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@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:

@PhilArballo ("Phil Arballo") wrote:

If the GOP controls the House, then the party of Marjorie Taylor Greene will get a veto over Joe Biden’s agenda.

We can’t let that happen.

@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:

@NikkiFried ("Nikki Fried") wrote:

I’m Florida’s Commissioner of Agriculture & I oversee concealed weapons licensing & the private investigative, security, & recovery services industries.

So far I’ve suspended 28 licenses of individuals charged in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and our democracy.

🇺🇸

@katya_zamo ("Katya") wrote:

Something soupy this way comes on this week’s Substack https://trixieandkatya.substack.com/p/unpaid-spokeswomen-21?r=pe4qv

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@deathbearbrown ("sue 🦇 is on vacation") wrote:

If anyone out there is doing Rust, Jeremiah should be on your team.

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@Fishrock123 ("Jeremiah 🦀🐟") wrote:

Well I guess it’s the new year now, I should really get myself together to properly follow up here haha. ah, resume isn’t quite how I’d fancy it I guess. maybe. idk https://twitter.com/fishrock123/status/1469430724558159873

@travisthetechie ("Travis Smith") retweeted:

@pervocracy ("Cliff 🦖 Jerrison 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

people are calling it complicated but it's quite simple: after 5 days you are still positive but if you take a test to confirm that fact, wow nice move now we have to fill even more shifts, thank you testy mctesterson you just HAD to get tested huh

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@kaitlancollins ("Kaitlan Collins") wrote:

The CDC has updated its isolation guidance. They still don't recommend a rapid test after 5 days, but say if you take one and it's positive, isolated people should continue isolating for 5 more days. Those who leave isolation are urged not to fly on planes or eat in restaurants.

@travisthetechie ("Travis Smith") retweeted:

@__femb0t ("femb�t") wrote:

Good news: we flattened the curve

Bad news: vertically🧐🧐

@trixiemattel ("Trixie Mattel™") wrote:

https://trixieandkatya.substack.com/p/unpaid-spokeswomen-21?r=pe4qv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web new substack!

@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") wrote:

Because @TweetDeck is a Very Bad Program, and Twitter has a Very Bad Website, I was forced to write a script to auto-block anyone following me who has ".eth" in their bio. Fortunately, crypto-bros ALWAYS self-identify, because it's a cult. The grift requires total commitment.

@travisthetechie ("Travis Smith") retweeted:

@SNeurotypicals ("Neurotypicality Research Inc 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

No autistic person would ever call retail, food service or customer service jobs "unskilled". Talking to people took me f*cking decades to master and I still have the scars, pay the people goddamnit

@ewarren ("Elizabeth Warren") wrote:

When a bunch of businesses have to compete for customers, they try to offer the lowest prices. But when a few giant corporations gobble up most of the competition, they can sit back, jack up prices, & watch bigger profits roll in. So we fight inflation by promoting competition.

@travisthetechie ("Travis Smith") retweeted:

@FaceOfBoaz ("Face of Boaz") wrote:

Golden Retrievers: they removed the brain to make room for more love

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@dog_rates ("WeRateDogs®") wrote:

This is Buddy. He ran into a glass door once. Now he's h*ckin skeptical. 14/10 (vid by Brittany Gaunt)

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@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

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@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@kianamaiart ("Kiana Mai") wrote:

young pepas 🌦️🌈

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@JessxDesign ("Jessica Mason") wrote:

I am literally wiggling in my seat with excitement as I type this...

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We're looking for a total rockstar to spearhead the development and growth of our entrepreneur supports and resources. Please RT + help us find our person!

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@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

@polotek I think in conversations like these it's also interesting to think about how "future value" is also measured in terms of "how much $ I'll make for being an early adopter if I can sucker others into it". They really like obfuscating that, imo.

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

There is literally no bigger fish than the existential danger of climate change. But again, all you have to do is imagine some future state that makes it okay.

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@jmathai ("Jaisen Mathai") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

@polotek Yes. I think there's a mitigation for environmental damage with the move to PoS (admittedly not all chains are moving to it).

The question then becomes, was the environmental damage caused while figuring out a mitigation worth the potential future value? I have not quantified.

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

This is where Jaisen lost respect with me. Instead of being accountable, he ultimately fell back on the "bigger fish to fry" argument. If there is harm happening elsewhere, it's okay to not address the harm happening directly in front of us.

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@jmathai ("Jaisen Mathai") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

@polotek I'm not sure. I have to resolve this with all of the other things I engage in that bring harm.

The reason my gut says it is worth it is because there's *a lot* of harm and I think there are bigger fish to fry than the harm that's brought by crypto.

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

After I pushed him, Jaisen did a respectable job describing something that sort of sounds like real future value. This was helpful for me in terms of understanding how other people might be thinking about it.

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@jmathai ("Jaisen Mathai") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

@polotek Distributed compute (EVM) which can transparently run business logic (smart contracts) for digital assets (NFTs).

Crypto is too early for real world use cases but these are compelling building blocks IMO.

This is the closest I've been able to conjure up. https://twitter.com/jmathai/status/1476315246583173124?s=20

@vv1lder ("emily wilder") retweeted:

@BrettWilkison ("Brett Wilkison") wrote:

200 inmates are on lockdown amid a COVID outbreak at the Sonoma County Jail & the Sheriff's Office & Public Health officials are once again at odds over what they will disclose about cases, leaving the public in the dark.
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/200-inmates-on-lockdown-at-sonoma-county-jail-amid-covid-19-outbreak/
Story by @vv1lder & @pressreno

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@MonstrousYi ("Monstrous Yi") wrote:

NO RIOT YOU DIDN'T, AHAHHAHAHA

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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

For me the fundamental issue is this. We can only know the magnitude of harm in hindsight. So people can deflect from a direct question about tradeoffs. All they have to do is imagine some hypothetical future thing that is so good it was worth it.

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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

@jmathai If you do nothing today, the harms will happen. You will only be able to reflect on the true magnitude and severity of the harms later. In hindsight after it's already done. Then it will be too late to say "that wasn't worth it". That's the dilemma.

@bascule ("Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹") replied to a tweet by @bascule:

Chivo is a custodial wallet where payments are book transfers in a centralized database.

Chivo has a Lightning integration, but much like the rest of the Lightning network, it’s used for little more than demos which only go to show the UX is garbage

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@BitcoinMagazine ("Bitcoin Magazine") wrote:

Purchasing beer with #Bitcoin in El Salvador 🇸🇻 ⚡️

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@internetofshit ("Internet of Shit") retweeted:

@NimaZeighami ("VR Nima @ CES") wrote:

In this thread I will post every ridiculous usage of metaverse I see at #CES.

@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") wrote:

Well, I got the phrase "Dunning-Krugerrands" published in The Register, so that's good for today, I guess I can go back to bed now. https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/05/mozilla_accepts_cryptocurrency/

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

The most important idea is this. People know crypto is causing harm. But they are weighing that against potential future value once the "kinks" are worked out.

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@jmathai ("Jaisen Mathai") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

@polotek Not really. It needs to be compared with potential future value. Future value can be adjusted to account for the risk that nothing will pan out. Tough to talk about w.r.t. current harm but it's important to zoom out.

@bascule ("Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹") wrote:

Shit Bitcoiners actually believe.

The Lightning Network is definitely not doing anywhere close to millions of transactions per second, and anyone who thinks it’s theoretically capable of such doesn’t understand Amdahl’s Law.

El Salivador is using Chivo, not Lightning

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

It's a long conversation and jumps threads a few times. Sorry about that, but it's how twitter is. I do think the full context of the conversation is important though. I tried hard not to railroad Jaisen or misrepresent him.

@DaveHolmes ("Dave Holmes") wrote:

How Long Gone is one of my favorite podcasts, ⁦@donetodeath⁩ and ⁦@themjeans⁩ are sweet gorgeous geniuses, and this was a very good time. (CONTENT WARNING: grocery store bars.) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-long-gone/id1503346367?i=1000546969336

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:

I want to share this conversation I had with Jaisen. We managed to engage fairly directly on the moral question of supporting systems like crypto.

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@jmathai ("Jaisen Mathai") replied to a tweet by @jmathai:

@polotek Question for you. How do you decide if something that has potential for both harm and value is worth pursuing?

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:

I think about this a lot.

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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

Our commitment to lying is easily the most interesting thing about humans IMO. We have this incredible ability to fabricate realities from whole cloth and then go to our graves swearing it was real. That conviction it takes to do that is a superpower that I've never had.