Attention all companies: I never want to use your AI assistant on your website. I want to use *my* AI assistant on your website

You don’t get to rob disabled Australians and keep the lifestyle you bought with their money.

I’ve been showing you these raids and arrests by the AFP.

But here’s what I want to know: how much of that money are we actually getting back?

If you bought a house with stolen disability funding, that house should be sold. Same with the cars, the watches, the lot.

Think about where that money came from. Someone went to work and paid tax on it. It was supposed to help someone get out of bed, have a shower, get through their day.

Imagine helping yourself to that money.

Who gets convicted? What sentence do they get? What gets recovered?

If you got rich robbing disabled Australians, you should lose every cent you stole and spend your retirement in a prison cell.

Thank you Jacinta.

Thank you. 🙏

I hope everyone in Australia watches this.

The people who thrive over the next decade will be those who mentally abandon the idea of 'work as life' and start thinking more like a billionaire does:

You are already rich, now what do you want to do with your time? What side quests actually interest you? What is worth exploring regardless of any associated economic utility?

You will literally have an AI that can solve basically any problem you have if given enough compute, or help you explore anything you are interested in, including optimising your own life for what gives you personal fulfilment.

The people that do best will be like water. Everywhere and nowhere. Not tied down to any specific career or idea per se - doing it for the love of the game.

And some of you might say 'RA, that makes no sense, I've got bills to pay.'

Yeah, you need a plan to make it for about another decade, then that's really not gonna matter too much.

And if you start thinking like a billionaire you're just not gonna care that much. Go follow the side quest in your spare time then convince a venture capitalist to give you money for it. Pay yourself a salary with that and go exploring.

In short:

- Careers are dead
- Side quests are an infinite game
- Health-maxx, get jacked
- Be a good person. Reputation is also an infinite game.

All the other stuff... Career this, dollar here dollar there - who cares? We will have entire economic zones where superintelligent humanoids are building other superintelligent humanoids. The output of the global economy is going to be absurd. Orders of magnitude higher than almost anyone believes.

Stay flexible.

A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.

At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."

He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.

Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.

He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.

He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."

The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.

It's almost like Satoshi knew something about distributed systems (or network / p2p programming) as the UTXO model is well-designed for avoiding them. .eth's were young, naive, no experience/wisdom, reimplemented around an obviously broken architecture. Tried to warn them 🤷‍♂️

Does anyone want to buy intothefuture.nyc kids this UV Printer -- to create accessory learning products?
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Congrats to the many authors, contributors, and teams that have spent literal years making CIP-113 a reality! It's finally merged as its next step towards a path to "Active" status! 🎉🎉🎉 @MicheleHarmonic @phil_uplc @0xMetamatt @CryptoJoe101
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Unless the AIs are building affordable houses and curing cancer, normal people simply are not going to care.

Normal people will experience 'the Singularity' as 'great, another company firing me and replacing me with an AI, now I'm even poorer than before.'

Cardanoscan is no longer the Cardanoscan you remember.

That is not an easy sentence to write.

We’ve moved beyond the old homepage.

Today, we’re unveiling a redesigned Home Page with DeFi, chain stats, network activity, and more.

New home. Same chain.

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🚨🇮🇹 Meloni announces a BURQA BAN in schools, plus a LIMIT on the number of foreign students per class!!

"The proposed measure will introduce an obligation for the parents of foreign students with serious school-integration problems to learn Italian, and it will introduce a BAN on the burqa and niqab at school.

In Italy, nobody, in the name of a real or supposed tradition, can decide that a young woman must hide herself.

Equality between men and women is not negotiable. It is not negotiable on our streets and it is not negotiable in our schools."

Brava, Giorgia 👏👏👏

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A beautiful surprise

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This is one of my favorite podcasts I have done in a while.

It contains I think my to date best description of what I think a good world looks like.

I'm happy to join the race for a @IntersectMBO board seat. Please take a look and consider supporting my candidacy.

Australian engineer Bobby Gallagher built a truck-sized 1 MW nuclear microreactor the Unity Nuclear Battery that can run for years without refuelling.

It is illegal to build or operate here because of Australia’s ban on nuclear power.

The US is now commercialising it. We banned rted the talent.

Lift the ban. Let small modular reactors compete. Cheap, reliable, zero-emissions power should not be off-limits because of ideology.

Chris Bowen and Anthony Albanese: this is a policy failure, not a secret.

Australians pay the price because of your corruption!

Internal monitoring and independent observation see different things.

Telstra’s review of its July mobile outage found that gaps in visibility contributed to delays in identifying the underlying problem.

There’s a wider telecom lesson here.

Internal monitoring asks:
What does ening?

Independent observation asks:
What actually happened at the edge?
Did the service arrive?
Did it behave as expected?
What did the device experience?

As networks become more complex and automated, both views matter.

Unetwork creates independent observation points across devices operating on live networks, adding another layer of evidence from the physical edge.

Observability is stronger when the system being observed is not the only source of evidence.

Extended Telemetry enters production on September 7.

Two incidents occurred in Melbourne on 17 August.

For one incident—the Sydney Swans allegations—ABC has published over 50 separate stories on its news website.

Yet on the very same day, two women in Melbourne were stabbed from behind in random attacks and hospitalised—and there bout these stabbings on the ABC website.

It’s time to defund the ABC—they don’t report the news; they peddle agendas.