Christian, Father, SRE, periodically prolific tweeter. All opinions are my own, or someone else's.

Round Rock, TX
Joined June 2008
George has a way with art.
Replying to @GPrime85
Enjoy my work? Subscribe today and maybe I'll draw more workout comics (uwu)'' 🥵
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Tao DRASTICALLY overestimates our understanding of the mechanism of oh so many of the drugs we take every day.
This is a slide from Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' public lecture yesterday evening at Caltech. I am highly confident that, if the cure actually worked, almost any Stage 4 cancer patient would tell you that human comprehension of its mechanism is completely irrelevant to them.
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People making this claim are ignorant or are lying to you. We have a dramatically different way of recording infant mortality compared to the rest of the world. That explains the gap.
Largest economy in the world, and it hates babies.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
US infant mortality statistics are inflated relative to many countries by broader registration of extremely preterm/low birth weight live births. US rate was 5.52 per 1,000 live births in 2024. bmj.com/content/344/bm… healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collecti… cdc.gov/nchs/products/…
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I used to think that Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings was perfect. But WizardofCeles proved me dead wrong.
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RIP everyone's Gmail account.
this is literally the worst idea on the planet if you dont understand why im sure you will soon enough
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Lesson: Live in a train
Terrifying footage shows the view from inside a train as it becomes surrounded by raging wildfire flames near Armstrong, Ontario.
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Robinhood just turned on its own blockchain @RobinhoodCrypto Chain went live on mainnet today, a Layer 2 built on Arbitrum, purpose-built for tokenized real-world assets. Tokenized Stock Tokens are now tradable 24/7 through Robinhood Wallet in 120+ countries, with those shares also usable as DeFi collateral. @RobinhoodApp Earn also launched, letting users lend $USDG for an estimated 7% yield through Morpho. Whether that specific lending market actually runs on Robinhood Chain itself isn't confirmed. Everything else announced today, wider perp futures in Europe, UK crypto trading, Canada going live, a new AI trading tool, is separate from the chain. General business expansion running alongside it, not built on it. $HOOD up nearly 8% on the day, still about 30% off its October high.
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Offchain Enterprise Services helped @RobinhoodCrypto create production-ready blockchain infrastructure. We supported Robinhood with strategic technical guidance, Arbitrum platform support, and infrastructure expertise as it brought tokenized assets to market on Arbitrum One and progressed toward building Robinhood Chain. This is the next chapter of enterprise blockchain adoption: real financial products, configurable infrastructure, and technical support built for scale.
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This banger was 1 year ago.
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The amount of lightning with this storm was crazy. Saw the rainbow and red skies from my own place or I'd have thought this was out of a movie.
Rainbows over lightning in Austin.
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Oops - in Live Nation case, Texas filed a motion to withdraw attorney - that was meant for an entirely separate case in another District, about "aliens as public charges." Meanwhile TX AG unlike other states has not provided a single Public Record on Press request
Morning scan 2: When you wake up to find your How "Ticketmaster Loses the Jury: Live Nation Death Sentence" is the Number 1 New Release in Antitrust Law (surely an obscure category, but hey... Get it while it's hot amazon.com/dp/B0GXFSGYJ1
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installing npm packages in 2026
‼️🚨 UPDATE: The TanStack npm attack is now a full campaign. 'Mini' Shai-Hulud has hit: - OpenSearch - Mistral AI - Guardrails AI -UiPath - Squawk packages across npm and PyPI The malware specifically targets AI developer tooling. It hooks into Claude Code (.claude/settings.json) and VS Code (.vscode/tasks.json) to re-execute on every tool event, long after the infected package is gone. npm uninstall does not fix this.
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Today we’re sharing the next chapter for @Offchain. Offchain Labs -> Offchain may seem like a small move, but it’s highly consequential and represents the evolution of our company and our brand. What began as deep R&D into Ethereum scaling has expanded into a much larger mission: building best-in-class infrastructure for enterprises operating in the programmable economy. Over the years, we’ve brought together some of the best teams in crypto across the stack: - The finance-native blockchain platform: @arbitrum - Advancing L1 consensus: @prylabs - Powering over 5M smart accounts: @zerodev We believe the next generation of financial infrastructure will be programmable by default, and Offchain is the strategic infrastructure partner for the world's most ambitious companies. While the rebrand signals an evolution and expansion from our early beginning in the research lab, our Princeton roots, our academic rigor and culture, and our unique R&D capabilities are still a central part of our identity and aren't disappearing with this rebrand. We’ll still use Offchain Labs when referring to our industry-leading research arm, and we have a dedicated home on the new website for the Labs part of Offchain. offchain.io/offchainlabs  By bringing our research excellence and enterprise product suite together under the unified Offchain brand, we’re building the infrastructure for the programmable economy.
We're now Offchain. A new chapter focused on powering institutions as they move onchain. What we’ve built across @arbitrum, @prylabs and @zerodev is coming together into something bigger. This is just the first step. Stay tuned. offchain.io/
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“Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under the omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” C.S. Lewis
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My kids have loved these books, and Volume 1 for this price is well worth the price of entry. They'll easily get more than 10 bucks worth of time and joy out of it, and ask when you can get the next one.
To celebrate #ChildrensBookWeek, we are offering Volume 1 of This Book Might Explode for only $9.99! explodeyworld.com/sp/light-t… This Book Might Explode is like the whole kids section of a bookstore packed into one book. It's got chapter books, picture books, comics, gag pages, and activities. Every kid we’ve seen with this book loves it. And it makes for the perfect screen-time replacement. We want to inspire and encourage your kid to get active and get creative. Get yours today!
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A new Arbitrum Nitro version 3.9.9 is now available on Docker Hub with the following tag: offchainlabs/nitro-node:v3.9.9-6b0af88-stripped This is an important release containing stability improvements and security fixes, and we recommend teams adopt it as soon as possible. The source code will be published in the coming days. Following that, a non-stripped version of the Nitro node software will be made available under the usual tag. However, we recommend upgrading now using the stripped binary release above. As always, we recommend running the latest stable release of Nitro. Thanks!
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I've never seen a kid's book this beautifully made. Incredible artwork and an incredible team of people who worked together to make this happen. Be sure to check it out.
To celebrate #ChildrensBookWeek, we are offering Volume 1 of This Book Might Explode for only $9.99! explodeyworld.com/sp/light-t… This Book Might Explode is like the whole kids section of a bookstore packed into one book. It's got chapter books, picture books, comics, gag pages, and activities. Every kid we’ve seen with this book loves it. And it makes for the perfect screen-time replacement. We want to inspire and encourage your kid to get active and get creative. Get yours today!
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This was an excellent read on the SPLC bank fraud situation. I appreciated the context and history. The irony involved in commuting bank fraud to get around controls that you yourselves provide to banks is entertaining.
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.@Offchain proudly signed on to this letter and is excited to keep the momentum going on this watershed piece of legislation.
1/ Today, @BlockchainAssn and @crypto_council, joined by a broad coalition of more than 120 organizations from across the digital asset ecosystem, urged the Senate Banking Committee to move forward with a markup on market structure legislation. Years of bipartisan work have brought Congress to an important moment. The U.S. needs clear, durable rules that protect consumers, provide certainty, and reinforce American leadership in digital asset innovation.
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This G.K. Chesterton quote I return to weekly
What’s a line from something you’ve read that you find yourself repeating in your head every now and then?
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