Essence: American heart and Japanese soul Motto: Life is the art of ignorance Mission: spreading awareness Daily job: sorting out electrons
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Grumpy Lion retweeted
To end the war, Putin should meet not with Trump, but with Gaddafi, bin Laden, and Saddam Hussein.
Grumpy Lion retweeted
Anthropic cracked open the ribosome and found it stalls on purpose and those pauses are doing a job nobody f*cking gave them
for decades, scientists treated ribosome stalls like a problem.
the machine builds proteins. faster should mean better, right?
turns out, speeding it up might be exactly how you break it.
here’s where things get weird.
researchers used Claude +JEV and started looking at what happens during those tiny pauses instead of just measuring how fast a protein gets made.
> TIME - follow protein production second by second, not just the final result
> MARK - record exactly where the ribosome stops along the sequence
> SORT - separate random slowdowns from pauses that keep appearing in the same places
> FOLD - check what the growing protein is doing during each pause
and that’s when the pattern appeared.
the ribosome wasn’t just randomly getting stuck.
the same pauses kept showing up at the same points, across different cells.
and those points weren’t random either.
they appeared where a newly built section of protein needed time to fold into the right shape.
think about that.
the ribosome isn’t just assembling a chain of amino acids.
it’s giving that chain time to become something that actually works.
remove the pauses and the protein can still come out with every amino acid in the correct order.
except now it folds wrong.
same ingredients. same sequence. completely different result.
and here’s the uncomfortable part.
scientists have spent decades optimizing genes to make proteins faster.
but speeding up the sequence can also erase the pauses that help proteins fold.
we may have been optimizing away part of the instructions.
the genetic code doesn’t just tell the cell what to build.
its timing can also influence how that thing takes shape.
have a look and find some new use cases JEV can do in addition to that
Grumpy Lion retweeted
There’s no diesel coming from Russia.
The purpose of this is so Trump can start blaming Ukraine for the price of diesel in a week claiming that Russia can’t deliver the agreed upon amounts because of Ukrainian strikes.
The goal is to convince you Ukraine’s costing you money….
Grumpy Lion retweeted
so about the $86m ledger drain. everyone’s screaming “ledger got hacked” again. i spent the evening digging and it’s dumber and scarier than that
there’s a shop in malaysia called cryptobilis that sells hardware wallets. ledger has it listed as an official authorized reseller since at least 2022, for malaysia, indonesia and the philippines. legit shop, real devices, years of normal customers
this spring the founders sell it. the deal comes with an NDA: they can’t tell anyone about the sale until october 19
by august the company registry shows one owner with 100%. some guy from heilongjiang, china
the shop keeps running like nothing happened. the site, the name and the “authorized by ledger” badge all stay up
then on oct 8 @MagicalTux posts photos of a ledger he cracked open. hidden under the screen there’s an extra little board with an LTE modem and an eSIM. it just watches the display. you set up your wallet, your 24 words show up, and they get sent out over mobile data. ledger’s genuine check doesn’t catch it because the actual ledger chip is real. his device came from malaysia
teapawt.org/MagicalTux/status/2108…
that post does 120k views
22 hours later someone sweeps everything. 203 BTC hits two addresses in literally one block. ~$58m USDT moves on tron in the same hour. i added up all the wallets: ~$91m
about 7 hours after that ledger says “we’re investigating” and asks cryptobilis to pause sales
cryptobilis is still on ledger’s site as an authorized reseller
to be fair, nobody has officially tied the new owner to the bugged devices yet, and ledger hasn’t confirmed how it happened. but read it as a business plan:
get authorized, sell real stuff for years, quietly sell the company under an NDA, keep the badge, ship devices that phone home, then drain everything the second someone notices
and was ledger even told the shop got sold? nobody’s said so
“authorized reseller” means ledger trusted whoever ran the shop back in 2022. says nothing about who runs it today
bought your hardware wallet anywhere but the manufacturer? open it up today, ledger literally has a guide for that. then move to a fresh seed on a device bought direct
wonder who’s going to answer for this: the chinese frontman from heilongjiang, the shop’s previous owners, or ledger itself
@Ledger clearly needs to keep a much closer eye on who they call official resellers, and take way more responsibility for who sells their devices and how
Ledger is investigating reports of loss of funds from users in South East Asia who purchased products from a reseller named CryptoBillis. As a precaution, and pending the results of our investigation, we have asked CryptoBilis to pause all sales and shipments of Ledger devices. We recommend Ledger users who purchased from this reseller in the last 90 days to not initiate set up if you have not done so yet. If you have set up your Ledger device, consider moving assets to a new Ledger signer (with new seed). We will continue to inform customers of updates as the investigation progresses.
Reach out to Ledger customer support through official channels with any questions: support.ledger.com/
Grumpy Lion retweeted
Anna Politkovskaya covered Putin and his war in Chechnya. Putin killed her in 2006.
Politkovskaya: He is a true Soviet KGB officer. A bit antisemitic, a bit fascist. Deep down, he does not understand that a person has rights. His rule fills me with hopelessness. 1/
Grumpy Lion retweeted
Islamists have a problem with music, with dogs, with women, with gay people, with Christians, with free speech, with democracy.
But if I have a problem with Islamists, I'm the intolerant one.
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What a lot of people don’t understand is that ‘Palestinian’ Arabs are known as the most violent Arabs in the entire Arab world.
There’s a reason why not a single Muslim country wants them. Palestinians started both the Lebanese and Jordanian civil wars. The civil war in Lebanon alone lasted 15 years, thanks to the Palestinians.
During the Gulf War and Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, Palestinians backstabbed Kuwait by siding with Iraq against the country that had accepted them. As a result, all 400,000 Palestinians were expelled from Kuwait.
Gazans have infiltrated Egypt, bombed Coptic churches, and organized mob attacks against the local Christian population.
Across the Middle East, ‘Palestinians’ are regarded as savages and dishonorable. Arabs and Muslims support them against Israel, but they don’t want to live anywhere near them.
Grumpy Lion retweeted
No modern political event will make sense until you understand the two reasons why a man will hate you.
He will hate you because you harm him, which is easy to understand.
And he will hate you because he harms you.
No, that's not backwards. That is what you must understand.
Here's how it works.
Once upon a time, a man was given an ultimatum. He had to dissociate himself from me, or his long-term benefactor would withdraw all support.
Some people deliberate from principle, while others examine their bread to determine with side it is buttered on. I try not to judge people too harshly if they don't have much butter.
But, suffice to say, he followed his benefactor's commands, despite having nothing in particular against me.
But he then began to dislike me, and make childish comments behind my back. This was utterly predictable if you understand how humans work.
See, having acted against me, he needed to feel that his actions were just.
A man who has harmed you needs you to deserve it, so that he can still feel good about himself. And he will find excuses to think that, because humans are good at telling stories.
Welfare takers don't hate you even though your taxes keep them alive. They hate you because your taxes keep them alive.
The criminal underclass doesn't rob you because they hate you. They hate you because they rob you.
The teeming brown hordes of the third world don't hate you because of history. They hate you because they want to ruin your country and take all your stuff.
Bernie Sanders doesn't try to tax away everything you have because he hates you. He hates you because he wants to tax away everything you have.
It's important to understand this difference.
If a man hates you because you have hurt him, you can appease him. You can apologize, you can make amends, and he can forgive you if he chooses to.
Because forgiving you doesn't violate his self-image.
But if a man hates you because he has hurt you, then you can never appease him. The more you are kind to him, the more you try to placate him, the more sympathy and understanding and gifts you provide, the more he will find reasons to hate you.
Because if you are good, then he is bad. So you can never be good in his eyes.
This is why no amount of sympathy is ever enough. This is why reparations for fictional injuries are a demand that never ceases.
This is why communists want to kill you, no matter how much you benefit them. And the more you do for them, the more they will hate you and want to kill you.
You must never turn the other cheek unless you struck first. You must never apologize unless you have actually done wrong.
You must never pay the Dane-geld, or you will never be rid of the Dane.
You have to fight them. You have no choice.
Because they do not hate for your sins. They hate you for theirs.
And they will continue to hate you until you punish them. Only when they have been punished do they stop needing to tell stories about how you really deserved what they did.
Mercy is for after you take vengeance, not before.
You’re the biggest idiot if you bring a poisonous snake into your home, feed it, protect it, take care of it, and then convince yourself it will love you back
A snake does not stop being poisonous because you treated it kindly
If someone openly tells you they hate you and want to destroy you, believe them....they really do
Grumpy Lion retweeted
When Russia falls, a whole lot of the world's problems are going to disappear as if by magic.
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Amazing.
These researchers found that there's a spike in Bitcoin activity around the time foreign aid money goes out.
Somewhere between 2 and 6 cents of every dollar of World Bank foreign aid disbursements got siphoned off into crypto wallets:
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My latest article is about how a rogue Wikipedia editor confabulated and misattributed thousands of inventions and concepts to Muslims
This trolling made its way into blogs, articles, books, and TV programs. You might even believe some of his lies!
Link: cremieux.xyz/p/the-invention…
