Over 600k views promoting sugary drinks because of an old photo but I watched an interview with Magnus where he said the drink that gave him the best sustained and stable performance over long chess sessions was actually chocolate milk 🤣
Allowing myself to drink sweet drinks while working has been the most profound performance enhancement in the past 5 years for me.
For the past 2 weeks I've been outputting at +50%. Higher focus, longer. 1 Powerade at my desk per day. I am able to do 12 hour days the way I used to be able to when I was younger.
I don't have any crash, I crashed much worse end of day when I was avoiding sugar.
I am not sure why this is the case, it seems contrary to most of what I've read.
Hypothesis 1: I burn a lot of energy working at a computer and easy fuel gets burnt off quickly, like with a runner. I was in a calorie deficit that was hurting my performance previously. Same reason chess players consume chocolate milk while playing.
Hypothesis 2: I have diabetes?
Any other ideas?
The last two weeks have really emphasised what a waste of time and money it was to try and trade during the bear market.
Small size but my first 2x in a loooong time. Rap music starting to sound good again
신규 디지털 자산 인터폴드(FOLD) 거래지원 안내
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📅 거래지원 개시 시점 : 2026-08-23 12:30 KST 예정
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Verse retweeted
this is exactly why the first thing you should do every morning after you wake up is to tell yourself how lucky you are to live the life you live
that your day will be full of wins, and everything will work out in your favor
that simple act is all it takes to witness magic
Verse retweeted
if only you knew how easy life is when you’re delusional
Verse retweeted
Literally just having a delusional golden retriever mindset measurably changes outcomes and physiology.
Sleep badly? Convince yourself you're well rested.
Stressful day? Convince yourself it's fuel.
Failed? Convince yourself it's useful data.
Verse retweeted
I am the Director of Token Holder Experience at World Liberty Financial.
The dashboard has 13 columns now. The 13th is called Unlock.
We published a governance proposal. It covers 62 billion locked tokens. In plain English: the team that locked your tokens is asking you to vote on whether the team gets to unlock theirs.
There are two groups.
Investors — the wallets that sent real money.
The team — founders, advisors, partners. The wallets that didn't.
Investors paid starting at $0.015 per token. 17 billion tokens. Real money from real accounts. 18 months ago. They cannot sell. Cannot transfer. Cannot earn staking rewards. The tokens are $0.08 now. Down 83%. The proposal gives investors a 2-year cliff and a 2-year vest. That is 4 more years of waiting for something they already bought. They keep all their tokens. We are calling this "full retention."
The team received 45 billion tokens for free. The proposal gives the team a 2-year cliff and a 3-year vest. We burn 10%. That is 4.5 billion tokens. At current prices, $360 million. We paid nothing for them. We could not sell them. We are burning 10% of an asset we got for free and could not move. We are calling this "sacrifice." We keep the other 90%. $3.2 billion. We are calling that "alignment."
The team holds 73% of the locked supply. Investors hold 27%. The people who paid nothing outnumber the people who paid everything nearly 3 to 1.
The vote requires a 1 billion token quorum. Simple majority. In the last governance vote, 76% of the voting power came from 10 wallets. Several of those wallets are ours. The team will vote on whether the team unlocks. The team will pass it. That is governance.
The proposal says 77% of locked holders have never voted. We wrote that as a problem. The 77% did not vote because the 10 wallets decide everything. We built the system that made their votes meaningless. Now we are using their silence to justify our exit.
If you do not opt in within 10 days of the vote passing, your tokens stay locked indefinitely. Accept the schedule we wrote or keep nothing. The proposal calls this "community-driven."
We listed our achievements to prove we earned it. USD1 stablecoin. OCC national bank charter application. Chainlink Proof of Reserves. AgentPay SDK. The stablecoin is the one where the President's family collects 75 cents of every dollar. All of it was built with investor money. The team built value with your capital, then asked your permission to extract it. The vote we will win with our own tokens.
600,000 wallets have been checking every morning for the word "unlock."
It appeared. It does not mean what they think it means.
The distance between "locked indefinitely" and "locked for 2 more years, then vested over 2 more" is not freedom. It is a countdown that the captors set. Column 13 updates in real time. Every column goes in the same direction.
These events are unrelated. I am still the reason they are unrelated.
Verse retweeted
The protests in Ireland are not about just fuel! They are about the distance between Ireland on this graph and every other modern and developed economy. Ireland is second wealthiest but gets waaaaay less than any other country for that wealth. By a golden mile.
That visual gap in this graph? That’s what people are protesting. It’s a lack of infrastructure and the everyday enshittification of services, the economy, and the additional difficulty of trying to live, relative to peers in any other country. It also highlights why people don’t get uniformly listened to! - because there is no government architecture to engage meaningfully across this huge gap.
That gap is a three hour drive to work in traffic, a 14 month wait for an MRI, buses that don’t arrive, trains that don’t exist, schools that have no places for your kids, houses that are unaffordable, pubs that close before midnight, €12 sandwiches, expensive fuel.
People feel this gap, even if they can’t explain it precisely. And that builds into resentment, and ultimately protest. Fuel just happened to be the next thing that could be pointed to, today.
This would be a great narrative for a btc fork that was launching working quantum-resistant addresses to its mainnet in a few months 🤔
🚨 QUANTUM THREAT TIMELINE NARROWS
Remember when breaking RSA-2048 required "millions of qubits"? That number keeps shrinking.
Iceberg Quantum just dropped a preprint claiming their Pinnacle Architecture can do it with ~100,000 physical qubits.
That's a 10x reduction from the last work - which had already reduced it significantly.
The assumptions are pretty reasonable too: 99.9% 2-qubit fidelities, 1μs logical code cycle time.
For context on how fast the gap is closing:
• 2012: ~1 billion qubits
• 2019: ~170 million qubits
• 2025: ~900k qubits
• 2026: <100k qubits
QLDPC codes are doing the heavy lifting here. They are newer codes with a significantly low spacetime overhead than surface codes.
The cryptographically relevant quantum computer isn't some distant theoretical threat anymore. The timeline moved again. And it moved a lot.
