2 weeks without smartphone internet significantly improved sustained attention. The effects were similar to being a decade younger.

asked Grok 4 it's favorite math formula: e^jπ + 1 = 0 got A's in 5 semesters of calculus and never intuitively understood Euler's equation Grok instantly built an app to visualize it education has changed the only thing stopping you from learning is lack of curiosity

sending bitcoin over bluetooth between bitchat android and iphone. both have a native cashu ecash wallet built in. the ecash travels directly from phone to phone. the sender needs no internet. like instant and untraceable digital cash. work in progress. it's going to be insane.

every day at the gym i have claude generate today’s workout in an existing convo with previous workouts & results. it’s absurdly good. the variety, the progression management, & the way it feels. it makes training actually fun. you never know exactly what you’re gonna get. keeps

Facebook once bought a VPN app for $120M and turned it into a surveillance tool that spied on 33M+ users' entire phones for years. This app helped Zuck buy WhatsApp for a whopping $19B and break Snapchat's encryption. Thread

Ghost all the things. Ghost guns, cash, signal, cars, businesses, lives. You are not property. You don’t owe the state your coordinates, your movements, or your identity. Their obsession with registration is a sickness. Your freedom begins where their visibility ends.

I've been in crypto for over 10 years and I’ve Never been hacked. Perfect OpSec record. Yesterday, my wallet was drained by a malicious Cursor extension for the first time. If it can happen to me, it can happen to you. Here’s a full breakdown. 🧵👇

This might be the most underrated AI skill of 2025: JSON prompting. It turns your LLMs like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude into consistent, structured agents no hallucinations, no mess. Here’s how it works (with copy-paste templates):

Hajime Miura just clinched his 8th 3A World Yo-Yo Championship title at the World Yo-Yo Contest 2025 in Prague—cementing his legacy as one of the most dominant players ever.

I designed & planted a 200-tree fruit orchard with friends and neighbors. 90 days earlier, it was just a dusty, barren field. Spent $75k all-in, and the trees have now tripled in size… Full story & everything we’ve learned (a thread):

coming very soon to bitchat: location chat. chat with anyone in nearby regions (block/neighborhood/city/region/country). or teleport to anywhere in the world via a geohash. it works by using geohashes to map the world into chat channels, uses a new pseudonym per geohash for

1/ For too long, crypto and open source developers in the US have been living under a cloud of doubt. That uncertainty ends today, with an emphatic statement from the DOJ that *shipping code is not a crime.*

bitchat 1.3, now live on appstore. location-based public and private chat over bluetooth or decentralized relays. no signup/emails/phone numbers/servers. all ephemeral. now with geohash chat. fixed most of the bluetooth reliability issues as well, especially with android.

My new kitchen robot just made me one of the best paneer butter masalas I’ve ever had in my life.

🧵 Who is Zimbabwe’s Greatest Writer? 1/ Dambudzo Marechera. The outlaw. The madman. The genius. House of Hunger ripped colonialism apart with rage and poetry. Poverty, violence, madness — alchemised into a howl that still shakes the world.

Japan is a country where people see it as a privilege to lend a helping hand to one another.

Huā Huì Yìshù is the traditional Chinese art of flower arrangement 🌸 that dates back over 3,000 years. Unlike the Japanese Ikebana, which emphasizes strict form and structure, Chinese floral art is more about expressing mood, harmony with nature, and poetic contemplation.

Millions of bank accounts are being terminated in Vietnam. Why? If you haven’t submitted your biometric data, you lose access. The message is clear: compliance equals survival, resistance equals exclusion.

Bill Gates praises India's Aadhaar system not for liberty, but for control. He admires a "command center" tracking citizens—a blueprint for technocratic governance. He sees a world where your identity, finances, and health are linked to the state via digital ID. "Benefits" are

Big drama today in the Tor community. Conrad Rockenhaus, a Tor operator based out of Michigan, United States, was arrested in 2020 after refusing to cooperate with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation Rockenhaus, a disabled United States military veteran, ran the