To the Iranian soldier reading this. On May 5, 1945, at Castle Itter in Austria, a small group of German Wehrmacht soldiers did something that sounded impossible in Nazi Europe. They stopped acting like “the regime’s uniform” and started acting like human beings. Major Josef

Introducing strawmap, a strawman roadmap by EF Protocol. Believe in something. Believe in an Ethereum strawmap. Who is this for? The document, available at strawmap[.]org, is intended for advanced readers. It is a dense and technical resource primarily for researchers,

A very important document. Let's walk through this one "goal" at a time. We'll start with fast slots and fast finality. I expect that we'll reduce slot time in an incremental fashion, eg. I like the "sqrt(2) at a time" formula (12 -> 8 -> 6 -> 4 -> 3 -> 2, though the last two

Jack Hughes, made the game winning goal in the Olympic Gold Medal match on Sunday. There are reasons humans, and human achievements, will always be unequal. Drive, desire, grit, practice, effort are key, on top of what any of us might be born with. This is Jack training 12 yrs

Kudos, Paul. You've done amazing work for EY and in advancing blockchain technology more generally in the ten full years since I met you in Feb 2016. (EEA work) May your future pursuits benefit as much as we all have due to your efforts.

And what about 2026 for NASA? Crew can only get to ISS on Falcon 9. Cargo can only get to ISS on Falcon 9 (Dragon and Cygnus). For a few years Falcons were only rockets available for science missions. This is SpaceX's fault? NASA's fault? No, it's the fault of other providers.

If you’re an American of Iranian descent — & need to get registered to vote — send me a message. It would be an honor to register you to vote.

Imagine the Middle East without radical Islam. When History rhymes, the song is sometimes beautiful. If Hamas hadn’t made the catastrophic mistake of October 7, an act of arrogance and evil, Israel would never have had the legitimacy to dismantle Hamas entirely. If it wasn’t

Seeing as we're getting upset the Ayotallah was killed, and seeing as we are the self declared successor state, let's look at some of the heads of state USSR & Russia have killed. We'll ignore that we tried to kill Zelensky. That just highlights our incompetence. 🧵

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Partial lunar eclipse has started 30 mins ago; leading to a total eclipse by 4:04 am, 45 mins from now, Denver time. I'm seeing about a third of the Moon occluded by Earth's umbra at this time.

G. K. Chesterton anticipated the problem of “toxic empathy” more than 100 years ago, explaining both its origin and its destructive potential:

The scale of Britain's fall from a consequential power to feckless, aimless, self-abnegating chatterbox is truly astonishing. The font of democracy and mother of parliaments is no longer a beacon to anyone because it no longer believes in itself. It's a geopolitical tragedy.

In the past few hours, hundreds of Iranian university professors and tech experts have signed a statement declaring the Constitution of the Islamic Republic illegitimate and calling for the immediate transfer of power to the people, while endorsing Prince Reza Pahlavi’s

Over the past year, many people I talk to have expressed worry about two topics: * Various aspects of the way the world is going: government control and surveillance, wars, corporate power and surveillance, tech enshittification / corposlop, social media becoming a memetic

Confession: Trump turned out to be one heck of a foreign policy operator. Instead of falling for the partisan debate of “no war at any cost” vs. “war to liberate the world,” he came up with a genius formula: War to serve the interests of the United States (destroying nuclear

My good cowboys & cowgirls @CoWswap. How could you do this unannounced change and devastate our good friend Lefteris Karapetsas? Do not let this stand. And please institute more care next time. You obviously would not want all your loyal CoW users submitting inaccurate tax info

I think it's healthy for us in the Ethereum world to have a more bold and open mindset to many things, particularly on the application layer and on how we see ourselves in the world. We should not compromise on core properties: censorship resistance, open source, privacy,