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The "authoritarian pivot" occurs when the populist strongman no longer requires a pretense of popular support to maintain control of state power.
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if there isn't disproportionate, life-destroying criminal sanction for the people responsible for this in 2029 there will just never be a non-partisan bureaucratic apparatus ever again. I've seen this happen a couple times in a couple places- it just doesn't come back.
SCOOP: The State Dept has started asking career diplomats up for promotion if they voted for Trump in 16, 20, 24.
Federal law prohibits politically based hiring for career staff.
State tells @washingtonsun it's screening for "fidelity" and execution of the president's vision👇
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One of the most underrated life skills is being able to see something strange and simply move on #̢̛ͥ̀̽̽ͨ̌̓͆̇̀̽ͦͨͫͯ̏̎̇̈̚͜҉̕͢͏͡҉̸̶̛͢͡҉̵̨̭̳̘̹̫͔͖̜̠͖̫̲̖̱̤̻̖͉͢͞͡ͅͅ͏̸̷̢͑̊̀̐ͣͭͭ̉͂ͨ̽͒̊̎͛ͪ̊̎ͩͧ̀͝͠͠͏̸̵̵̷̵
A lot has been made of “declaring martial law.” I don’t see the point; the real nightmare scenario, the one that should keep you up at night, is the one where the suspension of the Constitution requires no such thing, and people carry on with their lives, going to Costco, celebrating the holidays, then waiting until January to see if we maybe still have a country, or what.
Compliance and apathy of the same grade observable by people waiting to see if that new chicken chain their cousin likes is going to open at the mall.
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Replying to @justinbaragona
Jan Crawford at CBS News seems all-in with Hegseth’s holy war. Hegseth’s book:
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We need to pause and focus on exactly who was killed during Trump’s throttling of Starshield. Names and histories. Treat them like victims in a murder case—because they are.
When the investigations happen, we need to be able to remind ourselves who died because of Trump’s order.
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There’s really no difference between the Ilhan Omar raid and MAGA’s Talarico flu panic.
They have idiots like Nick Sortor create right-wing propaganda and use bot networks to spread it. Then they abuse government agencies, using that propaganda as justification to investigate their enemies, hoping to bleed them of money or find embarrassing material.
Either way, it feeds the MAGA content machine with no downside to them.
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It looks like Putin told Trump that Ukraine was causing high gas prices, a lie that is convenient for Trump. Obviously it’s Trump’s war in Iran that is the issue. But Trump can’t accept that.
So now Trump wants to give Putin a lot of money for Russian diesel, which won’t do anything to markets and won’t even help him in the midterms, though I bet Putin told him it would.
But since Russia and Iran are allies, the shift in US policy and any US taxpayer money that Trump gives Putin will help both the Russian war on Ukraine as well as the regime in Iran. Trump got his pocket picked as usual but the money is ours and the deeper price is the visible shift of US policy to support Russia’s war of aggression.
In other words, Trump makes the world more dangerous by extending two wars and gets nothing in return, not even for himself (unless there was a side deal, which can’t be ruled out).
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It's both shameful and deeply humiliating for what was until recently the world's most powerful democracy to be reorienting itself so that it can be more like, and closer to, a second tier criminal autocracy like Russia.
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Trump has blocked arms sales to Ukraine and Taiwan and now he’s giving money to Russia and proposing weapons sales to China. People in the federal government need to start thinking about who they’re really working for
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literal easiest role to hire for rn:
>can solve millenium problems in an afternoon
>has memorized all human knowledge
>requires below minimum wage
>unfailingly polite
>can be infinitely cloned
>does not sleep
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Replying to @3YearLetterman
If JC accepted the death penalty then why didn't he stay dead?
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has been true from day one, but always worth reminding:
Russia bought an American president.
and got the Republican Party and "conservative" movement as part of the deal.
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We’re now paying Putin to help us afford the war he’s helping Iran fight against us.
America first amirite.
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from 5 months ago:
BREAKING: The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. apnews.com/article/fort-hood…
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Let's be clear, the free world has nothing to learn about western values & civilisation from MAGA USA. Most of us can see what Vance & Rubio really are, as they strut around Europe telling us where we went wrong. They should clean up their own filthy & stinking yard, a country of botched executions & now a return to public executions. A cesspit where milliions of its citizens can't afford decent health care & thousands die each year due to archaic gun laws. It's a country that routinely breaks international law. Worst of all, it's a nation in thrall to a corrupt & criminal authoritarian leader who is all that Christianity, liberal democacy, the Renaissance & the Enlightenment were not & are not. MAGA has only one thing to teach us; the urgent need to avoid sliding back into barbarism. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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Cassidy Hutchinson is a patriot and this attempted prosecution is a Russian-like disgrace that signifies the decline of a nation into a mafia-like chaos.
JUST IN: Trump’s DOJ is seeking a federal criminal indictment of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who testified against Trump during the Jan. 6 investigation, for allegedly lying to Congress, Punchbowl News reports.
DOJ’s Civil Rights Division presented evidence to a federal grand jury Tuesday and is expected to present more evidence and witnesses later this month, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash.
Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase).
Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets.
IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster).
Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot.
Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time?
Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.)
Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once.
Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case.
I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026).
Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS.
Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security.
The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.






























