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Marta406 retweeted
People are missing a key detail about today’s Clarity Act vote.
Sen. Thom Tillis initially voted YES, but switched his vote to NO after it became clear the cloture motion had failed.
Why?
Under Senate procedure, a senator who voted with the prevailing side can ask to reconsider a failed cloture vote.
By Tillis changing his vote to NO, he was able to enter a motion to reconsider. That preserved a path for the Senate to hold another cloture vote on the Clarity Act without starting the process over from scratch.
Had Sen Tillis remained a YES vote, he could not have made that motion himself.
The Senate now has a path to vote on cloture again.
We saw a similar procedural sequence play out with the Genius Act last year. Its initial cloture vote failed 48–49 on May 8. A motion to reconsider was made, and a second cloture vote passed 66–32 on May 19th.
We could also see the CFTC and SEC implement rules they have been working on for months.
Today, the Clarity Act failed to advance in the Senate, a tremendous missed opportunity for American consumers, the digital asset industry, and U.S. competitiveness.
What it doesn't change: Ripple and $XRP stand on settled ground.
The Clarity Act may have fallen short, but the need for clear rules has not gone away. And neither has Ripple's commitment to helping build them. on.ripple.com/4AeG5CF
Marta406 retweeted
If you believe this granny has anything to do with anything you gaslit.
Note: If this cloture vote doesnt get the votes they vote again Thursday.
Marta406 retweeted
Everything Wall Street can do, now on Solana from a phone and an internet connection.
"Right now on Solana, you're able to trade stocks. You can buy Tesla stock, Amazon stock. You can buy gold, silver, Bitcoin. You get better FX rates on Solana than any bank, and better interest on platforms like Kamino than a deposit account."
"People in New York in 1971 were directly plugged into the Nasdaq when price discovery started being digital."
"Right now, every one of you can do that with a mobile phone and an internet connection. Any financial instrument Wall Street was able to do, from your pocket."
@vidor_solflare at Solana Summit Serbia
Marta406 retweeted
🇺🇸 Before he was a legend… Jimothy was simply another raccoon on his nightly Seattle rounds.
Newly uncovered footage from May shows the now-famous trash panda casually strolling a fence in Ballard, completely unaware he was about to become the internet’s favorite animal.
Writer: Val
Marta406 retweeted
America turns 250 today.
Every other nation in history was built on blood, soil, or a crown. This one was built on an idea: that you are free, and your life belongs to you, not the state.
I'm a security engineer, so I read the Constitution the way I read code. It is the greatest security architecture ever shipped. Power is distributed, so there is no single point of failure. The Bill of Rights is the access control list. The amendment process is the patch pipeline. The whole design assumes that people in power cannot be trusted, and that assumption is exactly why it still runs.
Read the access control list closely:
The First: speak, publish, assemble, worship, without asking anyone's permission.
The Second: a free people are never defenseless.
The Fourth: no one searches your home, your papers, or your effects without cause. This one is personal to the founding. The Revolution caught fire partly over general warrants, when the Crown claimed the right to rifle through any colonist's home looking for something to charge him with. Your "papers and effects" now live on servers. The principle hasn't changed.
The Ninth: the quiet genius of the document. The rights not written down still belong to you. Privacy lives there.
Now notice what these four have in common. None of them survive surveillance. Speech dies when every word is recorded, because watched people self-censor. Defense means nothing when the state already knows what you have and where. Security in your own home and effects is privacy by definition. And the Ninth exists precisely because the founders knew liberty is bigger than any list.
There is no freedom without privacy. There never has been, anywhere, at any point in history.
250 years of uptime for an idea most of history called impossible. Not perfect. Never claimed to be. Fixable by design, and that is the feature every free nation since has copied.
Happy 250th, America. Land of the free.
Fight with every fiber of your being to keep it that way. 🇺🇸
Marta406 retweeted
Imagine telling someone in 1999…
The year is 2026.
The President is Donald Trump in his second non consecutive term.
The richest man in the world is PayPal cofounder Elon Musk… but not because of fintech or Paypal. Because of rockets, electric cars, AI, satellites, brain chips and something called “Boring Company”.
Apple is worth trillions but its main business isn’t computers… its selling glass rectangles everyone stares at for 9 hours a day.
People don’t watch TV. They watch teenagers explain geopolitics, finance, and relationship advice in ~60 second videos.
The biggest taxi company owns no taxis.
The biggest hotel company owns no hotels.
The most powerful media companies are social networks where everyone argues with strangers for free.
Kids are making millions filming themselves playing video games.
AI Robots write emails, code, legal memos, songs, essays, and breakup texts.
The internet is mostly bots arguing with humans who are trying to prove they aren’t bots.
You can summon a car, groceries, a doctor, a date, a private jet, or a dog walker from your phone.
People pay real money for invisible currencies, digital monkeys, AI girlfriends and pictures that disappear after 24 hours.
The richest companies in the world don’t sell oil, steel, or cars. They sell attention, compute, data, and addiction.
And somehow, after all of that everyone is still using Excel.
Marta406 retweeted
You were taught crypto very poorly.
Public blockchains are global supercomputers.
Anyone anywhere in the world can run a program on them and anyone in the world can use the program.
Bitcoin supercomputer only runs the Bitcoin ledger.
Solana supercomputer can run any Rust program.
SUI supercomputer can run any Move program.
Ethereum supercomputer can run any Solidity program.
The supercomputers are constructed as a distributed set of nodes all around the world and are connected via physical networks to act as one. To stop the supercomputer you have to stop all the nodes all around the world.
To run programs on the supercomputers requires gas tokens or "native" tokens to the particular supercomputer. To use the programs the user requires these tokens. These tokens are public and can be used as currency on the supercomputers. Examples of "native execution network" tokens are $BTC, $SOL, $SUI, $ETH.
Note: No different from running a AI LLM supercomputers which also requires tokens to run but LLM tokens are not yet tradable or public and represent one word of a AI query.
Bitcoin does not have the ability to run arbitrary programs, it only runs the Bitcoin ledger. This means it is not an "execution network". An "execution network" can run arbitrary programs that represent functionality or other token ledgers. Solana, SUI and Ethereum are examples of "execution networks" and are typically called Layer 1 execution networks because they can execute user programs.
Now understand all other "tokens" or "crypto" are just programs running on one of these "execution network" supercomputers. StableCoin like USDC or USDT are just programs running on each of the supercomputers. Defi applications and DEX's are just programs running on the supercomputers. Meme coins are just programs running on an "execution network". Anyone can run a program and anyone can use the program.
Now you can imagine how these global supercomputers that store and run programs will be used by everyone, institutions and governments will run everything on them and an entire agentic infrastructure will use them.
Start to learn what crypto really is. Understand you were PURPOSEFULLY taught it incorrectly. You were the early testers of the supercomputers. Everything we see in crypto today can be thought of as a test.
Together with AI these supercomputers will run the world.
Marta406 retweeted
Japan’s PM Sanae Takaichi:
“It’s better for the population to shrink than to fill the country with low-skilled immigrants from alien cultures.
Preserving Japan’s way of life matters more than cheap labour. We can fix the birth rate crisis without relying on incompatible foreigners.
You no longer have a country when you become the minority.”
She’s absolutely right.
Marta406 retweeted
Greg Burgess writes....
So apparently Jill and I are on a plane to China with Trump, Elon Musk, half the Cabinet, and a collection of CEOs whose combined net worth could probably refinance the moon.
Totally normal day for Gen X.
And I just can’t stop laughing at how the media spent YEARS telling us:
- China hated Elon
- Trump was “finished”
- America was collapsing
- capitalism was dead
- and everybody important was abandoning the U.S.
Meanwhile, here we are somewhere over the Pacific looking like the cast of Succession meets Top Gun: Retirement Plan Edition.
Remember when China sanctioned Marco Rubio back in 2020 and everybody acted like the geopolitical chessboard had permanently shifted?
Now suddenly everybody’s still showing up to the table because — shocking development — nations tend to like:
- money
- technology
- manufacturing
- trade
- AI
- energy
- semiconductors
- and not being economically irrelevant
Who knew.
The best part is the internet meltdown cycle never changes.
Trump:
“America needs stronger trade relationships.”
Media:
“HITLER.”
Elon:
“I make electric cars, rockets, satellites, AI, and robots.”
Internet activists:
“Yeah but we posted an angry hashtag.”
Cool.
I’m sure Beijing is trembling before your TikTok resistance movement.
And flying with this group is exactly what you think it would be.
Trump walks around the cabin narrating reality like it’s an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Geopolitical:
“Great flight. Powerful people. Very high IQ. The Chinese are saying they’ve never seen anything like it.”
Elon looks like he hasn’t slept since 2019 and is simultaneously calculating orbital trajectories and wondering if the beverage cart could be automated.
Meanwhile Jill and I are sitting there like two exhausted Gen Xers who survived dial-up internet, chain-smoking restaurants, lawn darts, and drinking from garden hoses… wondering how in the hell we became side characters in the weirdest timeline imaginable.
Honestly, at this point if Trump walked into Beijing blasting “Danger Zone” while Elon live-streamed it from orbit, I wouldn’t even blink.
Because the people who told us America was over are still tweeting from iPhones, driving Teslas, using Starlink during hurricanes, and cashing checks tied to the same capitalist machine they claim to hate.
Gen X translation:
The world’s still running.
The adults are still making deals.
And the internet is still confusing hashtags for accomplishments.
Carry on.
