Good morning everyone, release time 🔥 The Ark Emulator is effective immediately available for anyone to download & run: - Pair it with the Ark Companion mobile app - Manage data and run apps through the Ark Hub - Build new apps against your own genome blog.dark.bio/2026/10/12/dar…

there is an argument (which I've made privately until now) that one of the principal innovations of the large language model labs is a *legal* innovation, not a technical one by building a system that hoovers up mind-bogglingly large volumes of human information and feeds it into a recombinatorial association machine, the companies have bulldozed the existing IP regime and made the contents of ~all human IP (including the most mundane) searchable, reconfigurable, and usable while also obscuring any trace of origin and eliminating a need to provide credit or attribution. much of the perceived benefit is therefore access and exposure to IP people would not otherwise have had access to, presented behind a system that abstracts the IP from its context and history and presents it as net-new information. I imagine we would have seen ~similar productivity outcomes had Google actually been allowed to make productive use of the Google Books database over a decade ago.

we're heading towards complete retardation man. the vast majority of the world is not fucking ready for self-sovereignty and probably never will be. wallets have sucked ass at protecting normal users for over a decade. seed phrases & private keys are an utterly shit security model for humans (oh, and multisigs are great but people protect their 3/5 multisig with the same seed, so also full retard mode). and yet we're still pretending this is the future of finance. it's fucking not. most of this industry is a VC exit-liquidity circle jerk where the end user ultimately eats the loss in some form. maybe the answer isn't mass adoption. maybe the answer is staying fucking small. small, weird, technical, paranoid, adversarial, and hard to capture. the smaller and more niche we stay, the more dangerous and long-lasting this industry becomes. being small is a feature.

Starship transiting the Sun this morning during Flight 14 — prior to this morning's mission, this has never been captured before with the world's largest and most powerful rocket. I’ve ached over this shot for years, mainly for two reasons: what does methane exhaust look like silhouetted against the Sun, and how violent are the acoustic energy waves from 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster? Well...now we have an answer. 📸 - @NASASpaceflight

The cryptographic world computer: vitalik.eth.limo/general/202… My attempt to express in somewhat concise terms the true meaning of basically everything planned to happen to Ethereum starting from the fork after Hegota. It's really not just a blockchain anymore. It's a hybrid architecture that combines together blockchains and modern cryptography, to enable much more powerful properties. FOCIL, EIP-8288, Lean consensus, state management, formal verification, advanced mempool improvements (including privacy), and the longer-term specter of obfuscation all mentioned.

If you are not on at least one blacklist, you have not truly lived.

I manage a local daycare with a firm rule: pick-up is 6:00 PM, and late arrivals pay $2 a minute. One night at 6:45 PM, a young mother rushed in wearing hospital scrubs, looking completely worn out. Her fine came out to $90. Clutching her toddler, she apologized through tears and explained that severe understaffing forced her to stay for shift change. She accepted the fee, but begged me not to drop her child from the program. Seeing how exhausted she was, I opened the billing system and cleared the $90 charge. Then I went to the kitchen, packed up three leftover plates of baked ziti, and handed her the warm food. "According to the system, you got here at 5:59," I said with a wink. "Take this home so you don't have to cook tonight." Rules keep things in order, but empathy keeps us human.

living through what is undoubtably humankind's second renaissance

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person. - Immanuel Kant