One thing that's become clear from working with Claude to generate image assets using AI image generation: it *thinks* it's much better at examining images than it really is.
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Does anyone remember bot programming games? People competed to write the best code for a bot - usually in some DSL - to achieve a task, such as writing a 'tank' to hunt down opposing tanks.
I wonder how this would look as a competition between AI agents?
I wonder how this would look as a competition between AI agents?
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Reading this and most of the responses really makes me believe in the dead Internet theory.
'My grandfather kept a red fuel tank on steel stilts behind his tractor shed. We always called it the 300-gallon tank. He ran his Farmall 560 diesel off it by gravity for as long as I was alive. He had two rules about it. He never took a delivery or fueled up after sundown, and he never let the level drop below the quarter mark on the sight glass. His reason was sediment. He said the bottom of a tank was where the water and gunk settled, and it would wreck the injectors.
It was a decent reason, so nobody pushed on it. My uncle said once that a quarter tank was a lot of fuel to leave sitting, and Grandpa said, "Then it's sitting."
He was ninety-two when he passed. The tractor hadn't moved in two years, and the tank had sat at about the quarter mark that whole time. In the spring we had a man out from an equipment dealer to price what was in the yard. His name was Kent Haugen. He walked the shed, looked at the baler, and then went to the tank and rapped it with his knuckle in a few places. The front half rang differently depending on where the fuel was. The back end gave back a flat sound, like hitting a full barrel.
He walked around to the back. The tank sat about twenty inches off the shed wall, which is why none of us ever looked at that end. Behind it, he said, there was a round plate bolted over the head of the tank.
"That's a manway," he said. "Eighteen inch. Why's a fuel tank got a manway on the dry end?"
We didn't know what he meant by the dry end. He tapped again. The front rang, the back didn't, and the difference stayed the same when we drained the front. We pumped the fuel out, about seventy-five gallons of off-road diesel, into two drums and some buckets, and the back end still sounded like a full barrel.
My cousin Brett brought a ratchet. Twelve bolts, all rusted, and the gasket was cut from sheet rubber by hand. When the plate came off, the smell was dry paper and cold steel. There was no diesel in it.
The tank was a 500-gallon tank. The data plate on the saddle said so, under thirty years of paint. A steel bulkhead ran across the inside, welded all the way around, about two-thirds of the way down the length. The fuel side held 300 gallons and that was all the sight glass ever read. The back third was a dry compartment, lined with brown grease-proof paper. Six wooden crates sat in it, rope handles on the ends, each stenciled with the seal of the Iowa State Highway Commission and a project number. The date stamped on the lid was 1964.
Haugen said he'd seen a lot of tanks and never one like it, and that he'd rather not touch it. He recommended Lyle Kemmerer, a petroleum equipment contractor from two counties over.
Lyle spent about an hour on it with a flashlight and a magnet. He said a farm tank that size doesn't get inspected by anybody, so nobody would have signed off on this. Somebody had built a vault inside the shell. The bulkhead bead was shop quality, ground smooth, not a barn repair. The fill, the outlet and the sight glass were all plumbed to the fuel side only. The vent and the gauge hatch were on the front, so anyone looking in from the top would see only diesel and think they'd seen the whole tank....
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ENS's first outage, and it's because we're upgrading to v2. Pretty good record if you ask me!
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nick.eth retweeted
ENS is the way to name things on the internet and it's time to take it to V2
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nick.eth retweeted
Creating DNS look alike usernames is a user safety failure, and a completely avoidable one. We keep repeating a mistake this industry has already paid for.
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Every time I open Twitter and find it's suddenly full of casual racism and culture war BS, I check, and sure enough it's reverted to "for you".
Is this just how most of Twitter is now? Or is it what Musk's algorithm is pushing?
Is this just how most of Twitter is now? Or is it what Musk's algorithm is pushing?
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nick.eth retweeted
This is exactly why I’m so adamant about DNS/ENS interoperability.
.ai already exists in DNS. If Binance and SPACE ID are handing out matching .ai identities independently of the actual domain owners, they’re creating conflicting identities under the same names.
That means the same name could identify one person on the web and someone else in a wallet. Users shouldn’t have to understand competing naming systems to figure out who they’re interacting with or paying.
ENS is open and permissionless, with no licensing fee to integrate. It supports both .eth subnames and real DNS names. Binance could build its own branded naming service using that infrastructure.
If all you need is an app username, use an app username. There’s no reason to dress it up as a DNS domain without respecting ownership of that domain.
It’s 2026. We already have the infrastructure to avoid this confusion. Handing users DNS lookalikes and leaving them to discover the difference is embarrassing.
I expect better from Binance and SPACE ID. Their users deserve better.
.ai already exists in DNS. If Binance and SPACE ID are handing out matching .ai identities independently of the actual domain owners, they’re creating conflicting identities under the same names.
That means the same name could identify one person on the web and someone else in a wallet. Users shouldn’t have to understand competing naming systems to figure out who they’re interacting with or paying.
ENS is open and permissionless, with no licensing fee to integrate. It supports both .eth subnames and real DNS names. Binance could build its own branded naming service using that infrastructure.
If all you need is an app username, use an app username. There’s no reason to dress it up as a DNS domain without respecting ownership of that domain.
It’s 2026. We already have the infrastructure to avoid this confusion. Handing users DNS lookalikes and leaving them to discover the difference is embarrassing.
I expect better from Binance and SPACE ID. Their users deserve better.
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nick.eth retweeted
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nick.eth retweeted
There are a few moments in ENS history that are as momentous as this. We’ve been building for almost 10 years already and this is really the foundations of the next few decades where a programmable, permisionless naming system will be required to shape the next sovereign internet
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