Wilton 3 months ago

"The digital Euro is not just a means of payment, it is also a political statement concerning the sovereignty of Europe and its capacity to handle payment, including on a cross-border basis, with a European infrastructure and solution.” 💶🇪🇺 https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/eu-ministers-seek-agreement-digital-euro-be-independent-visa-mastercard-2025-09-19/

Wilton 3 months ago

What hackers are working on devices that will disrupt Meta glasses and the like from working and scanning and your face?

Wilton 4 months ago

Just found out my work is sponsoring my trip to ethereum cypherpunk congress 2 and I'm so excited

Wilton 4 months ago

If money was no object I’d simply buy the San Francisco Armory and make it the west coast Berghain

Wilton 4 months ago

We’re so back (Openvibe app for mastodon/bluesky/nostr/threads now supports the RSS legend)

Wilton 4 months ago

LLMs are not plotting, they’re drifting. They echo patterns, not intent. Yet we mistake their coherence for mind. The mirror shows us ourselves, not hidden will. Next time you look, ask not what you see, but who is looking? Full text:

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Wilton 4 months ago

Wilton 5 months ago

“Google announced Monday the removal of nearly 11,000 YouTube channels and other accounts tied to state-linked propaganda campaigns from China, Russia and more in the second quarter.” —

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YouTube wipes out thousands of propaganda channels linked to China, Russia, others

Google removed YouTube channels and other accounts linked to RT, the Russian state-controlled media outlet accused of paying prominent conservative...

Wilton 5 months ago

Bitcoin is at an all-time high again and it’s absolutely fascinating to see co-constructed value like this in real time. What you as an individual think about btc doesn’t matter; countertrade assets are socially traded. Bitcoin exposes the core of the monetary phenomenon.

Wilton 6 months ago

I know I need to work on the top which looks like a pencil lmao but I can’t believe how well the spring growth on my coastal redwood bonsai is doing! Don’t let anyone tell you that bonsais can’t be done indoors. Just need a good grow light~

Wilton 6 months ago

Love being in Belgium because the guesses are totally different

Wilton 6 months ago

Wilton 6 months ago

“Tokenizing” everything from real-world assets onchain to info in AI renders complex realities into units systems can compute, monitor, and control. As in Seeing Like a State, abstraction enables scale but also disciplines behavior and concentrates power. Foucault warned us!

Wilton 7 months ago

The thing is, there aren’t even many of us soy boys left. Most have become oat boys. 😔

Wilton 8 months ago

Ok but the watermarks are helpful because there are browser extensions that warn you / filter them out / etc ! View quoted note →

Wilton 9 months ago

NATO has aggravated conflicts (Kosovo, Libya, Afghanistan) and deterred others (Cold War, Bosnia, Baltics). If the U.S. left or NATO were disbanded, it would remove a key deterrent force, destabilize Europe, weaken crisis response, and embolden aggressors (eg Russia & China). It’s ultimately good.

Wilton 10 months ago

Have leveled up to 1:1 whole wheat : bread flour mix to good success. 🫡 It fits into my larger prepper vibes at the moment, but I can’t stop. I bake at least two loaves a week now.

Wilton 10 months ago

📍 San Francisco City Hall #fiftyfiftyone #50501

Wilton 10 months ago

On the one hand, there might be a strategic bitcoin reserve / national sovereign wealth fund. On the other hand, the economy might crash with which BTC has historically correlated. Weirder, it could be both.

Wilton 10 months ago

Made a 14th-century style whole wheat + flax sourdough loaf. Inspired by Emile Claus’s “De vlasoogst” (The Flax Harvest), 1904, Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België (Belgium) 🌾