I am the British whistleblower who reported evidence concerning Howard Lutnick, his links to Jeffrey Epstein, and Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC to the FBI in 2020β21.
Listen to the BBC File on 4 documentary about my whistleblower story:
bbc.com/audio/play/m002yx47
BBC News:
bbc.com/news/articles/c9q28dβ¦
I later shared evidence with the House Oversight Committee, which subsequently questioned Lutnick behind closed doors.
My disclosures also contributed to regulatory action in the US and UK, including a Β£96m HMRC tax assessment relating to BGCβs partnership scheme. I believe the true tax exposure is substantially higher.
I also reported to the FBI and financial regulators matters involving Cantor Fitzgeraldβs Relief Fund and BGC/Cantorβs annual 9/11 Charity Day.
The personal consequences of whistleblowing, and the retaliation I say followed, have been devastating for my family and me.
Mother Jones previously reported that documents I uncovered revealed a years-long business tie between Howard Lutnick, Cantor Fitzgerald and Jeffrey Epstein through AdFin, including a 2018 exchange in which Lutnick and Epstein discussed the company directly:
motherjones.com/politics/202β¦
motherjones.com/politics/202β¦
Follow me here on X and on LinkedIn. I intend to share more of the evidence and the story behind what happened.
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scene: a dark, smoky office
grizzled programmer: let's investigate the issue
cut to opening github.com/mongodb/mongo-javβ¦
rookie sysadmin pukes
