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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 12/09/2026

Navier-Stokes this Navier-Stokes that how about you stop naively stroking it before you collapse into being forever single-arity

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 10/09/2026

SITUATION: A BEAR MISS The Decade Behind PDF: bitbanter.com/posts/2026-0... Web: bitbanter.com/posts/2026-0...

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 07/09/2026

Understanding the Liquid exploit is easy; the hackers simply found 4,000 BTC in the sofa.* * www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/EXPO...

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My Sofa is a Sidechain

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 03/09/2026

it's 2026 everyone, why are they called US Treasury Bills and not "Democracy Hyperscaler Bonds"

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 03/09/2026

the rocket company's servers are down and now no one can think

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 01/09/2026

Ladies and gentlemen: wake me up when September ends

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 25/08/2026

excuse me Apple, the new Mac Studio is what kind of powerhouse?

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 21/08/2026

“Our watermarks will be undetectable. They will be non-load-bearing.”

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 18/08/2026

Pictured here: the Strait of Tim Hortons Blues

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 16/08/2026

Claude, make LK-99 real. Try really really hard. I believe in you.

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Trust Me, I’m an Art Major @artmajor.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Privacy from the State is one of our most important rights, and we should be fighting like hell to take it back and defend it. Want my data? Get a warrant.

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 08/07/2026

First time watching soccer, hearing a lot of hubbub about FIFA unfairly biasing for Argentina. I think the only solution here is to deregulate the game. Without corrupt judges nothing can be judged unfairly. And give every player a Glock. Let the market sort it out.

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 01/07/2026

If I had to take a guess: Open is to OpenUSD as Open is to OpenAI [derogatory]

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 26/06/2026

actually, it was a scheme to squeeze the effective altruists

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 22/06/2026

maybe you should investigate the feasibility of recursive self-improvement on yourself first king

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 15/06/2026

Three perfect grafs from @matt-levine.bsky.social

We talk from time to time around here about my favorite postmodern comedians, the people who design user interfaces for Citigroup Inc.’s internal software. If you work at Citi, you come in every day and open up some proprietary software to do trades and send money and stuff, and that software has a bunch of fields you can fill in and buttons you can press to do things, and some of them are pranks. Like there was allegedly a field in some payments screen that “came pre-populated with 15 zeros, which the person inputting a transaction needed to delete”; if you forgot, apparently typing “$1” in that field would send the customer $1,000,000,000,000,000? Just hilarious Dada-esque comedy.

Citi appears to do this stuff out of genuine commitment to the bit, but pitfalls like this exist at every bank. Every bank has software with fields that you can fill in and buttons you can press, and you are tired and distracted and you might, say, put the dollar amount of your trade in the “shares” field and sell 7,548 times as much stock as you intended to sell. That really could happen anywhere, though in fact it happened at Citi.

More generally, it is the nature of software that any piece of software will contain a button you should not push, just to make life exciting. (For me it is the “Publish” button in this column’s content management system. Have I ever published a half-written draft by accident? No. Do I think about it every day? Yes. Have I jinxed myself by writing this? Of course.) Probably most banks do not give their employees software with a big red button labeled “LIQUIDATE BANK,” which when pressed initiates a liquidation of the bank, though Citi might. (No, I’m kidding, at Citi the liquidation is probably triggered by a small green button labeled “Help.”)

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 12/06/2026

Gabe Newell has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

A screenshot of a Reuters article titled "Microsoft has considered spinning off Xbox, the Information reports"

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 09/06/2026

Microsoft unveils Fable 4. Anthropic: "Hold my beer"

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

breaking: pope leo has joined anthropic

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 17/05/2026

claude how do I [any%, OoB] win therapy? make no mistakes

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 13/05/2026

This is A+ AI slop. I love it

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 06/05/2026

Take heart: the endgame isn’t oligopolies exerting absolute control, but individuals reasserting asymmetric advantage over anything or anyone that would control them. bsky.app/profile/ens0...

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 06/05/2026

The good guys in AI are the users who want to use it to improve people’s lives, not any corporation

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 06/05/2026

you may not like it, but this is what peak non-toxic masculinity looks like

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 21/04/2026

A one-man show staring JD Vance in Islamabad: "Waiting for Ghalibaf"

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 16/04/2026

No one is ever going to take the FIFA Peace Prize seriously again

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 15/04/2026

how can you run your business with AI when your running shoes don't run on AI? AllBirds™️. Because Why The Fuck Not™️

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 14/04/2026

Find out in my NYT Bestseller: “The Book Stops Here: Which Dollar Screeds Make the Most Cents”

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 12/04/2026

The kids have re-invented Google Wave from first principles

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 12/04/2026

the next time someone angrily calls you out for saying some erroneous shit, just reply "sorry, but I think the world is desperate for more storytelling right now". then the person will be mad with you for totally new reasons.

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 12/04/2026

Hall of fame streak of Ls by JD Vance this month: - internally campaigns against pointless war in Iran; war happens anyway - gets sent to Hungary to campaign for a loser authoritarian, who loses the SUPERMAJORITY - gets sent to Pakistan to fix the mistakes of a war he didn’t want to start; fails

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 10/04/2026

Unlike the Federal Reserve-backed fiat system, Bitcoin is not vulnerable to AI Psychosis

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 08/04/2026

As we speak bizdev people for a dozen different crypto coins are scouring Linked In for an IRGC connection

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H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 08/04/2026

“Did you hear they figured out who Satoshi is??” Oh wow, so they got it verified through encryption? He moved coins? “…no” Oh, then surely he was able to sign something cryptographically that proved he was Satoshi? “…no” It wasn’t just some bullshit language and time zone study, was it? “…”

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 03/04/2026

It is not so much that Bitcoin is vulnerable to quantum computers, but rather it must carefully navigate the Strait of Shor’s Muse

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 31/03/2026

> We demonstrate that Shor’s algorithm...can execute with either ≤ 1200 logical qubits and ≤ 90 million Toffoli gates or ≤ 1450 logical qubits and ≤ 70 million Toffoli gates research.google/blog/safegua... quantumai.google/static/site-...

Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies against Quantum Vulnerabilities:
Resource Estimates and Mitigations
Ryan Babbush,1, ∗ Adam Zalcman,1, † Craig Gidney,1, ‡ Michael Broughton,1
Tanuj Khattar,1 Hartmut Neven,1 Thiago Bergamaschi,1, 2 Justin Drake,3 and Dan Boneh4
1Google Quantum AI, Santa Barbara, CA 93111, United States
2Department of Computer Science, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
3Ethereum Foundation, Zeughausgasse 7a, 6300 Zug, Switzerland
4Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
(Dated: March 30, 2026)
The expected emergence of cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs) will represent
a singular discontinuity in the history of digital security, with wide ranging impacts. This whitepaper
seeks to elucidate specific implications that the capabilities of developing quantum architectures have
on blockchain vulnerabilities and potential mitigation strategies. First, we provide new resource
estimates for breaking the 256-bit Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem over the secp256k1
curve, the core of modern blockchain cryptography. We demonstrate that Shor’s algorithm for this
problem can execute with either ≤ 1200 logical qubits and ≤ 90 million Toffoli gates or ≤ 1450
logical qubits and ≤ 70 million Toffoli gates. In the interest of responsible disclosure, we use a zero-
knowledge proof to validate these results without disclosing attack vectors. On superconducting
architectures with 10−3 physical error rates and planar connectivity, those circuits can execute in
minutes using fewer than half a million physical qubits. We introduce a critical distinction between
“fast-clock” (such as superconducting and photonic) and “slow-clock” (such as neutral atom and ion
trap) architectures. Our analysis reveals that the first fast-clock CRQCs would enable “on-spend”
attacks on public mempool transactions of some cryptocurrencies. We survey major crypto…

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 30/03/2026

it's crazy to me that video podcasts existed 21 years ago on iTunes via simple RSS publishing. glad it's back in Apple's walled garden but man. (I know because I published one of the first video podcasts that was available there)

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 20/03/2026

* REUTERS: GLOBAL MARKETS ON PRECIPICE AS CHUCK NORRIS DIES

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 20/03/2026

perhaps if we had all eaten less Avocado Toast we wouldn’t be in this mess

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 20/03/2026

figured out how to break Claude

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Josh Cincinnati @bitbanter.com · 19/03/2026

Excited for the inevitable video of Trevor Milton’s jet flying through the air that’s actually a 90–degree rotated frame of the last 15 seconds before it crashes into the ground

Trevor Milton sitting next to a jet that will never fly

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Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Bob is the best. Oil is getting all the attention right now, but the nat gas story may be the bigger one of our time for reasons going way beyond the events of the last few weeks.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

God, they’re not even reading the documents they’re frantically updating. Check out this one that promises default E2E in Instagram, then (this week) suddenly pretends it was optional. about.fb.com/news/2022/08...

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