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ricardo.bsky.social
Privacy, decentralization, sometimes outright crypto stuff. Career CTO working on strategy and investments now. Long form and open source at https://numergent.com/
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We are back spelunking, with a long conversation on scammers, how the people who promote themselves as influencers as the ones you should *not* listen to, and the future of crypto. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O__a...

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Tornado Cash Dev Alexey Pertsev Gets $1 Million Donation From Ethereum Foundation decrypt.co/307842/et...

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(hits the Blindsight pipe harder)

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Woof. This is a sensational series. Imagine, if you can, Wong Kar-Wai doing Furiosa.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I keep sketching talks about how science fiction has mapped our current times, and it's mostly me going on about Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End and Peter Watts' Starfish series.

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Btw, if you want an eloquent defense of the idea that it's not only not-bad but good to be judgmental about taste in art, I really enjoyed wrestling with this underappreciated book: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/659558...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

remember, signal is the only decent dm platform. all the others exist for sharing a signal handle, the way internet explorer is there to install chrome

submitted 12 days ago • 89 comments

Conway's law's flipside, which becomes potentially more important when you remember that code is read more than it is written. numergent.com/2025-02/Pars...

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Damnation Alley, except the Landmaster is a Cybertruck, and gets stuck over the first batch of giant cockroaches, and since they can't use spare parts from any other vehicle, everyone dies before finding out the amphibious capabilities did not work either. Vehicle looks exactly the same, though.

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The U.K. government's insistence that Apple creates an encryption backdoor undermines our right to private spaces. Apple must resist these efforts.

submitted 20 days ago • 10 comments

A hot pink dragonfly has landed in your feed to give you a little doomscrolling break. Roseate Skimmer (Orthemis ferruginea), Texas #FridayFlyday #Inverts

submitted 20 days ago • 49 comments

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #410: Al-Namrood. . . #alnamrood #metal #heavymetal #deathmetal #blackmetal #music #saudiarabianmetal #webcomic #comics #censorship #freespeech #blasphemy #babylon #strangebuttrue #wtf #badass #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

Fuck this 😠

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

Quote-posting this just so I can pin it.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Key security principle in the age of phishing: If the user doesn't understand it, it's exploitable

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OpenAI upset that an AI company would train on someone else's data without consent is laughable and hypocritical. www.404media.co/openai-furio...

submitted 30 days ago • 8 comments

a critical thing here is that wapo/nyt subscription numbers are down *because people see them as Vichy media*

submitted 30 days ago • 58 comments

He’s even running the failed crypto startup playbook and pivoting to AI.

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Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

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I think the lesson other countries can take from this is that Trump is weak and will absolutely cave the second someone explains to him that putting tariffs on imports people like will make him unpopular

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The first Trump campaign and administration ushered in a post-truth era. It looks like the current one will be post-shame.

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Much as I despise Ryan Selkis' hard swerve into "deport everyone who disagrees" fascism, I'd still have expected him to have the clarity to know the kind of grifter he was backing, yet still doing it because his rabid dislike of Democrats took priority. Apparently not, and brain was fully off.

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