"Towards Real Democratic DAOs": slides from my talk at the recent #DAOSymposium in Zurich. drive.google.com/file/d/1C5CYek… Thanks to Malik El Bay 🔰🍉 and the other organizers for the invitation!

“Onion takeover of Infowars”…how can this not be an Onion headline…wait it is…not…how meta…(getting sucked into the singularity of self-parody) theguardian.com/us-news/2024/d…

Making e-voting safer from coercion and vote buying actu.epfl.ch/news/making-e-…

Outraged by Jan 6, he spent two years getting inside the top ranks of militias like the Oath Keepers. He was stunningly successful. He penetrated a new generation of militia leaders, which included doctors, cops & government attorneys. This is his story. propublica.org/article/ap3-oa…

“I have been prepared for evil, for greed, for cruelty, for injustice – but I did not anticipate that the people in power would also be such huge losers.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Today's mystery hash: a0d4cef580013894aaed972a565afcc80fcf4d8dece0a34092b1a59aa3efa100676f98e71bde99a921517c77bf463a325b6782b87a2f122a8e26723e395afa66

Today's mystery hash: cf7fb19f03c3908093fbeba2e584f37341869b845937af766762265580975ae9a62ad14abfac221f4119ad33882b8b94eef6c561a292e1bb043c6af77c45ac6f

Today's mystery hash: 42829743fec72377206e62d87649856aaa7f49e4e810fabedb6766c2fda27560f668de6eae6fcd146c23e3bc20218e3b3d818d1a9e0d3a80523371b39a5f90c6

‘Trump’s US is “just like Yeltsin in Russia in the 1990s – promising a new kind of democracy, but in reality allowing the oligarchs to loot and distort the society”’ theguardian.com/wellness/ng-in…

Just another day in Misuse of AI propublica.org/article/trump-…

“This is your brain on ChatGPT” ladbible.com/news/technolog…

“In their quest to destroy democracy, Trump, Vance and their cronies are intent on shutting the American mind.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Tom the Dancing Bug: Trump Science boingboing.net/2025/07/10/tom…

We need to reclaim software's wishing well from the cruelty of generative AI rockpapershotgun.com/we-need-to-rec…

And I thought I was an AI pessimist futurism.com/ai-experts-no-…

The AI snake is already eating its own tail. The LLM training ecosystem has become a positive feedback loop leading to nowhere. ‘GPT-5 "has been optimized to produce text that other LLMs will evaluate highly, not text that humans would find coherent."’ futurism.com/gpt-5-literary…

Please join us for Swiss Crypto Day 2025, Halloween edition, on October 31 at EPFL ! Registration is free but mandatory for planning and organization. Program to be announced soon! swisscryptoday.github.io

“Didn’t win the peace prize? Alfred Nobel must have been a cuck and a beta and a loser. Might as well unplug the PlayStation that is democracy.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…