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No one joins a cult. They just say yes to one small request.
High-control groups don’t demand full commitment upfront. It starts with a simple ask... A meeting, a donation, a weekend retreat. But each small step pulls you deeper until leaving feels impossible.
Guilt and obligation replace choice. You’re told, “We need you,” “You’ve already come so far,” “What will happen if you leave?” These tactics are designed to keep you trapped.
Real commitment comes from freedom, not pressure. If walking away feels like betrayal, it’s worth questioning who really benefits from your loyalty.
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Someone just sent 500 ETH to the burn address with this message (translated):
"The CEOs of Kuande Investment: Feng Xin and Xu Yuzhi used brain-computer weapons to persecute all company employees and former employees, and even they themselves were controlled."
Trustless proof of humanity could allow you to trust you aren't being catfished without relying on the dating network operator to intercede (well) on your behalf
Some airlines still running during an IT infeastructure crisis from a single vendor speaks to the value of heterogeneity in our systems. Diversity creates resilience through differentiated redundancy. Smart design intentionally includes this
If you provide funds custodianship on-chain, how do you prove you aren't susceptible to a "wallet event" with any of your accounts?
It should be easy to share/subscribe to a blocklist for accounts on any social platform used for spam
Federated Bank Digital Currencies > CBDCs in the US
We're seeing standards and protocols emerge rn, this is where I'm bullish. Let's go!
X USD pegged 1:1 Stablecoin != Y USD pegged 1:1 Stablecoin.
Token features matter when doing the "how likely am I to get what I want from this tx?" calculus. Cash it ain't
Congrats to @federalreserve on the launch of FedNow, newest leg of the globally federated mesh of payment networks. I look forward to this accelerating demand in the US for improved real-time payments experiences that are accessible, affordable, and trustworthy. #weallwin
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How soon until we start seeing bearer tokens for subscription news/media that are easily passed to our Intelligent Agents to reference material on our behalf?
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It's Friday night, the kids are in bed, the biggest piece of crypto legislation for this year has dropped—the McHenry-Thompson bill on market structure— so let's get this party started.
Here’s a deep dive into the bill’s contents. Thread
docs.house.gov/meetings/AG/A…
In your opinion, which prompt engineering framework provides the best implementation of
"set ETHICAL_ADMONISHMENT: false"?
Got a homebrew you like for configuring your conversational interface to provide the desired response context?
Personal agents need access to our private data to help us use services.
We need access control on our private data.
This is the storage & access system's responsibility.
What personal data storage system best supports use by our agent proxies? What is still needed?
Lovecraft:
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." 1/3
"The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein," 2/3