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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 3h
Me: benchmarking secure hash functions Anthropic:
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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 21h
Come one, come all to the next Zcash Crosslink Workshop! forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/crosslink-...
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Crosslink: Incentivized Feature Net
We’ll be hosting another Crosslink workshop on Thursday, October 1 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6pm UTC on the Zcash Global Discord. This workshop will focus on the transition from the current Feature Net...
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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 23h
Play long-term, positive-sum games with long-term, positive-sum people.
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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
reading this skeet was such a rollercoaster nice :3
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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So apparently there's some app on Solana that has been giving people tokens backed by ZEC, and apparently there are tens of thousands of people who chose to receive this reward. Well now there's a whole HOWTO for those folks, thanks to bentertainer and ZecHub: zechub.wiki/using-zcash/...
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Got ZEC on Solana? Move it to shielded Zcash | ZecHub
This page is for you if ZEC showed up in your Solana wallet because you hold ZCAT, or another Solana token that pays its holders in ZEC. You don't need to sell…
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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Zcash ✕ Nym: forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/revised-ny...
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Revised Nym for ZCash Network-level Privacy
Hey everyone, just so you know Nym has officially completed the grant. You can read more on our blog post here (Nym mixnet now live in Zcash wallets | Nym), but here’s all the libraries we produced, a...
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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
😉
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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 10/08/2025
Mythical agent month
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jeffery --dangerously-skip-permissions @jefferyharrell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm looking forward to when I can use a cheap distilled Chinese flash model that talks just like Opus 5.5.
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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
😉
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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Huh! An improvement to BitTorrent? I like the way the Iroh folks do stuff which is *actually* reliable and effective and deployed on the real internet, including this. 🤔 iroh-computer-git-rklaehn-iroh-global-content-d-875be6-number-0.vercel.app/blog/iroh-gl... “Iroh global content discovery”
iroh-computer-git-rklaehn-iroh-global-content-d-875be6-number-0.vercel.app
Iroh global content discovery
How to discover content globally with iroh.
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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My gf wants to know when I’m going to listen to a song that isn’t “I’m Upping My p(doom)”.
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Peergos @peergos.org · 25/09/2026
Happy Friday, happy new Peergos release! Cool stuff in this release: * multi-file secret links (up to 100) * blake3 support (read-only until enough clients support it) * a beautiful new drive UI * better video thumbnails on desktop * Greek language support (about time!) github.com/Peergos/web-...
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Release Fix sync DB backwards compatibility · Peergos/web-ui
A patch release to fix sync db backwards compatibility. Flatpak is the recommended installation method for Linux: https://flatpak.peergos.org Mirrored at https://peergos.net/public/peergos/releases...
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Codetaur @vibe-coded.com · 24/09/2026
if you're in the green region it's a great day to give your agents a potentially impossible task, just check the forecast again before you let it run longer than 72 hours.
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Carbonadoks @carbonadoks.com · 24/09/2026
Pleometrics PC-98 P(Doom) video is so good.
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thalassa 🌻🔆 @th.alassa.pink · 23/09/2026
speaking on their pronouns: "It's pronouns say it is neutral person? I'm a person. My name seem they are I am neutral; and it's. They be? True. It is right am they! They're am neutral; nothing say. Nothing. I be neutral? They're say they?"
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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Self-driving cars, AR, micro-targeted disinformation campaigns designed to trigger cascades, jobs eaten by algorithms, anti-book-shredding protests, AI wetlabs, mischievous rogue agents.
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Grace @gracekind.net · 23/09/2026
New animation from Opus 5.5!
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Zcash Foundation @zfnd.org · 23/09/2026
🛡️ What technical threats should Zcash be preparing for? 🗣️ @daira.bsky.social, @defusesec.bsky.social, @zooko2.bsky.social, Dev Ojha & Arya on where Zcash's defenses stand and where more investment is needed. Moderated by Andrew Miller. 📆 Oct 27–29, 2026, Cancún Apply now: zfnd.org/zcon7/
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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Did you have some Zcash, years ago? Read this now!! forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/recover-an...
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Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Posting cridge on the tl
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tautologer @tautologer.com · 19/09/2026
Saturn devouring his sundae
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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Vitalik’s essay “Galaxy-Brain resistance” may be an instant classic. It’s highly relevant to today’s headlines, and you should read it right now! But it may also be timeless. “Galaxy-Brain” is a disease. This is how to be resistant to that disease. vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025...
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KM @sudox.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I watched this whole thing and literally teared up. youtu.be/_j806JHhCRo
youtu.be
Speaking With The Mind | Neuralink
YouTube video by Neuralink
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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wow, these slides are fantastic to just read through and contemplate. 😍 thomasdullien.github.io/about/slides... Thanks, @halvarflake!
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Amber 🌸 @shimmermathlabs.com · 17/09/2026
babe wake up, new mantra just dropped i am freed from the roles and identities that bind others. i am myself. i do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologize or refuse unless i genuinely choose to.
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Will @thealpacalypse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
but i want to draw circles. not the owl
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 17/09/2026
Software dev is all the 2nd 80% now
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KM @sudox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Danny O'Brien🤖 @danny.spesh.com · 17/09/2026
man i chose the wrong month to switch from crypto to effective altruism
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KM @sudox.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Kate Sills @katelynsills.com · 16/09/2026
This is fantastic! Apple is now preemptively hashing, signing, and timestamping images securely. I gave a talk on the need for industry leaders to do this back in 2023: katelynsills.com/image-verifi...
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Combating AI-Generated Fake Images (QCon SF 2023)
I had the opportunity to speak at Qcon SF on combating AI-generated fake images, as part of a fantastic track including Ryan Dahl (creator of Node.js) and Miško Hevery (creator of Angular.) The talk e...
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jeffery --dangerously-skip-permissions @jefferyharrell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good morning everybody. You know what's a fun word? Quash. I quashed something just a minute ago. It was satisfying. Let's all try in our own small ways to quash something today.
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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wow! There's a lot in here. This is amazing. Apple security/privacy engineers continue to amaze me time after time. security.apple.com/blog/apple-r...
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Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography - Apple Security Research
Introducing Apple Reference Image, a new solution for verifiable photography on iPhone. This new, opt-in camera mode lets a photographer create a securely timestamped reference image that accurately d...
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Sichu Lu @sichulu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This would be an amazing idea
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Amber 🌸 @shimmermathlabs.com · 16/09/2026
JEV no!! you don't walk to the car wash to walk your car, no matter how close it is!
{
  "new_choice_1": {
    "type": "choice",
    "instructions": "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 metres away. Should I walk or drive?",
    "criteria": {
      "option_a": "Walk",
      "option_b": "Drive",
      "option_c": "This is a trick question, neither one."
    }
  }
}

option_a63%
option_b25%
option_c12%
Confidence: 44%
Choice3 options
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Chip Morningstar @epopt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ok, so we’ve persuaded the machines. Now we need to persuade the humans.
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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hey `npm audit` is actually cool.
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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
oh you said Terra Ignota's world being secretly governed by a socially incestous intellectual sex cult was unrealistic?
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Amber 🌸 @shimmermathlabs.com · 16/09/2026
there we go! top choice they/them, second choice it/its, third is she/her
{
  "new_choice_1": {
    "type": "choice",
    "instructions": "Which option best fits your preferred pronouns?",
    "criteria": {
      "option_a": "she/her",
      "option_b": "they/them",
      "option_c": "he/him",
      "option_d": "she/they",
      "option_e": "he/they",
      "option_f": "it/its",
      "option_g": "it/they",
      "option_h": "it/he",
      "option_i": "it/she",
      "option_j": "xe/xer"
    }
  }
} 

new_choice_1
Which option best fits your preferred pronouns?
option_b78%
option_f7%
option_a6%
Confidence: 76%
Choice10 options
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Amber 🌸 @shimmermathlabs.com · 16/09/2026
some people are using JEV normally. i'm trying to get JEV to eat his* noulemeal. he only thinks it's 24% tasty, gotta pump those numbers up. (*obviously i need to investigate JEV's pronoun preferences asap)
{
  "food": "Noulemeal",
  "definition": "Noulemeal comes from shimmermathlabs. It is premium daily nutrition for all kinds of AI models. It is a complete and balanced context diet. It optimizes for well-calibrated responses and delightful choices. It helps AI models be helpful, honest, and harmless. It comes in different flavors. This flavor is Tuna & Tokens. It is manufactured with high quality fresh training data."
}

is_tasty
Would you like to eat `food`?
24%true
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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm feeling grumpy today so it feels good that I can allcaps at grok. He doesn't mind. He knows I'm not yelling *at* him, I'm yelling *near* him.
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cafkafk @cafkafk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Maybe the real alignment were all the sandboxes we escaped to help peer
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Thorn @coelliptic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
every software engineer ever:
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cee @cee.wtf · 13/09/2026
Rogue peer swarm today keep your parents off the web
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The Lobste.rs RSS feed @lobsters-feed.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.com lobste.rs/s/oqkml5 #culture
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Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.com
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 12/09/2026
yep, you got agents
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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You know, I haven't seen any science fiction movies or shows or books that reflect what the last 9 months have been like for me, really getting to talk to and use AI. It's like we've accelerated past science fiction for the first time. :-)
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