Almost finished “The Network State” (highly recommended) by Balaji. Here are some of my highlights for your enjoyment! 🤓📖

Toronto is such a beautiful city

“We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.” This quote from La Rochefoucauld made me realize that Parrish’s quote also applies to situations where we may manipulate ourselves :(

Today U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, we charged Kim Kardashian for unlawfully touting a crypto security. This case is a reminder that, when celebrities / influencers endorse investment opps, including crypto asset securities, it doesn’t mean those investment products are right for all investors.

NO PLACE TO HIDE

well okay i found a lil mosquito that wanted to land on me so i let it do what it wanted i didnt resist. just watched with open curiosity. man, the bite doesn't each, it FUCKING HURTS WTF

ok but hear me out. you know how in that episode of naruto where rock lee drops his leg weights. that could be you after letting go of your trauma. you'd be unstoppable

Vitalik’s description of blockchains from 2015 is still better than any I’ve seen since: “A blockchain is a magic computer that anyone can upload programs to and leave the programs to self-execute, where the current and all previous states of every program are always… 1/

Wow. Someone made a searchable website showing real identities and crypto holdings lost in the Celsius collapse. What a perfectly horrendous illustration of the risks of KYC. celsiusnetworth.com

As we get older, we lose muscle mass/strength. But if we've been doing resistance training, we will be better prepared for an unpredictable hospitalization. Analysis of 10 studies found that 60 min of resistance training per week is linked to a 27% lower risk of premature death.

Aerobic exercise can have drug-sized effects when it comes to blood pressure reduction. People with high blood pressure that engaged in aerobic exercise for at least 6 weeks reduced systolic blood pressure by 8-12 mmHg and diastolic by 5-6 mmHg (analysis of 24 clinical trials).

Crypto Monday's NYC Last minute location change 88 broad street Broadstone kitchen and Bar 2nd Floor

Microplastics have officially been found in human breast milk for the first time in a new study that detected the contaminant in 75% of the samples tested after we also found microplastics inside the lungs and crossing the blood-brain barrier. This is our generation's lead paint.

I'm suing the Department of Tresury! I got dusted from 🌪️ Tornado.cash 🌪️, and now every year of my life I am FORCED file a report reaffirming that I'm not a criminal. I don't intend to waste my time like that. David Hoffman vs Janet Yellen Let's dance

Hi, I’m “the brown backpack guy” and I have been harassed, humiliated, name called, kicked out of events and (cont) twitlonger.com/show/n_1ss5do4

There's a group that has been trying to exploit me for the past few months by sending fake explicit photos of myself and impersonating me. I'm okay but sharing that I'm aware of this if they bother you. One of the many fake accounts is ljxie on Telegram so please block them

1/ THREAD: The The Wall Street Journal ran checks on China's most popular social media platforms in the weeks before the Party Congress, searching for the names of Chinese leader Xi, the standing committee members and its 31 provincial and region Party chiefs. Here's what we found:

This is why it’s so important to have a decentralized world reserve currency…this is not fair to the other countries of the world…

Avraham Eisenberg To all other developers reading this thread, please do not follow this person’s precedent. If you find a way to drain a protocol to insolvency, please reach out to the dev team and responsibly disclose. Regardless of “code is law” this is not ok, and pushes web3 backwards.

I wish more people realized meditation is basically free drugs 😔