Because I am a Certain Age, this immediately parsed as
“The Twitter form is dead...
What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existencececececececzzt?
<The room falls away to reveal the enormous face of Sargoth's perfect, immortal machine.>
“The Twitter form is dead...
What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existencececececececzzt?
<The room falls away to reveal the enormous face of Sargoth's perfect, immortal machine.>
December 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Because I am a Certain Age, this immediately parsed as
“The Twitter form is dead...
What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existencececececececzzt?
<The room falls away to reveal the enormous face of Sargoth's perfect, immortal machine.>
“The Twitter form is dead...
What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existencececececececzzt?
<The room falls away to reveal the enormous face of Sargoth's perfect, immortal machine.>
For some things, “not clearly innocent” is probably the right standard!
At some point, when you're talking about grants of huge power, Blackstone's ratio flips - better that ten liberals lose power than one tyrant retain it.
At some point, when you're talking about grants of huge power, Blackstone's ratio flips - better that ten liberals lose power than one tyrant retain it.
December 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
For some things, “not clearly innocent” is probably the right standard!
At some point, when you're talking about grants of huge power, Blackstone's ratio flips - better that ten liberals lose power than one tyrant retain it.
At some point, when you're talking about grants of huge power, Blackstone's ratio flips - better that ten liberals lose power than one tyrant retain it.
It's remarkable what needs bipartisan compromise so that something can get done versus what a principled stand must be taken on, even at the cost of no action 🤔
December 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
It's remarkable what needs bipartisan compromise so that something can get done versus what a principled stand must be taken on, even at the cost of no action 🤔
You have some tools and processes that you think will improve things, but everyone in that study believes that they've got a process that will improve things. No one in that study is adopting AI going “we don't expect this will improve things”, they *all* believe they'll be in the good end.
December 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
You have some tools and processes that you think will improve things, but everyone in that study believes that they've got a process that will improve things. No one in that study is adopting AI going “we don't expect this will improve things”, they *all* believe they'll be in the good end.
*Can* you? Do we know what that looks like, and if so, why is the productivity improvement curve centred around “no improvement”?
December 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
*Can* you? Do we know what that looks like, and if so, why is the productivity improvement curve centred around “no improvement”?
It is *so wonderful* that a prime conflict of the film is “what does it actually mean for Superman to be good”?
December 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM
It is *so wonderful* that a prime conflict of the film is “what does it actually mean for Superman to be good”?
There is *absolutely no reason* that architecture should demand overtime.
I'm sorry you were exploited, but “I was exploited for 25 years, why are they complaining about being exploited?” is bizarre.
I'm sorry you were exploited, but “I was exploited for 25 years, why are they complaining about being exploited?” is bizarre.
December 19, 2025 at 3:05 AM
There is *absolutely no reason* that architecture should demand overtime.
I'm sorry you were exploited, but “I was exploited for 25 years, why are they complaining about being exploited?” is bizarre.
I'm sorry you were exploited, but “I was exploited for 25 years, why are they complaining about being exploited?” is bizarre.
Maintaining the precious American norm that political elites cannot, by definition, commit crimes.
December 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Maintaining the precious American norm that political elites cannot, by definition, commit crimes.
<Man born in Australia and father who immigrated while John Howard was PM commit a terrorist attack>
Right wing: see, this is why it is urgent that we stop immigration.
Right wing: see, this is why it is urgent that we stop immigration.
December 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
<Man born in Australia and father who immigrated while John Howard was PM commit a terrorist attack>
Right wing: see, this is why it is urgent that we stop immigration.
Right wing: see, this is why it is urgent that we stop immigration.
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low erth orbit perfec t size for put datacenter in to n\ap! outside very Soft and Comfort datacenter hum soundly in Low Earth Orbit. Put Datacenter in Low Earth Orbit. no problems ever in low earth orbbt because good Temperature and Sun exposure for datacenter hot of radiation.
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
low erth orbit perfec t size for put datacenter in to n\ap! outside very Soft and Comfort datacenter hum soundly in Low Earth Orbit. Put Datacenter in Low Earth Orbit. no problems ever in low earth orbbt because good Temperature and Sun exposure for datacenter hot of radiation.
No, running an append-only log *is* trivial; a blockchain is hard, because you've imposed constraints that *make* it hard.
It is *very easy* to accept a blob of data as an HTTP PUT, calculate a hash of it+the previous hash, and store it, and equally easy to serve it over HTTP.
It is *very easy* to accept a blob of data as an HTTP PUT, calculate a hash of it+the previous hash, and store it, and equally easy to serve it over HTTP.
December 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM
No, running an append-only log *is* trivial; a blockchain is hard, because you've imposed constraints that *make* it hard.
It is *very easy* to accept a blob of data as an HTTP PUT, calculate a hash of it+the previous hash, and store it, and equally easy to serve it over HTTP.
It is *very easy* to accept a blob of data as an HTTP PUT, calculate a hash of it+the previous hash, and store it, and equally easy to serve it over HTTP.
How *would* your blockchain handle even 10k writes/sec? You can batch things up, but you do eventually need to achieve consensus; if these writes are not being funneled into a single system, how are you handling the conflict resolution?
December 17, 2025 at 5:30 AM
How *would* your blockchain handle even 10k writes/sec? You can batch things up, but you do eventually need to achieve consensus; if these writes are not being funneled into a single system, how are you handling the conflict resolution?
Right, but that would apply to *any* server. There's nothing special about your blockchain server; *any* server in a DC will be able to trivially serve an append-only log endpoint at astounding scale, scales that I've not seen blockchain services claim to provide.
December 17, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Right, but that would apply to *any* server. There's nothing special about your blockchain server; *any* server in a DC will be able to trivially serve an append-only log endpoint at astounding scale, scales that I've not seen blockchain services claim to provide.
But a simple append-only log running on my home system on a home internet connection will easily do tens of thousands of writes a second.
Why would I choose a blockchain instead?
Why would I choose a blockchain instead?
December 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
But a simple append-only log running on my home system on a home internet connection will easily do tens of thousands of writes a second.
Why would I choose a blockchain instead?
Why would I choose a blockchain instead?
So, let's say that attesting to the physical provenance of images is valuable and mainstream. What, *specifically*, does a blockchain solve better or cheaper or faster than other technologies?
December 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
So, let's say that attesting to the physical provenance of images is valuable and mainstream. What, *specifically*, does a blockchain solve better or cheaper or faster than other technologies?
These are all empty buzzwords. “Zero fault database” and ”interoperable with the internet”. Please. What do you actually *mean* by this?
December 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
These are all empty buzzwords. “Zero fault database” and ”interoperable with the internet”. Please. What do you actually *mean* by this?
The set of problems for which “a single, global, publicly writable database, with no access control or rollbacks, for which you cannot afford to have a set of trusted entities” is a good solution contains exactly one member: cryptocurrency.
December 17, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The set of problems for which “a single, global, publicly writable database, with no access control or rollbacks, for which you cannot afford to have a set of trusted entities” is a good solution contains exactly one member: cryptocurrency.
Right. And the *better* better approach would be to discard the chain entirely, because it doesn't provide any features you need and is only there so someone can buzzword bamboozle money out of investors/marks.
December 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Right. And the *better* better approach would be to discard the chain entirely, because it doesn't provide any features you need and is only there so someone can buzzword bamboozle money out of investors/marks.
If you *want* to publicly attest to a photo, a simple append-only log (like certificate transparency) has you covered.
December 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
If you *want* to publicly attest to a photo, a simple append-only log (like certificate transparency) has you covered.
But why?
The necessary metadata is literally kilobytes, can be trivially stored within the file it's validating, and can be securely authenticated with nothing but the file and a few (static) public keys.
What does publicly broadcasting every photo and edit get you?
The necessary metadata is literally kilobytes, can be trivially stored within the file it's validating, and can be securely authenticated with nothing but the file and a few (static) public keys.
What does publicly broadcasting every photo and edit get you?
December 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
But why?
The necessary metadata is literally kilobytes, can be trivially stored within the file it's validating, and can be securely authenticated with nothing but the file and a few (static) public keys.
What does publicly broadcasting every photo and edit get you?
The necessary metadata is literally kilobytes, can be trivially stored within the file it's validating, and can be securely authenticated with nothing but the file and a few (static) public keys.
What does publicly broadcasting every photo and edit get you?
The unique bit, the thing that makes a blockchain a blockchain, is the consensus mechanism based on economic incentives.
And because we don't want to make a public global database of every photo taken and every edit saved, that's not interesting here ;)
And because we don't want to make a public global database of every photo taken and every edit saved, that's not interesting here ;)
December 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The unique bit, the thing that makes a blockchain a blockchain, is the consensus mechanism based on economic incentives.
And because we don't want to make a public global database of every photo taken and every edit saved, that's not interesting here ;)
And because we don't want to make a public global database of every photo taken and every edit saved, that's not interesting here ;)
Yeah, I think this is an artifact of the cryptocurrency grifters. There's lots of interesting technology involved in making a blockchain - merkel trees, public key cryptography, etc - but that's all at least 30 years old and ubiquitously deployed.
December 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Yeah, I think this is an artifact of the cryptocurrency grifters. There's lots of interesting technology involved in making a blockchain - merkel trees, public key cryptography, etc - but that's all at least 30 years old and ubiquitously deployed.
(or, rather, cryptocurrency is the only use case for a blockchain, and it's bad)
December 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
(or, rather, cryptocurrency is the only use case for a blockchain, and it's bad)